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Hi, uh, so, BASICALLY.
I have a crazy lecturer who doesn't seem to understand that the first few weeks of class are light on workload because people are just getting their shit sorted and because we haven't been TAUGHT anything yet (!!!!) and who thinks that now would be a GREAT time to assign us to read an entire text book in one week.
Yeah, that's what I said. That was NOT hyperbole, exaggeration, or colourful addition. Every single member of my class has to read an entire published anthropological text by next Thursday.
If I try to express my seismic terror right now, I may explode. So instead can I just assure everyone that I am completely freaking out.
Oh, and as an added bonus, all the books are only available from the library on 3-hour loan, so I have to read it AT the library AND, because I have a $30 fine on my library card which I cannot afford to pay off right now, I can't start reading till next Monday when I get more money. Then have to write a book review by Thursday.
...... meanwhile, I haven't done much writing the last few weeks, but seriously, not really worried about that just at the moment. >_>;;;;;;
[Edit: It occurs to me that some of you may find this not really the end of the world to do, but to put in context, I am really, reallly reallllly slow at reading non-fiction. I had a 8-page reading to do for class today, and all up it probably took me about four hours to get through. And it was even really interesting. Now times that by an entire book - minimum maybe what, 150 pages - and now you can start to see the all-consuming terror which is slowly spreading through my entire being right now....]
Excited Edit in Bold: Hahahaha, I don't even really know what to think of this, but not only have I managed to find one book which is vaaaaaaaguely close to my academic interests which I had missed before, I stumbled across it on Google Books (never heard of THAT till tonight...) and am currently reading it ONLINE! @_@ *feelz all sneaky* I don't know how much of it I'll be allowed to access like this, but I reckon every little bit done is something! *dances with the half-hearted glee of many hours of reading to look forward to...*
I have a crazy lecturer who doesn't seem to understand that the first few weeks of class are light on workload because people are just getting their shit sorted and because we haven't been TAUGHT anything yet (!!!!) and who thinks that now would be a GREAT time to assign us to read an entire text book in one week.
Yeah, that's what I said. That was NOT hyperbole, exaggeration, or colourful addition. Every single member of my class has to read an entire published anthropological text by next Thursday.
If I try to express my seismic terror right now, I may explode. So instead can I just assure everyone that I am completely freaking out.
Oh, and as an added bonus, all the books are only available from the library on 3-hour loan, so I have to read it AT the library AND, because I have a $30 fine on my library card which I cannot afford to pay off right now, I can't start reading till next Monday when I get more money. Then have to write a book review by Thursday.
...... meanwhile, I haven't done much writing the last few weeks, but seriously, not really worried about that just at the moment. >_>;;;;;;
[Edit: It occurs to me that some of you may find this not really the end of the world to do, but to put in context, I am really, reallly reallllly slow at reading non-fiction. I had a 8-page reading to do for class today, and all up it probably took me about four hours to get through. And it was even really interesting. Now times that by an entire book - minimum maybe what, 150 pages - and now you can start to see the all-consuming terror which is slowly spreading through my entire being right now....]
Excited Edit in Bold: Hahahaha, I don't even really know what to think of this, but not only have I managed to find one book which is vaaaaaaaguely close to my academic interests which I had missed before, I stumbled across it on Google Books (never heard of THAT till tonight...) and am currently reading it ONLINE! @_@ *feelz all sneaky* I don't know how much of it I'll be allowed to access like this, but I reckon every little bit done is something! *dances with the half-hearted glee of many hours of reading to look forward to...*
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