savetheearth | [text | desktop | posted at some ungodly hour] finals suck hi hi hi

WOW hello

So you know what sucks? When you are a student, and have finals, but because you're a PHD student, you're also a TA / part time teacher, and you ALSO have to GRADE finals

I WANT TO DIE

hey I know some of my students are on this network TURN IN YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM SETS don't care if it's the end of the world as we know it, CALCULUS WAITS FOR NO WOMAN/MAN/SPACE MUTANT/WHATEVER YOU'RE TURNING INTO PAINFULLY AND SLOWLY

~in other news~

in my COPIOUS spare time (HAHA LOL :V JK) I did some google sleuthing and mayyybe some slightly illegal cracking and figured out where that artist who makes those godawful ugly statues for Ha Ha We're Totally Not An Evil Cyberpunk Corporation Out Of A Gibson Novel No Sir, aka THUNDER, THUNDER, THUNDER ~~CATS~~ CORP GO, gets his stone

which is an abandoned mine/quarry/~~Dr. Who set~~

i think some of you folk checked it out already BUT WHATEVER I want to see if anyone wants to come with me TOMORROW to take a look

because I finally have a fucking day off and haha fuck grading/studying

y'all in?

(if you're my students and you come uhhhh you get 1 get out of jail free card on the final)
(but not question 10. you get to suffer through that one. losers.)

so yeah? I think we can meet up there around 10 AM ish? Early enough that we have the light but not so early that we're like UGHHH EARLY. Bring flashlights + rope. Probably won't need rope but you never know.

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Well, good evening to you, too, Chris :)

I already went out to that mine with some of my students. Apparently one of them is just as good of a sleuth as you are, funnily enough. (He spent the whole time collecting samples. It was wonderful. Strange thing, none of the stone samples he collected are the stone those statues come from.) We didn't find much, but we had a bit of an accident and I cut the trip short.

As a heads up, you probably will need rope.

Let us know if you find anything interesting? I didn't smell anything promising or particularly dangerous, if that helps.

lyall why are exams terrible
why is grading terrible
why is life terrible
there's not enough caffeine in the world

anyway that's good to know. I have some rope leftover from snake statue busting 3000 time. What accident, also? And what kind of stone was it?

Welcome to the wonderful world of teaching. Though I think doing grading AND finals at the same time sounds horrific, I did a little of that when I TA'd in college. Probably not as bad as yours, though :(

I have some rope left over from our trip, too, if you need more. I had to buy it, so it might as well get more use. The kinds of stone in there seemed to be mostly granite, sandstone, and coal. Nothing particularly special.

Anthony fell down a short ledge into a lower level. He's fine now, we apparently had someone around who could heal people. But it was the last straw, in convincing them all to turn their tails around and go home. I couldn't let anyone else be hurt.

Yeah argh, if the job with Matt works out I don't think I'm going to teach next semester, my health/sanity can't take it.

haha I wish I'd paid better attention in geology class, I could maybe figure something out... interesting though.

Got it, so, basically, watch your footing. I think I do have enough rope... heck, I might even still have some pitons and hooks from when we took that thing down. Though it's probably buried under papers atm.

If you have another job on offer, oh, definitely take it. Though any job on top of a PhD program sounds horrific to me, personally. I never did get that far.

Good luck finding them if you buried the them under papers :P sounds like you're buried under them right now.

Suddenly I'm kinda grateful I didn't go to college.

I'd be up for checking out the mine. I've got awhile before I'd need to be at work anyway and I could make an excuse for being late if it takes too long.

[Eugene is no longer writing in frosting, but sadly the bright red stays.]

You know, it has been a while since I took a day off.

Edited 2013-06-12 17:47 (UTC)

You get a day off and you want to spend it in an abandoned mine?

Ah, yes. Remember finals myself. Perfectly, in fact.

Will be joining you at mine.

Luckily I don't have an exam that day.

I'm in.

It's sort of the nature of the beast now, what with costs and all that, y'know?

Anyway it DOES look like I have rope. AND! A hand-held bad air detector, and extra flashlights.

Hello new person who I don't know? But yeah you should totally come with us it'll be a good time.

Awesome, I'd be glad to have you. And yeah like, education is great, but loans are terrible and so are exams.

Lucky indeed! Bring flashlights if you have 'em.

Don't you?

But seriously like... I love exploring, it's fun. If dangerous.

Perfectly? Must be terrible; I'd rather forget, myself. And geez, didn't you go to med school or something? I hear that's even worse.

anyway, see you there!

Had a fairly easy time of it myself - at least with tests. Never too popular with classmates. Something about "being way too fucking smart."

Eugene Yokugawa of MAGNIFICENT BAKERY. I'm a new member of the secret numbers club. You probably missed me offering everyone cake because of finals.

Edited 2013-06-13 03:09 (UTC)

man that sounds shady as fuck

Exploring an abandoned mine?

yep

I MISSED CAKE!?

:O

TRAGEDY

no seriously I'm actually upset damn

haha I know that feeling. they see us rollin, they hatin

Oh, I agree. Costs are ridiculous these days. Doesn't mean I think I'd necessarily be capable of it, so I suppose it's just as well I didn't get to grad school.

Sounds like you're all set for the mine, and won't be needing me :) Though I didn't smell any off air when I was down there, so that's something.

pass. I don't want to die today do you have a will for me to send to your folks

yeah they can have all the half-built junk in my room and my debt I guess?

In all seriousness if I don't text you tomorrow, call my uncle Elian, he's one of us.

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