good news, bad news

Nothing too serious on either the good news or the bad news front. The good news is that I sailed through the presentation this morning reasonably well. It wasn't till afterwards that I realized that everyone else was so nervous about this project because they thought it's 30% of our grade. Erk?? Closer re-reading of the syllabus makes me think it's actually either 10% or 15%, but I was sure glad I didn't go into it thinking it was 30%-- then I would have been nervous, too. The teacher was sitting in the back giving me lots of encouraging smiles and nodding at important points, so I guess I did okay. I didn't see anything today to change my suspicion that this is going to be the blah class this semester. It's one of those cases where the teacher probably knows her stuff, but damn, she's a boring teacher.

And the bad news is that I'm fighting with Word again. I'm trying to do a simple hanging indent, which I've done dozens if not hundreds of times before, but today it's decided that if I indent the second line, the first line oughta go with it. Sigh. I have managed to manipulate the bulleted part of the paper to make it look the way I want it to, and this is just the bibliography. She hasn't issued any directives on which format we are to use for papers, so I think I can finesse it with an extra space between entries, and not use the damn indent. Whatever.