silva rerum

Surely some revelation is at hand

Today was the last day of classes and, in many ways, it was a little bit sad. Call me a bleed­ing heart but I’ll really miss some of my classes.

It star­ted in CHEM 205 – we gave Dr. Signorell a sound round of applause for her excel­lent teach­ing abil­it­ies. She even cracked a smile today when a girl sneezed rather loudly! I’m going to miss Dr. Signorell – she made CHEM 205 so easy. Why couldn’t she have taught CHEM 233? And CHEM 121 and 123?! Oh well, I con­sider the one com­pet­ent chem­istry pro­fessor I’ve had. Too bad I’m not going into chem­istry, her research with aer­o­sols seems interesting.

Then in ENGL 357, we had sort-​of a wrap-​up class. I don’t think Dr. MacKenzie knows this, but I think he’s a genius at Restoration and Eighteenth Century lit­er­at­ure after hav­ing read some of his schol­arly art­icles. I can’t wait for him to pub­lish his book – it’s pretty cool! Best of all, he writes in a lively style and is really quite witty. Too bad though, I sin­cerely doubt he has a favour­able opin­ion of me!

I skipped PSYC 100 which was fine. PSYC 100 has been the biggest mis­take I ever made at UBC. Even more than POLI 101.

Lastly, in ENGL 348, we went through some final bits about The Tempest and had a few per­form­ances. This class, I’ll miss the most! It’s the only other 2-​semester course I’ve taken (the other being PSYC 100) so I really got to know people in the class (even if they don’t know me). It’s too bad they’re all much older than me – I wanted to get to know them all a bit bet­ter! I’ll really miss Dr. Sirluck’s style of teach­ing – I thought it was really dif­fi­cult in the begin­ning but I warmed up to it quite quickly. I advise every­one to take this course!

Funny how The Tempest ended the course – but I sup­pose it was planned all along. Clever, Dr. Sirluck, I tip my hat to you!

But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands:
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my pro­ject fails,
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
And my end­ing is des­pair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardon’d be,
Let your indul­gence set me free.

After classes ended for the semester (yay!), I went to join in the car­ni­val (ooh I really wanted to com­ment on the Bhaktinian car­ni­val but I felt too much a dork to do so) and par­ti­cip­ated in some fest­iv­it­ies. I was pretty good at the inflat­able Ironman Challenge and Bungee Run, but that was mostly because my oppon­ents weren’t really good. Ha!

Highlight of the day was cer­tainly watch­ing C and C try to joust one another. It was pretty weak, ladies!

All in all a good day. Hope every­one gets home safely from the AMS Block party!

In other news, I’ve recently developed an affin­ity for foun­tain pens and Montblanc is the apex of pens!

One day, when I’m wealthy (or if I find a wealthy bene­factor), I’d really like to be the proud owner of the Montblanc Bohème Bleu pen.

Black resin body inlaid with white gold and a sap­phire, fea­tur­ing a plat­inum nib with the Montblanc logo. ‘Course it costs about $500 so I’ll prob­ably never own it. Oh well, a boy can dream!