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MSA

Monday, April 18, 2011 3:32 PM

Just kidding

Old thread is here
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=2&t=47410

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

PHOENIXROSE

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 1:34 AM

q

NICODEMUS

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:44 PM

Counting down the days.

MSA

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 4:08 PM

So what's the count at Nico???

ROSE!!!!! SQUEEEE!!!!! HUGS HUGS HUGS

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

MSA

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 4:08 PM

How are you doing Rose???? We've missed you terribly.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

PHOENIXROSE

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 6:58 PM

I've missed you too, Lila! Sorry to hear the house didn't work out, that's very sad.
I'm good. I'm doing schoolwork all the time. It's a lot of work to become a scientist, who knew? And it's still early days, I'm sure it will be even more fun once I get the basics out of the way and transfer. It really is actual fun, though, don't get me wrong. Life as a full-time student is pretty sweet. And I can cut my load in half over the summer, so that will also be pretty sweet.
Three finals presentations to do. I'm appalled at the idea of so much talking in front of people. I should get back to putting my speeches together, but I just... don't wanna. Crazy days.

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

MSA

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 4:12 AM

Hugs Rose. I'm so glad you're liking school. You definitely have to post pics of you in a lab coat

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 4:25 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Hugs Rose. I'm so glad you're liking school. You definitely have to post pics of you in a lab coat

Oooo... Lab Coat! Yay Rose!

(Of course you could go all "naughty mad scientist" with it, but that's probably not what she meant.)

I'm slogging through GenChem 2, and beginning to dread the thought of Organic Chem 1 in the Fall.

This summer's got intensive field research and then Calc 1 on the slate.
GenChem 2 may join it if I don't get at least a "C" this semester because then a) Med School will frown, and b) Organic will not let me proceed apace.

On the bright side, if I don't get into medical school I will be ideally suited to life as a science teacher of some form what with the broad base of knowledge I'm accumulating.

The required learnin' is deep and wide here.
Bio, Chem, Orgo, Ecology, Genetics, Physics, Structure and Function, Diversity of plants/mammals/invertebrates/microorganisms/fish [pick 3], Evolution, Cell Biology, Environment, and several heavy electives of your choice.

I'm slated for Entomology (diversity of invertebrates)and Toxicology (for the hell of it) next term.

They've got a class on Emerging Diseases, and another on Epidemiology that look interesting but I'll have to wait until the following year because I need to get the stuff I'll need for the MCATs out of the way next year first.

Biochemistry sounds fun in a "hurt your brain" kind of way.

PHOENIXROSE

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 7:21 PM

I'm some time away from lab coats, but when I get there I'll let you know

Rosie, I've been reading a book called Organic Chemistry as a Second Language. Yes, in my spare time, I'm not even in a chem class yet, they say I need more math. Anyway, not terribly far in it due to the lack of spare time but so far it's excellent, I highly recommend it. Author is David Klein.

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

MSA

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 8:23 PM

I made my brother promise never, at least out loud and while at school, say " organic chem is so easy I don't get why people complain"
My brother is a freak. He got a perfect score on the AP(BC) calculus test without taking the class or studying...
I believe we should keep him in a cage:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 8:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
I'm some time away from lab coats, but when I get there I'll let you know

Rosie, I've been reading a book called Organic Chemistry as a Second Language. Yes, in my spare time, I'm not even in a chem class yet, they say I need more math. Anyway, not terribly far in it due to the lack of spare time but so far it's excellent, I highly recommend it. Author is David Klein.

Make sure you get through log/natural log and e before attempting Chem. General Chemistry 2 is the first place I've run into it. I'm taking College Algebra/Precalc and we didn't get to that section until last week, which was of course about four weeks too late to help me. The prof was bitching about how she's been trying to get Precalc as a prerequisite for her class for years. (She doesn't want to teach algebra, she wants to teach chemistry and it slows her down.)
So yeah, teh maths first. Or at least before you need it. Stats will help too, since there's a LOT of chewy math things involved in analyzing and interpreting your data, and computers can't do it all for you. Unfortunately.
But it would be nice.

Get friendly with your calculator while you're at it. It will be the next best thing to your eraser.

PS: MSA- please hiss at your brother for me. With flames coming out your eyes and your head spinnning around 360 if possible. Thx!

PHOENIXROSE

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 8:46 PM

I'm taking stats over the summer. Intro to chemistry requires the math I'm in now, and I'm signed up for that in the fall, though if they add a bio class in the afternoon I'll switch to that so I can get more of the math done first. As it is, though, every single bio class being offered is at the same time as my algebra and English comp classes with my favorite teachers ever, so I'm signed up for the intro to chemistry. However, even with that by the time I get to General Chem 2 I should have plenty of math under my belt, because it probably won't be until next fall.
Wheeeeeeee.

btw I <3 my calculator. And a couple of my math teachers have at least touched on logarithms, though I doubt I could dredge up that info at this point... wasn't required for the class, so we didn't spend oodles of time on them.

