Friday
December 1, 2000

It's been an interesting week.

The biggest news is that the TAs here are going on strike Monday if the Prez doesn't recognize their union. For legal reasons, he cannot, but yet the TAs will strike. Of course that's just a chain-reaction, because fellow unioners won't cross picketlines...so that means that UPS isn't delivering (food, supplies, packages, etc), metro buses are skipping the University stops, and I think the garbage men are striking too?

That means that the University will become stinky, full of hungry ppl, and cut off to other ppl who want to get in. :P It sucks but I am not complaining too much since the strike is happening at the end of the quarter and for selfish reasons, modifications have been made to classes to make a more manageable load for the professors left behind.

Example: My 342 paper which is due on Monday. Is still due on Monday, but it is now extra credit! I just found that out today and I was soooo happy! I'll still do it since I did at the mean on the midterm, tho.

But I'm getting ahead of my self!

Monday: I snoozed in my 9.30 class. I had plans to meet my partner at 2.30 to talk over our project, which is due...next Wednesday? But I went to the lab during break and talked to Ellen til class.

Class was pointless, more paper talk by the TA. He only talked for half an hour! So now I had to stick around and wait for my partner. I went to the HUB bookstore to look around and then waited for him in this small readng room.

There was a guy sleeping in there. *LOL*

My partner showed up..we talked for about 5mins and left. It was rather pointless, I supopse we could have talked on the phone or something. :O But meeting is good, I guess....

I've been writing little bits for the assignment, a website on cable tv in Seattle. Boring topic. Oh well! I didn't have to think about it. *L*

Tuesday we woke up at the CRACK..cuz we're working out again. Try Number Two. It was pretty cool, aside from waking up so early and that cold walk from the parking lot to the IMA. But I do a warm up on this air-walker thing..and then go to four different weight machines and a cool down on the bike. It's an hour and it's just enough to do what I want. You know?

I zonked out in class tho. I don't know what it is. I was hoping that the endorphins from working out would keep me up but I just slept. The prof gave me weird looks. But he's been doing that all quarter. I think it's because *I* give him weird looks cuz he's so fruity! He did the baking soda and vinegar experiment. *LMAO* But it's a natural cleanser toooooooo.

Wednesday I hurt from the day before. I zonked in class again. I went to the lab again. Talked to Ellen. Went to class. Stuck around to find out that journals were being collected. Stuck around further to see if the prof was bringing in eval-looking things, which he did not. So then we left. But after class he made the announcement regarding the paper!

Thursday we worked out again and I'm getting buff! HAHAHAHA. I was snoozin in class again..but the prof told us about the strike that was happening. And regarding this class, nothing's gonna change, except that projects can be accepted a day late. I've been in and out of the lab all week and I ALWAYS hear ppl asking Excel questions! Those slackers! I finished my project already.

And I'm not helping if I can help it. I refuse to get USED again by ppl!! HAHAHA. Plus, people who are STILL computer illiterate piss me off. What's keeping them? It's everywhere!

Well, I only finished it cuz it was the easiest compared to everything else I had due. *heh*

S'coo.

Then today I went to section for stats. And it was going goo for the first hour, but then it went downhill. The TA was supposed to show us a two-way ANOVA..but she just found the problem in the book, so she wasn't practised with it and kept interrupting herself by asking US if we knew why this or that!

Just do the problem! We don't know!

I ended up leaving just before she gave the final answer. Quit wasting my time. Haw. I stuck around as long as I did because they were doing evals at the end. And I believe that they can be of great help for them in the future and such-n-such! Oh well!

I went home, Wilson called to tell me about the paper news. Cuz we missed it for skipping out, right? He went to the TA's office hours and the TA told him the news. And also that the prof intends to correct papers on the last 2 not-days of school..next Monday and Wednesday. So that means he'll spend only a few minutes on each!!!

I wanna!!

I need the extra credit! But I don't know how much it can help me, however, I'm more relaxed about the whole thing. Throughout the week, I did the small stuff for my paper. Now the big stuff is left. :O But no more stress on it!

I took a nap, ignored some calls..Lar came home with dinner. We took another nap and then played Monopoly. He kicked my butt and I was sooooo mad at him. *LOL* Then I watched random tv and got online. Ta da!

So I guess not so much stuff happened this week. Though it is the first anniversary of that damned WTO thing. There were some protesters and a few hundred(?) arrests. And then today, someone set off these pepperspray bombs in the bus tunnels. :P

But yeah..we're working out. TAs going on strike. The papers here are still striking, but that means free papers until things get back to normal.....

Tomorrow are some sales..Penney's is giving away choco..but I bet I won't go...cuz 1) I'll be sleepa and 2) it's choco..sugar..sugar turns to fat if I don't use it. Sooooooo. I gotsa get health-conscious now. Phhhhbbbbtt! And I wanna get some weights too...so I'm looking for that.

Weekend plans...I'll try to get my paper done tomorrow so I can just forget it. My sister and I have plans to hang out on Sunday. That's about it.

Oh, and since the prof is merely collecting/grading papers..he obviously isn't doing evals! Cuz he knows he SUCKS! So I'm writing a letter to the department head about this horrible class. *shudder*

Okay talka latta!