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ltgmarsI always do those things where I say, "I'm going to post every day! Every day!" And I usually end up pooping out in the middle of the post announcing it. But eh, it's because my life just kind of floats along. Nothing really big to tell. I suppose I'll strive to tell of the little somethings instead.
A recent chat with Armay will sum up the past couple of weeks:
Inez: Anyway, how have you been
Inez: Ergh.
Inez: That was supposed to be extended.
Inez: Like beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen.
Armay: hahah ive been shit, but good
Armay: you?
Inez: Ahaha about the same.
The good part is that, unlike how it was over the summer, I have things to do (and money to buy food and pay rent and stuff) -- a part-time job at one of the offices at school, a TAship, and four classes. For the shit part, see the previous sentence, plus whatever it is that's lodged itself in my nasal passage and won't let go. Basically it means I'm all tired and lethargic and I have so much to do (so much to do!) and no time or energy to do it.
But you know. It's like what I used to do in undergrad -- pack my schedule so full I didn't know where one day ended and the next began. And honestly, I thrived in that kind of environment, because I was always doing something and there'd been just enough time to breathe that I'd been able to have a really fulfilling -- and still fun -- college life. Plus, it was kind of hilarious whenever I'd do well in classes because Will was always, always incredulous. "How? I never see you study!"
So yeah. Being busy isn't so bad, and once I get into a good rhythm, it'll be quite doable, if a little hectic. It's just that being sick, especially at the beginning of the quarter when I'm still sorting things out, has made it hard for me to find said rhythm.
So, without further ado, the moment you all look forward to at the beginning of every term, my schedule:
M
11:00-13:50: Japanese 200 (Seminar)
15:00-17:50: Japanese 155 (Screening)
T
10:00-11:00: TA Office Hours
11:00-12:15: Chinese 110A (Lecture)
13:00-15:00: Work
15:00-17:50: History 201M (Seminar)
W
08:00-08:50 - Japanese 155 (Discussion Section)
09:00-09:50 - Japanese 155 (Discussion Section)
11:00-16:00 - Work
16:00-17:50 - Japanese 155 (Lecture)
R
11:00-12:15 - Chinese 110A (Lecture)
13:00-16:00 - Work
16:00-18:50 - Asian 495
F
10:00-11:00 - TA Office Hours
11:00-11:50 - Chinese 110A (Graduate Discussion Section)
12:00-13:00 - TA Meeting
Some explanations:
- Japanese 155 (Japanese Cinema) is the course I'm TAing for (with my friend Mari), and there's a lot there, even just in terms of screenings and readings, not to mention actual time set aside for it. (Though I suppose that's why they're paying us.) I'm TAing two sections of 25 students each. Getting jaded juniors and seniors to care enough to discuss texts at 8am on a Wednesday morning is my main charge for the quarter.
- Asian 495 I wouldn't really count as a class because it's that lame mandatory first-time TA course with silly assignments and workshops and whatever else. But it's still four units and it still takes up a lot of time and requires the completion of a bunch of little write-ups and the like. So argh.
- Japanese 200 (Premodern Japanese Literature) is a seminar with a professor who apparently has a major hard-on for his advisor and has assigned just about everything written or edited by one Shirane Haruo (a big name in classical/premodern Japanese-related stuff, apparently). It's basically a class full of familiar faces I've seen in other classes, so it's a good group, but the professor outright said on the first day of class that he wants us to suffer a little. So there'll be an absurd amount of reading on top of the classical Japanese texts that we're supposed to prepare in advance so that we can translate them in class. Ahh, fun fun.
- History 201M (Topics in History: Japan) is an iteration of the course I took first quarter last year. (Actually, so is Japanese 200, now that I mention it. Apparently as long as the iterations are different I can take these courses however many times I feel like it.) The subtitle this time is "Historiographical Approaches to Japanese Modernity: Sports, Drugs, Sex Work, Art, and Empire", and it's taught by the (obviously) off-beat professor I've had a few times before. In terms of coursework, it'll be a pretty standard grad seminar, I think.
- Chinese 110A (Introduction to Classical Chinese) is guaranteed to kick my butt, because I've been away from Chinese for so long that I'm just not going to be okay. The main lectures and discussion sections aren't so bad because it's just translation of the little blurbs featured in the textbook, complete with helpful illustrations and explanations, but the privileged grad students get to have a separate section in which we do things like translate the Analects and other Absurdly Old Classical Stuff. But don't worry, these texts, too, are annotated...
in Chinese.
