Holy Free-holey, Batman!
Ok, so I have no idea how to really spell that, so I did it how it sounded. ;-)
Oh my word. Today was crazyness, but fun crazyness. We had a "pep rally". I put it in quotes because it lasted all of 10 minutes, and it was severly lacking in the pep department. People at Austin Peay suck with school spirit. But, we had close to 500 T-shirts to give out, and that was a MOB. I tell ya, give something free away, and people turn into animals!! Then, as soon as they got their shirts, they were on their way. Greedy suckers. But, the basketball players (men & women) were there, and some of the cheer/dance teams. Fun. Then I had 376 evaluations to count. I didn't analyze them yet, just counted. Yuk. ANd half of them aren't really valid, beacuse people just did it to get the T-shirt and weren't there for the pep rally. !? WTF ever. I was in a spastic mood all day too.. so that made it fun. We all were, I think due to lack of sleep all week. I sat in the main reception area and chatted with the student workers most of the afternoon, while I counted, so that was cool. Last night at the "American Wedding" thing, I sat out and talked to a bunch of the ASA's. One of who I work with all the time, Ashleigh, who I've deciced isn't nearly as snotty and stuck up as I thought she was. She & her best friend had the giggles and were telling me all about their drinking escapades; so I guess she is human and not super uptight. It was fun. She might be OK to hang out with. :-P
What else? I finally printed out all of my "sell myself" internship letters, to mail out to places I've found in NC via online classifieds. So, I just have to organize it and get everything in envelopes and I'll be rollin' on that on.
HOLY CRAP! How could I forget about this. So, I go to my first class THursday, and the professor lectures for about 20 mins on whatever we had been talking about last week, I think internal vs external attribution stuff, and all of a sudden he just stops and hands us a sheet of paper. People start "gasping" and talking; turns out it's a schedule of when we're going to present our research proposals. Well, 4 of us, and I was one of the lucky few, are scheduled to do it NEXT WEEK! We have a week's notice to do a professional 10 minute presentation. Our papers aren't due until April 15, there has been no mention of presentations being a month and a half beforehand. So, people grumble, he tries to sell it to us as "people doing early presentations have an advantage: they'll get feed back" blah blah. Earlier ones won't be graded the same as later ones, you might only have a few articles so far, blah blah blah! What the HELL is that about? How can you not grade them all the same? How can you give us a week's notice to come up with a presentation?! Hello? Excuse my French, but fuckin' A. That's not right. It's a Thursday, I bet 98% of the class has stuff planned for the weekend, and no time during the week to sneak in a presentation?! So, no one said anything too vocal, so I raised my had and said "I'm sorry, but is there anyway you can push back the first ones a week or 2?" (there were 2 empty weeks between the first 2 sets of presentations) "But I don't think it's reasonable to expect us to whip up a presentation of this magnititude in a week, over a weekend we've probably already planned other stuff for". He just looked at me and asked if others felt like this and people mumbled yeah, they did.. but no one else was too vocal about it. He just said "well, it's almost March, you should be well on your way" But he'd also just told us it was OK to change topics... WTF? Man, he's such an ass as a professor with shit like this. Luckily, someone said they'd switch with me if that was allowed, so I guess a bunch of people just switched. So, now I have 3 weeks to pick a topic and get articles. Ass. I should go to the library on SUnday. Ugh. There should be some code that doesn't allow a weeks notice for this kinf of presentation. (we're supposed to do it like it's our master's thesis proposal!) So, I was so pissed, and then we started doing stupid shit in class that was not at all related to Social/Community psych, that I left during our break. I had forgotten to set the VCR to tape Friends and ER, so I came home and did that, and ran some errands. Jeesh.
Want to hear how exciting my Friday night has been? I came home, cleaned my bathroom cuz it was getting "gross" (no where near Katherine gross, just gross for me), and then crashed on the couch. I just got back from the gym, and I'm going to do some pilates and go to bed. Perhaps watch some Friends. ;-) Party animal, that's me!
