- I am giving a presentation in my Spanish linguistics class tomorrow. I am feeling so confident and ready and excited for it for some reason. I am thinking about all the clever and insightful things I hope I remember to say during the presentation. I'm thinking about how it will be such a good presentation that it will just blow everybody's socks off (I hope their feet aren't too stinky).
- As soon as I'm done with that I have to go to Longmont to take the written test to get my CDL permit. Have I studied enough? Will the test be hard? Mostly though I'm just excited to be another step closer to realizing my dream of driving a bus. Why am I so freaking excited about driving a bus? Who knows... it's a mystery. Kind of related to the CDL test tomorrow is that while I am headed in that direction I should probably drive up to Dad's house and take my summer tires up there for winter storage. I definitely don't have time to go up there, but as long as I am halfway there already it would probably be most efficient to do both things in one trip.
- Speaking of taking steps towards driving a bus, before I can get the permit I had to get a physical exam today. I think I am pretty healthy, and mostly I am, but the doctor said I had a slightly abnormal urine sample. I had trace levels of blood and protein in it (sorry, TMI?). The doctor didn't seem REALLY concerned about it, but he said it could be indicative of anything from a benign urinary tract infection (although those are rare in men), to bladder cancer (scary). But he said I should just be aware of it and come back in a few months for another urine sample. Kind of scary though, what could it mean? Should I be worried? Should I not be worried? I guess I'll just forget about it for a few months and hope it turns out to be nothing.
- My bus-driving training starts bright and early on Saturday morning. I'm so excited!!! I wonder if they'll get me behind the wheel on the very first day... I hope so. I hope I love it as much as I think I will. But on the flip side, how the hell am I going to balance a steadily increasing course load as deadlines for final papers/projects/tests near, PLUS do 80 hours of bus-driving training before I can start work the day after school ends, PLUS keep up with the transcribing job with which I have already been failing to get all the hours I'm supposed to? It sounds impossible to me... I will be really amazed if I manage to pull it all off.
- Then there's the presentation for the International Affairs class from hell that is due only a few days after Thanksgiving "break." But I'm trying not to think about that very much.
- The application for the JET program teaching English in Japan is due at the beginning of December, I'm not sure if I'll be able to pull that together in time. Then what?
- Oh dang, my car insurance bill is almost due. I don't want to pay it. Maybe I should just sell that car and make my sister chauffeur me around instead.
- How on earth am I going to work enough hours at my transcribing job so that they won't fire me? I've never been fired from a job before and I would like to keep it that way for a little longer at least.
- I still have to find time to finish that one last online assignment for my online International Economics class...
- I really need to clean my room. It's so bad that even I am bothered by it. That's pretty bad.
- Oh, how could I have forgotten about the Portuguese presentation that I've also been thinking about. It isn't for a few weeks still, and I only have a vague idea of what I'm going to talk about (China - Brazil relations), but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna blow the socks off of that one too. I can picture me speaking pretty fluent sounding Portuguese, but when it comes time to actually do it, the words still don't come out that smoothly for me, but it'll just take some practice. Portuguese sounds pretty sweet, by the way.
- I have a couple of ideas that I think would make for really interesting thesis papers in linguistics. Too bad I don't have time to write a senior honors thesis paper. Maybe I'll try to remember them for grad school or something though...
- What will be the next dumb/annoying and time-consuming task that my grandmother will require of me?
- So, that's most of what has been racing through my head keeping me awake tonight. Of course there's also the normal background noise of VTEC Mini Coopers, fixed-gear bikes, random linguistic crap, needing a girlfriend, etc...
Today's video is a pretty song in Portuguese that I don't understand and a video about a stick-figure who really uses his disproportionately-large noggin.
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