Oof. How do you unintentionally plagiarise? Was there supposed to be an attribution that got neglected or something?
She's a fairly low-level reader, and she was trying to do an intensive analysis of a short fiction author. I told them to read at least on lit critic to get some ideas for their paper and to take a look at published analysis...well, she tried to write a paper, but what she ended up doing was just summarizing that critic's argument. She honestly doesn't understand the difference between original analysis and summing up someone else's analysis.
The whole thing sucks.
Say, Billytea, Bitches has gone all non-American all of a sudden! Shall we talk about cricket?
Standing
right here!
Not until we win the Ashes back. Apparently the English captain has been mocking our plucky wearers of the baggy green, although without actually mining the comedy gold of 'baggy green'.
Um. Okay. I have absolutely no idea what that's all about as I don't follow cricket. It just seemed like a good England/Australia link that Americans had no interest it. Serves me right for being a smartarse.
So, does England have the Ashes, then? If memory serves, that's quite a novelty.
Standing right here!
Nuh-uh, you were being extra quiet! Even Aims has vanished.
So many awesome Buffistae in here, and I have to go pass out. Damn it. Smooches and hugs all around!
Disappears in a poof of glitter
The whole thing sucks.
Ah, a difficult situation. Incidentally, my desk calendar is offering me the following sick note: "Dear School: Please eckuse John being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and also 33." I feel it should be signed "Epstein's Mother."
Sadly, I have to follow Juliana's example now. My head cold has started to eat my brain, and NyQuil and sleep is in my immediate future.
Night all.
I'm here! I was buffdiving.
So, yeah.
I got a haircut. But no shave. And it was considerably more than two bits.
What's a rand?
Oh, there goes Juliana...
waves
Sorry, Kristen, you'll have to speak up... MUMBLER!
Um. Okay. I have absolutely no idea what that's all about as I don't follow cricket. It just seemed like a good England/Australia link that Americans had no interest it. Serves me right for being a smartarse.
Ha! No, that's fine. I'm not a big follower of the cricket myself, and let's face it, the Aussie cricketers aren't in a position to complain about people being mean to them.
So, does England have the Ashes, then? If memory serves, that's quite a novelty.
That's my understanding. I believe they'll be playing for it again in the near future. Right now Melbourne's sporting attention is turning to the upcoming Commonwealth Games (now the Australian Open is over). The guy one cubicle over is a Greek Cypriot, he was pretty stoked with Baghdatis' performance.