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 10:08 PM

I think I've heard of that O-chem book. From reviews it appears thinking of O-chem as a second language with parts of speech and how they fit together and what the parts of speech mean can be a vary useful analogy. It might be even more efficient than memorizing the specific chemical bonds and structures.

@ thread title: Noooo, that's evil. They're coming for us with their guns!

Stats and Probabilities are FUN. :D I liked that class, it's not as detached from normal math as you might expect.

HOBBLEIT

Thursday, April 21, 2011 8:03 AM

I just have to say that all this talk of maths/chem is making my head hurt.

History all the way :D

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GEE

Thursday, April 21, 2011 2:52 PM

I have to say that all this maths/chem talk is making me jealous as my mangled noggin is still keeping me from working full time yet alone attempting to go back to studying.

Oh yes, and I'm not dead yet...

MSA

Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:31 PM

Yay for Gee!!! Alive is good.

Oh tell me this week will end...please

Rosie- sadly hissing will not help. He's an engineer now and top of his firm and it all comes so easily. Actually everything does. We call him submarine boy in our family because we swear if his plane exploded over the ocean he'd be blown clear , gently drift down because some piece of clothing just happened to arrange itself in exactly the right way and then land on a newly surfaced sub who had just deployed a rescue raft by accident.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:57 PM

The week will end. The brother is charmed. The Gee is here!

MSA

Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:20 PM

yup charmed life... once , he injured his hand requiring a tetnus shot. At the time he had no insurance. It just so happened that the day he showed up for it they were about to toss the batch and they ended up giving it to him for $10
Or the time that he failed to register early for his college classes ( which normally would require a huge fee to register) that day their computers crashed deleting the info for registration for everyone so all students had to re-register and he got all the classes he wanted and paid no fees..

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

GEE

Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:07 PM

The Gee... I feel special.

The weekend is coming, in fact it is here for me, just hope the huge project going on at work this weekend doesn't hit me with any support whilst I'm on call.

STINKINGROSE

Friday, April 22, 2011 1:20 PM

Uv COURSE The Gee is speshylz! Silly Gee.

So I've got today off. Boychild and Doctroid are out on an Adventure. (Museums beware!)

I've got a chemistry lab report (last one), chemistry "reflection paper" for my service project, math homework, math lab packet, and four subjects' worth of studying to do before Tuesday.

I'm debating if I should take this day as the Spring Break I never got, or use my time wisely and get at least some of this crap finished so I can start cramming for finals that much sooner.

Since there is no tub here, and the weather is not very enticing, I'm thinking it's going to be "get stuff done".

The morning after my last final I'm totally sleeping in until 8am. Unless something prevents it. Or I've got stuff to do.

Then I should take up residence in the bar when I'm not packing. (House not officially bought yet, still paperwork and bank appraisal and stuff to do. But I'll be gone for 5 weeks and can't pack for the move at a distance.)

Oh. Which reminds me. If I drop off the face of the earth for almost two months it's because I'll be in a place where internet service is almost nonexistent and highly limited. Plus I'll be busy from sometime before dawn to at least 10pm, "80 hour weeks are not uncommon" is how they put it and 10 PM is Noises Off time. For five weeks I do this.. late May through July 1. Before and after that I pack and move. Unless something goes dreadfully wrong with the deal. Which is the way these things usually seem to go.

"How come things never go schmooth?"

I'll keep my fingers and toes crossed between now and closing. Which will make taking notes in class very difficult.

MSA

Friday, April 22, 2011 4:12 PM

Rosie- rest as much as you can.. we'll be here when you get back:)

Fingers crossed and such for you on the house

At least it's Friday...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Sunday, April 24, 2011 2:21 AM

Saturday evening:

Two batches of homebrew bottled (about 13 gallons total) and it only took two trips to the supply store! (This includes sanitizing, prep, locating everything at least once, and most of cleanup.)

Cadbury Caramel Egg ice cream, version one.. in the freezer.
Math lab packet: done.

Math homework due Tuesday: over halfway done (soon, possibly by midmorning).

Chemistry lab: not even close (tomorrow).

"Reflection" paper: lol. Maybe by the time it's due.

Fringe and Sanctuary: watched.

Mancala: played with Boychild

Easter eggs: dyed with Boychild

Lunch and dinner: cooked and consumed with family.

Laundry: two loads down.

Dishes: Boychild's problem. (He's a good boy. With prodding. )

Herd: ridden over (see above).

All that on just two cups of coffee...

