Profugos

A good friend of mine pointed put to me that I may be too skeptical about the importance of our President-elect. Probably. At the very least, I agree that symbols have meaning and having a Black President is a very big symbol. I was also persuaded by these pictures of the reaction in Harlem.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/11/05/nyregion/1105-HARLEMREAX_index.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

I'm working like a mad dog to go through my contract's notes and try to understand them. I'm not going to have time to make my own outline by scratch -- too much distillation I think. Well, I have 3 (oh my freaking gawd, only 3!!!!!) weeks until finals. I have been a little lax in my preparations, but now I have things under control (I think). I have been sitting here at my desk like a ninja warrior today, getting the work done with a minimum of distractions.

I also lucked out this week. I did a straight C job on the pre memo research. To make things worse, what I turned in was a barely edited draft of my notes -- not at all suitable for someone else's eyes. How did that happen? First, I went to a movie the night before the work was do. Not really a big problem, I had time to get the work done. And I did it. I have 40 minute between my last class and the assignment due time, so I waited till then to edit (well, I forgot that I had left most of it in a really raw form). 14 minutes before the due time, I emailed the paper to myself and rushed downstairs to print it out. I waited the 1.5 minutes for my "Preferences to boot" , changed the heading, and printed and stapled. As I was making my way up the stairs, I looked and say my rough draft with what might as well have been scribbles because they were not complete sentences. Shit!

I ran back down, waited yet again for the preferences boot and had time to fiddle just enough to get a passable draft turned in. It's not graded, but it had to be successfully completed to move on to the next phase of the memo without penalty. Well, looks like my bet paid off -- I did not get penalized! (It was primarily based on the entire class doing a good enough job.)

This is the second time that I have made that bet on this class. I was frank with my Prof. at the meeting for my second ungraded memo. She saw that I just did not put enough time into it. No excuses were made. I hope she doesn't think less of me -- I really dig her and she'll be a goldmine of info (maybe a recommendation too?). I would not be able to get away with this if I did not have an ok understanding of how to do this writing. So, graded memo will be A material. I'm going to start working on it on Wednesday, after I finish transcribing all of my notes.

I wonder when it is due, I forgot.