I think a lot of people really don’t know when or how to ensure and insure. like accept and except, it’s a pet peeve of mine to see them interchanged.

enough about it, though. so what if the airline employees can’t apply common grammar knowledge to their emails? at least I get the back credit on the points plan for the flight to PA.

so, kids. all is well today with the clipboard. I’m allowed to copy and paste once again. today’s computer drama is hardware on my laptop. the CD drive is going nuts – lots of very high-pitched and high-heat spinning, and less reading of the data… grr. I hope I don’t have to replace the part soon. and I hope that when I do have to replace the part it’s not too expensive. it’s only a matter of time, I’m afraid.

on a happier note, I’m spending tonight with friends. Steve and Rachel “invited” me over for dinner, games, and painting of the living room. I took them up on dinner and painting and suggested that we leave the games until David comes over after he gives his evil 3-hour 20-page math test tonight.

speaking of that test… David and I were walking back from lunch at the Union talking about his test when two students walking in front of us turned around and asked us if we knew something, anything, about Taylor’s history. I told her that Thaddeus Reade is buried on campus and that a dorm burned down – both have historical markers – and Dave told her who Thaddeus Reade was (something I didn’t know – all I know is that a building’s named after him and that his dead body is under some pretty grass on the loop). I thought we were part of some “look how unknowledgeable students are about their campus” survey – Dave thought we were part of one of the sociology class experiments. turns out the desperate kid just had to do a project on Taylor’s history and hadn’t come up with anything yet. =)

and after that, one of Dave’s students passed him on the way back to Dave’s office. this kid told David that he’d read his blog and quoted some of it in a paper for one of his classes. =) be careful what you write online, David. I learned my lesson – you should take heed. but… put some answers online for the kids. if they’re reading your blog, they deserve to find pleasant surprises.