Rollar coaster day

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.