65 69 82 and a card

Today's felt a little like a prizegiving. There was a little staff function today to bid Tilda Prinsloo (who has outlasted me by 7 years, 6 months) and me adieu. It was quite touching in terms of effort - flowers, tablecloth, a lots of munchies. I started piling my plate when buffet-vomit memories surfaced and then just popped a few eclairs in my mouth and retired early.

I got a card with a R100 voucher from Exclusive Books. The card was small, and the writing inside a purple scrawl with a cheezy sort've 'best of luck for your future happiness' but could not help feeling a bit touched by the gesture. I may be too big a duck for the Brebner pond, but it has to be said the staff are quite supportive of each other and inherently good. Good people, and kind hearted.

Mr Taylor spoke briefly about my leaving, saying he will be watching my writing and steering clear of the subject of teaching entirely. I was supposed to have an evaluation today of my CASS but there apparently wasn't time. Still have some work to do on that front.

Prof Factory gave me a 65% for a terrible essay I wrote on Pride and Prejudice, but she had some silly and spiteful scribblings on my answer sheet (such as crossing out 'refused' in favor of 'declined'.) That sort of approach to writing is stupid. There are many ways to write the same thing, and because you prefer one way over another doesn't make it 'right' or 'better', it simply makes it your way.

I got 69% for Great Expectations and was surprised to get 82% for Ideology (which was about analysing a soapie of one's choice - I chose 7de Laan and never found time to watch it). In all three cases I simply haven't had time to read the material provided, and in Raftery's case, the issues there certainly distracted me from focussing on the little bit of insights I had gained from lectures.

It's going to be more fun attending university next term, when I can at least get through the material. Distinctions in 222 and 322 are unlikley given that I need to score in the high 80's to make up for the 60's of this term. I'm sure a distinction for Idealogy is in the bag, so at least that's something. Need to decide in which direction to go - studywise - next term, particularly in terms of what I can afford.