A little of my academic day.

soooo, my professor handed back papers today, telling us that a very few got A's, most lower, and a couple received no grade, they needed to revise. I was almost sure I was in the last category because i had not been in the mood to write and finished last minute, and don't get me started about how terrible my grammar and punctuation can be sometimes (must revisit grade school)... My embarrassment always shows too easily, i could feel my face flush with the uncomfortable feeling of having done bad and knowing i was in the disgraced group mentioned. buuut, to my utmost surprise, it was an A, and she even said i was an accomplished writer... well I'm not sure i would agree with her so far, but it certainly got me over my fear of finding professors willing to give me a letter of recommendation for grad-school at some point. Also made me start to believe that maybe the Professor who gave me an A on my Indiana Jones project wasn't just being lazy... maybe the paper was okay. I had been thinking about posting it, but I didn't think it was very good. Maybe I will re-read it and have someone check over it, consider posting it. I actually had fun with that project, but it was a bit incomplete. I though, maybe if i post it, people will comment and give me ideas of other connections in Archaeology that i could make. For a split second i thought about posting this last paper i just did because it is a film review. but I'm afraid that i'm far too embarrassed by the fact that it is an anime film. Some people can wear their love of anime like a freaking glory patch (... I don't think this 'glory patch' is a real thing...), but not me! If someone walks in while i'm watching anime, i snap my computer monitor shut so fast, i'm sure they think i'm watching porn.
I had a moment today when i really felt good about my education. I have reached a level of understanding and a large enough body of information that i can dip into with confidence. This makes me really happy. I'm sadly very uncomfortable when i feel ignorant. I just can't stand it. I want to understand how the world works, and in the last 3 years, i have learned enough to claim a stable foundation. So what was my warm fuzzy moment? In my human rights class, we were talking about different modes of justice available during a transitioning government. this girl loudly announced that she didn't think a government should have to pay their tax dollars in repatriation to victims. I guess her point was that it wasn't the government or its tax payers faults that these people commited human rights atrocities (even though it was state sponsored...???!!). There was an uproar and a debate and many loud points before she finally clarified her point, being that she was concerned that the victims were tax payers and having to pay their own repatriation. I tossed in that-- you have to keep in mind that we are talking about Latin America, so most of the victims have been forced into the informal economies, so they are, in fact, not paying taxes to begin with. There really is no reason for me to give a public play-by-play of my class, but sometimes a class discussion can be so satisfying. This girl just always makes these unfounded arguments and it just stresses me out for some reason. I think the professor was trying to brush past this side topic, but this lovely loud girl cut right in and asked, is that true? :-(  I'm not sure if she didn't believe me or if she was getting annoyed with me always apposing her wild arguments, but she felt it important to confirm my observations with our prof. This is pretty extreme, because this professor will always disagree with us, it seems. The very first day we were talking about accountability and how to hold everyone accountable and i made the argument that (we were talking about Rwanda in specific) it was impossible to hold everyone accountable and have the country function. if a majority of the population were to commit crimes, who was left if they imprisoned them all? He swiftly said no, everyone must and can be held accountable. I felt like SUCH and ass. ("sure, these guys hacked people up, why put them in jail?") buut, after that, almost everything we read and discussed in class backed up what i said. So, you can now share in my mini-victory, because the professor had no choice but to say directly and openly that yes, in the case of Latin America, i was correct. It seemed it took one student having to corner him into admitting that another student (me!^_^) was correct, by making wildly unfounded assumptions about government repatriations.
okay, so this was all really stupid, but it was my entertainment today. though i wasted a lot of precious sleep time on this crap. hah.