January 2011
38 posts
“wait, what’s happening in egypt? i always just tell my friends that if...”
– a rather high up professor at uc
in this same class today, i had someone tell me that there is obviously no longer a gender gap, and someone else argue shortly thereafter that everyone has equal access to nutritious food in the united states. after all, there’s a kroger in otr.
in other...
“i hit the yahtzee this morning and got a spot with a faulty meter!”
– john redford, the best conversationalist of the geography undergrads, on paying for parking
“i’m gonna go home and make a sandwich before my bread expires”
– girl sitting near me in a lecture
that bread, soon as it hits the date printed on the package, worthless
if anyone is ever recording you for an interview, it is exceptionally helpful not to solely use gestures as answers.
conversely, if you ever are interviewing someone and recording them for later review, it would be pretty wise to interpret these gestures verbally as they occur.
transcription seems an odder job every day.
“it’s negative nine degrees and it isn’t so bad”
– my sister emily, on visiting the university of minnesota
crazy and also exciting for her to be visiting colleges at last. also, -9 degrees is cold.
interviewer: can you, in a sentence or two, describe (something about the work environment involved in being a medical assistant) … ?
respondent: (19 lines of small-face text later, including discussion of such things as shopping and movies and weekend trips and psychological theories on certain office members) … and, i’m just ramblin’ …
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this is what...
"intro to sustaining the urban environment"
a great academic environment for entering an intense class debate about the details of china’s one-child policy, as a member of the class who is from china sits there, completely bemused.
oddly enough, she seemed to have some more informed things to say about the topic when acknowledged.
and so go most discussions on “sustainability” at uc: heated arguments amongst a bunch of...
Sold
Mom: are you coming home this weekend?
Me: I haven’t decided yet..
Mom: I am making your bed up and making cookies and all of your favorite foods and lining your pillows with ten dollar bills
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pretty close to my trips home, and the communication before them.
medical transcription brings with it an advanced overwhelming inability to handle people who talk really, really quickly.
Udo quote of the (other) day.
adaptivity:
“Well, people didn’t want to pay taxes, so there was no fire department. Eventually, too many buildings burned down to dismiss the problem and a fire department was created. Today, we don’t want to pay taxes, so we are cutting the fire department [Cincinnati is closing several stations within city limits this year], which you know I think is fine, because it’s better for business....
“most doctoral dissertations remain unpublished, which may on the whole be a good...”
– l.s. bourne: “on writing and publishing in human geography”
well, if that’s not inspiring, i don’t know what is
npr first listen: kiss each other clean →
i believe i can happily admit i was unduly concerned about new iron and wine. definitely a little jazzier than i was entirely prepared for, but still good.
listen at least somewhere around minute 48 to hear an excellent description of who lazarus was in the bible.
“Is it not a startling circumstance, for one thing, that the great discoveries of...”
– woodrow wilson, address at the peace conference in paris following world war one, in support of a league of nations
winter quarter?
well. guess i should start reading, then.
kurosua asked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs66ORnV5jU&feature=player_embedded
do you realize that girls are wearing a lot more boots these days?
yes i do, and i like it. especially like brown or black ones, or those taller ones. those are hot.
i don’t usually really like boots, but i saw this one girl, and she actually looked really nice.
yeah? boots have really exploded in the past year or something.
i think i’d like to go to texas and see girls wearing...
(nickol)-eptic
(which i confess to having mentioned/explained before) is simply a reference to my narcoleptic tendencies
more specifically, my ability to fall asleep within an instant while sitting in a class, watching a movie, writing, reading, working at a computer, or doing any other such things
i used to think that this experience was simply due to my hardly sleeping at all during the night
but now i do...
