I dont really have much to say, but I'm sure I can come up with something. This weekend I have a couple long papers to work on. First is a 7-10 page paper about what I feel this world should be like. Its due Wednesday. I feel I could start this paper on Tuesday at midnight and have more than enough time to spare. Did I mention this class revolved around readings about other peoples world views? Plato, Maslow, etc. Really hard stuff. Another paper is a take home exam which everybody in the class thought would be really difficult, but its 8 questions. Choose 5....and 2-3 PARAGRAPHS for each one would be 'excellent' he said. Ouch. Dont know how I'm going to handle that one.
This is a good story. My partner, lets call her Jennifer, and I had to give a presentation this past Monday. The leadup was great. Let me explain....our topic was the first human community which was Jericho in the Middle East in 9000 B.C. Cool topic, we found a lot of interesting info on it. Now all we had to do was get together a few times in the computer lab and put it all together. We met one day and sat next to each other in the lab. I brought up some info from the net while she brought up power point. She was fiddling with the slides (color, background images, etc). I thought this was cool. She knows more about power point then I do so this is fine. So i started giving her info and she put it into the slides. I started realizing that she wasnt doing much and I was doing all the work but whatever...it was the first day and we had power point up and running with some of our info.
The next day we met I started getting more info while she had power point up but started playing an online game, working on the presentation very little. The next time we met I almost lost it. We got in there and sat down. I got out all my notes and was looking up more stuff online. She sat down and put on her headphones to listen to music. She brought up her stupid little computer game and said to me before she turned on her music 'IF YOU NEED ANYTHING PUT IN THE PRESENTATION, LET ME KNOW!!' Less than a minute later I was walking out. She said 'Where are you going?' I said 'Im not going to sit here and do all the work again while you do nothing.' Next day in class she was all about helping me. 'Ryan, I got all this info for our project....' blah blah blah. Too late sweetheart, I already did it. ( Im mean, but not that mean. I didnt say that. I wanted to though.)
On the day we had to give the presentation after I had brought in everything, made sure it was ready to go on the computer in class, etc...i gave her the sheets and told her what she had to do. Not that hard right? Of the presentation she maybe helped out 20%....if that. I started the presentation then she concluded....or tried to. She couldnt pronounce any words, her face was all red and I looked like a total dork who had an imcompetent partner. She couldnt pronounce Neolithic. Not hard right? She couldnt come anywhere near it. I digress....the Prof loved it, we had a lot of great info and pics. I told 'Jennifer' that she did a good job and that was that. I wasnt thinking that though. What I was thinking is that we could have done a whole lot better if you werent so stupid. Ha. Im mean.
On a lighter note...the NBA Playoff continue this weekend. Spurs/Lakers...Game 3 is Sunday. Game 2 was played December 17th. Thanks for the 14 million days in between games Mr Stern. The NBA is FANNNNNNsuckish. On to the list....
My Top 8 Favorite Holidays
1. Thanksgiving -- Food, followed by football, more food, followed by more football...you get the idea.
2. Christmas -- Its all about giving with me. I'm a giver, not a taker. . . . . .
3. New Year's Day -- College football bowl games. Like ten in one day. Whats not to love? You dont like college football you say? Pull your head out of your butt. College football is great.
4. Valentines Day -- Whats better than spending the day/evening at a nice restaurant with the girl/guy you love enjoying each other's company. No girlfriend? This stupid holiday doesnt make the list. Love you too.
5. Halloweeen -- Free candy and scaring the crap out of the little kiddies. Love kids though, dont get me wrong.
6. Memorial Day -- No work, no school. Golfing, grilling out, baseball, spending time with family and friends.
7. Labor Day -- See above and add football to the mix.
8. 4th of July -- Im not that patriotic or this would be much higher. Still a day off work...at least Ibetter get the day off from the country club this summer. If I dont I'm going to be furious. Ha. I'm going to hell.
ry
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