fall break?
Oct. 12th, 2005 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jocelynceeAnother semester has come to its midpoint, a sentence punctuated by an all-too-insufficient hyphen known as KU's Fall Break.
Don't get me wrong; at least WE get one. ASU sucks forever as the school that gives no vacation until Thanksgiving.
It's a four-day weekend. Which is good, except: 1) all the professors say "you have four days! surely you can get THIS assignment done!" 2) take-home mid-terms 3) it's not long enough to really go anywhere, mainly because of #1 and #2.
So it's a long, working weekend. Somewhere in here I hope to write a paper for a class in Germany that I haven't had time yet to write. I truly and honestly suck sometimes. So I'm not going to the college reunion of the current flame because I have to write a paper that was technically due yesterday.
*sigh* At least I don't have to teach class or write lesson plans for two days this week. That is a nice thing.
I still wish I could GO somewhere. I like traveling, and I'd love a break from all this madness that is the aftermath of last week's fire.
Don't get me wrong; at least WE get one. ASU sucks forever as the school that gives no vacation until Thanksgiving.
It's a four-day weekend. Which is good, except: 1) all the professors say "you have four days! surely you can get THIS assignment done!" 2) take-home mid-terms 3) it's not long enough to really go anywhere, mainly because of #1 and #2.
So it's a long, working weekend. Somewhere in here I hope to write a paper for a class in Germany that I haven't had time yet to write. I truly and honestly suck sometimes. So I'm not going to the college reunion of the current flame because I have to write a paper that was technically due yesterday.
*sigh* At least I don't have to teach class or write lesson plans for two days this week. That is a nice thing.
I still wish I could GO somewhere. I like traveling, and I'd love a break from all this madness that is the aftermath of last week's fire.
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Date: 2005-10-12 11:06 pm (UTC)I'd quite frankly rather have a guilty person be set free than an innocent convicted of a crime like this. *frown*
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Date: 2005-10-12 11:18 pm (UTC)Oh, the KC Star fucked up nicely today I think. The first glance line today in the front-page article about the fire: "Court records showed that the 20-year-old man arrested Tuesday in connection with the fire had a 2003 misdemeanor theft conviction for stealing lighters when he was 17."
That's just asking to be hysterically latched onto. Seriously. There could be a connection, but I think that some people will give it more weight than it deserves.
Re: from a journalistic perspective...
Date: 2005-10-15 05:03 pm (UTC)Realizing that I'm being unreasonable about this, but sometimes I have a poor opinion of people in general. Not individuals, mind you, but the mob mentality.
It does seem related, that is true. And considering what else I've heard (that he reputedly had a history of playing with fire while in foster care) it's probably relevant.
On that day, it just seemed like sparking hysteria. But then, I was not in the most stable of moods myself that day. :/
As to working alone, there's no telling. At least, not with what the public knows. The investigators certainly have a better idea than we do.