Well, the day started with good news. I had spent the night at KC's room and upon returning to my room, I checked my mail and found an email from Dr Johan (Understanding Irony) in my inbox. It was the comments for last week's Irony Workshop presentation. Strange, I thought, how come he does email so early in the morning? Anyway, it didn't matter and I opened the document. His comments were rather critical and sharp in a constructive way, and I found myself thinking "Oh ya, that's true..." to a few of the things he said. *drum roll* The best part, though, was when I reached the bottom and found that I got an A- ! Seemed like he liked my organised and systematic analysis of the text. I have EL3262 Pragmatics and Dr Benny Lee to thank for this type of dont-care-too-much-about-style-just-analyse-the-text style. Always good to start the day finding out you got a nice grade.
Later, we had a test for EL2162 Historical Variation in English. That was the low point of the day. I found the questions difficult, and the time too little. As it was, I submitted my paper with a few questions left blank. Hmmm, perhaps I should have spent more time studying for this test. The fact that it was open-book seemed to have made me complacent. I realised that although it was reassuring to have open-book tests, having to refer to notes slows one down. That must be why I found the time to be too little.
