Whistle while you work . . .
Apr. 2nd, 2003 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielYesterday I started my final research project in Advanced Writing and Research. This is a scary thing. We're doing persuasive/comparative essays/speeches/presentations in APA formatting on whatever topic we drew from a hat. I got "agricultural biotechnology". A little out of my usual realm, as Mrs. Neiffer remarked. Only a little I think. I mean, I may not read Farmer Monthly, but I'm not completely ignorant about it. And I have research skills.
I also got my senior speech back from Mrs. Neiffer and Mrs. Lafser yesterday. I went through and made some of the changes indicated, smoothed some things out. But Mrs. Lafser made a comment about my transitioning throughout the paper being "tense" and needing work throughout the job shadowing and education section. I looked back through it and couldn't see what to change so I asked Mrs. Neiffer about it today. Her reaction was completely different. She said that she thought my transitions were fine. She explained that Lafser was probably looking for the "one-word" transition (i.e. therefore, secondly, however, etc.) instead of whatever it is I do. But she complimented it, so it's a good thing. She even tried to transition it more and couldn't. And she's been around for ten forevers.
Besides this, I finished Interview with the Vampire this morning. Good book, but don't read it when you're home alone at night. Last night I did just that and every time I looked up and saw my reflection in our cabinets I expected to see something behind me. Doom my overactive imagination. Anyways, yeah. It was a good book. Louis went through periods of being interesting, annoying, and pathetic. He did eventually end up being interesting overall. And near the end there were some paragraphs and ideas that I found very interesting. AND Ms. Rice used "evanescent" several times and "somnambulistic" once which I found incredibly diverting. Am now waiting for Daniel Deronda from the library.
Also had another hilariously fun/creative/why-can't-everything-be-like-this? rehearsal. And will go to Seattle on Saturday. And then again sometime later in the week. Probably (already pretty much planned) meet up with some KD ladies. Yea!
Life is overall good.
I also got my senior speech back from Mrs. Neiffer and Mrs. Lafser yesterday. I went through and made some of the changes indicated, smoothed some things out. But Mrs. Lafser made a comment about my transitioning throughout the paper being "tense" and needing work throughout the job shadowing and education section. I looked back through it and couldn't see what to change so I asked Mrs. Neiffer about it today. Her reaction was completely different. She said that she thought my transitions were fine. She explained that Lafser was probably looking for the "one-word" transition (i.e. therefore, secondly, however, etc.) instead of whatever it is I do. But she complimented it, so it's a good thing. She even tried to transition it more and couldn't. And she's been around for ten forevers.
Besides this, I finished Interview with the Vampire this morning. Good book, but don't read it when you're home alone at night. Last night I did just that and every time I looked up and saw my reflection in our cabinets I expected to see something behind me. Doom my overactive imagination. Anyways, yeah. It was a good book. Louis went through periods of being interesting, annoying, and pathetic. He did eventually end up being interesting overall. And near the end there were some paragraphs and ideas that I found very interesting. AND Ms. Rice used "evanescent" several times and "somnambulistic" once which I found incredibly diverting. Am now waiting for Daniel Deronda from the library.
Also had another hilariously fun/creative/why-can't-everything-be-like-this? rehearsal. And will go to Seattle on Saturday. And then again sometime later in the week. Probably (already pretty much planned) meet up with some KD ladies. Yea!
Life is overall good.
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Date: 2003-04-03 11:49 am (UTC)I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone. :)
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Date: 2003-04-03 04:33 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-04-04 12:47 am (UTC)Oh please. No need to apologize to ME!
*leaps on the sofa and swoooooooooooooooooooooooons with you* :D
I met him y'know. *smug smug grin*
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Date: 2003-04-04 04:33 pm (UTC)GAH! You've met him? Really?? Well, I can't say I'm surprised. :) Lucky you.
*not jealous, not jealous*
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Date: 2003-04-06 11:03 pm (UTC)