As I earlier mentioned, I finished my RELI286 paper very early this morning. I think it came out pretty well! I emailed it to my professor at 4:28 AM, a respectable 7.5 hours before it was due: a very un-Justin-like behavior, to be sure.
Then I slept for five hours. Woke up at 10 o’clock, took a shower, and headed to ECON256. Came home, and ate a microwaveable bowl of chicken noodle soup. For some reason, no matter how long I keep it heating in the microwave, it never gets hot enough to be tasty. The same goes for our oven: food never cooks by the time recommended on the box—I’ve got to keep things in there for five or ten extra minutes, even cooking Stouffer’s pizzas at just 350º.
Anyway, due to my sleepiness and the fact that the promised sunny skies and 50º weather hadn’t materialized, I decided to take a sweet 3.5-hour nap. Mm… There’s nothing like a nice naked nap in a still-unmade bed… falling asleep while reading some beautiful 1850s American literature.
I woke up and it was bright and sunny and warm: what a wonderful scene to have outside my windows when I woke up!
I threw on some clothes, headed to Usdan to meet Alison, and we headed down to Green Street for our Monday volunteer session with the Journalism Club.
Nathaniel (Blaze) was really productive today; we edited and improved his article on the epic battle between superheroes and supervillains. His favorite superhero is Superman, and he just can’t understand why the same superheroes fight over and over again. He reasoned that such repetition is why new superheroes are created every so often, to keep the readers’ interest. Not bad for a 10-year old! Anthony drew a really great landscape using pastel crayons, and Junior (Sicnasti) made a lot of progress on his comparative review of Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band. The kids are making a lot of progress toward their first issue of the Green Street Info, which we hope will come out in just a few weeks.
After GSAC, I went to dinner, came home, and found my AMST200 paper sitting in my email inbox. Yes, the AMST200 paper that I sadly passed in, thinking it was one of the worst papers I’d written since coming to Wesleyan. And the result? Well, I didn’t get the lowest grade possible (in this class, a C), nor did I get a B. You know what that means: w00t!
Though, to be fair, my ever-present paper-writing weakness—writing conclusions—plagued this paper, too. Whoever graded it, whether it was the professor or otherwise, was quite honest: “This conclusion does not live up to the rest of the paper.” Heh.
Anyway, I need to start reading, but I can’t pull myself away from the computer. CBC Radio 3 is playing so many good songs that I haven’t heard before. I’m a bit disappointed that Lana Gay, the host of the radio show playing right now, settled for “Lanarama” as the title for her new show. But I won’t complain. The music totally rocks tonight.
