because I'm feeling sadistic
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incandescensAnd she takes a pin and she goes prod prod prod at the characters. No, really, it'll save me effort and you pain if you will kindly assume the desired configuration and stop protesting. Really. Now stop wriggling so much. For the moment.
Mutter mutter attempting to do Microsoft Access course at work except there aren't any MA courses currently running, so I've been given a workbook which is actually for the advanced course and told to have a go at it and see what I can manage. Oh, for some other course of action than getting my head down and having a go at it and seeing what I can manage.
Briefly glancing at some current Harry Potter fic -- no names, no pack drill -- makes me momentarily hallucinate that it would be a good idea to draw up a checklist of things that English schools don't have. We don't have graduation. We don't have valetudinarians or whatever the thing is. People don't get elected to prefecthood unless they're in the top year of the school (unless it's as form prefect, which would be an entirely different thing, and we've already seen that Hogwarts doesn't have that). And, please, please, dear heavens have mercy, No sane human being would nickname someone 'Mione as short for Hermione. Especially when there is no canon evidence for it. None. Nada. Va t'en faire foutre.
Astonishing how some things get under your skin.
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DID I MISS ANYTHING?
Question frequently asked by students after missing a class
Nothing. When we realized you weren't here we sat with our hands folded on our desks in silence, for the full two hours
Everything. I gave an exam worth 40 percent of the grade for this term and assigned some reading due today on which I'm about to hand out a quiz worth 50 per cent
Nothing. None of the content of this course has value or meaning. Take as many days off as you like: any activities we undertake as a class, I assure you, will not matter either to you or me and are without purpose
Everything. A few minutes after we began last time a shaft of light suddenly descended and an angel or other heavenly being appeared and revealed to us what each woman or man must do to attain divine wisdom in this life and the hereafter This is the last time the class will meet before we disperse to bring the good news to all people on earth
Nothing. When you are not present how could something significant occur?
Everything. Contained in this classroom is a microcosm of human experience assembled for you to query and examine and ponder. This is not the only place such an opportunity has been gathered
but it was one place
And you weren't here
-- Poem written by Tom Wayman, a Canadian poet, and published in: Wayman, T. (1993). Did I miss anything? Selected poems 1973-1993. Vancouver, BC: Harbour Publishing.
Mutter mutter attempting to do Microsoft Access course at work except there aren't any MA courses currently running, so I've been given a workbook which is actually for the advanced course and told to have a go at it and see what I can manage. Oh, for some other course of action than getting my head down and having a go at it and seeing what I can manage.
Briefly glancing at some current Harry Potter fic -- no names, no pack drill -- makes me momentarily hallucinate that it would be a good idea to draw up a checklist of things that English schools don't have. We don't have graduation. We don't have valetudinarians or whatever the thing is. People don't get elected to prefecthood unless they're in the top year of the school (unless it's as form prefect, which would be an entirely different thing, and we've already seen that Hogwarts doesn't have that). And, please, please, dear heavens have mercy, No sane human being would nickname someone 'Mione as short for Hermione. Especially when there is no canon evidence for it. None. Nada. Va t'en faire foutre.
Astonishing how some things get under your skin.
---
DID I MISS ANYTHING?
Question frequently asked by students after missing a class
Nothing. When we realized you weren't here we sat with our hands folded on our desks in silence, for the full two hours
Everything. I gave an exam worth 40 percent of the grade for this term and assigned some reading due today on which I'm about to hand out a quiz worth 50 per cent
Nothing. None of the content of this course has value or meaning. Take as many days off as you like: any activities we undertake as a class, I assure you, will not matter either to you or me and are without purpose
Everything. A few minutes after we began last time a shaft of light suddenly descended and an angel or other heavenly being appeared and revealed to us what each woman or man must do to attain divine wisdom in this life and the hereafter This is the last time the class will meet before we disperse to bring the good news to all people on earth
Nothing. When you are not present how could something significant occur?
Everything. Contained in this classroom is a microcosm of human experience assembled for you to query and examine and ponder. This is not the only place such an opportunity has been gathered
but it was one place
And you weren't here
-- Poem written by Tom Wayman, a Canadian poet, and published in: Wayman, T. (1993). Did I miss anything? Selected poems 1973-1993. Vancouver, BC: Harbour Publishing.
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Date: 2003-02-03 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-03 06:59 pm (UTC)Oh dear. Shall I scan you some pretties tomorrow and improve that mood for you? ^_^
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Date: 2003-02-04 03:08 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-02-04 04:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-04 05:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-03 08:54 pm (UTC)cheers,
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