ladyluckless

One of the most annoying features of web courses is the tendency to have multiple listed due dates for assignments. While going through one of my classes today I found something that I thought was due in a few days but in reality was due tonight. Thank heavens I noticed and manged to type it up.

Another thing I'm having an issue with is being repeatedly asked, "why do you think X relates to this course?" My natural response is to say, "because it says so on the syllabus," which doesn't come near the 300 or so words that the professor wants. It also probably doesn't show that I put deep thought into the issue at hand. Of course I'm not in the habit of putting deep thought into things that should be self evident. I prefer that my inner monologue focuses on something a bit more interesting than answering the "why do you think thing-that-obviously-correlates-to-course-topic, has a relation to course?" question. The assignment that I just turned in might as well have been "Why do you think the study of William Shakespeare relates to a class on Shakespeare?"

At least it's better than explaining that a greater understanding of the universe can be attained through the study of Indian Dance. Or Indian percussion. Or Indian temples. Or really obscure Indian art form here. You know, like I was doing all last semester.

There is something wrong with how you have set up your class if it take me six hours of reading to get through your module. Seriously, 450 pages, ten point font, single spaced for 10 multiple choice questions taken in ten minutes "to prevent cheating". . . No.

Only 24 more pages to write until the end of the semester! I am so insanely happy about this. Everything else is multiple guess tests, stupid yet easy group discussion and extra credit. Wheee, it’s almost over!

My game systems and I shall soon be reunited!

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.