February 2006
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Graduate Life28 Feb 2006 10:29 am
Test from hell
Just a little update - I haven’t shrunken down to the size of a peanut from the weight of the work. Actually, I’m quite enjoying myself right now, listening to Miles Davis whilst I work on my quant project. However, perhaps this is because the reality of my horrible land use planning test has not quite hit me. There were 15 “short answer” questions on one side of a page of paper. These varied from “What is a deed?” (What is not a deed? That is the question.) to “Compare/contrast the difference between Flood Hazard Zone A and the Flood Fringe. Be explicit about the differences between old and new buildings.” This one threw me for a loop. In one of my not so bright moments, I started looking around at other people’s tests while the teacher walked by. Realizing she may think I was cheating, I asked her the question that was on my mind, “Are we supposed to write our entire answer in between the questions?” “Yes” she said. This left me the equivalent of one line of notebook paper to answer each of these short answer questions. Did I also mention she said it was going to be a fill in the blank test? And that it would only be on zoning? Oh, no, not so. Well the “good” (evil grin) news is that everyone did poorly on it. One guy even said that “absolute fee simple” was a type of vodka. Sounds good to me.
Graduate Life24 Feb 2006 03:35 pm
Blah 2
I am so stressed out. I just want to curl up into a little ball and hide under my desk until the nuclear bomb of deadlines has gone away. I have two GIS projects due on Monday, in addition to a test where the professor hasn’t really told us where to get the material for the fill in the blank questions she will ask. I have a defunct group meeting tommorrow that will probably last the entire day as we try to re-design a subdivision, prepare a slide show presentation and write a lengthy paper in just one day. I also have an 8 page quantitative methods paper due on Wednesday and I have to give the presentation for my defunct group. That’s not counting the millions of undergrad papers I have to grade by Thursday night or the study guide they need to study for the test I have to create by the following week, or the lab I have to do myself for a meeting with my T.A. advisor on Monday. I think I’m going to get sick…
My Anemone23 Feb 2006 12:56 pm
Trick or Treat
In searching for articles by Sara Vowell, I came across a line where she said she often read movie reviews written by Focus on the Family, a fundamental Christian group whose website is just filled with, shall we say, entertaining blurbs of non-wisdom. (I believe Miss Vowell, who is one of the coolest-liberal-femsheik-role models out there today reads them for the shock value.) I especially like this piece, entitled Finding a Husband which wants girls to lower their expectations, hold sex from men like Halloween candy (they actually state that men don’t buy the cow when they’re getting the milk for free), and stop just being friends with guys and make them “state their intentions.” Of course, I’m sure they would argue that I’ve taken their advice to the wrong level, but can you imagine these young, desperate women out their eating this advice up? Suddenly attacking every guy friend she has for not stating his intentions sooner?
I’m having one of those days where I’m completely shocked and appauled by the state of the world. I have no counter-plan to these feelings other than to bury myself in work and watch clips of The Daily Show.
Uncategorized14 Feb 2006 11:48 am
ugggh
My worst nightmere has come true. In the most wretched use of my name possible, Ugg has created the Erin bootie in baby pink for little girls. Now your toddler too can aspire to the Brittany Spears standard of dress. Order them today before My Kid Beats Up Your Kid For Being Badly Dressed!! (Motto available as bumpter stickers - baby pink and baby blue colors only).
The Love Cruise :)