notes from a quiet house...
Jan. 22nd, 2007 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katekatI packed my love onto a plane yesterday, after a fabulous evening of sing star Saturday night with the friends at Christy's house - there was much giggling and yummy curry, and probably one too many renditions of Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive, but that's supposed to happen with karaoke, isn't it?
Today was actually my first *real* day at school - FINALLY! Yes, I feel like a real grad student!
Mass and Popular Culture will be the greatest hits from Kant to Benjamin (and the prof refuses to pronounce his name Ben-ya-min ... I don't know if that speaks well of him or not). Actually, I grinned like a fool through the entire class because he couldn't stop talking. Not only that, but talking about interesting things! Like how he doesn't really believe postmodernism. Why don't any of them believe in postmodernsim? However, this is apparently the guy who actually brought cultural studies to the U.S. even if he doesn't believe in them anymore. And I think my mission on earth is to believe in postmodernism when no one else will. If that's not a crusade, I don't know what is.
There was a ray of light with Japanese too - a friend of mine who's a Ph.D. student offered to help tutor me. I may end up with tutoring two days a week! Hopefully. The other lovely thing is that I think I'm actually understanding 90% of what our professor is saying these days, and the class really is almost entirely in Japanese. I only completely dropped out once in the entire period, so that's a good thing, right?
Now I'm homework bound - or at least until Heros is finished and I can watch it without commercial interruptions...
Today was actually my first *real* day at school - FINALLY! Yes, I feel like a real grad student!
Mass and Popular Culture will be the greatest hits from Kant to Benjamin (and the prof refuses to pronounce his name Ben-ya-min ... I don't know if that speaks well of him or not). Actually, I grinned like a fool through the entire class because he couldn't stop talking. Not only that, but talking about interesting things! Like how he doesn't really believe postmodernism. Why don't any of them believe in postmodernsim? However, this is apparently the guy who actually brought cultural studies to the U.S. even if he doesn't believe in them anymore. And I think my mission on earth is to believe in postmodernism when no one else will. If that's not a crusade, I don't know what is.
There was a ray of light with Japanese too - a friend of mine who's a Ph.D. student offered to help tutor me. I may end up with tutoring two days a week! Hopefully. The other lovely thing is that I think I'm actually understanding 90% of what our professor is saying these days, and the class really is almost entirely in Japanese. I only completely dropped out once in the entire period, so that's a good thing, right?
Now I'm homework bound - or at least until Heros is finished and I can watch it without commercial interruptions...
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Date: 2007-01-23 07:20 am (UTC)*sighs in relief that hopefully those days are behind me*
I had my choice to watch Supernanny or Heroes off the TiVo or Studio 60 live. I adore Studio 60, but I went with Supernanny for the same reason you listed above - no commercials. I love sticking it to the advertisers! Why didn't I watch Heroes? Because I need to give it my full attention, and I'm catching up on LJ and doing laundry and tending to baby while watching Supernanny.
And...I try not to watch Heroes or Supernatural before bedtime. I have vivid dreams that need no encouragement from freaky shows.
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Date: 2007-01-23 10:57 pm (UTC)i know, i'm kind of a glutton for punishment! *grin*
I adore Tivo - I've discovered I even get more chores done because I stick things on pause and take care of stuff... and then come back when I can watch commercial free! But I understand what you mean about giving Heroes your full attention - I'm just glad to have a show I love that actually does good cliffhangers!
I hope you dreamed well last night, lady, regardless!