You miss the NG for a few days...

.. and you end up having HUNDREDS of postings to sift through.

There were some really interesting threads, but I simply don't think I can reply to everyone individually. Thanks to wicka_chick though, for saying that I'm a cool chick or something to that effect. I think you're pretty cool too :)

Anyway, to anyone who cares, I've just gotten over the mayhem that is the first week of a college semester. I was waitlisted for a Reporting class which I REALLY wanted to get in (it was full before I had a chance to enrol, damn it) and I've been running around trying to buy textbooks (GOD they're ridiculously expensive! Even the damn used ones!) for all my classes. Fortunately, I was the first on the waitlist, so all I had to do was wait for someone to drop the class, and guess what? Someone did! It must've been that inspiring talk the lecturer gave on the first day of class.. ("This will be the toughest class you'll ever take throughout your college experience.")

So I got into "Reporting", and am also taking "History of Journalism," "Critical Thinking and the Third World Experience" (one of those GE classes), and "Earthquakes and the San Andreas Fault" (another one of those GE classes - a useful one, since I'm living on earthquake territory). I'm only taking 4 classes this semester, rather than my usual 5, since "Reporting" really does seem to be that tough. So far, no annoying lecturers. I just hope they remain that way.

And I already have homework and reading assignments *sigh*. To think I complained of boredom just a few days ago...

Well, enough of my little story of mayhem and chaos, what's going on with everyone else here? Oh, congrats rich, on being an uncle :) I'm sure you'd make a great one :)

Okays, enough of that folks. Time to write that essay...

Jane: "Someone's just put us in a position of responsibility." Daria: "The day has suddenly turned sinister."

Tell me about it. Thank the fates for speed reading.

Congrats on getting the classes you wanted. Is the first week of college still called 'Hell Week'?

Umm... Survival 101?

<hehe> The mutant pigs started school Monday morn. 8:30am and the house is silent. Slept from 9 to 3, six solid hours, more than I've gotten in a long time. I'm pretty sure that everything I'm seeing is really there.

I can see the kid in school now, being threatened by bullies...

"Go ahead, mess with me. My uncle's a lawyer. Can you spell 'lawsuit'?"

[email] wrote:

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Hey, I've already got half of a dried-up stick of Juicy Fruit gum. ;-)

Nah, since his Dad is getting his black belt in aikido in a couple of weeks, and his Mom will be getting her black belt sometime next year, I get the feeling that the little guy will get a little training in "how to make a bully scream like a baby without leaving a mark." ;-) His uncle studies aikido, too... no pressure, kid... no pressure at all. ;-)

With that kind of a family, who needs to threaten a lawsuit? ;-)

rich.

Quinn: I can't be a brain! My friends will hate me!

paperpusher wrote in message news:[email]...

Lawyers! Akido! Next thing you'll be saying "Ni!" to people.

Nicole Lee wrote:

He (or she) is pulling your chain. Reporting is easy. At least, it was in 1977. And going to see the autopsy was interesting. (But it did keep me from eating scrambled eggs for a couple of weeks).

Critical Thinking and the Third World Experience? Is that an oxymoron, or just another bad band from the early '70s? Or is that a class thought up by the same people who had bad bands back in the early '70s?

Now I know why I refuse to go back to school.

Peace Kevin

Nicole Lee wrote:

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*Shrug*. I've heard that one before, even in early high school. From academic geography: "We know that there's fifty of you and only about thirty desks but most people drop out of this class by the second day." Evidently that strengthened our resolve rather than scaring us (this was the typing class teacher, I wondered where she got any geography training from) and eventually they split the class in two because more people joined the class and none that I know of dropped out.

Len