o to be back in the routine of pointlessly updating my livejournal once again...
I never thought I'd say this, but I really am beginning to miss calculus. I think it's mainly feeling that I'm an intelligent human being with the capacity to learn, and not being asked multiple times a week if I "remember the Pythagorean theorem". Or being told that I can't figure something out, because I don't know calculus (but that's ok! you'll get there next semester, pat pat). Jokes on you bitch! I took the first semester of Calc AB twice, so if there's one thing I know, it's how to find the goddamned minimum and maximum values of a graph. And I have the distance formula memorized! Wow.
Anyways, that is my arrogant rant of the evening. In other news, Biological Anthropology was delightful today, as always. Some memorable quotes from Mr. Aiello were:
On essay-portions of tests: "There's some good bullshitters out there who know how to write, and they just bullshit you all the way through and then there they are gettin' a good grade and they don't know shit!"
On the "unspeakable test" (breeding humans and chimpanzees): "If we needed workers, y'know... [we could breed humans and chimps and] we'd have these tough little dumbshits who you could just feed bananas."
On a student he had who had confided with him that he was having a hard time reconciling his Christianity with the things being taught in class: "He's havin' trouble acceptin' evolution and he's got [a simian crease] a hand like a damned monkey! I was thinkin', 'oh shit...' "
I swear, that man makes my life worth living. Or at least my classes worth attending. In other news, this evening Emily and I (aka me with Emily watching and fetching me things) made Ms. Leaf peanutbutter banana cookies and delivered them to her as a token of our love and affection. She really is the cutest, most wonderful little thing I've ever encountered. Unfortunately she's not going to be able to go see Devendra with Spencer, Mr. Villa, and I, so I don't know if we're going to go after all... this makes me incredibly sad :( However, I suppose all is well because I still get to see PAUL SIMON and the Decemberists with my beloved Spencer. Oh, to have money again.
I am quite fond of that boy, I dare say.
(that is all.)
Anyways, that is my arrogant rant of the evening. In other news, Biological Anthropology was delightful today, as always. Some memorable quotes from Mr. Aiello were:
On essay-portions of tests: "There's some good bullshitters out there who know how to write, and they just bullshit you all the way through and then there they are gettin' a good grade and they don't know shit!"
On the "unspeakable test" (breeding humans and chimpanzees): "If we needed workers, y'know... [we could breed humans and chimps and] we'd have these tough little dumbshits who you could just feed bananas."
On a student he had who had confided with him that he was having a hard time reconciling his Christianity with the things being taught in class: "He's havin' trouble acceptin' evolution and he's got [a simian crease] a hand like a damned monkey! I was thinkin', 'oh shit...' "
I swear, that man makes my life worth living. Or at least my classes worth attending. In other news, this evening Emily and I (aka me with Emily watching and fetching me things) made Ms. Leaf peanutbutter banana cookies and delivered them to her as a token of our love and affection. She really is the cutest, most wonderful little thing I've ever encountered. Unfortunately she's not going to be able to go see Devendra with Spencer, Mr. Villa, and I, so I don't know if we're going to go after all... this makes me incredibly sad :( However, I suppose all is well because I still get to see PAUL SIMON and the Decemberists with my beloved Spencer. Oh, to have money again.
I am quite fond of that boy, I dare say.
(that is all.)