Who the hell aims for a 70 on their final? Or on any test?

Oh, hai. Like, take statistics as an example. It's very frustrating for me, and it's not like I'm not spending hours every week trying to solve the fraking questions.

Actually, it'll be more accurate to say that it's not that I'm aiming for 70 - I'm aiming and wishfully wanting it to be a 100 - but I'm realistic enough to hope for 70. Which is also the grade I have to get to pass this class.

Anyway, what I wanted to say, Hil, is that yes, this isn't fair - but who says life is? It's like astronaut vs. caveman - we're all cheering for astronaut, but it's the caveman that wins. Fair? No. According to everything, we should have made a progress. But that's (the imagined) reality. Though I liked the other offer about giving him few extra problems, too, but that's the humanitarian in me.

With the big Gala happening Saturday

EAT CHOCOLATE

In light of our discussion about bad driving in DC and Miami TV, I'm crossposting this rant from Procedurals (which DC folk will appreciate) - Okay, Criminal Minds is driving me nuts. First, they're supposed to be in the "Washington transit system", the trains are CLEARLY New York-- dual tracked, which if we had that here, we'd have far fewer delays. Second, they walk past a sign that says "Subway"; we don't have a "subway", we have a "Metro", Third, the station was all tile, which is not the case for any DC station. Fourth, there are two employees from Ft. Deitrick wearing their badges while they ride the train. No! everyone who works in a sensitive location in DC is instructed to remove their badges when they leave the building, security reminds them. Fifth, you can't really get to Ft. Deitrick with public transportation (and if you could, it wouldn't be on the green line!!!!).

Please, people! Do some fucking research!! I will give you 1, 2 4 and 5 as DC specific, but the Metro thing is BASIC.

Sigh. Confusing Girl is no longer confusing, just stupid and evil. She suddenly did an aboutface, after Friday being all nice and interested and saying she wanted to go out again...and told me (email) that she doesn't feel a "dating vibe" and just wants to see me around and dance. WTF? Grrr.

Okay, wierdness. I just tried to check Facebook and I got a 404 using my bookmark. I clicked again, and I got the developers page. Weird.

Shir, your extended metaphors continue to be very cool. Continuing good luck to you with statistics. I am so very glad that I've mostly avoided stats so far in my short academic career. I expect to have to come face-to-face with them at some point. I am scared.

meara, ick - sorry about Confusing Girl. Girls are frustrating. There's a long story about the most frustrating one I ever knew, that ends with us currently being engaged. Sometimes they come round and realise they're being stupid. I hope your one does.

So I'm going home to help The Girl pack. Which means I will mostly sit on the sofa and direct other people. "That goes there. No, there. No, THERE." I shall give the packing helpers pizza to make up for my inevitable grouchy-ness. Looking forward to moving into a flat that I can actually get my wheelchair around, though!

Well, Seska, this metaphor happens to be a Nilly metaphor. I mean, the idea that what's gonna happen in the A vs. C might is realistic, yet, not fair.

And, by mere coincidence, I'm have to read Rawls' "Justice as Fairness: A Restatement" for my next philosophy class.

Good luck with the moving and telling people what to do! I might not be in a wheelchair, but I find it hard to do sometimes, too.

I uninstalled kubuntu (LOVED it, but couldn't reason with it. 3 days after installing it and 9 hours into playing with features, I still couldn't find how to make computee accept Hebrew typing. Found Korean, though), and I'll try to install ubuntu, GNOME type next week instead. Because I hate working with the Vista, and I believe in the Open Source principles.

I'm have to read Rawls' "Justice as Fairness: A Restatement" for my next philosophy class.

Oh, I seriously have to read Rawls. He keeps being recommended, but I have so much on my reading lists (academic and fiction) that I haven't got round to it.

Ooh, but that reminds me - I should get an audiobook for the train home. I love Audible.

How tricky is working with platforms like ubuntu? Vista makes me crazy too, but I'm easily confused.

I find it hard to do sometimes, too.

I'm actually quite good at telling people what to do. It comes from several years of using personal support assistants. They get used to my grouchy-ness, too. (None of them has resigned yet, so I can't be *that* bad... Probably...)

Hil, I can't imagine any reason why this student should get a different grade, or the chance to retry.

Unless I misunderstand the situation, he's saying "Oh, I'd have tried harder if I knew I might not get the mark I wanted."

Sorry, that's bollocks. Surely to God you try your hardest, and if you don't, then you suck it up. Saying "Oh, I could have done better easily, but I actively decided to just aim for something less than my best, because I was under the impression that was all I needed to do" is...not so much a convincing kind of argument, imho.

How tricky is working with platforms like ubuntu? Vista makes me crazy too, but I'm easily confused.

Supposed to be easy peasy. It's a hell of a lot more friendly, and more like gaming and fun than programming (though I'm not sure I'm getting anywhere), and I'm known as a Computer Murderer by Mere Presence. They tend to die when I'm around them for too long.

I'm actually quite good at telling people what to do

... and you get them to listen to you, too? And do as they were told? And learn from past mistakes? Really?

People, I vote Seska to be the boss of us.

Right, time to go out and meet my unavoidable fate: statistics.