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8 March 2007 19:54OK, so there has been stuff that's happened since my last update. Nothing earth-shattering, but stuff.
I have lots of undergraduate marking to do, which means money but also means frustration, as around half the scripts show some signs of being copied. I do, however, get some consolation from the amusing range of answers.
Question: Name four important commercial products from palms.
Answers included: Ice cream (sort of makes sense as it contains palm oil, but still), Bananas (unforgivable, as the next question starts, "Bananas, like palms, are monocots..."), Coffee, Rubber, Breadfruit, etc.
And then there was a question about the alternation of generations in lower plants. To illustrate, one person drew a moss. With a random flower growing out of the middle. WTF? I call it a moss-poppy...
On Monday, a random junkie wandered into the foyer of our student flats, as the door didn't shut properly. He was creepy and gross and was a bit weird at me. Luckily I ran into some lovely friends who made him go away, and then I phoned security and told them about him. And my lovely friends fixed the door so now it does shut. Yay!
We had no heating for about a week, but the steward found a switch somewhere in the boiler room or something, and flipped it, so now we have heating again. Not that we really need it. We have also had distinctly unreliable hot water for the last week, though seems to be getting better.
Today I demonstrated in a rather challenging practical which was rather fun really, even if the lecturer rather oversimplifies the peppered moth story. It was to do with a computer simulation of population genetics. Most of the undergrads tried very hard and were making pretty good progress. Unfortunately, there's this one weirdo undergraduate who makes me want to hide under the table these days.
( *shudder* )
We also have a new flatmate. He's a Taiwanese gastroenterologist. Don't know much else about him yet except that he always locks his door when he leaves his room, even just to go to the loo. But he seems nice enough.
I have lots of undergraduate marking to do, which means money but also means frustration, as around half the scripts show some signs of being copied. I do, however, get some consolation from the amusing range of answers.
Question: Name four important commercial products from palms.
Answers included: Ice cream (sort of makes sense as it contains palm oil, but still), Bananas (unforgivable, as the next question starts, "Bananas, like palms, are monocots..."), Coffee, Rubber, Breadfruit, etc.
And then there was a question about the alternation of generations in lower plants. To illustrate, one person drew a moss. With a random flower growing out of the middle. WTF? I call it a moss-poppy...
On Monday, a random junkie wandered into the foyer of our student flats, as the door didn't shut properly. He was creepy and gross and was a bit weird at me. Luckily I ran into some lovely friends who made him go away, and then I phoned security and told them about him. And my lovely friends fixed the door so now it does shut. Yay!
We had no heating for about a week, but the steward found a switch somewhere in the boiler room or something, and flipped it, so now we have heating again. Not that we really need it. We have also had distinctly unreliable hot water for the last week, though seems to be getting better.
Today I demonstrated in a rather challenging practical which was rather fun really, even if the lecturer rather oversimplifies the peppered moth story. It was to do with a computer simulation of population genetics. Most of the undergrads tried very hard and were making pretty good progress. Unfortunately, there's this one weirdo undergraduate who makes me want to hide under the table these days.
( *shudder* )
We also have a new flatmate. He's a Taiwanese gastroenterologist. Don't know much else about him yet except that he always locks his door when he leaves his room, even just to go to the loo. But he seems nice enough.
