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No Redneckfest for me...
Oct. 7th, 2006 07:10 pm... alas. This Saturday, I am working on my midterm for Plant Ecology, a monstrous take-home exam about which I have already bitched to a significant number of people. If I've missed you, let me sum up: It's four questions long. The first question begins with the phrase "design a series of experiments." And is worth fifty points. At this point I've brainstormed all four questions, drafted an answer to #3, and am about halfway finished with my draft of #1. So far, my exam is six pages long.
That said, it's a disturbingly well-written exam. We've been given almost all the tools to answer the questions, but we'd damn well better have been paying attention, and it definitely requires information synthesis. (And the fact that this was one of the first thing that occurred to me upon reading the exam proves two things: 1) I'm a nerd, and 2) I've taught too many classes, however poorly.)
So right now I'm... well, I'm posting on Eljay. But after this short break, I will return to writing about experiments with clonal plants... which makes me feel like some truly disturbing amalgam of Aerith and Hojo. Ladies and gentlemen, two great tastes that SHOULD NEVER go great together.
I'd intended to finish this by Friday so I could relax this weekend, but my good intentions fell prey to procrastination.... and The Hallowed Hunt by one of my favorite authors, Lois McMaster Bujold. (I always forget she's one of my favorite authors, but then when I look at a list of her books, I realize that I've read just about everything she's published. Which I think probably makes her one of my favorite authors.) It's a damn good book. I highly recommend it, along with its siblings, The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls. Bujold has mastered the trick of setting multiple stories in the same universe without fixating -- or making her readers fixate -- on one time period, group of characters, or country. Sometimes there are character cameos, and Chalion and Paladin do have a lot of crossover between them, but the books still stand alone very well. Love, you Lois. Love you lots.
Also, this morning I finally dug into my Mary Sue Tea, which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alsafi and whisperflight gave me for my birthday. Dragon Phoenix Pearl Jasmine is a DAMNED TASTY TEA. Thanks, ladies!
I've already started Christmas shopping, but I still need to begin work on my Halloween costume. Do you suppose something is wrong with my priorities?
That said, it's a disturbingly well-written exam. We've been given almost all the tools to answer the questions, but we'd damn well better have been paying attention, and it definitely requires information synthesis. (And the fact that this was one of the first thing that occurred to me upon reading the exam proves two things: 1) I'm a nerd, and 2) I've taught too many classes, however poorly.)
So right now I'm... well, I'm posting on Eljay. But after this short break, I will return to writing about experiments with clonal plants... which makes me feel like some truly disturbing amalgam of Aerith and Hojo. Ladies and gentlemen, two great tastes that SHOULD NEVER go great together.
I'd intended to finish this by Friday so I could relax this weekend, but my good intentions fell prey to procrastination.... and The Hallowed Hunt by one of my favorite authors, Lois McMaster Bujold. (I always forget she's one of my favorite authors, but then when I look at a list of her books, I realize that I've read just about everything she's published. Which I think probably makes her one of my favorite authors.) It's a damn good book. I highly recommend it, along with its siblings, The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls. Bujold has mastered the trick of setting multiple stories in the same universe without fixating -- or making her readers fixate -- on one time period, group of characters, or country. Sometimes there are character cameos, and Chalion and Paladin do have a lot of crossover between them, but the books still stand alone very well. Love, you Lois. Love you lots.
Also, this morning I finally dug into my Mary Sue Tea, which
alsafi and whisperflight gave me for my birthday. Dragon Phoenix Pearl Jasmine is a DAMNED TASTY TEA. Thanks, ladies!I've already started Christmas shopping, but I still need to begin work on my Halloween costume. Do you suppose something is wrong with my priorities?
