Can Arnold and Bruce Save the World?

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  • Some participants express frustration with power outages and the impact on daily life, including frozen plates and the difficulty of warming up a house.
  • There is a discussion about the terminology used for waste collectors, with some participants suggesting "bin men" and others proposing "trash men" or "garbage collectors."
  • One participant reflects positively on their experience with the post office, contrasting it with private courier services like UPS and FedEx, while others share mixed feelings about postal services.
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  • Concerns about frequent power cuts are raised, with one participant noting that power outages are common during wind storms in their area.

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  • #31
Do people who have a lot to do but aren't in the mood to do anything, qualify to post here?:shy:
 
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  • #32
I hope so Lisa, cause I have a million things to do. And have pretty much decided not to do anything.
We're having a Evo day, rain and gloominess has chased away all my fluffy snow. Fog is starting to creep in...and all I want to do is ...nap.
 
  • #33
Lisa! said:
Do people who have a lot to do but aren't in the mood to do anything, qualify to post here?:shy:


I guess slacking is a form of boredom.:smile:
 
  • #34
moe darklight said:
daamn. ... 's'about to get real up in this bizznatch.

Daz wut I'm sayin'! He's betta watch wut he says den!
 
  • #35
hypatia said:
I hope so Lisa, cause I have a million things to do. And have pretty much decided not to do anything.
We're having a Evo day, rain and gloominess has chased away all my fluffy snow. Fog is starting to creep in...and all I want to do is ...nap.

I have an exam on Thursday and I have to reread my notes, but I don't feel like doing that!:biggrin: And I am not going to do anything else since I have an exam.
 
  • #36
wolram said:
I guess slacking is a form of boredom.:smile:

That's a relief!:smile:
 
  • #37
Math Is Hard said:
I'm by the water. It's way colder here!

I call shenanigans. Weather reports put the nightime lows as five degrees colder in the valley than on the coast.
 
  • #38
I guess i can be classed as a mega slacker ,i have about an hours worth of house work per day and that is it.
Tomorrow is marbles day, i may get a result, i just hope the white coated accountants have their figures right.
 
  • #39
I'll have to post here later. Right now I've got stuff to do.
 
  • #40
Redbelly98 said:
I'll have to post here later. Right now I've got stuff to do.

Clearly a lie, why else would you have posted it here?
 
  • #41
franznietzsche said:
It's good to know that professors have busy work too.

Yep, we have a LOT of it. Enjoy being a student while it lasts. :biggrin: Actually, most of the semester, I'm glad not to be a student anymore. But, during final exams, it sure would be easier to just show up and take an exam than to have to do all the grading afterward. One more glass of wine and I'll be ready to tackle the 120 practical exams I have to grade tonight. If they would just get all the answers right, this would be so much easier. :rolleyes:

But, I survived my first semester of full-time teaching! I'm still alive, all four exams I had to give today (all at the same time) are done, and none of the students have decided to slash my tires. I think it was a success! :biggrin: :smile:
 
  • #42
Moonbear said:
Yep, we have a LOT of it. Enjoy being a student while it lasts. :biggrin: Actually, most of the semester, I'm glad not to be a student anymore. But, during final exams, it sure would be easier to just show up and take an exam than to have to do all the grading afterward. One more glass of wine and I'll be ready to tackle the 120 practical exams I have to grade tonight. If they would just get all the answers right, this would be so much easier. :rolleyes:

But, I survived my first semester of full-time teaching! I'm still alive, all four exams I had to give today (all at the same time) are done, and none of the students have decided to slash my tires. I think it was a success! :biggrin: :smile:

Well, seeing as I'll never be a professor, I think I'm safe.

This was your first semester full time teaching? I thought you had been teaching premeds for a while?
 
  • #43
Lisa! said:
Do people who have a lot to do but aren't in the mood to do anything, qualify to post here?:shy:

I hope so, because that's why I"m here right now. :biggrin:
 
  • #44
franznietzsche said:
This was your first semester full time teaching? I thought you had been teaching premeds for a while?

Not full time before. I was previously doing research the rest of the time. Actually, I think this semester was a bit more than full time teaching. You disappeared for a while...I moved departments and am doing considerably less research. Got tired of banging my head against the wall and praying for funding and opted for just teaching with a little collaborative research on the side. Compared to research, this semester has been a breeze, actually. Just this week has been hectic, because I was literally expected to be in four places at once today with exams for the courses I'm teaching ALL conflicting. And, of course with final exams looming, I couldn't so much as walk the three doors from my office to the bathroom without a student jumping out from a corner and asking me questions.

Next semester will feel quite easy by comparison...it's back to teaching the med students in the course I've been teaching all along, with plenty of time to work on other endeavors. I'm starting to write a textbook, for example. I have a pretty good outline worked out, and all of chapter 1. :rolleyes: It'll be nice to have some time to get back to it in earnest. I want to offer as much of it as possible to my students next year as a supplement to their required text and see how they perceive it so I can edit accordingly.
 