:|
- Work is just a counseling assistant job at the International Institute advising office. I help undergrads in our majors (International Development Studies, European Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and South Asian Studies) figure out the majors and plan out their coursework and all that good stuff. Being an academic counselor means that I've had to learn the ins and outs of these majors, the requirements and stipulations for which I now know better than East Asian Studies (which, incidentally, is covered by the other half of the International Institute office, just down the hall). My boss, Sandy, is really friendly and fun to talk to, and Magda (my EAS advisor and the other boss) knows everything. The student assistant in Magda's office is Lori (a first-year African Studies MA student, though this will be her second MA), so if you hear me drop any of those names (and I'm not talking about![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
skycouldfall (what a namedrop, eh? XD)), that's where they're from.
Uh, I think this entry has been long and gross, and no one cares about school logistics, but just in case you're really bored and you want to mindlessly read some nonsense, I will be happy to deliver.
Next time on Inez's LJ: My trips to San Diego and Philadelphia! And, if I post a long enough time from now (which I probably will, let's be honest), Oakland as well!
お楽しみに！
A recent chat with Armay will sum up the past couple of weeks:
Inez: Anyway, how have you been
Inez: Ergh.
Inez: That was supposed to be extended.
Inez: Like beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen.
Armay: hahah ive been shit, but good
Armay: you?
Inez: Ahaha about the same.
The good part is that, unlike how it was over the summer, I have things to do (and money to buy food and pay rent and stuff) -- a part-time job at one of the offices at school, a TAship, and four classes. For the shit part, see the previous sentence, plus whatever it is that's lodged itself in my nasal passage and won't let go. Basically it means I'm all tired and lethargic and I have so much to do (so much to do!) and no time or energy to do it.
But you know. It's like what I used to do in undergrad -- pack my schedule so full I didn't know where one day ended and the next began. And honestly, I thrived in that kind of environment, because I was always doing something and there'd been just enough time to breathe that I'd been able to have a really fulfilling -- and still fun -- college life. Plus, it was kind of hilarious whenever I'd do well in classes because Will was always, always incredulous. "How? I never see you study!"
So yeah. Being busy isn't so bad, and once I get into a good rhythm, it'll be quite doable, if a little hectic. It's just that being sick, especially at the beginning of the quarter when I'm still sorting things out, has made it hard for me to find said rhythm.
So, without further ado, the moment you all look forward to at the beginning of every term, my schedule:
M
11:00-13:50: Japanese 200 (Seminar)
15:00-17:50: Japanese 155 (Screening)
T
10:00-11:00: TA Office Hours
11:00-12:15: Chinese 110A (Lecture)
13:00-15:00: Work
15:00-17:50: History 201M (Seminar)
W
08:00-08:50 - Japanese 155 (Discussion Section)
09:00-09:50 - Japanese 155 (Discussion Section)
11:00-16:00 - Work
16:00-17:50 - Japanese 155 (Lecture)
R
11:00-12:15 - Chinese 110A (Lecture)
13:00-16:00 - Work
16:00-18:50 - Asian 495
F
10:00-11:00 - TA Office Hours
11:00-11:50 - Chinese 110A (Graduate Discussion Section)
12:00-13:00 - TA Meeting
Some explanations:
- Japanese 155 (Japanese Cinema) is the course I'm TAing for (with my friend Mari), and there's a lot there, even just in terms of screenings and readings, not to mention actual time set aside for it. (Though I suppose that's why they're paying us.) I'm TAing two sections of 25 students each. Getting jaded juniors and seniors to care enough to discuss texts at 8am on a Wednesday morning is my main charge for the quarter.
- Asian 495 I wouldn't really count as a class because it's that lame mandatory first-time TA course with silly assignments and workshops and whatever else. But it's still four units and it still takes up a lot of time and requires the completion of a bunch of little write-ups and the like. So argh.
