Time flies
Is the semester half over already? It seems hard to believe, but by Tuesday I’ll have had midterms in all but two of my classes. All of my professors this time around have opted for the midterm-final exam schedule, which I guess is a vague sort of preparation for the your-final-is-your-grade plan I’ll be on in law school.
I’m keeping up with my classes for the most part. I haven’t been quite keeping up with my lab reports, but then again there is a good deal of historical precedent for this. Which, you know, doesn’t excuse me, but knowing that I will never ever do lab research again is not the best motivator for slogging through long, tedious reports for one piddly credit hour. I write the reports well, with all the pretty plots that take hours to debug, but they’re usually two days late.
I’m trying a new “system” for keeping my to-do’s* organized. It’s a barebones version of GTD, and so far it’s helped me get through my months (literally) of unopened mail, at least. So that’s a start.
Spring break next week!
———
* I cringe when I apostrophize a plural, for fear the Eats, Shoots, and Leaves lady will find me, but really it’s the only way to make this word comprehensible on the first try. Surely this is acceptable in English, especially for words ending in vowels, yes?
Tags: school
March 10th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
I have the same issue with those kinds of plurals. I’ve been working with Chicago style on the manuscript I’m editing and they say that if it will make sense as a word, then no apostrophe. If just adding “s” will cause confusion then add the apostrophe.
The only time I absolutely use them is if I have to talk about plural letters (so “a’s , b’s, c’s”) . The aesthetics bother me so much that I tend to personally write “dos and don’ts” and “pros and cons” . The thought of writing “don’t’s” makes me shudder.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Ooh yes, I agree. “Don’t’s” is an abomination.