what i think about

OFF CAMPUS CARJACKING Friday, November 10, 2006 @ 6:10 p.m.

6:10 pm? Great. This is about nine blocks from where I live, and I have had class that late before. I would like to feel safe going to the library that "late" too - but K disabused me of that notion, and now if it's after dark we walk together to her car and she drives me home, and there's no use me arguing about it.

Maybe I should learn to use that damn alarm system.

Here's something else that's bugging me now, too - the dean when he emailed me back about asking if a friend could visit class with me used a :) and CALLED ME BY MY FIRST NAME.

Yeah, I know. I'm living in a ghost-infested house and just got sued for $12,500 by an insane man and have a hugely important assignnment due in a few days and don't have any time after today to work on it. And that's what I'm thinking about, my first name usage?

It's just ... odd. The only thing I can think of is that he was on his mobile (which is what the email said) and with his wife, with whom I am on a first-name basis and would have invited me to Thanksgiving if I weren't going out of town, and they discussed what I had reported to him earlier today, about how we were trying to convince her to take him with her on a trip, making him miss class. (My exact words were, "Take the Dean for the Team!")

It's all Ms this and Mr that here, and it's weird as hell - but aberrations of any sort always focus my attention.

And my writing instructor? Even at 8:30 at night, she responds to my questions within ten minutes. Now THAT is service. If only my (ex?)-fiance were so prompt.