WTF (part 2)

A student email received by a TA friend:

"Quick question i know that we took notes in class on words and different things. there are certains that you gave us a more well to remebr definition should we know both of what the book says or is just knowing you gave us in class is good?"

Blew My Mind

Padma is married to Salman Rushdie?!*


Thank God, I watch VH1, otherwise I'd never had learned this tidbit.

Back to catching up on my history of Mexico!

* Oh, they divorced in 2007, but still...

Please

22 bucks for transcripts from one school with NO rush orders... please AND waiting in line for 45 min to place the order.

going to a state school is a great deal until you realize you'll pay out the nose for for every "extra."

WTF, NWR

I have been alternating between completing my thesis /working on applications to PhD programs and grading.

I am tired of writing the same comments on papers and trying to decipher whether, in any circumstance, x could be a valid answer.
What I really want to write on MOST of the papers is WTF, NWR (What the Fuck, Not Worth Reading).

I figure these abbreviations are perhaps more beneficial than my 1/2 page of suggestions on how to improve one's writing. Based on the redundancy of mistakes, no one is bothering to read those.

WTF Moments

1. I spent Saturday night at a party where (1) I was the oldest person, (2) I was asked if I would buy a bra used, (3) an inebriated young woman talked to me about the various uses of POOP, and (4) I was called the matriarch of the party.
Also a law student there felt inclined to tell me that he hates cats once he found out I had one. I replied that I hated lawyers.

2. Today at the grocery I realized Jeff Foxworthy has his own brand of beef jerky.

3. My students had to email me a 300 word "paper" about what their college expectations are. It is worth 10% of their grade and the assignment included 5 questions they could answer. I had one student turn it in late and one not turn it in at all. Come on... this is the EASIEST assignment you will get in college.