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[yuuago]

*[2:08 PM]
Ugh, my house is in such disarray. Well, need to clean that first (shouldn't take long), then, research for essays. I have one for Medieval on Middle English dialects that is coming up pretty quickly. Fortunately, many of the resources I need are electronic, so I can do it from home... or from the cafe. Hm, also need to finish reading The Englishman's Boy for CanLit.

It's gorgeous out today; +5C and sunny. I should get out a little bit. Homework (and housework) is important, but there are only really 3.5 more hours of sunlight left in the day... I should probably make use of that while I can.

Also, I've come to remember how much I love having foreign language radio as background noise. Used to do that with French-Canadian television and radio a lot, but sometimes found it distracting because I do understand a little bit of French. The past few days, I've been listening to stuff in languages I don't know at all, and it's good - I get my noise, but I don't get distracted by what's being said/sung. It's a lot better than the usual silence I have going on.

While I'm thinking on it - WHY THE FUCK does USask's library close at 6 PM on a Friday. That makes ABSOLUTELY no sense. They should have longer hours on weekends, not shorter hours! Sigh.

*[9:45 PM]
For some reason I hear something that sounds like fireworks outside. But it can't possibly be fireworks, as there's no reason for that. I don't understand, you guys. Anyway, while I didn't get as much accomplished as I had hoped to, I did get some things done. Just need to clean up the house a little bit more. Seems that's never-ending. Got some homework done too, but not as much as I had hoped.

I received a surprise postcard from Ari, as well as another letter from Minako. Eee, surprise mail makes me so, so happy. <3

Comments

[pentatonikk.livejournal.com]

Just stopping by to say huff huff Middle English.

and eee foreign language radio is fantastic. I can't use it as background noise, though, because I end up listening intently, trying to pick out words and figure out what's going on even if I know next to nothing about the language. (Estonian radio, I take it?)

[yuuago]

Hufff Middle English indeed. I am so in love with it. And I'm sure if I actually had time to study Old English, I'd be in love with that, too.

Haa, in my case, it just sounds like gibberish to me, so background noise works fine. The only thing I can pick out is place names, sometimes. That's it.
Estonian radio, I take it?

As if it would be anything else. ;p

[pentatonikk.livejournal.com]

Oooh Old English is fascinating because it's so different and you don't realize it until you try to read it. I wonder if someone's constructed an English as it would have evolved from Old English without stealing half of French. That would be awesome. (I am a nerd.)

fff I can't pick anything out either, but I can't help trying anyway. And oh yuu.

[mimes.livejournal.com]

I can't have people talking in another language as background noise, I get distracted and try to figure out their language to some extent (this is always met with disappointing results, obviously). Don't have that problem with foreign music, though.

eajtpaoetjpajet don't even get me started on the whole library hours thing. Libraries here are open from only 12-5 from Friday to Sunday, and in the summer they aren't open at all on Sundays :| :| :| and then since they're only open for a bit, the place always ends up crowded as hell.

[yuuago]

The thing is, this is a major university library. And students keep wonky hours. If the library at my tiny undergrad university could manage to stay open until midnight, why not this one? Craziness. :|

[mimes.livejournal.com]

In that case, maybe the librarians don't want to deal with you guys for so long? Could be that it wasn't so much work keeping a library that open for so many hours, at such a tiny place. Less people, less books etc etc etc
Or maybe they want to encourage kids to go out to bars on Friday nights, WHO KNOWS.



speaking of universities I have to go to an open house for the U of C tomorrow arghh. tomorrow beng today

[yuuago]

:|

You might very well be right. But it still pisses me the fuck off, arrrgh. WHAT DO I DO WHEN I NEED BOOKS ON NORTHUMBRIAN DIALECT AT 10:30 PM ON A FRIDAY, I ASK YOU

They want us to go out to pubs and get royally smashed and not do our work so we flunk like whoa and then we have to re-take our classes which means the school gets more money and ---

...
I think I should go to bed.

