the initiative
I've got an interview with a Japanese student at 4PM and until then I must sit here, biding my time, with absolutely nothing to do. My Media Literacy professor was out sick again and yet again refused to cancel class. Instead, he left us a hand-out expecting everyone to stay and not only discuss our projects in groups but lead group discussions on the readings we were assigned. Now, we can't even accomplish this when he's THERE, mostly because he gets caught up on some tangent for 40 minutes, so how does he expect us to get fired up when he's GONE?

Of course, no one in the class took the initiative to lead the discussion. Even I abstained, first because I didn't care enough to shepherd the entire class toward a conversation they didn't want to have, second because I already talk enough in that class, and third, less than half the class had probably done the reading.

I thought high school was over 3-5 years ago, guys? This is a 400-level class and it's not that hard. I'm surrounded by morons.

I'm still ill and I have a very low tolerance for the general incompetence of people. I swear if the emeritus faculty member upstairs calls me one more time today for a lack of basic knowledge about his computer, I'll start to cry. IT'S NOT MY JOB TO HOLD YOUR HAND, BUDDY. I fix computers here, yes, but this is what we call a "user-end" problem. RFTM, kthx.

I want to crawl into another bath. That felt so nice and worked so well. Argh, only an hour and a half to go...