hows it going?

[Peter Ahlstrom]

How did it come to get smashed by the cement truck? Which insurance is this, yours or theirs?

[EUOL]

You know, Sprig IS selling his mini-van, if you end up wanting to buy a new car.  It's pretty cheap, I think.

[Oldie Black Witch]

I was stopped in a the usual line of traffic in the left lane on Parkway on a Friday night and the guy driving the truck wasn't paying attention. Boom.

We actually managed to buy an '02 Kia Sedona with a warranty today, which is good since on Friday we are being forced to return the humongous Dodge Durango we'd been renting. And the best part about the new minivan was that we didn't have to pay a single penny to the dealership. Yee haw, no money down on a nice car.

But I still think car insurance companies suck.

[stacer]

I woke up to a very nice surprise this morning. I expected to get only a half-paycheck for my last paycheck from Houghton, because I thought that my last day was in the middle of a pay period.

Happily, I was wrong! Full paycheck today!

[Peter Ahlstrom]

woot!

I finally worked a bimonthly pay period with 80 hours (81 hours over 11 days). Very happy to get lots of work. It helps that the interns are all gone now.

[stacer]

Ug. Machinery outside woke me up. It is 4 am.

[Maxwell]

ugh machinary inside wakes me up at 4, everyday...
well a scratchboard peice I recently finished was handed into Jamie Brown(incharge of the art museum galleries) yesterday, and it is being considered ofr a spot in the "nature into art" gallery.
I'm happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MsFish]

Can I just tell you that I'm supposed to be researching right now?  

That's how it's going.  

I hate library research, because I can never FIND anything.  I know the information I need is somewhere in this great storehouse of knowlege, but I can never seem to discern the precise location, and it drives me nuts.  

On the upside I was complaining about this to a professor this week, and he says he has exactly the same problem.  So hey, if a guy with his doctorate can't find what he's looking for, at least I know it's not just me.  

[JP Dogberry]

See? I told you all that information literacy was more important to teach than raw factual knowledge, but would you listen to me? Nooooo!

JamPaladin > You.

[stacer]

Can I just tell you that I'm supposed to be researching right now?  

Well, I'm supposed to be reading Water-Babies right now, so I know how you feel. It's much more fun to check my email even when I know there isn't going to be anything there than read a book that has been boring me for days, even though I have to do a presentation on it.

[MsFish]

Yeah, well, you want to impart some of that information literacy in this direction, Jam?

Stacer- what's Water-Babies?

Structured procrastination is a wonderful thing.  You wouldn't believe the things I've gotten done avoiding this research.  The problem with structured procratination is, eventually you do have to get around to doing the thing your not doing.  So now I'm procrastinating writing by researching.  Isn't it great the way that works?

[stacer]

Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley.

CIP: The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water-baby.

Pub. date 1863.

Didactic, wandering. Told prettily, but not much of a story. WHO KNOWS why Tom becomes a water-baby and swims around with gills about his neck for most of the story. Certainly not me.

Structured procrastination: I am now doing my bills.

[MsFish]

Ah, yay.  So I guess that I should be glad that even if I can't find anything on my topic, at least I'm not researching a swimming man with gills.

[MsFish]

On the upside at least I made it to the floor I need to be on this time before I logged back on and resumed wasting time.  If I'm feeling really motivated maybe I'll head over to the bookshelf in a minute here.

[Maxwell]

well all of my classes are taking place at the beach tommorrow, so I'm pretty psyched for that, also that peice I mentioned earlier(macrobiology) will be in the art museums spring show, which is also pretty sweet.