December 2010
20 posts
Well, I did it. For the first time in my entire academic career (12 years of grade school, 4 years of undergraduate study in two majors, and 2 years as a graduate student), I, Elizabeth Campbell, have failed a class.
Granted, I received a ‘C’, which isn’t all that bad, but in grad school, it’s a failing grade. Which means I don’t get credit for the class. Which means...
True Story:
I watch House Hunters International and keep a journal of how much different properties cost in different countries, just in case I want to live in one of them one day.
Yup.
Most people I know wouldn’t want to be sorted in Hufflepuff, because it’s not as “cool” as the other houses, or because it’s a “boring” and “sissy” house, or because it values friendship and honesty above all else instead of courage, intelligence, or ambition.
But Hufflepuff’s mascot is a badger.
And badgers will eat your face off.
“There be nothin’ attached, woman. And also, pirates have run ashore and...”
– Nick’s e-mail response to my failure to attach my paper to an earlier e-mail.
In One of the Wikileak Cables, The U.S Calls Putin...
I knew it.
