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Summer Vacation, Day 1
Dear Diary*,
Right now I am in Palmyra, PA (mapquest!) which is where my good friend Johanna lives with her mother, brother, dog, and six cats. Yes, folks, that's right, six cats. They're all quite darling though (mother and brother included!) and I like it here a lot. Everything is so peaceful and unrushed and manageable. There's nothing to overwhelm me or keep me from getting at least 8 hours of sleep at night (last night I slept for more than 12!!!), and I am completely and totally at peace with the world. I love it all.
Tomorrow night Johanna and I are going to Philladelphia to go see the Decemberists, which will be undeniably awesome. Right now I'm looking at the different t-shirts for sale on the Decemberists website. Two of them might just be getting bought tonight, assuming I justify the cost of $30 in my mind (that's one shirt at $13 and one at $17, not two at $30 each!).
I've found out three of my five grades so far, and two have been huge, and I mean HUGE surprises. First there's my statistics grade, a B+. The last time I checked with Professor Liu, I think he said I was in the range of a C+ or a B-. This was less than a month ago, and really the only way I could have brought my grade up is through the one or two quizzes that we had left and then the final. However, I guess that I must have done reasonably well on the final (which I think is believable since I did study quite a bit), so this grade was a great big happy surprise but not an otherworldly, flabbergasting one.
HOWEVER. The other grade that was a surprise was my grade for Competition in an Interdependent World. Up until the final I had gotten full credit in everything, so when I sat down yesterday to write the final out I knew that I didn't have to do supremely well to come away with a good grade for the course. And then, when it got to be late and I didn't want to keep going around in circles looking for everything, I wound up only answering three of the five questions. Well, four, if you count the one that I gave a partial answer to. But my point is, that I was shooting for enough points to keep me in the range of an A- or maybe a B+, nothing more. Then I go online to check my grades and go "Holy shit!" because apparently I got an A for the course. Then I go on Blackboard to check to see what I got on my final: 20/20. Holy mother fucking shit, I think. Because that can't be the grade that I deserved. I don't know. I really don't. No way will I e-mail Professor Juhn, about it, though, because I don't want her to realize if she's made a mistake, you know?
My third grade, which came as no surprise at all, is an A- in Transformations of Shakespeare. One of these days I'm going to take Professor Menon again and do everything in my power to get a solid A. At this point, I'm not sure I know of anyone who has actually been able to do that. Or maybe I should start small, and "simply" aim for a solid A on one single paper. That will certainly be an accomplishment.
After I leave Palmyra, PA I'll be going to Flemington, NJ for a few days to be with Dan and his family. I met Dan's dad yesterday and they really look alike. His dad looks older, but you can really tell that they're related. Quite funny. I talked to Dan tonight, and he told me a couple of things: Fist, that we could go see a minor leage baseball game in Trenton, NJ this Saturday, to which I responded, "OMG, baseball!" Then he told me that he had one other thing to "spring" on me: his grandparents are going to be staying at his house on Saturday night.
GRANDPARENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, so it's not really *that* big of a deal but seriously. On the same day I meet both the parents and the grandparents. That's a lot of people to give a good impression to all at once.
Johanna and her mum watch "The Gilmore Girls" together everynight, and if tonight (they watched a tape of last nights, fyi) was any indication, they are quite adoreable when they do. A year or two ago it would have made me sad about my inability to do more than simply coexist around my mother. Now it just warms my heart to see. :-)
It's already 9:49pm! I have one more load of laundry to get through before I go to bed tonight, and I want to read a bit of my first book of the summer (Great Books by David Denby).
<3
*Because it's summer vacation I feel as though starting an entry with "Dear Diary" is somehow more appropriate than just launching in to whatever it is I want to say. Don't ask.
Dear Diary*,
Right now I am in Palmyra, PA (mapquest!) which is where my good friend Johanna lives with her mother, brother, dog, and six cats. Yes, folks, that's right, six cats. They're all quite darling though (mother and brother included!) and I like it here a lot. Everything is so peaceful and unrushed and manageable. There's nothing to overwhelm me or keep me from getting at least 8 hours of sleep at night (last night I slept for more than 12!!!), and I am completely and totally at peace with the world. I love it all.
Tomorrow night Johanna and I are going to Philladelphia to go see the Decemberists, which will be undeniably awesome. Right now I'm looking at the different t-shirts for sale on the Decemberists website. Two of them might just be getting bought tonight, assuming I justify the cost of $30 in my mind (that's one shirt at $13 and one at $17, not two at $30 each!).
I've found out three of my five grades so far, and two have been huge, and I mean HUGE surprises. First there's my statistics grade, a B+. The last time I checked with Professor Liu, I think he said I was in the range of a C+ or a B-. This was less than a month ago, and really the only way I could have brought my grade up is through the one or two quizzes that we had left and then the final. However, I guess that I must have done reasonably well on the final (which I think is believable since I did study quite a bit), so this grade was a great big happy surprise but not an otherworldly, flabbergasting one.
HOWEVER. The other grade that was a surprise was my grade for Competition in an Interdependent World. Up until the final I had gotten full credit in everything, so when I sat down yesterday to write the final out I knew that I didn't have to do supremely well to come away with a good grade for the course. And then, when it got to be late and I didn't want to keep going around in circles looking for everything, I wound up only answering three of the five questions. Well, four, if you count the one that I gave a partial answer to. But my point is, that I was shooting for enough points to keep me in the range of an A- or maybe a B+, nothing more. Then I go online to check my grades and go "Holy shit!" because apparently I got an A for the course. Then I go on Blackboard to check to see what I got on my final: 20/20. Holy mother fucking shit, I think. Because that can't be the grade that I deserved. I don't know. I really don't. No way will I e-mail Professor Juhn, about it, though, because I don't want her to realize if she's made a mistake, you know?
My third grade, which came as no surprise at all, is an A- in Transformations of Shakespeare. One of these days I'm going to take Professor Menon again and do everything in my power to get a solid A. At this point, I'm not sure I know of anyone who has actually been able to do that. Or maybe I should start small, and "simply" aim for a solid A on one single paper. That will certainly be an accomplishment.
After I leave Palmyra, PA I'll be going to Flemington, NJ for a few days to be with Dan and his family. I met Dan's dad yesterday and they really look alike. His dad looks older, but you can really tell that they're related. Quite funny. I talked to Dan tonight, and he told me a couple of things: Fist, that we could go see a minor leage baseball game in Trenton, NJ this Saturday, to which I responded, "OMG, baseball!" Then he told me that he had one other thing to "spring" on me: his grandparents are going to be staying at his house on Saturday night.
GRANDPARENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, so it's not really *that* big of a deal but seriously. On the same day I meet both the parents and the grandparents. That's a lot of people to give a good impression to all at once.
Johanna and her mum watch "The Gilmore Girls" together everynight, and if tonight (they watched a tape of last nights, fyi) was any indication, they are quite adoreable when they do. A year or two ago it would have made me sad about my inability to do more than simply coexist around my mother. Now it just warms my heart to see. :-)
It's already 9:49pm! I have one more load of laundry to get through before I go to bed tonight, and I want to read a bit of my first book of the summer (Great Books by David Denby).
<3
*Because it's summer vacation I feel as though starting an entry with "Dear Diary" is somehow more appropriate than just launching in to whatever it is I want to say. Don't ask.