Don Juanna Is Here. It Must Be The MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Boo, I guess part of it is just that I’m showing my age.

First, this crap of having some subjects in week 1,3-5, 7-9 and 11-12 is a PITA. Second, sometimes we have sub-subjects; for example, all the “translation from an european language to another” courses have the same code; this means that I get emails from the En->Fr, Fr->En, En->De and De-En teachers as well as from mine.
Add that there’s compulsory-attendance things which never got mentioned, that our school never published a full timetable (other schools have), and that us spaniards are used to the Plan de Estudios and it all just becomes extremely irksome.
Oh, and we have subjects which are taught by as many as six different teachers. So between one thing and another you have to pull information about any subject from twenty different sources; we’re used to being able to pull it from - ta-daaaa - the professor! One!

The Plan de Estudios: in Spain, any course which ends in an official degree must have its Curriculum approved and published by the appropriate Education authorities. I got my undergrad degree under the 53 Plan: that means that I could pull up a specific “Law Bulletin” from 1953 and get a list of every subject I’d have to study, in which year and what would each course involve. There are minor updates from year to year but nothing major.
Unofficial degrees (most masters and some stuff at the CC level) aren’t required to do this by law, but they are by custom. Knowing that there’s a course called “Complementary Studies in Translation” without a detailed description is just unacceptable in Spain… we’re pampered!

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Wow - I mostly slept in till 7! Just finished scramblin’ some eggs for my sweetie (he took off today and tomorrow) and I’m having a ham-n-swiss sammich washed down with diet coke. Yum.

It’s raining, and from the look of radar, it’ll be raining a LOT. I’m glad we went to the dump yesterday - it would have been very unpleasant to go today, not to mention bringing home drywall in the rain… :eek:

My day will be sanding the vanity for the new bathroom. I’ll probably also start putting the poly on it, too. Tub comes out tomorrow morning, so there’s not a lot I can do in the room for now. I suppose I could slap some paint on the ceiling. Or not.

YAY, tarra! Isn’t it wonderful to retire a debt? We wiped one out last month, and it’s like getting a pay raise! :smiley: My car will be paid off in January - another nice relief. I was worried we wouldn’t know what to do with our newfound “wealth”, then **FCD **took up this aquarium… oh well… :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m going to kill a little time on line, then don some real clothes and get to work. Or I’ll knit. We shall see. Happy Thursday!

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TVMan and I had pancakes and sausage today before I left TVLand. Now I am completely ready for a nap. Somehow I don’t think that GilaMonster would appreciate it if I just left her here alone to work.

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That’s what is supposed to happen here - each degree course has a programme specification which has to be approved by the university’s committee structure and becomes “official”. Once it’s been set up according the specification (which details the number and credit value of the modules belonging to that programme), it can only be changed via a long and complicated process that involves a mountain of paperwork and another committee.

Sometimes programme changes are simple and go through very easily, but others are so radical they require a completely new programme to be set up.

I was led to understand that all the medical students on the programme I work on have a timetable, in fact I know they do becuase I’ve seen it. They still email me asking where the classes are held, what they should be doing on any specific day, or which days they are on placement in the local hospitals and surgeries. I am, apparently, the fount of all knowledge where 3rd year teaching is concerened.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some academics to bully.

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Mmmprrrrph.

They really ought to change the laws so that I don’t have to get out of bed before the sun’s come up in the morning… it’s really painful to wake up when it’s still dark and cold.

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I’m off today. I see cleaning in my future. Nelly ran away yesterday, and got to do a sleepover at someone else’s house. She’s back now, and being bothered by Gordie.:slight_smile:

: slaps Vbob with a wet fish, just for the halibut :

Muppett, I like cold and dark.

I got an email from my District Manager yesterday that printed out in Webding font. It actually made it more intelligible.:smiley:

Congrats, tara!

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You did that on porpoise. :stuck_out_tongue:

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**FCM **- you are just too productive. Makes us slackers look bad, I tell ya! :wink:

At least I cook every day like a 50’s housewife. Last night I made a Rachel Ray recipe that she called a Lasagna Bowl. It was good, but it was NOT lasagna-like. I brought the leftovers in to the single guys, and they scarfed it down.

I was gonna do ribeyes tonight, but forgot to marinate them. I’ll have to have hubby do it. I just called him and everything is “under control.” :slight_smile:

Gotta sucky project at work - better get to it. Blech.

C’mon Firday… Oh yeah, tomorrow is gonna be clear and cool - finally! We’ve been breaking heat records lately. Front tonight! W00t!

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Hooray! I’m glad that Nelly came home. :slight_smile:

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You might not want to read this post, then… :stuck_out_tongue:

So far, I’ve tidied the kitchen, then untidied it by making a big batch of nanner muffies. It’s like nanner bread, but in muffie form - and they’re muy yummo because I used extra nanner. And I should have let them cool more before tasting because lots stuck to the muffie paper. Not being wasteful, I ate it off the papers. Miss Manners would be appalled. But they’re such *gooooooood *muffies!

