I got a solid B on my Psych exam.
I made a C on my Speech exam, but with the curve (because everyone did terribly apparently) I got a B. With as hard as I work for that class, I'll take it.
Michael and I signed up for our 2 community garden plots. The list of growing edibles for this season is as follows:
Tomatoes
Corn
Beans
Squash
Sunflowers
Various Melons
Cucumbers
Radishes
Onions
Various Lettuces
Peppers
Potatoes
We will be planting a raised herb bed at Michael's Aunt's house, and a pumpkin patch there so that the kids can have giant pumpkins, and my herbs can come back year after year.
We looked at scooters today. We'll think about it.
Spring break next week. Hallelujah.
Well there was a rough two weeks... exams, stuff due in ceramics, had to give a speech, had an english paper due... and although i was happy for the extra study time, it just annoyed me to know end that test dates kept getting pushed back. It felt like Groundhog Day.
My ceramics teacher has it in her brain to make me 'pull' handles. I fuckin hate pulling handles. So she kept thinking that I said I didn't know how to do them... I know how to do them, I just hate them. It's the same damn handle that's on every damn homemade mug out there. I'd like to be able to make something with nice and neat handles, clean lines... I don't want my handles to look like they "grew out of the piece". Just when I thought she was going to let me be me and make nice pretty handles, not pulled, but still lovely, to put on my lovely pots... Nope. pulled handles. I now have 8 sacrificial cups to which I attached pulled handles and she loves them. Me... not so much. Fuckin chewed up my whole damn day in there. grrrr.
I don't think I did well on my speech test, or my psych test. I care, but I can't freak myself out about it. I used to be a great test taker, I don't think I am so much anymore. Sometimes the questions are worded so tricky, all I have is 50 minutes to do each test. Hopefully if I turn everything in, and continue to get good grades on all the things that I hand in, then it will show up in my final grade. I can't believe that final exams are so close. I'm starting to study for them now.
I have to figure out what I'm going to have for dinner. Sometimes eating is such a chore.
Wow, I'm bitchy today...
I gave my speech. I think I did OK. I am not very happy about the psychology test.
I don't know what grade I got on it. I am hoping that I didn't do hideously. I am beginning to have a serious problem with TA's teaching the 100 level courses. 3 out of 5 of my classes are TA's and two of them are awful.
One of them at least follow the book, but when the psych 'teacher' hands out a study guide and says be familiar with and understand those things written on the paper.... then you go and study specifically those things, and become familiar with how they work, even down to the chemical compositions of it.... and the test is actually about the psychology research studies applying to those terms, and not specifically about the terms... well, that pisses me off.
I would bitch more about it, but I gotta go study for my speech exam on monday.
The ceramics teacher had mercy on me and let me borrow her handle making tools. I can make a bowl, a cup, a vase, a platter... almost anything you want on the wheel.... *but* I can not make handles. I was never good at them. And because my wheel technique is so good, my poor handles look all the more hideous on them. So, the teacher has had mercy upon me and let me use two of her tools, and I now must purchase them. I love them and I was able to make handles that passed today. *sweet*
I'd like everyone to work with me on the next part. Let us start calling this financial shit storm "The Bush Repression" Sorta half recession- half depression, and putting it on the would be dictator.... where it squarely belongs and maybe we can avoid the rewriting of history that is happening.
cheers
Today was an experience in divine intervention. I was to give my 5-7 minute speech in class.
I learned and prepared power point, prepared a speech outline, speech proposal, bibliographic source paper, complete speech proposal (all of these were separate assignments but a bit overkill IMO for a speech that we were originally told to 'pick a topic that you know a lot about, and then prepare a 3-5 minute speech about it.' To then turn it into the above expletive fiasco has been the bane of my existence for the last 3 weeks)
I spent *several* hours to the point of tears at times as the work load eclipsed my other classes, and was as prepared as I possibly could be.... except I couldn't find a mini dvd+rw so they could record the spectacle for further ventures into academic torture. We went to at least four different places in the surrounding areas, there was no mini disk to be found. Apparently the speech students descend upon the local establishments at the same time and wipe everyone out of their stock.
Today, I went to class ready to tell the teacher, "No, I don't have my mini dvd. No, I didn't wait to the last minute. Yes, everyone was out. I am prepared to take the lump in points and give my speech."
There was no heat in the building, and the residing dean deemed it 'too cold' to hold class.
I then proceeded to the bookstore on a last desperate attempt to locate the mini dvd. And there they were...
Bless you Dr Dean Dude. Bless you.
Today, the Dow dipped below 7,000... interesting. very interesting.
btw, my Power point for my speech totally rocks.