You know, it takes a certain amount of moral fortitude — and/or twisted set of priorities — to be doing your exam (by yourself) in your lecturer’s office, he goes off for a meeting for an hour and a half, and instead of looking around into your notes, or even other people’s graded answers in his office (because you were suffering from meandering-itis[1] and thus is sitting for the same paper one week later) while you can.. all you do is stare longingly at the “Leica”:http://www.leica-camera.com/index_e.html boxes adorning his office. And when he returns, “Do you have any questions”, you say.. “Yes.. which Leica is that?”
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A $50 note dropped out of my pocket yesterday. It’s not _a whole lot_ of money, not enough to even pay for a camera I just sent in for a CLA(Cleaning Lubrication Adjustment), but I was visibly upset by it, which Z. couldn’t understand, and neither could I.
Until I figured out that in losing this, I had just lost.. almost _half_ of my airfare. Somehow, knowing that for the same amount for my camera CLA, I also managed to get myself to another country, makes me feel… like.. I hate all my classic cameras now.
***
Z. just gave a presentation on the challenges women face in the workplace. On International Women’s Day.
I accused her of being _so lesbian!_ She gave me a death stare.
fn1. Inflammation of the [...] brain and the spinal cord, most often caused by viral infections caught from school and muggers, and characterized by fever, vomiting, intense headache, and stiff neck, and the general sense of… floating and meandering. In other words, _sian_-ness.
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Getting Your Priorities Right
You know, it takes a certain amount of moral fortitude — and/or twisted set of priorities — to be doing your exam (by yourself) in your lecturer’s office, he goes off for a meeting for an hour and a half, and instead of looking around into your notes, or even other people’s graded answers in his office (because you were suffering from meandering-itis[1] and thus is sitting for the same paper one week later) while you can.. all you do is stare longingly at the “Leica”:http://www.leica-camera.com/index_e.html boxes adorning his office. And when he returns, “Do you have any questions”, you say.. “Yes.. which Leica is that?”
A $50 note dropped out of my pocket yesterday. It’s not _a whole lot_ of money, not enough to even pay for a camera I just sent in for a CLA(Cleaning Lubrication Adjustment), but I was visibly upset by it, which Z. couldn’t understand, and neither could I.
Until I figured out that in losing this, I had just lost.. almost _half_ of my airfare. Somehow, knowing that for the same amount for my camera CLA, I also managed to get myself to another country, makes me feel… like.. I hate all my classic cameras now.
Z. just gave a presentation on the challenges women face in the workplace. On International Women’s Day.
I accused her of being _so lesbian!_ She gave me a death stare.
fn1. Inflammation of the [...] brain and the spinal cord, most often caused by viral infections caught from school and muggers, and characterized by fever, vomiting, intense headache, and stiff neck, and the general sense of… floating and meandering. In other words, _sian_-ness.
possibly related
Twitter Updates for 2007-12-13 / Just to Clarify / Grad School Blues / Wardrobe Malfunction / And The Living is Easy /