I'm a disease factory

I really, really hate being sick, which is unfortunate because I seem to spend a lot of my time in less than perfect health. Seriously, what the crap is wrong with me?

Yeah, not only did I get the early ITS death plague that was going around two weeks ago, I seem to have gotten something else. Fortunately sleep managed to aid me in recovering from that misery (19 hours of sleep in the past 24) and I’m feeling much better. But I’m sick of being sick.

In other, less whiny news I got my Shakespeare paper back from Dr. Reser. I managed to get an A- on it which is something I’m quite proud of considering 1) I wrote it under time constraints because I’m a procrastinating moron 2) I kept getting interrupted by people who wanted to talk to me right that very instant, some of whom I don’t even know 3) Dr. Reser is notorious for being a tough grader and doesn’t go above the A- mark unless he feels you’ve written something really good. Needless to say getting a paper back from him with positive commentary on it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. It’s always nice to get outside confirmation from someone I know that is objective that I do, in fact, do something other than play video games well.

This weekend was full of good times. I put off doing my homework for my popular literature class until the last minute again. I did the readings for it earlier in the week, but since he doesn’t put his quizzes up until Friday and the rest of the class refuses to post until the weekend (hence I can’t comment on their posts) and are increasingly posting after the assignment is due I find it really hard to be motivated to do crap for that class early. That and the stuff is really easy. Even so, I’m not sure how he grades out postings as he doesn’t have very specific criteria and my grades seem to have been randomly assigned in some cases; out of the weeks we’ve had class I’ve gotten several postings with full credit and a few that have one point knocked off for some reason. I’ve tried comparing the postings to see if I made a slew of errors or something but so far it remains a mystery.

My sister managed to get bit by my rat on Sunday evening. I’m not sure what she did to provoke poor Epsilon to attack like that, as she’s really a very sweet mild mannered rat that in most cases wouldn’t be interested enough in you to bite you. She would much rather explore the places she is not allowed to go. Amy has decided to leave my rats alone for the time being, which is probably a good call on her part.

Grr

I got to read the article that Ko wrote about American students who were/are studying Japanese. It was . . . rather poorly written. Especially considering the fact that I was misquoted. Seriously people if you are going to summarize a direct quote you need to not use quotation marks. Also, one must keep in mind the power of ellipses and proper grammar. Fact checking is also a plus.

I don’t know if it’s because I’m an English major or what but I tend to get really annoyed about certain glaring grammatical errors. Especially when I’m not allowed to fix the darned things. And more especially when they are present in things that are being attributed to me, even more especially when you tell me you can’t understand what I said on the recoding of me answering your question and so ask me to type it all out and even then manage to screw up my nice, pretty grammatically correct sentences. At least the darn thing is not going to be published, because then I would be really upset.

I offered to edit things of his in the future, and he turned me down because he thinks he is fully capable of editing his own articles and isn’t sure I could do it. Seriously, this is something I’ve been offered money for in the past; I think it is something I do rather well.
I suppose it will save me time and effort and all that but I really enjoy fixing up other people’s work. I like it even more when they understand the reason behind the changes I feel are necessary, which is why I always explain them in great detail. ~sigh~