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Oct. 7th, 2004 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupWell, my thesis meeting was awesome, but aside from that this day has been too damn long. Up to and including the bit where I had to help the professor demonstrate Foley-style sound effects. Not that I mind sound effects, but I feel a bit of an idiot standing before the class and demonstrating bo'sun whistles and duck calls.
To do for next week:
1. Not be sick.
2. Catch up for rendering class (which concerns making drawings, not bacon, as is popular belief)
3. List off biblical corollaries to Shakespeare's works.
4. Rewrite prospectus.
5. Find polite way to brush off student who wishes me to write his papers for him.
That last one resulted from a solicitation today. One of the TDs wants me to write his paper for him or, failing that, do his research. He called it "streamlining my commitments to the department" or something similar, which I told him was the best euphemism for cheating I'd heard in a long, long time. I halfway don't blame him for asking, because he sucks at papers -- I know, I've edited his papers before. Still, I won't. Eurgh. Wrong.
Sad thing is I could totally use the money. Bah.
PS: There's been a very interesting discussion going on in my comments about Honeycrisp apples, and now I'm afraid to try one because I know, no matter how good they taste, I will be disappointed because they will not actually taste like honey. It's the iceberg lettuce fiasco all over again.
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metallumai
Sounds like an admirable list except for #5: some people don't deserve polite brushoffs-- they deserve hails of derisive laughter and scorn.
Sam's lj: best site for tips about food, good fics, and insight into the life of an intrepid whistle-blower. (duck caller?)Ah, the ivy-tower existence if the intellectual life
copperbadge
Well, I did laugh at him until I realised he was serious, and said I'd never done it before. He picked an odd place to ask me about it, too -- right in the lobby in front of everyone.
dramaturgca
You wanted iceberg lettuce to taste like icebergs?
copperbadge
I want it to be like snow. You know -- crunchy and tasting of nothing in particular and melty in your mouth. I want iceberg lettuces to be shaved ice, really, is the essence of it :D
shehasathree
what do icebergs taste like then?
:p ;)
(Anonymous)
Very cold.
shehasathree
cold *so* isn't a taste
copperbadge
Cold isn't a taste, but it is a part of the eating experience, and to some extent a texture -- taste, temperature, scent, and texture are all a part. :D
To do for next week:
1. Not be sick.
2. Catch up for rendering class (which concerns making drawings, not bacon, as is popular belief)
3. List off biblical corollaries to Shakespeare's works.
4. Rewrite prospectus.
5. Find polite way to brush off student who wishes me to write his papers for him.
That last one resulted from a solicitation today. One of the TDs wants me to write his paper for him or, failing that, do his research. He called it "streamlining my commitments to the department" or something similar, which I told him was the best euphemism for cheating I'd heard in a long, long time. I halfway don't blame him for asking, because he sucks at papers -- I know, I've edited his papers before. Still, I won't. Eurgh. Wrong.
Sad thing is I could totally use the money. Bah.
PS: There's been a very interesting discussion going on in my comments about Honeycrisp apples, and now I'm afraid to try one because I know, no matter how good they taste, I will be disappointed because they will not actually taste like honey. It's the iceberg lettuce fiasco all over again.
Comment Conservation:
metallumai
Sounds like an admirable list except for #5: some people don't deserve polite brushoffs-- they deserve hails of derisive laughter and scorn.
Sam's lj: best site for tips about food, good fics, and insight into the life of an intrepid whistle-blower. (duck caller?)Ah, the ivy-tower existence if the intellectual life
copperbadge
Well, I did laugh at him until I realised he was serious, and said I'd never done it before. He picked an odd place to ask me about it, too -- right in the lobby in front of everyone.
dramaturgca
You wanted iceberg lettuce to taste like icebergs?
copperbadge
I want it to be like snow. You know -- crunchy and tasting of nothing in particular and melty in your mouth. I want iceberg lettuces to be shaved ice, really, is the essence of it :D
shehasathree
what do icebergs taste like then?
:p ;)
(Anonymous)
Very cold.
shehasathree
cold *so* isn't a taste
copperbadge
Cold isn't a taste, but it is a part of the eating experience, and to some extent a texture -- taste, temperature, scent, and texture are all a part. :D
