No More Classrooms, No More (text)Books

I just took my final. Now I have three weeks off. :-)

This semester flew by and I really never felt like I had a handle on the material. I only needed a 45% to pass so I'm not worried about failing. I am a little disappointed and concerned that I don't really have a good understanding of the material as I go into clinic in a few weeks.

It's weird to know I won't see most of my class mates for two months. When we come back in three weeks, it'll just be me, Jeff, katie and Big Frank at the hospital. I'm so used to seeing everyone else it's a little sad/weird.

This break couldn't come soon enough though. I am really burnt out. I'm hoping the time out of the classroom will recharge my batteries and in the fall semester school will be engaging again.

Anyway, I'm waiting for Carla and Rose and the some of the other kids to finish the exam so we can do our celebratory lunch.

Wahoo!

Our professor said she would grade our exams right away so we checked after lunch and I got a 96. I have no idea how. It was funny because all of us who checked were 10 to 20 points over where we thought we were. I still don't feel like I understand it but, apparently, I can regurgitate enough of it to seem competent. ;-)

I called my sisters and canceled for the parade as it's supposed to pour. they both were going to call me for the same reason but were hesitating. Tracey said she didn't want to cancel because she was sure I had already done the costumes. I nearly finished the ones I had fabric for but that's OK. Who wants to drive kids an hour to put them back in the car (wet) to drive back home again? Besides it totally circumvents the brother in law drama. Yeah, I'm totally a jerk.

It looks like rain so i'm trying to wrap up so loose ends around the house today. I had thought Mr Bear came home tonight but he doesn't get home until tomorrow. :-( Maybe I'll go to the movies later to celebrate the end of the semester.

Need Ideas: "Threesomes/Newly Wed Game"

We're going camping at "The Woods" (our first time there) and the group always has "events" based on whatever the week end's theme is. We're going 'Holiday Week end" and the first night is "Valentine's Day".

I was thinking that playing "The Newly Wed Game" would be fun. Brant did it one better and changed it to "The Threesomes Game".

Now I need ideas/suggestions and questions that would be reasonably easy for a Co-Ed group of Queer friends and still really fun. Racy and off color is acceptable/encouraged.

[Poll #753889]

Wake Up Your Jock Activist

One of the weird "side effects" of it being the World Cup is that our TV is pretty much always on ESPN or ESPN2. That's how I heard about this jackass:

"Outspoken Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen apologized Wednesday for using a derogatory term in referring to Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti, then kept up his criticism of the writer."

The rest of the story from ESPN.

He said "What a piece of [expletive] he is, [expletive] fag." about a reporter he is feuding with then back pedals with the old 'I have gay friends' and (I love this) 'I go to WNBA games!' as proof of his lack of homophobia. You may remember him equating gay with child molester a while a go in New York.

As the commentator and the author point out, the shocking part is he's pretty much continued in this vein with out repercussions.