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Somehow I got a B on the Semiotics exam, which is better than I expected but (of course) worse than I wanted. Kent State has a full range of grades for grad students, but I don't know if a B means a B, or if it means "the lowest grade you can get without failing", which is basically what it meant in the Prostho program. Today is cold, overcast and typically October.

I have, yet again, become the Person Who Knows Stuff About Computers, and it's entirely my fault. One of my classmates said she was having printer problems, and when she heard about my various arguments with mine, she asked me if I could look at hers, and I said I would. I know she has a Dell laptop, but I don't know anything else about it. Hopefully it will be easy, but I'll find out tomorrow. If it's a mechanical problem, I can probably fix it. If it's a driver problem, I might be able to fix it. If it's XP, I'm screwed.

We all got a week's extension on the Theory paper, which I don't think I really needed, but is nice to have anyway. At least I don't have that to deal with for the weekend my parents are here. I do, however, have another Semiotics exam to deal with sometime before and/or during that weekend, although this one might not be quite so fierce because now we have a little more clue. The syllabus we got doesn't have exam dates or any guidelines at all on it. Now we've got a limit of 20 pages for 5 questions. That'll do for a start, although DAMN, writing that much for an exam is a pain! Add a 20-page paper and all the associated research to the next two exams, and that's a lot of writing.

Given the opportunity, I think I would probably sleep for most of Saturday, but I can't afford to.

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OK. Wow. All midterm exams are done. I should not go into an hour-long practical exam starting at 7:15 without having eaten something first. The second hour of that class was all about me wanting to fall asleep where I sat, after inhaling anything edible within reach.

However, I finished the exam three minutes (three whole minutes! Whee!) early, and I think there's only one major error in my translation. I suspect there are a couple of minor errors, but I'm not as worried about those. The major error is either an idiom I've never seen or a reference to something earlier in the text that didn't show up in the excerpt. The text was about a Russian car with exactly one thing going for it: it's cheap. That would have been amusing if I had had more time to notice it.

Tonight calls for a hot bath and two or three Advil. My shoulders hurt.