This effectively sums up a number of things: 1) The weather this morning. Rainy and cold. This doesn't look like Easter. 2) Samantha's attitude towards the world this morning. 3) My attitude towards the world this morning. 4) My attitude towards all things school related last week. And I don't really have the energy to address any of these in any semblence of a sensible order. You have been warned.
Clearly I'm ready for spring/summer. This cold and rainy was getting old in December -- it's far past getting old now. Summer also means I won't be taking four classes at once. I really appreciate SLIS footing the bill for 30 credits of my tuition, but they could have spread it over two years instead of one. So I can spend my time rollerblading and playing frisbee and reading for pleasure instead of destroying my eyesight staring at a computer for 10 hours a day. Thankfully, this blissful time will be upon me in a month or so -- the spring semester is over the first week of May. It couldn't come soon enough.
In between now and then, I need to do four final projects. Guh. Whatever happened to final tests? They were much easier to deal with. If anyone out there wants to 1) build an Access database 2) research speech recognition using advanced information retrieval skills and reflect on it 3) write a paper about proteomics databases or 4) whatever the hell my Coll Dev professor is going to throw at us, please let me know.
I mostly ignored my schoolwork this past week. I fear I will do the same this week. I'm going to try and counteract that this morning -- be sure to check in and see how I do. In other news:
- School stuff. Blah. Frustrated by Access and intrigued by Entrez.
- Easter was yesterday, for those of you who aren't familiar with a little-known religious sect called Christianity. This means Lent is over, and I am free to have spontaneous desserts again. I'm sure my waistline will thank me.
- Had a wonderful bout with dizziness on Saturday while doing my taxes. Unrelated? I doubt it. Actually, it probably had more to do with what I had eaten that day (a bowl of cereal early, two pepperoni breadsticks at the mall food court at 1 pm. This happened about 3:30 pm).
- But I did get my taxes done. I had to file in Minnesota and Indiana. That was no fun, let me tell you. But I think they're even accepted already. Come to me, sweet tax refund...
- I watched a very long but rather interesting TV miniseries called The 10th Kingdom over the weekend. A kind of modern fairy tale starring Kimberly Williams (from Father of the Bride) and John Laroquette. I couldn't get Laroquette's character from Night Court out of my head for a while. But it was really entertaining and lots of fun. And made me want to read Fables again. Ooh, Monroe Public has volumes 1-3... hee...
- Baseball is just around the corner! Whee! The Twins are whittling down their team for the Opening Day roster... exciting stuff. On a sad note -- Bob Casey died over the weekend. He was the announcer for Twins baseball for 40 years -- at old Met Stadium and then at the Metrodome. Truly a sad day for Minnesota baseball fans.
Bah! Enough tomfoolery. Off to keep my nose to the grindstone, as my dad would say. Peace!