While scouring through things today, I realized something really depressing.  Apparently, I have failed to save most of the notebooks I’ve used throughout college.  I have a few of them, thankfully so, but I should have more.  I wish I knew where they went.  I mean, I didn’t throw them away, they’re just missing, like socks come up missing, except much more irreplaceable.  I wouldn’t have been looking for them at all except I remembered that Melanie had said that she plans to retype hers to prep for the comps and I thought it was a great idea.  I was going to type all of my English notes and email her what I had, but it’s not looking like I’m going to be able to add as much as I hoped to the project.

I did, however, find something awesome!  A few semesters ago I decided to take tech writing, for the hell of it.  I didn’t need it, per se.  It wasn’t exactly a requirement, but it is an advanced elective, which I needed more of, so I took it.  I’ve taken every English class Tarleton has to offer, with a very few exceptions — like Shakespeare & Children’s Lit.  Anyway, I found tech writing to be pretty tedious, pretty fast.  I also turned out to be pretty good at it!  Too bad I didn’t enjoy it, tech writers make a mint.  The assignment I did for that class was a 20 page report over why Tarleton’s library should use RFID technology (we had to chose a recent technology, and rather than utilizing something I don’t understand like virtualization services, I chose the RFID angle).  While I was rifling through things, I found my paper, in the filing cabinet.  It was required that the paper be bound, so mine is beautifully bound, and with a really good grade!  I’ve run across a lot of papers I’ve written, but I find that this report is one I’m most proud of (along with my Sweeney Todd paper).

Funny how something that start out as such a chore can end up being such a point of pride.  Heck, the Sweeney Todd paper started out as a huge stressful assignment and has since become my all time favorite paper, both to have written, and to re-read.  Maybe I’ll share it with y’all sometime, though most of the lingo (film lingo) in the paper isn’t something most people can understand (including me most of the time) without an encyclopedia.  Alas, it’s still my favorite.

Anyway, I’m pretty disgruntled about having lost so many notebooks, but I’m pretty pleased to have run across some old papers that I can be so proud of.  Look at me, turning a bad thing good!  I might just have this optimism thing down yet… ha!  Yeah, not likely.

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