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Jun. 12th, 2002 08:24 pmI'm kinda taking the afternoon off. Two days left of school, and I just have a bit of studying to do. French final tomorrow (cos the regents is too damn easy) and we have a social studies review packet to look at. So I'll do that all later.
Haven't written in a bit.
I believe something happened on Friday that I neglected to type up. I had my Health final eighth period, but since I'd gotten above a 90 and had no cuts (luckily. Just because you don't cut does not mean there are none on your record--the attendance office tends to screw up, and it's really a pain to get them cleared. I've been lucky this year, Katie's had some problems, but we took care of them.) So anyway, I was able to leave, so I went to the cafeteria. Only one of my friends was there, Zahra. She's in my art class and all, and I did some work on my sketchbook. (which I handed in, but I won't get my grade til tomorrow. . .) Zahra is sooo sweet. Anyway, 8th period the lunchroom is really empty. But who should sit down at the next table to us but Aron! :D (he's come up before. . . he's in Academons, and him and Doug are going to be our captains next year, and he has a twin, Jamie. Me and Katie don't exactly have crushes on them--we have a running joke on them. It's really funny and fun. All our Academons boys are so cute!! Except for Doug. . . and I guess Isaac. Nerds rock ;) So I managed to kinda get up the nerve to go over and talk to Aron. Like, I was kinda nervous for him, because he's really shy, most of them are (Aron doesn't make eye contact--or maybe it's just us) and I think he's kinda scared of me and Katie, who are bubbly at Academons and all that. . . lol. So I was worried about upsetting him. lol. But I went over and asked him what our captains have planned for Academons next year, and he explained the whole joint captain-ship thing to me, and we (::pauses to make "welsh baby noises":: As they are described in the Susan Cooper books. or this is what Katie tells me) talked about how many more people we'd be able to get to join if we switched advisors >.< And how I've heard vague retirement rumors. We also said that technically we could all just start attending meetings held by the other teacher who wants to do it (Ms. Rio, which always makes me think of Ryo from Digimon, which always cracks me up) but we won't, because we'd feel bad for the current teacher. Even if he is annoying. lol. And then when things got slightly pause-riddled I went back over to Zahra. :) But it was fun!! :D I love my Academons boys!
Speaking of shy Academons boys. . . there was the "young composers concert" on Monday!! It was soooo cool! Background: there's an AP Music Comp class, that has 5 seniors. One of them is my brother--I was soooo proud. :D But anyway, they were given an assigment to write a piece. There were two brass quintets, a full choir piece, a piece for piano, flute, and drums, and a just piano piece. Mike's was fantastic!! It rocked! I'm so glad it was recorded and we're getting a CD. So, so cool. All of them were really good. And one of the young composers was Stephen, who is in Academons! :D And he's soooo shy, and soooo adorable! Me and Katie went over afterwards to tell him how good his piece was, and he was all like. . . he wasn't sure what to say. So cute. So quiet! lol. So that was fun.
Was talking about deep and interesting things with David. Because he wants my opinion of him, And I just don't know what I think of him. I explained that this is probably because I don't know him well enough, so we were discussing his (our--cos I can't keep my mouth shut) opinions on various subjects. Very cool, very interesting. I have some stuff to think about. I'm a little bit nervous about something, I'd like to speak to him again--I didn't get a chance to finish all that I wanted to say because Katie wanted the computer.
Katie has been feeling rather down because David's gonna be leaving soon. :-/ Very worrying, and there's so little I can do about it. ::sigh:: I wish I could make her feel better--or at least that I knew the right thing to say. I do the best I can.
at least skim through that? I was just worried cos it was getting long and I'm not sure how it'll be from outside my head. Young Composer's Concert just kicked ass.
I endeared myself to my social studies teacher yesterday. I think it was yesterday. . . She mentioned that she was going to become an anthropologist, but she couldn't and ended up becoming a history teacher. For which, well, she'd probably rather be an anthropologist, but I'm very grateful. She's a great teacher, and I've learned soooo much this year. The first teacher I've had that made me realize there is a point to history and social studies. Cos like, other teachers were too focused on us learning the facts. She does a lot of culture type stuff. Possibly because of her anthropological background? But I've actually gotten important stuff that I'll use out of this class.
