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Did the world exist before the Internet? It never ceases to amaze me how much fun stuff I come across—either via searching or stumbling. Top recent finds:

* The Burgomeister’s Books
Tons upon tons of free ebooks. I’m about half-way through The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and it helps a lot to have an electronic copy on my iPod for those times when I’m pinned under a baby and can’t reach the hard copy.

* My P2P.eu – The last time I tried watching footie over the Internet, I downloaded some glitchy Chinese software that never consistently connected to a live stream. This site is another story. Via SopCast, TVU, and online streams, I feel like I never need any match, anywhere, at any time, ever again. That may be overstating things a little, but by the looks of it not by much.

I got my grades back—two A’s to end the semester. Yippee! Although grading in grad school is something of a joke, some profs use a default of an A- unless you’ve wowed them over the semester, and I’ve heard some dole out B+’s and (shock! gasp!) even B’s if they think you’re dogging it. While having a baby the week before papers are due is a damn fine ace up the sleeve, I definitely did not have the same kind of time to put into my schoolwork down the stretch. I would have understood had either of these profs decided that, baby or no baby, I didn’t quite deserve a full-blown A when I could have elected to take an extension but instead chose to cram it all in by the normal class deadline.

And do good grades help you once you graduate? No, but bad ones can certainly hurt you. Glad that’s put to rest!

Current Mood: Fine |