Meme

From aminahfiddler and swabere

THREE WAYS I AM STILL JUST A KID
1. Strong desire to dress like a fairy princess
2. I still sleep with my teddy bear
3. I still get a little scared by thunder and lightening

THREE WAYS I AM ALREADY OLD
1. Lots of grey hair
2. A burgeoning interest in home repair and interest rates
3. A sad tendancy to stay home Friday night and iron to Pay-Per-View instead of clubbing

THREE WAYS THAT I'M A STEREOTYPICAL BOY
1. I am perplexed and confused by girl-games
2. I like to tinker with things until they work
3. I like boobies

THREE WAYS THAT I'M A STEREOTYPICAL GIRL
1. I feel pretty when I have dressed myself up in ridiculously uncomfortable clothing.
2. I feel a need to be judgemental about women I hardly know
3. I worry obsessively about the size of my butt.

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My smarts
2. My music/dance talents
3. My ability to make friends with good people

THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My difficulty with confrontation
2. My tendency to overcommit
3. My domestic messiness

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. English
2. Irish
3. Scottish
(nope, not a drop of melanin among 'em, watch me crisp)

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. My wallet
2. My teddy bear
3. A sewing project

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Bright red pants
2. Gray sweater
3. Candy corn socks
(and yes, new_man I AM wearing underwear - they are gray briefs)

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. Respect
2. Laughter
3. sex
Wow - I think aminahfiddler nailed it. I'm stealing hers. :)

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. Hair - long, well-cared for hair, preferably dark.
2. Powerful charisma
3. Dangerous quality

Really done

Perfectionistic little me...

My professor mailed me back with final grades - 44/50 on the final, total score thus is 91.8/100, which makes the course an A. I'll be getting the graded final back in the mail.

Now... I'm divided, my thoughts are:
- yay! It's totally over, final is graded, grades go in, Pennsic is even more worry-free!
- yay! An "A"!! damn straight it's an A - all but one homework was an A - if the final grade isn't, you have to go "what the heck?"
- ?huh? 44??? I really thought I did better than that. Yeah, I'm a perfectionist. Percentwise, a 44 is one point less than a straight up A (90/100 -> 45/50), but... well... I was acing most of these homeworks. What things did I mess up?

So, I know I should be happy - an A is an A is an A. And an A is great, an A that is the final grade going into the WPI system is even better. Obviously next week I won't give a crap (there will be something shiny catching my attention), the individual grades, heck, even the final course grades make little to no difference in my life - I'm not doing PhD work, I'm getting a Master's to have a spiffier resume. The GPA will be spiffy. No worries.

But, at the moment, I'm really curious to see what I screwed up, since it was my homework grades that raised my final.

March of the Penguins

I'm torn between laughter, "awww.... cute...." and being just riveted:

http://wip.warnerbros.com/marchofthepenguins/

Morgan Freeman, narrating the life cycle of penguins as a tale of love in the frozen Antartic.

Wow. It's out already, so maybe ya'll have heard of it... but I'm thinking I might need pre-Pennsic stress relief...