Lazy is the best policy is the only thing I learned.

So as I promised I am not keeping up with all that has gone on. Brian this week had his first baby – congrats. As usual I still have only spoken to him once and it was pretty brief. I was just about to leave when he called.

I am in the process of car shopping again. I am looking at the Volvo C70 convertible. However, it is not the car that I really want to buy. But then again the Bentley Arnage Convertible is not exactly in my price range. In due course, all in due course.

This marked the beginning of a new semester, and I may have bitten off more than I can chew. My classes this semester are:

1. BIOL 334 Vaccines
2. CMST 303 Advanced Application Software
3. HIST 156 History United States to 1865
4. HIST 319X Jews Under Nazis
5. HIST 319Y Nuremberg War Trials
6. HIST 481 History of Modern China
7. LIBS 150 Info Literacy Research Methods
8. WRTG 101 Introduction to Writing

The only class that actually scares me is the Bio class. I started it last night and the professor is not going to let me use my laptop to take notes for fear that I will record his lectures. That is always a great way to start a semester accuse the student of doing something that they had no intention of doing. However, no I am wondering what is going to be said that he does not want recorded. Besides if I wanted to record his GD lectures it isn’t like it would be so hard to pull that off – prick.

Also, I have to take a writing 101 course. Apparently UMD will not accept my CLEP scores from Utah. Big surprise there, when I came out here of the 76 credits I had achieved in Utah UMD accepted 11 of them. So it was no surprise that they would not accept this either. I just find it funny that I have to take a basic writing course when I have been writing professionally for the last 3 years. Wonder what I will write on. Needless to say that all my writing assignments are going to be centered on exactly what I am working on here at work.

On other news the skank that I had last semester has once again caused me to anger. Long story short the “professor” didn’t give us back anything until the day before the end of the semester. The grades were due on Monday that following Thursday I get a note from the financial aide dept telling me that my aide is in jeopardy because I had not finished the course. I sent the professor an email and got a snide remark back from her. A few days later I got my grade and it was no where near what I had earned. I guess along with not being able to pronounce words correctly adding is also something that she is unable to do.

Look I can give someone the benefit of the doubt. I emailed her and inquired about the grade. Again I received a smart ass retort. I guess she thinks that I am five and that I am somehow afraid of the big bad professor. I know that all of this sounds trite I am still a little miffed at the fact that she was unable to muster the minor amount of integrity needed to apologize for her actions. Instead going on the offensive and making it seems as though I was out of line asking her to actually do her job. She finally got the grades in the system 12 days late.

Wow it would sure be nice to hand things into a professor 12 days late. I wish that I could get away with that sort of incompetence her at my job. But I am not a lazy professor I actually have deadlines that need to be met.

In the end I am still working on the problem but the whole reason I bring this up is that I am obviously not the only one who did poorly in the class. I have been receiving emails from other students regarding the course. One student is working on a folder of information to present to the dept regarding her behavior during the semester. It will be interesting to see what happens in the end. I am hoping that I am not just opening a can of worms with this whole thing…

Quote of the day:
1. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)

2. There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.