bouncy

and somewhat philosophical.

1. today was a good hair day. i don't think, with my attitude, that it's possible to have bad hair days, but today it held in a smooth drop (kinda emo) and made me smile every time i saw it. because it's there, mainly. also, i've been keeping my back straight for the past couple of days and i'll be damned if my body hasn't been transformed. i feel like i look like i feel again (^_^)

2. the question i posed on thursday has turned into the resurrection of the MA forum. the girl who'll be organizing it approached me this morning to thank me for the inspiration (^_^)

3. i may not have received the grade i desired, but i was ushered into the professor's office and warmly welcomed in spite of her being in an absolute rage over the formal complaint she received from the class over her attitude towards teaching throughout the course. i don't quite agree with all her comments, but i do see what she was getting at and plan on putting it into practice with my seminar. and of *course* the ego-stroke ("yours was undoubtedly the best work in the class") was nice (^_^)

4. i was going to complain about the amount of time i spend babysitting the new guy, but then he caught me on his way out to thank me for all the time i spend instructing him. he said the same thing pg did once (although we were discussing philosophy): "it never makes sense at the time, but then afterwards i think about it and you're always totally right."
how can i be irritated by someone like that? (^_^)

5. my girlfriend is quite disarming. literally and figuratively simultaneously, when she digs an elbow into the tiny point between my shoulder and scapula as i've taught her. it's too painful and pleasurable to function; it always amazes me how that one little spot releases everything from my skull to my lower back (^_^)

on to the mundane.

our american culture lecturer is dry, but amusing - she definitely has a sense of humour. it's unfortunate that i find myself drifting* sometimes in class, but she's mostly easy to understand and says fascinating things.

* one of those drifts was productive, i got my first visual poem out of the way (it was the task i assigned for the undead poets' society) and then made an attempt at a nonsense poem (although it started making sense).

on the way into the professor's office, i caught another of my lecturers and invited him to join us for our purim poetry bash. he found the reason for my affection for coleridge's rime of the ancient mariner amusing, and made me distinctly aware that i know nothing of metaphysical poetry.

pg sms'ed me in class: h. pylori doesn't (necessarily) catch? excellent! she hasn't got it ^_^

after class, i announced the poetry reading and was pleased by a couple of responses. one shy girl seemed a lot more excited about it than i'd expected :D

another girl made a different impression altogether. she has a habit of saying remarkably inappropriate things in class - and today's outburst made me take a look at her... i think she's a bit handicapped, unless i miss my mark. anyway, after class she asked if i'm <totalwaste>, and after the third attempt i managed to get her name. i began talking to co-conspirator (the girl who's organizing the event with me, and who dragged me off to meet the student union heads) about the professor's rage i'd witnessed earlier, and this new girl kinda jumped in. i was being pleasantly polite, but after the third interjection that i'd had trouble understanding i tried to intimate with body-language that the conversation had turned private. before she turned to go, she touched my arm to make a point of saying goodbye...

awkward.

after a whirlwind discussion outside the building, i met with pg and she treated me to lunch. it's crazy being totally out of cash :/
in spite of the previous sentiment, i was quite buoyant, joyful even. then i went to work.

aside from an infernal-eternal meeting wherein i had to convince the boss to leave the coding decisions to the professionals*, the day was alright. i got a fair amount done, mostly administrative or helping the other guy - i think this experience should count as "team leader" on my cv...

* he was like a dog with a bone on the topic of using md5, as if it's the latest, greatest, fix-everything mechanism

i can't help thinking about how much i'm being paid. as they're paying me slightly over a tenth of what i should be earning with my experience (if i wasn't a student), i suppose if i come in for a day's work and spend almost a half of that working then they're still making a serious profit. unfortunately, i can't bring myself to do that. thanks, mom, for making me far too honest for my own good :/

[just kidding; i really am grateful. as i read this morning, it was benjamin franklin (as "poor richard") who said that a man in trouble has a hard time remaining honest. i hope i never find myself in that much trouble.]

on the way home, i couldn't stop staring at the faces of the people on the bus with me. good salesmen (con-men) notwithstanding, i think one can tell a lot about a person's integrity and general world view by their eyes and bearing. my thoughts could be complete bollocks, but it fascinates me nonetheless.

pg cooked great food tonight, and we had a pleasant evening. i came back to work on my seminar, but lo! it's hours later and i still haven't gotten around to it...

*sigh*