Quick school week

Another quick school week. Here's the synopsis:

Monday- First monday of classes. I decided to take my On War class Pass/Fail, which precludes me from making the dean's list this semester because I am only taking 9 graded credit hours, but oh well. Not too much else memorable from Monday.

Tuesday- First peer advising class Tuesday afternoon. Tomorrow I get my list of kids I'm expected to interview. That should be time consuming and awkward, but maybe I'll make a difference in a few kids year, so that can be rewarding. I also had a meeting with the Teach for America ND guy, but I essentially told him thanks but no thanks.

Wednesday- My "busy" day, with two afternoon classes and then an hour honors thesis class with kids presenting their research (or what will be their research). The classes were fine. I actually was the first presenter. I signed up because I figured I was as far ahead as anyone else and I wanted to get it out of the way early. I was surprisingly nervous. Despite being in a ton of plays, I still get flushed during public speaking. I guess my presentation was kind of off the top of my head (maybe I should have made a powerpoint), so that may have had something to do with it. People didn't seem to mind, though. And they asked interesting questions, but that's probably a function of the subject (gambling). Also, I got in a plug for The Wire in there. Success. Also, last night Sarah Palin spoke at the Republican convention, so my friends and I drunkenly poked fun at Rudy Giuliani and then noted Cindy McCain's not-so-excellent plastic surgery or Botox (her facial expression did not change once during Palin's 45 minute speech) and then made fun of how uncomfortable the guy who knocked up Palin's daughter looked (understandably). And then Palin knocked her speech out of the ballpark. This is going to be a really interesting two months. And I'm one of the ever-so-valuable "undecided" voters.

Thursday- Today I woke up, got dressed up in my suit, and went over to interview for an internship position at the office of U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly (IN-02). I decided to apply to work there because I enjoyed my time at Sue Myrick's office and I have free time this semester. After that I made a beer run, then came back and somehow the day slipped away. I did some writing samples for the internship and went to the gym and then ate a few times and somehow the time goes. Then I started to write this post and my computer died, but luckily I saved a draft, so now I'm finishing it at the computer lab.

I have yet to hear from Max about his travel plans, which is worrisome.