Before I type anything else, first let me point you toward Annie's growing collection of bad Latin jokes. You don't have to know Latin to understand some of them, I promise. You just have to know some basic grammar stuff, such as declension is to noun and adjectives what conjugations is to verbs. Geekiness is not required, but the jokes would be funnier if you do have some of it lying around.
Also, warning: gripe included in this post.
Last day of work went well. Half of the tables have been emptied of plants by now and we put away some of our 5000 flower pots. They also white-washed our green house, which was nice since most of the sunlight's reflected away now so the inside can actually be cooler than the outside. Also, the greenhouse adjacent to ours got rid of their population of bell peppers and gained a table of what looked like small welwitschia and staghorn ferns (and yes, there are some really cool plants out there) that were propagating. Jennifer forgot to bring a fork to eat her pasta with and wondered if she'd have to make do with pens and I was promised the results of the experiment if I email them after the data analysis is done.
Showed Mike and Jen Mike's avocado. Mike was amused.
[Here be gripe.]
It balanced out against my physics quiz, for which I lost 4 out of 10 points for being careless and writing "no pressure" instead of "no change in pressure". The rubric code turned out to translate to "explanation clearly showed student's lack of understanding" (yes that's what it actually says on the rubric sheet) and I felt like an idiot. On the bright side, I did get the answer right - it was only my explanation that wasn't up to par. The TA was encouraging me to ask for a regrade and I think I might give it a try, despite of the somewhat threatening warning printed on the regrade form that "a regrade might result in a lower rubric."
First regrade and first office hour all within one year. Wow, is that setting some kind of record?
Must cram for tests now. And learn how to explain problems better, apparently. Oh well.
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