white out only looks worse ...: taylor renae, calc II meltdown, & summer reads ...

white out only looks worse ...

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

taylor renae, calc II meltdown, & summer reads ...

i've kind of begun to think of this blog as my less public blog so - yea-ay! there is an advantage to this - i can probably say things on here that i wouldn't normally say on my myspace blog b/c i know i don't have as many readers here as the other ... but anyway ... it's not like i have a whole lot of deep dark secrets to keep from the public eye - muahaha!

so --- j is an uncle - again :) ... sis-in-law maggie just gave birth to a sweet baby girl named taylor renae rauch - 7 lbs & change :) ... she's the first baby of the bryant/bechtoldt lineage w/in normal standards for birth weight in her generation ... gives me hope that maybe my own second born might weigh in at relatively normal too? hah! fat chance - knowing my family history, i'll probably end up with gestational diabetes again & have to get a c-sect - again ... actually, j & i talked about it & we may end up just scheduling a c-sect no matter what - it was just too stressful for us with the whole labor & pushing baby out thing ... yuck ... :( ... anyway, j, auds 'n i will be making the trip over to tennessee to see the rauch family in a couple of months - exciting! i've never been to nashville :) ... there's a pharmacy school in nashville so you never know - if loma linda pharmacy school says no, then maybe i'll take the PCAT & set my sights outside of california for the next go-around :) ... there's a pharmacy school in hawaii too, you know? wouldn't that be a fun experience! :)

NEhoo - now i'm just babbling - i'd better get going - auds 'n i have a date to meet j @ barnes 'n noble (escondido) after he gets off work so i can go to school tonight :) ... calculus II, here i come!

omg - speaking of calculus II - my teacher (i'll call him dr. b) - almost had a nervous breakdown last week - IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS ... someone had raised his hand & asked a question & dr. b ended up talking about something that had NOTHING at all to do with the question asked of him ... several students started snickering & giggling behind his back & dr. b freaked out & started ranting about how he had been an associate prof. @ rice university & that he had taught graduate level math & physics at the phD level ... he went on & on about how he did not deserve to have to go through the "mental anguish" of teaching "basic" math classes to students who are disrespectful & (he did not say the word, but it was implied) "retarded" ... we were still reeling from his referring to calc II as "basic" when he pulled out a box of transparencies with copies of recommendation letters written by previous students & co-professors from rice university & UC santa barbara, etc, and before we knew what had hit us, he was reading these recommendation letters word for word ... the letters spoke of how interesting & lively his lectures were (so far in this class he had read almost entirely from the book - so no, he hadn't been lively at all), and how he was always willing to work one-on-one with students on their questions (so not true! one of the smarter kids in class had asked him to slow down his teaching a little bit & he had rolled his eyes & did not even acknowledge the request - then later, someone raised their hand to ask a question & he steadfastly ignored them until another student verbally pointed it out & dr. b had no choice but to answer what he probably considered an inane "basic" math question) ... whoever that teacher had been who had taught at graduate level @ rice university back in the early 90s is no longer that same man - he hated teaching, one can obviously tell ... last tuesday, i arrived in class to find ppl on their way out & when i asked them what was going on, someone posted a sign on the door that said class was cancelled for the day ... "i guess he decided not to teach today - i heard someone pissed him off before class started & he just left & said he wasn't going to be aggravated," some guy said with a satisfied smirk on his face & i felt, i don't know, sorry for dr. b, i guess? he's not that great a teacher so far, but i was really hoping i could get calc II out of the way this summer ... if he decides to have a mental breakdown, then i don't know what the future of this class is going to be! well, hopefully, if they decide to send in a replacement, it'll be someone like the teacher i had for calc I ... prof. jones was cool - he actually got me to LIKE calculus!

well, now i'm REALLY babbling - i'd better get going or auds 'n i will be late!

talk to y'all later,

~ k

my summer reads ...

the heroines
eileen favorite
06/19/08
B

and now you can go
vendela vida
06/22/08
B

the oracles: my filipino grandparents in America
pati navalta poblete
06/25/08
A-

orchid house
cindy martinusen
06/29/08
C+

garden spells
sarah addison allen
07/01/08
A

aaagh! just ran out of library books! need to make a library run - STAT!

posted by KEZIA @ 1:18 PM

2 Comments:

At 12:27 AM, July 16, 2008, Anonymous said…

wow that calc teacher has some issues!.. big time!.. i'm almost finished with the time travelers with.. i'm actually in that part where they're gonna try again after the fifth miscarriage.. so yea.. dont tell me anything.. is that "garden spells" any good?.. bc i'm afraid if i start reading something like that, i might not like it.. anymore books you recommend?..
At 12:56 AM, July 16, 2008, Anonymous said…

and i forgot to add this in my first comment.. i agree with you about the fact that theres not a lot of people reading the blogs here.. for me even though i put my blog link in my facebook or myspace, i dont think people would care to look bc first of all they either are not curious, or i just dont blog that often.. or i dont publicly announce to everyone to "read my blog".. hehe =)..