Good old narratives
Oct. 25th, 2003 09:05 pmExcept, unfortunately, they're neither good nor old.
The good news is that I am, so far, getting a B in History. That won't make it any easier to do all these assignments, though. Unsurprisingly, I got a "has not completed one or more assignments" in several classes; I'm surprised I got one in Chem, though. I don't recall any missing homework there.
The bad news is that I am performing "in the low C range" in PCS. Huh? I was *sure* I was doing better than that. I did pretty well on my nervous system paper, and on the multiple-choice part of the PPAO, or at least I assume so, and on my second current event, and I can't have done too badly on my third, and honestly the fact that I haven't yet actually handed in my *first* current event isn't significant enough to cause *that*. So apparently I totally bombed the essay part of the PPAO, then. I don't know how. I mean, I can see having done badly on it, for reasons I've describe earlier, but enough to bring my grade that low? Hm.
The other good news is that, surprisingly, my parents didn't rant at me that long upon seeing the bad narratives. Hm.
In other news...
At dinner tonight: (approximate)
Mom: ...and I asked him, what are you looking for? And he said, "I'm looking for one of my wives." So I asked, "How many do you have?" and he said three, why, don't you? And I just said, no, only one...
Dad: That's pretty weird...
Me: Um, mom, I don't think you have *any* wives.
So, yesterday, since we're starting magnetism, Mr. Liva passed around a little construction with magnet in it and some iron filings, to demonstrate the magnetic field. And, while it was getting passed around, told our class that it was a cow magnet. "It attract cows?" Well, no. Apparently, cows, not being very smart, have a tendency to eat random bits of metal. Now, you don't want this going through the smaller parts of their digestive tract, it could damage it. So what they do is they feed the cows cow magnets, which are magnets which they somehow get to stay in the cow's stomach. (He never really did explain how that worked...) But the idea is that this magnet attracts any metal the cow may eat and thus keeps it in the cow's stomach rather than letting it continue through the cow's digestive tract. And when the cow is killed, the cow magnet is simply recycled. And, apparently, magnets that you get from scientific catalogs are usually made from old cow magnets. As soon as he explained this the person holding the magnet dropped it, and the whole table went "Ewwwww!" Hehe.
-Sniffnoy
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Life is a shopping bag that checks your spelling, is laced with
vodka and glows with an eerie green light.
The good news is that I am, so far, getting a B in History. That won't make it any easier to do all these assignments, though. Unsurprisingly, I got a "has not completed one or more assignments" in several classes; I'm surprised I got one in Chem, though. I don't recall any missing homework there.
The bad news is that I am performing "in the low C range" in PCS. Huh? I was *sure* I was doing better than that. I did pretty well on my nervous system paper, and on the multiple-choice part of the PPAO, or at least I assume so, and on my second current event, and I can't have done too badly on my third, and honestly the fact that I haven't yet actually handed in my *first* current event isn't significant enough to cause *that*. So apparently I totally bombed the essay part of the PPAO, then. I don't know how. I mean, I can see having done badly on it, for reasons I've describe earlier, but enough to bring my grade that low? Hm.
The other good news is that, surprisingly, my parents didn't rant at me that long upon seeing the bad narratives. Hm.
In other news...
At dinner tonight: (approximate)
Mom: ...and I asked him, what are you looking for? And he said, "I'm looking for one of my wives." So I asked, "How many do you have?" and he said three, why, don't you? And I just said, no, only one...
Dad: That's pretty weird...
Me: Um, mom, I don't think you have *any* wives.
So, yesterday, since we're starting magnetism, Mr. Liva passed around a little construction with magnet in it and some iron filings, to demonstrate the magnetic field. And, while it was getting passed around, told our class that it was a cow magnet. "It attract cows?" Well, no. Apparently, cows, not being very smart, have a tendency to eat random bits of metal. Now, you don't want this going through the smaller parts of their digestive tract, it could damage it. So what they do is they feed the cows cow magnets, which are magnets which they somehow get to stay in the cow's stomach. (He never really did explain how that worked...) But the idea is that this magnet attracts any metal the cow may eat and thus keeps it in the cow's stomach rather than letting it continue through the cow's digestive tract. And when the cow is killed, the cow magnet is simply recycled. And, apparently, magnets that you get from scientific catalogs are usually made from old cow magnets. As soon as he explained this the person holding the magnet dropped it, and the whole table went "Ewwwww!" Hehe.
-Sniffnoy
--
Life is a shopping bag that checks your spelling, is laced with
vodka and glows with an eerie green light.
