Myriad of things
Jan. 11th, 2005 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynhefarI realised, toward the end of last semester, that even though I had paid my part, and the College of Liberal Arts had paid their part, of my university health insurance premiums, I had never received my card in the mail. And yes, I should have followed up, but there was a lot of stuff going on and I'd already spent lots and lots of time on the phone trying to get my bill figured out and other such things that I promptly forgot again. This semester I once again paid my half as did the school and I still didn't get a card. So today I checked their website.
I'm not in their database. So technically, right now, even though I've paid, I don't have insurance. Frickin' University miscommunication strikes again.
I figure I'll spend all day tomorrow playing phone tag between the insurance company, the university health center, and the bursar's office trying to get things straightened out.
In other news, I broke down and decided to try and audit the Midieval and Renaissance Women Writers class whose books I was drooling over earlier. I wanted to take it, but was quickly convinced by my advisor that I really should only take one course if I'm planning on doing my thesis and working full time. Today I met with some friends of mine who were in the course and they were all full of glowing reports of the professor and the material to be covered. So I talked to the prof. Technically the course is full, but she said she thinks there's plenty of room for another person in discussions and she has no problem with me auditing the course. And if I'm auditing, I can do the readings and participate in the discussion, but I won't have to worry about papers or projects and if I get down to the wire and can't come to class or finish the readings there won't be any penalty. So I sent an email to the department co-ordinator. Hopefully she can give me an override and let me in. Meanwhile I went ahead and bought the first text we're reading -- The Showings of Julian of Norwich.
The Romantics class also went very well. It's a tiny class -- maybe only about 7 people -- and as part of her introduction to the period she brought in and passed around several original texts. Anyone who lets me drool over (neatly of course) old books in class has my full endorsement. Next week we're having a close discussion of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, particularly focusing on the relationship between the text and the accompanying illuminations. It's all very exciting.
Lots of reading tonight. Likely bureaucratic nightmare tomorrow followed by more reading. Class again on Thursday.
I'm not in their database. So technically, right now, even though I've paid, I don't have insurance. Frickin' University miscommunication strikes again.
I figure I'll spend all day tomorrow playing phone tag between the insurance company, the university health center, and the bursar's office trying to get things straightened out.
In other news, I broke down and decided to try and audit the Midieval and Renaissance Women Writers class whose books I was drooling over earlier. I wanted to take it, but was quickly convinced by my advisor that I really should only take one course if I'm planning on doing my thesis and working full time. Today I met with some friends of mine who were in the course and they were all full of glowing reports of the professor and the material to be covered. So I talked to the prof. Technically the course is full, but she said she thinks there's plenty of room for another person in discussions and she has no problem with me auditing the course. And if I'm auditing, I can do the readings and participate in the discussion, but I won't have to worry about papers or projects and if I get down to the wire and can't come to class or finish the readings there won't be any penalty. So I sent an email to the department co-ordinator. Hopefully she can give me an override and let me in. Meanwhile I went ahead and bought the first text we're reading -- The Showings of Julian of Norwich.
The Romantics class also went very well. It's a tiny class -- maybe only about 7 people -- and as part of her introduction to the period she brought in and passed around several original texts. Anyone who lets me drool over (neatly of course) old books in class has my full endorsement. Next week we're having a close discussion of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, particularly focusing on the relationship between the text and the accompanying illuminations. It's all very exciting.
Lots of reading tonight. Likely bureaucratic nightmare tomorrow followed by more reading. Class again on Thursday.
