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A Condemned Man's Last Video Game

Adam — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:49:14 GMT

The last few days have largely been taken up with entertainment of the electronic variety. Super Mario Galaxy, for the most part, but Amy and I also took advantage of our unexpectedly-free evening to go to Matt and Elizabeth's for a little Rock Band on their Xbox. I did surprisingly okay, and now I'm thinking about that wireless Wii version of Guitar Hero III... Anyway. All of this is the result of a deep and abiding desire to avoid dealing with the new semester as long as possible - while I'm collecting Power Stars or trying to get through a Bon Jovi solo, I'm not thinking about all the crap I'm about to start going through for the next four months. It's like the last semester left me with a weird mental trauma, and I'm conditioned to avoid it now. Grad school kinda bites. Also, I'm weirded out because my 12:30 Comp I class only has 13 people enrolled out of a possible 22. That's ludicrous - almost always, Eng 110 is packed full and people are trying to get in off of waiting lists. I'm nicely in the middle of the day, too, so it's neither too late (except for the people who want to get done with classes completely before lunch) or too early (for those who can't handle 8 AM classes to save their lives... like, say, me). So where the hell is everyone?

sigh

Adam — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:20:59 GMT

Amy still hasn't added me as a friend. WHAT CAN THIS MEAN FOR MY RELATIONSHIP?!?!?!!

The Story of my Life, part I

Adam — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:59:54 GMT

I set up my class' Blackboard site and went through the somewhat surreal process of updating and modifying my syllabus for the new semester. I think it's going to work out fairly well - the second essay is due right as Spring Break hits, which should take much of the sting out of grading it. I'm also having them turn in each individual Writer's Resource Prompt, perhaps because I want to make sure that they actually do the reading and think about it about before they come in. That assumes I actually have a class, of course. When I looked today, I only had 10 students out of 22 slots. Very strange.

Like an ump on a blog

Adam — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:38:30 GMT

I have a problem with personal blogs. Actually, I have several. 1. I am boring. People should not want to read about my life. 2. Blogging takes time, time that I rarely have and shouldn't be using this way. 3. I get soapboxy, especially about politics, if I'm not careful. And I am almost never careful. On the other hand, 4. I'm not the sort of person to have drama online or off show up in this kind of forum, or, well, at all really. 5. No one is especially likely to see this anyway, so the level of boredom I might or might not inspire is kind of irrelevant. 6. I have always kind of wanted to keep a diary. Of course, I have a LiveJournal, which is where stuff like this ought to go. But I use LJ more for news than anything else. Maybe this would be different. What the hell. I'll give it a go. Who knows? Maybe something interesting will happen after all...