Well, I got my registration date for my classes, and I’ve picked out the classes I’ll HOPEFULLY be taking. I need to compete with the 4th years as well this year for classes, and they get first pick, so this might not go how I want it to. But here’s a general outline of what I’m hoping for:
- ANTH 333 – Anthropology of Myth
- ANTH 320 – Central American Indigenous Medicine
- CRWR 116 – Introduction to Creative Writing I
- ENGL 340 – Introduction to Old English
- ENGL 438 – Shakespeare: Early Works
- ENGL 439 – Shakespeare: Later Works
- ENGL 455 – Reading Gothic Film
- ENGL 470C – Canadian Studies: Search for Home
- JPST 365 – Gender and Japanese Language
- SPAN 101 – Beginners’ Spanish I
Canadian literature is the only thing I hate more than Victorian literature, but I HAVE to take at least one class in it, so I’ll suffer. And I wish they had the Chaucer course instead of Intro to Old English like I wanted, but I’ll survive. We’ll probably end up looking at some of his stuff, anyway.
In other news, it’s my Mum’s birthday today. 44 years old. Happy birthday to my Mum!
Umm. Robbie is pretty much the sweetest guy ever, and it comes out a lot once he’s a little tipsy/drunk, so I might need to get him to drink more often. I end up really stupidly happy after talking to him and all the nice things. Haha. (Don’t worry, I won’t turn you into an alcoholic. I’m kidding. 
) We were talking after I was done work yesterday, and he’d been drinking at home rather than going out, and it was really, really nice. I enjoyed the conversation with my potato thoroughly. <3
… hey, Cowboy, when are we gonna head home? <.< (That won’t make sense to any of you except Robbie, which is all that’s important, anyway. 
)
I got new shoes! =D An actual pair of runners this time. I’m still getting used to my ankles feeling so… bare. I need a pair of normal boots again, too, because there are certain situations and such where I can’t wear runners, but that’s fine. I have time to get those.
I think that’s all I really have to say right now. Life’s been pretty uneventful other than that stuff. Anon.
[9:00 PM]
OMG PANIC PANIC AAAHHHHH. Okay, not quite, but lately I’ve been having a bit of doubt about whether teaching is really what I want to do or not, and in the midst of this, I find a bunch of requirements for the B.Ed. that, thanks to the FUCKING RETARDED site design of UBC, I didn’t know about until just now. In theory, I’d be able to complete them in time, but it would mean 5 more courses that I had no plan to take, and that as such don’t fit in my schedule easily. I’m not pleased. It’s history and geography, and something needs to be related to Canadian studies. There’s two history courses I could take that would cover that, but still. Canadian history is boring as hell.
Anyway, yes. Lately, not 100% sure on the teaching thing. Honestly, I’m torn between that, publishing/editing/proofreading, and graphic design (LAWL DOESN’T FIT). I mean, I think I’d like teaching, but I don’t know for sure. I do prefer the more technical parts of language and such to things like Shakespeare, Chaucer, Ray Bradbury, and so on. That’s more of an interest than anything else. If I go into publishing and proofreading and stuff, I’m going to have to move to a big city, probably Vancouver, which I would actually like, and would probably do anyway because (assuming Robbie and I live together and stuff and stay in Canada) we’d be on the coast. If I could get a job with a large publishing company, especially for novels and magazines and stuff, I’d be quite happy because they pay fairly well, and I’d enjoy basically being paid to read stuff and point out things that are wrong, haha.
I have time to set stuff in stone, however. We shall see. I still think I want to go teach English in Japan for a year, just because it would still be a good practice in the actual grammar and such because I’d need to look at the language from an outside perspective, and understand it in order to teach it.
I want a hug now, though. D=
