si should i stay, o should i go

I dislike a lot of what's going on in this post. And what the hell is happening in this thread: "What's sad is that even Fahrenheit 451 is coming true. They aren't burning the books, though. They're digitizing them, making them into convenient little travel sized bits that slowly but surely are never getting read again." What. Is Project Gutenberg really where the brutal, fascist dystopia begins?

Barely related, bitchy tangent: whenever someone brings up ebooks, someone else without fail brings up the wonderful ~smell~ of an old paper book. Dude, we get it. You wish you lived in a used stationary shop. Me, I sort of enjoy carrying dozens and dozens of free classics with me wherever I go, and I do it everyday. I guess that means I don't love books like you do, and I'm sorry for that.

In other news, I have school, it's terrible. Okay no, not really, but I think it might involve like, work and stuff, boo.

as I try to make my way through the ordinary world.

My ever evolving schedule.

monday 20:10-21:55 外文習得 Second Language Acquisition (Primarily in English; some lectures in Mandarin)
tuesday 18:20-20:05 Chinese Night School
wednesday 15:10-17:00 台灣現代劇場文化史 A Cultural History of Modern Chinese Theater (Entirely in English)
thursday 10:10-12 書法 Calligraphy (Entirely in Mandarin)
thursday 13:10-16 實用華語二 Practical Chinese II (Primarily in Mandarin; explanations in English when we need them)
thursday 18:20-20:05 Chinese Night School
friday 9:10-12 英詩導讀 Introduction to Poetry (Lectures in Mandarin; assignments and readings in English)
friday 19:15-21-55 德文二 German II (... idk yet, probably in English, German, and Mandarin)

Now that looks a bit harder, doesn't it? oh god This is still subject to change, and very likely will change, until I actually for real register next Friday.

My new Chinese teacher was super impressed at all the characters I know for only having studied Chinese for a year and a half, which supports my theory that my Chinese teachers in Arizona were insanely demanding, sinister and sadistic people. She was also impressed by what I can say but I'm a bit more skeptical at that praise; she might've just being nice on that one, it was hard to tell. My Chinese sucks, anyway. I better get better at listening, though, and fast, because of the freaking poetry class. It's all in Chinese, but luckily they're describing poems in English so I ... sort of know what they're taking about. But basically I need a tape recorder and an electronic dictionary like yesterday.