Anyway, let's go through the life stuff that's been happening, in case, as I greatly suspect, we don't talk as often as I would like, and therefore you don't know anything that's going on with me.
FIRSTLY IN SPANISH NEWS: (This will be in a bulleted list for your convenience, because we all know my history of having lots of SPANISH NEWS)
- My Spanish professor/adviser (I thought this word was spelled like "advisor" but spellcheck is telling me no?...)/best friend who is an adult and not actually my best friend/minion of Spanish and Hispanic things everywhere offered me a job for next year! So I get to be her faculty assistant for three hours a week and grade all her 102 classes' homework! Yay!
- I got a Spanish scholarship for study abroad!! I am so excited, because any extra money I get to put towards that is the greatest!! Yay!
- I'm currently avoiding doing some Spanish homework in which I have to write a proposal for my Spanish final project. I'm thinking about doing a comic strip, because, unfortunately, it's a creative project, and I am not creative, but I think I would actually enjoy this! I just have to figure out what to analyze.
- My arch-nemesis got into the Spanish honor society here at school, and I did not? Who made this??? I didn't even know we had a Spanish honor society. That is the worst of my Spanish news.
- Otra cosa: No trates traducir este párrafo. Es secreto. Si no entiendes, está bien, pero no lo traduzcas porque luego tendré que comerte. Bueno, el secreto: Las mariposas traen gorras para las tortugas que nadan en el mar.
- Did I mention I am going to Argentina next spring? That's Spanish news that is so big that I just have to keep saying it over and over again. I'm almost done with the application for that! Yay!
Okay. I think that's all I have to say about that. I'll let you know if I think of anything else that you need to know.
You know what's the worst?? Some of my friends are doing finals week this week, and I still have four weeks until I can go home. I'm just ready to be done with school and never come back, except we all know that by the third week of summer I'll be like, "WHERE IS MY SCHOOL I NEED TO BE LEARNING I'M SO BORED" so I'll try and enjoy this while I can.
Last Friday, at work, we had a strange situation in which a strange child ended up quitting. Let me tell you about it. First, one person didn't show up to serve food at the main line, which is bad, so we were going to put this other kid on that line. But when we told him to go over there, he was like, "Yeah, I don't want to." And we were like, "Dude, you have to." And he was like, "No. I'll just quit." And then he DID. He just walked out and then we were missing too many people and we had to shuffle people around and everything was crazy and we ran out of stuff and it was the worst. So the moral of this story is, don't quit your job without some notice, because people will be mad at you for the rest of your life, and also, you will be awful. But then my coworker bought all our workers cookies, because they were great and really adaptable. I'm lucky to work with all of them. Except for the worst one. But now I don't work with him anymore.
In other news, none of my roommates are here, so I've been listening to the same three Train songs for the past half hour. It is great.
Sometimes in college I think I'm learning nothing, but then all of a sudden, I'll be reading something, and I'll recognize something from another class that I forgot that I had learned about it, and it'll be so exciting! Making connections with past material is probably important for learning. One time, I was reading my international studies book, and I saw a name that connected with my philosophy of religion class that I took last spring! It was so fun! Except neither of those classes were particularly great, but it was still very important! Good job, self!
Also, I've been drawing a lot of sentence trees lately for my linguistics class. I love sentence trees. I wish I could just draw them all the time. They're so fun. If you see me over the summer, ask me about sentence trees or linguistics or language or something like that. I like all those things.
OH! I remembered one other Spanish thing! Last Thursday, we got to have class outside for Spanish, because it was nice out! My Spanish professor told us to go outside and move the benches into a circle for us to sit on, and I asked her in Spanish: "(upside-down question mark) Si hay personas allí, podemos quitarlas?" What I had meant to ask was "If there are people there, can we remove them (in the sense of tell them to move)" but what that Spanish sentence vaguely translates to is: "If there are people there, can we exterminate them?" So that's not that good. But. Just a reminder of all the things I still need to learn! Yay learning!
Anyway, I should have more things to tell you, probably, but I can't think of them right now. The title reflects the parallelism between itself and the first sentence of this article, but it also shows how bad I am at remembering things over long periods of time. Aren't I good at tying everything back to itself? Probably. Okay. I have to go do real work now, probably!
Not that writing this isn't real work! Because all you people reading this are important! But I just don't really get graded on this. (Maybe if I did, I would write more frequently. Who knows.) Anyway, college kids: have a good rest of your semester, and good luck on finals! Adults/young children: good luck with whatever dangerous things you have to do that aren't finals but are probably "just as hard."
Bye, snerbs!
