Irony is the Shackles of Youth

I have two more Christmas cards to write and then I shall be DONE!

I have also already found out one of my grades for class. I got an A in statistics, meaning that my GPA for my graduate program continues to be a 4.0 (meaning I've got the highest marks you can get for all the classes I've taken in my program, for those who don't know the US's grading system). Since I do not expect to get anything but an A in Adv. Remote Sensing and all I have left is thesis, I'm pretty sure I'm going to keep that GPA.

I have no idea if my university will put summa cum laude on my degree. I know I graduated magna cum laude with my undergrad.

Also, I just had to share this paragraph from the Wikipedia article on honors:

A fourth distinction, egregia cum laude, "with outstanding praise", has occasionally appeared: it was created to recognize students who earned the same grade point average required for the summa honor, but did so while pursuing a more rigorous honors curriculum. One of Fordham University's student newspapers translated this as "with hysterical praise", and so the university dropped the distinction and awards such degrees with summa honors, and a notation In cursu honorum, "in the honors course". This latter notation is used by some other schools as well.

I don't know about you, but I would absolutely love to graduate with hysterical praise. XD

So I drove to the internship (an hour drive) yesterday figuring I was going to a interview about the job. Nope. They decided to hire me based on the phone interview. This instead was a fill out paperwork, meet people, and get a brief orientation on the project meeting. I was there an hour and there's a meeting next week. Between now and then I have to review the protocol they have written and do as much of the GIS parts as I can. Whoo boy. Talk about sink or swim, because I've never written a protocol before. I am kind of glad they didn't attempt to write it themselves because the project leads no nothing about GIS. It's a little bit scary, but is going to be awesome experience. Best of all, once the protocol is in place I'll only have to drive down there once a week and the rest of time I can work from home/on campus.

Got my grades in today. Two A's and an A+. I maintain my 4.0 in graduate school for yet another semester. ^^

I have been very derelict in posting a link to Forbidden Fruit translated into Vietnamese by the very lovely and talented shiyuri_say. She's asked me if I know of any other short, non-graphic stories that she could translate. Any suggestions? I'll pass them on to her.

Finally, writing is going very slowly. My muses are coming back but getting words down on paper is like pulling teeth at this point. I need a week or so to develop a stable routine. Once that happens things will get better. My first task? Finishing the last of the Witch King stories and starting on the next series Wild Witch.

I got my mid-term back for one of my classes. I didn't do as well as I'd hoped. Granted, I didn't do badly but... I thought I'd done better. Turns out I completely screwed up one of the questions and that really hurt my grade. I got above a hundred (yeah for extra credit!) on my assignments in the same class, so that will bring up my mid-term grade. I'm still disappointed though.

In other news, still don't have a laptop. miome has been battling with Dell about getting a replacement. The warranty on my laptop was supposed to be next day support, but that hasn't happened. Some of the Dell support people have been complete morons. I've been borrowing Miome's computer for over two weeks now. This is getting ridiculous.

Not much writing has been done for the above reason. I like Miome's computer, but the keyboard doesn't feel right. It's distracting. That and I just don't have the time in between school, work, and other projects.

I finished my crocheted scarf and have started working on a matching hat. After this I think I'm going to try and find a fingerless glove pattern to work on. I might even have enough yarn to do them all in the same color. Yeah for matching set! Someone expressed an interest in seeing it when I was done. Was it skylark97? If you still want to see what it looks like, I'll take a picture once I'm done with the hat (which is taking 1/10 the amount of time).

Finally, I spent most of the day fighting with the server where the aerial photos I use for work are stored on. I could get half the picture to load and the rest I couldn't. It sucked. I wound up getting so frustrated I stopped working an hour early. I'll have to make that up at some point during the week. Sigh.