3 posts tagged “school”

This year's classes have an incredibly large amount of required textbooks. I've never had to buy this many textbooks in my university history. For example, my Zen Buddhism class requires 5 textbooks (of which I've purchase one). Given, that is a one year class, but my other East Asian Studies class, Aesthetics and Politics in Korea is a half year and requires four books in addition to a course reader. It's kind of rediculous, and I am feeling it after coming off of my vacation to Korea and Japan. Of course, this means I'll be spending all of my time reading. Though, clearly I am not doing that now.

I don't have much actual class time this year so it's all right I suppose, and of course I'll survive with lots of ham to support me.

Onto a more important topic.

I found another 15 or so coffee filters just now. As a result the coffee is brewing. I didn't think I had any left. I made a joke the other day contending that the situation was similar not having any condoms. True? It's close.

Hah, which makes me reflect on my many posts comparing coffee to women, which makes me think I had/ve kind of a problem with coffee addiction. If you scan through all the topics related to coffee you might get confused and think I've been having affairs with women, until you realise I'm just talking about Lattes of various types. I gotta stop that really.

That said however, yesterday I discovered the Pumpkin Spice Latte has returned. But, whether my previous claim is true or not is something for you kids to decide.

Zen in the Art of Archery

By the way, my pot of Killing Horse "Hoodoo Jo" has just finished. I recommend this because it is delicious and Canadian and resent that they sell it in the "Organics" section at Loblaws (where the hippies are).

Oh, now I am going to go read "Zen in the Art of Archery" by Euegene Herrigel, which must be finished by next Friday's Zen class.  I have some things to say about that class by the way -- in the future. This is a novel, but admittedly, it is not even 80 pag

Surprisingly, I was able to get into every class but one I wished to enrol in. But that one was somehow full a few days before I could even enrol, so I had planned for having that one lacking anyhow. I remember in my first year it took a good hour to register for classes because of slow servers and such, but for the past couple of years, the process has been smooth. In fact, I managed to get 9 classes regstered in just about two (2) minutes. Surprise! Efficient.

I still couldn't fit in the basic Korean history classes I wanted into my schedule, but I got a couple other Dae Han Min Guk related classes in there. I am done with all but two half year courses in the way of tedious required stuff. I couldn't fit them in in previous years so, I am left with taking Phonetics and Sound Patterns this year.