Grandmother Achievement Day/Thomas Edison Day/Make A New Friend Day/National Foundation Day (Japan)
2004-02-11 @ 11:57 p.m.

I've just finished the first part of my Economics essay! I think it's lousy, because most of which is just lifted from the lecture notes and rearranged to form some explanation of the given statement. I shall show it to some classmates tomorrow to ask for a second opinion. I just feel like a slacker for copying everything out of the notes, but paraphrasing everything seems like such a pointless endeavour, since I happen to like the phrasing of the ideas elaborated in the notes. Oh well, the second part will be done by tomorrow night, and it'll probably be more or less lifted from the notes too. Anyway, Mr Sowden was quite fierce during today's lecture, compared to his usual mild temperament during our tutorials. Maybe it was just a bad day for him, but then again, Leeds had just won a game, so he must have been quite happy. It was so dumb! He was like telling us, "When I talk, you listen." Then right behind him, there was this guy talking happily away, completely oblivious. So Mr Sowden more or less shouted at him, which, according to him, he has never done during a lecture in all his eight years of teaching. Sigh, I shall figure out how to rewrite my essay, if necessary, during the long break tomorrow. Argh, PE tomorrow and I hate PE, especially when we're running. Not that I dislike running particularly per se, but I don't like the whole stupid business of timing runs. I think I'll just roll over and play dead tomorrow...