Feeling better
Jan. 4th, 2007 12:42![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillI'm enjoying this whole two-hour lunch deal.
My first class was Plant Physio; they recommend taking Genetics first, which I haven't had, but I had a kickass teacher for that portion of Gen Bio, and the discussion section next week will cover a lot of the review. Otherwise it looks like my level -- and I'm very glad I took both Plant Anatomy (for the vocabulary) and Plant Prop (for plant and seed development) so recently. I'll need both.
My system seems to have settled down, and Thai food did indeed agree with it. The weather's cleared up too, turning mild and sunny. I'm still carrying my raincoat around (and it's an inconvenience to strap on my bike with my bag) because I keep having this vision of being stuck in a sudden drenching downpour. Maybe I should just grit my teeth and put it in my locker, rather than risk leaving it in a lecture hall.
I found my mind wandering in Physio, and it tends to wander even now. I finished the Abhorsen Trilogy again last night, which was taking up a lot of the back of my mind -- talk about absorbing. I had hoped that would let me focus on school. Silly me, I went and bought myself BPRD "The Dead" for a little light reading... and now I'm most of the way through, and I can't get my mind off it. Maybe it's just my mental state right now, but it may be the story itself.
I've been thanking the Lords of Fate for the fever Mike Mignola came down with when they were filming the Hellboy movie in Prague. Twenty-four hours of delirium gave us "The Island", which is pretty darn good... but it also gave us the origin story for Abraham Sapien that he had never intended to make. He liked Abe not really having a definite origin, but he came up with one and had to do it.
I have to say, it's a beautiful story, very poignant and melancholy. I've always felt that Abe must have a depth to his history that rivaled Hellboy's, and I'm finding that, if I had to choose my favorite, it would be Abe. Mostly because while HB's nature is tied in with divinity and grand destiny, Abe's is much more a story of a man, a curious but ordinary one, who ran across things he could never have imagined.
I'm not to the end yet, but I'm already wondering whether Abe will tell anyone what he found. I'm thinking not. If Hellboy were there, I think Abe would share it with him... but he isn't. And that's what makes it sadder still.
So, yeah, not really concentrating on the class material today. It's okay, though I do need to work out a note-taking structure for all of them... every prof puts out information in a different way, and I have to learn how to effectively capture it in notes. Dr. Canington made me lazy -- she always wrote all the points in indented outline form on the board, and I rarely needed to organize it further. I have to work at it with Harada.
No class until 2, and I've been in that lecture hall before. So I have most of an hour to laze about. Maybe I should finish that story...
My first class was Plant Physio; they recommend taking Genetics first, which I haven't had, but I had a kickass teacher for that portion of Gen Bio, and the discussion section next week will cover a lot of the review. Otherwise it looks like my level -- and I'm very glad I took both Plant Anatomy (for the vocabulary) and Plant Prop (for plant and seed development) so recently. I'll need both.
My system seems to have settled down, and Thai food did indeed agree with it. The weather's cleared up too, turning mild and sunny. I'm still carrying my raincoat around (and it's an inconvenience to strap on my bike with my bag) because I keep having this vision of being stuck in a sudden drenching downpour. Maybe I should just grit my teeth and put it in my locker, rather than risk leaving it in a lecture hall.
I found my mind wandering in Physio, and it tends to wander even now. I finished the Abhorsen Trilogy again last night, which was taking up a lot of the back of my mind -- talk about absorbing. I had hoped that would let me focus on school. Silly me, I went and bought myself BPRD "The Dead" for a little light reading... and now I'm most of the way through, and I can't get my mind off it. Maybe it's just my mental state right now, but it may be the story itself.
I've been thanking the Lords of Fate for the fever Mike Mignola came down with when they were filming the Hellboy movie in Prague. Twenty-four hours of delirium gave us "The Island", which is pretty darn good... but it also gave us the origin story for Abraham Sapien that he had never intended to make. He liked Abe not really having a definite origin, but he came up with one and had to do it.
I have to say, it's a beautiful story, very poignant and melancholy. I've always felt that Abe must have a depth to his history that rivaled Hellboy's, and I'm finding that, if I had to choose my favorite, it would be Abe. Mostly because while HB's nature is tied in with divinity and grand destiny, Abe's is much more a story of a man, a curious but ordinary one, who ran across things he could never have imagined.
I'm not to the end yet, but I'm already wondering whether Abe will tell anyone what he found. I'm thinking not. If Hellboy were there, I think Abe would share it with him... but he isn't. And that's what makes it sadder still.
So, yeah, not really concentrating on the class material today. It's okay, though I do need to work out a note-taking structure for all of them... every prof puts out information in a different way, and I have to learn how to effectively capture it in notes. Dr. Canington made me lazy -- she always wrote all the points in indented outline form on the board, and I rarely needed to organize it further. I have to work at it with Harada.
No class until 2, and I've been in that lecture hall before. So I have most of an hour to laze about. Maybe I should finish that story...
