mid term week

[cornerofmadness]

does anything suck more? Do you have it graded yet? No. WHY? because you people keep stopping me and asking me do you have it graded yet. Are the grades in? No. Why? They're due in at 4 today. BUT...is it 4? I don't think so. Oh look you made me late. Now grades didn't get in until 5. Go live with it.

I'm going on spring break early. can i take my test early. NO. Don't come here telling me about your spring break in Cancun that you're leaving for 6 days early. You knew when spring break was. Suffer.

Am I still exhausted? Yes. Last night's dream. I couldn't get to the mid term today on time. Thanks brain. screw you too.

After eating okay for a few days I'm back to the if i eat I puke routinue. special.

I did get the landlord to make a date to come fix my door but not til May since the floor has to be cut away. I have to clean up a ton of shit for that to happen and board the cats somewhere.

my shoulder got all inflamed again. whimpers. the weight of the ice pack is causing so much pain it's making me nauseous.

But there is GOOD news. The quail eggs hatched. we have a couple dozen baby quail. i'll go take pictures if i can


I MIGHT finish Bigbang tonight





more of those cars. I'm in front of the abandoned house. there were cars all the way from the woods to here

Comments

[havocmangawip.livejournal.com]

Boo students and definitely BOO to idiots going to Cancun and thinking they can get favors.

BOO to the shoulder and the door.

HOORAY to baby quails! I would very very much appreciate pictures! Baby birds are so ridiculously adorable.

[havocmangawip.livejournal.com]

AND HOORAY FOR BIG BANG! You are a much better woman than I am. I should have gone with my gut and retreated to the library. I can't get a damned thing done in this house, even when it is empty.

Hooray for house sitting though. I get a lot done over there. (I hole up in the day room at the breakfast table. I know... they have a "day room"... they have a LOT of rooms.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i type while the students are testing. i got like 6 pages today doing that. WHEE torturing students feeds the muse.

good luck getting it done on your end too.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yaaaay for baby quail! I'm excited; they're so cute. Were you with me when one of my dogs flushed a quail momma in the woods behind the Lodge?

The cars are so weird.

Good luck finishing your Big Bang!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they are so cute and the eggs so small.

i don't think i was.

the cars ARE. weren't they there when you've been here?

thanks

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

We had pickled quail eggs in the fridge for years (we were afraid to eat them).

I believe Dodger flushed the quail and just stood there, nonplussed, as she rushed off pretending to be wounded. She moved so fast, I barely saw her.

They may have? I've always been fascinated by the trailers above your house, personally.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

haha i'm not sure i blame you

cool. i've seen quail when i was hiking in AZ

those are a bit odd up there. we have some very very very strange people here

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Mom and I were afraid of them. Dad got them from a client, so we were never sure if they were really edible or just for sitting in the fridge forever. XD

Your...neighbors...are all pretty weird. And creepy.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well yes i'd have composted those things

yes indeed, welcome to Appalachia

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I think we eventually gave them to Delgado, the cat. :D Or something.

WHEEE. *listens to Dueling Banjos*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the cat is like why are they pickled.

you only have to roll down the windows and you'll hear the banjo's dulcet tones

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

He may have not eaten them. Del would rather sneak into the house and eat out of the dogs' dish.

[seatbeltdrivein.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you have some really irresponsible students. Maybe I'm just weird, but if a professor said one thing, then that's what I did.

Of course, maybe I'm just bitter about all the dicks who can afford to go to Cancun.

re: big bang, you and me both. This fic is being ridiculously resistant!

Those cars are still creepy! *___*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they're iiresponsible.

so am I.

This fic is being ridiculously resistant! - AMEN

i pass them every day.

[seatbeltdrivein.livejournal.com]

God, right? Seriously, I bet if it wasn't for the ever-looming deadline, I would already be done with this fic. Why do deadlines make me want to not do anything?


I swear, those cars are so suspicious. Do you have many hobos in the area? If you do, I think I know where they squat..

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'm the opposite. I need a deadline or i wouldn't write it

i have enough abandoned houses here for them

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

What fun students. I like how mine start asking if they're marked yet two days after hand-in. How long do they think it takes?

We don't really have Spring Break here. Well, we have a break (only we call it the Easter holidays, even when we don't celebrate Easter?) but we don't have that institution where university students run away to get drunk and vomit over the streets of New Orleans/Cancun/Tijuana. This is obviously sad because it just sounds like so much fun for everyone who has to live in those places.

Those cars are extremely creepy. Brr!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hahaha well see you get a break being in the humanities. Try being in science where a lot of our tests are scantron with just a page or two of short answer essay and fill in the blank. I get grilled 15 mintues after the hand in.

Aw that's too bad. You could go puke on France or something if you did. I hate springbreak because their brains never come back from it.

Hey, I was wondering, what is the equivalent of the girl scouts of america over there. Surely there has to be something.

Aren't they though. I need to go back and get more shots of them in the woods.

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

But quicker to mark for you? I have to write a page of commentary on my marks for them per essay.

Ah, we go puke on France and Spain all the time anyway. That's what some Brits like to do on regular holidays (not me, I just eat my body weight in cheese). Now Dublin is trendy so Brits go and puke there too. Lucky Dublin!

Girl Guides. They suck so much that thanks to a legal case girls can join the Boy Scouts instead. There are NO COOKIES. It's very sad.

I'm scared of the hillbilly cars.

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

I think you should let your students go to Cancun early. The way things are down there, they will probably return to the States in body bags, if their bodies are ever found at all. Problem solved!

The cars are junky and depressing. That's a far cry from the quaint picture they paint of Appalachia in the Foxfire books.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I said that IN class. Are you SURE you want to go?

I know right? Foxfire doesn't capture modern Appalachia

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

True. Foxfire was trying to preserve the Appalachia of 100 years ago for posterity, and that was 30+ years ago now. I'm thinking that Appalachia is all gone now. Your daily experience seems to be the norm. Sigh.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

and even that appalachia wasn't that appealing

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

No. That Appalachia was...primitive. And Foxfire creamed off the most presentable old-timers, too. I'm sure there were lots of scroungy, trashy neighbors on those mountains who didn't get enshrined.

I forgot to ask: Why are you incubating quail eggs? Is this a class project?

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

At least the Attack of the Midterms is over.

Tell your stomach and shoulder to feel better RIGHT NOW!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'm telling them but they ain't listening