Anyway, before I baked, I threw a load of towels in the washer, and I just now tossed them into the dryer. I also went to put my sewing machine away and decided to clean out the basket of threads, needles, bobbins, and assorted crap. I will finish that shortly, then put it all away, and the dining room will be presentable again.

Next step is the living room where *someone *unpacked a bunch of aquarium stuff and left the boxes and packing materials on the floor. That’ll be a quick tidy. I’ll also take a minute to water my houseplants.

Continuing in the circle, I’ll attack this room, specifically this desk, so I can get my printer up off the floor. I’m tired of Taz jumping on it and turning it on. Idiot cat. And once the general tidying is done, vacuumasaurus shall come out.

Does it seem like I’m avoiding my sanding duties? I am. I hate to sand. Plus FCD is running the planer in the garage, and it’s very loud and annoying. I can sand when it quiets down.

Still raining. Scruffy is nagging to go out, but she won’t go out in the rain. She’s an idiot, too.

Off to be productive again, just to make **Rebo **look bad. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’m here at work. I’ve been here about an hour and a half now. Don Juanna is in rare form today.

I haven’t really been all that productive today, but I’ll get on the stick here shortly. Luckily, I have the office to myself today, so I don’t feel all guilty for taking a minute to pop in here.

Glad Nelly made it home, doggio.

Hugs, smooches and gropes to all.

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I make a salsa and cheese omelet for breakfast, that’s the extent of my productivity today.

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Have been up since 5:15. Have gone to the midwives clinic and Costco.

Am going to take a nap right now. If Nat sleeps long enough I might unload the dishwasher. Maybe.

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I’ve [del]read[/del] skimmed three documents and attended a weekly status meeting. Yay me. I also posted a blog update in between, since I didn’t have much else to do and it was mostly finished already.

Off to eat some lunch now. Nom nom nom.

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Aha!

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I don’t know what the rules are in Canada, but here you can report that kind of violation to your state attorney general, and the company gets in Big Trouble. [Advice from Taxi, who has the unfortunate distinction to work indirectly with outbound telemarketing and so has to know these rules. Yippee. :rolleyes: ]

Since we’re competing for '50s housewife title, I made tarragon (NOTarra) chicken and polenta pot pie on Tuesday. It’s different from regular pot pie, but really really goooooooooood. :smiley:

Our goal is to eat a homemade dinner 6 nights a week, although usually one of those nights is leftovers with only the occasional frozen pizza.

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Glory, hallelujah, Nat has been asleep almost three hours. It is blissful. I have gotten stuff done.

Including napping. Hey, he’s been up two hours in the middle of the night two days in a row.
In very exciting news, Mr. Lissar and I get a night off next weekend. We’re going up to Attacks Husband’s parents’ farm, and spending more than twenty-four hours away from Nat. Quasi-Daughter (who is still Not Officially Dating Attacks Husband, although they’re spending tons of time together, call each other every night, and hold hands :rolleyes:) will be coming, too. She can tidy everything.

I am looking forward to this with the fervour of someone who’s been up for at least two hours a night for the last couple of weeks.

We’re leaving him with my parents, who will survive. I think.

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Yay for time off, LiLi! Sounds like fun.

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Howdy Y’all! Home and tahred! Today was one from hell. Ok, more like heck. I mean, I didn’t see Satan but Phil The Prince of Insufficient Light was definitely there with his pitchspoon.:smiley: At some point today, every single tool we use decided to go down. One at a time. One went down. It came back up. Then another went down. It came back up. Then another went down. It came back up etc. All. DANG. Day.

Ok, all you who were so complimentary of my mad cookin’ skilz, guess what dindin is tonight?

Burgers and fries from [del]Booger[/del] Burger King

:smiley:
What? Don Juan cook tonight! So OYKW is pickin’ burgers up instead.

Yay for the return of Nellie. Has she put Gordie back in his place yet?

Ok off to, ummm… slouch! :smiley:
-swampbear (over user of the :smiley: smilie)

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Boy, that was dumb - I decided to sort the papers that have been accumulating on the desk. eeeesh, what a lot of crap!! I’m finding statements from 2 years ago! The shredder is going to be working overtime.

Bean soup in progress. nom nom.

Daughter’s car is ready, so when she gets home, we’ll pick hers up and drop mine off for an oil change. Fortunately, I don’t expect my oil change to cost $900 :eek: - yeah, she had to have rotors machined and control arm bushings replaced. I just need an oil change, and I have 100K fewer miles than hers, so major repairs are highly unlikely.

Well, back to sorting and souping. Don’t tell **Rebo **- she’ll feel inadequate… :wink: