Monday October 19, 2015

1. Got up at 6:30 and got ready to go.

2. Waited for the bus, then rode it into campus in time for math class.

A selfie while waiting for the bus. I rarely take selfies ever, much less in public spaces, but it was 7:30am and no one else was around. Plus, as friends on facebook pointed out, there are fish swimming into my ear!

3. After math (the topic was combining functions), I ate some breakfast (my left over Chipotle from last night) and hung out with Lydia for a bit.

4. Went to Philisophy and watched a video about how Native American tribes traditionally percieve gender and sexuality in relation to LGBTQ people, which was actually quite interesting.

5. Headed straight to German, which was somewhat boring, but having interesting classmates makes it fun. German has some pretty cool people in it, though somehow I keep having to do partner work with the least motivated, most boring people in the class. Oh well.

6. After German, I hung out with all my various WCC friends for a while. After most of them scattered to their respective classes, Lydia and I (and HW for some of it) talked about boys. Cause that's what we do. ;)

7. I took the bus downtown to volunteer at the library, then hung around for a while waiting for my ride to dance (and gelato).

8. Gelato flavors of the week: Caramel apple and red velvet.

9. Dance class was good, though very small. Three of us for the first class, two of us for the second.

10. Came home and ate dinner. Read Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and went to bed.

Friday October 16, 2015 {The Martian}

I've been pretty bad at posting regularly since school started, so I'm going to try to get back into writing journal posts as much as possible. Because there so many gaps of time where I haven't posted, there will probably be some context missing for what I'm up to. I'll try to add what I feel are apprpriate explainations when possible, but sometimes I'll just let it slide.

1. Mom wasn't carpooling this morning, so we didn't have to leave as early as usual. I got up and ready, and then she dropped me off at the bus. I rode in to school, and arrived at about 8:15.

2. Math was fine. We're in a unit on functions that is honestly kind of boring. It also includes a lot of graphing (or at least, it soon will), which I'm not fond of. On the whole though, I'm actually kind of like this math class. I like my teacher a lot, at least.

3. I hung out in Syre for a while with Lydia while eating some breakfast, then headed to Philosophy.

4. In Philosophy, we watched a ted talk by Helen Fisher called "The Brain in Love," which led to some interesting discussion. I can't decide how I feel about this class. I both enjoy how informal and just generally strange it is, but those same things can be a bit infuriating at times.

5. Immediately after that class was over, I had German. That class is super strange in that people regularly sit in different places. Probably half the class (including me) always sit in the same spot, but the other people are all over the place. The spot next to me is oddly in demand. I've had a number of different people sit there. There is one guy who sits there most of the time, and who I usually pair up with for partner exercises, but if he gets there late, someone else always takes that spot.

6. I hung out for a while on campus after class, and while I was sitting in Syre, Ben, my German instructor, walked by and started quizzing me, and wouldn't leave until I had properly told him that yes, the sun was shining, and yes, the sky was blue.

7. I took the bus back to Barkley, where Gloria picked me up and brought me home.

8. We had dinner (and a guy was there fixing my bedroom wall), and when all that was done, we went to watch The Martian.

9. I've read the book, and I think the movie was as good as the book. I wouldn't say it was better for all sorts of reasons that I'll write a blog post about if I have time, but it was pretty great.

10. Read Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, then went to bed.