I Have New Icons! All Archie-Goodwin-Licious
Matt and I finished around 3:00 a.m., at a staggering 11,000 for word count of the main paper and an additional 3,000 words in the citations.
I have never been so glad to have finished something in my entire life.
Not much else has been going on. Mike, Mary Ann, and I are going to buy a Christmas tree and decorate it tomorrow; I'm going to call Wells Fargo on Monday and get my loan taken care of; I have a few miscellaneous chores to accomplish and have an entire week to myself as Mom and Dad are going on vacation to Florida.
Dad went to the sleep clinic in Floresville last night, and they confirmed that he most definitely has sleep apnea. Moreso, he apparently has not been getting any REM. He was in a much better mood today, and I'm wondering if it's not because they hooked him up to their little machine, so he actually rested. He even offered to buy me a plane ticket to Australia to visit Bianca next year, which is, well, kind of brilliant awesome.
I also had to give a persuasive speech a few weeks ago, and I delivered mine on "Hitchhiking: Why It's a Great Idea". We have to give a similar "call to action" speech this coming Tuesday, and I asked my teacher, "Would it be alright if my topic was, 'You Should Hire Someone to Write Your Papers For You'?"
My teacher cracked up and said, "That's gold." I sent him my outline two days ago and received this email back:
Kitty,
This is outstanding work! One of the best speeches I have ever seen. Let me make a one minor point with the goal creating an immortal speech--provide some research to show how stressful college is to justify what may be considered extreme, unusual action.
I will re-read this being that I was so excited I read the outline very quickly.
Mr Williams
I also checked my grades a while ago and my government teacher already has my "A" down on my unofficial transcript, though it's not even December yet.
The only thing that has not been fantastic is that I have to return an immunizaiton record to UT by December 3; I recieved it two days ago. So yesterday I gave it to my doctor, who returned it unfilled out, so I took it back to her. Today, a nurse dropped it off at 5:30 at the office, and told me I needed a tuberculosis test, and to fill out when I had chicken pox.
I read the thing, and it says "only students born outside of the U.S." need the TB test. Barring that, she also forgot to sign it.
I can't fax it either, so I guess I'm going to have to pay for same-day delivery in order to get it to UT on time.
Frustrating, but do-able.
All in all, things are--
Confound it ... Satisfactory.
--Nero Wolfe, to Archie Goodwin in "The Doorbell Rang"
I have never been so glad to have finished something in my entire life.
Not much else has been going on. Mike, Mary Ann, and I are going to buy a Christmas tree and decorate it tomorrow; I'm going to call Wells Fargo on Monday and get my loan taken care of; I have a few miscellaneous chores to accomplish and have an entire week to myself as Mom and Dad are going on vacation to Florida.
Dad went to the sleep clinic in Floresville last night, and they confirmed that he most definitely has sleep apnea. Moreso, he apparently has not been getting any REM. He was in a much better mood today, and I'm wondering if it's not because they hooked him up to their little machine, so he actually rested. He even offered to buy me a plane ticket to Australia to visit Bianca next year, which is, well, kind of brilliant awesome.
I also had to give a persuasive speech a few weeks ago, and I delivered mine on "Hitchhiking: Why It's a Great Idea". We have to give a similar "call to action" speech this coming Tuesday, and I asked my teacher, "Would it be alright if my topic was, 'You Should Hire Someone to Write Your Papers For You'?"
My teacher cracked up and said, "That's gold." I sent him my outline two days ago and received this email back:
Kitty,
This is outstanding work! One of the best speeches I have ever seen. Let me make a one minor point with the goal creating an immortal speech--provide some research to show how stressful college is to justify what may be considered extreme, unusual action.
I will re-read this being that I was so excited I read the outline very quickly.
Mr Williams
I also checked my grades a while ago and my government teacher already has my "A" down on my unofficial transcript, though it's not even December yet.
The only thing that has not been fantastic is that I have to return an immunizaiton record to UT by December 3; I recieved it two days ago. So yesterday I gave it to my doctor, who returned it unfilled out, so I took it back to her. Today, a nurse dropped it off at 5:30 at the office, and told me I needed a tuberculosis test, and to fill out when I had chicken pox.
I read the thing, and it says "only students born outside of the U.S." need the TB test. Barring that, she also forgot to sign it.
I can't fax it either, so I guess I'm going to have to pay for same-day delivery in order to get it to UT on time.
Frustrating, but do-able.
All in all, things are--
Confound it ... Satisfactory.
--Nero Wolfe, to Archie Goodwin in "The Doorbell Rang"