So I signed up for classes today. Most of the classes I wanted to take were full, so I ended up with philosophy and language acquisition.
I have tried both before, but do to my life sucking for most of that semester I wasn't able to pass them. So I am trying again.
There are new books for Language Acquisition, and the one we are covering first is way better than the one we used last year. It's a 1000 subject, meaning that's it's mostly an introductory course, and therefore the fact that this book is way more geared towards beginners of linguistic. Actually it's directed mostly at psychology students. Which makes it easy to understand for linguistic beginners.
The book is Child Language: Acquisition and Development by Matthew Saxton.
I am reading the very first chapter at the moment for my first class on Monday, and I already feel much more confident about passing the exam this time around. Both because I have already done the subject once, but also because the terms are being explained in way that is easily understandable for people who don't have a pre-existing knowledge of linguistics.
Pokémon 5th generation is being release in the US in the 6th of March. I will be getting it sometime after that=D=D
It's like looking forward to Christmas and my birthday at once, I am so excited=D=D I am trying not to read too much about it, but I am kinda failing at that.
And I have said this before, and I will say it again. $35 is cheap!!! Stop complaining. It will be at least $70 when it's released in Norway. Stop complaining!!!!
Friday, January 14, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
School start euforia
The absolute best part of the year is at the very start. When I get to buy the books, and the little study aids.
I would be absolutely hopeless during shopping week at American colleges. (For those not in the know, this is the week at the beginning of the semester where you can sample the classes to find out which you want to take.)
I am going shopping for books tomorrow. I wanna go today, but I can't until I know if I can take the subjects I want.
I have been doing some internet shopping for fun study things, like notebooks and pens and really magic markers and a really cool day planner.
I have been picking out my subjects. This will be a fun spring indeed=D=D
Expect a lot of school talk=D=D
I would be absolutely hopeless during shopping week at American colleges. (For those not in the know, this is the week at the beginning of the semester where you can sample the classes to find out which you want to take.)
I am going shopping for books tomorrow. I wanna go today, but I can't until I know if I can take the subjects I want.
I have been doing some internet shopping for fun study things, like notebooks and pens and really magic markers and a really cool day planner.
I have been picking out my subjects. This will be a fun spring indeed=D=D
Expect a lot of school talk=D=D
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
I got me #131 of 500
So I had some free books lying around. I mean of course that while I was cleaning my flat I found some of those little stampy cards that gives you every 8th book for free, and when I put them together I had enough for this huge, expensive book. 1st edition and signed. Norwegian knight book, based on a true story.
I also drooled on some other books I have to get.
I am number four (I think it was called), which is going to be made into to a movie, and I know next to nothing it, but I know just enough to know that I HAVE to read it!
Also there is Return to Jotunheimen (which is my Norwegian to English translation of a title I am not 100% sure of). It's a new Norwegian Viking type fantasy, and way to expensive for me to be going around and buy it just now. But I have it read it. Libraries are good for that sort of thing.^^,
I also drooled on some other books I have to get.
I am number four (I think it was called), which is going to be made into to a movie, and I know next to nothing it, but I know just enough to know that I HAVE to read it!
Also there is Return to Jotunheimen (which is my Norwegian to English translation of a title I am not 100% sure of). It's a new Norwegian Viking type fantasy, and way to expensive for me to be going around and buy it just now. But I have it read it. Libraries are good for that sort of thing.^^,
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Entertainment for 2011
This will just be a little list of non-schoolbooks that I am gonna read in 2011.
Sofie's world - Which is really a little of both, school and non-. I am really halfway re-reading as I have half of it before.
A wrinkle in time - Which is a series of children's books that I bought in a bout of January depression. I have read about 20 pages so far and one of the characters is names mrs. Whatsit, so it's looking good.
Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal - To practice my Spanish. Maybe the rest of the series. Hopefully the rest of the series.
Der Herr der Ringe - My parents bought me the most beautiful box of LOTR in German. I am looking forward to that.
Die unendliche Geschichte - Finish it rather. To practice my German.
Any and all books from the Hallows, the Kitty Norville, and the Sookie Stackhouse series that I have not read yet.
