Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Today

What a day. I’d intended to spend the day studying for my upcoming final in ethics, but instead, I’ve ended up getting a whole lot of little but important tasks out of the way. I’ve spent a large part of the day reading, writing, and responding to emails. With the end of the semester upon us, many students have been writing to me about their paper grades, attendance points, and the like, either asking point blank if they can somehow magically receive more points for no real reason, or making up tall tales that they hope will salvage their suffering grades, such as how they’ve only missed three classes this whole semester even though I’ve recorded them as missing 12. In addition to these TA-related goings-on, I’ve signed up for student health insurance for the 2010-2011 academic year, I’ve applied for financial assistance for the 2010-2011 academic year, I’ve paid some bills, balanced the checkbook, renewed some library books, watched a video about how to make your own laundry detergent, registered for classes for the fall 2010 semester, updated my Facebook status, held family home evening, made (i.e. picked up) dinner for my sickly family (Melanie and Peter are sick, anyway), checked the mail, and solidified some of my summer academic plans. OK, not everything on that list was incredibly important, but it felt like I got a lot done. And now I can add posting a new entry on my blog to my list of completed tasks for the day. Not too shabby if you ask me. I’d love to stay and chat about some of this stuff in more detail, but I better get some studying done now. And by studying, I mean vegging out in front of the TV. Let the studying begin!

4 comments:

  1. I hope the "studying" went well. Sounds like a very busy day. Those little tasks are the hardest for me to get done. They weigh so heavily on me! Don't know why... it's like calling for the pizza just gets my nerves going- rather be back in my physics exams! Haha. Love you!

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  2. Wow! Busy day.
    I have been making and using my own laundry detergent for two months now. Actually I only made it once and it's enough for about six months. I need to tweak the recipe a bit but so far it's working. Well at least I haven't had many complaints that we smell funny.

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  3. I love you Ben. Hope you enjoy studying and get plenty of it done. It sounds as if you had a very busy day and got a lot done. I wish I could be half as productive.

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  4. P S Where are you guys learning to make your own laundry detergent???

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