Why Anthropology class is terrible. I have timed the Prof.. each day for the pat 4 days. He talks about stupid shit that's going on in his own life for 25 - 27 min. every fucking day and is pissing me off. He also has a fixation on talking to students about sex. Within every 5 min. he will lead his lecture to some comment about sex, having sex, rape, or something along those lines. Don't get me wrong, I don't think I'm a prude, but enough is too much!!!! Plus on top of all this, he is a sexist motherfucker from hell and shows it all the time with the words he chooses. That said, I think I will go to bed now!!! I got that off my chest.
posted by Drea Beth on 11:09 PM
100 billion projects going at the same time. I have been forgeting things, like what floor to get off on to get to class, where I sit in a class, ect... It makes me feel as if I'm in a bad dream and can't wake up! I just hope the kids will tell me if I try to leave the house with no pants on or something! Although, they might think it would be funny to see how far I get half dressed. God- bless- umm'. Good night, tomorrow is day one of my profile observation project for english. Ast. project is going well, he just handed out another one due in two weeks. Mid-Term exams in Geog. this Friday. plus a project due. I am doing mine on whale migration and climate. Evironmental project is becoming rutine now. Counting my daily water use, and everything I throw away. Anthro. could be a hell of alot better!! Night-night.
Right up my alley How was the first radio telescope developed?
A radio telescope is a highly directional radio antenna that is able to create a map of the sky by recording signals coming from different directions. Although radio engineer Karl Jansky was the first to identify deep space radio signals in 1931, his antenna was not good at pinpointing individual sources. The first steerable radio telescope was built in 1937 by Grote Reber, who had applied to work with Jansky but was turned down because of the poor economic times. So he decided to build his own radio telescope, a 31.4-foot metal dish (9.6 meters) mounted on a directional cradle in Wheaton, Illinois. With his radio telescope, Reber was able to detect radio emissions from the Sun, the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, and several other "radio-bright" sources. By 1941, he had completed the first crude radio survey of the northern sky. Today his radio telescope is an historical monument in Green Bank, West Virginia.
posted by Drea Beth on 7:09 AM
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Wednesday, September 20
Cool! Why do some mushrooms glow? If you have walked in damp woods on a dark night and you have good night vision, you may have noticed a glowing mushroom growing from a decaying log. Although glowing mushrooms are common, their glow is not usually bright enough to attract human attention.
Mushrooms that glow are attracting insects and small animals that want to eat them. Some of the spores the mushroom produces end up getting attached to the outside of the eaters, and are later deposited far away, spreading the fungus around.
Fungi have other ways of attracting potential spore-spreaders. Some, like the foul-smelling stinkhorns, emit an odor that attracts flies and beetles. Some flowering plants also use foul odors to attract the flies or other insects that pollinate them.
posted by Drea Beth on 6:59 AM
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Tuesday, September 19
Well I have gotten some good advice from T and my dad! I am going to stay in the class but not go to class anymore. This should fix my problem!!!
posted by Drea Beth on 7:01 AM
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Monday, September 18
Anthro. class sucks!!!!! All this guy ever talks about is himself or the fact that Everyone has two arms two legs and fingers that can do this, (as he plays with his fingers, doing weird things). Then he says "The only thing that seperates us from the monkeys is this". "Monkeys can not hold things like we do, they would hold things with (he shows us) there wrist not bent and there fingers only bent at the knuckles on there fingers". "Wait- a- minute" I think to my self, "Thats how I hold things, I also only use two fingers on each of my hands". The more I sat there the more pissed off I became. This fucker is sitting up there telling the whole class that someone like me is not human. This is not the first time he has said shit like this. It is the first time I had a vision in my own head of what he was trying to say. I could see myself as he would see me, a primate. This was my first class of the day and I need not say how the rest of the stupid day went. Except that I came home early. I need to go do some reading in my Geog. book. and work on my narritive for my Eng. paper.
If you were any loonier, you'd be committed! When it comes to wild, hilarious behavior and unabashed comic stunts, you are the reigning champ.
posted by Drea Beth on 9:40 PM
I have a question
Why aren't there Down Syndrome dolls or dolls born with no legs or congenitive twin dolls? Is it because no one would play with them or buy them? Are dolls a way of telling young children what the "Perfect, Alfa Human" should look like? If this is so, what does it say to someone who is handicap? Or a child with a disability? All cultures have toy dolls of some kind. So why do we not have dolls that resemble all human life instead of only the so called "Pretty" ones. We have white dolls, black dolls, asian dolls, indian dolls, all different kinds. Does this mean the handicapped have not had a revolution yet? My mind is filled with questions like these.
posted by Drea Beth on 9:09 PM
Many things happening here. School started for all of us at my house now, except for T he still goes to work everyday. I seem to be spending all of my time just trying to catch up in my classes with the readings. I have 3 projects in 3 different classes going right now. One is Very involved. It is an experiment in the amount of water used and waste thrown away. So for two months I have to mark down every time I flush the toilet, take a shower, wash my hands, do dishes, laundry, what food I throw away, junk-mail, plastics and other garbage. I have made a huge chart on a big marker board to aid me in this tedious task. After the two months are done I have to find some way to compile all this data and find percentages and write a report. Everyday when I walk from Anthro. class to Geog. class I pick a leaf off of the tree branch that hangs down far enough for me to reach. I keep it in my hand for the rest of the day, and it reminds me of outside, the smell of the air and the sun. It also helps me keep my mind focused on why I am there, what I am doing with my life and that I will never give up. All that from a little leaf. But I say, "If it works, use it!" I have many of these leafs now, all are flat from being put in my notebook after school.
posted by Drea Beth on 9:32 AM
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Monday, September 11
Hi, I haven't had time to be on-line in a while. I started school two weeks ago and I feel like I am running late with everything I do. I have to go take a shower and go to class now. I will try for a HUGE post tonight. Bye.