I spent a good five or six hours doing my Arabic homework last night and the night before. I had other things to do, but I couldn't do them in peace until I had finished my Arabic requirements. I was really stressing out about my return to class (I had skipped out on it last Saturday because of sickness), and so I really put the pressure on. In the end, I'm glad I did, because I feel like I got so much out of our class today, and that things are really starting to come together for me. It occured to me today that I actually can read the damn language. Do you know how exciting that is?
So of course I hustled down to the Librarie du monde arabe right after class to buy myself a brand new dictionary. And a new grammar book. It's like Christmas around here.
I'm noticing that there is something bizarrely masochistic in me when I like what I am studying. I mean, I sort of find homework exciting (ok, I really do...) and I have this strange tendency to want more and more of it. Is that ok?
That's why I am excited by my to-do list. It's gotten very, very long. But it's all stuff I'll enjoy doing (or at least 90% of it), and I'll be reading about things I find interesting. Hence how I know I'm an incredible nerd. I'm like, "Ooo... yeah... I have to read all three chapters on semantics by Wednesday? Awesome!" and "Have all the vocab memorized for Arabic by Friday? Yes!" or "Fifteen more syntax exercises? Indeed!"
I'm also supposed to be doing this other project elsewhere, and honestly, it's simple enough (and paid), but I'm having a hard time putting down my homework to get myself to do it. It's homework, people. It's not supposed to be this much fun.
'i can actually read the damn language' ... yeah, i'm getting there with greek, too. it's kinda cool, in an oddly creepy sort of way.