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Beneath the mists, o Avalon
Mar. 28th, 2010 03:29 pmCaught up on sleep last night, despite being woken up a few times by insistant cats. Over all I got about 10 hours, and possibly could have dozed for a few more if I hadn't felt like I ought to be actually doing something instead of just lying around in bed.
I started reading Jones & Wilson's An Incomplete Education, more out of curiosity over what the American school system does and doesn't teach than for any academic purpose. It seems like it will alternate between fascinating and dull, so I'll have to persevere in order to finish the whole book.
I dug out my old 11th grade math book the other day and am contemplating doing all the problems in it. The majority of it is too advanced for me to make much use of on a daily basis (quadratic equations rarely have a place in my life), but it will keep me amused and occupied for a while.
I also have Spanish, Italian, and Latin textbooks around here somewhere, in addition to my Japanese workbooks. I think I may have a German textbook, too, and I'm not sure where my Ancient Greek textbook is at the moment. Sometimes I get great amusement in taking stock of all the language-learning tools at my disposal, and that's all before I factor in language lessons available online. It was thanks to a website a few years ago that I started trying to learn Punjabi and Korean, and had I kept at it, I'd probably remember a lot more than the structure of written Korean and how to say "gold grandmother world" in Punjabi.
I wonder how many languages I'd have a decent grasp of if I'd stuck to learning them instead of learning for a little while and then moving on to something else.
My tax return had better go into my bank account soon. I have rent and debt to pay, and I'd like to get a new sketchbook and some inking pens. I still have a good stock of Ticonderoga pencils, so I don't need more of those. I also need a new bus pass for next month, or else I'll have a hard time getting to interviews or jobs.
I started reading Jones & Wilson's An Incomplete Education, more out of curiosity over what the American school system does and doesn't teach than for any academic purpose. It seems like it will alternate between fascinating and dull, so I'll have to persevere in order to finish the whole book.
I dug out my old 11th grade math book the other day and am contemplating doing all the problems in it. The majority of it is too advanced for me to make much use of on a daily basis (quadratic equations rarely have a place in my life), but it will keep me amused and occupied for a while.
I also have Spanish, Italian, and Latin textbooks around here somewhere, in addition to my Japanese workbooks. I think I may have a German textbook, too, and I'm not sure where my Ancient Greek textbook is at the moment. Sometimes I get great amusement in taking stock of all the language-learning tools at my disposal, and that's all before I factor in language lessons available online. It was thanks to a website a few years ago that I started trying to learn Punjabi and Korean, and had I kept at it, I'd probably remember a lot more than the structure of written Korean and how to say "gold grandmother world" in Punjabi.
I wonder how many languages I'd have a decent grasp of if I'd stuck to learning them instead of learning for a little while and then moving on to something else.
My tax return had better go into my bank account soon. I have rent and debt to pay, and I'd like to get a new sketchbook and some inking pens. I still have a good stock of Ticonderoga pencils, so I don't need more of those. I also need a new bus pass for next month, or else I'll have a hard time getting to interviews or jobs.