Oops.

[eurydicebound]

So yesterday I went to class in the morning, realized I'd left a textbook at home, checked my schedule, and decided to go home and get it before returning for class. After all, my class got out at 10:30 and my second class wasn't until 3. Easy peasy, right? I even went home and caught up on my reading before class. I was doing really well... except that the class didn't start at three, it ended at three. Somehow I put it down wrong on my planner. Hell.

Today I had one obligation, one class to attend. I did homework before class, making sure I had my readings done, left 45 minutes early for class, and got caught a mile out in a traffic snarl that took 20 minutes to get through. I was half an hour late before I even parked, and it's a film class, which means there was a screening that I would have interrupted halfway through. Did I go ahead and go? No, I turned my car around, got gas, and went home. Should I have gone? Almost certainly. Should I have left earlier? Absolutely. Will I do these things next week? Damn skippy. For today, though, I am at home, nursing my sense of guilt and doing more readings and homework to assuage it. Sigh. Oh well, upward and onward....

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[danieltallon.livejournal.com]

I was doing really well... except that the class didn't start at three, it ended at three. Somehow I put it down wrong on my planner

This happened to me exactly twice during my tenure at Akron. It was actually how I missed my very first college test. Fortunately my hot TA took pity on me and allowed me to make up the test in her office.

[docelboze.livejournal.com]

allowed me to make up the test
Is that what you kids are calling it these days?

[danieltallon.livejournal.com]

I tell ya, in another world - were she a little younger, and I a little older . . . and she a little less married, and I a little less engaged (at the time). Oh yeah, it would have been sweet.