working

Where have I been, you ask?

I've been working hard and with a fair amount of focus and direction. Hope I can keep that up. Some days I don’t even want to go to bed because I’m so involved in what I’m doing. I have a lot of reading this term and it’s all interesting.

The ancient lady prof continues to ramble and dodder her way around ancient Greece, but all my other classes are good. And even in that class I've decided to write my paper on Boudicca, so I’m doing some interesting reading on that too.

This week for my climate change class we have to do a group presentation. Why do profs even bother tormenting students with this type of thing? Lordy, lordy, I’ve ended up in a group with two other girls that are maybe the least informed pair I've ever met. One is a phys ed major so she has some excuse, but the other is a geog minor who appears to know not the smallest thing about geography, but who states airily that she loves it and is going to go on to do a masters in it. Our project is about the prairies.

Her: What do you have in Alberta? You have, like, mountains, right?

Me: What exactly do they teach you about geography in school?

I know, snippy. But I’d had more than enough of her by that point.

Really they just wanted to talk about how hard their lives were and how many classes they are taking and how hard they work. I left.