Shogun - My boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday and I am reading a little at a time. The way that I read books, I read maybe a couple of chapters and then I red something else and then I read a couple more chapters. I am starting to like it, it has a very slow start, but it's getting very much better.
The Inkheart and/or Tintenherz triology - finish it rather. In either English or German. Or both.
And then maybe finish the crown of stars series.
And then I am gonna finish these games:
Pokémon White and/or Black
Rune Factory, maybe
Starcraft 2
Maybe one of the myriads of unfinished other Pokémon games I have.
Maybe my Kingdom hearts game.
I am gonna finish the wedding present, but I don't think that I will manage the gift for V. It's just too large.XP
So I have a lot to do^^,
And then I have to pass my subjects as well^^,
Happy new years^^,
Sofie's world - Which is really a little of both, school and non-. I am really halfway re-reading as I have half of it before.
A wrinkle in time - Which is a series of children's books that I bought in a bout of January depression. I have read about 20 pages so far and one of the characters is names mrs. Whatsit, so it's looking good.
Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal - To practice my Spanish. Maybe the rest of the series. Hopefully the rest of the series.
Der Herr der Ringe - My parents bought me the most beautiful box of LOTR in German. I am looking forward to that.
Die unendliche Geschichte - Finish it rather. To practice my German.
Any and all books from the Hallows, the Kitty Norville, and the Sookie Stackhouse series that I have not read yet.
Shogun - My boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday and I am reading a little at a time. The way that I read books, I read maybe a couple of chapters and then I red something else and then I read a couple more chapters. I am starting to like it, it has a very slow start, but it's getting very much better.
The Inkheart and/or Tintenherz triology - finish it rather. In either English or German. Or both.
And then maybe finish the crown of stars series.
And then I am gonna finish these games:
Pokémon White and/or Black
Rune Factory, maybe
Starcraft 2
Maybe one of the myriads of unfinished other Pokémon games I have.
Maybe my Kingdom hearts game.
I am gonna finish the wedding present, but I don't think that I will manage the gift for V. It's just too large.XP
So I have a lot to do^^,
And then I have to pass my subjects as well^^,
Happy new years^^,
Monday, January 10, 2011
Single dinner
Whoever said cooking dinner for one is awful?
For dinner today I had a little steak, mushrooms cooked in butter, penne pasta and a cremé fraiche sauce.
And whoever says I am bad/boring cook are all wrong.
I am having a wonderful evening with Gilmore Girls on DVD for the umphteenth time and chatting with my Man^^,
Life is wonderful^^,
On a more academic note: Guess the only book store I have been able to find Sofie's World? The timeless Norwegian classic about philosophy?
The local fantasy book store O.o
But I have it now. I am so passing philosophy this time aroundXD
For dinner today I had a little steak, mushrooms cooked in butter, penne pasta and a cremé fraiche sauce.
And whoever says I am bad/boring cook are all wrong.
I am having a wonderful evening with Gilmore Girls on DVD for the umphteenth time and chatting with my Man^^,
Life is wonderful^^,
On a more academic note: Guess the only book store I have been able to find Sofie's World? The timeless Norwegian classic about philosophy?
The local fantasy book store O.o
But I have it now. I am so passing philosophy this time aroundXD
Saturday, January 8, 2011
I need winter to be over
It's wet. I don't mind the cold so much these days, as there is nearly none, but I am so tired of the wet and the dark. I just want to be a bear and go to sleep until it is all over.
Stupid winter!
Stupid winter!
Monday, January 3, 2011
New year or something
So, yah. I know I promised Christmas posts. I need to stop doing that every year. I never manage to follow through. Might having something to do with me hating Christmas and all. Awful holiday. Detest it.
I am not a Christian, so celebrating the birth of a guy that in all likelihood was born in April anywho seems kind of.... pointless? Is that a nice way to say it?
All the glory to Christian people. You seem very lucky to me. Actually I am for personal religion. I like the idea of having some sort of god to talk to or turn to when life sucks. It would be nice. But I don't have that.
