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dragonlady7I know, I'm full of the updates of late. Lemme know if I should backdate the unimportant ones so they don't fill up people's friends-pages-- don't want to drive away people who think a little DL7's all right but are finding there's rather too much of me online at the moment. (Hrm, I don't know how to backdate with this client.) I started this livejournal mostly as a place to keep a diary for myself, but I know I've only stuck with it because other people read it, so while ostensibly I write things on here for my own reference, in reality I'm writing for an audience and I know it. (I specify this because I know a lot of people use livejournal primarily for its community features, and seem to apologize if they write entries that aren't particularly interesting to other people, so I suppose I should at least make a gesture towards exercising that kind of courtesy as well. This isn't a ploy to get people to say "oh no you're fascinating", it's an acknowledgement that I may use this site differently than others expect.)
So, the actual ostensible purpose of this update was to share this tidbit:
Dave's professor, who Dave emailed to let him know that his lack of a tire precluded him arriving in Rochester in time for the final exam, responded by e-mailing him the exam and saying "just do it where you are."
So Dave's lying in bed typing up his Archaeology exam. (He usually uses the laptop in his bed because it's comfy there.)
It wasn't a particularly interesting class, but nobody can say the professor wasn't nice. :)
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Yeah, it sucks that Dave's car chose today to be an insurmountable pain in the butt, and it sucks more that his car is Suddenly Not New And Shiny anymore right when we can't afford to fix it, but he's put 41,000 miles on it in less than two years, and it's not the car's fault. It sucks that I have no income but that was also not unexpected. I'd anticipated a bit more leeway in Dealing With That, and we'd hoped for a little more leeway with the car, but it's not unreasonable that things have gone as they have. And so, at the moment, all the crises seem surmountable. Things suck and sometimes people are bad, but there are a lot of nice, good, and decent people in the world, and I myself am not always a good person so I can understand how bad things happen.
It helps that it's sunny and I have a possibility of spending the next two weeks seeing a lot of Dave and I might even get to spend a week with my family including my Katy (and my my dog-niece). I may not feel the same way once it's dark and grungy out again, and I certainly won't if I find that I am denied Thanksgiving at home, but it's not the end of the world, and Mrs. K. is making duck with orange stuffing for Thanksgiving. (Also, if I'm denied Thanksgiving at home, it's because I got a job effective immediately, which means I have money. So, silver linings abound in all contingencies.)
So, the actual ostensible purpose of this update was to share this tidbit:
Dave's professor, who Dave emailed to let him know that his lack of a tire precluded him arriving in Rochester in time for the final exam, responded by e-mailing him the exam and saying "just do it where you are."
So Dave's lying in bed typing up his Archaeology exam. (He usually uses the laptop in his bed because it's comfy there.)
It wasn't a particularly interesting class, but nobody can say the professor wasn't nice. :)
...
Yeah, it sucks that Dave's car chose today to be an insurmountable pain in the butt, and it sucks more that his car is Suddenly Not New And Shiny anymore right when we can't afford to fix it, but he's put 41,000 miles on it in less than two years, and it's not the car's fault. It sucks that I have no income but that was also not unexpected. I'd anticipated a bit more leeway in Dealing With That, and we'd hoped for a little more leeway with the car, but it's not unreasonable that things have gone as they have. And so, at the moment, all the crises seem surmountable. Things suck and sometimes people are bad, but there are a lot of nice, good, and decent people in the world, and I myself am not always a good person so I can understand how bad things happen.
It helps that it's sunny and I have a possibility of spending the next two weeks seeing a lot of Dave and I might even get to spend a week with my family including my Katy (and my my dog-niece). I may not feel the same way once it's dark and grungy out again, and I certainly won't if I find that I am denied Thanksgiving at home, but it's not the end of the world, and Mrs. K. is making duck with orange stuffing for Thanksgiving. (Also, if I'm denied Thanksgiving at home, it's because I got a job effective immediately, which means I have money. So, silver linings abound in all contingencies.)
