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

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

guess, what, I've been writing this care plan for over 11 hours almost nonstop

Please give me the gin and tonic slush now and let me die in peace.

PS DAN, PLEASE GO HOME NOW, SOMEONE NEEDS TO REST

guess what this is the ugliest power point i've ever done but i think i am quitting for tonight and gonna watch some tv! huzzah!

good luck, dan & sara :(

Please give me the gin and tonic slush now and let me die in peace.

i'm gonna start using this for times of exasperation.

I think I want it engraved on my tombstone.

this is going to be my facebook status for the next 24 hours.

yay I get to go home now

YAY DAN!!!!

I think I'm up to my the final section of my care plan, so there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Except that I have to repeat this nonsense in two weeks.

Anyway, gin and tonic death slushes for everyone!!!

Okay, how sick is it that I'm so tired that I'm now kind of enjoying how exhausted I am?

HELLO EXHAUSTION-INDUCED EUPHORIA

yay home, now bed

Yay done, submitted the freaking thing!

Yay for sleep! I will get to have some, too. SO EXCITED

wow dan you get home fast.

yay sara!

YAY all!

Not surprised at all re: G&T death slushies of Britain, this is totally something I could see Dr W!ld, age 93 handing out and in fact can already imagine the 1950s BBC English describing the need for such a thing. 'Partially frozen' also U&K because Britishes did not discover drink ice until about 1992.

Sara, my mom is like an independent notionally but she sucks up GOP talking points and yesterday sounded like she was smoking the freeper crack. I think it's time to hit her with the "I'm ashamed to hear this coming out of you" intergenerational flipback.