12 years later and this episode is more relevant than ever.

Thing that I love: science and math treated as art.

My brother was left the build menu on in Sanctuary while he went to the bathroom so I quickly wrote “ASH WAS HERE” in neon tube lights on an inconspicuous wall then repositioned his character back to where he was.

I’m waiting to see when he notices.

I’m not sure which wins worse story I’ve had to proofread for my class, the one with the tiger titties or this one where a girl is forced to eat herself alive.

My class needs Jesus.

So those vape things that look like flasks.  I see a lot of people walking around campus sucking on them, and every time it just looks like a baby with their bottle.  Their nicotine candy flavored bottle.

The Slog

So I’m bitter about the Slog settlement because I’ve done so many Minute Men quests and I’ve never gotten the Slog.  I did Arlen’s quests and I’ve never gotten the Slog.  My map says there’s a freaking supply line set up to the Slog and yet I’m not allied to it as a settlement.

I have literally no other settlements to get except the Slog and for some reason I can’t.

I want the cute Ghoul settlement, dang it!

Alright story time.

So I‘ve got a cold and I decided to walk my dog to get out, get some fresh air.  We get back and my dog needs fresh water, I go to get his bowl but what is there beside it?  One of those stinkbug bastards.  I grab a glass, some paper, and scoop him up to take him outside.  The nearest door is the one to my construction zone of a porch. 

Here is my folly.

Our porch was old, rickety, so my dad has been working on it piece by piece when the weather and time permits.  Currently the stairs are gone, they were torn down before Christmas.  It hangs out over our walk-out basement, making it a little over a story high.

I go outside to the porch, release the bug then turn around to go back inside.  The door has locked itself.  It’s one of those demon locks to feels unlocked from the inside, but locks as soon as you step outside.

I’m locked outside on a porch with no stairs and no one is going to be home for at least five hours, maybe more, without my phone.  I flip out.  I look around for anyone around to wave down for help, I check the windows, I try to wrench open the locked door, my dog who knows how to open doors stares at me through the glass.

My first thought is to take the blankets from the porch and try to make a rope to climb down, but they don’t seem sturdy enough.  Hanging over the ledge I think, let’s be smart about this.  I’ve got one body and I’m home alone on a Monday when everyone around will be at work.

That’s when I realize there’s like a million cushions on our porch furniture.  So I drop all of these cushions down into one big pile, stare over the edge and pray for 30 minutes.  One side of the pile has the brick patio and my dad’s construction equipment, another has wood chips and a spiky bush, the other soft grass and safety.

I jumped, banged my ankle on the porch post on the way down, then rolled off the pile into the grass, shaken up but okay.

Look, I’m not an athletic person, I didn’t climb a lot of trees as a kid, so this was a big freakin deal to me.

But here’s the kicker:

I spent Leap Year…

Leaping from my damned porch.

Hillary Clinton is coming to my Uni tomorrow, I’ve never been so thankful in my life to not have classes on Monday.

If you go to GMU, I do NOT recommend taking the IT 104 class for your requirement.

1.) It doesn’t teach you anything useful.

2.) The syllabus is condescending and lies to you about what “coding” is to make it’s “non-IT” students feel better about themselves.

3.) TA’s teach the lab and they don’t care if you learn anything or not, instead choosing to rush through the material so they can leave early.

4.) There’s obvious tension between the prof’s and the department.  If I had dollar for every time my lecture professor said, “I don’t know, I’m just teaching what the department wants,” or “I didn’t design this lecture,” or “You don’t really need to know all this, just recognize it for the test,” I could earn back what I shelled out for this class.

5.) There’s no consistency or bother to make sure there’s consistency and accuracy.

If you need your IT requirement still, take a different class instead.  It sounds like a good idea to take a class that teaches you about basic coding, website building, programs, etc. but that is not what you’ll get with this class unfortunately.

Shout out to God for turning a dusting of snow into a four inch storm causing my uni to shut down and open late. He saved me from drowning in terrible class work related stress this week.