elanya

It seems like a lot of my friends are distressed today for various reasons. I hope that things get somewhat straightened out. *hugs* all around.

I am at the library, about to go off questing for books and articles on shipwrecks from the ages of Sail and Steam, and aso a good book or so on rigging. And then tonight I will either be a scanner slave or finish (ha!) reading about the Spanish Armada.

I did poorly on my last book review for Sea Power, but to be honest I am not unsatisfied with the grade. I should have spent more time on it - it is barely more than a first draft. I got too caught up in other things, and last week was just a bad week for me scholastically. It doesn't help that *someone* had to go and get all deported and crap when I was trying to do a final proofing ^-^. Sure, okay, maybe I shouldn't have left that for the twenty minutes before class, but I don't have a printer at home. I will just have to do better this time :) I still need to pick a good book for it. Also, I know that Dudley is being more critical as time goes on. This is a good thing, really, I just need to rise to the challenge. I am mostly satisfied, however, that my writing is of good quality for these assignments. He talks about having to make grammatical corrections on papers, but I see few or no marks on mine. I know I could be a better writer, and that I am often inattentive to details and prone to over look things, but I could be worse. I think my main problem is that when I try to clean up my writing, I have a tendancy to miss bits. "The ships at sea all lost there way," becomes "The ship at all lost their way at sea," instead of "The ships all lost their way at sea." I need to let my stuff sit for at least a day before proofreading, and sometimes even then I just see what *should* be there as opposed to what is.

Anyway. I am going to ask Dr. Parkerson how much I should mark for grammar when I grade the historigraphy essays for Hist 3000. I don't want to be as hardcore as Swanson (and I'm probably not really qualified to be, for that matter), but I think that there should be a pretty high standard. I will tell them, at least, to go to the writing lab ;p

Oh, one more thing, to make people smile. I wore the green spiral horns that Julie made me today. I told people that it was so the undergrads would know I was evil when I gave back their exams ^-^. Dr. Dudley publically embarassed me in class by exclaiming "Just what we need, another horny grad-student!". I said that I was expecting *someone* to make a comment along those line, just not that it would be him. He rocks.