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May 27, 2001
Inertia...
Hi. Um. Remember me? Little Miss Never Updates? Yeah... sorry. I just... well, see... okay, I'm lazy. I haven't been all that busy, there have been no crises, my typing fingers were not all severed in a freak accident. I'm just terminally lazy. And you can blame 3WA, too, since every time I sit down at the computer I get sucked into the chat room for hours on end.
So... where'd I leave off? Well, my two horrid spring classes ended -- I got an A and a B, which made me happy. The A in the Management class wasn't surprising, since all I really had to do for that one was show up. The B in the Online Information Services class made me very happy -- that class was awful. It was an interesting topic, but the professor was trying to kill us. Really, he was! Three major projects, all requiring at least 60 hours of work over a period of a few weeks, on databases I'd never used... it doesn't sound too bad until you factor in working full-time, and my other class... I can't imaging how people who actually have a social life managed.
Oh, and speaking of the social life? That last update, all those years ago, where I mentioned I was meeting a guy who sounded cool? I did, and he was -- funny, and smart, and pretty damn cute. We went out, played pool, talked for ages, had fun... and then I never heard from him again. Not a word. I sent two emails -- friendly little emails, saying I'd had fun with him, and I hoped we could do it again. Not a word in reply. No phone calls, nothing. Damn. If you're not interested, just say so! And it seemed like he was having fun... but hey, whatever. It annoyed me more because he had indicated he was mostly looking to make friends, which is fine with me. And I think we could have at least been friends. And yes, it is a little slap to the ego. But it happens, no big deal.
My mom was here last weekend, which was much fun. She arrived in town on Friday night, bearing dinner and a Lite-Brite she'd found at a yard sale (an aside: anybody know where I can get the little sheets of black construction paper with the designs printed on them? I can't find them anywhere, so if you have any ideas, let me know.) Saturday, we took the commuter rail to Rockport, and spent the day wandering around looking in the shops (all t-shirts, jewelery, and candy stores) and people watching. We had fish sandwiches at a little diner-ish type restaurant, and walked along the wharf. It was a gorgeous day, and we walked for three hours, until it was time to collapse onto the train and go home. My mom bought my brother a souvenir ashtray, and I bought a necklace and a book for myself, and a t-shirt from the bookstore. Sunday, my mom took me to the grocery store, and then headed for home.
I now have a large pile of homework to tackle -- I'm taking three classes during the summer semester. One of them, Intellectual Freedom and Censorship, is half-over; it's an excellent class, and I'm sorry it's almost over. I have to write a paper for it tomorrow, and I'm sure I will be filled with righteous indignation over book-banning and the like... which, I'm sure, will lead to more ranting entries.
Posted by Mary Ellen at May 27, 2001 11:11 PM