Marbles in the Mouth

To end technical writing, we have to give an oral report. I think the assumption is that it is on our thesis / dissertation research or the project for the class, though this is not a stated requirement. Tonight were the first 4. Lee likes the analogy that the class in general is like showering in stupid, and I'm going to have to support him on this. While none of the presentations were bad, a couple would have benefitted from the presenters realizing that we don't care. Tim and Will both realized that no one was going to pay attention of their own free will, and inserted interesting things into their presentations (Transformers - awesome!). D-Train and Little Oprah seemed to think anyone in the room would (a) care and (b) have a doctoral level background in the subject. What should have been a half-hour class became an hour and a half class. I really hate that class. (My presentation is next week.)

I have class tomorrow morning. Why? To make up a class we haven't missed yet and that we already made up, two weeks ago. This is known as Boris logic. I don't want to go, and I could watch the video, but since I wouldn't, I have to. Why do I actually have to be a good student? Why?

Oh, in technical writing, I corrected everyone's grammar mistakes. Problems included, "like" vs. "such as," "til" vs. "until," and "who" vs. "that." I screw some of those up, too, but I got them right tonight. I also gave an angel its wings during heat transfer. I try to help out with the angels around Christmas. More tomorrow.