Can I be tired now? Where's the snoring emoticon?

I'm going to try getting through at least one row of knitting socks before passing out tonight. Oh, gotta play Bunny first. Right.

Hippity-hop!

PHOENIXROSE

Sunday, April 24, 2011 6:42 AM

There is a certain benefit to not being terribly observant of holidays, except as time to get caught up on crap.
One snoring emote, coming up.

There's also this one:
And this one:

And of course... this one

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

STINKINGROSE

Sunday, April 24, 2011 2:04 PM

Thanks Rose! Ickle widdums cuters!

I'm not observant, except that dying eggs is fun and candy is tasty. It's mostly carrying on traditions from childhood and trying to preserve a little bit of the "ooh-ahh" magic of mysterious magical beings bringing prezzies to the moderately well-behaved.
Any excuse to get more chocolate in the house...

Besides, you can't stop my mother. She's the North Poles' PacNW outpost, E.B. central, and overall overindulgence overlord.
My role in all this for the last 11 years has been minimal. (Stay up until child is asleep..try to move quietly..put out stuff..act surprised in morning.)
I still don't like the deception of it all, but the look on their faces when they're little is amazing. ("Always tell the truth, little one. Mommy will never lie to you. Except about Santa and the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, but other than that..")

Speaking of perpetual surprise, I keep logging in in the blue fff site, and ending up on the brown one and logging in again. I'm not used to the new place.
Is the old one slated for demolition any time soon? I'll need enough advance warning to bookmark this one and delete the old link.

See? I can still talk about things related to this site and Firefly. I just need the right random thought.

There's a fellow who posted something about his degree and the fandom thanking us. His screen name is Captainawesome99. Wrong fandom, dude.. that's Chuck. (Though I do enjoy that show.)

I love recognizing faces from one show on another. An actress who was on Chuck just showed up on Bones. I realized about a year ago that Cam from Bones was the teacher in Serenity. I think the fellow playing Magnus' father on Sanctuary did the voice work for Myst/Riven (video games).

So far today I've gotten coffee, seem to be successfully avoiding a migraine for now, and had breakfast. (Sesame bagel, toasted with lots of butter and the last of the homemade peach jam.) Boychild has reached his candy limit until at least 11am.

I'm willing to admit Spring's finally creeping in around the edges. The peepers are getting quieter. You could hear them over the wind and rain the other night. Plus: daffodils blooming. Five deer were calmly grazing their way across my back yard yesterday. (No, not browsing for a change, they were after the plants in the lawn.)

Okay. Back to work. Maths is done. Time to rock the chem lab report.

...is it just me or am I REALLY rambling on lately...?

Pumpernickel and Seedy breads started. I'll bake them in the morning. (Fridge overnight.)
It's a thank-you to the prof who gave me an intro to the Doc who's lecturing tomorrow who gave me an intro to the head of the pathology dept at one of the local hospitals. (She's coming in from Mt. Sinai to discuss the nervous system with us. Plus: she's an alumn. Too cool.)

PHOENIXROSE

Monday, April 25, 2011 3:19 AM

Dying eggs is fun. Candy is poison (I admit I'm biased on that.)
Being childless, I do have less reason to devote my time to egg coloring. Used to take my family all day.
My parents didn't really tell me there was a Santa or Easter Bunny in the literal sense. They were symbolic metaphorical mascots for some kind of tradition and time off from school, but the parents were their, I dunno, representative or something. It never came as a shock to me that it was all mom and dad, because it always had been. I still enjoyed hunting eggs and getting presents and finding quarters under my pillow, I can assure you. So, you know, if you don't like the deception or worry about traumatizing your kid, don't worry that knowing it's you will lessen his enjoyment of it. What's not to like about playing games, having candy, getting presents, and waking up with money?

I still have my weekly website-inspired paper to write for psych. Gah. I've exhausted the links the teacher gave us, such as they were, and started finding my own stuff a few weeks ago, and I'm totally out of ideas. Might just have to miss one, here. I hate to do that.

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

STINKINGROSE

Monday, April 25, 2011 12:22 PM

..actually, I think he's on to us but either not wanting to risk the loot or having too much fun watching us pretend.

Okay, one diagram of an electrolytic cell to sketch and the damned lab is done.

There's still a five page essay on "how I helped my community through chemistry", a meeting to initiate and complete a presentation on said project, and the presentation this weekend. (Mini-conferencesque thingy from 9-4 on Saturday. Just how I want to spend my weekend when I could be studying.. and no, franky, the fact that there will be pizza does not hold the same all-forgiving charm for me that it does for the 18 year olds.)
"Grump, frump, grumble, crotchety geezer mumble, grump".

If any of you are familiar with the 76th's own Zeppo, he's got a link to an Easter short he's in on Twitter. Is funny.

