I realise that I haven’t written a real, interesting, effort-filled blog in quite some time (nor have I visited other blogs, which I why I get almost no comments! FAIL.) so I figured I ought to write SOMETHING!
This week was the second week of the semester, which means that tutorials started up for my classes. At 300 level the classes are usually small enough so that all the students are in one tutorial group, rather then split into 2 or 3 groups like at lowel levels. In some ways this is good because it means you get to know people, but at the same time it sucks because if there’s someone really annoying in the class (like Angry Man), you can’t escape them!
Speaking of Angry Man, I saw him yesterday actually. In a tutorial. Because the weather was really hideous, I went to the classroom as soon as I arrived at uni, even though there was still over half an hour to go before class started. When I got there, I put my stuff down at a desk and went to go to the bathroom. On my way back again, guess who I saw making his way down the hallway towards the room? ANGRY MAN. :/ I immediately wished I hadn’t left my bag and coat and coffee and stuff in there, because it meant I had no choice but to go back in and cross paths with him! He sat down one desk away from me and asked if I remembered being in a class with him in first year. Do I what!? I don’t think I will EVER forget that class, and his behaviour, as long as I live!
He then informed me he has "changed his ideas and perspectives since then". Yup. Whatever. I’ll believe that when I see evidence of it reflected in the way he treats other students, and so far I haven’t seen any! He’s exactly the same! Thankfully I wasn’t in there with him for too long before other students started arriving. Just long enough to send Jenny a text saying "It’s just me and him! Help!", to which she replied "He can’t follow you into the womens’ toilets! Run!" Brilliant. I wish I had!
Because the room was full when the rest of the class arrived, he had to move over one seat, which put him right next to me! Just as well the class involved group work, which meant I didn’t have to talk to him, since, luckily, I’m not in his group!
After it finished I was walking along talking to another woman in the class and she said she’d heard him make some very rude, racist comments towards a young woman in the class who we think is Muslim, judging by the fact that she often wears a headscarf. She came in and sat down behind him in a lecture and he turned around and said something to the effect of "Oooh! A mysterious Muslim woman in a headscarf!" WTF!? Who does that!? We think this girl (whose name I don’t know) ought to make a formal complaint, since surely she has the right to attend classes without having to put up with this twit making comments about her cultural beliefs!? I hope she does.
In other news, I have discovered crosswords. I spent half an afternoon doing a huge 200+ question one in a trashy magazine the other day, and managed to figure 95% of it out. I also now have a book of them, but, on opening it up, I discovered they are "cryptic crosswords" and very and extremely hard! I FAIL at working out riddles and clues! They make my brain want to explode! I like the ones with general knowledge clues and answers more. *commandeers puzzle section of the newspaper*
I’m also still scrapbooking. I can see why so many people are addicted to this hobby, once you start, you just cannot stop! I’m working on all my school and university photos at the moment. Not that I have a lot of photos of university itself! I wonder if I’ll regret this in 10 or 20 years! o.O
Doing anything exciting this weekend?
