I cant believe how quickly this term has raced on. I'm so snowed under with everything these days I have barely enough spare time to sleep.
So of course I've gone and become involved in Kabuki again.
The show is going to be a bit later than normal this year but all should be good - that means more time so less pressure!
Work have me doing more and more shifts, which is good not only for the extra money but it means they like me (and are therefore more likely to give me a good reference when AsA and the other people I'm applying to ask them)! Mondays are now becoming rather busy, with opening the shop in the morning, going to uni, then coming back to close at night. Being around cheeseburgers that much does quite kill one's appetite. The downside of course is time spent in front of the grill is time I can't spend doing the piles of uni work I need to be doing.
Doing five subjects instead of the normal four is all very well, but I can see now why people raised their eyebrows when I said I would be doing this all year. Its not so much the actually doing five subjects that is the killer, but when fitting in outside work as well as the more fun aspects of uni (Kabuki) that the difference between four and five subjects pops up.
Linguistics seemed like so much fun in first and second year, but the two classes I'm taking this semester through the School of Language Studies are doing a fantastic job of putting me off. Knowing where I want to go in life makes it quite difficult to summon enthusiasm to learn about ergative, absolutive and ablative case in sentence structure... though I'm not alone in the class in thinking there is absolutely no real-world point to any of this information.
My other linguistics course in the Japan Centre is far more ... well, bearable, being a lot more concrete. (I still need to speak japanese in class which is becoming more and more difficult - hopefully Kabuki will help with that!)
At least my two elective classes, Japanese Law and German are entertaining. Sure, not a whole lot of practical value to learning about the Japanese court system, but its interesting, and has a follow on course next semester which sounds like fun too. I'm rather pleased it's not marked as stringently as a 'real' law course.
Still, only three weeks of class left after this week, and my exam timetable is now finalised - for the first time in my uni career I will finish ALL my exams before my birthday. Up until now its been the other way around - I usually started exams then, so this makes things a little more hectic beforehand but gives me that little bit extra mid year break.
Ive got a few more photos from the trip I did a couple of weeks ago to the Temora Airshow, so will endeavour to post them at some stage soon.
I think thats enough procrastination for now - I need to go and learn what on earth A, S, and O mean in sentences and then figure out how it works in a particular (but unspecified) language from the Torres Strait.
See what I mean about relevance?
Oh well.