I baked bread this morning. I have it with me now. Four loaves, two pumpernickel and two seed loaf. It will go to people as "thank you" today. This is the best the lab's smelled in... ever really.

A day that starts off smelling this good cannot be all bad simply because this portion of the day was in it. Not challenging worse, just saying it's a good start and hopefully it will get better from here out mostly.

Finals start next week. We're reviewing in my course tonight, next week they've got the time to study (preferably my course) while I write the final exam. I'll make sure there's no reason they shouldn't at least pass, but I might throw in a few zingers to weed out the people who were really paying attention and taking the class seriously from those lesser mortals who merely showed up. (Hey, it's not an automatic "A" but everyone's probably going to end up with at least a high B average in a three credit course so I don't want to hear any bitching, OK?)

MSA

Monday, April 25, 2011 7:20 PM

We didn't do the dyeing of eggs or hunting for same as johnny neither knows nor cares about the easter bunny. He was enthused by the small chocolate bugs ( 2 ladybugs, 2 bees, and 2 beetles) and the row of mini chocolate bunnies in his basket..but no more enthused than he was by his normal Annie's organic cheddar bunnies.
We took him to his first carnival on Saturday... mostly the reaction to the rides was non-plussed.
He did enjoy his daddy doing the shooting games and winning him a doggie and monkey.
He got to be grown up boy for 55 min and go to the church nursery with Keira ( family friend's 13 year old daughter whom Johnny adores) and no mommy or daddy ( I ,of course, white knuckled it the whole time waiting for the pager to ring...but he did fine with his first non Nana or Auntie Cack play without the parents time.
I am really pleased that he can play and be with other people ...and at the same time wishing I could just keep him with us forever.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

HOBBLEIT

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 2:50 PM

It's amazing what a good rant can do. Was mad but since my rant I feel so much better

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MSA

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 5:31 PM

Ranting.. powerful tool to deal with powerful tools:)
HUGS Hobbleit:) Anyone we need to kill???

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

HOBBLEIT

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 6:16 PM

nah, it's just someone annoying me with their childish hypocrisy

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MSA

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:11 PM

HUGS Hobbleit... people suck:)
Trust me I know. Right now I am considering quitting a career I've spent 10 years building because of a few students.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:01 PM

Try to focus on the ones you aren't upset with if you can.

You really are helping the ones who aren't bad apples/rotten eggs/decay-decomp metaphor of your choice.

We still haven't killed anyone you know... it could be cathartic. You had a baby and I went back to school. Got any old plot bunnies you want to dust off?

HOBBLEIT

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:34 AM

Squeeeeeeeee, Richard Grieve is on the Wright Stuff. I love him since I saw him in Priscilla

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MSA

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:19 PM

Ok it's been so long since I saw Pricilla... I don't remember

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

HOBBLEIT

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:28 PM

I saw it two weeks ago. Amazing :D

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MSA

Friday, April 29, 2011 4:09 PM

oooh:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Saturday, April 30, 2011 10:58 AM

Tired. Mini-conference today from 9-4 for service track presentations and then I'm done with it. 20+ hours of volunteer time (I did almost 30 trying to make sure I got at least 20 in), a 3-5 page paper, several meetings, and now this. Just so 10% of my test average would be shifted over because it would help my overall average.
I could have spent the time studying.
But I probably would have still failed 2/3 exams, and only squeaked through the third one.
Plus: she's apparently got a wonky weighting system and a slight curve.

If I went through this entire semester suffering all the stress and frustration of not just thinking but knowing (knowing I tell you, after being told by email) that I was failing, only to get a B.... I am so channeling Chuck Norris, or borrowing HK's feathery minions of doom or something.
I'd have to at least kick her in the shin, because waiting for Karmic payback just wouldn't be satisfying.
(If I ever go completely off the rails I'd make"Scary Willow" look like a piker.)

So: sushi and coffee for breakfast, bringing a thermos of coffee with because we're responsible for our own snacks/drinks/etc and they're feeding us pizza for lunch.. lucky lucky us. Then it's off to the "conference". Whoop-de-fucking-do.

(Don't mind me, I'm just cranky because it's A BEAUTIFUL DAY THAT I COULD BE SPENDING WITH MY FAMILY OR STUDYING FOR FINALS NEXT WEEK OR BOTH.)

8 hours of my life I'm not getting back and I haven't even wasted them yet..sheesh!

STINKINGROSE

Monday, May 2, 2011 1:06 AM

Happy May Day!

15 hours ago there was dancing. I was not there. Now it is time for bed.

NAVYSEILS

Monday, May 2, 2011 1:09 AM

Being allergic to pollen is one of the stupidest things possible. I hate that it happened to me. Today was a fun day outdoors. Tonight has been hell as a result.

