Thursday, October 02, 2003
Mixed bag of blog
Today has fluctuated greatly in terms of goodness and badness. I woke up late and had to drive to school this morning. Naturally, today was the day that I got pulled over for my three-months out-of-date inspection sticker. I expected the cop to give me a citation, and tell me that I had ten days to get it inspected and the ticket waived, blah blah. What I did not know was that with safety inspections there is a 60-day out-of-date limit to receive that waiver. The officer nicely informed me that I had missed the cutoff by one day. I must have looked really pathetic, though, because he was kind enough to fudge the date in order to allow me the option of the 10-day waiver. Thank you, officer.
Class was good, though. My lit professor returned my Emersonian paradox essay. This was quite a nice surprise given that I turned in the paper on Tuesday. Given Dr. Kevorkian's* amazing paper return speed, I expected little in the way of commentary. Wow, was I wrong: my paper was absolutely covered in underlines and scribbles in the margins. Much of his feedback gave me food for thought and good ideas for revisions, and was very positive overall. "Excellent, creative and analytical, complicated and synthesizing, genuinely thought provoking... never out of keeping with the spirit of unfolding mystery; especially fine job of a re-statement conclusion that makes all things new". That's some pretty hefty praise, if you ask me.
Yes, I did write a majority of the paper the night before the due date, in case you're wondering. ;)
My linguistics professor gave us more specific information on our final project, and I think I've narrowed down how I'm going to go about my research and what topic, specifically, I'm going to explore. More on that to come later. Also, first test grades came back. Got an A. I'm pleased.
When I got home things went sour again. I discovered that once AGAIN the internet is doing Bad Things. We've been having loads of connectivity issues lately. Wireless interference, bad routers... all kinds of stuff. Just when we thought we had it fixed, it looks like our router's gone fritzy. Again. It's not the cable modem's fault -- I can directly connect to the modem with no problem, as I'm doing right now -- but we really need the router so both of our computers can have net access. Sigh.
*Yes, my literature professor is really named Dr. Kevorkian. Like with my previous social psychology teacher, I have a hard time addressing this professor by name. I mean, "Dr. Kevorkian, I have a question..." just seems so weird...
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