Hi all, sorry that it has been a while! :)
Yes, it's the usual combo: School + personal projects + ladies(or a particular one) + exams. But now, it's all good, because I'm typing this in Montreal as I am enjoying my Thanksgiving break. Amherst is generous with breaks, I feel. Even more generous with giving us school assignments and exams, though. Today's a milestone for me too, because I just had a French dinner date (and considering that I'm in the Quebec province, where everyone speaks French, it was probably the best French food you can get outside of France.) It was a BYOB experience, so I picked a random bottle of French Red Wine, and brought it into le restaurant, O'Thym.
My date(?) and I had a wonderful dining experience. I ordered a rare duck meat magret, she got a mushroom pie, and we got cheese and crackers to be eaten with the red wine we got. It was gorgeous. French dates is really a must, especially if you appreciate cheese, wine, and rare-cooked meat. It was also the most expensive dinner I have ever paid, summing up to 84CAD for both of us (including tips!) We had a really good conversation too, and I hope the next time I take a girl to a French date, I'd have my own car so that she doesn't have to come to the restaurant being covered in snow. (Yes, it was snowing... haha)
But uhmm.. What I really wanted to write about was a particular funny story. Well, at least I found it funny. :)
So I am one of the two graders of microeconomics this Fall semester. How it works is I would grade the P-set (problem set: University equivalent of homework) that are due on Mondays, and Sairam would grade the P-set that are due on Wednesdays. The grades we give range from 0 to 3, and students only get 3s on their P-sets if their work is an utter perfection. Therefore, I would get very excited whenever I see a student getting everything correct in the problem set I grade, and on top of the number '3', I would usually write an encouraging remark such as "well done!" or "bravo!".
Around last week, however, I was catching up with a particular best friend who's taking the very class I'm grading. He is aware of the fact that I grade for the class, so I would usually ask him how the class went and all. That day, Liam told me that he just got back the problem set I graded, but "I got a '3', so there were no issues", he casually told me. I told him that there's another grader in the class, and I asked him how he could be so sure that I was the one who graded this particular problem set.
"Oh, it's so simple", Liam confidently replied. "You always use the same pen every time you grade! Besides, the other grader would always write girly things on my p-set whenever I get a '3'! I just need the marks. Last time, I remembered that he wrote a "bravo" with a girly exclamation mark."
I was laughing so hard inside. I still hope that he never discovers my blog, but I'm kinda curious as to how he would react if he realized the truth. HAHAHA.
Moral of the story? Don't write bravo with girly exclamation marks!! hahahaha
Yours Truly,