STINKINGROSE

Monday, May 2, 2011 10:13 AM

loratadine
diphenhydramine
and
water

Doctroid is allergic to the air for about a month every spring.

I do not usually have a problem with it, but this year's been special... stoopid tree sex orgy.

MSA

Monday, May 2, 2011 6:02 PM

Just when I thought my job couldn't get worse... yay it does

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

BROWNCOAT1

Monday, May 2, 2011 7:06 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Just kidding

Well ruttin' Hell. I had hoped it was Alliance friendly so as I'd have a place to look for a drink on U-Day.

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STINKINGROSE

Monday, May 2, 2011 7:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Well ruttin' Hell. I had hoped it was Alliance friendly so as I'd have a place to look for a drink on U-Day.

Well howdy stranger! Good to see you again.

I'll be mixing up a round of Singapore Slings for any interested parties.

MSA: What now?!!

MSA

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 3:42 PM

Baby once again sick. This time much worse. 102.4 fever that is not breaking without tylenol every 4-6 hours. He's throwing up and miserably in pain. NV is taking him to the doctor this morning.
At least I figured out the source. Both times he's gotten sick it was within 24 hours of playing with some kids whose parents are questionably hygiened. They occasionally come to the paintball field. There's no other common activity, interaction or, location between the two and both times he's had the exact same symptoms following the same progression. This time severity is increased, but it's still the same in terms of contact, 24 hrs later listless and uncomfortable and not sleeping, 48 hours fever and vomiting.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 4:11 PM

Poor, poor punkin'

BROWNCOAT1

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 5:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by stinkingrose:
Well howdy stranger! Good to see you again.

I'll be mixing up a round of Singapore Slings for any interested parties.

Ni hao Stinkingrose. Good to see you.

I'll take a 'Sling.

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Baby once again sick. This time much worse. 102.4 fever that is not breaking without tylenol every 4-6 hours. He's throwing up and miserably in pain. NV is taking him to the doctor this morning.

Poor lil' tike. Hope he is feeling better soon MsA.

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STINKINGROSE

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 10:33 PM

(Slings a Sling down the bar like it's never been slung.)

Dessert at my aunt's for my father tonight. It's his birthday. We're headed over. Hopefully things go schmooth.
(long story involving Dramatis familias, the details will be spared)

Tomorrow the race to the finals finish line begins. I have all weekend to study for math, but almost no time for three courses I need to work on most. Can I move my weekend between Wed and Thur, or even Thur and Fri please?

Hope the peanut's better now MsA.

How's things with you BC1? (Hmm.. sounds like "busy one" in my head..)

MSA

Wednesday, May 4, 2011 5:21 PM

Ah finals...
If it makes you feel better Rosie, teachers dread it as much as you do. First you have to write the stupid final, then spend hours and hours of your life reading everyone's answers and getting irritated when some of your better students half ass their way though ...sometimes you get the pleasant surprise of a student you though wasn't paying attention who pulls out gold:) Then there's entering the grades, handing them back, and teh inevitable fussing and wailing...
But I'm sure you'll do very well:) You is super super wiley coyote super genius:)

Peanut is ...fair to middling. NV and I are near death with exhaustion of having gotten no sleep for days

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, May 4, 2011 8:23 PM

Oh, I know. I get BOTH ends of the finals spectrum.

Four more to take and one to give.

I hope they don't take the whole two hours, because that goes until 9:30pm and I want to grade them and enter the grades and calculate the final average and submit it ASAP and be DONE with this semester. (Other than waiting for my own grades to be released so I can see if I need to re-take GenChem2 for a C or better.)

sigh.

I'm sorry the punkin's poorly. Any official "what he's got", or is it a rule-out kind of thing? I hope whatever it is stops soon. Taking care of him in shifts probably isn't feasible.. but if you could get a third person in on it you might at least be able to coordinate naps. Not that I can volunteer, mind you.

Let's all raise a glass to sleep and health and the end of testing!

GREENKA61

Thursday, May 5, 2011 3:07 AM

(adding ice to the blender)

I got a new job today! I was surplused from my current school (budget cuts), but landed a high school library in town today.

I am very relieved.

Anyone want something blended and frothy? I'll mix it right up, and it's on me.

PHOENIXROSE

Thursday, May 5, 2011 5:40 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by stinkingrose:
Tomorrow the race to the finals finish line begins.

