It seems hard to believe that a year ago I was still at Rice, complaining about the pretentious dullness of the other English majors and trying to find new and exciting ways to avoid walking to my car in far off West Lot. As opposed to now, where Trixie is right outside, but still unattainable due to the barrier of INTENSELY FRIGID ARCTIC AIR. Also, I live with Steven Wiggins and have become derisive of all undergraduates. Or maybe just the ones at UNC. Anyway, the year in pictures: (caution, lots of images. Duh)
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2009: The Year in Pictures
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Times I Have Almost Died: Calendar Literacy Fail
January 5th, 2010 byThis morning I woke up early, ready for the first day of classes. After taking a shower and grumbling about having to put on Not-Pajamas before noon, I decided to look up where my classes for the morning were, and then, since I was already there, what obscenely expensive textbooks I would need to buy and then never read. It’s a miracle that I did this because there, at the top of one of the course websites, was the schedule with “CLASS INTRO: JAN. 12TH” as the first bullet point.
That was my first clue. My second clue was when I looked at the academic calendar (for the first time ever, natch) and saw “JANUARY 11TH: CLASSES BEGIN” highlighted in red.
I can only imagine what would have happened had I decided to make breakfast instead of order textbooks (which I gave up on after discovering the sordid truth, btws). I would have taken the bus to school, complaining about the cold the entire way, wondered vaguely where the hordes of undergraduates were, and sat in an empty classroom for about half an hour before wondering if there was some kind of alphabetizationmergency I had missed the alert on.
I guess I just assumed that if I was going to work I should also be going to class. I’m actually hoping this happens more often because suddenly having another week of sleeping in and not doing boring readings about “What IS information?” is all the more awesome because of its unexpectedness.
So awesome that I decided to update my blog for the first time since being gripped by the ravages of Frozen North-induced flu. Don’t worry, I got better in time for presents. It was a Christmas miracle.