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summercomfort) wrote2004-03-30 01:57 am
summercomfort) wrote2004-03-30 01:57 am
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Well, school has started.
TianLong ended with a focus on XiaoFeng, which seems sort of petty considering that the tale was a grand survey of so much of humanity. They should have ended it as in the book, with an allegory of Buddhism which reminds you that the whole book is about Buddhism. But still, that was a damn good tv adaptation. I agree with most of the small changes they made, except for the final death scene, but whatever.
So I went class shopping today, went to 4 classes. Tomorrow, 4-5 more, depending.
So far,
- Tyranny is out, but I might want to read the books.
- Salim's class might be a bit boring, but I know his style and I know the TA, so probably will take
- Monuments is quite a bunch of Academic BS, but it's Asia art, so I'm totally wibbling on it. It's also five 1-3 page papers, which shouldn't be hard at all. I'll give it another chance
- Postwar Japan Lit has a cool prof and a fun bunch of people, but everyone knows so much more than I do, and it requires weekly journals and a serious-sounding final paper. The reading sounds cool, though, so it feels like an audit class.
Let's see how tomorrow's classes turn out.
Also, we somehow inveigled Aza into driving us to Chinatown, we being Aza, Isaac, Helena, Alexis, and me, and so we had lots of fun playing bubbletea musical chairs and then just running around the plaza and jumping on people. :D
TianLong ended with a focus on XiaoFeng, which seems sort of petty considering that the tale was a grand survey of so much of humanity. They should have ended it as in the book, with an allegory of Buddhism which reminds you that the whole book is about Buddhism. But still, that was a damn good tv adaptation. I agree with most of the small changes they made, except for the final death scene, but whatever.
So I went class shopping today, went to 4 classes. Tomorrow, 4-5 more, depending.
So far,
- Tyranny is out, but I might want to read the books.
- Salim's class might be a bit boring, but I know his style and I know the TA, so probably will take
- Monuments is quite a bunch of Academic BS, but it's Asia art, so I'm totally wibbling on it. It's also five 1-3 page papers, which shouldn't be hard at all. I'll give it another chance
- Postwar Japan Lit has a cool prof and a fun bunch of people, but everyone knows so much more than I do, and it requires weekly journals and a serious-sounding final paper. The reading sounds cool, though, so it feels like an audit class.
Let's see how tomorrow's classes turn out.
Also, we somehow inveigled Aza into driving us to Chinatown, we being Aza, Isaac, Helena, Alexis, and me, and so we had lots of fun playing bubbletea musical chairs and then just running around the plaza and jumping on people. :D
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