why don't you go pair-share with yourself?

[mousapelli]

Things I have learned about myself educationally this semester--

1. I have to have something sensory going on to keep me happy. I can eat, or listen to music, or knit, or whatever, so long as some physical sense is engaged in something that is not my classes, the fists of rage can be contained.

I wish I'd discovered this last year, because then I might have been awake for one or two Roman History classes.

2. I can't use the word 'frontloading', because it sounds like something you do to pretty girls in badly-lit clubs. "Whoa, look at that bitch! I'll be frontloadin' you all night long, baby!"

3. Reflecting on self-evaluations, which are essentially reflections, is not a lot of fun. But I've gotten used to repeating myself over and over in this program anyway, so it's not hard either, really.

4. The reason everyone else looks so pleasant is because they have no idea what's going on. The fact that I am so irritated all the time really means that I am more on top of this stuff than them, not less.

5. Not a single person in either department knows what I need to do to graduate, nor even what degree I'm getting. If i don't ask any stupid questions, I think they may just let me graduate out of confusion.

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4. The reason everyone else looks so pleasant is because they have no idea what's going on. The fact that I am so irritated all the time really means that I am more on top of this stuff than them, not less.

5. Not a single person in either department knows what I need to do to graduate, nor even what degree I'm getting. If i don't ask any stupid questions, I think they may just let me graduate out of confusion

So true. Seriously, exactly like that.

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

4. The reason everyone else looks so pleasant is because they have no idea what's going on.

A universal truth, I think.

[beagley.livejournal.com]

"The reason everyone else looks so pleasant is because they have no idea what's going on. The fact that I am so irritated all the time really means that I am more on top of this stuff than them, not less. "

Yeah, I was going to say that this sounds very deep.
Maybe Neitsche(sp) or something? Like... if we really knew, we wouldn't be happy.

I dunno Sara, I think we can grin in the face of the black void of endless nothingness.
Kinda fun, actually.

[instantramen]

It breaks down to something my teacher of physics, chemistry, and assorted maths often said to my classes: "you can either be stupid and happy or smart and bored." "Bored" should probably be replaced with the more general "unhappy", though. 8B

[beagley.livejournal.com]

Aww, shoot. How did I end up stupid AND bored?

I must have made a wrong turn somewhere...

[instantramen]

Probably in Albuquerque.

[beagley.livejournal.com]

OMG. You can spell Abequerqy. Albukwergy. OMG, it's even WRITTEN above and I can't spell it.
I am seriously in awe here.

[instantramen]

Spelling Albuquerque right is one part Weird Al and one part the official state website. *tries her hardest to be bored*

[hetaira9.livejournal.com]

I think you're right on the money with #4. Except I think I look pleasant all the time, and it's because I just don't give a f*ck about school. So that makes me smile, inside and out, when everyone else is fussin' about grades and classes and such.

Also, word has come to me that they are *desperate* for latin teachers in pretty much most places in NW New Jersey. There's currently only one latin teacher in my old high school and they needed to find another one and there was NO ONE. Right now they have someone from Southern NJ who's teaching the class online or something. It's probably only about a 3 hour drive from H-burg, so keep it in the back of your mind...although I'm guessing that if all our districts are in crisis, we can't be the only ones. Which means you're going to be utterly employable, which should cheer you up!

[instantramen]

Now you've ruined the word "frontloading" for me, if I ever hear it again I'll probably snerk and be horribly distracted from whatever's going on.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

WTF is up with your ICON?!

*dies*

[instantramen]

IIRC, Akira was asking Hikaru about Sai right at the end of the whole Internet go thing, and Hikaru heard it as the word for "rhinoceros" instead, like that joke when Yuuri and Wolfram first got engaged. I really need to lighten it... O.o