Ummm... not so much
So that whole "exercise" thing I posted about yesterday? Yeah. Not so much. I had all the best intentions of doing it as soon as I got home, but then I got a quiz back. Yeah, pissed me off. It was a copy-editing quiz and I pretty much bombed. Not because I don't know copy-editing marks, oh no. It was because I, personally, like to leave a bit of the author's own style in the things I edit and not completely bastardize their work to sound like me. Apparently, that was the wrong thing to do. *eyeroll* I am still ridiculously pissed of about it, because the sentences could have been changed in any of one hundred ways, but if you didn't change it to the exact sentence that she wanted, you were f*cked. It's so frustrating. And then! Then, she went off on this rant about how we had the worst bunch of grades ever and that she hoped none of us were going into the editing field because we all sucked at it and stuff. I'm getting angry just thinking about it.
Just took a little break from thinking about this... still angry.Now I'm going to go into editing (not that I wasn't before) and be the best damn editor out there, if only to spite her. Which is petty, I know. Ugh.
And now I'm hungry... I may take an early lunch today. And maybe a long one too. Maybe take a nap. I should be studying right now, 'cause I have a mid-term tonight, but I just can't make myself get too worked up over it. I'm probably going to bomb, but right now I just don't care. I've got too many other things going on in my life right now. My health is kind of going down the tubes, and that's just a teeny bit more important than school. Well, okay. That was a bit of an exaggeration. I'm not dying or anything, just having to deal with some stuff that no 20 (almost 21!) year-old should have to deal with. And I know I'm whining, which is what I spent a big chunk of yesterday bitching about, but hey, "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." ;)
Just took a little break from thinking about this... still angry.Now I'm going to go into editing (not that I wasn't before) and be the best damn editor out there, if only to spite her. Which is petty, I know. Ugh.
And now I'm hungry... I may take an early lunch today. And maybe a long one too. Maybe take a nap. I should be studying right now, 'cause I have a mid-term tonight, but I just can't make myself get too worked up over it. I'm probably going to bomb, but right now I just don't care. I've got too many other things going on in my life right now. My health is kind of going down the tubes, and that's just a teeny bit more important than school. Well, okay. That was a bit of an exaggeration. I'm not dying or anything, just having to deal with some stuff that no 20 (almost 21!) year-old should have to deal with. And I know I'm whining, which is what I spent a big chunk of yesterday bitching about, but hey, "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." ;)