Thumbs up on my history class. The professor is very bright, very funny, very sarcastic, and very uninterested in wasting time. In fact, we had a pop quiz tonight.
It was a series of questions immigrants wishing to become citizens would have to answer. Oh man did I suck. I had no idea what the three branchs of government were, or who was in charge of the US Senate, or how many people sit on the California Supreme Court, or even when California was admitted as a state. I did know who my two state senators were, who elects the President, and I had no problem whatsoever filling in the names of the states on the map on the reverse side of the quiz but that's about the extent of it. I've always been deplorably ignorant about the details of government and politics.
Please, don't write to tell me the answers. John did that after he stopped laughing himself senseless at my theory that the Majority Whip was in charge of the US Senate. I can't help it! I don't know what those whip guys do! It sounded important! I forgot the Vice President does something besides get heart surgery!
Addendum to yesterday's entry: the intelligent, witty, generous and excessively good-looking fredlet is loaning me her Casio for the duration of the class. Crisis averted, friendship cemented, birdies sing, life is good again. Well, at least until I get my quiz back.
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