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trinityvixenWhat is it about starting school that leaves me so wiped out? Is it the fact that I'm a decade older than everyone in class with me? That I will be expected to work with teenagers for roughly 30% of my grade in a fucking lecture class? I could not be less enthused by this prospect, especially since, when I attempted to beg off group work by going "I work, and I'm not around a lot, and I don't want to inconvenience these college kids with their free time" the professor was like "I bet most groups will work at night! Try making friends in class!"
Yes. Because what I reeeeeeally want to do is be that person who wanders up to random people in class and begs them to let me work with them. So instead of just waiting around to be the last kid picked for kickball, I can be the one that runs up to the cool kids, sidles in after some punchline laughing my ass off and hoping everyone thought I was there the whole time and will be friends with me. Sigh. Maybe if I meet a nice lab partner today who's also in the class, I can suggest we work there, too, as well.
In general, however? I am mortally opposed to group work. Leaving my academic success in the hands of others is an anathema to me. I was always that kid (as I suspect most of my friends reading this were) who did all the group's work to avoid letting anyone else screw it up. I can recall all of one time in my life (in high school) where I managed to meet someone as determined to do the work of the group herself, and thank god we were in a group together. That's what the criterion for selecting should be--are you paranoid enough about grades to do the work of three people? Good, I have someone you should meet!
Also, I saw 9 last night after giving blood, which might explain some of the physical and mental exhaustion. Blood donation was fine, but I was already tired from not sleeping well the night before and I get cranky when they insist on taking blood from my right arm. (I need that for stuff!) Not to mention that something broke with the tubing so the guy splattered my blood on the floor after he finished filling up the test tubes. (I'm fine! Nothing went wrong with the blood bag itself, just the other half of the Y-junction tubing where they collect a smaller pouch of blood for tests.) That was just gross and grossly wasteful. I also wasn't pleased that he ignored my request to have tourniquet loosened. (Had to do it myself.) I need to figure out the right place to donate blood at this hospital. It's too easy for them to get distracted when I go in the large building.
As for 9, meh. Fine to look at, but it was painful to think about for even a few minutes. It felt inordinately long at about 80 minutes, and it had neither the plot nor the characterization to carry it even if it had been 40 minutes. I wasn't terribly excited by it, so I'm not disappointed, just annoyed that it turned out so poorly when it could have been cool. I'm always irritated when people set up awesome things that just don't materialize into anything coherently interesting.
Thank God for Beatles Rock Band, though. That shit is gorgeous. I'm with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moonlightalice, though: I really want to watch the animations! When feiran stopped singing, you could see more of it, but you're so busy with the playing, you miss out. It boggles the mind, however, how many songs I can only vaguely recognize. I mean, this is The Beatles we're talking about. Not recognizing one of their songs is like not knowing which days of the week end in Y.
(Interesting note: in Hawai'ian, none of the days do! Hawai'ians don't believe in your crazy Ys. I know this because I bought my wall calendar--one of them--in Hawai'i and it has all the months/days in both English and Hawai'ian.)
Nonetheless, I look forward to playing around with the harmonized singing, though I know I'll be crap at it because I can never remember a specific part, especially not if it's a subtle one. I tend to go with whatever melody is dominant when I sing. Oh well. Half the fun is seeing stuff you didn't even recognize was there, like who plays what part in what song. I have never watched any Beatles films or filmed appearances, only ever listened to them, so I never really recognized which songs were sung by which person, or who took lead on which guitar part. I am not a Beatlemaniac either, so a lot of that stuff I wouldn't have investigated on my own regardless, but here it's presented to me with no research on my part necessary. I'm getting better, though, thanks to the dissertations of the Beatles cover band I follow as they do each individual song. Now Rock Band will help with that, too.
...I need to post more often because this became an info dump of exceedingly and unnecessarily prodigious length.
Yes. Because what I reeeeeeally want to do is be that person who wanders up to random people in class and begs them to let me work with them. So instead of just waiting around to be the last kid picked for kickball, I can be the one that runs up to the cool kids, sidles in after some punchline laughing my ass off and hoping everyone thought I was there the whole time and will be friends with me. Sigh. Maybe if I meet a nice lab partner today who's also in the class, I can suggest we work there, too, as well.
In general, however? I am mortally opposed to group work. Leaving my academic success in the hands of others is an anathema to me. I was always that kid (as I suspect most of my friends reading this were) who did all the group's work to avoid letting anyone else screw it up. I can recall all of one time in my life (in high school) where I managed to meet someone as determined to do the work of the group herself, and thank god we were in a group together. That's what the criterion for selecting should be--are you paranoid enough about grades to do the work of three people? Good, I have someone you should meet!
Also, I saw 9 last night after giving blood, which might explain some of the physical and mental exhaustion. Blood donation was fine, but I was already tired from not sleeping well the night before and I get cranky when they insist on taking blood from my right arm. (I need that for stuff!) Not to mention that something broke with the tubing so the guy splattered my blood on the floor after he finished filling up the test tubes. (I'm fine! Nothing went wrong with the blood bag itself, just the other half of the Y-junction tubing where they collect a smaller pouch of blood for tests.) That was just gross and grossly wasteful. I also wasn't pleased that he ignored my request to have tourniquet loosened. (Had to do it myself.) I need to figure out the right place to donate blood at this hospital. It's too easy for them to get distracted when I go in the large building.
As for 9, meh. Fine to look at, but it was painful to think about for even a few minutes. It felt inordinately long at about 80 minutes, and it had neither the plot nor the characterization to carry it even if it had been 40 minutes. I wasn't terribly excited by it, so I'm not disappointed, just annoyed that it turned out so poorly when it could have been cool. I'm always irritated when people set up awesome things that just don't materialize into anything coherently interesting.
Thank God for Beatles Rock Band, though. That shit is gorgeous. I'm with
moonlightalice, though: I really want to watch the animations! When feiran stopped singing, you could see more of it, but you're so busy with the playing, you miss out. It boggles the mind, however, how many songs I can only vaguely recognize. I mean, this is The Beatles we're talking about. Not recognizing one of their songs is like not knowing which days of the week end in Y.(Interesting note: in Hawai'ian, none of the days do! Hawai'ians don't believe in your crazy Ys. I know this because I bought my wall calendar--one of them--in Hawai'i and it has all the months/days in both English and Hawai'ian.)
Nonetheless, I look forward to playing around with the harmonized singing, though I know I'll be crap at it because I can never remember a specific part, especially not if it's a subtle one. I tend to go with whatever melody is dominant when I sing. Oh well. Half the fun is seeing stuff you didn't even recognize was there, like who plays what part in what song. I have never watched any Beatles films or filmed appearances, only ever listened to them, so I never really recognized which songs were sung by which person, or who took lead on which guitar part. I am not a Beatlemaniac either, so a lot of that stuff I wouldn't have investigated on my own regardless, but here it's presented to me with no research on my part necessary. I'm getting better, though, thanks to the dissertations of the Beatles cover band I follow as they do each individual song. Now Rock Band will help with that, too.
...I need to post more often because this became an info dump of exceedingly and unnecessarily prodigious length.
