The World is a Vampire

"Despite all the Rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage."

Sometimes I'm angry.
Sometimes I'm sad.
Sometimes I'm a goody-goody, and
Sometimes I'm bad.
Most of the time I'm just surviving.

Life, Love, Peace, War, Apathy, Care, - we all live in one whacked out world. There was a great cartoon I saw today; in it the man at the bar said to his neighboring patron, concerning the television up above them, "Yeah, I used to get depressed watching the news too. Then I discovered the miracle of apathy."

Since my recent posts have been about students' work, I figured why change from that. Obviously sometimes my students excite me by expressing their eagerness to learn. Also obviously, sometimes they piss me off by not following simple directions.

(Recent Ex: I posted directions to follow one of two formats for their speeches. One format has TWO main points, the other has FIVE main points. What did many of them post? THREE main points! Go take fucking 2nd grade again, people.)

Anyway, right now we have only a few weeks left in the semester. Many of my students are whining because they say they don't have enough time to do the work. Many of them complain, "What?!? I can't give my speech. Thursday is my last day on campus! How do you expect me to get my speech comments back and give it on Monday?!?"

All I can say is, Get a damned clue. Drive up here again. God forbid you'd have to do some work on the weekend. "Oh my, do homework over the weekend that entails me making one extra trip to campus? Oh NO!" Get over it. Grow the fuck up. Getting an education means you have to WORK for it. This isn't kindergarten, kiddies. This isn't even High School. This is COLLEGE. You know, the place that is supposed to prepare you for the work force, for the "real world" if you will. You think they don't work on weekends in the work force?

So at this point I'm fed up with the whining. I'm sick of the childish complaints. I don't want to hear them and because they've whined so much, I don't care. Do the work or FAIL. See if I blink. Huzzah! APATHY!