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bossymarmalade) wrote2010-01-05 02:13 pm
bossymarmalade) wrote2010-01-05 02:13 pm
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So!
I have started off the new year by failing my Hindi class!
No, no -- technically, I ended last year by doing that. That December exam was the most awful and nerve-wracking test I've written since I was a wee girl in Catholic school and getting a low grade meant a proportionate number of slaps with a ruler.
I choose to look at this as a good thing. I will no longer make myself miserable by struggling through this class and feeling inadequate as each day chips away at my academic ego, and I have learned the valuable lesson that I should never ever EVER do anything with my parents where being this self-conscious will fuck up my grades. (Er, not that I'm blaming my dad being there for my failing, but it sure didn't help.)
I don't know what I'm gonna do about the student loans -- those people are really nasty when, y'know, shit happens and you have to change your schedule mid-term -- but I'll tell you a dumb little story: one of my co-workers abandoned this totally stupid deck of Angel Oracle Cards in the breakroom at work months ago. And when I say stupid, I mean that it has illustrations of angels in wedding dresses and riding unicorns and tickling koalas and shit like that. But eventually out of boredom we all started using them, and they have over the months proved uncannily accurate. Out of desperation and looming terror at having to return to class today, I checked them yesterday at work and scoffed at the card I pulled, which seemed completely irrelevant.
And it was "Time to Go".
Most of the time I'm good at doing what the universe tells me to do, but I balked at having messages delivered via paintings of angels with suitcases and figured the cards didn't know what the fuck they were saying. I guess this whole thing is a lesson in humility, too. *g*
I have started off the new year by failing my Hindi class!
No, no -- technically, I ended last year by doing that. That December exam was the most awful and nerve-wracking test I've written since I was a wee girl in Catholic school and getting a low grade meant a proportionate number of slaps with a ruler.
I choose to look at this as a good thing. I will no longer make myself miserable by struggling through this class and feeling inadequate as each day chips away at my academic ego, and I have learned the valuable lesson that I should never ever EVER do anything with my parents where being this self-conscious will fuck up my grades. (Er, not that I'm blaming my dad being there for my failing, but it sure didn't help.)
I don't know what I'm gonna do about the student loans -- those people are really nasty when, y'know, shit happens and you have to change your schedule mid-term -- but I'll tell you a dumb little story: one of my co-workers abandoned this totally stupid deck of Angel Oracle Cards in the breakroom at work months ago. And when I say stupid, I mean that it has illustrations of angels in wedding dresses and riding unicorns and tickling koalas and shit like that. But eventually out of boredom we all started using them, and they have over the months proved uncannily accurate. Out of desperation and looming terror at having to return to class today, I checked them yesterday at work and scoffed at the card I pulled, which seemed completely irrelevant.
And it was "Time to Go".
Most of the time I'm good at doing what the universe tells me to do, but I balked at having messages delivered via paintings of angels with suitcases and figured the cards didn't know what the fuck they were saying. I guess this whole thing is a lesson in humility, too. *g*
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hallcurb?I mean, either way, good luck. O____o C U THS W33K3ND 0 & D0 U W4NT CH1CK3N
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O HEY NOW I CAN WORK ON THURSDAY AND TAKE FRIDAY OFF!!!
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Which language will you be taking? Spanish or French? At least with those two, there'll probably be more class section options, I'd hope! :D :D :D
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Whether I take Spanish or French depends on which one fits my schedule. But at least I've done them both before and know that I have the capability of learning them, ahahahah!
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Yeah, Spanish and French are easy-peasy to learn; and either are guaranteed to put your academic ego back on track. There there, Hermione.
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There there, Hermione.
GRRRRRRRRRRRR
*makes emma watson eyebrows*
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*spasms like Radcakes*
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The angel cards sound AWESOME, though, ahahahaha, I'm dying! But, no, you shouldn't let their hilarity stop you from paying attention to messages from the universe. Suitcases, though? Really?? *g*
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I need to find a way to accept the angel cards as a conduit for the universe's messages without scoffing at illustrations of them romping in the surf and whatnot. But it's so HARD, aral!!
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angels...tickling koalas
WHUT SO GREAT
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*snug*
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Either way that totally sucks, school stress is the worst. I hope the loan stuff works out okay.
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Just substitute economics for Hindi and you're me twenty years ago! *rides my unicorn koala over a rainbow hill to the Land of Sparkly Wedding Oracles*
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1) Parent in the class.
2) Brand spanking new alphabet.
3) Several different scripts to write in.
I think you're awesome as hell for even *trying*
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Every day on his lj, scrivener posts a draw from the Tarot deck. I find it very thought provoking.
I don't necessarily think that the iChing/Tarot/Oracle deck etc predict the future (but I'm not ruling that out), but what they do provide is excellent tools for examination of self and the world. ;)
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I sympathize though. I am really bad at languages though I try to learn them with all the will in the world. I think you are great just for giving it a try!