This week in the news.

This week in the news.

This week has worn me out! Sadly, it isn't quite over yet; however, mostly fun stuff remains to be done.

A guy in one of my classes was killed in a motorcycle accident last weekend. That's been a dark cloud over the entire campus this week. I didn't know him personally, but his seat is empty now, a twice weekly reminder of my own  mortality.

Had a pop quiz in one of my classes on Tuesday. Yeah, didn't do so hot. Half of it wasn't so bad but the other half was fill in the blank. A prof. should know better than to give fill in the blank questions on a pop quiz; I'd be willing to guess next to no one got those correct. 

Also had a "writing proficiency exam" yesterday evening. It is required at my grand university to write a timed essay from a given prompt once you have reached junior classification and finished your freshman English courses in order to graduate. I have no qualms with the requirement itself except that I haven't had an English class in two years now and others in my class have been longer. You'd think they'd test us just after the classes. Dumb. What the graders are looking for is that you can express yourself coherently in a written format; I believe I have proved that hundreds of times over in the essays I have written for my classes. If I couldn't I would have failed those classes, wouldn't I? Whatever. It's done, unless by some ill fortune I fail the stupid thing. I think the only way they could claim to fail was in the fact that I didn't like the prompt and stated so in a very acceptable manner in my essay.

Enough of gloom. Good things that occurred this week include getting to spend some time with Greg, getting one of my new rackets in (:-D), finding out that Casting Crowns is coming to town next Friday and I just happen to not be out of town with tennis that weekend (!!!) and I get to play a doubles tennis tournie tomorrow (dubs is my favie!) So really all in all more good things have occurred this week, just having so many weighty bad things has made me draggy tonight. That's why I am about to pack my tennis bag, pick up my room and go to bed early. Good night everyone!