A Morning's Routine

In my first proper post, I might as well give an idea of my daily life.
So, here goes . . .

Last evening I went to sleep at perhaps 11:30 after reading a rather disturbing nineteenth-century novel on gutenberg.org, entitled A Romance of Two Worlds. It wasn't darkly weird, so I fortunately didn't have any nightmares. But, among other things, it's interesting to see how pagan the "Christianity" in it really is. Anyway, as my bed-time music I was listening to a CD with Seven Variations on "Bei Maennern . . ." by Beethoven, a Sonata for piano and violin No. 6 in A also by Beethoven, and Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581, as recorded at the Casals Festival at Prades. It's very good music to go to sleep on; I really like all three works, and they're more or less peaceful.

This morning I woke up at about 8:00 first. The thing is that I have a Macroeconomics tutorial at 9:00. Yesterday I told myself: if you wake up before 8:50, it's probably a sign (yes, I am superstitious) that you should go to the tutorial. But I was too tired when I woke up at the allotted time; even the banging doors and passage of people in the hall of my floor didn't rouse me properly. So I went back to sleep and woke up again at roughly 9:05.

The problem with the tutorial, by the way, is that we have to hand in a sheetful of answers to questions from our study guide every week. First of all, I was in doubts as to precisely what to do for a long time, because we have the answers right there in our study guide anyway. But I guess now that the point is to see if we've taken a look at the questions at all. Secondly, it's impossible to answer the questions properly only based on the Macroeconomics (ECON 102, I think) lecture, of which I only understand 1/3 at best anyway. So I would have to go through the whole chapter of the textbook where, at my best, I can only slowly grasp about 2/3 of the information anyway. (Note: I don't know if I'm seriously stupid or if the textbook and professor do explain things badly. I should also mention that, if I had declared a major already, it would be in English, so Economics is really a foreign field for me.) I've gone to only three of the tutorials in the whole term.

Fortunately I don't have other classes today. So I've already played on the piano -- Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and more Mozart; I'll go into detail some other time --, had breakfast, made my bed, and looked up certain things on the Internet. One of the things on the Internet I looked up is the profiles and blogs of people with similar interests to mine. I'm glad my blog is not really open to the browsing public, because that will hopefully spare me the spam-comments.

Now I need to research and write an essay for my History course (120) about German and English Romanticism that I've said I would hand in tomorrow. The teaching assistant was very nice about it, and said that he wouldn't take marks off for lateness as long as I kept him up-to-date. The professor is also very nice about lateness himself; the late penalty is only 1% per day. So I feel obliged to do my best and to fulfill my word as to when I am handing the essay in. I'll probably need to visit the library again later today, and incidentally also pay $16 in late fees . . . Which reminds me that I also need to renew several other books. So much work!

Anyway, I might post again later today, but for now I'm content.

P.S.: Thanks for Grimsly's "constructive" criticism -- hehehe.