Today I went to school even though I don't have classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I hope on the bus and make it to school at just past 10am. I noticed how few people were riding the bus to school, and I noticed how few students were in school when I arrived. I just chalked up the sparse student population to blocked-off class schedules, like mine. However, I walk past the library and I see all the lights are off. Oh shit. I walk back to one of the administration desks and ask them if the school is open today. It was, but it was "Professional Improvement Day," a day when the professors and instructors attend developmental meetings.
Anyway...
I make it to my professor's office and we begin to go over my first test. I didn't do so well on it: I got a 71 out of 100. :( So we go over my test and all the time I notice he is re-grading the answers I'm getting correct. I just chalked that up to him showing his notes. After we are done the test re-assessment he opens his grade book and changes my old grade to my new grade. As he did that I asked him what he was doing. He just said that whenever a student shows interest, and knowledge gained, on a test, he'll change the grade. I went from a 71 to an 85. Not too shabby, I'd say.
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About Me -- Confusion abounds
- monolith941
- Urbana, Illinois, United States
- Thirty-one-year-old gay guy blogging for blog's sake.
2010-03-01
My new Toshiba computer
Yay. I'm pretty satisfied, and happy, right now. Yesterday when I got home from school I knew my computer wouldn't arrive at the house until after 3pm. So I hopped onto Kevin's computer and screwed off for a while. As I'm randomly surfing the interwebz, I hear the UPS truck drive away. Then I realize I subconsciously heard a really light knock at the front door. OMG! Getting back to the UPS personnel: I never understood why the delivery people just don't...I don't know...ring the goddamn doorbell. I think they think that no one is home during normal working hours -- and that is a logical assumption -- but it wouldn't hurt them to simply reach up and press a little button located next to our door. Really...
Alas, My computer is there on the door step. I quickly picked it up and brought it inside. I've never owned a new computer before so I couldn't wait to open the box.
I begin to open the Amazon shipping box. The excitement is building!
I remove the packing. Ooh, pretty....
The box is free of the box!
Opening the computer box...
The computer is free of the box.
Screen Condom.
The touch-pad is the weirdest piece of hardware on my computer. It almost looks like it was sprayed on top of the outer shell. Spooky.
A naked computer not yet turned-on.
And it blends!
Kevin's dinner
I'm actually pretty satisfied with my computer. Unfortunately the built-in speakers are atrocious. They positively suck. The sounds that comes out of them is sub-par, I mean I might as well be listening to ear-buds. There is also a minor design flaw: There aren't any USB ports on the back of the laptop. Also, the DC-in port is located on the right side of the laptop -- next to the USB ports. It just seems sloppy to me to have these ports on either side of the laptop, considering protruding cords takes up works space on desks. Other than that the computer gets a 90% out of 100%.
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Alas, My computer is there on the door step. I quickly picked it up and brought it inside. I've never owned a new computer before so I couldn't wait to open the box.
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| From newcomputer |
I begin to open the Amazon shipping box. The excitement is building!
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| From newcomputer |
I remove the packing. Ooh, pretty....
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| From newcomputer |
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| From newcomputer |
The box is free of the box!
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| From newcomputer |
Opening the computer box...
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| From newcomputer |
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| From newcomputer |
The computer is free of the box.
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| From newcomputer |
Screen Condom.
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| From newcomputer |
The touch-pad is the weirdest piece of hardware on my computer. It almost looks like it was sprayed on top of the outer shell. Spooky.
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| From newcomputer |
A naked computer not yet turned-on.
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| From newcomputer |
And it blends!
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| From newcomputer |
Kevin's dinner
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| From newcomputer |
I'm actually pretty satisfied with my computer. Unfortunately the built-in speakers are atrocious. They positively suck. The sounds that comes out of them is sub-par, I mean I might as well be listening to ear-buds. There is also a minor design flaw: There aren't any USB ports on the back of the laptop. Also, the DC-in port is located on the right side of the laptop -- next to the USB ports. It just seems sloppy to me to have these ports on either side of the laptop, considering protruding cords takes up works space on desks. Other than that the computer gets a 90% out of 100%.
