class and computer
Well, I have been busy (only sort of) with my class for the first summer term: Caribbean History. Man, talk about tainting the enjoyment of things; we've focused on the slave trade and sugar, then I just wrote a paper Monday (in two hours before it was due!) on race and labour in Central America, which was on banana plantations in Costa Rica.
We also learned that fictitious (as in, the author didn't even do actual research before she wrote the book) slave owners in the American south had absolutely nothing on the cruelty and sadism of the sugar plantation slave masters in the Caribbean. We read an excerpt from a slave owner's diary (in exhaustive detail, including every single sexual encounter) and it was so gruesome I had to quit reading. But the class is still really interesting. It's almost over, though, and then I have another class next summer term, which is also a depressing history class on something to do with the Holocaust. Why oh why is my interest in things that are invariably depressing?
In other aggravations, my laptop power cord (the one I use at school) finally bit the dust Monday, so I had to write that paper on a school computer. The replacement one I got a few months ago is really persnickety, so I try not to move it from my room, but I've had to use it yesterday and today, and it's a fight to get it to work every single time. So I went ahead and ordered a new one from Amazon last night for a whopping 2 bucks, then paid ridiculous shipping to hopefully get it here by the end of the week. While I was at it, I decided to replace the battery, which is the reason the power cord thing is an issue, for under 30 bucks. That one at least had free shipping, but will take longer to get here. *crosses fingers that this is the end of the computer woes*
We also learned that fictitious (as in, the author didn't even do actual research before she wrote the book) slave owners in the American south had absolutely nothing on the cruelty and sadism of the sugar plantation slave masters in the Caribbean. We read an excerpt from a slave owner's diary (in exhaustive detail, including every single sexual encounter) and it was so gruesome I had to quit reading. But the class is still really interesting. It's almost over, though, and then I have another class next summer term, which is also a depressing history class on something to do with the Holocaust. Why oh why is my interest in things that are invariably depressing?
In other aggravations, my laptop power cord (the one I use at school) finally bit the dust Monday, so I had to write that paper on a school computer. The replacement one I got a few months ago is really persnickety, so I try not to move it from my room, but I've had to use it yesterday and today, and it's a fight to get it to work every single time. So I went ahead and ordered a new one from Amazon last night for a whopping 2 bucks, then paid ridiculous shipping to hopefully get it here by the end of the week. While I was at it, I decided to replace the battery, which is the reason the power cord thing is an issue, for under 30 bucks. That one at least had free shipping, but will take longer to get here. *crosses fingers that this is the end of the computer woes*