Orange you glad...

So I've started class again. Big whoop. Jon now has more places to walk to then previously. He's only gone to two of them so far though. Insofar as actual class is concerned, Syntax and Semantics were rather easy, with big blocks of time for breaks. Semantics is taught by a professor I've had before, who I previously disliked, but with new subject matter I think he's pretty decent. Syntax is less clear, but it's a very intro-ish course, so I don't have much in the way of worries.

Bizarrely enough my back hurts. I don't know what the cause actually is, but I suspect my poor posture when sitting around at home on a wooden chair could do part of it. (Wooden chair is very spare, simple straight out of Ikea) I sat around looking stuff up on Flickr, pretending to read for class, painting, playing with opensource photoshop and writing for hours. I paused to watch King of The Hill, to eat, to read, etc. But I was monumentally unproductive, because I had no source for productivity.

At 12:20 today I have Historical linguistics, which should prove at least moderately interesting. (Learning about sound shifts, how we know about them, etc.) This is followed up by my externship/class in Teaching English as a Second Language, which I hold considerable anxiety towards.. I think though that my only real anxiety is about what it really means to teach, along with a fear of breaking out of the ordinary half-brained class routine. I have this imagined idea that for this course I will need to travel far and wide to various parts of the city and interact with a multitude of people. Plus, I fear that my classmates will all be teachers seeking their master's degrees. (a less likely fear, unless they are on sabbatical)

Also, I have REM's Orange Crush or at least part of it stuck in my head. It's a bit irritating, which is not to denigrate the song, but I only have a small part of the chorus stuck in my head, which is mostly lyrics I half understand, in a fake Michael Stipe voice (unless my mind can copy it perfectly) The problem here is simple, I wasn't even listening to REM.


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