Not one of "those" days
Update: I switched to HTML entities for the following Greek characters, per Ed's suggestion.
Well, if yesterday was a bad day, today was its inverse. Despite feeling slightly under the weather, the day just seemed to go right from the beginning until now. I had a Koine Greek midterm and was able to pull off a 97% on it (kudos to an instructor kind enough to grade it as soon as I turned it in), which as a major relief. I'd been worrying about this exam for some time, but in the end it turned out good. My big mistake was making the vocative case second declension noun ending ε into ει and the imperfect middle/passive verb ending ομηι instead of ομην. As a whole though, it turned out well.
Since Tuesdays/Thursdays contain several classes, I usually grab lunch on campus, since I only have 45 minutes to do so. Today, I walked into the cafeteria a bit early after finishing the aforementioned test, and found, for the first time in memorable history, cream of potato soup (my favorite) available. It was quite good too.
The next class, Religion in America, turned into a debate forum on the topic of the First Amendment and the meaning of the phrase “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” I'm sure you can guess which interpretation I have on that issue.
Later in the afternoon while walking to my car, I happened to run into a good friend that I hadn't had a chance to talk to more than in passing for some weeks. Given that I was not in any rush, nor was the friend, it was a nice opportunity to chat (as in talk, not type
) for a bit. The said friend has a mind for wit, and the exercise of quick thinking is always refreshing and a good way to wrap up a good afternoon.
This evening has not presented anything terribly exciting, but it did not need to, given the day. So, how was your day?
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“You take the good you take the bad, you take ‘em both and there you have the facts of life…”
Highs and lows. Good busy day at work. Spent all day researching end-user results of code bugs (some pretty funny results). One of these days I’ll figure out a way to have the test box let out a horror movie shriek every time a bug is encountered (preferable over the intercom system). Make sure Sr. Management is aware how crappy some of our supposed release candidates are. But in the mean time, I’ll just keep entering stuff into Bubzilla and spamming the office via Workflow.
Glad your Greek test went well. Sounds like you had a really good day. By the way, what school are you going to?
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Heh. Your Greek samples display as mere question marks in my browser. Could I suggest using equivalent entities codes? That usually works for me.
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How true, Jason. I like the shriek idea. Thanks, re: the Greek.
Lindenwood University… it is rarely heard of, but is, in fact, the second oldest (IIRC) such institution on the western side of the Mississippi. LU is convenient location wise, which helps it to fit with other obligations.
Ed, yes, now that I posted it, it shows up as question marks for me too. Maybe Textile dosn’t like it. I’ll have to look up the Greek entity codes.
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An interesting bug report. The quotes in your title seem to have been cut-off in the comment title replies…
Anyway, my day has been average compared to those of late. More problems incoming than being solved.
That’s why my blog has been poorly updated.
I just noticed the addition of your picture to the menu bar. I think that is the first I’ve seen a pic of you.
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Have a couple of hours from Lindenwood.
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The Greek letters look nice, now. Thanks for giving me credit. It keeps me hoping I can be useful from time to time.
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Christopher: Really? That’s interesting. What’d you take at LU? I have a long “history” at the university — for the first ten years or so of my life, I ended up there one day each summer. Not for classes though; my grandparents would get a booth at the antique show that use to take place there.
Ed: My pleasure; of course, you’re useful all the time!
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Well I believe that hours were dual enrolled as a high school student.
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Ah, oh well.