I'm actually doing real work now

The Islamic Center on Wednesday was beautiful. In the mosque there were ornate Oriental rugs, and stained glass windows, and the walls were covered with rows of Arabic script. It almost rivaled the Notre Dame (which isn't as good as Sacre Coeur). The field trip part was less remarkable. We entered the mosque, aftering taking off our shoes, and sat in a big group off to the side. A few men came in and out, doing afternoon prayer. There was a shrine on the east wall, pointing to Mecca. One of the members of the mosque came out and said,"Does anyone have any questions?" I was hoping he'd give some explanation about the religious practices. Some of the questions asked were reasonable. But a few people asked questions like, "how can you treat women so horribly?", or to that effect. I don't necessarily agree with keeping men and women separate during worship, or women having to keep themselves completely covered, but if that's was Muslims believe, ok. I'm sure they find it hard to agree with our assertion that Jesus Christ was the Son of God and took away all of our sins by His death on the cross. People are different. Wednesday night we had Allies and Adversaries class to make up for the Prof.'s missing last Thursday. We got our first papers back. She gave a little speech before giving them back, about how she was appalled by how many people's papers had horrible grammar, comma usage, normative language. I started to get a little worried, but I'm not ashamed to say she gave me an A-. She circled my use of "eye-to-eye," especially since I used it twice. After class, there were a lot of complaints about how hard she'd graded. Personally, I think effective use of a thesaurus is necessary for academic writing. I'm rather anal about not reusing a word or phrase, so I don't mind that she called me on it. Despite her large workload and high expectations, I sort of like her. (Although, depending on the grade I receive for the semester, that could change, but hopefully not.)

Yesterday, Janese told me that Stephanie, the admin. assistant at the OAG office had resigned. So it looks like I might be doing some of the work she used to do. I cleaned out her area yesterday, and the section filing cabinet. It kind of reminded of cleaning out my office when I first started working for Joan in Purchasing. Now the desk and area is nice and pretty, just the way I like it. However, my arms are killing me, from lugging pounds and pounds of paper to the recycling box. There were still records of intake sheets from 1998. We don't need those. And now I'm working on doing the statitistics for the intake center, well, actually both of them. In addition to the center at the courthouse, we have one in SE. It's rather tedious work, but at least I feel productive.

And now it's the weekend, and I get to go home in an hour and half. Tiffany's and Alyssa's boyfriends Steven and Jason, respectively, are at the apartment this weekend. Steven I've met before, but Jason I haven't. Maybe the apartment will be emptier this weekend and I'll be able to catch up on studying for the LSAT. That's in a month. I'm only a little nervous. Just a tiny bit.