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I have decided that watching four episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in one weekend is not healthy. I just watched one about a cult, and there were creepy skeletons and pregnant children with guns. And not enough Christopher Meloni. And how sad is it that I find SVU more traumatic than Oz?
I have accomplished things today! I spent several hours at the library working on a couple assignments for Reference that were only due, oh, about 4 weeks ago. Go me! So I've nearly finished the Reference Questions assignment and the Reference Resources Comparison assignment, except for typing them up. In the process, I decided that anyone who uses actual BOOKS to look things up when the same information is available on the Internets is stupid. I mean, there's Who's Who, for example. Now, before the Internet, I'm sure Who's Who was a very useful resource if you needed to know who someone was and some basic facts about them. Now, though, you can use Marquis Who's Who on the Web, or just Google, so there's no point trekking to the library and hunting down books in which it will be difficult to find things because they don't have search functions. Ditto Encyclopedia Britannica, the Gale Dictionary of Music, the Gale Dictionary of Art, the Oxford English Dictionary, Contemporary Authors, Books in Print, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. So that's what I learned doing these assignments: reference books are stupid. Except for the World Almanac, which I am totally in love with. Every bit of information EVER is in the World Almanac.
I've been worried the past couple of weeks, because I'm so behind in Reference. I don't know how much time I have left, but it's not very much. I really don't want to take an incomplete, because I just want the semester to be over. I didn't know if I really had time to make up all the assignments I've missed, but I think I might be able to now. I hope so, anyway.
Ooh ooh ooh! I also got to try out my new wireless card on a different wireless network! The library has a wireless network, so I got to use my own laptop and access the Internet and everything, which was yay.
I have accomplished things today! I spent several hours at the library working on a couple assignments for Reference that were only due, oh, about 4 weeks ago. Go me! So I've nearly finished the Reference Questions assignment and the Reference Resources Comparison assignment, except for typing them up. In the process, I decided that anyone who uses actual BOOKS to look things up when the same information is available on the Internets is stupid. I mean, there's Who's Who, for example. Now, before the Internet, I'm sure Who's Who was a very useful resource if you needed to know who someone was and some basic facts about them. Now, though, you can use Marquis Who's Who on the Web, or just Google, so there's no point trekking to the library and hunting down books in which it will be difficult to find things because they don't have search functions. Ditto Encyclopedia Britannica, the Gale Dictionary of Music, the Gale Dictionary of Art, the Oxford English Dictionary, Contemporary Authors, Books in Print, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. So that's what I learned doing these assignments: reference books are stupid. Except for the World Almanac, which I am totally in love with. Every bit of information EVER is in the World Almanac.
I've been worried the past couple of weeks, because I'm so behind in Reference. I don't know how much time I have left, but it's not very much. I really don't want to take an incomplete, because I just want the semester to be over. I didn't know if I really had time to make up all the assignments I've missed, but I think I might be able to now. I hope so, anyway.
Ooh ooh ooh! I also got to try out my new wireless card on a different wireless network! The library has a wireless network, so I got to use my own laptop and access the Internet and everything, which was yay.