Anyway, I've been kinda wondering about this, so after class I went up and asked her how anthropologists earn money. She was rather delighted, and explained to me that you'd be on staff at a university (and she later told me that you could also work for the UN--mad hot!) but she was quick to assure me that it's not like teaching in a high school. whew. lol. And she told me that you get to go and do field research, and told me where all her anthropology friends went. She was going to go to. . . West Africa, I believe, to study market women. She was an Africanist. cooool. But she was kinda scared, and she had a 3 year old daughter at the time. She told me if she was going to give me any advice, it would be not to be scared, to go for it, to take the 3-year-old with you!
Anyway. I'm. . . I don't know. People interest me, anthropology interests me. You guys know that I'm always keeping my options open. I was talking to my dad, and he seemed to think I'd decided on anthropology as a career. Absolutely not. He was telling me that I had a lot of opportunities. I told him, "yeah, I know that, but I don't have a lot of ideas." I just feel better with another idea of what I'm going to be. If inking and all that doesn't work out, there's other things I'm interested in, you know? Gives me kind of a focus.
But I don't know. I've always been under the impression that to become a professor you need to be like, a real expert? (this doesn't really have any grounds, but whatever) It's really really important to me to be doing something I love, but it's also important to me that I'll have a job and an income and I'll be able to support myself.
So I shall see.
Ah yes. We helped Emily out yesterday-- they're having "Banquet" in choir, which is like, this whole good-bye to the seniors and stuff. And each senior has a bear made to represent them. Emily was making David, and Teffi, and Monica. So we went to her house to help make them :D We were a big help and they turned out really well. Will show pictures when we get them.
Two More Days.
Haven't written in a bit.
I believe something happened on Friday that I neglected to type up. I had my Health final eighth period, but since I'd gotten above a 90 and had no cuts (luckily. Just because you don't cut does not mean there are none on your record--the attendance office tends to screw up, and it's really a pain to get them cleared. I've been lucky this year, Katie's had some problems, but we took care of them.) So anyway, I was able to leave, so I went to the cafeteria. Only one of my friends was there, Zahra. She's in my art class and all, and I did some work on my sketchbook. (which I handed in, but I won't get my grade til tomorrow. . .) Zahra is sooo sweet. Anyway, 8th period the lunchroom is really empty. But who should sit down at the next table to us but Aron! :D (he's come up before. . . he's in Academons, and him and Doug are going to be our captains next year, and he has a twin, Jamie. Me and Katie don't exactly have crushes on them--we have a running joke on them. It's really funny and fun. All our Academons boys are so cute!! Except for Doug. . . and I guess Isaac. Nerds rock ;) So I managed to kinda get up the nerve to go over and talk to Aron. Like, I was kinda nervous for him, because he's really shy, most of them are (Aron doesn't make eye contact--or maybe it's just us) and I think he's kinda scared of me and Katie, who are bubbly at Academons and all that. . . lol. So I was worried about upsetting him. lol. But I went over and asked him what our captains have planned for Academons next year, and he explained the whole joint captain-ship thing to me, and we (::pauses to make "welsh baby noises":: As they are described in the Susan Cooper books. or this is what Katie tells me) talked about how many more people we'd be able to get to join if we switched advisors >.< And how I've heard vague retirement rumors. We also said that technically we could all just start attending meetings held by the other teacher who wants to do it (Ms. Rio, which always makes me think of Ryo from Digimon, which always cracks me up) but we won't, because we'd feel bad for the current teacher. Even if he is annoying. lol. And then when things got slightly pause-riddled I went back over to Zahra. :) But it was fun!! :D I love my Academons boys!
Speaking of shy Academons boys. . . there was the "young composers concert" on Monday!! It was soooo cool! Background: there's an AP Music Comp class, that has 5 seniors. One of them is my brother--I was soooo proud. :D But anyway, they were given an assigment to write a piece. There were two brass quintets, a full choir piece, a piece for piano, flute, and drums, and a just piano piece. Mike's was fantastic!! It rocked! I'm so glad it was recorded and we're getting a CD. So, so cool. All of them were really good. And one of the young composers was Stephen, who is in Academons! :D And he's soooo shy, and soooo adorable! Me and Katie went over afterwards to tell him how good his piece was, and he was all like. . . he wasn't sure what to say. So cute. So quiet! lol. So that was fun.
