That mythology class is paying off

Did you know that Medea is often referred to as "The Tigress" because when her husband Jason decided to leave her for a younger woman, Glauce, she killed Glauce, her father, and most importantly the children that Medea had with Jason? That's right; she killed her own children.

You learn something new every day.

Tardy people and their tardiness!!

I've always been a big stickler about tardiness. I made very sure to never be tardy in high school and I make it my goal to NEVER be tardy in college. There is nothing more disrespectful then a person walking into class over 15 minutes late, interrupting a lecture that could be detrimental to my college success, just because they overslept. I am more annoyed by the people who are consistently late to class (when I say "late" I am referring to over 10 minutes). If you KNOW that it's going to take you 25 minutes to drive to campus 5 minutes to park and 5 minutes to walk to whatever building you need to be in the PLAN ACCORDINGLY. I do. If I can get to class on time and live in freakin' Egypt, then you can get to class living wherever you live.

and gives us an extra ten minutes to get to class. He doesn't mind if we're running a little late because he understands that is it hard to get to a class that early in the morning. THIS GIRL runs 45 minutes late. How ridiculous is that? Last week we had a critique and we started just around 8:05 am. My teacher had begun by asking a series of questions about what we considered art and what we considered "good art". We begun looking at Which brings me to the Queen of the Tardiness. The teacher for the 8am class is pretty lenienteveryone's photos and talked about the ones that stood out the most. Right at 8:50 am SHE walks in. She notices that everyone's photos are on the wall. Of course the teacher stops...there is an awkward pause as we all stare at her. She pins her photos up on the wall and sits down. My teacher begins to talk again. About 15 minutes later her CELL PHONE rings. Naturally this completely distracts for the current discussion that we were having. Alan tells her to turn it off and gives her the look of death. She looks at him and says, "It's a client." As if that is justification for keeping your cell phone ON during class...a class that your significantly late to.

There is no excuss for being THAT late to a class. What upsets me is, she is being disrespectful and she doesn't even care. Her attitude about it (the "whatever" attitude) is bothersome. I can't understand that. If I PAY for a class, I'm sure as heck going to attend it.

On the first day back

As expected, the first day back to classes was uneventful and cold. The only slightly entertaining point of the day was the pot head in my history class. Yes, that's right: someone actually came to class high. Keep in mind this isn't the middle or end of the semester...no this was the FIRST DAY OF
iTunes: "Limp" by Fiona Apple

CLASS and this dude is stoned out of his mind. Naturally he decided to sit in the front row and proceeded to make commentary about what the teacher was saying. I couldn't help but giggle slightly.

Professor: ...I know that I am giving you a lot to read...
Pot Head: [interrupting] yeah...reading sucks man...awww..man...

The constant "aww man...yeaah..oh yea.." coming from the front row seemed to make syllabus day a little more interesting.



And in case you are wondering what I would like for my birthday....

Hello, I'm an Acronym

Here I am attempting to study for the PLS 101 final and all I can do is giggle. I'm attempting to remember the first six amendments with the Acronym:

Flaky
And
Skanky
Understudies
Do
Suck
Toes

it's working so far but I don't think it'll be entirely appropriate for me to say that allowed during my final...



UPDATE:
...the freakin' amendments weren't even on the dumb final...arg...

Really? Really? You REALLY think that?

Comment left on my reasearch paper about stopping animal abuse in Circuses, by one of my fellow classmates after workshopping:

"You ranted a bit. You kind of got a bit in our faces. Also, I don't find PETA a repudiable source. I think thye are as corrupt as the people they claim to be fighting against. I don't mean to be mean. I liked your topic & I don't think animals should live in such conditions but I don't like how you compared them with humans because there are people out there who live in worse conditions than circus animals & I think it could be depricating [did she mean deprecating?] to those people's dignity."

I love workshopping in my English class because there is always one ignorant individual who leaves a comment like this. It makes me giggle.

Quick Rant

I have been living in the MSU photo lab for the past month or so in an attempt to get my final project done EXACTLY one day early. This way should something happen, God forbid, I have at least one class peroid to fix it. So I go into the lab today and go up to one of the few open enlargers only to notice that someone else is using it. Which wasn't a big deal. I just went to the englarger next to it (the same make and model) and start to set my stuff down. As I am gently placing my negative binder on the englarger the girl who was using the enlarger next to it says to me, "I'm using that one." To which I respond, "Oh I thought you were using that other one." To which SHE responds, "I AM." This girl was hogging TWO ENGLARGERS!! TWO!! And for what you ask? FOR CONTACT SHEETS!! She wasn't even working on her final project!! Amazingly enough she turns out to be one of those uber stuck-up photography girls who thinks she knows everything about everything and that since she has had ONE more class then me, that her needs surpass mine.

...to be continued