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The class this quarter is a senior-level discussion of Chernobyl as a disastrous impact on a society, and evidence suggests the teacher is a bit of a minimalist in regards to syllabus prep (I can't call her a minimalist in regards to her sources; I think the course packet weighs more than my laptop. O.o;).

Surreal is watching a 1986 era newscast (recording) on Chernobyl. For one thing, same newscaster as 'now'. For another, the iron curtain was not only down but effective--the newscaster and the experts being asked questions were none of them expecting much direct information (and general consensus was made that the only reason the USSR said ANYthing about what was going on was that the prevailing wind direction meant Scandinavia was going O.o;;; a couple of days after things went 'splody in the reactor).

In other news

Science classes make you paranoid for years afterward. I was expecting a percentile grade in the middle to low nineties, based on the information I had previous to the final and how I felt coming out of the final.

On looking at my unofficial transcript and seeing a little 100% marker for last quarter? My reaction was not 'EEEEE!' but ' . . er, what?'.

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Chaos loves my laptop. It was back in my possession briefly (for the first time in five weeks), until it decided that randomly shutting down was fun, really! My impressed face. =P Even more so since the tech support field appears to be in full effect and they can't reproduce the problem. Sigh. Here's hoping they can either reproduce it or the field holds once I get it back.

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I wrote nothing in March. I'm not going to ask what you'd like (ie what you'd comment on/really like to see more of), because odds are I'm not going to write anything until after I get my laptop back again.

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It's mildly weird to run into people who've known you since you were six (but you probably haven't seen in five years). Like shrugging into an identity that doesn't quite fit anymore, with resonances that stick oddly. (The exchange "Yeah, I carry tension in my shoulders."/"You always have." really shouldn't still be getting thought about.)