Saturday, January 4, 2014

Merp Gets an A

Cet automne, j’étais très occupée.  J’ai assisté à mes cours et j’ai fait presque tous mes devoirs.  Vers la fin du semestre—non, je plaisante, c’était malheureusement le milieu—je commençais à m’ennuyer pendant l’un de mes cours de psychologie.  J’ai décidé alors d’arrêter la façade de taper des notes avec un air sérieux et assidu.  À partir de cet instant, je passais les cours en dessinant avec Microsoft Paint.  (Le crayon mâché des logiciels pour dessiner.)  Mais je gardais l’air sérieux et assidu.
This fall, I was very busy.  I went to my classes and did almost all of my homework.  Near the end of the semester—just kidding, it was unfortunately the middle of the semester—I started to get bored during one of my psychology classes.  I decided to stop the façade of typing up notes with a serious, diligent look on my face.  From then on, I spent these classes drawing in Microsoft Paint.  (The chewed pencil of drawing programs.)  But I held on to the air of seriousness and diligence.



Aujourd’hui, c’était Halloween.  Une fille s’est déguisée comme Andy Warhol.  On a appris que dépenser de l’argent pour les autres nous donne plus de bonheur que dépenser pour nous-mêmes.  J’avais eu trop de caféine.  On a parlé des femmes qui vendent leurs ovules.
Today was Halloween.  Someone dressed up as Andy Warhol.  We learned that spending money on others makes you happier than spending money on yourself.  I had had too much caffeine.  We talked about women selling their eggs.


J’avais vraiment eu trop de caféine.  Le professeur a erré hors sujet.  On a parlé de donner son sang et la hiérarchie de Maslow.
I had really had too much caffeine.  The professor lurched off-topic.  We talked about donating blood and Maslow’s hierarchy.


Beaucoup d'aspects du comportement des humains sont irrationnels, surtout nos moyens de chercher le bonheur.  L’argent.  Personne ne lit de livres académiques.
Many things about human behavior are irrational, especially the way we seek happiness.  Money.  No one reads academic books.


La technologie n’est pas bonne pour les cerveaux et les rapports, mais on l’aime comme un fou quand même.
Technology isn’t good for our brains or our relationships, but we are crazy in love with it anyway.


On a un moi privé et un moi public.  Les « millennials » ne savent quoi faire avec des tas de papier.  On traite les autres des machines « sur demande. »  Rectangles.
We have a private self and a public self.  Millennials don’t know what to do with heaps of paper.  We treat others like on-demand machines.  Rectangles.


Je suis distraite.  On n’entend pas ce qu’on ne veut pas entendre.  Le prof a une question pour nous.
I am daydreaming.  We don’t hear what we don’t want to hear.  The professor has a question for us.

5 comments:

  1. I have HAD IT with these motherf---ng font sizes in this motherf---ing blog. If anyone knows how to use Blogger, please help me scratch things on my cave walls.

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  2. Looks OK to me on my iPhone, but Firefox shows slightly different sizes (had to use a laptop in order to post a comment). But weird font stuff can happen if you copy/paste from another program like Word, or if you're formatting the font differently from your default template. Or it could just be an issue with how your browser is displaying the page (hint: if you're using Internet Explorer, return to 2001, do not pass Go). Easiest solution would be to copy all the text into a simple program like Notepad or TextEdit that will strip out the formatting. Then go to the HTML tab of the post, and delete everything, so any junk code is eliminated. Then switch back to Compose and paste the non-formatted text in again, then put the images back in. Let me know if you still have issues...

    Also I wanted to say I literally loled in the car mechanic waiting room when I saw your Shibe-speak image. That meme both makes me laugh and makes me want to stab my eyes out because it is so stupid. An impressive psychological feat.

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  3. Chrome shows different sizes too. I'll try using Notepad as an intermediary next time. This would be easier if I had a French keyboard. As of now, Microsoft Word is the only program in which I can type in French, through a slew of customized keyboard shortcuts, so all of my French communication must originate there. Thanks for the advice and the lol! such grateful, much cool, wow.

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  4. Aha, I messed around with Blogger for a while and it looks much better.

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  5. Any chance this was Paul Solomon? He was phoning it in as of ten years ago. Actually stated to one of his classes that he attempts to discourage enrollment by requesting early morning sections. Feel free to respond offline.

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