My last couple days

I finished the "tight draft" of my Hum paper on Sunday. I took it to the DoJo, the academic resource center, and the writing tutor slammed into it like an OH radical. He basically said the writing was fine, but I wrote a philosophical paper instead of a close-reading literary analysis. I was like, what am I supposed to do with that? He said talk to my conference leader, but he thought I was kind of on the wrong track.

Philosopher-Linguist gave me a more charitable analysis. He assumed I actually was doing the assignment and arguing from the text, and said I needed to make the connection to the text more explicit.

I started restructuring the essay and adding quotes early this morning. After conference I asked my conference leader about it. He said turn in the original paper and the revised version so he could tell what I lost and gained in the editing (one of my concerns) and see if he agreed with the DoJo guy. I spent my morning break mostly in the library finishing up my revision. I'll get Philosopher-Linguist's comments on it and do another revision if necessary tomorrow

I hung out with LS this evening and it was fun. I hope this foreshadows smoother waters.

My computer clock did a weird thing today. Around 12:30, it suddenly jumped an hour forward. I had a class at 1:10 so I was really perplexed for a moment. Then I forgot about it and later was going to bed because it was almost eleven, only to have it change back - it's only about 10:30 even now.