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Monday, February 27th
cold day
music: Ozma - Battlescars
mood: confused, lost
it was such a cold day. the temperature probably didnt rise above 15ºF. when i woke up, supposedly it was 0ºF. lord knows what the windchill could've been. probably sometime ludicrous like the -10ºF or lower. the wind was quite harsh too, my face definitely felt burns from the cold gusts. and my ears burned when i went inside because of the extremity of the temperature changes.
aside from the cold weather, my day went by fine. chinese test, greek was just review over the aorist passive, and latin, just more lines of lucretius translated. lunch with phuong and jenny, then work from noon to two. at work, shelving kept me busy for an hour. the elevator to hubbard stacks is still broken, so at least i dont have to shelve there. i hate the stacks. such a slasher movie setting about them.
after work, i rushed back to my room to pack up my gov and anthro stuff because i was supposed to meet with both of my professors. gov paper due next week, which is basically my midterm. anthropology midterm this tuesday, which i'm supposed to finish the study questions tonight as i had promised myself over the weekend, but am miserably failing. (whoops! ugly run-on!) anyhow, these past couple of nights, (meaning tonight and last night), i've been unable to accomplish much mainly because i prefer to sit and contemplate. what's frustrating about my classes is that it's sort of like senior year, where i didnt have a ton of work due in class, but rather, just some readings and a lot of independent study. languages are self-explanatory in that respect, but still. like chinese, i'm still behind schedule with the number of characters i want to master by the end of this year. i'm probably 100 characters behind or more. then there's greek and latin, both of which i must really review and spend more time on. but since the time is free for my management, i lack the consequential drive to take that extra step to study. so here i am, typing away on my blog, wasting yet another useful monday night. except tonight i also went to see "Mama's Gold," a chinese documentary about the orphans of Shangri-La in Li Jiang, Yun Nan Province. i was really touched by the movie, particularly because the little chinese children reminded me of my younger cousins when they were that little. i dont like kids, but those children were just precious. it's amazing how much films can change your views.
all right, back to my feeble attempt to be productive.
jessica on 02.27.06 @ 11:44 PM GMT [link]
Saturday, February 25th
blanket of white
music: hellogoodbye - Dear Jamie...Sincerely Me
mood: neutral
a nice relaxing day, homework done, and work after dinner.
i walked out to a blanket of white tonight after working at the library for three hours. it's always a beautiful change of landscape when the snow falls. and it always feel nice to have the snowflakes flutter down on you.
jessica on 02.25.06 @ 10:56 PM GMT [link]
Wednesday, February 22nd
love of languages
music: Straylight Run - Existentialism on Prom Night
mood: optimistic
i just spent the last 4 hours at the library engaged in my language homework. that was an intense 4 hours of languages, but i renewed my love for them. it's amazing how much greek and latin i can understand now, despite my weak vocabulary. i really need to develop my vocabulary in all three languages, but it's really difficult to just memorize it all cold. i'm really good at just memorizing things when they're needed, but i'm bad at storing them in my head. so right now, i'm just struggling with permanently memorizing chinese characters, greek forms, and latin words that are too obscure to translate into english sometimes. i'm also getting into the didactic latin poetry we're translating. prof. polinskaya handed out the first sixty pages of this commentary on lucretius's de rerum natura, which is what we're translating, and it's actually quite interesting to see the interwoven poetry with epicurean theory. i mean, it's really basic for philosophy, but it's still intriguing to see how words work together, the implications of the modifiers and word order.
anyhow, enough on classical languages that are of no practical use to me, but only satisfy my intellectual curiosity, haha. these days, i've lost all motivation to work at school, but i'm regaining it. sometimes, i just have to ignore the unanswerable questions of the future and focus on the present. because in the end, what else can matter but the present moment that you're experiencing? oh the simple things in life that keep me moving on.
mmm...two weekends in a row being away from bowdoin. boston, then bates last weekend. no more this weekend because i need some time for myself to just catch up and enjoy the other things in my life. like leisure reading at bohemian cafe with a guava smoothie.
jessica on 02.22.06 @ 01:47 AM GMT [link]
Tuesday, February 14th
valentine's day, not V-Day
music: Jason Mraz - Geek in the Pink
mood: peachy? 
sleepy.
