you and I must fight to survive
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hawkwing_lbCollege is hectic. I have, what, eleven hours of lectures? Somehow it seems like a lot more.
Well, when you add in time for reading for the course and the time I've pretty much committed to for fencing, karate and the archaeology society, it is a lot more.
*counts*
Between 36 and 40 hours, actually. Wow. I had no idea I was setting myself up to do so much.
Fencing, by the way, is completely cool. I went to my first class on Monday. Maitre David Cooper is one of the two master-at-arms associated with Trinity, and he's funny, and cool, and very, very stylish with a foil. I covet that kind of speed. Also, I want a sabre. A sharp, pointy one. :)
The archaeology society is also completely cool. We had our first wine reception tonight: about fifty people turned up and bloody hell the wine disappeared fast. I spent a while chatting with a couple of visiting students -- American and German -- and some mature students. And the auditor of the Classics society, a guy whose email address cracks me up -- it's mcgeek@ [the college domain name]. Perhaps I find this so amusing because of the quantity of caffeine I've consumed, not being a drinker of alcohol. The only non-alco beverage there was coca-cola.
Midway through, one of our lecturers called us aside for a slideshow by an Irish archaeologist and Early Irish/Celtic historian, who spent the summer working on a dig down in Munster, a possible royal fort or burial site -- certainly of great significance -- probably originally dating from the Neolithic period and in use down to the Iron Age, which evidence suggests was deliberately destroyed around the 6th century C.E.
That was... interesting, to say the least.
And somehow, at some point, I ended up volunteering to write the 'Literature' questions for next week's pub quiz event. It'll probably end up as 'Literature for SF geeks' unless something amazing happens and I actually think of something outside genre. Suggestions, anyone? :)
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Intro to Theology is turning into a weird and woolly set of lectures. Apparently, it's this particular lecturer's first time giving the course and we are to be his experimentalvictims guinea pigs: out of two hour-long sessions, all I came away with is 'Saint Augustine = has something to do with Platonic philosophy' and 'Thomas Aquinas = has something to do with Aristotelian theory'. This, it seems to me, is not a promising beginning. Also, it may be an ungood course for an atheist -- well, agnostic at the very least -- to be sitting. I feel like I need a set of memory cards with the slogan:
Warning, warning, thoughtsystem adjustment required: In the medieval theologian's worldview, the existence of God is a given. This is not in dispute. The primacy of faith over reason is not in dispute. What is at question is the nature of the human relationship to God. This is the question that medieval theologians examine. Adjust thoughtsystem appropriately.
I'm not sure whether both Augustine and Aquinas were woolly thinkers, or whether Dr. The Hon. Catholic Fossil is a woolly lecturer, but I'm sort of tending towards the latter. More research is needed on this point. More time needed for research. More time needed for sleep.
And with that, I go.
Well, when you add in time for reading for the course and the time I've pretty much committed to for fencing, karate and the archaeology society, it is a lot more.
*counts*
Between 36 and 40 hours, actually. Wow. I had no idea I was setting myself up to do so much.
Fencing, by the way, is completely cool. I went to my first class on Monday. Maitre David Cooper is one of the two master-at-arms associated with Trinity, and he's funny, and cool, and very, very stylish with a foil. I covet that kind of speed. Also, I want a sabre. A sharp, pointy one. :)
The archaeology society is also completely cool. We had our first wine reception tonight: about fifty people turned up and bloody hell the wine disappeared fast. I spent a while chatting with a couple of visiting students -- American and German -- and some mature students. And the auditor of the Classics society, a guy whose email address cracks me up -- it's mcgeek@ [the college domain name]. Perhaps I find this so amusing because of the quantity of caffeine I've consumed, not being a drinker of alcohol. The only non-alco beverage there was coca-cola.
Midway through, one of our lecturers called us aside for a slideshow by an Irish archaeologist and Early Irish/Celtic historian, who spent the summer working on a dig down in Munster, a possible royal fort or burial site -- certainly of great significance -- probably originally dating from the Neolithic period and in use down to the Iron Age, which evidence suggests was deliberately destroyed around the 6th century C.E.
That was... interesting, to say the least.
And somehow, at some point, I ended up volunteering to write the 'Literature' questions for next week's pub quiz event. It'll probably end up as 'Literature for SF geeks' unless something amazing happens and I actually think of something outside genre. Suggestions, anyone? :)
---
Intro to Theology is turning into a weird and woolly set of lectures. Apparently, it's this particular lecturer's first time giving the course and we are to be his experimental
Warning, warning, thoughtsystem adjustment required: In the medieval theologian's worldview, the existence of God is a given. This is not in dispute. The primacy of faith over reason is not in dispute. What is at question is the nature of the human relationship to God. This is the question that medieval theologians examine. Adjust thoughtsystem appropriately.
I'm not sure whether both Augustine and Aquinas were woolly thinkers, or whether Dr. The Hon. Catholic Fossil is a woolly lecturer, but I'm sort of tending towards the latter. More research is needed on this point. More time needed for research. More time needed for sleep.
And with that, I go.
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Date: 2006-10-14 12:41 am (UTC)Too tired to read the rest of your post..am not at home, but in Utah, which is surprisingly elevated. Will read the rest later, promise.
Go fencing! ;-)
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Date: 2006-10-14 04:53 pm (UTC)Are you having fun there? :)
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Date: 2006-10-16 04:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-16 05:56 pm (UTC)