I am on jury duty. The jackson dr trial is here as is occupy la. Its a zoo outside. Essays? Ive written two collections and i have no idea how they are supposed to be structured. Start at beginning finish at end. Middle is a lot of bullshit.

My sister comes up against so many students that don't want to learn. As a university student, would you ever tell your teacher you didn't like reading? An anthropology teacher?

She wouldn't let me mark in red pen, because she says they find it dispiriting. Is that common practice?

Also, why the fuck shouldn't they be dispirited? They were wrong.

Okay, perhaps it's possible I shouldn't take the lead in anyone's education.

Green is easier to read. They made me rewrite my juror survey. Because it was in green. I filled it out online days ago. If you make me fill out redundant paperwork i get to choose the ink i think.

Omg so bored. So bored.

Just ran through the Lattice Multiplication video. This is a completely new approach to me. When did this show up?

About 10-15 years ago, I think. I hate it -- it's the sort of thing that would be interesting to teach as an extra thing to kids who already know multiplication, but most of the teachers teaching it don't actually understand it well enough to explain correctly why it works, and so they just teach it as a series of steps to follow, which leads to all sorts of problems down the road.

I took that test Kat linked to, but it irked me. I do believe you have a certain innate amount of intelligence and some people have more than others. That doesnt mean that there aren't lazy geniuses who never learned how to do calculus, or that an average person can't work hard and understand it better than a smart person who didn't.

I think my coffee this morning must have been decaf - I have a pounding headache and I'm about to fall asleep at my desk.

Maybe a burrito will wake me up. Only one way to find out.

They made me rewrite my juror survey. Because it was in green.

I filled out my immigration papers for Jamaica in green, and they made me fill them out again in black. And the woman at the counter very blankly told me she only had a red pen, so I was SOL with her.

It's a requirement to fly with a black pen now? That's not in the documentation I got.

Allyson, are you at the courthouse downtown, near the Walt Disney thingummyjiggy?

As a university student, would you ever tell your teacher you didn't like reading? An anthropology teacher?

Gah. I can't even imagine that. Makes me want to shake my cane.

Omg so bored. So bored.

Allyson, I hope you aren't at one of the courthouses where they don't let you read! I sat in voir dire once for several hours (it was a very boring voir dire) and they wouldn't let us read, because they said it was disrespectful of the court. I nearly died of boredom.

She wouldn't let me mark in red pen, because she says they find it dispiriting.

Wait, they're university students? They can't handle red pen? They need to pull up their grown-up panties and FUCKING DEAL WITH IT. If the most "dispiriting" thing to ever happen to me in college was red pen, I would have been goddamn Pollyanna.