So post snowstorm, i decided to take some pictures. well, these pictures are actually from the LAST snowfall a couple weeks ago, but nevertheless, a gorgeous white landscape:
outside of the library
close up of the trees outside the library
on my way back to coleman from the asian studies building on college street. in black and white, it's a classic picture.
so today, it was sunny again, the snow is melting, the weather is warming up, and as i walked out on the quad to my anthro class, i noticed this:
i have no idea who decided to spraypaint the snow, but it was really pretty trampling through it. there was actually a ring of pink/orange outside of the green, but yes, the trampling ruined it. we're a destructive bunch of kids. anyhow, i FINALLY got off my ass and took a pick of our school icerink on the quad, the one that they just hose down and freeze over whenever they can:
yes, it's pretty ghetto, but if the temperature was colder, we'd actually be able to safely skate on that thing. darn my busy schedule that prevents me from even skating the dayton arena. i hope i can do it once at least. i have yet to swim in the greason pool too. but that's because farley fields is too far for me. or rather, the swim hours suck.
someone sent me a crush can, and i'm determined to find out who or if it's some senior trying to gyp us. basically, the senior class held this fundraiser where you can send a crush can (orange soda) to someone either directly or anonymously, but $1 for the former, $2 for the latter. if however, you decide to pay that $2, the person that receives your crush can must also pay $2 to find out who sent it to them. so fuck no i didnt pay $2 to find out. i will find out myself. if not, too bad for them because at least i got a free soda and they didnt.
so my roommate norah bought a bag of those candy hearts with the ridiculous phrases on them, like "be mine" and stuff. i remember in kindergarten, it was always fun because they were simple sweet phrases like "i love you," "be mine," "kiss me" but now, there are ones that say "call me," "page me," and my favorite: "IM me." other popular ones included "dream team," "how nice," and "be my hero." i dont know where to stop! wait, one last one: "whiz kid." hope y'all are enjoying your day of pinks and reds and hearts and roses and let's not forget the best part: bountiful chocolates.
jessica on 02.14.06 @ 04:56 PM GMT [link]
Sunday, February 12th
first winterstorm of 2006
music: Black Rock ft. Debra Andrew - Blue Water
mood: tired
it's been a long time, but i finally got the layout up. how appropriate too, because the snow is back. been snowing all day, but not as badly as new york. i dont think the temperatures went over 15 here today. windchill has been at zero all day. it's cold outside, but the snowfall is pretty.
drove down to boston on friday for a debate tournament at BU. friday night was insane because we drove off to a party after the rounds, and the cops busted the party around 4. but we all got away fine, i drove everyone back safely, and finished our last two rounds on saturday early afternoon. got a little lost in boston looking for chinatown, but i found it! stocked up on some food, and had a smooth drive back to bowdoin. what a ridiculous weekend.
these past couple of weeks have been passing by slowly as i struggle to catch up in every class. i mean, i'm better at being on top of things this semester than last, but still, it has been difficult. i'm so behind in chinese 204, and sliding in gov and anthro. but i can't help it if i'm exhausted. i just am. this past week wasn't so great primarily because i couldnt sleep well. every day began with a miserable morning, emotionally drained and physically exhausted. i got through the days fine, but i hated waking up to them. i just wish that i could wake up feeling happy and excited about the day, like i used to at home. i think the only day that that happened was the day before i left for winterbreak. i guess that's how it will be on march 10.
the horizontal scrollbars on mozilla firefox bother me a lot. and i have yet to update a couple of the pages on the imagemap navigation. one step at a time.
jessica on 02.12.06 @ 06:14 PM GMT [link]