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[Feb. 27th, 2007|08:07 am] |
What do I wanna take spring quarter at UC Clermont?
Certain -
Beginning ASL III - Thursday nights 6:30-9:10
Possible -
Vietnam War - Wednesday nights 6:30-9:10
Plagues & Witches - Wednesday nights 7:00-9:40 (I may be falling asleep during this class) -- "Social history of lowest levels of medieval society and how they lived and survived under control of the nobility and church. Devastation of the Black Death and the social upheaval of the witch hunts."
Painting I - Wednesday nights 6:30-9:10 - Have to see if there's a prerequisite for this one
Philosophy & Sexuality - Monday nights 6:30-9:10
Women in Art - Wednesday afternoons 4:00-6:40 (couldn't the damn thing end just a *little* sooner?)
I could take Women in Art and Plagues & Witches, leaving me prettymuch no time at all on Wednesday nights to do anything else. I don't know if I wanna take 3 or just 2 classes this quarter. Just having 2 classes this quarter was really easy. Philosophy & Sexuality sounds really interesting.
Hmmm. *ponders* |
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[Feb. 24th, 2007|06:54 pm] |
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| | Khuluiwe Sithole - Lea Halalela (Holy Land) | ] |
Really totally awesome obscure languages I want to learn for no other reason than they sound ridiculously cool:
Persian
Zulu
Guaraní
Icelandic |
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| Traveling! |
[Sep. 5th, 2006|04:25 pm] |
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| |  busy | ] |
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| | Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) | ] |
Hahahahaha. I just picked up the phone. It was my dad, and he thought I was Paula because I usually answer the phone with "Aló."
There is stuff going on in the foreseeable future! Kinda big stuff! Stuff that makes me glad I'm going to be working to get money!
A weekend in the middle of November, Danielle and Trey are going up to Nyack, NY for a TMBG show. I have no idea if I'd be allowed to join them or not -- I haven't exactly done anything like that before, y'know? It would be fun. It would also be a long-ass car ride.
Curless was talking today about our Art History class might take a trip to Chicago in the spring! Yes! It'd be 3 or 4 days, and only cost about $200 too (that's about half of what the NHS trip in April cost). I don't know what all we'd be doing there, other than the Art Institute which I love and Jessie and I were late to the bus last time trying to see everything we wanted to see and it would be great to go back. I cannot articulate how much I love that city.
And of course there is Costa Rica, which por eso estoy muy emocionada. Even though I get sunburned just thinking about it.
Today is a rare empty evening which I plan on taking full advantage of by doing not much of anything. I don't have any homework (I would work ahead on Art History but even Curless doesn't have the stuff written up yet) and I did have a volunteering thing for NHS scheduled today, but it got cancelled because no one else could go.
So tomorrow I have choir, Thursday and Friday I have work, Saturday both Jessie and I are off work so we're probably going to do something, Sunday I have work in the afternoon.
I am really, really glad I got that planner I was talking about to write all this stuff down in.
~Joy, whose life was so boring last year, who suddenly has all this stuff, what happened between then and now?
PS: I saw a Darwin fish on a car the other day. :3 |
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| Stupid post-secondary ranting |
[Jul. 24th, 2006|05:21 pm] |
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| | Fiona Apple - Sleep To Dream | ] |
A big 'fuck you' goes out to whoever decided not to offer French courses at UC Clermont for the fall quarter. Not having the anthropology course I wanted to take, I can understand, but FRENCH?! Everyone should offer French! *grumble*
So, seeing as the two classes I wanted to take are both OFF THE LIST, I need to make a decision. Here are my options (ie, all the classes I am remotely interested in taking):
-Beginning ASL I
-Theatre History I
-Elementary Intensive German I
-European Civilizations 1000-1500
-Survey of the History of Science
-World War I and the Homefront
-Intensive Elementary Latin I
-Intro to Psychology I
-Intro to Sociology I
(I'm not being picky; there aren't that many classes that I can take. And all the good English electives have prerequisites. So do the computer classes!)
