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Friday, October 24, 2003 Today I am feeling: perturbed 
Books I am reading: The Shock of the New Robert Hughes Human Variation Stephen Molnar Who is Black? F. James Davis Literature of the Western World Brian Wilkie/James Hurt Games I am playing: Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings [online RPG] Welp, I got some ranting to do. Yesterday, I had my midterm in my Art History class, and since the teacher wasn't there (dunno why, but she had told us ahead of time) one of her assistants or something "proctored" the test. But I guess she hadn't rehearsed or something, cuz it was very badly done. There were a few slides we had to identify, and on the test sheet it had a "left" and a "right" side then slide numbers, but she got the sides mixed up and the numbers mixed up and was doing them out of order (slide 3, then 5, then 4, etc) and we were all totally confused so she had to stop and go through them over again "this is slide one", etc, which wasted about 10 minutes. Ordinarily this would be no big deal, but this test had time limits on each question, but she didn't explain if we had to obey them or if we could work ahead. It seemed like most people were working ahead, but I didn't until the last question, which I had to because if I had obeyed the time limits, the test would have been over at least 10 minutes after class was over, and I have another class after this one, and the teacher in that class is picky about people being late (fortunately, I didn't have a midterm though.) So, I finished "early" and turned in my test instead of waiting for them to be collected or whatever, but I wasn't sure what we were supposed to do cuz she hadn't explained it. I wasn't the only one who turned theirs in though. But anyway, it was a very frustrating and annoying experience, and midterms are bad enough when things go as planned. I'm sure the teacher will hear lots of whining next week hehe. In my rendering class, our teacher is back from India after a two-week absence. She had some family stuff to do there or something so we had a substitute for the time she was gone and the sub was a grad student who had never taught before, need I say more? <evil grin> Anyway, our teacher brought us all "friendship bracelets" as presents from India, isn't that nice? They're just beads on string but kinda cool. Maybe she got wind of how much we liked our sub and decided to bribe us or something. Or maybe she's just nice. Our sub let us out early though, which we really liked. Hehe. Oh, and I found out that one of our projects, to paint a Halloween mask, isn't to PAINT a Halloween mask (which sounded fun but I was wondering how we were gonna "render" on a mask) but it's that we're going to paint a PICTURE of the Halloween mask. Waaah. Oh well. But we get to use color. Which I'm not sure is a good thing hehe. I'm having enough trouble with black and white. But I have painted before at least. We're gonna do 'em in watercolor using 3 colors, black, red and blue. In cat news, my kitty has found a new game: Hide between the shower curtains and pounce when anyone comes into the bathroom. Or better yet, hide then suddenly jump into the bathtub and knock all the junk off the edge into the tub. Noisy and fun! I keep thinking maybe the cat is trying to tell me she's dirty and wants a bath, but if I turn on the water, she runs away. Either that or she's trying to tell ME I need a bath. In strike, news, I crossed a picket line again today. But this time it was in revenge. I had gone to the video store in the same mini-mall, but the picketers at the store (Pavilions, not Albertsons this time) were standing IN THE STREET BLOCKING TRAFFIC and saying rude things to at least some of the passersby. "Get out of here you scab!", to quote one of 'em. I don't think they said anything to me as I drove by cuz I had my windows up and radio on, and I woulda ignored them anyway, but as I was walking into the store, I heard 'em yell that at a car. Mighta been an employee who'd crossed lines or something, I dunno. Anyway, they were being rude, so I decided to be rude and cross the picket line, and I went inside to buy some sushi. Probably the most risky thing to buy from a store on strike, but hell, I was hungry, and I had planned to go to the Panda Express outside instead, but sushi sounded good to me after the picketers riled me up. Pavilions was pretty empty in the produce section, btw. I didn't go around checking out the rest of the store but there were a few employees there and a few customers, not crowded though. I didn't recognize any of the employees but I didn't recognize any of the strikers, either. They all looked like teenagers to me, the union prolly bribed some students from the high school down the street to picket or something. That would also explain the rudeness, too. That's all the ranting for now, well, except one last one: I have a headache from the smoke in the air from all the brushfires around, and my throat hurts too, so I hope I'm not getting sick that would suck cuz I have a *#&^load of homework this weekend. Grrrr ....
[ 5:28:00 PM ]
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