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September 29, 2006
While I'm here...
Posted by kelseyfrost at 12:42 PM | Comments (0)
I am a bad blogger.
How long has it been? Quite a while, I believe. It took some time to get my schedule sorted out this semester and, in the end, I'm happy with it. I end up being at UMass pretty much all day, Monday through Friday, but my work load should be more or less manageable. I have lots of reading to do at any given moment, but I will only have two (rather than three) giant papers to write at the end of the semester. I've also begun taking Arabic, which is cool but hard. Aside from the alphabet being really complicated to write (for me), the pronunciation is really hard. So far, we're nearing the end of the alphabet and learning a few words and expressions. It's kind of overwhelming. I found Hebrew to be much easier, but Arabic is more relevant to what I am studying.
The bigger news is that we're moving to a new apartment right downtown. This is mostly exciting because it's a fantastic deal and I think we can stay there for a while. Plus it's very close to the bus stop, which will be nice for me in snowy, cold weather. We're moving November 1st, so we suddenly have to start packing- which is kind of scary to think about with all my school work. Another fun tidbit about our move: it mostly seems to involve shuffling drummers from one place to another.
Posted by kelseyfrost at 12:21 PM | Comments (0)
September 10, 2006
Everything you ever wanted to know about recording with Winterpills
Jose and Winterpills have decided to document the recording of their new record, which took place over the past ten days, or so. Five days have been posted so far, and here's number one:
Check back for more here.
Posted by kelseyfrost at 12:37 PM | Comments (0)
September 06, 2006
I started out this morning with an appropriate School for the Dead song in my head.
Classes started up today in a very disorganized and confusing manner. I arrived at UMass by ten this morning because I was told yesterday during a meeting that I would be teaching at that time, but my class still hadn't shown up on the UMass class schedule, so I didn't know where I was supposed to go. Stopping in at the department secretary's office, she discovered that I was supposed to teach two sections of the same class at the same time, so we had to scramble and sort everything out. I now teach only in the afternoons Monday, Wednesday and Friday, once at 1:25 and once at 2:30. It will make my mornings a little easier at least.
The other class I had today was one I am taking: introductory Arabic. I think it's going to be a good course. It's huge- kids kept having to steal desks from across the hall as more and more students poured in.
The one thing that has been freaking me out is that, since I've only attended one class so far, and since I haven't obtained my books yet, I have nothing to do when I get home... I feel like precious reading time is being wasted. Wasted! Because I don't know what to read. This is the one thing that's getting to me, knowing how insane my schedule will be in a week or so, and not being able to do anything about it yet. Hopefully I'll get some work in over the weekend and I'll feel a little more comfortable with everything.
Tomorrow I'll have two more classes: one I have been looking forward to all summer, and one I'm checking out as an option, since another class got cancelled. My schedule this semester will be busy, but hopefully not impossible. We'll find out soon enough.
Posted by kelseyfrost at 11:23 PM | Comments (0)