{"id":403,"date":"2004-01-24T06:10:49","date_gmt":"2004-01-24T11:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/01\/24\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T20:30:36","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T00:30:36","slug":"a-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/01\/24\/a-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"A Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I decided this morning that I’m not going to take Japanese this semester. Truthfully, I will admit that this decision was prompted by the fact that the class is at 9:25 — which would require me to sit in Rt3 rush hour traffic 3 days a week and force me to leave at around 7:30. This is something difficult enough when it’s a nice warm day; when the weather remains around 0F, it becomes almost unbearable. (This is not speculation: I departed the house every day at 6:15am the winter I worked for Digital River, scraping the car in the subzero dark Minneapolis morning and sliding along the roads until I got to the highway. By the time I quit that job, I was as close to a nervous breakdown as I’ve ever come, and this was very definitely one of the factors.)<\/p>\n

So, in other words, the temptation to skip class would be irresistable much of the time.<\/p>\n

And, because I knew that, I cannot justify the money. Because, unfortunately, Japanese is not free to take; because it’s not part of my major, the tuition grant doesn’t cover it. I get a 50% discount — putting it into the realm of affordable, but not while Bob is still job hunting. (Interestingly, UMN did NOT have this policy. You could take whatever the heck you wanted.)<\/p>\n

Which means I have to go on Monday and try to track down the professor so I can drop it.<\/p>\n

Unrelated to this, I found Something Awful’s discussion of LiveJournal<\/a> absolutely hilarious.<\/p>\n

I don’t have a cat to walk across my keyboard for me, so we’ll just have to put up with my banal ramblings.<\/p>\n

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