Print quota

Here they have this system where you log on to use any computer from campus. Once you've logged on, it tracks all of your activity, including (among other things) how many pages you print. Thus, they give you a certain number of "free" (as in, included in the "technology fee" billed to your bursar account) pages to print from campus computers. I get 1000 as a grad student. I get 300 extra because I'm an instructor. I also rolled over 500 that were left over from last semester.

As of this afternoon, I am officially out of print pages. Yes, I've printed 1800 pages this semester. What have I printed, you ask? Reading assignments for two classes.

This means that not including the books I've read (which are a decent number) and the random articles I've read here and there online, I've already read 1800 pages. Now, this 1800 pages refers to one side of a page. Usually, I shrink the pages (to try to save trees and my print quota) to the size that there are two pages of whatever I was supposed to read per side of a piece of paper. Assuming I did that half of the time (I know I did it at least that much), that ups the amount I've read to 2700 pages. Add in to that the Arabian Nights, Tale of Genji, Decameron, Odyssey, Divine Comedy and sections of the Bible that I've read for Comp Lit, two plays that my professor gave us for Portuguese, and the two books I read for my presentation in my colonial lit class, and I don't even want to know what the total comes to.

I'm feeling something between admiration at myself and despair over my plight. Hooray for being a girl and a grad student!

Good and bad

So, my extra comp lit meeting that is sometimes a struggle for me to get to because it's the ONLY "school" thing I have on Fridays, is canceled today. WAHOO!

Now if only she had decided this BEFORE 6:30 this morning, I could have slept in instead of getting up early to do my reading. Ain't that always the way??

So I'm totally doomed

I was looking at baby pictures of BeeBoo. I'm talking BABY baby....just born teensy.

And I'm doomed. I totally want another baby.

But I'm scared out of my wits that I'm just basically not good enough at this to do it!

So. I have moments that I can't WAIT for the timing to be right for the next one, and moments when I'm so scared that I never want to have any more babies.

Don't really know what the point of this is. Mostly just rambling.