Paracelsus
This is my first attempt at anything resembling a normal blog post! Wow.
So my day today is a worthy topic, I feel. Today was a Wednesday. Wednesdays are fun.
I had a 2-hour Creative Writing tute at 9am, which was somewhat relaxing. I’m in the habit of bringing tea in with me and sipping it throughout. Tea + poetry = a mild morning. We even looked at a poem which I knew, and I got to read it, in characteristic Received Pronunciation. Apparently my accent added a dramatic weight to the piece (My Last Duchess, by Robert Browning). I also knew everything about the poem – so I conclude that English classes in school were useful.
After CW I had a “social” Linguistics tutorial, held on a patch of grass somewhere. I got the opportunity to proclaim my dismay at the general lack of food and talking in our regular tutorials, which prompted someone to mention that they worked in Subway and had the ability to garner a certain quantity of cookies for us to consume. Yay. We also indulged in group juggling, with much merriment resulting. The fact that we were all giggling at little juggling balls being thrown around assures me that we aren’t all that grown up just yet.
We then got to construct human syntax trees, an astoundingly complex feat. Although I was at the top and didn’t have to do much except represent the sentence “the cat slept”.
After that excitement I was supposed to attend a lecture for the Interdisciplinary Foundation subject “From Homer to Hollywood”; however, instead I went and devoured a veggie pie at the food Co-Op. I have a new favourite lunch!
After that, at 1pm, was Yoga, which was intensely painful and tiring. I almost fell asleep during the rest at the end. Then home to a chilled Cascade Stout (the best beer I have tasted in this country) and a feeble blog attempt. I never seem to be able to write as much as other people! 🙁
I’ve also been slacking off lately in the field of academia. I miss most of my lectures and hardly ever do the readings (does anyone else do this? is it ok?). Although for Homer to Hollywood I have to read about 300 more pages of War and Peace by tomorrow. I actually really enjoy it, but I severely doubt I can read at that speed.
WOW I just threw a pistachio shell at my bin (which is a good 8 metres away) from a weird angle and it went straight in! I thought I might mention that.
Anyway… does anyone have any tips on how I can write more in my blog posts? They always seem woefully frail.
Slacking off is, I think, the true uni student way. I don’t think it counts as a true uni week if you haven’t hung out in a pub for a few hours or been for coffee instead of going to a lecture.
And I reckon skipping readings is alright, oftentimes tute discussions deviate from the topic and you can participate anyway.
Don’t worry, I think all of us, except for a few uber-genius nerds that just doesn’t get the word “fun”, have slacked off at uni. The lack of pressure from the lecturers, who don’t even’t know your name, seems like an open invitation to slack off.
Lol, eventually, we’ll be so disgusted with our procrastination skills that we will end up doing some work so don’t worry, enjoy the slacking off time while it lasts.
As for your blog, you’re doing great so far. Just because your style of writing is different doesn’t mean it’s not interesting. Keep it up!