Monsterday. Up, and teaching a 9 am section, which fell somewhere between the other two in terms of responsiveness. But, not bad, and hopefully it will get better with practice and prepping. 9 am, not so good for awakeness. But it gives me enough nervous energy to actually remain up and active all day. Then, 3 classes. 502 is excellently like 501 it seems. Just breaking apart research and writing styles critically. Then, lunch with Rebecca and British Music with her, which was fun, although it seems rather unstructured. The prof has a good grasp of the subject at least it seems. The Bach vocal music class was odd. The prof sort of meanders, does not give names or spellings for a lot of stuff, and meandered through history, revisiting topics he'd already covered, which is frustratingly hard to follow (with his accent too) and take notes. After class, I came home to eat and go off with Brix to the new officer training. Georgia recommend drinking sufficiently, which didn't really happen. But we met Natalie and Christina there, and had our training, which was long, but also somewhat useful, and then went out for Ascia's birthday. Work wasn't even touched (I did the French homework earlier after class), but I had a fine game of Scrabble (won 225 to 140-something, 132, and 57, helped by XI, EX, and AI with the X on a triple word score). I also had a bingo of MINNIES, but don't know what it means, and I was getting persecuted for words I did know. So that seemed pointless. But I also enjoyed the silly game Marry, Date, or Dump and generally conversing in a board game bar with coopmates, and then drove Ascia back, since I was not drinking. Best part was actually beating the people who left early back. OK, not the best part (that would be either Scrabble or conversations), but amusing. Sleep or work? Hmm. Let's ponder that while I get into bed.
12:54 PM
