TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vt_tv7t79WY

YOU GUYS THIS IS URGENT AND KEY

He's right, you know.

I too am thankful for this thread!

John says "gross" a lot, did anyone notice that?

I feel sure that I could write a nursing diagnosis for him. Other than "crazy drunk guy," I mean.

Dan, I am saving your youtube link to revive me later. (STILL WRITING...)

suzy - HI! Confession: sometimes I read what you write about what your mother says about politics on the politics thread and it makes me want to have you conference me in on your calls.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman in "CLINGFILM: A Roy Orbison Cling-film"

oops wrong thread lols?

lolololololololol

Inside teh mind of Abbott.

New thread of amazement:

flying penis attacks Gary Kasparov

Sara, politics thread needs estrogen BAD but if your ITR loyalty precludes I can understand, life is too short.

My mom was unusually resentful of MIchelle Obama today, which makes me grrrr. I think that she's jealous of her opportunities and can't understand how someone of her background and need to keep it real might well express ambivalence about her country in the same way that half of America does every day. BTW my mom gave really fatuous examples of American things to be proud of when I asked her to name same. Coup de grace was she felt it was time to get the stylist in as Jackie O clothes look better on shorter people with smaller butts.

lol "need estrogen? call SARA!"

It isn't my loyalty to ITR; it's more my insane school thing that keeps me from even reading the primary thread much, much less participating in it. A few weeks and I'll be free! But I might be asleep for a month, so no promises. ;)

Your mom sounds like a hoot, tbh, but I can see where you'd be grrrrrrr about her comments.

My mom is a koooky Republican and she told me she thinks Cindy McCain looks like a "trophy wife." (McCain is "not conservative enough" for my mother's taste.)

good morning itr! i hate mornings when i'm sick. i feel gross.

hi ruby. kate from lost has horse teeth/10 year old boy teeth

my two front teeth are slightly crossed

tbh these aren't the best teeth either
http://i26.tinypic.com/oub3x5.jpg

god that is the most alarming thing in the world

People are too uptight on the politics threads, and I don't want to get in on a dick waving contest cz there's gonna be backlash.

I would listen to the new incarnation of that album.

RR - I'm sorry you are still ill and I hope you get better soon!

I feel like I'm about to get sick, too. Hmmmm, I wonder WHY

Abbott, for a second I thought you wanted to listen to the album called "dick waving contest cz there's gonna be backlash."

And I really questioned that.

dick waving vs. dick flying

Flying! I hope it tries to defeat him at chess.

"...you're supposed to ring the bell."

"Oh right."

*DONG*

"Oh dear."

home from exam. b at best? argh. so many trick questions but i tried to make lots of notes to justify my way around the tricks? like 'i know this is a trick so this is why i am answering this way?' don't know if that will work...

let's go fly a dick up to the highest height, let's go fly a dick and send it soaring

tza, we like to say here in nz 'Cs get degrees' or in your case 'Bs get degrees'

Cs on Ts get degrees

lolo

if only it were that easy...

The alphabet is a dangerous place, people.

totally trying to resist 'if i had a degree for every...' joke.

ok i guess that means i couldn't resist. but at least i didn't actually complete the thought (i'll just leave you all to imagine...)

on a fairly regular basis throughout my university years, i received good grades that i really felt i didn't deserve (i even passed two classes that i should have failed because i did less than 50% of the course work). then i found out the deal: my bestfriend's boyfriend is a design lecturer and he was telling her that he got 'reprimanded' by his superiors for failing a student... they basically told him 'the students are paying to get a degree and that's what we have to give them'. pretty sad.

yeah i knew a guy who was a physics professor at an institute of technology and he had basically been told that the students were consumers, and that the consumer/customer needs to be happy with the product given to them by the school, i.e., they need to pass so they keep pouring money into the place. he was very worried that people who could not master basic physics would go on to be architects and engineers designing the buildings we will all live/work in. scary!

i know - i mean, wtf is the point if ppl are coming out of universities not knowing sweet fuck all about their so-called major?? this is basically why i'm not all that proud of my degree.

i failed a class in college, mostly due to

a) not reading the description on the course prospectus, and entering an advanced class (but offered at the 100 level)

b) refusal to drop out of pride (class was music theory / ear training for musicians, and i thought i could learn perfect pitch)

c) lots of weed.

but the professor was super duper nice and let me sail through with a D+

I have never failed a class, but I could be well on my way right now!

Which is kind of hilarious, considering that I had an A going into this weekend. But this care plan is onerously long, is due tomorrow at noon, I have had nowhere near enough sleep for the past 3 nights, and expectations for what our papers are going to look like are totally unclear.

So here's the deal: you have to get 70% in every assignment to pass this class and continue in the nursing program. I have learned a ton this past weekend - not necessarily by writing this plan out at the speed of light; I learned about patient care. But I don't have a clue how they're going to grade these documents.

I think I may be about to pull my first college all nighter at the age of 36, guys.

Dan, get home soon so that I can go on my first serious college drinking bender.

haha learning perfect pitch!!! tho according to House, M.D. it is a symptom of some disease - the onset of perfect pitch -woah!

have i mentioned i hate power point?

omg POWER POINT HATE

Is it shared by everyone?

One of our profs uses all these weird non-standardized abbreviations on hers - ones that she just makes up! Sometimes I can't keep up with her, so I have to sit there and try to figure out what the hell they are...

I want to assess remy's perfect pitch right now. Is it truly perfect? (apparently not) If not, how close to perfect is it?

my pitch was terrible. but my mom played was a professional cellist, w. perfect pitch, etc., and i sort of figured it was the kind of thing that anybody could learn, given enough exposure.

tza - lots of children with williams syndrome have perfect pitch

and yeah, powerpoint is a terrible invention used by lazy teachers IMHO

ohhh man... i failed SO MANY classes at uni... that's why it took 6 freakin years to get a stupid english lit degree! basically i am lazy and i procrastinate and i can't do shit i'm not interested in. also, i had basically no confidence in my intellect the whole time, and always assumed i was going to fail so i would often to choose to fail with 'dignity' by just not doing the work/showing up to class, rather than the embarrassment of actually trying and still failing. ridiculous, i know.

i really wish i didn't ahve to waste time making this presentation bt i know this prof will be impressed by pretty visuals and since he has no CLUE about my content i might as well give it a shot

rly sucks, the prof who has already seen the proposal for this part of my project told me not to change a thing, but sadly he had to go to a meeting in l.a. and won't be there to see me kick ass :(

okay, A. just found a British journal article about palliative care for me that indicates that "semi-frozen tonic water and gin" may be given to dying patients as a comfort measure for oral discomfort.

LOL I LOVE TEH BRITISHERS

Yay drunk!

I have never had to make a PowerPoint anything in my life. I am grateful.

ok if i ever have a terminal illness i am moving to britishes land!

hey guess what, I'm still at work