Well, I had a great morning and a pissy afternoon, and not
just because it can’t decide if it’s going to rain or not.
The morning was great because I wrote a thousand words of a
novel, then went to the gym, came home and ate, and then wrote another thousand
words. So far, so good.
Then I went to a lecture about research methodology that was
too vague to be very useful, which wasn’t so bad really. I got a chance to diss
Google for their search engine’s partialities, but didn’t get a chance to
complain about how the days of browsing for books in a library is more
difficult than it used to be. I can’t just ask, “Where’s the Chinese lit
section? I want to browse for books on a particular topic,” because it’s all so
electronic and the libraries so big even the librarians can’t keep track.
Then I went to poetry class and we had a constructive
dialogue about each other’s poems, but then the professor put on his bad cop
hat and told us he was disappointed with our essays judging by criteria he was
never very specific about in the first place. If he had given us the same
speech two weeks ago, we would have given him the essays he wanted. My
professors are good at explaining their subjects; I just wish they were better
at explaining their assignments.
I also think I told too much about myself to one of my
classmates, because we had talked about a third classmate and this afternoon
the third party looked at me funny, in a knowing sort of way. Fortunately I
didn’t say anything particularly bad, just that when he invites the class to go
hang out in a bar my first thought was that I didn’t really have the money, so
we might be self-conscious around each other for a while because he’s rich and I’m
not (and she made it quite clear she knows how much money he has). But I’m not going to tell the first classmate
anything more about myself if she’s going to be like that.
I have chess club tonight but I don’t really feel like
going. With all the scheduling nonsense and room changes I’ve only made it to
chess club twice in a month and a half. I’m beginning to think my club fee will
be a donation.
