Balch, more like Belch

[ahck]

it's fuckin' 44 degrees right now here. in August. Allen and I were freezing and huddling our jackets when he was walking me back to my dorm, and this guy walks buy wearing just a t-shirt and shorts. oh yeah, and there were seagulls out earlier this afternoon. wtf

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[ethosiii]

heh i love how the engineering and arts faculty like to hate on each other. to quote my nz lit prof (this is word-for word cause i recorded the lectures):

"when i lectured just in the big room at the other end of this area out here [we're having class in the engineering building at the time], ah it must have been 20 years ago i was blasting away on new zealand literature as i was good at then...have i told you this story about the professor of engineering who used to come and stand in the middle of the classroom? he used to come in, and he was nutty as a fruitcake, and he used to come into my lectures from the back because you came in from the back, and so he'd suddenly appear. i'd be raving on about janet frame and how moving she was to read and that kind of thing, and there'd be this little jerk in khaki shorts standing at the back...and he'd be standing there, and his engineering lecture room was full of wankers! and he'd stand there like this with his hands on his hips, absolutely beyond belief. and he was famous because at

[hydrobromic]

economists put down the sociologists, but the little pussies can't stand up for themselves. ha!

Econ prof at UofC: "one time, this guy tried to tell me a joke. He was like, 'there's a new version of Trivial Pursuit out! It has 10 questions and 10,000 answers! Do you know what it is called? Trivial Pursuit for Economists!! haha!' But I just told him, 'No, that's wrong, that's Trivial Pursuit for Sociologists! Trivial Pursuit for Economists would have 10,000 questions and 10 answers, and we'd know all of them.'"

when I was small, dad warned me about the engineers. can't remember quite what was said, but it involved the phrases "tight-assed" and "natural enemies" at some point. lol.

PANCAKE WE ARE TURNING INTO OUR FATHERS.

[ahck]

lolol, everyone thinks engineers are all serious, but no, they are awesome.

WHEN IS YOUR XMAS BREAK?!?! i'm going to try and go to Chicago sometime during my christmas break since it's sooo long and visit annie and you and my grandma, and i gotta know when you'd be back in school so i can plan accordingly. it seems like it should be close to Annie's schedule.

[hydrobromic]

Dec 11 - Jan 3

dammit, I have NO TIME OFF in January. geez!

[ethosiii]

that's cruel. its like they want to make sure you're up north for all the worst months to be there.

[ducks_go_moo]

That old guy was cool :D

Got kind of boring, but the A&S jokes in the beginning were good, like how their rules will make us fail, and our will make them ace and stuffs