The Day from Someplace Unpleasant
Apr. 28th, 2005 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotusbiosmOK, so the major disadvantage to having all of your classes be on the same day is having all your presentations on the last day. The Museum Admin one was the worst, b/c I was up late the night before printing out the paper (and I ran out of paper, though last night while lying in bed it occured to me that I might have more elsewhere, which is good), which was 79 pages, plus a couple supplemental things. Then I had to get up, go to my Archaeology lecture, which often makes me want to *headdesk*, because he asks the simplest questions, over and over again and none of the undergrads will answer, or it takes them forever. And I don't know if that's because they don't know, or because they're still asleeep, or they all want someone else to answer. But it's frustrating, because as a grad student, I don't want to answer too many questions, but I hate sitting in silence for 30 seconds while the professor looks desperate and despairs that his students seem not to be learning anything.
Then I went to the computer lab to print out the pages that I hadn't printed out before, and then I went to Archaeology discussion. Where, fortunately, I didn't have to discuss my final paper, on which I have made no progress. It's 12-15 pages, but I think I can fill at least 5 on methods alone. It's on the history of food, and how and when we started processing it, because I'm intrigued by the fact that we eat food that we can't eat raw (and I don't just mean uncooked, I mean unground and such). But then I came out to find a voicemail informing me that the Powerpoint I'd sent hadn't gone through (which didn't suprise me, as the file is big enough to destroy Tokyo), and so I needed to go and print out the slides on the color laser jet on campus. No big, right? Thank the heavens for gmail, which has more storage space than the Vatican, and had the file in my sent items. I printed, and oh, everything was going well, except that it refused to print one of the slides. I managed to print the slides before and after, but it flat out would not print that one page. Finally, I saved it and the two others that were missing as jpegs and printed them out that way, because I am a computer goddess and all should worship me (also for my ability to use the {printscreen} screencap function to copy an excel graph that didn't want to copy and then crop it down so it just looked like I'd done it right). Which meant, though, that I didn't have lunch.
Then checked some email, had some food, and then off to Anthropology in the Museum, where the final deadline was extended and I did a presentation. Got to use the laser pointer, the prof looked pleased that I'd found new stuff, and impressed that they didn't have to wait for my computer. She made the two of us who'd brought our own laptops go last, but I had the presentation cued up before I even got to the desk so just had to attach the cable and was good to go. I am nifty.
Then I took the bus home (it was a lovely night, so I wanted to sit outside and wait for the bus rather than in the Metro station). I was on a great combo adreanaline crash/sugar high, which was fun. Then I got into bed, watched Jack & Bobby, and went to sleep. I brought my tiny purse to work today because of the heaviness of carrying both my laptop and my big purse complete w/ notebook and papers around all day yesterday. Tis nice. I think I shall stop by the liquor store on the way home today and buy a bottle of wine, as I'm out. After all the papers are in (due next Friday), my admin group members and I are totally going out for a drink. Or several. And then just have to take the Arch final/qualifying exam1 and I'm done. Just work and internship and cleaning my room/packing stuff for when I get to move. And Gabe comes home the same day as the exam, which is really rather good timing, I think.
1. Rather than the Comprehensive Exam that Museum Studies and many other programs have, Anthropology has Qualifying exams. If you pass, you officially know the subject matter, and have fullfilled the requirement. If not, Woe Unto You. I've already passed the Socio-cultural one, and so when I finish with this, I'll have taken my two required Proseminars, and just have to take Anthro electives. And will only have to take the MSTD comp, and not the MSTD plus an academic.
Then I went to the computer lab to print out the pages that I hadn't printed out before, and then I went to Archaeology discussion. Where, fortunately, I didn't have to discuss my final paper, on which I have made no progress. It's 12-15 pages, but I think I can fill at least 5 on methods alone. It's on the history of food, and how and when we started processing it, because I'm intrigued by the fact that we eat food that we can't eat raw (and I don't just mean uncooked, I mean unground and such). But then I came out to find a voicemail informing me that the Powerpoint I'd sent hadn't gone through (which didn't suprise me, as the file is big enough to destroy Tokyo), and so I needed to go and print out the slides on the color laser jet on campus. No big, right? Thank the heavens for gmail, which has more storage space than the Vatican, and had the file in my sent items. I printed, and oh, everything was going well, except that it refused to print one of the slides. I managed to print the slides before and after, but it flat out would not print that one page. Finally, I saved it and the two others that were missing as jpegs and printed them out that way, because I am a computer goddess and all should worship me (also for my ability to use the {printscreen} screencap function to copy an excel graph that didn't want to copy and then crop it down so it just looked like I'd done it right). Which meant, though, that I didn't have lunch.
Then checked some email, had some food, and then off to Anthropology in the Museum, where the final deadline was extended and I did a presentation. Got to use the laser pointer, the prof looked pleased that I'd found new stuff, and impressed that they didn't have to wait for my computer. She made the two of us who'd brought our own laptops go last, but I had the presentation cued up before I even got to the desk so just had to attach the cable and was good to go. I am nifty.
Then I took the bus home (it was a lovely night, so I wanted to sit outside and wait for the bus rather than in the Metro station). I was on a great combo adreanaline crash/sugar high, which was fun. Then I got into bed, watched Jack & Bobby, and went to sleep. I brought my tiny purse to work today because of the heaviness of carrying both my laptop and my big purse complete w/ notebook and papers around all day yesterday. Tis nice. I think I shall stop by the liquor store on the way home today and buy a bottle of wine, as I'm out. After all the papers are in (due next Friday), my admin group members and I are totally going out for a drink. Or several. And then just have to take the Arch final/qualifying exam1 and I'm done. Just work and internship and cleaning my room/packing stuff for when I get to move. And Gabe comes home the same day as the exam, which is really rather good timing, I think.
1. Rather than the Comprehensive Exam that Museum Studies and many other programs have, Anthropology has Qualifying exams. If you pass, you officially know the subject matter, and have fullfilled the requirement. If not, Woe Unto You. I've already passed the Socio-cultural one, and so when I finish with this, I'll have taken my two required Proseminars, and just have to take Anthro electives. And will only have to take the MSTD comp, and not the MSTD plus an academic.
