10.07.05
Ah, school. And life.
So it’s 5:25am as I begin to write this. What am I doing? Burning some CDs to get some free space on my HD. What should I be doing? Reading for Contemporary Sociological Theory, which is my only class tomorrow, and begins really early — at 2:45pm. ;)
Well, that’s my earliest class of the semester! My other classes are at 4:15pm and at 6pm!
Basically, I should have showered and gone to bed by now, and I really should have done my reading on Talcott Parsons. But I haven’t done any of those. I spent tonight watching TV. Alias and Smallville, actually, although it took me, oh, THREE HOURS to get through my tape of Alias. Distractions in the form of hockey (hockey! You’re back! I LOVE YOU!), phone calls, random airings of Sex and the City and an explanation as to what webhosting is and why one must usually pay for such things all interfered with watching Alias.
Still, it was a lovely evening. Hell, my whole day was great except for a nagging headache. I woke up past 1, I skimmed my Research Design & Analysis readings, I talked on the phone, found out P got a new job (and I am very psyched for her!), caught my bus, went to class… okay, so I got lost on the 11th floor looking for a specific lab. I wound up in the Economics department instead of the Sociology department, but I got there eventually! And then, as we’re all sitting there, trying to use SPSS (a big ol’ stats program), like, 80% of the licenses on the computers had expired. I could NOT suppress a laugh, and pulled out my laptop and opened up SPSS. I’ve been using SPSS all summer for my Research Methods class. All those hours of inputting data and playing with it actually paid off.
Anyways, the teacher told us to all group together with the 20% of the computers that had a valid SPSS license, but since I had a working copy, I called my friend J over and this guy B, this guy M-A and some other dude (whose name I have totally spaced on) all came over. And we all KNOW SPSS, so the teacher was explaining how to run descriptive stats and stuff and we’re like “yeah, yeah, we know”. Meanwhile, this guy D and and girl M realized I had a working copy and inquired as to how to get their home copies to continue working. I sense I may become popular in this class. ;)
Got home, saw the end of the third period between the Habs and the Rangers and am annoyed by the Rangers’ 3rd goal, but hey, Ryder scored in OT to give the Habs a 2-0 record thus far this season and it was his third goal in two games and his second game-winner. I am rather thrilled. :)
Then J and I eventually got through Alias, and she was even able to catch her bus home ’cause the nice bus driver realized she wanted on the bus and stopped just AFTER the stop to let her run across to get on.
And what the hell have I done in the nearly six hours since she went home? Honestly, I don’t know. Watched Smallville. That didn’t take six hours. <scratches head> Where DOES the time go? Honestly!
On that note, I should go back to CD burning for a bit and maybe I’ll get some reading done while things burn.
(Aren’t you thrilled I’m blogging again? I know you are. ;))