It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!
Well, not really. Outside, it’s still — on average — eight or nine degrees centigrade, and some slow-poke trees are still working on shedding their leaves.
One thing I’ve noticed?
Those crazy Hürth-ians go crazy with the Christmas lights. It’s almost like being in Canada again, and definitely makes me seem like a humbug with my little electric candles in the window. Ah, well… Energy saving, and all that, I suppose. These sort of things are important when it’s dark by 16:00. That, and it’s 8:00 already, but the sky is still pretty dark. Bah.
In other news, I feel a bit like I’m drowning. You know, technically I’m taking fewer classes this semester than I did last semester. For some reason, it feels like my workload is about ten times what it was last semester. This may have something to do with the fact I’m still not done those extra “funsies” classes at AU, and will be holding a lecture at a conference in February.
As a result, I’ve been dropping classes like crazy. Weekly quizzes in Finnish? No thank you. I’m sorry, but I have to leave you for the time being, lovely Suomi. Only, unlike I predicted, I’m not giving up on you because you confused me. I’m giving up on you because I’ve got conferences to prepare, and I have to finish some of my term papers before the semester ends this time, because I need to spend the bulk of my semester break preparing for my first Master Exam in April.
So, of course, it makes sense that — given the drowning feeling — my tendency to blog my very well go up in the next couple of months.
Typical…
Well, not really. Outside, it’s still — on average — eight or nine degrees centigrade, and some slow-poke trees are still working on shedding their leaves.
One thing I’ve noticed?
Those crazy Hürth-ians go crazy with the Christmas lights. It’s almost like being in Canada again, and definitely makes me seem like a humbug with my little electric candles in the window. Ah, well… Energy saving, and all that, I suppose. These sort of things are important when it’s dark by 16:00. That, and it’s 8:00 already, but the sky is still pretty dark. Bah.
In other news, I feel a bit like I’m drowning. You know, technically I’m taking fewer classes this semester than I did last semester. For some reason, it feels like my workload is about ten times what it was last semester. This may have something to do with the fact I’m still not done those extra “funsies” classes at AU, and will be holding a lecture at a conference in February.
As a result, I’ve been dropping classes like crazy. Weekly quizzes in Finnish? No thank you. I’m sorry, but I have to leave you for the time being, lovely Suomi. Only, unlike I predicted, I’m not giving up on you because you confused me. I’m giving up on you because I’ve got conferences to prepare, and I have to finish some of my term papers before the semester ends this time, because I need to spend the bulk of my semester break preparing for my first Master Exam in April.
So, of course, it makes sense that — given the drowning feeling — my tendency to blog my very well go up in the next couple of months.
Typical…
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