Muscles

Constructed leftover pasta/chicken salad. Mmm. Worked out with Votania last night after she got home. Bread was perfect.

It's nice to spend time with friends, with bread and wine. (Well, I probably would have preferred grape juice... hm, perhaps next time I'll drag my own chalice and share with Nephew.)

Mmmm, pretty.

Something for me to do someday to my computers (well, several somethings): http://metku.net/index.html

Rain

Sprinkled outside for a while. Darkside's Stats class was pretty much cancelled, because Benes is sick; Darkside popped into the lab where I was sitting and started singing, "It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring..."

I walked him to his car, and on the way there, we had the exact same thought at the exact same time. He voiced it: it was something silly about glasses-wipers, like windshield wipers. Perfect for the geek in your life.

He misses the weather in Germany so much.

Rules of Order

ralmathon has Ashford for Speech as well.

Evidently the classroom format that Ashford uses is based on the Toastmasters format. The meeting is called to order, we are led in exercises, the duty personell are introduced, speeches are given, reports on the speakers are given by the people who do that thing, an "impromptu speaking master" poses questions for the people who don't have anything to do to answer in a speech lasting one minute, then the duty personell (watch for grammar, watch for "um...ahh..." & so forth, watch for clichés, watch the time) give their reports, and we are left with an inspirational or funny story.

Neighbor was assigned the task of Impromptu Speaking Master. According to the rules of order that Ashford handed out, whoever's got the chair has control of the class.

Really, truly, when you're interrupting the speaker, telling him that he's doing it all wrong, you should have put more detailed instructions in the script that everyone is supposed to follow in the first place, and you really, really ought to have at least raised your hand and said, "Point of order", which was what you did in your last class... even though you barged ahead and said what you were going to say without waiting to be formally recognized, you still gave Madam Chairman a chance to stop talking...

ralmathon got a little peeved, and proceeded to have a heated discussion with Ashford. Ashford's used to his students backing down. He's not used to Neighbor, who's got a very slow Earth temper.

Bob and I tend to sit in the same area of the classroom and exchange random snarky remarks.

Nails

I have two more clawmarks on the back of my hand. Played mercy with Darkside this morning again.

I think the touching is on the upswing again.

I have concluded that my deliberately leaving Darkside more time by himself is very likely to lead to him actively seeking me out, and also to more physical contact.

List:

Finish Econ Ch 4 homework; start next chapter.
Trim down and revise Summary essay; start the next essay early.
Pick up my prescription Monday.
Finish my AYdBABTU lab: populating the DB, setting up relationships, etc.
Price phones, answering machines.
Make pilgimage to Sam's, Fry's Temple, Best Buy.
Work on UML homework.
Install burning software on Tigereye.
Test out floppy drive to see if it's still OK.
Back up Tigereye to CD.
Do the reading about that situation to gather insight into the workings of karma.
Look over the packet Dawn gave me about possible job leads.
Finish purple afghan; finish Earth afghan; start clearing out the fuzzy yarn into another happy afghan.
Practice timing the five minute speech.
Call Dell and see what they can do for a fucked-up laptop keyboard. Also, the drive bay lock is missing.
Schedule appointment with dentist.
Transfer from NSFCU to WF before Friday. (!!)

Social stuff, schedule.

To do, continued

Get eyes checked
Fix glasses nosepads!!

Interview

I came to school spiffy this morning. Darkside hoped that the hair and lipstick weren't part of an ongoing plot to seduce him, because if so, it wasn't working.

Interviewed with Susan, who smiled at some of my more enthusiastic plans for the paper. I think a computer gaming column would be an excellent idea, and I have a few men I might be able to ask to write the column. Susan thought that I could be quite pursuasive if I tried. She enjoyed my digression about Anakin Skywalker.

I'll know on Monday whether I have the job or not.