Last Paper of the Semester

I can't tell if it's a good thing I can churn out a 2000 word paper in 24 hours, when writing a paper of that length used to be my worst enemy in highschool.

Does it mean that I've gotten more efficient when it comes to writing scholastic papers, or that I'm more efficient in writing a bunch of hokey-pokey?

Routine

....I actually have one! I know, crazy! Today's post is all about "that hum-drum" life, because I'm too lazy to finish the Slovakia post right now.

For the weekdays, general routine:

I set my alarm for 6:45, and snooze it about five times before I actually get up around 7:25. Then I take a shower, and either eat a quick breakfast and stop in at church real quick before class, or I stop in at church first and then eat breakfast. I had an even better schedule when they had 7:30 Mass for a couple weeks in September! But alas, alack, they have that no longer, to the woe and misery of many people.

After lunch, I don’t have a set plan for what to do until 5:30 supper – I either do school, go to the Spar, or piddle. After supper, I either do school, go to the Spar, or, piddle. At 5:30, they have Rosary in the church, so I usually go to that.

Anyways, I have two classes each day – one at 8:40 which ends at 10:10, then another one at 10:20-11:50.
In all of these classes, we’re supposed to get a little break during the class itself, but only Dr. Hass in Western Civilization II actually gives us a decent break. He doesn't give us on in Medieval World because that’s his specialty and he loves talking about it. Cassidy I think just forgets to give us breaks, and MacNamara technically gives us a break, but it is a three minute break that is strictly enforced, so there’s not really a whole lot you can do with it. These classes are divided into A days (usually Monday and Wednesday) and B days (usually Tuesday and Thursday), so I’ll just go through the days of the week to give you the general outline.

Monday: morning routine. History of Civilization II class with Dr. Hass first – we technically have a ten minute break between the first and second class, but he usually goes over time, so I have just enough time to get to Philosophy of the Human Person class. I’m okay that he goes over, because I don’t do anything during the little break anyways aside from sit in class and wait for it to begin. 

After Philosophy class, I go back to the room and piddle for half hour until lunch begins at 12:30.

Tuesday: morning routine. Medieval World class with Dr. Hass, then Christian Marriage with Professor Cassidy. I have these classes with Krista, which was why I liked them most at the beginning of the semester – I could actually talk to someone between breaks. But now I actually like my A day classes themselves better than B days, plus there are a couple people I can talk to anyways.
After class, I go to noon Mass and try to sit in the back. Fr. Shell said if Mass is so distracting for me, then I should just close my eyes during Mass, so I sit in the back so no one thinks I’m ignoring them. After Mass, it’s the Mass rush to the Mensa for lunch and it’s super crowded and depending on what mood I’m in, it can either be tiring to have to sit with other people, or just kind of like “hm, whatever.”

Wednesday: morning routine. A day classes. Lunch. At 2, I have Holy Hour.

Thursday: morning routine. B day classes. In Medieval World, half the class comes at the normal time, and the other half comes later. I come at the usual time, and we have “discussion”, which is where we put all our chairs in a circle, ask Dr. Hass questions, and he answers them. We don’t actually really discuss anything. I wish we could use this plan with philosophy, because we have so many people in it and I’d rather discuss it more. Oh well, ce la vie! Enjoy your crown! Mass. Lunch.
At 2, I go to the Newtons for Ministry to Moms until 3:30. I don’t really have a routine of what I do with them, as it depends on what kids are at home. Mrs. Newton is trying to have me teach Allie (youngest) and Hannah May (second youngest) Latin, but it's kind of a laugh so far - the girls get really distracted by the little mouse that "teaches" Latin in the book Mrs. Newton gave me to use. 

The rest of the weekend is totally up for grabs!

Random Notes: Volume I, Issue 3

I lost my headphones.
Which means no more Stillwater Hobos (at least until a replacement can be found)
Agony.

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Luckily, I have found consolation; chocolate.
Krista and I (with an emphasis on I) may or may not have devoured one box of delicious Croatian chocolate dipped biscuits (that Monika introduced us to) in less than 24 hours.
Also, I may or may not have consumed one large bag of M&M's (it can with 10% more!) and a triple sized bar of Milka within a rather teeny time frame.

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Also, I discovered that a WHOLE SEASON of Korra happened and I didn't even know it! I can tell you I remedied that problem prett-ee quickly!
Unfortunately, it's only the first day of midterms week, and in my first fervor, I left only a couple episodes of season two to distract myself with.

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I've succeeded in getting Europeans to think I'm European, and getting Franciscan girls to think I'm Franciscan.
Well, I am technically Franciscan, but the fact that I'm now considered to be dressing unhomeschoolerish enough is pretty hilarious to me.
Little do the Europeans or the Franciscan's know....

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I've meet all the students and the directors for the LCI program. One of the directors however, looked reaaaalllly familiar to me, and I finally remembered her face from being one of Sister Maria's volleyball teammates her freshman year!
When I was walking back from the town today, I saw her (Teresa) and we talked a little bit about it. She was super nice and said we should get coffee, which would be fun, but very adult-ish and I doubt it'll happen because the LCI people seem to always be running around like headless chickens with all the events they're involved in.

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This post of Krista's is simply golden.

Random Notes: Volume 1, Issue 2

I'm finally getting better, which means...I can eat chocolate!!! I'm already 2/3 of the way through my Dessert Au Chocolat (don't that sound fancy?) Milka bar, and I opened it up five minutes ago.

By the by, Milka chocolate is basically the European equivalent of Hershey's chocolate from what I understand. And speaking of Hershey's, I got some M&M's at the train station yesterday, and though they were overpriced, the fact I was eating AMERICAN candy made me really giddy!

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I like how they do bed covers here.

Instead of a sheet on top of the mattress, and then a cover over that, they simply slip the sheet over the cover (like a pillow)

It's really comfortable, and you don't have to worry about dirtying the comforter/cover thing. It makes me think of a two-for-the-price-of-one thing, for some reason.

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Krista and I had a child this weekend. Her name is Gwendolyn. More on that later, but isn't Gwendolyn such a beauteous name?

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I had my first midterm today. It went fairly well - it was mostly essays and ID's, and I don't know how Dr. Hass grades them.

I decided to have a little fun with myself for one of the ID's, where he gives you a keyword, and you give some information bullet points on that keyword.
The ID was for the 30 Years War, and for the background, I wrote a bit about the Second Defenestration of Prague.

Here's Wikipedia's version: "....Soon after, the two Regents were thrown out of the third floor window along with the Regents' secretary, Philipus Fabricius, but survived after falling 70 feet."

And here is my version; "Protestant rebels were gathering in Prague, 1618. Catholic king sends messengers to break it up. Messengers promptly tossed out a window."