Got my grades

I picked up my essays from last semester. They both got 67% :-)

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I've been trying to get all my college grades in one place, because they vanished off the eILP page where they're supposed to live due to a change in course codes. College admin, got to love it. My tutor is on it, has asked them, will fix. A photocopy of a print out of what used to be on there gave us most of the numbers. I can put what I've got so far in here:

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The thing I find frustrating is I am not, as far as I can see, getting better. I am getting the same in more areas. I can live with that, but it's like with my thinking one essay was worse than the other, I can't tell what is better, and I can't see how to improve. Teachers have explained it but I think I'm applying it and still get the same comments. But mum has pointed out that if the usual difference is between 67 and 73, and even the outliers are 63 and 77, I possibly can't tell the difference because there is in fact not that much difference, even if it do cross a grade boundary. It just always feels like a horrible great difference and like this time has gone horribly wrong.

I can tell that I do best in units I love (Doctor Who, Hamlet in the Renaissance) and rather less well in units I absolutely cannot stand (Modernism, hiss spit). Also Intro Movies had the average pulled down rather by the essay I wrote right before Grandma's funeral, where I expressed the opinion Russian movies need more zombies. ... I stand by that conclusion, but there's a time and a place...

I like the studying parts of college, but the parts where I prove that I have done studying, that's rather less fun.

Bollywood sparkle dancing again

We learned a new dance :-)
I got boiled and stripped. Well, took my leggings off so I only had my dress left.
... I have not had occasion to notice for some years, but my legs is sort of wolfy.

We learned a dance that is for showing on stages and involves dancing your way onto the stage. In two lines. That end up staggered so you can see everyone.
... I do not think I will be doing dancing in front of people any time soon.
... well, at conventions, but that's different, is not on stage.

I like learning new, makes for sense of achievement.
I have discovered my learning dances is mostly about learning which bits my bits won't do and working around them. Like if my ankles won't do as much twist and bounce as required, just leave my feets where they are and bounce other parts.
We also learned a move that felt all kinds of awkward and I'm sure looks ridiculous where you sort of lean back and spin in a circle while making your hands do the crazy brain circles, only further forward. All the parts seem quite weird. Then I realised, 'invisible seal ball!' and it all made sense.
... teacher liked the name. Is keeping it.
... it's like you're spinning a big beach ball on your nose. I still think it looks silly.

I like dancing. I even like dancing at the end of the day after doing studying and library. Win.

... most of my bending parts like slightly less dancing. If I keep doing this every week maybe they'll get used to it...