Brief school After Action Report (AAR) and the day's quote

[nuranar]

The test was hard.  Very hard.  I've never had a professor want so much extrapolation during the test.  I know it's legitimate for a professor to test on anything in the text; but usually they stick to the problems and examples that were assigned instead of pulling out new stuff.  It's nice when they see tests as a measure of how much they taught the students, not as a measure of how fanatical about studying  the students are.

I don't want to go through it, but please pray that God's leading will be clear for me in this whole school thing.  I'm working on the grad degree, in accounting.  I do not like going to school.  I've been doing this for a year and a half and it's still a struggle.  Is God telling me to drop everything but work and school?  Take only one instead of two classes?  Go in another direction entirely?  I really, really don't know.  Please pray that my parents' counsel will be wise, too.  Pray that I'll listen to Him.

In other news:  I am thoroughly motivated to get stuff done.  Unlike the end of most semesters, when all I want to do is let my brain turn to mush for a few weeks, I'm really energized to attack all the other stuff that's been building up.  I'm currently taking a break from preparing certain people's surprises.  Muahaha!

Aspen, your package was waiting for me when I got home last night at 11:15!  I'm so excited!  I cannot open this book until I get stuff done, though.  But now it's pleasurable anticipation instead of sullen fine-I'll-study-instead-ness. *g*

And now, the quote of the day.  I do so love adventure fiction - especially when there's humor in it.  Cracking good movies made from cracking good adventure yarns really, er, light my fire as well.

Smith and Schaeffer have just torched a German train station, sort of accidentally on purpose.

Schaffer said:  "They're not going to be very pleased."

"I shouldn't think so."

"They're really going to go after us now.  They've Doberman pinschers up at the castle and I've no doubt they have them at the camp too.  They've only to bring them to the station, sniff our packs, have them circle the station, pick up our scent and that's it.  Smith and Schaffer torn to shreds.  I'll take on the Alpenkorps one-by-one but I draw the line at Doberman pinschers, boss."

"I thought it was horses you were scared of?" Smith said mildly.

"Horses, Doberman pinschers, you name it, I'm scared of it.  All it's got to have is four feet."  He looked gloomily at the burning station.  "I'd make a rotten vet."

Alistair MacLean, Where Eagles Dare

Comments

[girliegirl32786.livejournal.com]

School is scary. I can offer no advice but I can offer hugs. *hugs*

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *hugs back*

[derringdo.livejournal.com]

It's even funnier imagining the actors say those lines. Though not as funny as Clint singlehandedly slaughtering whole divisions of the German army or Dick Burton trying to explain the whole plot of the movie to his rather bewildered Nazi prisoners :D

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

I know it! The different between book-Schaeffer and movie-Schaeffer... *shakes head* Ironically, I rather like both. The movie has its wacky bits, but I really do enjoy it. There wasn't any need to make it a kill-fest, though. Book-characters made a point of not killing enemy soldiers, if at all avoidable.

I'm least fond of the way the movie dealt with Mary and, to a lesser extent, Heidi. I could cheerfully dispense with movie-Mary, but I really like book-Mary. And book-Heidi is awesome.