I'm totally procrastinating by being here at DU. Are you?

DrZeeLit

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Wed Oct-27-04 03:56 PM
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I'm totally procrastinating by being here at DU. Are you?

What are you really supposed to be doing?

I've got papers to grade. Here they sit, in a pile.
Ugh!

Reading the lounge posts is keeping me sane.

Kerry On!

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Kelli372

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Wed Oct-27-04 03:57 PM
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1. I've got piles of filing to do....oh well

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Maat

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Wed Oct-27-04 03:57 PM
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2. I'm supposed to doing work, too.

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Q3JR4

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:07 PM
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8. Ditto.

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MissB

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Wed Oct-27-04 03:58 PM
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3. I'm supposed to be

sewing a halloween costume.

Sorting my 5-day pile of mail left from my vacation.

Laundry. Any takers?

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aePrime

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:00 PM
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4. I too am procrastinating

But I feel I deserve it. I just took a probability test that I've been studying for almost nightly for the past three weeks.

Our statistics department on campus has a policy of allowing a page of notes on the test. Sadly, this course is given through the math department. I had to memorize a bunch of pdfs and expected values, etc... .

But now I should be either reading for another test I have tomorrow, or reading some papers relating to my thesis.

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DrZeeLit

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:12 PM
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10. How much did you scrunch onto that one page of notes?

What size font? Did you use all the white space?
I would have squeezed every last drop of space if they let me take in notes!

I never had a math class after the basics -- until the dreaded statistics class in my doctoral program. HOLY S**T... I was up a creek without a paddle. Just happened that the prof was in LOVE with computers and let us do EXTRA CREDIT. Saved my patooty! Got out with an A- which for a doctoral class isn't considered that great but I could have kissed the ground.

Needless to say, my dissertation was not quantitative in nature. Ha ha.

Good luck on the exam!

Kerry ON!

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nikatnyte

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:01 PM
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5. My productivity will shoot up after Nov. 2

unless something (gasp) unexpected happens

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ogradda

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:02 PM
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6. should be studying here

grades have been slipping *sigh* got a lot of catch up to do after nov 2nd.

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The Great Deceiver

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:03 PM
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7. Sadly, I've made entire days of procrastinating here.

Thinking of ways I would explain it if my boss ever confronted me with it. Any ideas?

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DrZeeLit

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:46 PM
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16. Data retrieval?

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The Great Deceiver

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:56 PM
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20. That's a good one.

I just hope they're not monitoring my internet activity somehow.

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donheld

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:08 PM
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9. I'm on vacation

Really I don't have to do anything.

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bigwillq

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:18 PM
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11. Yes. I'm at work but woud rather spend the night

posting on DU.

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NoodleBoy

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:40 PM
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12. completely

should be studying for a history test (thursday) or a physics test (next Wednesday) or preparing a speech for my public speaking class (thursday) but instead I'm procrastinating with all of you fine folks.

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DrZeeLit

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:44 PM
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13. I have to teach a speech class in Spring. What's your textbook?

I am looking for a good book to order.
What do you think of yours?
Any other speech class pointers for me?
It's been a looooooong time since I taught a speech class.

(still procrastinating...with 4 papers to go)

And then, I have to grade some mid-terms.

Oi oi oi!

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NoodleBoy

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:50 PM
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18. we're using a small handbook that the teacher wrote and published herself

a really good thing she has us doing is bringing in tapes to tape ourselves while we speak in front of the class.

I'm looking to go into teaching History at college level, do you have any pointers for me? I'm a semester away from graduating community college with an Associates in General Studies.

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DrZeeLit

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:55 PM
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19. Tough gig if you want it full time.

One of the guys on my wing, a history adjunct, just received his doctorate, but he's still part time.

You need to get a doctorate from a good university or college in order to find a solid full time job as a professor.

Also, history is the one field where P.E. teachers seem to get classes to teach in high schools, so always decreases the chances that majors find full time positions even in high schools. BUT it can happen.

Join a history society (at a four year school) or group, and watch the job listings for information.

