Gonzai Gallery

Somehow. Didn't get much done this week class-wise other than the polling (THANKS FLIST! You rock!) but managed to keep the DVR from overflowing. And it could have been worse - a co-worker was married this afternoon, but only invited the boss to the wedding. Thusly, I avoided a traditional Catholic wedding with full Mass, plus got an afternoon of no-boss-in-office. CJ didn't destroy anything. So, basically, I treaded water. Phew.

Short shots.

The WTMD countdown rolls on. It's interesting how as you go higher in the countdown, the songs get older. There were a lot of post-2000 songs in the first hundred, but now that we're in the 100-200 range it's mostly 70's. And given what we haven't heard yet, the top 100 will be heavily 60s.

FINALLY got CJ's new crate. Had to vacuum the whole upstairs, put down a chair mat I bought Tuesday (cost to refit CJ's daytime home: $120 and counting), tore down the old crate and built the new one. Owies for me. Last night, at least, no damage done.

Speaking of owies, went to the dentist yesterday. I have one lonely wisdom tooth that doesn't bother me. Until yesterday, when the dentist said it had 3 cavities in it. He shot it up with novocaine, of course, and the right side of my face is very sore and achy today.

I. HATE. STINK. BUGS. Self-explanatory.

Made a new friend at the ferret demo Monday. His name is Blaze, he is a 4 year old silver hob, and he likes me. Everytime he saw me, he went into ferret 'pick me up! pick me up!' mode. I obliged him several times :) Squirmy fellow, Blaze is, but very friendly. I wanna ferret! (I know, I know, and I'm realistic enough to know I don't have the time or money for another pet now. But doggone it, someday, I want ferrets.)

Oh, yeah. Passed the class. Section 2 starts Monday.

I wish the instructor had told us to bring a laptop or other such device tonight. I just handwrote a few thousand words, with my gimpy hand. And that's half of what I was supposed to write, I used shorthand, left out prepositions and often just plain skipped it. Today was anatomy day so most of the material was stuff I learned in high school biology; throw in college biology and anatomy and why was I here tonight? Oh yeah, to total my hand. Icing it well before bedtime.

On the other hand, we were given a quiz last week. If you got less than 70%, you failed. And had to stay late to conference with the instructor. I had a 95%, so the second class was over I boogied. But of the 10 people in the class...only 3 others left. 60% failure rate? Seriously? And while I don't think I failed today's quiz, I didn't do as well, either. I studied the notes from last week; she quizzed on us on two weeks ago. Feh. So if I just did OK...ouch for my classmates.

My veterinary assistant class? We're supposed to do online work, mostly consisting of having discussions with each other on a (very poorly designed) discussion board. After 5 days, a whopping 2 of us bothered to post there, myself and the only other over-30 student. My 500 word post was rejected by the course instructor as unacceptable. Why? I used a word she believes doesn't exist. 'Sans'. Yes, she rejected one of two students who bothered doing the assignment because the student used a Latin word, correctly I might add.

I'm not feeling optimistic.

Definitely, no gaming tomorrow. Not after another 8 hours of it today. Although I played rather well last night and today, with a rare win in Stone Age and a lot of high finishes. Tomorrow will be football and catching up on television before I start the classes Monday and put myself behind the time-eight ball.