Torturing students is fun.

And you get to treat them like a renewable resource!

Well they do tend to reproduce, don't they.

And you get to treat them like a renewable resource!

Not if you're just the lowly TA, you're not. No torturing, no anything of the sort. Oh, and you have to protect the sometimes-clueless lecturer, as well. The exam is in 2.5 hours. He just finished writing it right now, and I have to go over it. When there are students coming in and out of the room for the whole day. Sigh.

Wheee! what a Time to wake up and not be able to go back to sleep. (DH) is snoreing and I keep thinking about what I want to do the next to mornings. really- it isn't that exciting) . Hi Rio , Nilly, NoiseDesign and Billytea! ( and Trudy- but I see her in the daylight hours) . After reading everyone's post I don't ask what is going on in peoples' lives enough. So glad that things are moivng forward for you Rio. Nice to her you are doing Fun work NoiseDesign! Nilly, so sorry your friend is moving, but I am hoping it is a good move for her. an you go with that shark grin Billytea!

Things going on in my life<

my parents are going to visit - if my dad doesn't chnage his mind again.

the not!healdsberg guitar show - I think Matt and Nic( deb's husband) are bringing a guitar )

the Niles antiques and flea market - which includes a tag sale in our drive way.

and friends getting married in our back yard in September.

So I asked the current Solicitor General for intel on Roberts. Turns out they didn't overlap much under Starr, so no news there. OTOH, the current SG is all over the papers right now due to his stance that the entire US is a battlefield in the War on Terra Terror. [link]

an you go with that shark grin Billytea!

t makes note to file teeth into points

beth! Raquel! billytea!

Rant warning ahead! Continue at your own frustration-spilling risk!

So, the lecturer gave me the question of the exam a little over an hour ago. He's a rather new immigrant, so his Hebrew is not so well, and he wanted me to correct it. It turned out, it was easier and quicker for me to just re-type the whole thing instead. There were pictures inside that I had to add, too (or he would have tried to draw them by hand, and you can imagine how deciperable they will be to the students then). Every several minutes, he called to asked me whether I've finished already, because the people who are supposed to photocopy and handle the exam were pressing him for time. All throughout, I might add, students kept coming in every few minutes, to ask questions, hand in papers and ask for old ones back. Each time that happened, I minimized my window so fast, it looked like I was hunting for pr0n sites on university computers.

Sigh. The most annoying part is, he's a really genuinely good man, who tries to do the best possible thing for everybody involved. He's, just, well, having a very fluid notion of time. Which, as a physics professor who just finished teaching a class on special relativity, is not necessarily a bad thing, mind you. And I can't even be angry at him because of that delay, because he really was trying, and he gave good questions, and I think he had some health problem in the last month that made it even harder for him to meet shcedules.

Oh, well. Off to actually solve the exam, so that when the students come asking me about it later, I have answers for them.

[Edit: oh, and I may get my HP6 copy tonight, so things will look brighter then.]

Ugh, Nilly. Sometimes people are annoying.

So nice to read what's new with Rio!

And now the stupid news is all full of possible bombs in London again and subway lines shut down. Poor London.

subway lines shut down

I'd heard 3 stations. Has it spread?