So today was also kind of a bummer. I guess. I'm just kind of down about everything these days, so.. Anyway. First I had Personnel & HR Management with Birnbaum, and we talked mostly about this monumental, monstrous, HUGE term paper that we're going to be doing the entire semester. It's so depressing just thinking about it.. reading 15-20 sources (from scholarly journals... zzzz) on like, job involvement or absenteeism or something. You're allowed to work with a partner, but no way is that going to work with me.
After HR is lunch, and after that was Cost Accounting with Thompson, who I had for Financial Accounting in Fall 2004. That's right: EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO. (And yet, he remembered my name, even though he was forgetting the names of people he had had last semester. I'm inclined to think this is because of the way I behaved in class. For whatever reason, he'd never call on me when we were doing problems in class, so I just started calling out the answers from time to time. Either I impressed him or irritated him with my stubbornness, so much that he learned my name.) Thus there is little or none of the information left in my brain. I felt so lost with what we were going over today, I almost started crying right there in class. So I approached Thompson after class, told him what I was going through, and that I was planning on refreshing a bit over the long weekend, but that I had misplaced my Financial Accounting book. He said he'd loan me a spare, so we went up to his office and he also gave me the Solutions Manual so I "wouldn't have to struggle through it". Whew. So that's how I'll be spending a good part of my weekend.
After that is Financial Management, which was probably the most boring of the classes. Prof Trimm has kind of a monotone voice, and it's late in the afternoon (3:30 - 4:45), so .. I don't know. Crystal Jessee is in there, so that's a consolation; she's a really nice, funny girl. I think the actual class experience may be a drag, but I also think that I might like this class's material best.. financial analysis, investment decisions, cost of capital, and procurement of funds. At least it sounds interesting, which is something.
Kate F, from high school, added me as her friend on Facebook and I was looking at her photo album and I saw that she has a fiance! She says he's 6'8" (she always wanted a guy taller than her). I'm glad she's happy, but it's still kind of shock to see how fast people are growing up around me.. two friends pregnant (unless they've had their babies, I'm not sure) and two others engaged.. It's pretty amazing.
Laura came to visit tonight. It was the first time I've seen her since she left for Europe. I don't know why I expected her to come back with an accent or something.. I guess because she's a musical person and she's very tuned in (pardon the pun) to auditory stimuli, a bit like myself. But she came back without an accent, but she did clear up the difference between British and English for me: British = member of Great Britain (England, Scotland, etc.) English = member of England only. And we had a good talk about silly things. She is a good friend.
Other than that, I'm still pretty blah. Tomorrow is Friday the 13th. And tonight I can only breathe through one nostril. Goodnight.
