Random Rants XLII: The Four-Part Plan

[salty mud]

 

[JohannaK]

Burgers are the most repulsive dish I could come across. It's only my opinion though. I'm not going to eat one. Hamburgers as in, the meat inside, that's good. The rest is not worth a penny for me. I hate tomato and onion and bread for me ranges from "edible" to "Nnnnnope".

 

[Borachio]

Ce soir, le chef vous propose: Steak haché et frites - with, let's see, a nice - sauce hollandaise. Et une assiette de crudités peut-être?

Un peu de vin, monsieur?

Bon apétit!

 

[Kennigit]

man, it's hilarious that my worst classes (probably) are my two elective courses I took. I don't know why I did this to myself rofl.

bah, so this trend continues! I'll be very close to the C/D borderline assuming consistent scores on the final exam with what I have been getting for one of the courses

Spoiler more whining :

I don't particularly believe there will be much of a curve. Or at least, there would probably just be a bump of a couple people from C to B range and not curve anything else.

The class median will mostly likely end up as a middle-to-slightly-above-middle C, if it corresponded to a person getting the median score every time. But people fluctuate and I don't have a good feel for the standard dev. of the course/of others' scores. He only gives median (I do know last test the professor expressed disappoint at particularly "low" scores, when the median was what I got and was the same as other tests).

I didn't do as well as anticipated on large HW set that the rest of the class did well on/dedicated more time to it. So I'd be behind the real median after that. which will be about a mid C while I'm on the low C/D border.

bah humbug. I know this is all meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but meh. I could have just taken it pass/fail, or put more time into it, etc, but instead herp derp.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

You are joking.

Seriously, try some French cooking.

Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Indian, Italian cuisines easily rival anything "American". Of course, you'll say all those exist in the US, too. But that's just grasping at straws.

Never forget, Macdonald's is the flagship for US cuisine throughout the world.

American food in America is seriously out of control man. As good as anything I've eaten anywhere. Macdonalds is to America as beef and blackbean or sweet and sour pork is to China, a cartoon version of the cuisine.

 

[Borachio]

OK. OK. I speak from a position of total ignorance and prejudice. And why not?

On the other hand, I have been to France several times, principally for lunch. There, I know of what I speak.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Spoiler More whingy love Rants that I think you guys are tired of so I'm spoilering it, also these are more for me to get some thoughts off my chest rather than asking for genuine responses :

Rant 1: I have to wait until Monday to see her again, this is going to be tough

Rant 2: This is partially the fault of me not having the gall (or the right circumstances) to get her contact info yet, so the only time I can see her are during our classes, I don't even know her last name so I can't find her on Facebook

Rant 3: This is making me continue to doubt that this is an actual relationship, even though she's doing more things with me after class (like today I walked with her to her dance place after our lecture finished, a first) which is giving me some hope, but I still have a little nagging thing in the back of my head

Rant 4: Time is running out in order to get her contact info and possibly continue this, I only have 3 more chances to see her (2 times on Monday, 1 on Wednesday)

Rant 5: But then 5 weeks of winter break comes which could severely derail this unless I can keep in close contact with her, that is, if this is an actual relationship and she wants to, I still can't read if it is though which is casting doubt on the whole situation

And which is even made worse by the fact that she's going all the way to France for a majority of it, in order to meet up with a foreign exchange student she knew in high school (she said they were "close", more and more reason to through doubt on this )

Rant 6: why does this all have to stack against me

Rant 7: I just want to have more time to talk to her, but I can never get any other than like 10 minutes before and after class, the most extended time I've had is the 30 minute ish dinner we ate on Monday after class, more time can probably answer all these questions and more, but I just can't get it

Rant 8: my morale until Monday has been thoroughly destroyed, I can't even Rave that I have this amazing opportunity in the first place

God damn do I hate being pessimistic, but I can't get these thoughts out of my head, its eating me up inside

 

[salty mud]

Joe... you aren't alone. In my class is the actual dream girl for me; pretty, smart, sense of humour, single, Mediterranean... She ticks all the boxes. But I'll be damned if I can even strike up a single conversation with her.

 

[Borachio]

Ah! The sweet agony of it!

 

[Joecoolyo]

Joe... you aren't alone. In my class is the actual dream girl for me; pretty, smart, sense of humour, single, Mediterranean... She ticks all the boxes. But I'll be damned if I can even strike up a single conversation with her.

You're lucky that you even know she's single. Although I've had plenty of conversations with this girl (she keeps approaching me and staying with me, which is some of the only reason I have hope) I just can't read her, and I have no idea about her relationship status, or if she's even looking for one.

 

[Borachio]

Just come right out with it. Throw yourself on the girl's mercy. So to speak.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Jesus! Just killed a damn red back spider near the sink as I was making coffee.

You just don't need stuff like that in the morning

 

[Borachio]

See? That's one of the things I love about England. I'm one of the most dangerous animals in it.

 

[salty mud]

You're lucky that you even know she's single. Although I've had plenty of conversations with this girl (she keeps approaching me and staying with me, which is some of the only reason I have hope) I just can't read her, and I have no idea about her relationship status, or if she's even looking for one.

Just ask her; simple as that. If she's single, she'll take it as a possible sign that your interested. If she's not single... then at least you know she's not single.

You don't have to literally go up to her and say "do you have a boyfriend?" Just when you're talking to her casually throw the question in, "so, do you have a boyfriend"? If she says no then she's all yours.

 

[_random_]

You are joking.

Seriously, try some French cooking.

Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Indian, Italian cuisines easily rival anything "American". Of course, you'll say all those exist in the US, too. But that's just grasping at straws.

Never forget, Macdonald's is the flagship for US cuisine throughout the world.

McDonald's is good at being what it is: cheap, low quality, greasy, filling food. If that's what you're in the mood for, it really can't be beat Gourmet it ain't, but can any chain restaurant on that scale be? Authentic French food may or may not be good, but American food gets the upper hand simply because of the vast variety of foreign influences that have combined in a huge variety of ways to make a variety of styles under the American umbrella. Memphis-style barbecue? Freaking American. Tex-Mex? Freaking American. American Chinese food? Freaking American. Burgers and dogs? Freaking American. Carolina-style barbecue? Freaking American. Cajun? Texas-style barbecue? Freaking American. Pizza? By and large, freaking American. Soul food? Freaking American. New England seafood? Freaking American. Kansas City barbecue? Freaking American. I rest my case, sir. You ought to come over here and have a sampling of our fantastic offerings.

 

[Borachio]

Indeed. And you should try London and its 197 national cuisines.

PS You do know that the Cajuns are French, right?

 

[Arakhor]

You're aware that daddy-long-legs and adders can kill people, Borachio? It's just that adders very rarely come into contact with humans and the teeth of daddy-long-legs aren't usually strong enough to break the skin.

 

[_random_]

Oh yeah, the French were definitely an influence on the cuisine of Louisianna; that only makes sense. But my point is we took aspects of their cuisine and went our own way with them in a way that, in my largely ignorant opinion, surpasses their predecessors.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

As easy as it is for us, nowhere near (emotionally, or physically for that matter) to give the above advice- I'd agree with it. I mean, whatever the worst case scenario it can't be worse than the torture of self doubt you're subjecting yourself to.

Having said that, what to I know? I kind of, I wouldn't say enjoyed, but certainly got some satisfaction from the angst I endured- I felt I was finally doing adolescence properly. Does this make me odd?


Secondly: I'm never going to Australia; it's taken me this long to come to a begrudging toleration the harmless spiders here in the UK...

 

[Borachio]

You're aware that daddy-long-legs and adders can kill people, Borachio? It's just that adders very rarely come into contact with humans and the teeth of daddy-long-legs aren't usually strong enough to break the skin.

Crane flies have danced all over me with no ill effects to either me or them. From now on I shall be examining their beaks with some interest.

I don't ever remember seeing an adder.

Australia on the other hand is home to quite a large proportion of the most deadly creatures on the surface of the earth. Many of them are actually human beings, but talk in a funny way, and drink a lot.