Dear world, I need a hug.

[lizbee]

Because I got 56% for an assignment, and feel rather pathetic.  So, yes, hugs and warm fuzzies and general love is much needed.  I will bribe you all with a cartoon of Neville, who feels my pain.  The best bit is the blurry part where my wet hair dripped onto the ink, although I must admit that the deformed toad is also quite Teh Awesome.. 





I wish I could blame my bad mark on the lecturer, or some external force, but the bulk of the problem is that I didn't actually work very hard. 

I cannot, in fairness, blame the lecturer in this case, but as a teacher, he really does suck.  Last year, he claimed credit for inventing the fuzzy pseudo-discipline of Information Management Theory, and also wrote the very expensive textbook for that subject.  And frankly, if I had written a "scientific textbook" that includes thirteen different and contradictory definitions of the central concept, including but not limited to algebraic equations and the poetry of T. S. Elliot, I wouldn't be admitting to the fact.

Also, his assignment subjects and recommended outlines are unbearably vague.  And he is rather snide, and takes a lot of delight in writing cutting marginalia on one's paper.  

And I'm not very interested.  I think it's time to admit that I am, at heart, a reference librarian with pretentions to management, and this whole catalogue/computer business is not for me.

But yes, some kind of positive attention would be gratefully received this afternoon.

Comments

[melwil.livejournal.com]

*giant hugs*

I will soon be posting a case study written by the worlds worst lecturer to keep everyone amused. I've never seen a Mary-Sue in a case study before . . .

[icegemini.livejournal.com]

*hugs* :)

[ljrags.livejournal.com]

Hugs, good vibes and much understanding your way. How about Graham crackers? Would graham crackers help? Chocolate covered grahams perhaps??

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Weirdly enough, I had a Graham cracker yesterday, and found that it tasted like vomit. How could Graham crackers betray me like this? Was it something I said?

[paraphasiclotus.livejournal.com]

Maybe the Country Cheese slipped them a bribe.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

That would explain a lot.

[indigopurple.livejournal.com]

Lies! No such biscuit exists in Australia!

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Alas, for this is true. However, I've had many kind donations of boxes from American friends over the years.

And you know that candy store on Level 1 of Indooro? They sell a very small prepackaged 'Smore with real graham crackers for the exorbitant price of $2.50. And it really does taste like vomit...

[xturtle.livejournal.com]

*points to icon for warm fuzzies*

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Cutest. Cartoon. Ever. Forget the Fangirl Dalek, this rules.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

It's much better than the Fangirl Dalek, on account of how it's NOT A DALEK!

[story645.livejournal.com]

Rocking cartoon, and hugs for putting up with bad teachers in classes you don't care about. Ugh.

[weaverandom.livejournal.com]

Cartoon is adorable. May I icon it? And then use it forever and ever whenever I feel Nevilly?

Also, I could poster it and stick it on your lecturer's head with hair removal cream.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Yes. To both. *grin*

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

That wasn't wet hair, was it. It was tears! Tears!

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes it was.

*sniffles*

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

Oh, by the way, I did my degree in Information Management, and it's all like that. Fuzzy, vague, psuedo intellectualism. And the sooner you learn to bullshit extrapolate, the better your marks will be.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

It was when a found a mathematical equation to express the amount of papers a scientist will publish in his lifetime, that I knew we had gone TOO FAR.

[(Anonymous)]

Good grief, that's ridiculous!! The lengths people will go to to try and make their own little discipline 'scientific' and respectable! Brad.

[cesario.livejournal.com]

Molly will make you some tea and pat you on the head and all the stuff I'm not very good at.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

No offence to Molly, but I'd rather have the crack(fic).

[wittgensteinian.livejournal.com]

I beat you. I got 55% for a law essay three years ago. And the marker was a patent moron. I wasn't impressed, but I didn't die and the world didn't end.

I suspect your marker was a patent moron, too. Or at least, a tool.

It's hard, but try to ignore the mark. There are other things to focus on in the future. If this subject sucks, but other ones don't, then that's something.

Besides. Your Neville picture is teh r0x0r, and so are you. And I cannot believe I just attempted 1337.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I feel better now.

[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

I still think you're a brilliant, brilliant author, regardless of your computer skills. And not just good, but you rise above with creativity and originality.

(Postscript: do you like my Lily icon?)

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Thank you. *loves you madly*

And yes, your Lily icon is gorgeous. Who is the girl?

[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

No idea. It was one of a whole page of redheaded icons. ...Ah, here it is. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/terra109/1357.html)