Was talking about deep and interesting things with David. Because he wants my opinion of him, And I just don't know what I think of him. I explained that this is probably because I don't know him well enough, so we were discussing his (our--cos I can't keep my mouth shut) opinions on various subjects. Very cool, very interesting. I have some stuff to think about. I'm a little bit nervous about something, I'd like to speak to him again--I didn't get a chance to finish all that I wanted to say because Katie wanted the computer.
Katie has been feeling rather down because David's gonna be leaving soon. :-/ Very worrying, and there's so little I can do about it. ::sigh:: I wish I could make her feel better--or at least that I knew the right thing to say. I do the best I can.
at least skim through that? I was just worried cos it was getting long and I'm not sure how it'll be from outside my head. Young Composer's Concert just kicked ass.
I endeared myself to my social studies teacher yesterday. I think it was yesterday. . . She mentioned that she was going to become an anthropologist, but she couldn't and ended up becoming a history teacher. For which, well, she'd probably rather be an anthropologist, but I'm very grateful. She's a great teacher, and I've learned soooo much this year. The first teacher I've had that made me realize there is a point to history and social studies. Cos like, other teachers were too focused on us learning the facts. She does a lot of culture type stuff. Possibly because of her anthropological background? But I've actually gotten important stuff that I'll use out of this class.
Anyway, I've been kinda wondering about this, so after class I went up and asked her how anthropologists earn money. She was rather delighted, and explained to me that you'd be on staff at a university (and she later told me that you could also work for the UN--mad hot!) but she was quick to assure me that it's not like teaching in a high school. whew. lol. And she told me that you get to go and do field research, and told me where all her anthropology friends went. She was going to go to. . . West Africa, I believe, to study market women. She was an Africanist. cooool. But she was kinda scared, and she had a 3 year old daughter at the time. She told me if she was going to give me any advice, it would be not to be scared, to go for it, to take the 3-year-old with you!
Anyway. I'm. . . I don't know. People interest me, anthropology interests me. You guys know that I'm always keeping my options open. I was talking to my dad, and he seemed to think I'd decided on anthropology as a career. Absolutely not. He was telling me that I had a lot of opportunities. I told him, "yeah, I know that, but I don't have a lot of ideas." I just feel better with another idea of what I'm going to be. If inking and all that doesn't work out, there's other things I'm interested in, you know? Gives me kind of a focus.
But I don't know. I've always been under the impression that to become a professor you need to be like, a real expert? (this doesn't really have any grounds, but whatever) It's really really important to me to be doing something I love, but it's also important to me that I'll have a job and an income and I'll be able to support myself.
So I shall see.
Ah yes. We helped Emily out yesterday-- they're having "Banquet" in choir, which is like, this whole good-bye to the seniors and stuff. And each senior has a bear made to represent them. Emily was making David, and Teffi, and Monica. So we went to her house to help make them :D We were a big help and they turned out really well. Will show pictures when we get them.
Two More Days.
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Date: 2002-06-12 09:41 pm (UTC)I almost went into anthropology myself, as both my parents have degrees in the field (my dad is an engineer, not an anthropologist, but he holds a masters degree in the field) and I find the subject extremely interesting. In fact, I've taken so many Anthro classes as electives I almost qualify for a minor in the subject. But I don't think I can work up a good career for myself in anthropology (and besides, I fell in love with the workings of the criminal mind).
I'd advise you to take both a cultural and a physical anthropology class when you get to college (they'll count toward your lower division GE's if nothing else) and see how you feel about it. As for being a professor, well, I think that takes a doctorate and there's stiff competition for available positions.
But don't let anything stop you if it's what you want! If you eventually decide on anthropology, go for it.
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Date: 2002-06-13 03:40 am (UTC)Thanks a lot :)
wow. that's really cool that she was able to transfer archeological and anthropological skills to the space program! (I think these words are too long)
::sigh:: I can't remember what 50-60 degrees feels like. . . I think I should be wearing pants but I can't remember! (that was off-topic)