Spring Semester

So, I'm slowly working on getting things figured out for spring semester. I'm taking five classes, all English cause yeah, major, but only three of them require books.

I went through the website for what books I need and lo and behold, I have five of em. :) So at the least, I'll be paying about $180 and at the most, $240.

Since the building that houses the English department is being remodeled, all of us (plus about a dozen other departments) are being shuffled off to every other building on campus for classes. One of the English classes is even being held in the gym/Phys. Ed building, they're that desperate for classroom/office space. Luckily, I was aware of this when I scheduled my classes cause it wouldn't do to have a class in Plachy that ends at 8:50am and then have to be in the Theatre building on the other side of campus at 9am. As one of my prof's put it, "Um, no. Not gonna happen." I will have two classes in the Theatre building, one in the library, one in the Art building, and one in the Science/Math/Tech building. It's gonna be...interesting.

( Schedule )

Even though my schedule is really full Tuesday/Thursdays, I have a feeling its gonna be MWF that are gonna kill me. Murphy and Baker are two of the hardest profs in the department (Mac's the third but he's on sabbatical) whereas Abeyta never has a set schedule planned out (he says as a poet, he doens't do schedules unless he has to) and Owens is Sarah, my favoritist of the English department. She had absolutely no qualms in me doing my mythology applied research project on Power Rangers and even asked to keep it as a example for her other mythology classes (she's also the one who still has my Smores' Globe Theatre; she loves the thing.)

Other than that, I have one paper I have to drop off with the Provost to get my fin. aid straightened out. I do that tomorrow. Er. Today.

So yeah. Classes begin Tuesday and, so far, things are looking a lot less hellish than I'd been expecting. :)

Quotes from class

Occasionally, while in class, someone will say something that just...its either so out there everyone cracks up or its just so funny everyone cracks up. When that happens, I usually write it down to post on twitter later.

I was going through my notebook, cleaning out the notes I don't need anymore. Here are some of the gems I found:

"Only an English Major could find a way to correct the grammar in a silent movie." -Kat

*looking at a DVD cover*
"Did I see subtitles?!" *rest of class laughs* "Seriously, I don't understand how you can have subtitles in a silent movie!" - Melissa

"Word choice is just as important as grammar. Otherwise you get sentences like this" *puts sentence on screen* "They appointed the blind blonde girl head life girl." - Dr. Mac

"That sounds horrible!" - student
"Its your sentence!" - Dr. Mac

*going over intensifier verbs*
"This is the first time I've tried that and no one said 'quite'." - Dr. Mac
"That's too British, man." - Fonz

"You know you're getting old when you get fed up with the younger generations slang words." - Student
"Amen." - Dr. Mac

*about the phrase "my bad"*
"I tried saying that but it wouldn't come out." - Dr. Mac

*goes on a tangent on how he likes the word 'aint' cause its so flexible*
"...what were we discussing again? I completely lost my train of thought." -Dr. Mac
"Aint that the pits?" - Student

*student gives his sentence*
"'The penguins that waddled are freezing.'" - Student gives his sentence
*Is there any other kind of waddling? ... Don't answer that." - Dr. Mac

"If I ask you to give me the sentence tense on the final, first you're going to cuss me out, and then you're going to answer the question." - Dr. Mac.

Help from the In Space fans?

I'm working on my Ninjette Order fic and I need to know, what would Karone and Cassie's animal spirits be? Any animal at all. This will be AFTER the end of LG, by the way, if that helps.

Help? Please?