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I fail at being a third-year. I forgot to make life easy for myself. Oh, well.
Anyway, this was actually a fairly good week. I did all my work, and I got to spend last weekend in Philly with Josh and my friends. I went to Joe's birthday party on Saturday, where I got to see some people I haven't seen in years--that was a lot of fun! Cate and I had fun road-tripping and gossiping, too.
Today, some of my friends from the Christian Legal Society and I went out to Butterfield 9 for lunch. They have an extended Restaurant Week, so each person got three courses of gourmet food for $20.08. I had longneck squash soup, seared salmon, and pistachio financier with white chocolate foam. Oooo, it was so good!
Speaking of food, I'm going to try to start sharing more about what I'm cooking these days. I got the ReBar Modern Food Cookbook (as previously pimped by Regan) last week, and there's a lot of potential yumminess there. I was away all weekend, so I didn't get to play too much yet, but I made soy and basil marinated tofu to replace chicken in my stir-fry, and it was really good. Being the little lawyer girl that I am, I will never copy a recipe from a cookbook and post it on the internet, but maybe I'll share my stir-fry recipe some day, since it's mostly my invention. I need to start using measuring cups if I'm going to do that, though >_> Anyway, on Sunday I'm going to make the chocolate peanut butter bars from ReBar for when Josh comes on Monday, so I'll let you all know how those turn out. I plan to make some tortillas late next week as well.
I got one more grade this week, for Copyrights. I thought I didn't do so well on the final, but I guess no one else did either o.O That's just how the curve works! So, my GPA this semester = pretty darn good. I'm waiting on two more grades, but one's pass/fail and the other is from being a TA, and it's an automatic A.
But speaking of grading, I got the reviews my students wrote about me. They weren't BAD, but me being me, they've slightly upset me to the point that I'm scared to grade the projects my new students just turned in. The thing is, I've talked about the comments to a couple people, and they uniformly agree with me that people were just bitching because they wanted higher grades, but still. I thought everyone liked me :( But seriously, there is NO WAY I'm marking every grammatical error in a paper. People need to take some responsibility for their own editing. Besides, a real senior partner wouldn't mark ANY errors--he'd simply throw the paper back at them and tell them to learn grammar. Anyway, yeah, I am not a future teacher. I really like helping people learn, but I have no tolerance for complaints. Which is extra funny when you consider how many times I've argued about grades with my own teachers . . . *lol*
Okay, I've screwed around for like four hours. I need to WORK now. An article to edit, papers to grade, performance evaluations to write, resumes to send out . . . whew.
Anyway, this was actually a fairly good week. I did all my work, and I got to spend last weekend in Philly with Josh and my friends. I went to Joe's birthday party on Saturday, where I got to see some people I haven't seen in years--that was a lot of fun! Cate and I had fun road-tripping and gossiping, too.
Today, some of my friends from the Christian Legal Society and I went out to Butterfield 9 for lunch. They have an extended Restaurant Week, so each person got three courses of gourmet food for $20.08. I had longneck squash soup, seared salmon, and pistachio financier with white chocolate foam. Oooo, it was so good!
Speaking of food, I'm going to try to start sharing more about what I'm cooking these days. I got the ReBar Modern Food Cookbook (as previously pimped by Regan) last week, and there's a lot of potential yumminess there. I was away all weekend, so I didn't get to play too much yet, but I made soy and basil marinated tofu to replace chicken in my stir-fry, and it was really good. Being the little lawyer girl that I am, I will never copy a recipe from a cookbook and post it on the internet, but maybe I'll share my stir-fry recipe some day, since it's mostly my invention. I need to start using measuring cups if I'm going to do that, though >_> Anyway, on Sunday I'm going to make the chocolate peanut butter bars from ReBar for when Josh comes on Monday, so I'll let you all know how those turn out. I plan to make some tortillas late next week as well.
I got one more grade this week, for Copyrights. I thought I didn't do so well on the final, but I guess no one else did either o.O That's just how the curve works! So, my GPA this semester = pretty darn good. I'm waiting on two more grades, but one's pass/fail and the other is from being a TA, and it's an automatic A.
But speaking of grading, I got the reviews my students wrote about me. They weren't BAD, but me being me, they've slightly upset me to the point that I'm scared to grade the projects my new students just turned in. The thing is, I've talked about the comments to a couple people, and they uniformly agree with me that people were just bitching because they wanted higher grades, but still. I thought everyone liked me :( But seriously, there is NO WAY I'm marking every grammatical error in a paper. People need to take some responsibility for their own editing. Besides, a real senior partner wouldn't mark ANY errors--he'd simply throw the paper back at them and tell them to learn grammar. Anyway, yeah, I am not a future teacher. I really like helping people learn, but I have no tolerance for complaints. Which is extra funny when you consider how many times I've argued about grades with my own teachers . . . *lol*
Okay, I've screwed around for like four hours. I need to WORK now. An article to edit, papers to grade, performance evaluations to write, resumes to send out . . . whew.