Oh my word. Today was crazyness, but fun crazyness. We had a "pep rally". I put it in quotes because it lasted all of 10 minutes, and it was severly lacking in the pep department. People at Austin Peay suck with school spirit. But, we had close to 500 T-shirts to give out, and that was a MOB. I tell ya, give something free away, and people turn into animals!! Then, as soon as they got their shirts, they were on their way. Greedy suckers. But, the basketball players (men & women) were there, and some of the cheer/dance teams. Fun. Then I had 376 evaluations to count. I didn't analyze them yet, just counted. Yuk. ANd half of them aren't really valid, beacuse people just did it to get the T-shirt and weren't there for the pep rally. !? WTF ever. I was in a spastic mood all day too.. so that made it fun. We all were, I think due to lack of sleep all week. I sat in the main reception area and chatted with the student workers most of the afternoon, while I counted, so that was cool. Last night at the "American Wedding" thing, I sat out and talked to a bunch of the ASA's. One of who I work with all the time, Ashleigh, who I've deciced isn't nearly as snotty and stuck up as I thought she was. She & her best friend had the giggles and were telling me all about their drinking escapades; so I guess she is human and not super uptight. It was fun. She might be OK to hang out with. :-P
What else? I finally printed out all of my "sell myself" internship letters, to mail out to places I've found in NC via online classifieds. So, I just have to organize it and get everything in envelopes and I'll be rollin' on that on.
HOLY CRAP! How could I forget about this. So, I go to my first class THursday, and the professor lectures for about 20 mins on whatever we had been talking about last week, I think internal vs external attribution stuff, and all of a sudden he just stops and hands us a sheet of paper. People start "gasping" and talking; turns out it's a schedule of when we're going to present our research proposals. Well, 4 of us, and I was one of the lucky few, are scheduled to do it NEXT WEEK! We have a week's notice to do a professional 10 minute presentation. Our papers aren't due until April 15, there has been no mention of presentations being a month and a half beforehand. So, people grumble, he tries to sell it to us as "people doing early presentations have an advantage: they'll get feed back" blah blah. Earlier ones won't be graded the same as later ones, you might only have a few articles so far, blah blah blah! What the HELL is that about? How can you not grade them all the same? How can you give us a week's notice to come up with a presentation?! Hello? Excuse my French, but fuckin' A. That's not right. It's a Thursday, I bet 98% of the class has stuff planned for the weekend, and no time during the week to sneak in a presentation?! So, no one said anything too vocal, so I raised my had and said "I'm sorry, but is there anyway you can push back the first ones a week or 2?" (there were 2 empty weeks between the first 2 sets of presentations) "But I don't think it's reasonable to expect us to whip up a presentation of this magnititude in a week, over a weekend we've probably already planned other stuff for". He just looked at me and asked if others felt like this and people mumbled yeah, they did.. but no one else was too vocal about it. He just said "well, it's almost March, you should be well on your way" But he'd also just told us it was OK to change topics... WTF? Man, he's such an ass as a professor with shit like this. Luckily, someone said they'd switch with me if that was allowed, so I guess a bunch of people just switched. So, now I have 3 weeks to pick a topic and get articles. Ass. I should go to the library on SUnday. Ugh. There should be some code that doesn't allow a weeks notice for this kinf of presentation. (we're supposed to do it like it's our master's thesis proposal!) So, I was so pissed, and then we started doing stupid shit in class that was not at all related to Social/Community psych, that I left during our break. I had forgotten to set the VCR to tape Friends and ER, so I came home and did that, and ran some errands. Jeesh.
Want to hear how exciting my Friday night has been? I came home, cleaned my bathroom cuz it was getting "gross" (no where near Katherine gross, just gross for me), and then crashed on the couch. I just got back from the gym, and I'm going to do some pilates and go to bed. Perhaps watch some Friends. ;-) Party animal, that's me!
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