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?

beth! Raquel! billytea!

Nilly! Are you enjoying an exam-fuelled lull right now?

Jesse, the Israeli online news site that I checked said that there weren't bombs - there were probably firecrackers (I hope that's the right English word) and that nobody got hurt.

Yep. Three lines.

Nilly, according to the article, it probably was the equivalent of firecrackers (and yes, that's the word).

Still, after two weeks ago....

AP says:

McCracken said he smelled smoke at the Warren Street station, and people were panicking and coming into his carriage. He said he spoke to an Italian man who was comforting a woman after the evacuation.

"He said that a man was carrying a rucksack and the rucksack suddenly exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack," McCracken said.

"The man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong. At that point everyone rushed from the carriage."

Bollocks! My lunch exploded!

It seems that the entire tube has been shut down now: [link]

Just the three stations and one bus, apparently. No casualties, etc. Honestly, I don't know why this is worth breaking in to programming here. They don't know anything, and it seems not so bad.

Honestly, I don't know why this is worth breaking in to programming here.

Just trying to gin up more emotional interest in the War on Terror.

And I'm outtie - taking Mal to the vet doctor for his shots. With any luck I'll be able to spring my husband and give him a ride home, since it's 103 ° out there, but as he's been working until 7:30 every night this week...