Take a sip of alcohol (a sip, mind you, not a whole glass else you'll be drunk in no time) every time:
1. SHM says "Are you taking down notes?"
2. One of us says "Okay, next."
3. SHM says "I would suggest..."
4. SHM says "For example..."
5. One of us looks at the clock.
6. Turtlewoman starts a new game on her PDA.
7. One of us screams "It Doesn't Matter!"
More to come.
Today was awful. Besides the usual wrangling and talking circles around the same old thing, he managed to insult us rather badly today. First he makes our brainwaves, brought up in an earlier meeting, seem like his own. Then he makes HIS mistake (i.e. telling us to do our graphs in a less appropriate way that resulted in Big-Kind-But-Busy-Prof wondering why we were doing things in such an awkward manner) seem like our mistake by saying "I see you've corrected the graphs today, Prof W told you they were wrong during the last meeting, didn't she." Grr I did them the right way the first time round, after one hour of trying out table formats and variables, then you tell me to change, then you make it my fault? YOU BLOODY @(*&@^$&)@$ And what's with you aping Prof W with Green's PRECEDE model and whatever model of Health Behavior and interchanging the terms wrongly? Ugh. I have the feeling I've ranted about this before, but he does it every meeting, so I rant again after every meeting.
And please, we have brains. Don't keep saying "Are you taking down notes?" It's rather obvious which country you're from, with that.
The rest stayed back till 5 pm to finish the discussion section. I left earlier; feel rather bad about it.
I've never disliked a person so intensely in my life. I'm not even in a working environment yet, so I have the freedom to be insolent and bitch about him all I like. He's not giving me my grade or my salary.
A funny pic Turtlewoman took: