Most of today’s energy was exhausted on my project, which is now 5/6ths done. It might have been done by now if I hadn’t spent so much time today fretting about whether it would fit criteria. It doesn’t, but hopefully the teacher will give me enough effort-credit so I can pass the class. As I made clear to anyone who would listen today, I’m mad that this semester’s magnum opus was a grade-school-like project involving a blue glue stick and scissors, but what I didn’t tell the others is that I’m a little upset that I didn’t recognize this project’s magnitude from day 1 when it was assigned. I’ve been blaming the teacher for this ignorance, but in the end it’s all on me like everything else. I can hope that I’ll never deal with another instructor as off-base from my way of doing things, or I can be ready to adapt immediately knowing that it can very well happen again. After this weekend’s debacle, which ranks up there with the worst I’ve ever had (and I’ve had some bad ones), it will definitely be the latter.
I could have gone out tonight but I’m staying in, unwinding from a hectic day of work. There’ll be enough time to party in twelve days when I turn 21; my friends back home told me so today. I’m watching a Discovery Channel show about army ants (fascinating!), indulging in Svedka and juice anyway.
With the Eagles game at 4:15 tomorrow, I’d hoped that CBS would be cool and air the Jets game for us fans down here in Philly-area exile. I just checked the TV guide (one of the benefits of overpaying for cable) and found a game between Green Bay and St. Louis on FOX (which has about as much playoff impact as the Pats-Jets game) and on CBS…Jaguars-Steelers. Big cable lets me down again. I’m not surprised, though. This game has much more in the way of playoff implication, and the Steelers likely have a higher sphere of influence down here than the Jets. After all, aside from local teams the Steelers are pretty much the team of the redneck Northeast, South Jersey notwithstanding.
