June 21, 2006
In which she gives nicknames
Okay, so I have this thing where when people annoy me, but I don’t know them I give them nicknames. This usually happens in my classes because I rarely get to know anyone and a lot of people annoy me. This summer I’m taking two classes. My State and Local Government class is going well because so far two weeks in no one has a nickname. My American History class…not so much. Someone got a nickname the first day of class and he was only there for ten minutes.
I really like the professor. I’ve had him before and he is teaching both of my classes this summer. By the way, Rachel, his summer wardrobe is only slightly different from his fall/spring wardrobe. He usually wears jeans and a button-down shirt with a blazer or jacket over it with an occasional sweater, but for the summer, he has ditched the blazers and jackets. And he’s a bit of a fashionista because new for summer 2006...MADRAS!!! He had on these really cute sneakery-dress shoes last week, but this week he’s back to his normal scuffed up boring dress shoes. Rachel thinks its funny that I not only notice, but make commentary upon his dressing habits. He used to have longer hair and the front would be nicely styled but the back completely neglected but he has cut his hair really short so now it’s fine.
Anyway, back to the nicknames. So Dockerty (the prof) hands out the syllabus the first day of class and he pretty much reads the entire thing out loud so that no one can say they didn’t know his policies. So he talks about how he doesn’t like people coming in tardy and his whole tardy policy and everything and this kid walks in right after he finishes that up which is at least an hour into the class. And apparently this guy thinks that class starts like an hour after it actually does because he’s been late every single day and then since the class is three hours long we usually have a break midway through the class and this kid comes back from the break like ten minutes late even though the break is like fifteen minutes long…at least ten minutes longer than every other professor I’ve ever had. Plus he’s smelly. He sat next to me the first day and it was awful. So that kid’s name is Smelly Weird Kid with Bad Hair Who is Habitually Late. There is also Wannabe Teacher’s Pet Who Thinks He Knows the Answer to Everything But He Doesn’t and Faux Goth Girl Who Asks Dumb Questions.
So that’s pretty much how everything is going with me right now. I did win a prize from the Portage Public Library’s summer reading program. It is a gift certificate for a new and used bookstore here in town so now I just have to figure out where it’s located and then what I want to buy. I usually just borrow books from the library so now buying books is weird to me cos I start thinking about if I really want to have a book in my permanent library.
To end this entry, here is a conversation I had on AIM earlier:
Marc: I’m kinda mad at jess
Me: I read that really fast and at first i thought it said I'm really mad at jesus
Marc: yea im mad at jesus haha
zappagrrl at 6:16 p.m.