  • #45
I just turned in my last paper. Now I have nothing to do. This feels very unnatural. I feel panicky. I need to sign up for something. I need a class. And some homeowrk. I need my inhaler.
 
  • #46
Moonbear said:
Not full time before. I was previously doing research the rest of the time. Actually, I think this semester was a bit more than full time teaching. You disappeared for a while...I moved departments and am doing considerably less research. Got tired of banging my head against the wall and praying for funding and opted for just teaching with a little collaborative research on the side. Compared to research, this semester has been a breeze, actually. Just this week has been hectic, because I was literally expected to be in four places at once today with exams for the courses I'm teaching ALL conflicting. And, of course with final exams looming, I couldn't so much as walk the three doors from my office to the bathroom without a student jumping out from a corner and asking me questions.

Next semester will feel quite easy by comparison...it's back to teaching the med students in the course I've been teaching all along, with plenty of time to work on other endeavors. I'm starting to write a textbook, for example. I have a pretty good outline worked out, and all of chapter 1. :rolleyes: It'll be nice to have some time to get back to it in earnest. I want to offer as much of it as possible to my students next year as a supplement to their required text and see how they perceive it so I can edit accordingly.

Writing textbooks and teaching? Gah.
 
  • #47
franznietzsche said:
Clearly a lie, why else would you have posted it here?

This sentence is a lie as well.
 
  • #48
wolram said:
I can not run across the frog and toad, my minced pies do not use infrared and it is like a coal hole out there.

tiny-tim said:
Cor, strike a light (then)! :biggrin:

wolram said:
Even that was a problem, i only had fork handles and they were down to the last half inch.

tiny-tim said:
Did you half-inch 'em? :eek:

Perhaps I should send the bill round … that would turn on the heat! :smile:

wolram said:
Hey, i aint no tea leaf, and you can keep plod of my turf.

Briticisms are running amok! :smile:
 
  • #49
Ever watched "braveheart". Dem's my legs.
 
  • #50
You can always google the 1 man 1 jar video.
 
  • #51
Math Is Hard said:
I just turned in my last paper. Now I have nothing to do. This feels very unnatural. I feel panicky. I need to sign up for something. I need a class. And some homeowrk. I need my inhaler.

That's a normal reaction. Take two red bulls and call me in the morning.
 
  • #52
Moonbear said:
I hope so, because that's why I"m here right now. :biggrin:
:biggrin:
It seems like only busy people get bored!
 
  • #53
Redbelly98 said:
Briticisms are running amok! :smile:

Don'ta mok wot you don'ta understand! :biggrin:
 
  • #54
So far no one has come up with (there is all ways some thing to do), as one of my ex bosses used to say, this is when i made a waste rag container that resembled a coal scuttle, not very practicle says my boss--------------.
 
  • #55
Lisa! said:
:biggrin:
It seems like only busy people get bored!

No, only bored people feel busy.
 
  • #56
wolram said:
So far no one has come up with (there is all ways some thing to do), as one of my ex bosses used to say, this is when i made a waste rag container that resembled a coal scuttle, not very practicle says my boss--------------.

hmmm...sure, there is! For example you can start a thread like this or maybe posting in GD:biggrin:
 
  • #57
franznietzsche said:
No, only bored people feel busy.
:smile:
I choose you as the philosophy guru!
 
  • #58
Lisa! said:
:smile:
I choose you as the philosophy guru!

I guess that settles it: Nietzsche really was a great philosopher :rolleyes:
 
  • #59
wolram said:
So far no one has come up with (there is all ways some thing to do), as one of my ex bosses used to say, this is when i made a waste rag container that resembled a coal scuttle, not very practicle says my boss--------------.

I have no idea what that sentence means. It defies all of my linguistic comprehension (which is admittedly fairly poor to begin with).
 
  • #60
franznietzsche said:
No, only bored people feel busy.

Lisa! said:
:smile:
I choose you as the philosophy guru!

:smile: When I read Franz's comment there, I thought the same thing...we might have to toss him into the philosophy forum if he keeps saying stuff like that.

I know how MIH feels. It's really weird to go from working really hard to suddenly having free time again, and trying to remember how one uses it. :biggrin: I couldn't quite kick the habit, myself. I graded the half of the exams I was supposed to do last night (the other instructor in the course and I usually share the grading, so I grade half the questions then hand them over and she grades the other half just so neither of us has to suffer through all of them). But, apparently that glass of wine I had really did help the students grades (or maybe I finally scared them into studying harder by telling them this was going to be the hardest exam of the year o:) ), and then realized it wasn't as painful as usual. Even the students who are failing made life easy by just going through the motions and not really trying so left lots of blank answers that are easy to grade instead of trying to decipher their bizarre guesses. So, I went ahead and graded the rest of them last night. :bugeye: An early Christmas present for my coworker. :biggrin:
 

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