wanting peace and finding none
I have, out of courtesy and appreciation, used, already, several excerpts or phrases from editorials in my Connotations section from Virginia Tech’s entirely independently run paper, Collegiate Times. However, my disdain for actually lauding some of their rigidly left-wing is surfacing. While I enjoy the editorials, regardless of their political sway, their non-AP news articles are simply horrible. Never in my life have I seen such a concentration of punctuation, grammar, and incomprehensible sentences left in print. Naturally, I exaggerated to relay my point, but I do not kid when saying that this is the worst editing job I’ve witnessed. But still, I applaud their 4-a-week efforts and hope they continue to “press on.”
Last night Au Bon Pain had a “two-for-one” deal that I gladly took part in; a cinnamon scone and wheat bran muffin later and I was ready for my spontaneous grading assignment. The classes I grade for had a pop-quiz or something and I was to get it back to them before the next round of their classes. ::intensity:: But I got it done, while sitting on a couch in the open area of Squires, even though that rude employee turned the light off over where I was working. Come now, Squires is open 24/7, that was unnecessary.
But other than that, I think I’ve been bracing for Ivan like the rest of the world. My Squires-remote last night was companied by a continuous MSNBC broadcast from various Ivan-fearing locations. I found it quite humorous to watch the anchorwoman try and sensationalize the hurricane when interviewing the college professors of meteorology who said this summer’s formidable array of hurricanes is nothing more than usual. Her efforts and grief clearly increased later when she talked to another MSNBC team member in Pensacola. He noted that things weren’t as bad as she was making them out to be, and it got hilarious after that. Oh well. When all that surrounds you are incorrect Inventor-quiz answers and the occasional passer-by, you tend to latch on to the nearest elements of humor and embrace them gratuitously.
Whatever, I’ve got work to do.