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[bloodyrosemccoy]

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Hobbes: What does your teacher object to about dinosaurs?

Calvin: Mostly my drawing them during math.

 

One of the laws of academia: it’s always the professor with the most useless lectures who takes roll. Coincidence? I think not. Lousy lecturers have to take roll, or no one would show up. I know I wouldn’t.

 

So today I worked out a climate chart for Kalkupu during class, which is nice because it looked like I was studiously taking notes on whatever the hell it was the teacher was carrying on about. Dangit, why I gotta make such a complicated planet? I’ve been having to invent climate zones—nowhere on Earth is there the possibility of a tundra/savannah. And I’ve never been very good at meteorology, so it’s taking a while. But hey—time well-spent, I think, given what the rest of the class was up to. (I did seriously confuse the girl next to me, though, who glanced up from her own doodle-encrusted notebook to see a complicated map next to my previous job, which was calculating the really fucking weird phases of the moon.)

 

I also got a few more paragraphs into my Runaway Squid story.* I’m starting to get restless with this spate of Doctors! stories … after I get to a sort of logical breakoff point with some of these stories, I think I’m going to switch points of view to Loke. (Book 2, I guess. Or Season 2.  Or I don’t know.)  She has a pretty strong personality; I want to hand her the reins for a while. But for now, I am still having a good time abusing poor Dreedo, with his time bomb Sea Monkeys that are set to turn into people if he can’t somehow get rid of them. He made it so I could still enjoy class, even if I paid no attention to the teacher.

 

 

Also! Non-sequitur moment: pictures of my badass and badly made Tom Servo earrings will be going up sometime with in the next few days. Like I said, don’t look too closely at them, and they’re awesome.

 

 

*This wasn’t actually the premise for the story.  It was going to be sort of soap operatic Law’n’Order: Moon Unit** stuff, but then the darn squid all this was going to center around up and took off, leaving me and my main character in a bit of a sticky wicket, whatever that is.

 

**sunshine_shamanwill get that.

 

Comments

[mathsnerd]

Oooh, yes! This is how I get through Operations Management. Poor prof tries so hard; it's not his fault the material bores me beyond belief. I write fanfic and practice writing with my left hand instead of listening. It amuses my guy friends who sit on either side of me.

[xaandria.livejournal.com]

Yes, boring lecturers or useless prerequisite classes are also the only ones that have attendance as a requirement for the grade. Please--if I can get an A in the class even when skipping more than five sessions, I shouldn't be given a failing grade. Especially when you're using the powerpoint slides that come with the teacher's copy of the textbook that basically condense the chapter to some bullet points and make the diagrams and illustrations bigger.

So glad that some classes can be challenged by exam at my school--of course, none of the useless prereq classes can. Sigh.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Back in junior high we also got "citizenship grades," which was where attendance went. 4 was best, 0 was worst grade.

One term I kept scheduling my numerous doctor appointments during my useless health class. (I had a bit of an ACTUAL health complication going on.) I wound up missing that stupid class NINE times, which earned me a "2" in citizenship.

My grade was A+.

That may say something right there.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Runaway squid... Law&Order: Moon Unit... I am so glad you're on my f-list. Even if you are way too freaking smart for me :)