i'm so awesome

Stumbled upon these e-mails just now, from the beginning of the semester. I'm too cool for school, you guys.

"Hi Natalie,

I want to give you feedback on your lesson 1 posts. OUTSTANDING.... smile. Your original posts provided such depth and detail and your responses to others added to the discussion and took us in new directions. It's always a pleasure to have a "deep thinker" in the class. Terrific list of demands in the church study group. We will use them in lesson 2 and 3, and you have plenty to work with.

I look forward to reading your posts in lesson 2, Sharon"

"Hi Natalie,

I want to give you some feedback on your Lesson 2 posts. Outstanding work on your DC activiy, those were excellent additions of intrapersonal demands.

I enjoyed reading the privileges of the majority culture post, it has a lot with what we are discussing in lesson 3 as we look at oppression. We had great discussion about terminology, especially hearing impaired. English is such an indirect language and has built in means to keep from being so direct. ASL and Deaf culture is much more blunt, and the euphemisms have no or little meaning in the the language and is very confusing culturally. In the Deaf Culture class you will see a DVD, Say it Like you Mean it, which shows scenarios of Deaf/Hearing interactions and how two people view the same interaction completely different. I'm sure you have enlightening cultural discussions with your friend, Emily.

Keep up the good work, Sharon"

All I'm saying is that I'm awesome and everyone loves me. Also, I am a "deep thinker." Duh. Anyone who knows me knows that mental masturbation is one of my favorite things. That and regular masturbation.

Heh. I love school.

i made that class my bitch

I got my grade today for ASL 1. I totally rocked that class to pieces. I got 387.8 points out of 390 possible points, which is a 99.4%. This makes me very happy. I did all my homework and only missed one class (and that was for the Deaf, Deaf World thing in Stillwater). I am so proud of me.

Yay!

I even felt kind of sad this morning that I don't have class today. I like class.

But now I get to rest and get good and bored so I will be ready when next semester starts. That is my plan, anyway.

On an unrelated note, I was going to go back and find my New Year's Resolution blog from last year but I decided that would be a bad idea because even though I'm sure my resolutions were good I don't need to be going back to that headspace I was in a year ago. I am a different person now. I don't know that Natalie anymore, which is weird but completely true.

Anyway. Going back to school-related stuff, fucking TCC still hasn't processed my financial aid and I am really pissed about it. Those bastards. Every time I call them they're just like, "You just have to wait..." I'm tired of fucking waiting. They should not still be processing shit for a semester that is over in two days. That is ridiculous. I don't even care about this semester. I want to know about next semester. Ugh. Whatever. It'll all work out. Somehow.