Am I my cousin's keeper?

If so, I'm in trouble. Yesterday I went to a family party and discovered that my cousins have several children I never knew about. They are all adorable, and some of them are old enough that I'm seriously disturbed I didn't realize they existed. Luke is about 3 months old (I give myself a pass on not knowing about him), Jack is nearly one, and Megan is 15 months old (I have no excuse to not know about her). Way to go, self.

Research

Today I had to go to a lecture about how to do research. The best part was when the instructor told us that Wikipedia is a really good source, especially to find out about original research. I always use Wikipedia, but until today I thought it as an unsanctioned activity, and I would visit the sources at the bottom of the page. But now I know that Wikipedia really is my best friend.

Irony

Today I gave a presentation in one of my classes. It was a pretty big part of my grade, and I have known about it for about five weeks. So, of course, I started working on it yesterday afternoon. All things considered, it went pretty well. My peer reviews were fairly positive. My favorite? "Be more confident. You obviously know what you're talking about." Apparently I faked enough confidence to make myself appear knowledgeable, but not enough to make myself appear confident. Go figure.

OCD

I always get a special warm fuzzy feeling when my inbox has a multiple of 10 emails in it. Right now there are 5500, which is even better.

Grace

Today was not my most graceful day ever. I had to turn in a project by 5:00, and I printed it out at 4:55. So, I was running to try to turn it in, and I turned a corner. There was a guy standing there. I saw him in time to know what was going to happen, but not in time to stop it. (If only my shoes had traction...) So I slid into him in a lovely slapstick-style collision. It was not my finest moment.

Really?

Good news: I am not allergic to wasp stings.
Bad news: I had the chance to find out first hand.
I was walking to church yesterday when I heard a buzzing noise above my head. I don't like wasps at all, so I waved them away and walked faster. Then I heard buzzing again. So I waved them away and ran a step or two. Then I heard the buzzing again. Then I was stung on the very top of my head twice. Seriously. I stopped for just a second to ask myself, "Did that really just happen to me?" Unfortunately the answer was yes. Yes, it did.

How things work

I bought an optical drive to go with my computer, which doesn't have a CD drive. This, I thought, would be perfect. Unfortunately, last week I couldn't get it to do anything. And then I discovered that all the troubleshooting information and instructions are on a CD that was included with the drive. Of course.
The second part to this story is that I understand how things work. So I spent the weekend complaining to everybody who would listen to me about how stupid it is that my optical drive instructions are on a CD. It worked! Today when I tried it again, it worked perfectly. Take that, universe!