So all's well in Gracie-land.
Yay! I'm just really hoping Joey is sitting at my friend's back door when she gets home.
Happy Birthday, Owen!
River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.
'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
lisah - Apr 11, 2005 7:59:44 am PDT #2575 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
erikaj - Apr 11, 2005 8:00:59 am PDT #2576 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Love that. (Even as I want to get a black lab one day and call him Gee.) Or maybe another cat, to be Omar.
DavidS - Apr 11, 2005 8:07:56 am PDT #2577 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
No iPod this semester...
The reason you established this incentive was to keep yourself honest about rationalizing your absences. Which, I think it did in this instance. I think you ought to go to class, even though you're not prepared. As Scrappy notes, you need to learn to deal with your imperfections and that means going in unprepared and learning that's not the end of the world.
Personally, I'm for keeping the strict interpretation of the rule. It's no tragedy if you have to wait another semester to get an iPod. And having the incentive has been useful for you - both to get you to class, and as a marker to look at why you wouldn't go to class. But I think you should look at your behavior at the end of the day, after you've gone to the class, after you see how your headache is and then decide. I think if you go to class, deal with it, don't avoid any conversations with your teacher, are honest about everything with yourself then you're still in the game.
Happy birthday Owen, you handsome devil!
Steph L. - Apr 11, 2005 8:13:02 am PDT #2578 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'm fuzzy now. vw, when you get back -- did you go to your other classes today but not Deliverance class, or did you also go to Deliverance class? And which one(s) were you worried about not being prepared for?
Lyra Jane - Apr 11, 2005 8:21:35 am PDT #2579 of 10001
Up with the sun
{{{{vw}}}} I don't have any advice, but I do not think missing class because you have a migraine and know the class topic may upset you makes you any kind of failure.
And I also think you should go to your other classes, even though you aren't as prepared as you would like to be. I have no opinion on the iPod.
Aims - Apr 11, 2005 8:22:17 am PDT #2580 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Gods, I think we're buying a minivan.
-t - Apr 11, 2005 8:26:43 am PDT #2581 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
An evil minivan?
Trudy Booth - Apr 11, 2005 8:29:56 am PDT #2582 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Gods, I think we're buying a minivan.
The price of gas is going up and up and up and up and up.
And aren't the ones you'd get used death traps with no safety cage?
Topic!Cindy - Apr 11, 2005 8:33:32 am PDT #2583 of 10001
What is even happening?
Mini-vans aren't gas hogs, at least, they're not necessarily gas hogs. My mini-van is a four cylinder.
Jessica - Apr 11, 2005 8:43:12 am PDT #2584 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Have obtained ThermaCare patch, and it is heating up. I can't tell if it's actually helping, but it feels damn good. (Pain's still there, but the heat is helping me not to feel it so much. While I was out walking, I was thinking to myself "Oh, this isn't as bad as I thought," and then I took a step and almost passed out. It's a weird combination of not-that-much-actual-pain and the kind of WOAH, DIZZY that really extreme pain can sometimes bring on. Whatever nerve is being pinched, it feels like an important one, and I would like it to relax NOW.)