dear lord!
Okay, so my prospectus has been approved by all faculty! I'm starting work on my thesis! O_O
I've got one chapter dedicated to gender theory/culture stuff, one on literary analysis, and one on cultural studies. Woohoo. I'm already sick of it. haha.
Sara is gone. She's in Tokyo now, and she's starting her classes next week. She said it's really different from how she thought it would be, but she thinks it'll be pretty manageable. But she also said that she's got one class of babies. Like... tiny babies. I still can't quite wrap my mind around the idea that teaching preverbal kids another language is in any way productive. But, whatever. I guess it's a good way for mothers to get out of the house as well, even if it is just to sit with the kids while Sara makes body gestures at them (which is what she told me she was going to do, lol). I'm sure they have a curriculum for that, and everything, but it just seems kinda silly to me. But what do I know, I grew up in monolingual America.
Work has been a pain in the ass. Mostly because of my boss. Don't get me wrong, the guy's really nice. But talking with some of my coworkers while watching The Office has me convinced that I work for Michael Scott. I'm sure everyone thinks that when they watch the show... But all of Michael's annoying traits are shared by my boss. He's very passive-agressive... Very into distracting people when he doesn't want to do his work... And very into pretending to be "hip" and "with it" by mentioning Starbucks at least fifteen times a day.
Sebastien is also kinda driving me crazy. He's so nervous about his job that he can't do anything else but worry about fucking it up. He has zero confidence in his French-speaking abilities, even though he has tons of resources at his disposal (um, his dad is from France, and his mom is a French professor at UTA). And he totally forgets that anyone else might have things that they want to talk about because of his drama. Like... I need someone to vent my crises to, but I can't. He sucks all the crisis-air out of the room.
Plus he's been lying to me lately. About his schedule. So he can get out of doing things with me. :( Which I don't think is cool at all.
So, obviously, I haven't been in the best of moods lately. I'm visiting my parents this week, though, so maybe I can get some nice down-time, catch my breath, and avoid Hurricane Seb. I can't guarantee anything, but I'd really like to hang out with you, Krystin! If you're available, that is. I feel like it's been forever since we've talked. lol.
You know, I thought that I'd miss my sister a whole lot. But it's not that bad. She's a lot friendlier with me now (as opposed to sisterly)... So, hopefully when I visit her in a couple of weeks (OMG!) we'll still be on great terms.
In memoriam:
I've got one chapter dedicated to gender theory/culture stuff, one on literary analysis, and one on cultural studies. Woohoo. I'm already sick of it. haha.
Sara is gone. She's in Tokyo now, and she's starting her classes next week. She said it's really different from how she thought it would be, but she thinks it'll be pretty manageable. But she also said that she's got one class of babies. Like... tiny babies. I still can't quite wrap my mind around the idea that teaching preverbal kids another language is in any way productive. But, whatever. I guess it's a good way for mothers to get out of the house as well, even if it is just to sit with the kids while Sara makes body gestures at them (which is what she told me she was going to do, lol). I'm sure they have a curriculum for that, and everything, but it just seems kinda silly to me. But what do I know, I grew up in monolingual America.
Work has been a pain in the ass. Mostly because of my boss. Don't get me wrong, the guy's really nice. But talking with some of my coworkers while watching The Office has me convinced that I work for Michael Scott. I'm sure everyone thinks that when they watch the show... But all of Michael's annoying traits are shared by my boss. He's very passive-agressive... Very into distracting people when he doesn't want to do his work... And very into pretending to be "hip" and "with it" by mentioning Starbucks at least fifteen times a day.
Sebastien is also kinda driving me crazy. He's so nervous about his job that he can't do anything else but worry about fucking it up. He has zero confidence in his French-speaking abilities, even though he has tons of resources at his disposal (um, his dad is from France, and his mom is a French professor at UTA). And he totally forgets that anyone else might have things that they want to talk about because of his drama. Like... I need someone to vent my crises to, but I can't. He sucks all the crisis-air out of the room.
Plus he's been lying to me lately. About his schedule. So he can get out of doing things with me. :( Which I don't think is cool at all.
So, obviously, I haven't been in the best of moods lately. I'm visiting my parents this week, though, so maybe I can get some nice down-time, catch my breath, and avoid Hurricane Seb. I can't guarantee anything, but I'd really like to hang out with you, Krystin! If you're available, that is. I feel like it's been forever since we've talked. lol.
You know, I thought that I'd miss my sister a whole lot. But it's not that bad. She's a lot friendlier with me now (as opposed to sisterly)... So, hopefully when I visit her in a couple of weeks (OMG!) we'll still be on great terms.
In memoriam: