Cesar R M
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I think Wendy's went bankrupt in my country in a lot of places.
for "Quality" fast food burgers.. theres always Carl's.
In other news, if I ever go to McDonalds, its only for the Nuggets. Which I crave right now lol.
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for "Quality" fast food burgers.. theres always Carl's.
In other news, if I ever go to McDonalds, its only for the Nuggets. Which I crave right now lol.
StarWarsGirl
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Reasons I hate group projects:
Have a group presentation tomorrow. The one girl in our group was supposed to do a few Powerpoint slides. Like 3 max. No formatting, just bullet points. Shouldn't take long. The other guy in my group sent it to me last week before I even had a chance to get my slides together. I text and text the other girl this weekend for her slides. Then tonight I get a text, "This week was my Easter, so I couldn't get my slides together because I've been at church and haven't had a computer or anything." Mmmhmm. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and call BS on that one. But I sent her a text that said, "Fine, but I would have appreciated an FYI text." "I'll have them to you by my noon class tomorrow!" she says. Really? You've had since last Wednesday to put together three PowerPoint slides and you couldn't get that done?
My dad said to me the other day, "Oh, this is just preparation for you becoming a supervisor someday." "Yeah," I said, "but when I'm a supervisor, I can fire people. I can't fire these people, and they don't seem to care!" Ugh. At least this professor is grading us individually, so if she doesn't come through, it's not my problem.
Have a group presentation tomorrow. The one girl in our group was supposed to do a few Powerpoint slides. Like 3 max. No formatting, just bullet points. Shouldn't take long. The other guy in my group sent it to me last week before I even had a chance to get my slides together. I text and text the other girl this weekend for her slides. Then tonight I get a text, "This week was my Easter, so I couldn't get my slides together because I've been at church and haven't had a computer or anything." Mmmhmm. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and call BS on that one. But I sent her a text that said, "Fine, but I would have appreciated an FYI text." "I'll have them to you by my noon class tomorrow!" she says. Really? You've had since last Wednesday to put together three PowerPoint slides and you couldn't get that done?
My dad said to me the other day, "Oh, this is just preparation for you becoming a supervisor someday." "Yeah," I said, "but when I'm a supervisor, I can fire people. I can't fire these people, and they don't seem to care!" Ugh. At least this professor is grading us individually, so if she doesn't come through, it's not my problem.
seahawk7
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I think we got it last May.
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
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seahawk7
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McDonald's has the best chicken nuggets.I think Wendy's went bankrupt in my country in a lot of places.
for "Quality" fast food burgers.. theres always Carl's.
In other news, if I ever go to McDonalds, its only for the Nuggets. Which I crave right now lol.
StarWarsGirl
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That's apparently a recent change. 2012 it was there. But then my dad read online that it's gone now. Sucks, I got a really nice bracelet from there last time and wanted to wander some more this time.
Oh well. The Hilton Hawaiian Resort, where we're staying for five days, has more gift shops than any resort at Disney (no, I'm not kidding) so I'll have plenty of shopping.
seahawk7
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A lot of Orthodox religions did celebrate Easter this Sunday. My sister in law's family is Russian Orthodox and they did. But she should have done her part. I'm sorry, group projects are the worst.
Cesar R M
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Our day in the Dominican Republic started out wonderful. Room service (fruit and croissants) arrived on time, beach bag packed to go, one last trip to the bathroom before leaving and. The bathroom in our cabin had a four inch step up into it. I forgot that coming out and I felt it in my back.
I loaded up with ibuprofen and my friend recommended taking the wheelchair because even if at the moment I felt fine, later I may be aching.
View attachment 89713Our shore excursion was a short drive by motorcoach to the Be Live Canoa Resort in Bayahibe. We had almost four hours unlimited use of their pools, beach and recreational areas. This resort catered mostly to Italians on vacation and they were aplenty.Plus open bar was included!
I was so excited because my favorite beer is from this island and I can't get it anywhere near me.
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We took full advantage of the facilities and the others made their way to the beach to find seashells while I lounged in one of the smaller pools. (You can see in the picture above.) They weren't gone but maybe ten minutes and came wandering back. The beach had "European sunbathing" (topless or more) and my friends decided that wasn't an appropriate sight for my daughter to see.
By this time I had realized I'd been sitting in the open sun for almost 90 minutes and needed shade. Unfortunately from tweaking my back earlier, the nerves had put my leg to sleep. In the water I hadn't noticed but trying to get out....I could barely put any weight on it.With help I made it to the top step, flipped my legs over the wall and plopped into the wheelchair where I stayed for the final hour.
I had been to the D.R. before on my honeymoon (many years ago) and noticed on the ride to the resort that many things still haven't changed. The main mode of transportation is still by moped, there are still miles of undeveloped land and there is still a lot of poverty once you get away from the "tourist" areas. We took a different route to return to the port. The driver said he would be passing a landmark for a photo opportunity. (Which I thought was a little odd because everyone was still damp from swimming.) Okay now see the picture of the bridge below?
View attachment 89720 We stopped off to the side right in the middle of this bridge!The driver told us if you look down below, the movie Anaconda was filmed right there on that part of the river. Then he tells people to take a picture but don't all stand on the right side of the bus! (Umm, yeah dude! Let's not flip over the railing!
) It was a cool tidbit of info but I was soooo happy to get off that bridge!
After arriving back to the port you have to walk through a decent-sized duty-free shop to go to the dock. Smart move on their part. Put souvenirs and alcohol in front of people on vacation and they are willing to spend some money!We did.
Between the four of us we bought four postcards, one baseball (my friend's man collects them), a seashell/sand bottle and one Presidente. Total of all--under $20. I would have bought more Presidente but you were only allowed to take one unopened on ship. If you wanted to buy a six pack, they would open them and you could relax in the patio area outside the shop and drink away. I wish I had done that. After getting back to our room my back was bothering me so I laid down and took a two hour NAP.
Its my imagination or you always seem to hurt your legs when you go to trips?
Cesar R M
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what with these shirts, cups..etc.. that has the "stay away from the doors" in spanish?
I have no idea why they seem popular.
Cesar R M
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I find that article a bit dumb.. specially for this...I wrap potatoes too. And I am weary of ''it is going to kill you drama" but some say foil wrapped potatoes are going to kill ya.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/513468-hazards-of-baking-a-potato-in-foil/
anything left for 48 hours at room temperature will give you BIG PROBLEMS BIG TIME.
seahawk7
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My kids like the saying. I like my kids. So now I have that cup.
Cesar R M
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good to know your professor is grading individually..
I always hate the "free riders" who pull excuses out of their butt.
Bonus when you catch them dancing in a beach party when they were "supposed to be in church".
Cesar R M
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I agree.. this guy was annoying lol.
always posing sideways.
They tried to make him way too hard to look "cool" and "menacing" or "imposing".
They should have taken lessons from the guy of NCIS.
Cesar R M
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The hilarity of "group projects" in school and university.
Is to teach us to work together.
Instead, they just teach you that there are always freeloaders dbags trying to put all the weight on you while doing nothing AND while firing his excuse engine in overdrive.
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Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Watching my kids 'teaming' is not dead no matter how you label it. My DS has more meetings and group consults that it is difficult to find time to accomplish the tasks at hand he is responsible for. My DD while still relatively new to her position, December, has team presentations weekly along with management pee-on one on one and group check-ins each week that take at least 6 hours away from her production each week. Basically her opinion is it does little to nothing to aid in enhancing overall numbers that is analyzed. My DD being in her position only 4 months has the highest numbers in the entire department though she has very low level seniority. She leads the entire department. It annoys her to waste time in these group things that have little benefit to her production. So basically it isn't likely to go away after graduation it will just be repackaged.
Have I mentioned I loved being self employed for the last 20 years?
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
I agree, love NCIS. Still many of the CSI's were good too, it is just this dude, he killed it for the rest of the cast. Wished they would have knocked him off and let the balance of the cast carry the series, the writers were good but nobody could get past him resulting in series canceled.
StarWarsGirl
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Yeah, even if it is true, it was an extremely carpy excuse. She should have had Wednesday night and all of Thursday to do it. You need to budget your time when you've got this stuff going on.
I should ask my one professor, who pushes group projects so much, why in the world she seems to love them so much. I understand having them in certain courses, but it seems like I have them in EVERY class. And in every class it seems that one member drives me crazy the entire time. Sometimes more than one member.
In my other class with nothing but group projects the entire semester, there's this one girl driving me nuts. At the begining of the semester, she said she didn't have Facebook, which is usually how I organize groups and share files. That was fine; I said I'd send her emails. She also wouldn't let us have her phone number so that we could text her. Um...okay. And then she tells us, "I can never meet outside of class."
And because she won't give us her phone number, we can't even tie her into meetings. Then, she'll send me stuff that's wrong, and then when I tell her to go back and redo it, she sends me this paragraph long explanation as to why she didn't do it right. One time, I literally emailed her back, "Instead of sending me a long explanation as to why you didn't do it right, would you please just fix it?" And she also sends me unnecessarily long emails. Two weeks ago, she sent me a two paragraph long email that essentially said, "Did you double check to make sure that the due date is Friday?" I'm thinking, "Well, you could have not wasted my time by sending that in one sentence." And I had checked, and it was Friday.
Then, last week, there was an assignment that we were doing in class. While the professor is still talking, she sits there and does half the assignment. Which made me really angry. I'm the one who has to turn in all of the assignments (literally, unless I am completely unable to turn in the assignments, I am the only one allowed to turn them in as group leader. And after me, it's another girl in my group, not this girl), so I do all of the formatting (which is her formatting is horrendous). Someone else starting an assignment before I can do the formatting on my end just slows everything down. And then doing half the assignment without us was just really insulting to us. She doesn't seem to have the interest of the team at heart, just her own interests. And she comes across as so fake. She tries to act super sweet and all and tries so hard to impress us that sometimes I want to say, "Stop. Just...stop." It's probably a good thing I don't sit next to her in class. Of course, we had a group meeting after class that day and she wasn't there, and we spent half the time complaining about her. I was just glad that it wasn't just me. The other girl in my group said she's been driving her crazy the entire semester too!
Ugh. Sorry for the rant; I'm just so frustrated and needed to get it out of my system.
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
I'm a big fan of Beverly Cleary. A true talent.
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
What a refreshing approach. Both of my kids having educational backgrounds in college found their instructors and professors to express their own biases way too often.
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Well what are they? DD and I have issues with cruddy sock syndrome too.