Speaking of bed, why aren't you in yours? :|

[mimes.livejournal.com]

THAT'LL TEACH YOU TO GET THOSE BOOKS EARLIER THEN :|
and 10:30 on a Friday sounds pretty nuts, man. I thought you were talking about going at like, 8 PM. You know, a reasonable time for a reasonable man.

. . . That is exactly what I implied by my pub going statement. Yes. Of course.


I was not in bed because my creative juices were flowing.
and I don't really feel like going so I don't want to have time just fly by as I sleep

[yuuago]

YES IT WILL

Oh honey

You should have seen me in undergrad. I'd go out at like, 11, to get this ONE BOOK I NEEDED OMG RIGHT NOW.
And then I'd go to my office, which was in the English department of the Arts building, and was usually absolutely completely deserted at that hour except for the janitor. And I'd stay in there until 2 AM working. 8D IT WAS GREAT.
...
I know that sounds crazy, but I actually really miss it.

Anyway.
OH
OHOOOO I SEE
Creative juices are always a good excuse for not sleeping.

And I wish I didn't have to sleep. Ever.

[mimes.livejournal.com]

That actually sounds like one hell of an educational experience, to tell you the truth. did you guys not have google back in your day. even though google isn't always that useful so nvm
I have no idea what you mean by having an ~office~ though. I've heard you mention it but. . . students get their own offices? Everywhere? Just there? What is this, I must know. I know art students get their own studios, is this the same thing?


seriously buddy why do I only ever get ~creative juices~ at night. This is inconvenient ;___; my life. so hard.

And I wish I didn't have to sleep. Ever.
aioejtoaijte story of my life. I really only like sleep right when I'm supposed to be waking up. Other than that, I feel like it just wastes so much time, you know?

[yuuago]

It was AWESOME.
And dude, I am NOT THAT OLD OKAY. Of course we had Google in 2004-2008. :| But the internet isn't good for academic research. Well, okay, I guess it might be okay for some disciplines, but it is heavily discouraged. And while university libraries do have access to academic articles etc, not everything is electronic, so sometimes you just have to resort to using the book version.

And by office I mean, office. Not all university students get offices, though. In undergrad I was in the honours program, which basically meant I took more classes and had to write a thesis in my final year. Honours students got shared offices - for us, it was a medium-sized room with seven cubicles, and we were all put in there. It sounds kind of crowded, but it wasn't bad, and we were allowed to get in at all hours of the night. Masters students had their own offices; sometimes they had to share, but there weren't many masters students so everyone was able to have their own office, which was a tiny room slightly larger than a broom closet.

It's the same thing here. Well, okay, I don't know if Honours students get offices here, but graduate students do - but not all the time. Since there are so many of us here not everyone has one. I had one last year, but because this is my second year, I don't get one any more. Anyway, the ones here are slightly larger, which is nice, but they're located in the library rather than the English department, so unfortunately people here are restricted to the library's hours.

Blah blah blah etc.

I tend to get creative juices only when I'm supposed to be doing something else. Fortunately I have not felt that way recently. Maybe I'm just burnt out or something. But it's working to my advantage because really I do not have time to be writing right now. Fuck our lives :|

Sleep = time that could be better spent doing homework. Or... something else. Something, anything.

[mimes.livejournal.com]

If I was doing what you were doing, I'd probably feel so cool doing my homework in a deserted place like that at night. I'd probably even listen to Eye of the Tiger or something as I'd walk through the halls. if you tell me you didn't do that at least once I will be so disappointed.

I tried making sense of that whole office business and it still all sounds like nonsense to me. Clearly, I'm tired (even if I'm denying it). Seems like I am young and naive and I have a lot to learn.
wait
could you decorate/personalize these offices? Like, with plants. Pictures. Action figures.

it's like, I get that getting enough sleep makes you feel less stressed and happier and everything (and it does, really) but I feel bad wasting so many hours like that. You sleep and you waste time or you don't sleep and you end up crazy/miserable. YOU CAN'T WIN.

and with that, I'm actually going to bed. night ♥