Grading is a prison of paper cuts, smudged ink, and God awful one-sentence, single line paragraphs.
I hate all of you who went to college and turned in crap like this for some TA to grade.* Seriously, you all suck. Why do you turn this crap in and torture me with it?
OK. It's not that bad. I mean, if this is the price I...
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I hate all of you who went to college and turned in crap like this for some TA to grade.* Seriously, you all suck. Why do you turn this crap in and torture me with it?
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Time for an update! Things have been busy on this end. Well, not so much busy as "vomit based." Last week, I was pretty much out all of the week with some kind of stomach *thing.* I was eating very little, and most of that was white bread, rice, and apple sauce. I was fairly pathetic. It sucked. As it is, I waste enough time...
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_pie_:
Who can resist a delicious pair of ta-tas?
toothpickmoe:
Your secret is safe with me, Pervotron.
Turkey Day survived, with flying colors!
Hope everyone out there had an equally fine one.
Today, I felt like a moral failure as a TA. I'd tell you more, but I'm embarrassed to even think about my crumminess.
Hope everyone out there had an equally fine one.
Today, I felt like a moral failure as a TA. I'd tell you more, but I'm embarrassed to even think about my crumminess.
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lordmuppet:
i had my last TA section today. glad to be rid of the fuckers frankly.
there's only three things i think moral failure as a TA could entail
1) indoctrination
2) sleeping with a current student
3) altering someone's grade without justification
which is it I'm curious now. Or did i miss one?
there's only three things i think moral failure as a TA could entail
1) indoctrination
2) sleeping with a current student
3) altering someone's grade without justification
which is it I'm curious now. Or did i miss one?
salome:
What happened?
Turkey Week!
I dunno that I'm a huge Thanksgiving fan, but I do like it. And we get to go home. Which is great. I really enjoy family gatherings: it's just me and my wife, my parents, my sister, my grandmother, my uncle and his partner. So it's enough people to be fun, but it's never a huge production. It's really casual. I'm psyched.
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I dunno that I'm a huge Thanksgiving fan, but I do like it. And we get to go home. Which is great. I really enjoy family gatherings: it's just me and my wife, my parents, my sister, my grandmother, my uncle and his partner. So it's enough people to be fun, but it's never a huge production. It's really casual. I'm psyched.
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toothpickmoe:
I'm certainly something, I'm just not sure what that is.
shard:
The "blow job on the train" argument was less funny then a little creepy, at least at the time. She was like, I dunno, 19? And he was in his late 20s, or looked it. Basically, for the whole two hours they sat behind us, they *fought.* About the blow jobs, about him sticking a finger in her ass (???), about her brother, about money, about where they were going to stay, about her mother. Just on and on. And it was a creepy, desperate kind of fighting that comes from hating each other and being together too long.
Sounds like good material for a funny script.
Is it wrong that I love this song so fucking much?
It's not even really the song - though it's wonderfully catchy. It's the whole song/video package. It just hits me in all right places.
I'm also going to stand up and admit that whlie I would call neither of Paris Hilton's first two singles *good* by any means, they *are* surprisingly catchy. They're like...
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It's not even really the song - though it's wonderfully catchy. It's the whole song/video package. It just hits me in all right places.
I'm also going to stand up and admit that whlie I would call neither of Paris Hilton's first two singles *good* by any means, they *are* surprisingly catchy. They're like...
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toothpickmoe:
Well, he is a real American hero. Those aren't too highly regarded these days. 
akirali:
2 things: Yeah I have cool toys. I have to make up for my total lack of social graces some how don't I? And how did you embed 2 youtube videos in your post?
In my department, we are doing a *load* of hiring this year. Which means, job talks. For those of you who actually work for a living, a "job talk" is pretty much what it sounds like. It works like this: When a spot at an university opens up, about a million people apply for the position (this is *not* an exaggeration by the way)....
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akirali:
I've never heard either of them. Yes,I'm sheltered .
akirali:
From now on he is officially referred to as "Bill Groundhog Day-Ghostbusting-ass Murray" 
It was a Good Day.
Sure sure not all the problems in the world are fixed. I'll see how this new Congress actually acts when the rubber hits the road before I pump my fist madly in the air or whatever.
But, for just a little while, I feel like maybe things can be *better.*
Sure sure not all the problems in the world are fixed. I'll see how this new Congress actually acts when the rubber hits the road before I pump my fist madly in the air or whatever.
But, for just a little while, I feel like maybe things can be *better.*
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toothpickmoe:
Wouldn't that be nice?
subrosa:
Corruption in Chicago local politics? Quelle Surprise!
I both love and hate Election Day.
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shard:
I can't wait until the subpoenas are handed down.
If you want to play games....
http://video.movies.go.com/sincity/
If you want to play games....
http://video.movies.go.com/sincity/
somuchrain:
have you seen this picture?
http://www.post-gazette.com/images4/2006108rr_santorum_concedePJ_580.jpg
i've seen zombie babies that weren't as scary as santorum's family on election day ....
http://www.post-gazette.com/images4/2006108rr_santorum_concedePJ_580.jpg
i've seen zombie babies that weren't as scary as santorum's family on election day ....
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_biblia_:
glad to hear that they like it.
toothpickmoe:
Indeed it would. I'll get to work on a script.
What's even better than Grading?
Dealing with huffy undergrads who think that a "B" is a bad grade.
Little fuckers.
Dealing with huffy undergrads who think that a "B" is a bad grade.
Little fuckers.
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akirali:
It's odd, because he totally nailed everything I don't like about Morrison. And strangely enough, it's all what I see as my weakest aspects in my own writing. 
dingoes8:
If I get a B in any class this semester, I will be very happy.
A sidekick, huh? Let's hear it...