I find the summer course catalogue rather intriguing, and since I'll be spending most of the next summer at Brown slogging away at some research project anyway, why not take some fun courses on the side? Take for example PS0155: Intelligence and Economic Espionage. Better yet, it has no prerequisites - good news for a dilettante with zero Political Science background.
Though I'm not sure how kindly it will be Looked Upon.
(How I adore the passive tense.)
[edit] For the past few weeks, cooking (especially cooking for other people) hasn't been particularly relaxing. More often than not, it puts me into frazzled housewife mode: I circulate from table to sink to stovetop cleaning chopping rinsing cooking in a perpetual state of nervous panic, get snappish and irritable at people, try to do things as efficiently as possible while worrying that I'm way too slow, and that maybe all this is just a big waste of time and energy. And when I'm cooking, I'm usually incapable of normal conversation, which is a serious deficit - not to mention a significant source of stress - when you have friends over for dinner.
Recently, though, the thing that really gets to me is the sheer lack of basic kitchen etiquette as shown by some of the other kitchen users in this building, who casually scatter their soiled utensils around, and leave their mess for me to clean up. Why I should be the one to do this, and do it anyway, even after cursing them all to hell and back - I don't know. What can I say - I do things for inexplicable reasons that even I don't understand.
(I do apologise for the excessive indulgence in italics. It's hysterical and unbecoming and - oh, I should just get back to sober, serious work.)
words were spilled on Monday, October 16, 2006
Comments:
it's your blog. use all the italics you want.
what lovely courses you have. why should you not be allowed to take it? you're not exactly Neglecting Your Course of Study or anything, are you?
i send love.
what lovely courses you have. why should you not be allowed to take it? you're not exactly Neglecting Your Course of Study or anything, are you?
i send love.
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: 8:23 AM
oh udders! its not on! crapping on the carpet... even my dog gets the stick when he does that and even he really should know better. bleagh.
fyi, frazzled brenda, pardon me, the frazzled and *domestic* brenda is really kinda cute. haha sorry m'dear.
anyway, there will always be cavemen around who won't do the dishes.. so theres really no point getting all worked up cuz theres really nothing you can do about it. i plead ZEN... if not a couple of shotgun shells at the nearest armoury should do the trick! (but do remember the ZEN!)
have the fun with the new course, if you decide to take the plunge that is.
do take care of yourself :)
fyi, frazzled brenda, pardon me, the frazzled and *domestic* brenda is really kinda cute. haha sorry m'dear.
anyway, there will always be cavemen around who won't do the dishes.. so theres really no point getting all worked up cuz theres really nothing you can do about it. i plead ZEN... if not a couple of shotgun shells at the nearest armoury should do the trick! (but do remember the ZEN!)
have the fun with the new course, if you decide to take the plunge that is.
do take care of yourself :)
well... let me see: i could put up admonitory notes on the kitchen cabinets, or lodge a complaint, or arrange for the offending items to be, aha, permanently removed.
the last thought cheers me up quite a bit. =D
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the last thought cheers me up quite a bit. =D
