0900 – Consequentialism, anyone?
During the IT lecture I managed not only to do the required exercises and follow the teacher but also to whip up an excellent PowerPoint show for the philosophy lecture following the IT lecture. After the philosophy presentation the show was considered to be thorough and well-made.
1130 – <3
Fate isn't always a bitch. I was at the Polytechnic and went to its library to return the books I had used for the philosophy presentation instead of returning them before the philosophy lecture already as I had already written the presentation. There was only one person present when I walked in; would anybody like to guess who it might have been? Yes, oh yes... it was Her. Of all people who I could have expected to see there right then, it was Her. She looked a bit bewildered when She saw me there and, I assume, so did I. =) I was smiling for the next three or so hours because of this accidental meeting, throughout my meeting with the tattooist (I'm getting a new tattoo at the end of August) and the theatre guy whom I bought my theatre ticket from. Gods, She is so beautiful! She drives me near this sweet insanity.
1400 – "We apologise for the inconvenience."
For the past four weeks I have been working on a 10-page study of McDonald's according to the systemic-functional grammar with a pair (never met her before). We had a good, functioning division of work: we both wrote half of the theory section and we both analysed one text as was the assignment (the two texts requirement, that is). Yesterday I sent her my nearly completed part of the study, both the revised theory part as well as the analysis so that we can revise it when necessary and it'll be ready by tomorrow's deadline. As I returned to the university at two o'clock I find an e-mail, sent to me around midnight last night, waiting fro me. Let me freely translate its contents:
"Hiya! I've been kinda sick for the past week and I haven't had the time to look at the study that closely and I noticed that I don't think I'm gonna be able to write it by Friday (let alone even know how to write it). So I'm not gonna write the study at all. I hope this won't much inconvenience for you (I'll also notify the teacher about this change). You can use my theory part (it's included with this message) in your text if you like."
"Inconvenience? NO! Of course not! I only have to cancel everything I planned to do this evening AND tomorrow so I'll manage to hand the study in by the deadline as I have to read through your revised theory part, check every single little thing in it, make sure your information is thorough and accurate, check all the references so that I know they are correct and actually written by you, re-write the text you were so kind to give me permission to use as it IS my name on the cover of the paper, write the introduction and somehow extend the one text I have analysed in order to cover the mandatory three pages. I mean, it won't matter that there's only one text analysed from which the conclusions will be drawn from. It won't matter that the entire analysis is basically worthless as you can't draw even remotely reliable conclusion based on ONE analysis as with two I could have at least said if the other confirms or denies the conclusions of the first analysis. It won't matter that this pathetic, desperate piece of shit of an academic paper will only mark half of my entire final grade! Hope you're going to feel better by tonight when you're probably going clubbing with your friends. =)
Hugs and kisses, Splenetic"