Some of those, like Latin and German, I probably couldn't take anyway due to schedule issues. Hopefully I can at least take ASL.
I know I'd be able to take Psych and/or Sociology because there are half a million different classes of those. I'd probably be able to take the history courses because they're in the evening, but they're also almost 3 hours long once a week which is kind of intimidating.
I'll probably want to take two classes at most for the first quarter, because I'll probably have a near-full schedule at the high school anyway. We all know what happens when I get overambitious and take a bunch of more challenging classes at once...
Rawrg!
~Joy, qui veut etudier le francais mais ne le peut pas. |
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| Voy a Costa Rica en la primavera! |
[Jul. 22nd, 2006|07:43 pm] |
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| |  excited | ] |
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| | Ska-P - El Vals Del Obrero | ] |
Weeeell, it's official:
Next spring, I'm going to Costa Rica!
It's a school trip, 8 or 9 days homestay at a Costa Rican family's home where the primary language will be Spanish. I'm not exactly clear what the purpose of the trip is - it'll either be something about Spanish culture or something about science and biodiversity and whatnot, most likely.
Either way it's going to be pretty awesome.
And the first time I've left the country, dammit! I must travel more. Heh.
~Joy |
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| Thought I was done with all these silly tests... |
[Jun. 24th, 2006|05:09 pm] |
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| |  cheerful | ] |
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| | Modest Mouse - I've Got It All (Most) | ] |
Aaaand it's time to stop slacking and actually get something done for the summer.
Thursday I take placement exams at UC Clermont for post-secondary. Oh joy. English and Math, even though I'm probably not going to take anything math-related. I can't make any concrete decisions until I get my high school schedule, but for the first quarter I want to take French. There's also some kind of 'Languages of the world' anthropology course that looks interesting. We'll see.
Taking my driving test in a couple weeks. It would probably be wise of me to learn how to park before then.
Next time I'm at the library I'm picking up a job application. I figure, working in retail would drive me insane, working in fast food would gross me out, so I might as well put my alphabetization skills to use. Seriously, the job description is as follows:
"Shelve books, magazines and other library materials for public and non-public areas of library"
So that's how things are, life-wise, for now. Pretty good.
~Things are working out well for Joy |
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[May. 3rd, 2006|09:36 am] |
Reading El Principito in Spanish class >>>> Paying attention in Spanish class.
In terms of learning, enjoyment, and just about every other aspect.
I am so excited about next year. Things will either be incredibly fun or incredibly crazy and either way they will be very exciting.
Remember earlier on this year when I said I would get out of my summer slacking? Yeah, that never really worked. I just got better at doing all my homework in the morning and during lunch. I have a better feeling about next year though - I'll be more interested in the subjects. Art history! AP English! It will be nice.
No science, or history (well, no political history)... That will feel strange.
Right now I just want to read the rest of the day. Maybe I will. |
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| Just a small aimless rant |
[May. 24th, 2005|11:00 pm] |
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| |  contemplative | ] |
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Foreign language jobs. Yarr.
When I tell [insert random adult here] that I'm interested in learning foreign languages, they tell me it's great. There are lots of opportunities for someone who knows a foreign language.
Like what?
Teacher, translator, interpreter.
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And then there's "Foreign language + something else", which would be useful for me if I knew anything else I'd want to do. But I definitely don't.
I'd love to find out more information and what I'd need for some things, but they're kind of obscure I guess:
-Artificial intelligence/speech recognition/Computers + languages = love
-Dubbing, seeing as how much I enjoy translating songs and getting them all to fit together.
Translator and interpreter don't seem like too bad options (except I'd have to figure out of course which language exactly do I want to specialise in), except they seem like kind of unsteady jobs - you can't do anything unless you're commissioned to or whatever. I'd rather have something I know I can count on, as much as anyone can count on having a job anyway.
Of course, I always could go with one of the jobs that career test thing recommended to me at school - Crossword puzzle writer. For serious.
