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What has Ariana been doing this week?
Let me count the stresses and blessings.
- On Monday in Korean, one of the others in my class mentioned how stressful the whole class was. I had a little epiphany moment realizing that, yes, the stress was really what made the class the worst. I mean, there's no reason I should be blithely sailing through Advanced Japanese but struggling at basic Korean. I'm studying for hours every day and barely breaking even. Meanwhile, the professor had an epiphany when people once again started failing her tests, so she gave us all a chance to correct our lesson tests without looking at our books. This was good for me since I always look up what I get wrong after a test, but I've pretty much come to terms with the fact that I'm not likely to get an A in this class (and that if there's something stressful our Korean teacher can do to us, she will).
- On Monday, I also received an email asking me to a meeting on Fri. at the Met to discuss my internship application. Cue lots of flailing and staring flabbergasted at the email. Also cue a ridiculous round of calls to the hospital over the next three(!) days to cancel my shift since they make it pretty much impossible to reach anyone in charge there unless you get lucky and call at just the right time *sigh* It also took me two days to figure out where I'd put my meagre supply of make up (I have 8 pieces of makeup) since I haven't worn any for at least a year and a half. I wanted to look older for the trip to the Met though so I ransacked my room and finally discovered it in a box surrounded by anime keychains. Go figure.
- So today I braved the rain to head into the city. I made it to the Met and much to my joy, was offered an internship helping with the Asian Art catalogue, starting in two weeks. I wandered about the museum after that, determined to take in all the Asian Art galleries I'd never had the time to see on school trips years before, plus a really interesting display of artefacts from the Yuan dynasty which was a special exhibit. I'd have been content to stay there for hours more (I had to force myself to take a ten minute break around 2pm to eat lunch *L*), but I'd worn new dressy shoes and they, of course, tore my feet to shreds so that even now I can feel them aching and have the blisters to prove it. I did end up walking back through central park which was interesting for me since I've never been there (it was the same distance to walk through the park as it was to walk to the other closest subway entrance, and it saved me a transfer). I'm totally thrilled that I have the internship, even if it's looking likely I'll lose my helpdesk job because of it and I'm probably going to have to work at the hospital on Weds instead of Fridays (and hence not be able to go to Buijnkan on Weds for the next few months). This will be something new and brilliant I can present in my Phd applications (and there have been many times in the past several months that I've despaired of having anything new to speak of in them) and to be honest, working the back rooms of a famous museum has been one of my dreams for a very long time. I'm still shocked it's coming true.
- I started to read To Say Nothing of the Dog on the trip out today, and I'm already on page 265. Sometimes, when I'm being forced to read so many things I'm not so engrossed in, I forget how much fun it is to read a good book that really pulls you into the story and is well written and well plotted.
Let me count the stresses and blessings.
- On Monday in Korean, one of the others in my class mentioned how stressful the whole class was. I had a little epiphany moment realizing that, yes, the stress was really what made the class the worst. I mean, there's no reason I should be blithely sailing through Advanced Japanese but struggling at basic Korean. I'm studying for hours every day and barely breaking even. Meanwhile, the professor had an epiphany when people once again started failing her tests, so she gave us all a chance to correct our lesson tests without looking at our books. This was good for me since I always look up what I get wrong after a test, but I've pretty much come to terms with the fact that I'm not likely to get an A in this class (and that if there's something stressful our Korean teacher can do to us, she will).
- On Monday, I also received an email asking me to a meeting on Fri. at the Met to discuss my internship application. Cue lots of flailing and staring flabbergasted at the email. Also cue a ridiculous round of calls to the hospital over the next three(!) days to cancel my shift since they make it pretty much impossible to reach anyone in charge there unless you get lucky and call at just the right time *sigh* It also took me two days to figure out where I'd put my meagre supply of make up (I have 8 pieces of makeup) since I haven't worn any for at least a year and a half. I wanted to look older for the trip to the Met though so I ransacked my room and finally discovered it in a box surrounded by anime keychains. Go figure.
