Work needs doing

[liaku]

I need to write these application essays sometime soon.  Like, really soon.

Also, I believe I'll be holed up reading all through the weekend.  I'm some 200 pages behind in politics, and I honestly have very little clue what's going on in calculus.  The former is something I want to fix, the latter will probably be a perpetual problem in that class.  In either case, I still need to crunch some numbers.  I'm also behind in history (not worried about that) and biology (but only because I slept through class today).  I am up to speed in Hungarian, but embarrassingly clumsy with some of the cases.  "Tessék?" now features very heavily in my conversations.

And no, I'm not taking German, but I've committed myself to reading all of Coraline in German in the meanwhile, probably at a very slow pace of something like one page a night.  Maybe slower.  So far, I've gotten past the dedication, the opening quote thingy, and two paragraphs into chapter 1.  ...Yeah, I suck.  I know.  But I'm trying.

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[liaku.livejournal.com]

Er, I realized you asked for formulas. Essentially, none so far. We're still at the intro-phase (this is the easiest math class you can take that's for people that're taking it seriously--the only step down you can go is to remedial classes and, like, Arithmetics for Artists and such), so we're just going over stuff the like y=mx+b, y=axˆ2+bx+c, y=aˆx, y=x^a, y=lnx, etcetc. What sucks is that while I've learned them all before, all I remember is y=mx+b, though ax^2+bx+c came back to me pretty quickly. The rest are only passingly familiar. :(

And Coraline is originally in English (which I should get a copy to reference in case I really have no clue what's said in the German) and written by Neil Gaiman. It was the only German children's book I could find when I at the bookstore, and it seemed vaguely to my level--or at least what my level's supposed to be. The dictionary's become my best friend.

[greenie1980.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about overlooking things. If you're busy, that can easily happen. If you ever have any problems at all with these formulas, drop me a line. Same agreement as for German, if you like. :P

Ok, I just looked it up on wikipedia and I somehow don't get how that can be a children's book. But oh well. I don't want to read it and I had a pretty bad scare on Wednesday when I had reached a certain point in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo', which I got from a colleague for Christmas. He didn't read it himself because otherwise I can't imagine he would have gifted it to me. I only went to sleep after I switched the light back on and although 'Caroline' sounds kind of interesting, it also sounds like something which would make me frightened again. Weird as that might sound to you.

[liaku.livejournal.com]

It's not weird at all! I showed the book to my friend, and she freaked out and said it had terrified her when she read it. Gaiman's not the world's best at writing non-creepy books for children, though I think he was channeling the likes of the original Grimm's fairy tales, which were pretty creepy in their own right. He also wrote The Graveyard Book, which is more kid-friendly, but it's still essentially about a boy raised in a graveyard by ghosts.

[greenie1980.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear that! When I wrote that sentence I thought something like 'maybe that's weird for her since she's ten years younger than me and not scared and me old chick would be freaked out by that book, even after reading only a summary of it'. I think that other book really really freaked me out on Wedneday and I felt like not wanting it in my flat anymore, so I came close to just opening the window and throwing it out into the grass (I live on the ground floor of our apartment block). When I watch stuff online these days, I keep returning to the 'Famous Five' series on youtube. I think at the moment I just have a problem (again) with reading/watching people doing stuff to other people. That's maybe also why I enjoy 'Rudolf' quite a bit because it's basically him and to a certain extent Mary who are deciding about things because of circumstances and it's not like the other people around them are pulling the trigger of the gun. In addition, I adore the music for its emotional quality. And now I'm off... have a nice day (?).