31st January, 2007
When Today Was The Day I Worked My Butt Off
So catching plagiarism is quite the job. Yes, it’s easy to use Google to search for the copied phrases, but when I have to go through the passage and figure out if it’s just one or more sources, that’s the challenge. I’ve already found one plagiarized source, but I don’t know if there are supposed to be more or if I’ve missed some sentences from the article. Lesson? Don’t plagiarize.
I’ve got a lot of work done today but still got about half left to go. I finished reading the book for AAS so now I have to write a one-page typed short response on it by choosing a part of the text and analyzing it… which just happens to be my weakness. I need to finish Monday’s bio lecture since I fell asleep in the last fifteen minutes and read the articles that were assigned for discussion. After all of that, I’m pretty much done for the weekend. Well, I wouldn’t say “done,” but anything that needs to be done before Monday will be completed tonight.
By doing all of that only allows for one thing: more time on the weekend for SB and I to spend together. I’m not sure yet what’s planned, but I know that at some point these things will go done: grocery shopping, seeing The Departed on campus, and eating out for Thursday’s dinner. I’m not sure how much of the weekend that will take, but we’ll figure something out. Perhaps a trip up the Campanile?
Besides having all that good company, I also hope it rains.
Anyway, back to work!
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30th January, 2007
When Today Was A Bit Scary
So the more and more I think about my deferments from the Red Cross, the more and more I get worried about the possibility of my being anemic. The stupid thing is that I know the more typical cases of anemia will be treated with better iron-supplied diet and supplements. Except it’s good to know where I stand on the anemia scale I suppose. I have an appointment with the student health center next week, so hopefully I’ll eat the right foods between then.
Today was… cold. I’m getting a bit crabbier and it’s mostly due to the poor transportation system here. There are many buses, yes, but rarely do they ever arrive on time. If one does, then I miss it and must then wait for the impeccably late one, setting off my impatience more than I should. The only thing I can count on is the BART. I know it’ll almost always be on time and never is it too crowded when I board.
I accomplished quite a bit today. I multi-tasked in Stats during the lecture today by reading the book for my AAS class. I know I should have paid attention and I did, but only to the parts that I thought were more important since the professor was going over how to use the z-score table and how to convert to standard units. I’m almost done with the book and am happy to say that in my reading today, I did not tag a page for the degrading use of the words “gay,” “fag,” and “faggot.”
I bought my mop today. I’m not too happy with it because I had to pay what I think is a ridiculous price for a mop, but I had already gone to Longs and Walgreens was the only store that had what I wanted. Sure, I could have waited for my next trip to Target, but I don’t plan on going anytime soon and I desperately wanted to mop my apartment floors. Now they are (relatively) clean. True, I’m not completely happy with the way it looks, but there are stains that my arm does not have the strength to scrub. Or perhaps I need another cleaning agent for those.
I feel myself getting pudgier and since I’m no longer doing the whole sorority thing this semester, I might just use my Tuesday and Thursday nights for the gym. Oh and Sunday too. Oh yeah… there’s salad in the fridge that I should eat.
I’m so bad with food. I get so lazy to eat things like snacks and whatnot. I have so many bags of tea in my cupboard, but I never really feel like making myself a nice cup of green tea. I always go for the carton of soy milk.
Anyway, I should get back to my work. The more I finish tonight and tomorrow night, the more time I’ll have for the weekend.
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