Scattered Thoughts

What an awesome day!

Today is beautiful, but tomorrow is going to be better!

It was depressing to me that I had class all day today. I wasn't able to enjoy the beautiful weather that has been in Bloomington all day. I am, however, extremely happy that I'm a CSS now. This means that I'm getting paid to walk around campus and check on various labs. I'm in the main library right now and everything is well. You can tell when there is a slow day at work because I post in my blog quite a bit.

It's that time of the semester when classes start meeting outside and I have to do evaluations for the consultants that work on me. This is a good thing because now my english class is meeting outside form now until the end of the semester. Unless the weather is bad, our meeting location has been changed form Woodburn Hall Basement to Showalter Fountain. What a great thing. While I'm talking about my english class, I've got yet another english prof story. Today in class, she tries to explain away that she hasn't been ill the last couple weeks. She says that she was in LA because her grandmother was in the hospital with cancer. Now, granted, it's really cold of me not to believe this, but It's kinda hard to once she has told her substitute AI another story, that he passed on to us. He told us that she was so ill that she was in the hospital. This is either a flat out lie, or she was lying to us today. But that's not my story. Today she is going on a rant that she is consistently "teacher of the year" in the english department. This is a direct quote "I'm usually wonderful, you'll have to trust me." Yea, I believe that after everything that has happened with her this semester. anyway, she keeps going on this rant about how things are going on in her life and this that and the other. blah blah blah. Then she says, "You're not getting 100% of my teaching ability this semester, only about 60%." WTF?!? To me that's just unacceptable coming from a professor. But here's the good part. She then explains to us that since she's not giving us 100%, we don't have to give 100%. So I take this to mean that as long as I pull a 60% in the class, I will get an A. This seems reasonable to me, doesn't it? It's not like I'm doing bad in the class, I've gotten a perfect score on all my assignments but one, that was worth 5% of the grade, and I was too bogged down to do, so I didn't do it. I should still get an A…if not, a high B.

Anyway, that just made me a little ticked off at her. I like being challenged at school and I need deadlines or I will never complete assignments. That's why I was a little pissed. I'm over it now. Thought you all would like to know.

Then I found $5…that's for you John…..now find something to do other than make fun of people I say that with the most love…hehe

anyway, I'm out. gotta get back to work.

serve it up to spring!

Quote of the day "You're not getting 100% of my teaching ability this semester, only about 60%." – Danielle Hartnett, English Professor.

Mac fund – no change $314.41

werd

tm

April Fool's

Since is it April Fool's day, I have a joke for you all.

In my town there are three churches: a Methodist church, a Presbyterian church and a Catholic church. All three of these churches sit on the same corner of the town along with the largest park in the county. For many years the churches have co-existed with nature. The Presbyterian Church has spikes installed on its steeple so birds don't crap on the bronze-green crosses on them. The Methodist church has beautiful green ivy creeping up and around its stained glass windows. The Catholic Church has installed a sentinel owl (it's one of those fake owls that keep the pigeons away) on both of its bell towers to keep the birds from defiling the pristine white limestone walls of the church.

One day a couple weeks ago, the Presbyterian Church had noticed that there were squirrels living in its belfry. Upon asking around the community, they discovered that both the Methodist and Catholic churches had the same problem. Where did the squirrels come from you ask? They came from Canada, but that's not important. Back to the story… So the Presbyterians decide that they will take all the squirrels, put them in cages, and then take them in vans to the county line and drop them all off. Well, since these squirrels are from Canada, they are extremely intelligent and found their way back into the church.

The Methodists, watching all of this from the safety of their corner of the intersection, decide that it is not worth their time or efforts to try to rid themselves of their new bushy tailed friends. The Catholics, however, found a solution. Both the Presbyterians and Methodists were afraid to venture into the cathedral-like confines of the Catholic corner for a couple weeks, when finally a couple adventurous Presbyterians decided to cross the street and ask Father Macao how he did it. Father quietly and calmly explained… "We simply baptized them and made them a part of our congregation. As good Catholics, these squirrels only show their furry little heads and black laser eyes twice a year: Easter and Christmas."

This story was told at my church, Saint Joseph's Catholic Church of Shelbyville, two weeks ago as a light anecdote at the end of mass. Hope you all enjoyed my joke

peace out yo. Happy April Fool's Day!

tm