I go to Christmas mass thou. The priest that did my confirmation training is a wonderful person and an amazing priest, at it has gotten to be a nice tradition with me and my mom. And my sister sings also. It's really nice.
But in the end, with me technically believing that Jesus existed (with the amounts that have been written about him in different places the probability that he actually existed is bigger than the probability that Caesar did), but with me believing that the whole son of god thing can at best be called a gross exaggeration it is basically celebrating capitalism. It has become a whole holiday of buying shit for each other.
And over the last... whole of my life, there has been at least one person who has had a habit of judging the power of out love/friendship/whatever on either the gift I gave them or the reaction I had about their gift. I mean, come on! I that persons gift was not the most awesome thing I had ever owned I must not love them. Waahwaahwaah. God, I am so effing tired of that sort of people.
This year that was a lot easier. People like that have either been forcibly removed from my life or they have calmed down. Presents were pleasant this year.
But with the angst that has built up over the last... 7 years mostly, it was hard anyway.
And then after having been stressed and freaked out over the entire course of November and December I was so tired by the end of it I wasn't able to enjoy it like I should. And being tired and depressed all the time, Christmas posts sort of weren't the first thing on my mind.
However! It was actually nice. I spent time with my family, and my friends. I devoted some days to the person who have always and will always be the closest to my heart, my little sister. We had a great time running all over town at bookstores, and eating pancakes, and just having some sister time.
I did the traditional Gacha New Years eve. Got ridiculously waisted and almost got shot by some stupid drunk 40 year olds and their non-existing fireworks-shooting skills XP
(And according to the texts I was sending the god told me to drink a lot of wineXP)
So all in all it was good. I am tired. And next year I am not doing the X-mas posts. Remind me of that if I promise you some okey?
Plans for the new year will be moving, getting into the new school, seeing more live concerts, and having an all around awesome time of it all. We are only young once, and I am gonna enjoy it to the fullest.
Happy New Year world
I am not a Christian, so celebrating the birth of a guy that in all likelihood was born in April anywho seems kind of.... pointless? Is that a nice way to say it?
All the glory to Christian people. You seem very lucky to me. Actually I am for personal religion. I like the idea of having some sort of god to talk to or turn to when life sucks. It would be nice. But I don't have that.
I go to Christmas mass thou. The priest that did my confirmation training is a wonderful person and an amazing priest, at it has gotten to be a nice tradition with me and my mom. And my sister sings also. It's really nice.
But in the end, with me technically believing that Jesus existed (with the amounts that have been written about him in different places the probability that he actually existed is bigger than the probability that Caesar did), but with me believing that the whole son of god thing can at best be called a gross exaggeration it is basically celebrating capitalism. It has become a whole holiday of buying shit for each other.
And over the last... whole of my life, there has been at least one person who has had a habit of judging the power of out love/friendship/whatever on either the gift I gave them or the reaction I had about their gift. I mean, come on! I that persons gift was not the most awesome thing I had ever owned I must not love them. Waahwaahwaah. God, I am so effing tired of that sort of people.
This year that was a lot easier. People like that have either been forcibly removed from my life or they have calmed down. Presents were pleasant this year.
But with the angst that has built up over the last... 7 years mostly, it was hard anyway.
And then after having been stressed and freaked out over the entire course of November and December I was so tired by the end of it I wasn't able to enjoy it like I should. And being tired and depressed all the time, Christmas posts sort of weren't the first thing on my mind.
However! It was actually nice. I spent time with my family, and my friends. I devoted some days to the person who have always and will always be the closest to my heart, my little sister. We had a great time running all over town at bookstores, and eating pancakes, and just having some sister time.
I did the traditional Gacha New Years eve. Got ridiculously waisted and almost got shot by some stupid drunk 40 year olds and their non-existing fireworks-shooting skills XP
(And according to the texts I was sending the god told me to drink a lot of wineXP)
So all in all it was good. I am tired. And next year I am not doing the X-mas posts. Remind me of that if I promise you some okey?
Plans for the new year will be moving, getting into the new school, seeing more live concerts, and having an all around awesome time of it all. We are only young once, and I am gonna enjoy it to the fullest.
Happy New Year world
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