Monday… all day long

Well, I got up this morning to finish up homework for Japanese… it’s amazing how you can go from not caring about what your handwriting looks like to going stroke-by-stroke on letters and feeling like you’re two again. Why won’t my pencil just do what I want it to? Oh well… it’ll get better, I hope, or I’ll have the worst handwriting in the class. I guess that wouldn’t be all that different from any of my other classes, would it? Maybe I should be a doctor.

My Stats prof has this exceedingly annoying habit of calling everything a “guy”. “As you can see, this guy here and this guy look exactly the same.” Thank god we don’t have any blind people in the class, or they’d have a really difficult time trying to figure out what exactly the Excel and Minitab programs are supposed to be creating. What’s possibly worse is that we spent an entire 50 minute, 200 level, college class learning how to calculate — you guessed it — mean, median and mode. You’ve got to be kidding me. Did I just go to an exceptional grade school, or did everyone learn this stuff there? Granted, he did also show us how to calculate them in two different software programs… but goodness, if people can’t use Excel they shouldn’t be in any form of engineering, period.

I’ve also been reading the Crimson White recently, and there seems to be a big fuss about the repainting of the front door of a dorm. Lets first start by saying that this is Mallett. For those of you non-UA folks, by and large the Malletteers are just weird. They like getting their panties in a wad about anything they can, and they really take themselves WAY too seriously. Next let me mention that they had painted their entry-way as follows: The doorframe was white (it’s a large door frame, and includes windows on either side of the door). The door was blue. Not off-blue, not pastel blue, not periwinkle… I mean BLUE. And, of course, the white door frame was flanked by red lights. The end result was slightly patriotic, but excessively gaudy. Now they’re all up in arms because the University decided that the combination was ugly as sin and repainted the door white and took the red lights down. Now they’re complaining about conformity, patriotism, and any other BS argument they can come up with. One point they seem to be missing: the university OWNS THE DOOR. Personally, I don’t think they should even have to give an explanation about it. I think “Yep, it’s our door, and we want it to be white now” should be perfectly sufficient. That’s ok… Mallett will be Mallett and, henceforth, their door will be white. Thank goodness for that, too.

In [Circle K] news, the Alabama District this year seems to pride itself on making as many mistakes as humanly possible… and then making a few more. Individually I’m sure they have the talent to get stuff done… but they’ve been in office for almost five months, and we’ve yet to see any sort of success story from the board. Some of the individuals have made some good efforts, but the team output is just poor.

Oh well, more later… maybe.