I gave Alice a 学业进步 CNY pennant and she's incongruously hung it on her door next to the Johnny Depp and New Zealand posters. Also, there are six SMU exchange students this spring and two girls are on my floor, one of who turned out to be an ex-primary school classmate; it was so funny when Erin invited me over to their room to say hi and I saw Cheryl and we gaped at each other for about five minutes, then started swapping food in typical S'pore fashion. I'm typing exhausted. If you're interested I'm taking the following courses this semester and for the first time don't feel the need to "class-shop", since I've already pre-thought my academic life so well:
- Victorian Poetry
- Shakespeare I (My professor summed up the reasons for the course most beautifully, after word-perfect reciting Macbeth's key soliloquy at us: "He could have said, 'Life's a bitch and then you die. He didn't.")
- Elements of Ecology
- Intro to Media Studies
- Modern Japanese Women Writers
Learnt today that a) blue hair colouring is probably impossible to find in Charlottesville, especially if your only resource is strip mall drugstores and marts, b) that I click alarmingly well with Brown residents. My guitar's travelled back with me this time, strapped into two plane seats on the flight to Tokyo; am also wrangling with social security numbers and bank accounts cos I'm trying to get a job at the university bookstore. And truth - that people are amazing - makes it easier to fall in love with every little piece.
I just realised I've been at UVA almost as long as I was at RJ. Shit, how scary is that. But life is full.