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Wednesday Bloody Wednesday
Dec. 1st, 2004 06:26 pmI got my car back!
And except for the license plate, it looks like it ever did. Except that it wasn't that clean in a long time.
Why is it so hard to get good presentation groups? I mean, I've heard some brilliant presentations and my group last year rocked, but the really sucky ones by far prevail. If more than one person are doing a presentation, at least one of them screws up. Today, Éomer (named thus because of his long blonde hair and beard, chubby cheeks and general eye-candiness; his actual name is Manuel) and Astrid were giving a talk on the roots and history of New Age, and while the former did an okay job, the latter gave the most indifferent, bored, kiss-my-ass presentation I've ever heard. I mean, she even said in front of the audience (and the professor) that she had thought about including some information about this and that and some mathematical game and such but hadn't felt like it eventually. Good gracious. I hate presentations, but except for one horribly sucky presentation back in the cyberpunk seminar, I always managed at least to pretend to know what I was talking about and that I was actually interested in it. But that? Gah.
And my own presentation partner isn't much better. Apparently he has read no more than the titles of the texts he should read (at least that is what his questions during class today implied). Look, I see your little daughter takes up your time and life is hard and all, but we still have to do that presentation and I for my part want to leave a good impression because the professor will be one of the two in my intermediate examination.
Also saw a truck shunting backwards on the highway. WTF?
And I accidentally upset one of my co-students in Japanese. I was despairing about a disgustingly long and complicated sentence in the text I should have prepared at home (...) where I could hardly find head and tail (けれども、 先生を養成する師範学校や、最高学府としての帝国大学(国立大学)などがつくられてくると、 学校制度はしだいにととのってきました。, if anyone is curious. And we didn't even have the conditional form yet.), and then I got what it was trying to tell me and groaned at my stupidity. Unfortunately, Lindberg-san was just reading out her version of the sentence before that one, and she though I was criticizing her translation, and stared at me with big nervous eyes.
Lindberg-san's eyes are all black; you can't see any difference between pupils and iris.
Scary.
I explained the situation after class, and she laughed. Phew.
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( Komischer Mittwoch )
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And except for the license plate, it looks like it ever did. Except that it wasn't that clean in a long time.
Why is it so hard to get good presentation groups? I mean, I've heard some brilliant presentations and my group last year rocked, but the really sucky ones by far prevail. If more than one person are doing a presentation, at least one of them screws up. Today, Éomer (named thus because of his long blonde hair and beard, chubby cheeks and general eye-candiness; his actual name is Manuel) and Astrid were giving a talk on the roots and history of New Age, and while the former did an okay job, the latter gave the most indifferent, bored, kiss-my-ass presentation I've ever heard. I mean, she even said in front of the audience (and the professor) that she had thought about including some information about this and that and some mathematical game and such but hadn't felt like it eventually. Good gracious. I hate presentations, but except for one horribly sucky presentation back in the cyberpunk seminar, I always managed at least to pretend to know what I was talking about and that I was actually interested in it. But that? Gah.
And my own presentation partner isn't much better. Apparently he has read no more than the titles of the texts he should read (at least that is what his questions during class today implied). Look, I see your little daughter takes up your time and life is hard and all, but we still have to do that presentation and I for my part want to leave a good impression because the professor will be one of the two in my intermediate examination.
Also saw a truck shunting backwards on the highway. WTF?
And I accidentally upset one of my co-students in Japanese. I was despairing about a disgustingly long and complicated sentence in the text I should have prepared at home (...) where I could hardly find head and tail (けれども、 先生を養成する師範学校や、最高学府としての帝国大学(国立大学)などがつくられてくると、 学校制度はしだいにととのってきました。, if anyone is curious. And we didn't even have the conditional form yet.), and then I got what it was trying to tell me and groaned at my stupidity. Unfortunately, Lindberg-san was just reading out her version of the sentence before that one, and she though I was criticizing her translation, and stared at me with big nervous eyes.
Lindberg-san's eyes are all black; you can't see any difference between pupils and iris.
Scary.
I explained the situation after class, and she laughed. Phew.
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( Komischer Mittwoch )
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