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Puking and shitting. Shitting and puking.
Urgh. Last night was so horrible, horrible, horrible. I caught Kevin's stomach flue. I was up until 4am pinwheeling. It was horrible.
Yesterday I realized I was feeling a bit nauseous before dinner and I had a sneaky suspicion I caught Kevin's stomach flu. Of course, I talked myself out of believing I could catch it since he stopped being sick about three days prior. I was wrong, obviously. Since the early evening I was literally pissing from my ass. I knew something was wrong with me but yet I still held onto hope that I wouldn't get as sick as he did last Monday.
Cut to midnight I feel really weighted down. My body feels like it weighs 400lbs. I'm shaking because I'm freezing, and the diarrhea continually got worse. Then that weird salivation begins and I know I'm in for some heaving. I make it to the bathroom upstairs but I somehow did not vomit even though I came very close. I realize I'm in for a long night so I go to the basement and grab a bucket just in case I feel the need to hurl sometime in the middle of the night.
I continue to get the chills and I'm feeling really bad. I make it downstairs around 12:30am and email one of my college instructors asking her if I can skip today since I really don't want to be pinwheeling in public. In the middle of the email I completely throw up the steak dinner Kevin made for me six hours previously. It all came up. All of it. Before I puked I felt like I had a sack of bricks in my stomach and I did feel better after I released yesterday's dinner. Almost immediately after that my muscles from my chest down to my toes seized up. My legs wouldn't respond to messages from my brain! It was like I was locked in 3d-space. My muscles were cramping really tightly and I was in serious pain. I literally couldn't move my legs, or stand up, for about fifteen minutes. It was so weird.
I go back upstairs and toss and turn in bed until 4am I think. I was still experiencing the chills so I turned on the heated mattress pad. It helped but throughout the night I was too hot instead of too cold. I also have a head-ache and my muscles are sore. Of course they are sore: They all seized up in the middle of the night after I puked.
It looks like I'll be on the clear diet for the next few days.
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Yesterday I realized I was feeling a bit nauseous before dinner and I had a sneaky suspicion I caught Kevin's stomach flu. Of course, I talked myself out of believing I could catch it since he stopped being sick about three days prior. I was wrong, obviously. Since the early evening I was literally pissing from my ass. I knew something was wrong with me but yet I still held onto hope that I wouldn't get as sick as he did last Monday.
Cut to midnight I feel really weighted down. My body feels like it weighs 400lbs. I'm shaking because I'm freezing, and the diarrhea continually got worse. Then that weird salivation begins and I know I'm in for some heaving. I make it to the bathroom upstairs but I somehow did not vomit even though I came very close. I realize I'm in for a long night so I go to the basement and grab a bucket just in case I feel the need to hurl sometime in the middle of the night.
I continue to get the chills and I'm feeling really bad. I make it downstairs around 12:30am and email one of my college instructors asking her if I can skip today since I really don't want to be pinwheeling in public. In the middle of the email I completely throw up the steak dinner Kevin made for me six hours previously. It all came up. All of it. Before I puked I felt like I had a sack of bricks in my stomach and I did feel better after I released yesterday's dinner. Almost immediately after that my muscles from my chest down to my toes seized up. My legs wouldn't respond to messages from my brain! It was like I was locked in 3d-space. My muscles were cramping really tightly and I was in serious pain. I literally couldn't move my legs, or stand up, for about fifteen minutes. It was so weird.
I go back upstairs and toss and turn in bed until 4am I think. I was still experiencing the chills so I turned on the heated mattress pad. It helped but throughout the night I was too hot instead of too cold. I also have a head-ache and my muscles are sore. Of course they are sore: They all seized up in the middle of the night after I puked.
It looks like I'll be on the clear diet for the next few days.
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