migblog

as for the first week of the new semester, it's turning out to be so awesome, it's unbelievable. no hassles, no snags with my schedule, no hang-ups, no crappy GSIs or crappy classes. i'm enjoying each and every minute of being a true blue cal student. it's great.

my spanish professor is the coolest professor ever. he talks all weird and has a cuban accent, i think, and he has this low, guttural voice that makes you just listen to whatever it is that he's saying. it's fun, he's the head of my spanish seminar, and when we talked about ian fleming and james bond he just went off for five minutes about how james bond "always got the living shit kicked out of him in every fucking novel" and how hollywood overdramatized and glamorized everything.

my portuguese GSIs, cesar and valeria, are both from brazil. they speak decent english, but it's so cute how they talk with their brazilian accents and try to teach a class of about nineteen or twenty people how to say "hello my name is and this is how you spell it thank you" in all of five minutes. it's refreshing learning something new everyday, something practical. like, people in brazil and portugal would never be able to get by without this language.

professor presti, my MCB lecturer, is awesome. we watched 2001: a space odyssey to open our first lecture, and during the second lecture he brought in a brain and showed everyone the lovely dregs of alcohol dripping from the cerebral cortex. it was fantastilicious.

and of course, our dear band director bob is heading the wind ensemble for china. it's cool that we're doing it, really, i mean visualizing a cal band trip is insane, but i think bob will be a huge help and a nice big factor in all of this. bob's cool. bob's... BOB.

little by little you appreciate things more and more. roommates grow on you, berkeley grows on you, being alive grows on you. you take things for granted, and then you realize that it's not really that hegemonic at all. it's nice to get scared and feel insecure every once in a while. it keeps you on your toes.

and now it's time to smile.

posted by Open Source Food @ 12:09 AM