I've had all my finals. Official last day of the semester is tomorrow, but the last final I had to take was yesterday. I think my school started earlier than most, and we also had spring break earlier than most.
The end of this semester was pretty brutal for me; three of the four classes I was taking had presentations as part of the final. I do not like talking in front of people. There were also a lot of tests crammed in at the end. Is that normal? It hasn't been for me, but I haven't been in the most normal of curriculums until this year, and the end of the term just seemed to sneak up on everybody. Went from having tests every three weeks or so to a test every week. I'm really glad I knew at least one of my presentations from the start and could plan ahead of time, because those also seemed to sneak up and give me a couple weeks or less to prepare them. I literally threw one of them together in the course of an afternoon. This does not bode very well for the accelerated courses over the summer. I tried to keep two of my classes nice and fluffy so I could focus on the math. Hopefully I won't end up doing presentations in those...
I think I'll spend the next two weeks napping before I have to start up again. Might have to bug the financial aid office, though. Bah.
Oh, and I'll also have to go out and celebrate with Japanese food, but that should be more fun than bugging people for money.

Hope Johnny's feeling better, Lila. Poor guy. I thought repeated exposure was supposed to make the body more resistant, this thing must be nasty.

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

BROWNCOAT1

Thursday, May 5, 2011 1:10 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by stinkingrose:
(Slings a Sling down the bar like it's never been slung.)

(Grabs the Sling before it rockets off the end of the bar and takes a swig)

Not bad.

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Originally posted by stinkingrose:
How's things with you BC1? (Hmm.. sounds like "busy one" in my head..)

Busy. New duties at work keepin' me busy, but I'm still flyin'.

Hopin' to make D*C this year. Should have the coin, but findin' a room may present a problem since word has it all the hotels have been booked up since Dec or Jan.

__________________________________________
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X.O. / Battalion O.I.C.

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BROWNCOAT1

Thursday, May 5, 2011 1:12 PM

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Originally posted by MsA:
Peanut is ...fair to middling. NV and I are near death with exhaustion of having gotten no sleep for days

Glad to hear the little guy's doin' a bit better.

Sure do hope you and NV get some rest soon.

__________________________________________
Holding the line since December '02!

X.O. / Battalion O.I.C.

http://76thbattalion.homestead.com/index.html

http://76thbattalion.proboards.com

MSA

Thursday, May 5, 2011 3:47 PM

Browncoat1 we have the same room issue... ours is frustrating as well because we must have our own room due to Johnny and due to noise+ johnny and need to return to room regularly for his naps, changes, etc. we have to have one in the Marriott or in the International tower... sigh

Rosie.. hugs and good luck:) It's some kind of virus

HUGS Rose... ooh good luck sweety. I know you'll kick butt!!!

Whoo for Marion the Librarian.... ok just kidding sweety:) I'm happy for you.
I'm still trying to find work in my home district so I don't have to commute 120+ miles a day

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

MSA

Friday, May 6, 2011 3:40 PM

Greenka61- how did you get to be Marion the librarian anyway??? Don't you have to have a degree in library science to do that??

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

MSA

Monday, May 9, 2011 5:03 PM

bumpity

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

GREENKA61

Monday, May 9, 2011 7:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Greenka61- how did you get to be Marion the librarian anyway??? Don't you have to have a degree in library science to do that??

In Nevada, there are a number of courses you have to take to get certified as a school librarian, but if you want a high school library, having a MLIS really helps. Other states require you to have one.
I finished my MLIS in December. (Actually, Firefly arrived in the mail the very last week of grad school. I almost didn't get my paper finished because watching Firefly was so much more fun- how did this show ever get cancelled?!).

Ah, yes. Marion the librarian. You've never been to a party with a bunch of librarians, have you?

To quote Michael Moore:

"I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

We subversive librarian-types like showing students how to find things online, (like which books are banned and should therefore be read ASAP), and how to look up the tax returns of politicians (it's interesting - and fun! - to find out where their money comes from.) And we can show them reference sources for their papers that they never dreamed existed, not to mention, get them to read for the fun of it.

I love my job.

STINKINGROSE

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 5:17 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by greenka61:

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Greenka61- how did you get to be Marion the librarian anyway??? Don't you have to have a degree in library science to do that??

In Nevada, there are a number of courses you have to take to get certified as a school librarian, but if you want a high school library, having a MLIS really helps. Other states require you to have one.
I finished my MLIS in December. (Actually, Firefly arrived in the mail the very last week of grad school. I almost didn't get my paper finished because watching Firefly was so much more fun- how did this show ever get cancelled?!).

Ah, yes. Marion the librarian. You've never been to a party with a bunch of librarians, have you?

To quote Michael Moore:

"I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

We subversive librarian-types like showing students how to find things online, (like which books are banned and should therefore be read ASAP), and how to look up the tax returns of politicians (it's interesting - and fun! - to find out where their money comes from.) And we can show them reference sources for their papers that they never dreamed existed, not to mention, get them to read for the fun of it.

