Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2006 | No Comments »
Man. If I ever manage to turn in this Homer paper, it will be a minor miracle. Or not so minor.
Some thoughts, for today.
I nearly lost my phone. Just ask the other firsties what that looked like. It was not prettiness. I was saved from a very ugly and gruesome death (but not a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2006 | No Comments »
Today at work a lady called looking for Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (Plume, 1992). After looking everywhere in BIP (Books In Print) I finally checked Title Sleuth and discovered what I had expected in the beginning - it was out of print. Surprise! So this lady has been [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2006 | No Comments »
of my most violence-inducing things:
So today, unsuspectingly, I go in to work to find that I have a job evaluation meeting.
I have worked all week on the freaking Homer paper and still have come up with next to nothing, and all the books I really want aren’t around, so I’m going to have to use [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2006 | No Comments »
“You can do anything for 5 weeks, right?”
This was last Easter, and I think it holds true this time around too.
Two papers down, half my page count, and two papers to go.
All I have to fear is work itself.
The world is my acorn.
I’ve never written 27 coherent pages in 3 weeks before, but the fact [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2006 | No Comments »
I think that I have heard the Chess original cast soundtrack fifty times now. I get a little obsessive about music when paper writing. Every paper has to have a different soundtrack. So apparently Ovid is best understood to the strains of “Who’d have ever thought it/Such a squalid little ending/Watching him descending/Just as far [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2006 | No Comments »
SOC 341
Basic Clique Origins and Management
Professor Upidy
Fall Semester 2C
No prerequisites. This course satisfies the Humanities Gen. Ed. requirement
TEXTS: TBA
COURSE GOALS:
To better understand the nature of the social phenomena known as the clique, both its origination and its place in our current society. Students who pass this class should come out with clear understanding of [...]
Nakiru is a Karamajong name meaning "rain." My real name was confusing, so to replace it, the old woman looked out from under the hut and observed the coming rain, and named me. "Nakiru." The irony was when they named my sister "Nakolong" - "sunshine."