~Joy's future is clouded |
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| Con el sol más brillante mis pasos doy no se aparta la risa de mí |
[Aug. 12th, 2004|12:36 am] |
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| | Glass Prism - The Raven | ] |
I'm sure many of you have seen it to some degree, but I feel like writing about it. What was once a typically dormant mild interest in languages, has turned into a raging linguaphilia.
When I was little, I would enjoy hearing foreign tourists talk amongst themselves or seeing 'How to say Hello/Goodbye/Thank You in 3407184310 languages' or whatnot. I'd ask my dad sometimes (because, quite obviously, he knows everything), 'Dad, why is a window a window?" or just random words.
I had a friend in elementary school and middle school who was Bengali, and when I'd go to her house I liked hearing her parents talking on the phone.
When I was in middle school, for no good reason I was cursed with a small anime and manga obsession, so I started learning snippets of Japanese from whatever I could find online. After a pretty endless amount of time, I was able to translate some JPop lyrics all right and understand a fair bit of the Japanese language track of Kiki's Delivery Service. XD
In 7th grade, I read a book on J.R.R. Tolkien for GT. As I read it, I though: Whoa -- You can study languages *for a living*?. Neat stuff.
Going into high school, of course, I began collecting Disney songs in different languages. At first I collected them just because I liked how they sounded, with different singers and some modifications of the tune due to too many syllables or whatnot. Then, I found the DSites messageboards. These boards consist of quite a few people, mostly living in Europe, also with a passion for foreign languages and music. They have threads dedicated to translating the foreign lyrics.
So now, in addition to different actors' voices, also I figured out the different meanings of the songs because of how they were translated. I also learned a lot more about the languages that were translated -- Mainly German, Swedish, Dutch, Danish, Finnish and Italian. The first four would have looked pretty identical to me before, but now I can recognize them separately -- For instance, Danish has a lot of æs and øs, while Dutch has hardly any special characters at all.
And then, finally my first actual language class. I was pretty annoyed at first that the only choice at my school was Spanish, but I enjoyed my first year very much and I guess beggars can't be choosers.
And now, here I am. I've found a linguistics community on LJ that I lurk at every day, and I'm getting more and more interested in Esperanto. And let me not forget the International Channel, which so far has learned me absolutely nothing but a word in Chinese and some phrases in Russian, but hell, I enjoy it anyway.
And none on my buddy list can escape me while I'm prowling through Wikipedia or h2g2. I have a constant need to share the neat things I find, which is party my reason for updating this journal as much as I do.
So there ya go, the complete history of my language obsession. Enjoy it? That's what I thought.
~y ahora, Alegría va a terminar esta actualización de agenda con ¡ESPAÑOL! |
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| I feel fine enough, I guess, considering everything's a mess |
[May. 3rd, 2004|11:35 pm] |
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| | John Mayer - Why Georgia | ] |
I don't know what I want to do with my life.
I honestly have no clue.
Some kids I know already have their whole lives planned out, but I don't even have the faintest idea of what I'd like to spend the rest of my life doing.
Everything I would consider my 'talents' are only slightly above average or average. I see nothing about myself that makes me stand out, that I could spend my life doing. Heck, I can't even think of a part-time job I'd be happy doing.
I couldn't be a writer, even though I think writing is the one thing I'm most talented at. Writers need to be excellent at what they do, and an endless well of ideas. I can't even write a short story without a prompt, much less an entire book.
I can only write poems when I'm depressed, and I wouldn't spend my life being depressed for all the money in the world.
I couldn't be a journalist because I don't like writing factual things, nor am I comfortable with the endless deadlines.
Despite how everyone thinks I'm a good artist in math class, I take one look at some of those people on DA and quietly continue along my search for something to do with myself.
I can't babysit, I hate kids. I can't mow lawns or shovel drives, I have no physical talent at all. I couldn't even work at McDonald's, for gods' sakes, considering I freeze up if someone I don't know speaks to me.
I don't know. I keep waiting, saying, college is 4 years away, just give it a while. But I don't have a clue. I don't like being so uncertain of my future like this.
~This depressy boring journal brought to you by Joy |
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