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Tired....
2002-07-25 02:59:57
There's been a round of illness lately, to the point where one of the Americans had a 40 deg. C temperature (about 103F) for a couple days. I've got my oral final for Turning Points and my midterm for German today, and my throat is starting to hurt. Fuck. Just let me feel OK for Salzburg, ja?
Not much else going on, studied last night and went to bed early, but I'm still really tired. -
You've used two wishes like a fool...
2002-07-24 02:52:13
For the record, last night's post WAS made while sober, and I didn't even open the alcohol bottle (or a chocolate bar) last night after posting. I still feel pretty much the same way though. I'm not really talented compared to everyone here who's getting their law degrees, speaks three languages, and has a career ahead in politics. My head is way too far up in the clouds and I don't think it'll ever come back to earth.
I should do one of the three usual things, and end up with the usual output. I can withdraw totally from everyone and be hated by all, open up everything and be hated by all, or continue as is and be hated by all. Gee, great choices. I thought I'd grown up and changed since the last time I was one one of these trips/programs, but I guess not. I'm the same as I was four years ago.
My Salzburg Festival ticket is for an ensemble performance of the Vienna Philharmonic. Apparently it's the best orchestra in the world or something. It's on August 2.
This weekend is the Salzburg excursion. We see the castle, fortress, and a casino that's in some other castle, and a couple hours of free time or something. Joy. A casino. I have to get dressed up and sit around without money to gamble for two and a half hours. Oh yes, loads of fun. At least there's everything else going on, and the potential for Manitu... - And there's no mystical design... 2002-07-23 17:17:30 Why am I here. All I do is waste resources, annoy people, and fail to advance my german speaking abilities. Everyone else is way better at everything than I am, more outgoing, friendlier, their heads are on straight, and here I am totally lost and confused. Why did I even bother...
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Moday Monday...
2002-07-23 02:50:17
Hmmm....what happened...
Got up, breakfasted, netted, then went to first class.
It is at this point that I must explain the history of Lynn. Lynn is a 40 or 50 something year old English teacher from NYC who teaches a course on the rise of nationalism. She has never had any sort of education on European history and has admitted it on several occassions. The problem with this is that she likes to try and correct the professor. She also talks to everyone left and right as if we are her students, which means downtalking and lots of lecturing. We were unfortunate enough to have her in our group for this presentation we had to do last night, and while we're talking about a wide variety of discrimination in American society, she comes in with a 6 page (typed) speech just on her opinions of reparations for slavery (a topic that I do NOT want to get into...) and tells us how great it would be to do this. Meanwhile we have a five minute deadline...anyways...
Lynn corrects the prof. a couple times in class and gets some remarks out of me, as always, because she really is just that annoying.
Lunch happens, meet with Jesse, we go over the outline that we had, make cuts and edits, then go to town. Got a bottle of 36% kirscheschnapps (which burned like hell going down plain), some blood orange juice (which will hopefully mix well with said schnapps), some airways gum (so strong it opens your nose), some paprika pringles, and a bottle of sunscreen. I should NOT have bought sunscreen in a konsum in a tourist town, it was (no joke), 12.28 Euros. At least it's 30SPF and all that good stuff.
German class is starting to make me physically ill, I hate the teacher, who doesn't explain things well and just has us looking at worksheets most of the time (though we DID do a fun solve the mystery for a bit yesterday), and I want to kill Georgi or however the hell his name is spelled. This man gives me the ultimate rejection style get-the-fuck-away-from-me vibes, and even though I tell him to go away, he doesn't get the fucking hint. That or he just enjoys pissing me off. I'm also stuck with him in Tutorial, where he's a lazy bitch who doesn't do what we're supposed to be doing and makes life generically hell.
Dinner was OK, just a big salad with some mozerella sticks on it. Lunch was better (half a stuffed pepper and a stuffed tomato).
Finally we had the seminar last nite and we blew. While the diplomat was hellishly boring, and I was glad he was supposed to speak for 20 min, he did 30 anyways, and at least the other groups were interesting. Ours was a bit lacking, I should've reworked some of it to fit in accordingly, but still followed the generic group outline.
Here's the fun/ugh bit...
We finish, no Q&A comes to the Americans, and as I'm heading out, Lynn comes up to correct me on something or another in her typical teacher fashion even though we'd agreed in the group on what something was, and I just cut loose and screamed at the top of my lungs "I DON'T WANT TO FUCKING HEAR ABOUT IT!" Unfortunately most of the professors were still around. Andrew actually came over to me later to find out what was going on and give a chewing out that wasn't really a chewing out, and that made me feel shitty as always, but the fact that one of the Austrian students was thankful made me not-so-regrettive. We shall see how things go today, but I'm just sick of this. If she keeps correcting people and trying to teach again today I may have to have a private but not-so-peaceful aside with her reminding her that she doesn't have the doctorate in history and should NOT be trying to teach the class...
Anyhow, Salzburg trip is on Saturday, includes guided tours of the Schloß and the Festung, will be taking lots of film, casino in the evening, I plan on cashing out and getting out, hopefully to the Cineplexx Airport to see Manitu.
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Sunburn + Hot Shower = BAD
2002-07-22 03:11:45
Last night I ended up having a group meeting on our presentation tonight, followed by playing cards in the Bürglhaus. After that it was a little more net time and going to bed early.
When taking a shower, though, I made a mistake. See, I keep the shower set to 50 deg. C, and, well, I kinda put my head right under it while washing my hair.
I'd forgotten that my entire scalp had been sunburned.
The temperature dropped quickly to 35 before continuing. I think I'm going to buy a hat or a bandana or something next time I go into town, which will probably be today. Damn my needing to spend money.
Not much else going on right now. I'm tired, will probably doze a little before class, or go to the library in the Wiesenhaus and read the newspaper. I feel like my German's gotten a lot worse the last few days =(
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