Saturday, October 16, 2010

Thursday, 14 October 2010 Down day

Today semi sucked. 
Woke up early for Bascara's office hours.  I'd like to announce officially that Rolfe Hall is my least favorite [most despised] building.  Although, Bascara's office is so quaint, and cute - tiny room surrounded by walls and stacks of books, window overlooking LA hills, unique decorations.  I saw Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club on his shelf.  Anyway, our meeting didn't go as well as i had thought.  In a way that's expected, bc i came spilling to him about sth rather personal, w/out a purpose, or even a coherent thought process, for that matter.  I could see confusion on his face bc i presented myself so unprofessionally, but he's so scholarly that he just kept talking.  I find it funny as i sat there in his office, trying to maintain steady eye contact and interest.  What was i thinking?  I can't even listen to the guy talk in his lecture, &now i wanna be face-to-face w/ him?  He showed me 2 books written by Vietnamese scholar women, one of whom is an actual professor on campus &he encouraged me to go to her.  But dude didn't even let me borrow his books... I really didn't like that, it's quite stingy.  He asked for my email &said he'd email me the titles and an excerpt article or sth, but i don't think i'll receive it anytime soon.  So, no extreme amazement like i had hoped, no coffee-meet scheduled, not even enthusiastic reply. 

Then i went to ARTHIS discussion &discovered i got a 7/10 on the first [easy] hw.  Describe the bust of Nefertiti.  How great.  The TA even used my grade as an example to encourage ppl not to freak out, "If you got a 7/10, don't think omg you're failing."  I wasn't thinking that, but now that you mention it... ><  I don't like this class.

Went back to Rolfe for Chris Woon's office hour [geez i hate that building]  Again, cute office, nothing good happened.  I actually checked him out online, &he's really cool - DJ, movie director/manager, skater, awesome photographer, the whole shebang; AND he likes to venture to find solitude :o  But i feel like reading my essay is just not his expertise.  I could see he really tried to go over it, but w/ difficulty.  He pulled out the prompt &constantly read from it to reiterate, but meh.  At the end, he asked me, w/ almost a pleading tone, if he had helped me, &i said yes.  i am really impressed w/ his character, though.

Oh &i went to a meditation / yoga exercise group meet / lecture / thing.  It was kinda weird, especially when the guy taught us some sort of 'yoga dance', &then lectured us on the theory of the universe, which sounded like religion to me, but he said it's fundamental for all beliefs, we just don't realize it [wth?]
I tried a marzipan today, w/ a super hot cup of coff.  the whole thing was surprisingly good.

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