Linguistics 101: Language has never been my thing. This is no exception. The lab is just as bad though at least the TA for that is entertaining. The actual professor is unspeakably tedious. Its one of those lectures where you just jot down everything that appears on the board, so at least I get lots of reading done.
Journalism 300: Junior writing course. There are only like 13 other people in it which is good but the workload dwarfs pretty much everything and we actually have to go out and interview people. It'll be interesting but it makes it really difficult to be lazy.
Criticism of Media: Not as hippy-dippy as it sounds; the name for the class probably should have been "Journalism Is Changing And You Guys Are Fucked Unless You Adapt And Learn How To Use The Internet". The professor is very charismatic and apparently was a news anchor in Chicago for a while. Also has a heavy workload, though there aren't any size specifications on essays which is pretty nice.
Greek Mythology: This is a Gen-Ed. The teacher looks a little bit like a walrus and sounds like Rex the Dinosaur from Toy Story. He's pretty compelling though and probably legally insane. Good class.
Biology of Social Issues: Better than it sounds. Apparently, DDT wiped out malaria in Europe and America as well as killing boatloads of birds of prey. That's pretty much been the whole class so far, but I did not know that illegal pesticides had any benefits outside of making it easier to grow crops. Neat!
Aside from that its business as usual. Almost done with Snow Falling On Cedars. Will start 100 Bullets after that which looks promising.
Started working out again. Remembered why I stopped doing it, but I've kind of got to. Baseball season's gonna start soon and I really don't want to have to get in shape on the fly again.
On that note...
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