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Aubrey; also Birdie.
Student and writer. Polyamorous and really gay. Chronically ill.
Local queen of cait sidhe. Powered by caffeine, anxiety, and spite.
mortalcity: (SU | smug)
All my grades are in, finally, with four As and a B. That B is in the required freshman orientation class that I could not give less of a shit about, and I scraped by with an A in my worst class (Spanish), so I am counting this semester as a big victory overall.

Now I just have to relearn math and test into college algebra by the next semester. I took a practice test today, and I did have to look a lot of shit up just to remember what the fuck I was doing, but I didn't do... too badly. It's just been ten years since I did any math at all, so there was a lot of "okay, so I'm just going to try some things and see what happens. Do I add something here? Do I multiply? How do long division anyway?"

I worked it out eventually. I might not be as bad at this as I thought I was. I still need to take a few more practice tests to hammer it home before I feel comfortable actually scheduling the test.

More fussing about school, possibly only interesting to me )

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We took Trinket to the dog park today, because he finally has all his shots and is safe to meet other dogs now. I think he was kind of overwhelmed by the number of dogs there, and he got bowled over a few times and did not like that at all - at one point he ducked a lab mix only to get slammed by this tiny pudgy French Bulldog not much older than him, and just laid there with his paws in the air looking confused until four people converged on him to reassure him.

But he seems to have enjoyed himself despite all that, and he is very polite with other dogs. Much more so than his terrible sisters are, in fact. He also managed to thoroughly exhaust himself, which is not an easy thing to do.

(There was an actual adult Pyrenees at the park, too. They're... surprisingly common around here, along with Anatolians. It was such a giant fluffy cloud. Trinket will never be that floof, but... maybe that big, and it's kind of terrifying to imagine. ONE DAY. MY VERY OWN GIANT BEAR DOG.)
mortalcity: A painted rock. It has a face with its tongue sticking out. It knows things. (OtGW | that's a rock fact)
Geology test done! Pretty sure I did well enough to tip me over from 89% into an A.

The look on the face of the woman who runs the test center when I walked in and she realized she was going to have to print an entire 90-page powerpoint was... priceless. (And I share her feelings. It is the dumbest possible way to do a test, but at least I didn't have to take it at glacial speed with the rest of the class.) The nice thing about taking it in a private room is that I got to mutter to myself about how dumb some of the questions were while I took it.

Spanish test tomorrow, and I am nervous about it bc it's my worst subject, but literally all I have to do to pass the class is not completely fail. And then my finals will be done and I can actually talk about something other than school for a while. Wish me luck.
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mortalcity: Barbara Gordon, typing on a laptop with the Oracle logo. (DC | we rise once more)
Started a fight about Neanderthals with my professor in the middle of our class' review for the final. It's the last time I will be in her class and I am DONE, she's wrong and I'm going to make sure everyone knows it.

(She knows it and immediately started backpedaling too. Bitch I know what you said and I'll pull up your own PowerPoint to prove it.)
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