I love my job.

My librarian friends are fun people. Crazy in a good way, and almost a little scary sometimes, but fun!

They take care of books and safeguard knowledge, it is a sacred calling IMO. (I am sooo jealous! But I suck at keeping track of stuff.

)

DONE. I AM DONE WITH THE SEMESTER.
(Okay except for one student who didn't put their name on their final exam and I have to make sure it's them. After that I'm done.)

MSA

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 4:36 PM

oooh what courses...tell me more. HUGS Green:)
Oh I know librarians are trouble...just like teachers.
The school I used to teach at got a grant to do our pre-school meetings at a hotel in Park City and we got kicked out. Apparently they weren't expecting a group of teachers to be so " rowdy" LOL.
Anyone who has never been a teacher assumes we're all like we behave in class. Rule bound, serious etc... HAHAHAHA

YAY for Rosie and the finished final

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

MSA

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 5:26 PM

I hate Wednesdays in the spring time
I hate Wednesdays in the fall
I hate Wednesdays
Why oh why do I hate Wednesdays...
because my kids are brats( students not my actual son)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

BROWNCOAT1

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 5:59 PM

Actually I'm a fan of Wednesdays, or as I like to call them "Hump Day". When I return from lunch on Hump Day my work week is officially more than half over and I am on the down hill side. Figure I am shiny after that point.

Now of course making it to that point can be a challenge. My new job, overseeing 16 people, is akin to herding retarded kittens, high on cat nip. On a good day. Bad day? Well, that's something altogether different.

__________________________________________
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X.O. / Battalion O.I.C.

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STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:30 PM

Ah, cat herding...

Been there, done that, cleaned the litter box.

MsA: Johnny's got years to learn the whole "brat" thing. Mine's still pretty good, but we've got some surly teenager creeping in around the edges. Boy gets a little fuzz on his lip and suddenly he thinks he's man enough to sass me. OH No..no no no, we are NOT going there yet. (He's still cute and a sweetie most of the time. We have not outgrown hugs, although they are occasionally at 90-180 degree angles these days.)

That's Pi/2 to Pi radians. See? I learned something this semester!

MSA

Thursday, May 12, 2011 4:56 PM

LOL a little sass I don't mind... it's the screaming obscenities at me at the top of your lungs while attempting to throw desks around my room... or trying to use your lighter to set me on fire while my back is turned... or coming to class high and trying to assault my assistant... or attempting to sexually assault a teacher in the teacher's bathroom... or continuously talking at top volume while I am talking, giving instructions, etc and when corrected telling me to f off then fake punching me in the head repeatedly... or
I could keep going on and on.That's more or less what I mean by bratty behavior.

As you can tell, it's been a lovely week.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Thursday, May 12, 2011 8:52 PM

You've obviously got a much higher threshold for "bratty" than myself... and a whole lot more patience.

MSA

Friday, May 13, 2011 5:28 PM

On today's roster..
One kid came late, pitched a tantrum when I wouldn't let him talk over me during instruction then stormed out of class because I wouldn't let him ride his skateboard around the room.
Another kid paid a 3rd kid to leave our closed campus to buy him snacks and both were tardy. (kid with money is dealing on campus and as soon as I find out where his stash is, I'm busting him)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Friday, May 13, 2011 5:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
On today's roster..
One kid came late, pitched a tantrum when I wouldn't let him talk over me during instruction then stormed out of class because I wouldn't let him ride his skateboard around the room.
Another kid paid a 3rd kid to leave our closed campus to buy him snacks and both were tardy. (kid with money is dealing on campus and as soon as I find out where his stash is, I'm busting him)

skateboarding..'cause you can wicked thrash in a small level room..

As for the stash.. have you checked his band locker?

Seriously, a thought: could he be having someone else hold for him.. maybe intimidating them into it? (Not that I'm implying he's anything less than a perfect angel and a budding entrepreneur, buut...)

Sorry it's a crap day already.

If it makes you feel better we're having house issues seven days before we're supposed to close per the contract. Whee. (We may or may not be looking at starting the process all over again.)

I'm going to start looking at realty websites again just to see if I can intimidate the bad-house-juju-demons into backing down. Prolly not and these things happen for a reason, right?

(edit)

AAAAnnnd now the house isn't happening. One more thing came up and it was a dilly. This isn't going to be fun or pretty, and we're likely to be out about $2K for a repair that needed doing which we were going to reimburse them at closing. (Someone's gonna fight like a mother for that one I'm betting..)
Here's hoping they don't sue us because they couldn't comply with perfectly reasonable demands we made at the outset, and now the house isn't sold.
As a special bonus: none of the houses we were looking at before are still available so it's square one again. Fuck.
And I'm leaving town in two weeks. For over a month. And can't get back to sign paperwork. Which means that Doctroid's going to have to deal with it on his tod if we don't find summat quick.

AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!

Okay, a large virtual beer and I'll be fine.. right? (Hops behind the bar, lies down under the Guinness spigot and turns on the tap whilst gargling "Tiny Bubbles".)

MSA

Monday, May 16, 2011 3:41 PM

Oh Rosie... that sucks deep and wide. I am so so sorry. There is nothing worse than that. We were there last Nov and it sucks.
I will cross my fingers and everything that you'll find something lovely and wonderful right this minute. I wish I could do more
House hunting/buying/ etc SUCKS!!!!!

And now on to the show... in todays episode my little sexual predator continues his ongoing spew of sexually inappropriate topics ( strangely while hopping up and down in his chair...pretty sure his over tight girl jeans are gonna fall off again....)
My hostile girl is on a roll about oversharing her social life.... 'cause I so wanted to know about how she almost cheated on her boyfriend
Luckily my little banger is quietly working away:) Gotta love gang bangers. Outside of school they are a danger to themselves and others, but here quiet as a lamb and on task:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

MSA

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:39 PM

I really like my principal...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:12 PM

Honestly, or was that sarcasm?
I can't tell sometimes.

Okay, three houses looked at today. More tomorrow and Friday. Whee.

MSA

Thursday, May 19, 2011 3:24 PM

Um sadly about 50/50

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Saturday, May 21, 2011 7:57 PM

Okay, I've looked at houses. Doctroid's turn.

Today: a friend's 40th birthday party. Tomorrow: open houses prolly..

Right now there is sunshine and warm breezes and rest (periodically).

STINKINGROSE

Sunday, May 22, 2011 12:29 PM

(Peers out the side door to see if the Forsaken Pyre has been lit..)

"OH DEARIE ME... WE SEEM TO HAVE A ROUND ON THE HOUSE GOING SPARE IN HERE...WHATEVER SHALL WE DO?"

(waits)

MSA

Tuesday, May 24, 2011 4:59 PM

Dance as if no one who has the power to commit us is watching!!!!!

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 1:01 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Dance as if no one who has the power to commit us is watching!!!!!

Anyone with that kind of power is already dancing with us!

MSA

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 4:48 AM

why yes...yes I am

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 11:40 AM

MSA

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 3:29 PM

Ok holy crap...someone found a bar and grill thread from 2007 and resurrected it... WOW

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 4:51 PM

Where? What?

MSA

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 5:16 PM

Look in main threads.... made me all nostalgic and sad

Kelhil, RIMG< LA, Mavoureen, Nico, and tons of others...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 5:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Look in main threads.... made me all nostalgic and sad

Kelhil, RIMG< LA, Mavoureen, Nico, and tons of others...

We need a reunion tour. With T-shirts.

MSA

Thursday, May 26, 2011 4:49 PM

oooh yes ...yes we do.

Think we can get tee fury to do a
Browncoat Bar and Grill tee as their tee of the day??

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:28 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
oooh yes ...yes we do.

Think we can get tee fury to do a
Browncoat Bar and Grill tee as their tee of the day??

"Browncoat Bar and Grill: home of the shirtless bartender."

It's got a certain ring..

We are also lacking in Forsaken-y goodness of late.

MSA

Friday, May 27, 2011 4:30 AM

that we are

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

GEE

Friday, May 27, 2011 3:45 PM

wow - that thread really was a blast from the past and I think my only firsties ever, so many missing people... RL sucks

I confess I banged my head at work about six/seven weeks ago so basically been work, sleep, weekend, repeat for a while. Done some nice things at weekend but I'm about finished.

Three day weekend and off to see other half's sister and family, about to get repeatedly killed at FIFA but will have my revenge as now have my own PS3 so taking Madden to introduce him...

Anyone got any fun plans?

Anyone want to buy a flat in Leicester, we've even found a place to move to but no one wants our flat

MSA

Friday, May 27, 2011 8:06 PM

That sounds like a fantastic set of plans:)
and hey... we can't blame you for taking a little Gee time:)

No real plans except to rest/recoup from the evil students... will celebrate and have plans after school is out

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

MSA

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 5:50 PM

Almost there... almost there....

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

MSA

Wednesday, June 1, 2011 7:29 PM

ARGH

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

MSA

Thursday, June 2, 2011 4:56 PM

double ARGH

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

MSA

Friday, June 3, 2011 8:26 PM

HEEEELLLLLOOOOOOO?????????

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

DANCINGNEKO

Saturday, June 4, 2011 3:03 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
HEEEELLLLLOOOOOOO?????????

*peeks out of shadow-y area*
I would have answered sooner (I did try) but teh interwebs eated it.