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flamingyouth

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:45 PM
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14. Yes. I need to study anatomy & physiology

It's very complicated and I'm feeling somewhat overwhelmed. :(

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bloodyjack

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:46 PM
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15. You've got papers to grade

and coincidentally, I've got a paper to write!

Funny, isn't it. Not funny-ha-ha but funny-hmm.

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DrZeeLit

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Wed Oct-27-04 05:06 PM
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21. What do you have to write? I'm grading Problem/Solution papers.

I'm down to the ones that really suck.
Hate to say it.
My students are not "getting" citation.
URGH!

Oh well, tomorrow is another day.

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bloodyjack

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Wed Oct-27-04 05:21 PM
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23. Lab write-up for microbiol

Eight thrilling pages about Shigella flexneri. Greatest fun that ever was.

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DrZeeLit

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Wed Oct-27-04 05:28 PM
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25. Shigella? Isn't that a type of food poisoning? If so...

... I had it once. YECK! That was awful! I was so sick they had to wheel me into the emergency room on a gurney. I wouldn't wish that on... well, there would be a few people...but mostly not.

If this is not what you are studying... .NEVERMIND....

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bloodyjack

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Wed Oct-27-04 05:55 PM
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27. correctamundo

causes dysentery :D

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indigobusiness

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Wed Oct-27-04 04:47 PM
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17. Picked a watermelon, homegrown, must chill...ergo.

Edited on Wed Oct-27-04 04:47 PM by indigobusiness

Still have peppers, tomatoes, and a single kamikaze watermelon vine has taken over the upper lawn. Four melons remain and I'm already mourning their passing.

It is what it is, but the watermelon patch story from 'Suttree' was the funniest ever. Anybody have any similar notions about my melons and I'll lock their thread, permanently.

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DrZeeLit

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Wed Oct-27-04 05:09 PM
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22. Nobody touch that melon!

I'm having fun with this thread and don't want it locked.

Wow! You are still growing fruit and veggies? Tonight it's going to frost (think for the first time) and I fear I will finally lose my hearty geraniums. Otherwise, the squash and tomatoes were finito long ago. Short growing season in Vermont.

I could use some melon! Yum!

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indigobusiness

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Wed Oct-27-04 05:44 PM
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26. "them melons" not "that melon"...Puhleeeze Professor, there are four.

Edited on Wed Oct-27-04 05:45 PM by indigobusiness

Actually five, counting the one being chilled, and THEY are out of this world. The tomatoes and peppers are typical in their fantasticness, but the melon vine is a monstrosity, prolific beyond all reason, and the melons give you a quasi-illegal buzz. Never seen the like.

I am willing to share.

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DrZeeLit

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Wed Oct-27-04 06:16 PM
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28. It would be THOSE melons. And fresh fruit ...

...sounds out-of-this-world. A melon is a fruit, is it not?

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indigobusiness

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Wed Oct-27-04 06:27 PM
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30. "dem bones, dem bones" would be

Edited on Wed Oct-27-04 07:19 PM by indigobusiness

"dose bones, dose bones"?

A melon is possibly a berry, as is a tomato.

edit- Oh those hyphenated phrases...whats the rule on THAT. I'm fairly cliche' ridden. Must know.

I take the berry comment back. The rind of melons is very unberry-like.

disclaimer: Not meant in any bigoted way whatsoever. Forgive me for I know not what I say.

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SmileyBoy

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Wed Oct-27-04 05:23 PM
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24. I'm supposed to be doing 15 sketches and studying for a test.

I need to do both tonight. Unfortunately I have an AIAS meeting in about 10 minutes, so I won't be able to start until 9pm or so.

I'm a night owl anyway.

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SarahB

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Wed Oct-27-04 06:21 PM
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29. dishes

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AlFrankenFan

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Wed Oct-27-04 06:32 PM
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31. I am supposed to be doing homework

Reading some of "The Odyssey", and then drawing a gray fox and an eagle to put on a poster for class tomorrow.

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