I'm Being Productive

Not much to report, and I probably shouldn't type too long because I'm trying to get an essay done for Thursday. Look at me, avoiding procrastination... Okay, not entirely, but working on an essay on Tuesday for a Thursday afternoon class isn't so bad. There is someone kicking a soccer ball around the Common Room, and I must say IT IS NOT APPRECIATED. It is rather annoying actually. I just came down here right now... And it sounds like they just went up the elevator and are still kicking it around in there. It really isn't any wonder that things get broken so often and so swiftly here...

Today was an average day of listening. Western Civilizations this morning was actually more engaging than usual for some reason, maybe more sleep than usual? Who knows. Professor Silver finished lecturing on the Hellenistic World and we've just started in on the Romans. College Algebra today was also more tolerable than usual since we spent most of the class working on problems in groups, which was much more helpful than listening to Professor Prisner chat it up for 75 minutes as people ask really silly questions. I know there aren't supposed to be any questions to be embarassed of, or something like that, but I think there just might be... English today was pretty all right too, a little more under control than usual. But just a bit, and it did get a little tiresome at the end. Professor Matthews read us one of his poems, which was interesting. By the way, could someone please enlighten me: if I have a professor who's a doctor, do I refer to him or her as Dr. [insert name here] or Professor? Some of them refer to themselves as Dr.'s and others as Professors... So I don't know...

After classes, which was around four this afternoon, I marched back down the hill, watched an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and got started on my math homework that's due Thursday. Then I walked up to dinner with Katie. There was meatloaf (very sketchy looking) with mashed potatoes, green beans, and gravy. That was good... Keely has decided to swear off getting thirds at mealtimes, just like she swore off getting seconds last week. But after seconds today she started stealing Katie's food--that didn't go over so well. Then I marched back down the hill yet again, and since then I've continued working on my math homework and finished up my German homework and did some test corrections for my German test, which I didn't do so great on. I figured it would be beneficial, since if I can't figure out the basics I'm going to get way more confused later on.

Deniz's brother came to visit her today. I'm not sure if we're going to Florence, we haven't bought tickets yet and we haven't reserved the hostel for sure. It's looking a tad bit sketch. I'm working at the Writing Center tomorrow, and I've got an Academic Travel Meeting and yoga. Yay for yoga. What great alliteration that is. Hope everything's going well at home. Miss you guys!

--Ari