Derpdity derp derp derp.
No updates since coming back to school? Well. Probably because I don't particularly want to be here, but what're you gonna do.
Being a grader for second year Japanese? Makes me realize how fuckin' LAZY some of these kids are. I mean, holy shit. Whole sections, skipped. For what, shits and giggles? Because you were too lazy to look up the grammar point in the book? COME ON.
If Takahashi gave me point-docking power, I WOULD BE DOCKING POINTS, FUCKERS.
Unfortunately, all I get to do is choose between an X, triangle for half-credit, and nothing. It's a hard toss up sometimes.
And I probably write far more comments than I should bother to. Being a perfectionist is not, unfortunately, a good quality for a grader.
But for $8.75 an hour? I can see my way to explaining why they fucked up that sentence. Even if payroll hasn't e-mailed me yet, and I can't log the 8+ hours I've already worked. THAT'S A LOT OF CASH FUCKERS.
(If I get JET, I'm gonna buy myself a niiiice coat. 's all I'm saying.)
Also, I need to get over my social maladjustment. Because I am seriously not happy about the field trip my seminar is taking in May.
... admittedly, I may have to ask for a reprieve due to thesis presentations, but still.
Yech.
And admittedly, dropping Historical Linguistics and keeping the seminar (Gay & Lesbian Ethnography) may or may not have been a mistake... because the more I read this book for Wednesday, the more I think it's total bullshit.
Oh well. Life's tough that way. And technically, this is better for my graduate career...? Probably?
Since we all know that getting a doctorate in Japanese Linguistics fucks you up real good. :/ WAY TO BE, JAPANESE DEPARTMENT.
... whenever I listen to this song now, I think about presenting my translation of it... and then invariably Armstrong. GOD DAMNIT. I LOVE THIS SONG YOU HORRIBLE WOMAN.
Being a grader for second year Japanese? Makes me realize how fuckin' LAZY some of these kids are. I mean, holy shit. Whole sections, skipped. For what, shits and giggles? Because you were too lazy to look up the grammar point in the book? COME ON.
If Takahashi gave me point-docking power, I WOULD BE DOCKING POINTS, FUCKERS.
Unfortunately, all I get to do is choose between an X, triangle for half-credit, and nothing. It's a hard toss up sometimes.
And I probably write far more comments than I should bother to. Being a perfectionist is not, unfortunately, a good quality for a grader.
But for $8.75 an hour? I can see my way to explaining why they fucked up that sentence. Even if payroll hasn't e-mailed me yet, and I can't log the 8+ hours I've already worked. THAT'S A LOT OF CASH FUCKERS.
(If I get JET, I'm gonna buy myself a niiiice coat. 's all I'm saying.)
Also, I need to get over my social maladjustment. Because I am seriously not happy about the field trip my seminar is taking in May.
... admittedly, I may have to ask for a reprieve due to thesis presentations, but still.
Yech.
And admittedly, dropping Historical Linguistics and keeping the seminar (Gay & Lesbian Ethnography) may or may not have been a mistake... because the more I read this book for Wednesday, the more I think it's total bullshit.
Oh well. Life's tough that way. And technically, this is better for my graduate career...? Probably?
Since we all know that getting a doctorate in Japanese Linguistics fucks you up real good. :/ WAY TO BE, JAPANESE DEPARTMENT.
... whenever I listen to this song now, I think about presenting my translation of it... and then invariably Armstrong. GOD DAMNIT. I LOVE THIS SONG YOU HORRIBLE WOMAN.