So Come Up to the Lab

In the computer lab again, writing up my chapter summary for political economy. It's freezing out today, and I decided to walk to the bookstore off-campus to acquire our new political economy textbook. (It came in last week. I KNOW.) Happily, it didn't actually cost me anything: I had enough credit with the store that I wound up getting a book and three whole dollars, which I then used to buy a delicious wrap at Mike's Place. Win! And this morning my public affairs TA, a former chef, earned the undying devotion of the entire tutorial group by bringing in walnut-and-fennel biscotti and dark chocolate truffles. So it's been a good Pancake Tuesday so far.

Last night I didn't do much. My research methods midterm was fine but the lab quiz was utterly miserable. I think the time limit seriously skeeved out some people (i.e. me). It made me want to cry a little bit, particularly the moment when I was frantically finishing (I started later than everyone else because of a computer issue) and the TA actually counted down the seconds I had left, "three... two... one." That earned him some type of nuisance award, I'm sure. Had I held onto the quiz paper, he likely would have wrenched it from my hands with snarls and hair-pulling. Anyway... the written midterm for that class, directly afterwards, was fine. I went home. Laura called me back after her fraternity meeting and we had a bit of a chat, which was very nice (she has more midterms than I do -- sympathies!), and then I stared at my political economy coursepack for a while and went to bed.