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beccaelizabethToday was filled with yaay. I went to college, I took my new computer, I made it talk for the video, new helpful college off course support person of still-uncertain function read over my essay and said it was good and found two things that needed tweaking (punctuation and a doubled word), I found I hadn't got the stickers you have to put on essays but discovered it is right easy to get new ones so that was okay, and then I handed in the essay.
Then I went to the library and got a Dummies book about Microsoft Office, because apparently I'm going to be using that now so I should find out what it does.
I mean I know it does typing but it keeps doing things I didn't want it to do.
I like Open Office. It does what I expect. Also it saves things as pdf files, and those are the ones I can make speak so far, so it's just annoying when I can't figure out how to edit them on the computers available.
Now I'm all smiles and sunshine, because I handed an essay in.
The actual lesson was about really depressing poetry about dead people and war, WWII and Northern Ireland, and those peat bog bodies.
Why can't we stick to studying the trying-to-get-laid sort of poems? Much less blah.
But I used my new bubble diagram maker to do the notes on it. I, er, possibly didn't contribute a whole lot to the group discussion, but then I was fairly certain they were haring off in a wrong direction and kind of gave up on getting them refocused. I mean it's not *wrong* per se to say that the poem makes you think of black slaves in the Southern USA, but I was pretty sure it was incorrect to say that was what the poet was *writing* about, on account of I knew a tiny bit about him. Also we weren't doing contexts, we were doing themes, so we needed to be pulling words into columns and stuff.
Anyway.
Group working = lose. I've decided. Because I am obviously = win all on my own. :eyeroll:
Today I also discovered that the cafe bit under the classroom sells single slices of bread. For 10p each. That's a freaky expensive loaf of bread. Yet still the cheapest available way to settle my stomach.
Then I went to the library and got a Dummies book about Microsoft Office, because apparently I'm going to be using that now so I should find out what it does.
I mean I know it does typing but it keeps doing things I didn't want it to do.
I like Open Office. It does what I expect. Also it saves things as pdf files, and those are the ones I can make speak so far, so it's just annoying when I can't figure out how to edit them on the computers available.
Now I'm all smiles and sunshine, because I handed an essay in.
The actual lesson was about really depressing poetry about dead people and war, WWII and Northern Ireland, and those peat bog bodies.
Why can't we stick to studying the trying-to-get-laid sort of poems? Much less blah.
But I used my new bubble diagram maker to do the notes on it. I, er, possibly didn't contribute a whole lot to the group discussion, but then I was fairly certain they were haring off in a wrong direction and kind of gave up on getting them refocused. I mean it's not *wrong* per se to say that the poem makes you think of black slaves in the Southern USA, but I was pretty sure it was incorrect to say that was what the poet was *writing* about, on account of I knew a tiny bit about him. Also we weren't doing contexts, we were doing themes, so we needed to be pulling words into columns and stuff.
Anyway.
Group working = lose. I've decided. Because I am obviously = win all on my own. :eyeroll:
Today I also discovered that the cafe bit under the classroom sells single slices of bread. For 10p each. That's a freaky expensive loaf of bread. Yet still the cheapest available way to settle my stomach.
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Date: 2007-03-27 04:24 pm (UTC)That observation almost made me spit-take all over my monitor. ;)
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Date: 2007-03-28 11:44 am (UTC)