Random bits and pieces...
Nov. 2nd, 2005 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandolinContrary to my usual tendency to avoid store-bought costumes in favor of ones I put together (or pieced together), I went and bought a costume at Party City yesterday. For next year. As a backup costume in case I look up and realize Halloween's tomorrow and I can't fall back on the COSTUME T-shirt again. And most importantly, for half price. I mean, come on, if I'm going to get a store-bought costume, $12 isn't going to kill my budget.
Of course, this assumes that I actually remember I did this a year from now...
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Now our moving date to the new building at work has been bumped to mid-February. My first response: "What happened this time? Did the contractors forget to put in the plumbing now?"
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So I've got a group together for the team term paper for my class: me, Mike, and Mike.
Running down the list so far - there's my cousin Mike, Big Mike, Mike D down the street, Mike T I used to eat lunch with, my branch chief Mike, my co-worker Mike who I probably drove up the wall on the last project, my next-door neighbor Mike, and the two Mikes in my term paper group.
I know way too many Mikes.
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Remember last week's panic attack? The homework assignment I rushed to finish at the last minute? Now I always say I BS stuff, but usually those arguments follow a logical pattern and I can make it SOUND like I know what I'm talking about. This homework, however... gah. I got halfway through it and just started making shit up. Seriously. I don't even think most of it was in coherent English. And I turned it in wet because I'd dropped it in the parking lot. So I handed in a damp 4 pages of rambling that wasn't even BS logic, but just completely random guesses. I think I squeezed some Wal-Mart ranting in there somewhere to pad out an answer. I'm not sure. I know it had nothing to do with the question.
I got an A+.
I nearly fell out of my chair laughing. Which is not easy to do from those little desk/chair things we have to sit in for class in Sondheim Hall.
Come on - it was damp! It was irrelevant! And - Wal-Mart!
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The cricket invasions have died down, but there's a new species of bug that is swarming my front door now. We thought they were lightning bugs at first, but they aren't and we don't know what they are. All I know is that they dive for the interior of the house whenever the door opens.
If I lived near Hood, I could make a killing charging Animal Diversity students to hunt for specimens in my yard. Seriously. An entomologist would have a field day. :)
Of course, this assumes that I actually remember I did this a year from now...
Now our moving date to the new building at work has been bumped to mid-February. My first response: "What happened this time? Did the contractors forget to put in the plumbing now?"
So I've got a group together for the team term paper for my class: me, Mike, and Mike.
Running down the list so far - there's my cousin Mike, Big Mike, Mike D down the street, Mike T I used to eat lunch with, my branch chief Mike, my co-worker Mike who I probably drove up the wall on the last project, my next-door neighbor Mike, and the two Mikes in my term paper group.
I know way too many Mikes.
Remember last week's panic attack? The homework assignment I rushed to finish at the last minute? Now I always say I BS stuff, but usually those arguments follow a logical pattern and I can make it SOUND like I know what I'm talking about. This homework, however... gah. I got halfway through it and just started making shit up. Seriously. I don't even think most of it was in coherent English. And I turned it in wet because I'd dropped it in the parking lot. So I handed in a damp 4 pages of rambling that wasn't even BS logic, but just completely random guesses. I think I squeezed some Wal-Mart ranting in there somewhere to pad out an answer. I'm not sure. I know it had nothing to do with the question.
I got an A+.
I nearly fell out of my chair laughing. Which is not easy to do from those little desk/chair things we have to sit in for class in Sondheim Hall.
Come on - it was damp! It was irrelevant! And - Wal-Mart!
The cricket invasions have died down, but there's a new species of bug that is swarming my front door now. We thought they were lightning bugs at first, but they aren't and we don't know what they are. All I know is that they dive for the interior of the house whenever the door opens.
If I lived near Hood, I could make a killing charging Animal Diversity students to hunt for specimens in my yard. Seriously. An entomologist would have a field day. :)
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Date: 2005-11-02 05:56 pm (UTC)Any chance it's the Stares-Thraughing method of marking?
Y'know, where you throw the papers down the stairs, and the ones that go further get the highest marks? ;)
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Date: 2005-11-03 01:25 pm (UTC)Or maybe she just took pity on me because she knew my group was going nuts having to rewrite half our case study at the absolute last minute. :)
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Date: 2005-11-03 01:24 pm (UTC)I may make some modifications to it later; I picked it largely for the excuse to wear an eyepatch and because I liked it. (And, you know, half price.)
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Date: 2005-11-04 05:56 am (UTC)I mostly BSed what caused it to be off and the numbers... and got a 15/15 for it. In fact, I think I was the only one in that lab who did.