- So today I braved the rain to head into the city. I made it to the Met and much to my joy, was offered an internship helping with the Asian Art catalogue, starting in two weeks. I wandered about the museum after that, determined to take in all the Asian Art galleries I'd never had the time to see on school trips years before, plus a really interesting display of artefacts from the Yuan dynasty which was a special exhibit. I'd have been content to stay there for hours more (I had to force myself to take a ten minute break around 2pm to eat lunch *L*), but I'd worn new dressy shoes and they, of course, tore my feet to shreds so that even now I can feel them aching and have the blisters to prove it. I did end up walking back through central park which was interesting for me since I've never been there (it was the same distance to walk through the park as it was to walk to the other closest subway entrance, and it saved me a transfer). I'm totally thrilled that I have the internship, even if it's looking likely I'll lose my helpdesk job because of it and I'm probably going to have to work at the hospital on Weds instead of Fridays (and hence not be able to go to Buijnkan on Weds for the next few months). This will be something new and brilliant I can present in my Phd applications (and there have been many times in the past several months that I've despaired of having anything new to speak of in them) and to be honest, working the back rooms of a famous museum has been one of my dreams for a very long time. I'm still shocked it's coming true.
- I started to read To Say Nothing of the Dog on the trip out today, and I'm already on page 265. Sometimes, when I'm being forced to read so many things I'm not so engrossed in, I forget how much fun it is to read a good book that really pulls you into the story and is well written and well plotted.
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I've got a quick question if you're up for it. When I do my phd apps in a few months, do I ask my supervisor at the Met to be one of my three recommendations? (This probably seems obvious to you, but I find US phd apps so confusing.)
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>but I'd worn new dressy shoes and they, of course, tore my feet to shreds so that even now I can feel them aching and have the blisters to prove it.
See when I started to read that I thought you wanted the make up to look pretty and I was going to post something like I'm sure you don't need it you're perfectly pretty as you are and you shouldn't need to be pretty anyway to get a place at uni. But now I think about it you shouldn't need to look old (or should I say older) to get a place either. But thinking about it aside from a yukata I don't think I've ever seen you dress very feminine. It makes me wonder what it'd actually look like. I find it hard to picture you in a little black dress or wearing high heals. Or indeed just wearing sun dress or something.
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Since you hinted so nicely, here (http://pics.livejournal.com/deralte/pic/000cf8as/g32). That's what I wore to my friend's Ren Faire wedding. I wore a skirt about a year before that, and I wore them once or twice in Japan. I'd have to go back to my prom photos to find something I really dressed up for, though those dresses are pretty elaborate. I wore a goth hot topic dress for Halloween once, but that'd be before digital cameras so I have no photos of it on my computer. I think I'd wear them more if they made them for petite women with big busts, but as it is, just finding something that fits and looks flattering takes hours of shopping time, and I hate shopping so... I've pretty much never worn high heels. I find them impractical, painful, and impossible for me to find any that fit anyway since I have wide, yet small feet. Besides, I figure that when men start having to wear high heels regularly, then I will too. Until then...
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As it is I just go and buy the same brand I know is comfortable when ever I need to. I remember as a kid I used to complain to my mother that the clothes she bought me were dull so one day in a store called Cole Brothers that also sold fabric cut off the bolt mum asked me to pick out the kind of fabric I'd wear if she could find it and I went to the shinny bright light blue bolt of fabric and pointed to it and mum told me that was for bridesmaids dresses and I went bright red. But it's true if I had the licence I'd probably swan about like a pretty boy in shiny girly fabrics. I just like things brighter, more elaborate and dare I even say it a bit prettier than most mens fashions. I'd at least love it if they weren't so boring. I guess unusual shaped women have the same issues. We should commiserate by gorging on chocolate ice cream together while sobbing. lol or not
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