Whew.

1) Ayashi no Ceres did turn out to be brilliant and I highly recommend it.

2) I have successfully registered for next semester's classes. There is angst that Interpreting Mythology is at the same time as the Cities course Professor McDonogh refers to as How To Build Your Own Utopia, but hopefully I can take the Utopia course spring semester of my senior year, whereas Interpreting Mythology is on a two-year rotation and is a requirement for my philosophy and religion concentration in my Classical Studies major. (Cue rant: Yes, they have started making everyone in Classical Studies declare a concentration within the major. You can choose Greek or Roman, and then you have to pick history, literature/politics, or philosophy/religion. Personally, I see no point to this except that it screws up everybody's schedule and makes us be even more insanely specialized than we already are, since you HAVE to take a certain amount of stuff in your concentration, which means I don't have time for some of the Roman stuff I want. It's Classical Studies! I am not majoring in Greek or in Greek culture! I want to take something non-Greek related before I turn into an obsessively erudite academic! Oh, wait... Anyhow, the Cities department doesn't do this, which I think is even sillier, since the Cities department does, in fact, divide very neatly into pre-architecture, urban planning/economics, and historical/anthropological... and if you're interested in one, you don't have time for the others and probably aren't interested in them anyway. I know I don't want any more economics, and I haven't got time for architectural drafting, because I have a life and a second major and a desire to graduate with my sanity (and for those of you who took that while you were here-- they've added another instruction hour to drafting, and it is now up there with organic chem or Greek on the time-eating list). I'm taking drafting in grad school like a normal architectural historian. So why don't they just formalize the division of the Cities department into three camps who barely ever come into contact with one another, and let Classical Studies be a nice unified major? Bleah. End rant.)

3) I have a cold, with which I stayed home in bed yesterday, but it seems to have decided to be livable, which is good, because I have a lot of work.

4) My hovercraft is full of eels.

Angst-O-Meter: nope. Stress level through ceiling, though.

Whew.

1) Ayashi no Ceres did turn out to be brilliant and I highly recommend it.

2) I have successfully registered for next semester's classes. There is angst that Interpreting Mythology is at the same time as the Cities course Professor McDonogh refers to as How To Build Your Own Utopia, but hopefully I can take the Utopia course spring semester of my senior year, whereas Interpreting Mythology is on a two-year rotation and is a requirement for my philosophy and religion concentration in my Classical Studies major. (Cue rant: Yes, they have started making everyone in Classical Studies declare a concentration within the major. You can choose Greek or Roman, and then you have to pick history, literature/politics, or philosophy/religion. Personally, I see no point to this except that it screws up everybody's schedule and makes us be even more insanely specialized than we already are, since you HAVE to take a certain amount of stuff in your concentration, which means I don't have time for some of the Roman stuff I want. It's Classical Studies! I am not majoring in Greek or in Greek culture! I want to take something non-Greek related before I turn into an obsessively erudite academic! Oh, wait... Anyhow, the Cities department doesn't do this, which I think is even sillier, since the Cities department does, in fact, divide very neatly into pre-architecture, urban planning/economics, and historical/anthropological... and if you're interested in one, you don't have time for the others and probably aren't interested in them anyway. I know I don't want any more economics, and I haven't got time for architectural drafting, because I have a life and a second major and a desire to graduate with my sanity (and for those of you who took that while you were here-- they've added another instruction hour to drafting, and it is now up there with organic chem or Greek on the time-eating list). I'm taking drafting in grad school like a normal architectural historian. So why don't they just formalize the division of the Cities department into three camps who barely ever come into contact with one another, and let Classical Studies be a nice unified major? Bleah. End rant.)

3) I have a cold, with which I stayed home in bed yesterday, but it seems to have decided to be livable, which is good, because I have a lot of work.

4) My hovercraft is full of eels.

Angst-O-Meter: nope. Stress level through ceiling, though.