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What absolute _genius_ decided to move Transportation and Parking Services off-campus? I was running late to my class this morning, and since it's my only one today and I would therefore only be on campus for one hour, I opted not to be even later by finding this new location to buy my semester parking permit. Well, I should have. 'Cause apparently only the first _three_ days of the semester are permit-free, not the first week. Why? It's only one more day! So I got a ticket. Which I took to this new location, which is off-campus, on the _other_ side of campus from where it used to be, and there is now a fucking _freeway_ between campus and it. WTF? So I buy my semester permit, but apparently that doesn't spare me from having to pay the ticket. Despite that it's been less than an hour since the ticket was issued. And ticketing people on Fridays is ridiculous anyway because the lots are _never_ full. Okay, well, at least not the one _I_ park in, which seems to be a well-kept secret.

Yes, I know my case is weak. That's why I'm not asking them to change anything, and I'm not going to try to appeal my citation, but jeebus.

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What absolute _genius_ decided to move Transportation and Parking Services off-campus? I was running late to my class this morning, and since it's my only one today and I would therefore only be on campus for one hour, I opted not to be even later by finding this new location to buy my semester parking permit. Well, I should have. 'Cause apparently only the first _three_ days of the semester are permit-free, not the first week. Why? It's only one more day! So I got a ticket. Which I took to this new location, which is off-campus, on the _other_ side of campus from where it used to be, and there is now a fucking _freeway_ between campus and it. WTF? So I buy my semester permit, but apparently that doesn't spare me from having to pay the ticket. Despite that it's been less than an hour since the ticket was issued. And ticketing people on Fridays is ridiculous anyway because the lots are _never_ full. Okay, well, at least not the one _I_ park in, which seems to be a well-kept secret.

Yes, I know my case is weak. That's why I'm not asking them to change anything, and I'm not going to try to appeal my citation, but jeebus.

Book #14 - The Taming of the Shrew

All right, so it's a play instead of a book, but as a bound volume, I think it counts.

This is the first of the plays for my Shakespeare class this semester, most of which I am quite pleased to discover are ones I have not read before, despite all my years in theatre. Though I _have_ performed Kate's speech at the end of this one. Didn't remember having done so until I read it and was like, "this is familiar..."

So, yes, classic Shakespeare. Disguises and mistaken identity (with the requisite upset when the _real_ Vincentio shows up and no one believes he's really himself), raunchy humor, witty banter that was probably off the _hook_ in its day and has sadly lost some of its spark as the language has changed.

Oh, and apparently it's a play-within-a-play. Yeah. The whole story with Katherine and Petruchio and everyone is a play performed for some random nobleman playing a trick on drunkard/beggar Christopher Sly. But Shakespeare/his editors apparently forgot about it, as there's no close to this frame. The play ends and we never hear from the random nobleman or Christopher Sly. Very odd, and surprisingly sloppy. For the Bard's sake, I surmise it was the folks putting together the Folio, not him.

Title: The Taming of the Shrew
Author: William Shakespeare
Pages: 221 (paperback)

14 / 50 books. 28% done!

Book #14 - The Taming of the Shrew

All right, so it's a play instead of a book, but as a bound volume, I think it counts.

This is the first of the plays for my Shakespeare class this semester, most of which I am quite pleased to discover are ones I have not read before, despite all my years in theatre. Though I _have_ performed Kate's speech at the end of this one. Didn't remember having done so until I read it and was like, "this is familiar..."

So, yes, classic Shakespeare. Disguises and mistaken identity (with the requisite upset when the _real_ Vincentio shows up and no one believes he's really himself), raunchy humor, witty banter that was probably off the _hook_ in its day and has sadly lost some of its spark as the language has changed.

Oh, and apparently it's a play-within-a-play. Yeah. The whole story with Katherine and Petruchio and everyone is a play performed for some random nobleman playing a trick on drunkard/beggar Christopher Sly. But Shakespeare/his editors apparently forgot about it, as there's no close to this frame. The play ends and we never hear from the random nobleman or Christopher Sly. Very odd, and surprisingly sloppy. For the Bard's sake, I surmise it was the folks putting together the Folio, not him.

Title: The Taming of the Shrew
Author: William Shakespeare
Pages: 221 (paperback)

14 / 50 books. 28% done!

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You know it's bad when the top three entries on one's Friends page are one's own. My friends are either all really ded bored or really busy. Myself, I'm bored. So bored that I'm DOING MY HOMEWORK, zomg. And, like, going beyond just reading the assigned pages, and taking it upon myself to answer the Review of Terms and Concepts and End of Chapter questions that were _not_ assigned (and happening to get them right).

Aaaaaaagggggghhhh, whose brain is this inside my head?!

*This uncharacteristic industry is tempered by the facts that:
1) the homework in question is _linguistic_ homework. Of course I'm going to jump in and satisfy my own curiosity.
2) it is, after all, still only the first week of classes and I have yet to truly taste how intense homework is likely to get this semester.

I have the feeling that my Language, Culture, and Critical Thinking class is going to overlap in several areas with my Linguistics and the English Language class. The textbook for Critical Thinking is, after all, A Concise Introduction to Linguistics.

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You know it's bad when the top three entries on one's Friends page are one's own. My friends are either all really ded bored or really busy. Myself, I'm bored. So bored that I'm DOING MY HOMEWORK, zomg. And, like, going beyond just reading the assigned pages, and taking it upon myself to answer the Review of Terms and Concepts and End of Chapter questions that were _not_ assigned (and happening to get them right).

Aaaaaaagggggghhhh, whose brain is this inside my head?!

*This uncharacteristic industry is tempered by the facts that:
1) the homework in question is _linguistic_ homework. Of course I'm going to jump in and satisfy my own curiosity.
2) it is, after all, still only the first week of classes and I have yet to truly taste how intense homework is likely to get this semester.

I have the feeling that my Language, Culture, and Critical Thinking class is going to overlap in several areas with my Linguistics and the English Language class. The textbook for Critical Thinking is, after all, A Concise Introduction to Linguistics.