Sister~ma, Shir. I hope the people who've screwed her over haven't done so too badly.*

*Horrible sentence. Please don't learn from my English.

I've taught Liv how to say, "Bollocks!" It's awesome.

Heh. Just don't teach her 'wanker'. Or if you do, don't bring her to England. There'll be funny looks.

ETA: More snow here. The Girl, who is angel, has offered to drive me to church and help me on the icy pavements. Happy fourth Sunday of Advent to anyone who celebrates such things (it's my favourite one, 'cause it's Mary, and I think she's awesome).

Unexpected bonus: with all the snow, food is hard to find out there. So there have been a lot of birds hopping about the bowl of cat food on the porch. Percy and Leo are enthralled. Emo little Percy may not be #1Cat, but he's clearly a hunter.

Also, blue jays are pretty.

I suddenly want to ask for ~ma for my pal Christ.

From what I read so far, with a quiz on the New Testament I'll have this Wed., I thought he was the one to deliver the ~mas, and you just have to believe or something. Please correct me if I'm wrong, this shit will effect my grade.

I thought of something last night, wrt to discussion on praying (mind that I haven't read it all yet, so I apologize if I'm repeating something that has been said better by others). I thought of the difference between "meaningful" and "real", and how despite they're different things, I aspire to lead a life in which these terms are congruential to each other as possible; Paying the bills might not be very meaningful, yet it is a very real action that, if not taken, might lead to meaningful results on my way of life (me lurvs electricity: it allows me to use the computer to get to you guys). At the same sense, I realize that what is meaningful for me isn't always real: from Teenage-esque crushed on which every look from the guy looks meaningful but it's all in my head, to praying. I think that just as much that I want that my mundane, real, actions would be meaningful (that's why I always try to take a job at information management at organizations that Do Good), I also want that my meaningful actions would be real towards others.

Did that make sense?

Now, I'm kind of pissed off on a girl who's trying to use me to get a good grade. At first I thought I might be overreacting and thought of asking you guys, but then she slipped something between the lines.
Here's what happened: last semester I met her 2-3 times when she asked for help in a final. I need to clarify that she's not a friend, she just asked for help and I agreed. I should also state that this counts as a very easy final, and I think that the average in it is 79-83. Personally, I never gave it more than several hours of studying, which were only dedicated to general rehearsal. Also, the lecturer who gave that class was the dear soul who understood how to teach me better than all, and let me a lot of space and minimal guidance to research topics myself, and always promoted me. But she had very good reasons not to be there, and I spent 4-5 hours explaining the material to her, where and what to look for, etc..
Last night she called me, said it was urgent and asked me if I took out the exam notebook (they sometimes let us do that). I told her I didn't, which I really haven't done. She then asked me to go to the secretariat and ask them if they can give it to me, and give it to her. That sounded suspicious. She, apparently, got another chance passing this class with a paper. From last year I remember she wasn't very keen on studying: in fact, the reason she didn't study enough for her final is that she chose to spend it with her boyfriend. I'm no judge, but dammit, she could have done this test easily by studying to it for 5 hours and not for 30 minutes that night.
She called me again today and asked me about it. I told her I didn't do it yet, and reminded her that my handwriting is terrible and that's why she didn't take my summaries and we had to sit together on the material. She replied that she knows, but she'll manage, and besides, "he wasn't so clear on the bibliography...". That's when I realized what she was up to. As I told her again, he duly wrote said "missing" bibliography in the end of every presentation, and was very glad and helpful with questions regarding to everything, sources to general background. Also, one doesn't need more than the general knowledge on 4-5 items to pass that test. So I think she's trying to copy my answers, which is very, very stupid thing to do. For once, we're very, very different in our ways of studying. We also study different classes, and that's the only one we had in common so we have different backgrounds. And second, it's a class of 40 people. I was the only student in both of the classes he taught, both small classes, and again, we had a strong bond; I'm quite sure he knows how to recognize my writing and ideas. (continued...)

( continues...) So honestly, if I'm right here, I think it's not only an academic violation, but also an offense to all who are in concern.

Am I overreacting? I didn't say anything to her yet and didn't confront her (hey, it'll be so much easier lying and tell her they didn't find the notebook), but she really can do all of this by herself, esp. after the time I've giving it so far (not to mention, I think it was a little bit rude to ask me to take out the notebook; it takes time, I'm not even sure they'll let me do it and she should have waited till I offered it). I think that worst case, it should take her 8 hours on her own to write something; she certainly doesn't need my unreadable exam notebook if she had read the presentations and 4-5 items of the bibliography. So now I'd like to know what do you guys make of it, too see if I'm missing something here.

And, IOfunN of the day: why nobody told me the carpet I sat on to have my lunch was wet? Now the back of my pants is wet, and it's kind of embarrassing to walk like this in the university.

(Sorry to post and run, and I don't have the time to proofread the post; I hope it's clear enough).

Shir, I suggest: "I think you're trying to get me to do your work for you, and I wouldn't do that even for my best friend. Goodbye."

Shir, I would go with "I'm not comfortable giving you my old exam. I don't want anyone to get the impression that you might be using it inappropriately and that I helped you"

Shir, it sounds suspicious. What is the reason you can sign out a past exam? I suspect it is so YOU can see what YOU did wrong. I think you are perfectly within your right to say "this falls outside of the accepted reason to sign out my past exam. I do not feel comfortable with turning my work over to you". Maybe chat with the professor?

I'm fine with confronting her and/or avoid her request. I just wanted to make sure that it sounds fishy to you guys as well, and it's not just my paranoid goody two shoes mind.

I won't get others into this matter as long as I won't have to, and I certainly hope I won't have to and she'll finally go away. Good God, trust me, this is an easy exam. I believe that the efforts she invested in trying to get out of it by far were far beyond the efforts she should have invested in just studying for it like the rest of the normal people are doing.

trust me, this is an easy exam. I believe that the efforts she invested in trying to get out of it by far were far beyond the efforts she should have invested in just studying for it like the rest of the normal people are doing.

Ha! This is true so often.

shir: sounds totally and completely fishy, like she's trying to cheat off you.

IOmeN: is there a reason that my foot hurts like blinding agony whenever i lie down? Just to keep me from sleeping? Vicodin isn't working for more than 4 hours of the night, then...agony. I wake up, take another vicodin, then try to sleep but nothing but pain as long as i stay horizontal. I've broken my foot many times before and this is highly unusual and unexpected. I would really like to get re-aquainted with sleep. I is tired and cranky.