Pros and cons...

[almaviva90]

Finally feeling better after getting two days sickleave from uni...although I do still feel drowsy and my ears still feel as if they're blocked/muffled for some weird reason. -___-

Basically was ordered to stay home by my mum on Tues/Wed and I gladly obeyed since I was feeling very, very put out, etc...but at the moment, not too happy since it means that I missed this test for Fine Arts (made more complicated by the fact that the professor has to show us these Powerpoint slides as part of the test...I don't think he'll be in a sporting mood to spend his time out of class to show me these slides just because one person such as myself missed the damn test...-_____- oh, why, oh WHY did I have to get ill now?!) I hate getting ill since it makes a right mess of the order of things...and now I think I have to make a couple copies of the my sick-leave certificate and give a copy each to each subject I missed...that means like 5 different departments? XD And I had to give in this essay on Tuesday for European Studies but couldn't?! Does that mean I have to hand it in (late) anyway to the office (and randomly attach a copy of my sickleave cert on it? It would look so random, lol)

God, it would be waaay easier if I just did History and had only that specific department to worry about. =/

But there is some good news regarding uni/career related stuff. 1: the father of one of the kids I teach has offered me a 8 month long part-time job as a student assistant to help him correct the grammar, etc with his PhD student essays (he's a professor at the HK Polytechnic), and write a few research essays for him so that gives me some research experience plus a small salary of HKD 2880 per month for 18 hours of work per week. 2: my German history professor (yeah, the rather eccentric one) has asked me to meet him tomorrow because I said I was interested in helping the history department in research or something similar to one of his grad students. So yeah, I'm guessing that it isn't too bad...providing that I can manage to balance my workload!

And seriously, listening to Thomas Allen gets you to listening to music you've never dreamt you'll listen to before...at the moment, he's got me into Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (I think everyone knows the first really dramatic piece: 'O Fortuna') and the whole thing's in Latin...Latin! I definitely thought that nothing in the world would induce me to ever listen to this...but as you can see, I was proved wrong. But on the other hand, since he's the baritone (and the baritone gets most of the songs to sing), it's not too bad (also he does sound nice singing Latin). =)

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[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

fangirl-ing over a particular seiyuu (voice actor for anime/manga/movies etc) made me watch something i really don't like ~___~

[almaviva90.livejournal.com]

LOL...I know the feeling. And then after you get over the fan-girling and the obsession disappears, you go like 'WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING WHEN I BOUGHT/WATCHED THIS?!' XD

[cerulean88.livejournal.com]

*______* >> at the job offer. Does that mean you'll get your name printed on those PhD essays too? =D that'll be cool. YOU MUST NOT SLACK CHRISTY!!!!!!!!! This is a very good opportunity that you definitely can't miss D=

and don't get yourself sick again now that you're feeling better =/

i LOVE Carmina Burana! But i guess you already know that =p

[almaviva90.livejournal.com]

Hahaha...thanks. Really? You like Carmina Burana? The whole thing (about 62 minutes of it, lol) or the beginning piece, 'O Fortuna'? XD If you want to get to hear the whole thing, I can let you listen to it. =) Gah, I'm now so into it...and the medieval context of the whole piece is rather appealing all of a sudden. I only wish that the world could be as simple/naive as it was in those days (okay, maybe medieval times weren't really THAT naive due to the horrible use of torture, etc but they *did* live a less complicated existence than we do now...-___-) Hmm...maybe that's why I like history? LOL.

Yeah, he wanted to help me out since he learned that my ambition was to be a professor, etc and so he said he could help out by giving me some first-hand experience even though, yeah, he's a professor teaching the use of ICT in hotel and tourism management...which is totally unrelated to my major, lol. But nevertheless, I guess it's the experience that counts. Hahahaha, I don't know if I can be mentioned in those research papers but I will get to put the experience down in my CV. I'll definitely try not to slack...*knows that slacking is her weak point* -___-

[cerulean88.livejournal.com]

yep i dooooo~ although it can get rather annoying for it's repetitiveness sometimes. For some reason, i just got reminded of the LotR trailer song XDDDDD;; but no, i've never listened to the whole thing actually D= would love to though! I didn't know that it was THAT long O______O

lol whatever times it may be, there's always the pros and cons. I do love the simplicity of the past although they were rather brutal.

heeeeeeey!! I didn't know that your ambition was to be a professor??! Well i know actually but then this is the first time ever that you openly mentioned it straight to me like that =p

we're all slackers at heart ;)