- Japanese 200 (Premodern Japanese Literature) is a seminar with a professor who apparently has a major hard-on for his advisor and has assigned just about everything written or edited by one Shirane Haruo (a big name in classical/premodern Japanese-related stuff, apparently). It's basically a class full of familiar faces I've seen in other classes, so it's a good group, but the professor outright said on the first day of class that he wants us to suffer a little. So there'll be an absurd amount of reading on top of the classical Japanese texts that we're supposed to prepare in advance so that we can translate them in class. Ahh, fun fun.
- History 201M (Topics in History: Japan) is an iteration of the course I took first quarter last year. (Actually, so is Japanese 200, now that I mention it. Apparently as long as the iterations are different I can take these courses however many times I feel like it.) The subtitle this time is "Historiographical Approaches to Japanese Modernity: Sports, Drugs, Sex Work, Art, and Empire", and it's taught by the (obviously) off-beat professor I've had a few times before. In terms of coursework, it'll be a pretty standard grad seminar, I think.
- Chinese 110A (Introduction to Classical Chinese) is guaranteed to kick my butt, because I've been away from Chinese for so long that I'm just not going to be okay. The main lectures and discussion sections aren't so bad because it's just translation of the little blurbs featured in the textbook, complete with helpful illustrations and explanations, but the privileged grad students get to have a separate section in which we do things like translate the Analects and other Absurdly Old Classical Stuff. But don't worry, these texts, too, are annotated...
in Chinese.
:|
- Work is just a counseling assistant job at the International Institute advising office. I help undergrads in our majors (International Development Studies, European Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and South Asian Studies) figure out the majors and plan out their coursework and all that good stuff. Being an academic counselor means that I've had to learn the ins and outs of these majors, the requirements and stipulations for which I now know better than East Asian Studies (which, incidentally, is covered by the other half of the International Institute office, just down the hall). My boss, Sandy, is really friendly and fun to talk to, and Magda (my EAS advisor and the other boss) knows everything. The student assistant in Magda's office is Lori (a first-year African Studies MA student, though this will be her second MA), so if you hear me drop any of those names (and I'm not talking about
skycouldfall (what a namedrop, eh? XD)), that's where they're from.Uh, I think this entry has been long and gross, and no one cares about school logistics, but just in case you're really bored and you want to mindlessly read some nonsense, I will be happy to deliver.
Next time on Inez's LJ: My trips to San Diego and Philadelphia! And, if I post a long enough time from now (which I probably will, let's be honest), Oakland as well!
お楽しみに！
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Date: 2011-09-30 05:52 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-10-01 16:39 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-30 15:07 (UTC)I actually met Haruo Shirane at the conference I went to in August. He's a pretty cool guy! :D The funny thing is we're using his Classical Japanese Grammar and Reader in my class, and my professor likes to get snarky about his book. For example, he the part of Houjoki we read yesterday, he gives this weird translation of one of the words, and my prof was like "Seriously? I'm going to send him a nasty email about this..." I think they went to school together though.
Anyway, your classes sound awesome :D
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Date: 2011-10-01 16:44 (UTC)Grad school has made me realize how incestuous academia is. Especially in these tiny, specialized fields, all of the big names know each other and are drinking buddies or something. XD
My classes should be excellent! It will be a great quarter once I settle into it.
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Date: 2011-10-01 18:06 (UTC)It really is. Essentially everyone in Pre-Modern Japanese History right now had the same advisor. And yes, they are drinking buddies. (I went drinking with several of the profs at the conference I went to. XD)
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Date: 2011-10-01 18:15 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-30 17:37 (UTC)Also, I'm taking Japanese cinema this semester too! But our class is really easy. The only thing is spoiled undergrads who have summer jobs at big film companies and think they know more than the prof. -_-
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Date: 2011-10-01 18:06 (UTC)Ew, I hate students like that. If you think you know so much, why are you taking the class?
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Date: 2011-09-30 18:15 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-01 18:15 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-01 05:02 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-01 18:21 (UTC)I don't know that I'll have the schedule memorized anytime soon, but that's what they have planners for. :D And thank you! I, too, hope I get over being sick soon. D:
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Date: 2011-10-01 05:09 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-01 18:06 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-01 20:52 (UTC)also, why're you going to oakland?!?!?!?!? i want to go to the bay area, you lucky jerk. and don't post about here. you were here for 48 hours and we sat on my bed the end.
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Date: 2011-10-02 00:15 (UTC)I owe you no explanations. :|
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Date: 2011-10-02 00:21 (UTC)