Ah, marking.
Good luck with this.
Grading both term essays, term papers, and exam papers: I remember that this used to take weeks of my life each year when I dwelt in the groves of academe.
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Good luck with this.
Grading both term essays, term papers, and exam papers: I remember that this used to take weeks of my life each year when I dwelt in the groves of academe.
I've noticed that religious people here try so hard to keep reality away that they don't want any reminders. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the married couples wear three layers of clothing to go to sleep to avoid thinking of what might happen.
Well I am fortunate that I am not responsible for actual marking (though I've done it before) but tabulating marks and grades as well as working with my colleagues for the final semester reports including financial. While I enjoy the fact rain is washing away pollen I am hoping for good weather this coming Friday as our final activity is taking a boat across the Geneva Lake (called Leman by most locals except those in Geneva) for lunch in the small French village of Yvoire.
It is cold (42° F), dark (even though sunset, according to the Weather app, isn't until almost 8:00, and it's 4:50 now), and rainy. Not nice at all.
April has been surprisingly cold, here, as well, (comparatively speaking, that is).
March and April are both rather fickle months; they like to throw surprises at us! Usually things begin to settle down in May....but then it starts heating up in anticipation of the arrival of Summer......
Thing is, in my hometown, the weather is so predictable. Winter it never really gets colder than 30 degrees, spring it's always warm and windy, in the summer it's always over 100, and the fall is just a cooler summer (nothing really changes besides the temperature getting slightly colder). Here, the weather actually changes.
The weather change in Northern California is intense. I remember that it would be 50 degrees F in the morning and over 100 degrees F in the late afternoon. In the middle states, it might be 95 degrees F all night and in the winter, below 0 degrees F for weeks. Florida weather made the most sense to me because it changed about 25 degrees in a 24 hour period.
Fortunately you'll be going home soon.....but you might want to get some mosquito repellent, just in case you don't get out soon enough.
I have another month since we're on trimesters. So I'll definitely need some bug repellent!
Somehow ended up with a squirrel deciding to make its home in the engine bay of our Kia Sorento.
I was driving to Uni in my original model Ford Cortina, and was hearing a funny squeak from the engine compartment. I pulled over, opened the bonnet, only to find a small kitten person hanging on for dear life. I rescued the poor thing, turned around, drove home (now, sans squeak ), dropped her off to her mother, and went back to my lecture, fortunately not late.
Better a squirrel than a snake (as has been the case with colleagues of mine).
A nice warm car engine, and add to that a reptile that has just emerged from hibernation, and is now somewhat alert, (rather than somnolent), rather hungry and, yes, it would appear also rather randy, as the business of finding a mate will be uppermost in its reptilian mind when it awakes from its winter slumber.
There's a big and increasingly expensive problem here of foxes sneaking under cars and having a good chew on anything rubbery they can find.
Several years back , I had a Ford Fusion . Bought it new , and around 6 months after I got it ,I started having strange malfunctions in the lights . Took it into the dealer as it was under warranty , and the guy there said that the wiring harness got gnawed by squirrels . Apparently , the materials surrounding the harness' wires were made from a soy based plastic that the local critters found tasty .
I have honestly been having a really bad day. Can't wait for it to be done. Even though I answered all the questions thoroughly, I still feel like I didn't do well on my midterm. And I got news that a friend of a friend passed away. I didn't know them, but I can only imaging how my friend feels right now. It's just not been good, unfortunately.
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SOMEONE cut the telephone line in my area.
7 days without the internet.
Thank god for the BT Openreach guy today aka Mr fixer.
That socket was old old.
Very happy now.
7 days without the internet.
Thank god for the BT Openreach guy today aka Mr fixer.
That socket was old old.
Very happy now.
That sounds rough.
I would imagine that you probably did a lot better than you think.
In my experience, people (students) who work hard, study hard, and care about their studies, often feel like this when they sit a paper.
My sympathies.
Again, my experience (and recollections) is that deaths of friends (or friends of friends) that occur when you are a young student tend to hit one somewhat harder than, perhaps, later in your life.
For some, it may be their first introduction to death, the first time that someone they know - of, roughly their own age - has died; this is always a shock, and can be very upsetting, for, when we are young, sometimes, we feel that we are immortal.
And we're not.
Anyway, the very best of luck.
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More than a year ago, thieves were cutting the big copper cables in a certain area that was mostly farm land. The big three mobile phone companies would be down and then later, the biggest cable TV company, mostly not at the same time. Thankfully, the local county's sheriff's office found them trying to sell the copper.
How people regularly travel between the east coast and west coast.
I grew up in the Eastern time zone. Sure I went west on trips, but that gains me time. So I was up for breakfast at 5 in Vegas and ready to go to bed at 9, but that is doable.
But I recently made my first trip back east after living in the Pacific time zone for a year. It was horrible. Could not get my body clock adjusted. So I was just sitting around doing nothing after midnight as it was still 9 on my body clock. You can force yourself to stay up much easier than you can force yourself to go to sleep.
I don't understand how celebs and others do the east/west coast travel as often as they do.
I grew up in the Eastern time zone. Sure I went west on trips, but that gains me time. So I was up for breakfast at 5 in Vegas and ready to go to bed at 9, but that is doable.
But I recently made my first trip back east after living in the Pacific time zone for a year. It was horrible. Could not get my body clock adjusted. So I was just sitting around doing nothing after midnight as it was still 9 on my body clock. You can force yourself to stay up much easier than you can force yourself to go to sleep.
I don't understand how celebs and others do the east/west coast travel as often as they do.
I'm not sure, either.
I was born in Japan and much of my life through school years was spent on the edge of Central and Eastern time zones. I was comfortable waking up around 4 in the afternoon. When I returned to Japan, I was waking comfortably at 6 in the morning.
Only my internal clock knows why.
Probably easier when you travel by private jet and don’t have to get up early for work the next day.
Try doing it from LA to London. That really messes you up!
It’s crazy how at Home Depot / Lowes the copper wire is all behind lock n key due to theft. Like all stores now.
When I lived in Florida from 1998-2008, they were trying to put copper theft into law, where scrap metal dealers had to identify people bringing copper to them, and how much they had.
The thieves were going to the roofs of unfinished buildings and ripping up the air conditioning units.
As an aside, the local Grocery Outlet has the Spam locked up at the front of the store. I used to laugh at the TV advert about razor blade refills where the alarm was sounded when someone tried to access the refills. Now, the local Walmart has almost anything locked up. Target has had to lock up the gift cards because people would take them, put the numbers into their system, make them look new, return them to the store, and when someone bought them, they'd have money.