first, I’d like to remind people there is still a debate raging on the comments on the blog below this one, but I felt like writing…
I have been in such an odd mood today. I think I have told off at least one person in every major thing I’ve done today. Went to class… prof didn’t show up, so I got to rant about that. Then wrote my “if you have to get a supervisor to translate “no pickles, no onions” then … get out of my way” comment… The went to my TA class and told off several people for talking during class… yelled at some people for looking like they were cheating… graded papers, yelled at the scantron machine and then emailed the comments to random person in charge… went to group meeting… yelled at the guy who didn’t show up (he was up all last night… so I called him at home, woke him up, and yelled at him… didn’t really mean to, but oh well)… got home… went to observing session.. yelled to lead TA about other TA not showing up… went to store… took 30 minutes to buy a loaf of bread and a bag of candy.. got into a fight with the manager of said candy… told him he should look into the newly invented concept of common sense… came home.. had an email from one of the people in the group meeting telling me that I should read her emails so I’d be better prepared. (I intentially ditched her email telling me how to do my homework her way), so this is what I replied to her:
“I actually think your premade list was a bad idea. Sure, it may not always be the case, but if you have a complete, ready-made list in front of you, why bother thinking? Just scratching off what doesn’t apply doesn’t mean you will get everything that does apply. Sure, it takes a little longer to compile the final list, but it forces creative and original thought. Plus, like I said in the meeting, Dr. —– is looking for creativity in the trade variables… If we have word for word what was in another paper, then we really didn’t do anything. That’s why I kept trying to steer away from that paper in the meeting.”
then, I got an email reminding me that I’m invited to a formal lunch with a committee to discuss the graduate school… and I replied by saying:
“excuse me for being direct, but this lunch isn’t just a butt-kissing luncheon is it? I find that my opinions tend to express views other than we live in a peachy-keen department and for the most part, I always get told to shut up before someone important hears me… anyway, it’s just important to know so that if someone expects me to sing the praises of the department they can just buy me a sammich and send me packing.”
and finally, I got an email yelling at me because I’m one of three people in the department who have not switched to secure shell logins to telnet and ftp… so, with my momentum going, I wrote a long retort back to them… this is the conclusion to a masterpiece of an email:
“in short… You are not “protecting” me… you’re harrassing me and inconveniencing me. you are forcing your insecurities and paranoia on me… I find it to be offensive…
but, as I knew before I started writing this email, I am but one informed engineer in a sea of uninformed ITS drones. I’m sure this email will be deleted before the reader even gets to this point… which means I’m talking to myself… hmm… at least I’m not paranoid.”
so I’m expecting to come under attack from ITS tomorrow… should be fun… bring it….
maybe I’ll be in a better mood tomorrow… shame, though… being eVil is fun.. .
oh, and as an after thought, one of my roomies just asked the other how our landlords got enough money to go on vacation for 6 months out of the year… without thinking I screamed out “by raping poor college kids of their hard earned money”… I am in such a mood…. I need to find more people to go off on…