As predicted, exam 4 sucked. I walked out of there an hour ago and I still feel like I've been in a fight.

Oh well. Repeat three times and click my heels together: exam 3 was good, exam 3 was good, exam 3 was good.

Current Mood: exhausted

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The lack of a last name makes me suspect is an urban legend/hoax, but hey, it's funny.

Commodities trader buys 28,000 tons of coal, for real. It's delivered to his office.

...and yeah, I probably will get a B on exam 4. What with the make-up exam just this past Monday, I'm a week behind everybody else in studying the exam 4 material, plus of course I missed half the lectures on it.

Good thing I did so well on exam 3. That saves my butt big time.

Current Mood: busy

LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including:

1. Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
2. A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
3. Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
4. Photography that spans the globe, ranging from old-fashioned Polaroids to underwater photography
5. Mouthwatering dishes from food_porn

What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.

Tweaks and enhancements

• You can now ban a user from all of your communities and journals at once. To access this feature, hover over the person's userpic and choose Ban user everywhere from the drop-down menu.
• Follow LiveJournal on Twitter!

Give a little to help a lot!

In honor of National AIDS Awareness month, we've added a new charitable vgift. For each red ribbon you purchase for $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine (we'll cover credit card fees). You can read more about IAVI at lj_cares. While we're on the subject, we raised $740 from our November fundraiser for Love Without Boundaries, which supports emergency healthcare and adoption of Chinese orphans. We thank you for helping us help others.

Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.

We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!

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Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

Tags: aids vgift red ribbon fundraiser, blurb, livejournal: the first decade, lj_photophile poll

Am I the only one who thinks we need an updated version of "A Christmas Carol" with current religious leaders as Scrooge, being visited by spirits of previous hate-mongers who try to convince them to actually preach love?

Got chem exam 3 back. Out of 120 points possible (counting the extra credit page), and graded on a scale of 100 = perfect, I got 115. This overrides my dismal grade on exam 2. Now I can pretty much get a B on exam 4 and a B on the final and still get an A in the class.

Very, very good news.

Current Mood: pleased

End of the quarter. Most of my o-chem classmates turned in their lab equipment today; me, I'm not done with the last lab experiment yet, much less finished cleaning all my glassware. Chem exam 4 Friday. Lab report better be done by then too, except that my only free time between now and then is, um, right now, and I'd do better to study for the exam. Chem lab final Monday. Final draft of debate paper due Monday. Chem final Wednesday. Oh, and some fifty thirty people or so are coming over Saturday night. And yes I'm working that day. AND Sunday.

Everybody says "oh, get some rest" but I really don't see how that's supposed to happen. I don't want a recurrence of the flu (or pneumonia) any more than anyone else does, but I also don't want poor grades, and if I honestly had to choose, I'd be wise to choose to keep my grade up and stay sick. Sick is probably only a month or two. Bad grades are forever.

Sure would like this cough to stop though.

One more week. One week and it's all done until January.

Current Mood: exhausted

I always enjoyed your calling. You were a real professional and obviously put a lot time, thought and work into your craft. My heart goes out to your family.

Tags: mike

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

Tags: mogilefs, upgrade, userpics
Current Location: Jumping out of a perfectly good plane
Current Mood: dirty
Current Music: Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction

"I believe that the educational movement Steiner founded drifted very far from its source the moment [the act of] founding schools became more important than examining the quality of education the children were receiving and working to really convey the approach to other teachers in all manner of schools and situations. What we call “Waldorf Education” has largely come to mean a set of curricula and specific ways of introducing specific subject matter. This has nothing (in my opinion) to do with the original intent, which was to convey the attitude, the viewpoint toward the children and toward society (any society) with which a teacher could fully meet the physical, mental and spiritual needs of both the students and their community.

Any school is a Waldorf school if the intent of Steiner’s pedagogy is being met within its halls. What was the intent? The intent was to offer an education in a way that gave each child a fundamental, true introduction into the foundation of his or her society while at the same time enhancing that child’s ability to accurately perceive life around him or her without damaging the child’s innate capacity to be sensitively aware of the Creative Love behind the visible world (whatever that capacity might have been, whether large, small or nearly nonexistent—the teaching was not intended to train a student’s spiritual vision, just not to damage what already existed). The education was not intended to found schools separated from their society at large nor was it intended to model a particular belief system.

These goals can be met in a wide variety of settings, with an infinitely wide possibility of curricula, through the myriad possibilities of human personality."

Nancy Parsons Whittaker

Quote swiped from this page

Tags: musings, waldorf
Current Mood: cold