Where is that going?

lba on April 22, 2008

Hooray for playing with backgrounds again. I'm slowly getting more and more comfortable with doing them ( Now it'll only take me another 150 pages or so to start doing them well. ).

Sometimes I think I should probably be put into another ward they probably have in that hospital. As I sit here typing this, I have just finished spending the last three hours perfecting the APA documentation on a piece of homework that should have taken 30 minutes. The reason that it took me this long has nothing to do with the difficulty of the work or the documentation. Rather, I decided in disgust with the book I had been given to try and learn sociology from that I would deliver a rather hearty academic “fuck you” to the writer of the book and the person who decided I should learn from it ( Only an idiot or a nutcase would pull this sort of stunt when they're paying $150 per credit hour for a class. I believe I may be both. ). While I happen to know that the person who chose said book is quite intelligent and sensible, he also happened to choose one of the most vague and misleading books I've ever seen. So when the assignment called for defining key terms, I chose to find another more concise book and place the concrete definition it gave me alongside with the text of the implied definition of my book ( Some of them are paragraph length. ) and cite all sources ( I'm hoping for extra protection by using the proper citations. ). Needless to say, if you don't hear from me tomorrow, it's likely that the Sociology Department has decided I should be sleeping in the school basement with the retired text books.

Personally, I'm hoping they just tell me to do it over and go talk to a doctor.