Prepoceros

I am teaching four nights, three in a row. It would’ve been five, thanks to Humberto, but I will be blissfully unavailable on account of a long-scheduled tutoring lesson.

My car is sick. Have I mentioned this? Possibly. It started making a funny noise, and then the check engine light came on. It went into the shop today, and the mechanic said not only did he not hear a noise, but when he drove it around a bit, the check engine light turned off. THERE WAS A NOISE. I am not a hypochondriac about my car. Okay, maybe a little bit, but seriously, it was whirring and clicking. Abnormally.

I had two back-to-back tests this afternoon in Optics and Real Analysis. I thought I’d totally rocked the Optics until I learned a few minutes afterward that I’d made two silly mistakes. This will be the easiest test of the semester by far, so I was hoping for a solid A, boo. Analysis was about as hard as I was expecting, which is to say, pretty tough. The prof threw us a few softballs, though, which is nicer than having to turn in a blank exam. The whole class, even the smart hard-workers, stayed until the bitter end, which raises my hopes for a curve.

As I write this, I’m trying to buy a parking pass through the new UH web services thingamabob. Being new, it is cranky and unfun and takes forever to load, which is how I’ve gotten most of a post done in the meantime. It looks like it wants to let me change the quantity of my parking passes from “0″ to “1″, but there’s nowhere to click. Maybe it works better in Windows. I’ll try again later. I’ve probably jinxed myself into a parking ticket tomorrow just by talking about it.

Why do you even read these posts anymore? They lack wit aforethought—sometimes I decide it’s been too long since I last posted, so I open up an empty box and type things in it. Look, my hair continues to grow! And my fingernails…amazing! I ate food today. I might have pooed, I don’t remember. I still have a dog. I’m still in school. Sometimes I drink tea. Okay, all this makes it sound like I’m in a bad mood, but I’m not! I am happy! Life is good! I’m just not feeling the bliggity-bloggity, knowwhatimean?

Tags: blogging, school, teaching

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