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The Desk - interlude
Oct. 19th, 2004 06:17 amYesterday I called the Help line about the faulty drawer hardware on my new desk, and was told that it is almost certainly in proper working order. I just need to attach the desk per the instructions and then give it a good hard yank. "I've heard this comment several times," said the nice lady on the other end of the phone line.
I got home from class last night, read a chapter of Harry Potter to The Child, and then went right to bed, so I didn't have the chance to see if the drawer really is functional. Maybe tonight. . .
During class, I had the rather disheartening experience of realizing that I had completely missed the point of last week's Hebrew Scriptures reflection assignment -- which isn't all that surprising, considering that I was sick and didn't re-read the directions before I did the assignment.
Being completely off the mark for an assignment doesn't usually happen to me. But the individual reflections are not graded, so it was easy to simply shrug and say "Well, if we knew everything already we wouldn't be here." And in this case, remembering (or having looked up the specifics again) wouldn't have helped much. The clues he wanted us to find to discern what the situation of the people was in each of the four passages from Deuteronomy completely eluded me. So it wasn't just being brain dead and careless last week. Even in class last night when he re-created the assignment and we all did it together I was not reading it as closely and subtly as the task required.
I got home from class last night, read a chapter of Harry Potter to The Child, and then went right to bed, so I didn't have the chance to see if the drawer really is functional. Maybe tonight. . .
During class, I had the rather disheartening experience of realizing that I had completely missed the point of last week's Hebrew Scriptures reflection assignment -- which isn't all that surprising, considering that I was sick and didn't re-read the directions before I did the assignment.
Being completely off the mark for an assignment doesn't usually happen to me. But the individual reflections are not graded, so it was easy to simply shrug and say "Well, if we knew everything already we wouldn't be here." And in this case, remembering (or having looked up the specifics again) wouldn't have helped much. The clues he wanted us to find to discern what the situation of the people was in each of the four passages from Deuteronomy completely eluded me. So it wasn't just being brain dead and careless last week. Even in class last night when he re-created the assignment and we all did it together I was not reading it as closely and subtly as the task required.
