As much as I love snowboarding, I really dislike winter. I'm not comfortable with below zero temperatures, wind chill feels like invisible ninjas slapping exposed skin repeatedly, and slush looks and feels very gross.
But on mornings like this, I can admit that winter can be really pretty in its peaceful serenity. The light dusting of snow over the buildings and streets reminds me of confectioner's sugar sprinkled on little desserts.
I had another productive day today. I did laundry, did more cleaning, did some homework in the library, and attended my Thursday night class. This class was on Persuasion and it's the professor's first time teaching this particular course. She typically teaches a different course but my uni wanted to rehaul this course and they picked her to run it. Based on first impressions she seems like a great professor- she kept the class engaged and also managed to give off the facade of being pretty chilled out and reasonable. For every 1st class I attend, it seems that each student is required to share an anecdote as a means to introduce himself/herself to the rest of the group. For this class, she mixed it up a little bit by asking people to narrate an incident where they successfully managed to use their powers of persuasion. She encouraged everyone to be open and to keep it interesting (and preferably scandalous) and even revealed a funny, personal story of her own.
I ended up telling the class about my little personal story last November when I managed to convince my parents to let me fly to New York to get back with K (and to lock down an apartment for grad school) and when I also managed to persuade K to take me back after I broke it off with him for rather stupid reasons.
My classmates were shocked to say the least because the story was pretty juicy, and having lived to tell the tale I can attest to how dramatic the whole thing was. There was culture and back story and love and conflict and travel and it was quite surreal (a story I'll probably get into at some later point in time). Needless to say, I guess I made a pretty memorable mark during my first day in this class.
Some more pics of my day:
<3,
Tiffy
But on mornings like this, I can admit that winter can be really pretty in its peaceful serenity. The light dusting of snow over the buildings and streets reminds me of confectioner's sugar sprinkled on little desserts.
[hallo, pretty street. you remind me of gingerbread houses
photo taken at 6:41am]
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I had another productive day today. I did laundry, did more cleaning, did some homework in the library, and attended my Thursday night class. This class was on Persuasion and it's the professor's first time teaching this particular course. She typically teaches a different course but my uni wanted to rehaul this course and they picked her to run it. Based on first impressions she seems like a great professor- she kept the class engaged and also managed to give off the facade of being pretty chilled out and reasonable. For every 1st class I attend, it seems that each student is required to share an anecdote as a means to introduce himself/herself to the rest of the group. For this class, she mixed it up a little bit by asking people to narrate an incident where they successfully managed to use their powers of persuasion. She encouraged everyone to be open and to keep it interesting (and preferably scandalous) and even revealed a funny, personal story of her own.
I ended up telling the class about my little personal story last November when I managed to convince my parents to let me fly to New York to get back with K (and to lock down an apartment for grad school) and when I also managed to persuade K to take me back after I broke it off with him for rather stupid reasons.
My classmates were shocked to say the least because the story was pretty juicy, and having lived to tell the tale I can attest to how dramatic the whole thing was. There was culture and back story and love and conflict and travel and it was quite surreal (a story I'll probably get into at some later point in time). Needless to say, I guess I made a pretty memorable mark during my first day in this class.
Some more pics of my day:
[trying to get a little more adventurous w/ lunch-
honey ham w/ pepper jack cheese & assorted greens
on italian bread & a mug of vanilla almond milk]
[hitting the books already #supanerd]
<3,
Tiffy
Your class heard the story and I have yet to get all the details???!!! MUST SET UP A LOOONG PHONE DATE :)
ReplyDeletei vill call you this veekend. i sent you an email update though! you need to send me one back! <3
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