-18-
I'm going to go on hiatus. Blogger keeps eating my entries, and I don't have the patience to continuously rewrite them and hope that they aren't eaten, so, y'know.
That's the plan.
Expect my return when I am not upset at the Google empire anymore.
That may take a while.
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Papers due today! Hurrah!
No, that enthusiasm was most certainly fake. But I finished around three pages, which I felt was pretty decent. We didn't really get a chance to go over them in class at all, so we'll have to do it for homework. That's okay. I can make time, je pense.
But. I had something to say, and now I don't recall.
What a shame.
Ooh! Note to self: remember to e-mail Professor Schacht with the link to Snoopy. Perhaps do some research or something. I'd like to bring in my CD from home when I go on Thanksgiving break, that would be lovely. Oh, how I heart Snoopy & His Friends. The CD is nothing compared to the old album, honestly. But I really don't think this high-tech school is going to have a record player lying about anywhere nearby.
That's a lie. It's right over there, on the other side of the library, actually. By the CDs. But I wouldn't want to bring Daddy's album in, I'd be afraid of hurting it, and then he wouldn't have it for Christmas, which would just be a sad thing.
/end speaking
-16-
Oh, goodness.
I don't really have anything to write about this week.
I feel as though I never really do.
'Cause you know, blogging for a class is somewhat difficult. How much can you write about Christmas and Nissenbaum, honestly? I know that there are other things to write about, that still somewhat concern themselves with the class, but I have no idea what those things are.
If someone would care to inform me, that would be lovely.
So... fourth paper. This should prove interesting. I'm a bit nervous, it seems like it's going to be very hard. I mean, we have to search out this article, recall Nissenbaum, use quotes from both, cite them, and so on and so forth. A real paper, y'know?
Fortunately, we don't have to write the entire paper for Friday. Very handy. It's more, "get a start, see where you can go, get some comments, and finish it for next week." Which is wonderful, because it gives me a bit more time to do fun college things, like sleeping.
The annoying part, though? I do my best work the night before. I can't go a week before hand, write a paper, read it, fix it, and have some crazy revised version done for the final due date. Nope, twelve hours before the paper's due, that's when it gets started. Perhaps it's the pressure? I'm not quite sure. Sometimes I wish that I could be like my roommate, write my papers four days before they're due, so that they're out of the way.
Buuut yeah. So, tomorrow night, I'll start. Write a few pages, toss in some MLA, find an article on
Harper's. Reread the Nissenbaum, make up a thesis, etc, etc. It'll be a good time. Hopefully, I'll be done by around ten. That would be ideal.
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So.
The wiki was due today.
I hope we get good grades on that.
I mean, I'm still not quite sure how exactly he's going to grade them, y'know? Do we get individual grades, based on how much exactly we contributed? Or is it more, "Everyone who worked on this gets an A-, because _____." I'd rather it was the latter, because while I myself didn't contribute that much material, I helped organize and fix mistakes to make the wiki as a whole better for a reader.
So, you know. That concerns me a bit.
But whatever. I'm sure that he'll be fair with everything that he does.
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I don't really have anything to write about this week.
I think I'm going to go on hiatus until next week, so that I can write about the next paper, and things of that sort.
So, until then.
-13-
Will someone please tell me why the world is so cold?
And why my dorm room has no heat?
*looks sad*
We're barely into October, and I'm already sitting here with like, seven layers of clothing and blankets. A bit ridiculous, if you ask me. I'd be fine with it if there were just cause for the cold, like some f'ing SNOW, but no! It's just plain cold for the fun of it! I will get you, Mr. Winter.
Anyway, now that I'm done with my random rant o' the day.
The Wiki upsets me.
I feel that it is quite redundant.
And I made some changes to it, and then someone changed them back. And I'm like, "Excuse me? What is this crap?" I was fixing some spelling and grammar and such, after I'd updated with some content, and a while later, I looked back, and some of the things I'd fixed, were changed back. And it was things I knew were wrong. It's not like I didn't save it properly or anything, either.
That upset me a bit.
So yeah, this weekend I'm hopefully going to try to help out with that, make it less redundant some, maybe organize it a bit better. I need to add some more content, which is proving hard since most of it is already filled in, and the things that aren't, I don't know about. I just don't want to get a bad grade, y'know?
... My nose is cold.
-12-
Meh. Alright, so, I've decided to do the Wiki. Yes, yes, I know. I feel like a sheep. But he keeps pressuring it in class, and I swear, that's the only reason that the other papers are so hard. He's purposely steering us towards the Wiki, methinks.
Like in class today. During our discussion, 90% of class was spent talking about how to make changes to the Wiki, how to put in links, how to do this and that and the other thing. Absolutely nothing about the other papers. It was, "Oh, does anyone have any questions about the other two topics? No? Okay, we'll talk about the Wiki some more then!"
But you know? That's alright. I understand it's something new that he as a teacher wants to try. And it was such a sneaky way of making us all work on it. He basically made us, without ever coming out and saying, "Alright guys, we're all going to make this Wiki, and yay for that!"
Very sneaky.
-11-
So. The topics for the next essay are not so enjoyable.
It's either, "Write one of these two REALLY HARD papers, or write in my online wiki!"
I think Schacht's trying to tell us something... ^_^
I mean, I'd rather not do the wiki. I don't really understand how it's going to be graded, and I'm not the biggest fan of working with other people [unless I know how they work and it fits well with my style]. But the other papers are just so damn hard. And that would mean I'd have to go back and reread all the eRes stuff, and chapter 2 of Nissenbaum. And I'm not so sure I'm really up for all that work.
*shakes a fist*
You and your evil papers!
I shall smite them, with my fist o' doom.
-10-
I do believe that Seth and I are taking a trip back to Dollar Tree this weekend, to take some pictures of all the Christmas items. I know how excited you all must be for that, so keep on the lookout. Yay for pictures. I need to get myself a digital camera so that I can take cool pictures once winter comes, I love snow pictures . I use them as my desktop pictures.
Except this cold weather is not a good time. See, the best time is when there's snow on the ground, but there's still sun shining. The light reflects off the glistening snow, making it look like there are diamonds sprinkled throughout the white powder. Just absolutely gorgeous. Days like that, you get up in the morning, look out the window, and it's breathtaking. The freshly fallen snow, completely untouched by footprints, wind, or anything else... and you can't help but stare.
Absolutely perfect.
