Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Cold weather



As I was driving to the Murie Building where I go every day to collect recycling and compost, I felt like my gloves were doing nothing.  My fingertips were numb and painful, and I was overall miserable.  When I got inside, I checked the temperature and it read -44.  So, yes, this is what I would consider cold.  Too cold.


The white part of the doors above is not paint, but rather ice.  The temperature difference (which is probably over one hundred degrees) created ice on the door.  When I went to my doctor's appointment, there was steam coming out of the door because there was a gap in between the doors.

I used to experience a migraine about twice a year in the past starting my sixth grade year, but they started getting really frequent this semester.  For this reason I went to the doctor to try to establish a reason as to why they've occurred much more often than ever before.  She recommended I maintain a journal cataloging everything I do health-wise, such as what I eat, when I go to bed, what I drink in addition to detailing any migraine I end up getting.

Not sure if I should stop experiencing migraines because they're awful or if I should get more so I can try to establish why I get them.

I also need to eat less salt because my BP is high.  I love salt :/

Last week I got an email saying my status in Library Science was changed from waitlisted to added which I correctly took to mean I was in the class.  I was glad because I had waited long enough that I couldn't add any other class, and because this class is a requisite to graduation.  So I am in five classes now. Gracias a Dios.

In my Gwich'in class we had done a worksheet where we were practicing postpositions.  We wrote the sentences on the board.  My sentence was Tryą’ zhee gwizhìt tissue kwaa. (There's no tissue in the bathroom).  Halfway through, unfortunately, I looked at a different sentence's end and wrote it instead of the correct one, and wrote Tryą’ zhee gwizhìt vikèech’agahch’yàa. (They are cooking in the bathroom).

Embarrassing

Monday, January 19, 2015

MLKJ Day or Alaskan Civil Rights Day

Today is the last day of my three day break after just starting college again.  I wish it was sometime in February so that I could have breaks further spread apart, but I'll take what I can.

This semester I hope to take five classes, but one of them is tentative.  I am for sure taking Modern World History, Gwich'in, Language Contact, and Modern English Grammar.  I would like to take Library Science as well as it would get me to fifteen credits and it is a requisite to graduation. Unfortunately, two or three people need to drop the class for there to be enough room for me to join. Is it wrong to hope others give up?

My mom has a student teacher who knows a professor at BSU who is a linguist who does linguistic projects involving refugees.  I am hoping and praying that I can get in on this and have this be a summer project/job.  It would serve as a productive and enjoyable use of my summer and hopefully also an affirmation that linguistics is truly my calling.

While I am thankful that I had Walmart as my job for the last summer, I really am doing all I can to find any other work.  How little I wish to go back there cannot be stressed enough.

So if any prayers in addition to school related supplications could also be directed towards my work during the summer, I would be grateful.

Mahsi' choo.