...but pessimism is entertaining...
Here's an update on those Scottish girls... They came over last night,
and had baked me muffins in return for breaking my bed. They were good
muffins. We're all going out tonight for St. Patrick's day... I just
thought I'd share that. :]
So I realize that almost all of what I post on this site has a generally
negative overtone related to my experience here. I want it to be known
that the positive experiences far outweigh any negative effects that a
person might read about... they're just not any fun to write down.
That said, do any of you have ANY idea how badly these professors here
need to take a friggin course on HANDWRITING? I mean, it's seriously
ridiculous. I had a hard enough time reading Frau Schulz for the first
three months, then I get here and I'd be willing to swear that she's the
patron saint of good handwriting.
Yesterday, in the first meeting of my Artificial Intelligence class, I
made the mistake of sitting in the back. (The classroom was fairly
full all the way to the front.) BAD MOVE. I have no less than 50 "?'s"
(usually coupled with various explitives) throughout my notes, delimiting
the fact that I had NO FRIGGIN IDEA what the professor had written on the
board. It came to pass that I had to attend an extra session of that
class that day, so the next time I sat dead center, first row.
EVEN THEN, being able to hear him say the words as he wrote them, I STILL
had probably 8 "?'s" (although no explitives this time). I mean, I could
literally piss more intelligible patterns into a quickly flowing
river.
Ok, rant = finished. In other news, I bought a plant yesterday. I've
decided that my plant is female, that way I don't have to feel bad about
undressing in front of "her". "Her" name is Grizzelda, in case you were
wondering, but that has nothing to do with what kind of plant "she" is. I
just figured that was a good name for a plant if ever I've heard
one. I mean, how often do you hear about a plant named "Gladyce"
being used for anything besides salad? Grizzelda could easily be the
name of some government engineering project gone wrong. She could
have poison gas leaves, and the capability of shooting "plant mind
bullets" at yacks 300 yards away. On second thought, maybe I should start
changing in the bathroom.
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