Hurricane

Today, I arose early for my history section. And it was canceled. So I had a bunch of time on my hands, and, for the first time in a while, I wasn't rushed on a week day. That was cool.

But the TA is not the best teacher. I keep getting (or rather, picking) the worst TA. None of the TA's I've had can teach. THis guy will assign homework, telling the section to read some part of the book. Then, when in class, he'll discuss the portion of the book that we read. And discuss it to the point where I could have skipped the reading and, because of his explinations, still understand the reading.

It's not as bad as my first TA last year. Just as an example, he used the word 'theoretical' when describing the minimum length for a research paper. He was also very happy to give quizzes. One day he came to class and announced, "Today, since we missed a quiz last week, we're going to have two quizes." (To which a classmate muttered, "and the crowd goes wild," under his breath). Maybe God's trying to show me something through the TA's.

And a new hurricane is presenting itself. Hurricane Phillipe is now in the Mid Atlantic. Supposedly, according to the most recent computer model, it'll go up into the north Atlantic, but who knows how long that'll hold true. And that's in addition to Tropical Storm Rita that's now cruising in the Gulf of Mexico, which is predicted to hit Houston on Saturday.