I don't think my dirty words are bad enough for SOTU. Yes, Hec, JZ was the good cop.

I just remembered that I still have the Pompeii special from the Discovery Channel recorded.

I watched that a couple days ago. It was well timed because I had just finished the book Pompeii.

I'm going to compromise with myself and have the SotU on low low volume, or muted, and read a book, and drink.

I'm going to work on fanfic and/or watch something on the Arts & Learning Discovery Planet & Garden Network. No SotU for me. I'll read the text later.

By the way, Susan, I love your tag.

For the record:

Genre: French for "has its own section at Barnes & Noble"

So, I left work early today, after several unsuccessful phone calls to maintenance to get someone to come vacuum in there. I decided to go grab lunch, and as I was walking, I unexpectedly ran into my best friend, who had as much free time as I did, so she came with me. I then bought a vanilla Coke, and won a free Coke. And lunch was yummy, too, but it was just a bean and cheese burrito, so nothing really impressive. Then I went to my class, which was ceramics, and now I feel great. I was still kind of tense by the time I got there, despite the fun lunch with my friend, but just the act of smoothing the clay for hours was so incredibly soothing. (Also, for a fun bonus, the guest artist we had with us this week had nothing but good things to say about my sculpture. She didn't even have any suggestions for improvements. Just praise. Which was really fun.)

I'm feeling all nice and relaxed now, and I have ballroom dancing later, and we're waltzing, so that should be fun.

So, thanks for the help this morning, and just to be clear that I'm not crazy whiny/complainy all the time, I had to let the record show that the rest of my day was really rather nice.

Oh! AND I finally talked to a professor from last semester, who I thought I was going to get an A from, but from whom I actually receive an A-, and he told me that that grade was a mistake, and he's going to change it. So I'll have a little boost in last semester's GPA. So that's really nice, too.

I watched that a couple days ago. It was well timed because I had just finished the book Pompeii.

How was the book. Would you recommend it?

is C in some Oxygen movie with Jennifer Love Hewitt?

PROMOS???? Now I have to watch something on Oxygen other than Bliss.

Ayup. He's making with the Love. I'm so excited. But it's the third of the tv movies he shot in the fall. I wonder if it's making to air first?

Glad the rest of your day was good, Alibelle. Rough life!

I finally talked to a professor from last semester, who I thought I was going to get an A from, but from whom I actually receive an A-, and he told me that that grade was a mistake, and he's going to change it.

I tell you what, it is a relief to hear that that happens. Because I thought it happened with me, but no, the A- was my real grade, but I was afraid I was a grade-grubbing freak.

I was afraid I was a grade-grubbing freak

Could still be true, Capy.

I tell you what, it is a relief to hear that that happens. Because I thought it happened with me, but no, the A- was my real grade, but I was afraid I was a grade-grubbing freak.

Oh, yeah. Totally. I have that fear all the time. The only reason I really pressed it in this case was because the teacher flat out told me last semester that I was getting an A, and then when I saw my grades it was an A-, and I was going crazy trying to figure out what had changed from the last time I had spoken to him, since we hadn't turned in any additional materials. And I was still afraid I was going to get the "An A- is not a bad grade" speech. Which I hate.

Put me in the "not watching SotU because I'd like to still have a TV in the morning" category.