text, un: bellabelle

[doreimi]

Hey, maybe this is going to sound like kind of a silly question, but — does anybody have any advice for staying focused while studying for exams? I really don't remember it being this hard! I mean...sure, it's been a really long time since I've had to study like this, but it shouldn't be that tough to pick up again, right?

Though I guess I ought to know better than to try to study during Cordis, but...

Well, my plans to study during Sanguis kind of got...interrupted! So now here I am, going over everything, and I keep getting sidetracked by one thing or another. Half the time I want to get up and eat, and then other times I want to lie down and take a nap...ugh!

But I really need to stop letting so much time go to waste. I made a promise to myself that I was going to do this! And I've worked this hard already for months and months, I can't trip at the finish line now!

Jeez, maybe I ought to borrow some catnip from the cafe and sprinkle it on my books, I bet I'd pay attention to them then.

(This is actually my first time being a cat for Cordis — I guess you could say it's pretty im-purr-essive that it hasn't happened before now! Especially what with owning a cat cafe and all. I just wish it weren't so distracting!)

Comments

[tigerpoet]

I fell enough times on the ice to know that my particular variety of ghost can still get cold. But I still had fun.

Among other things. I'm able to teach again - I missed working with students.

[doreimi]

Oh, you mean since being here? People aren't ghosts here, I don't think. I mean, not really. Not the way they are in other places.

What subjects do you teach? I know here the classes are grouped by subject, I think.

[tigerpoet]

Also before. My situation is a little complicated, and 'ghost' might not be the right term.

Languages and literature. I'm fluent in Japanese, Chinese, and English, and I teach students anywhere from college level courses to ones who are still learning to read.

[doreimi]

Oh, wow! That's really neat, it must be fun to know so many languages.

...Complicated how?

[tigerpoet]

It is, yes. It's allowed me to read many wonderful stories.

Let's see... When I was alive, I was a famous author. Because of a threat to literature as a whole, I was transmigrated into a body of ink and magic. So I'm physical and people can see me, but I do still have the memories of a dead person.

[doreimi]

...Into ink and magic? So, like a magic painting?

[tigerpoet]

Magic book, but you have the right idea.