Okay. I don't know if I've explained the Interdisciplinary Unit or not we're doing for our Middle Level Methods class, so here's a quick overview: Four people to a group. Each person has a subject (Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts). Each group is to come up with a theme or unit that all these subjects can cover. We do Astronomy. We meet only in class. The group discusses and decides to email eachother outside of class with our ideas by a certain date (November 22nd, the day before Thanksgiving, to be exact). I email mine a few days early to every member of our group. I don't hear anything from anyone in our group. A couple days ago, I get an email from a member, saying she is snowed in on the other side of the state. Then I get an email from another member today, 5 hours before class, saying, "I haven't heard from So and So yet, now what?"
Well, shit, I don't know. So and So was the member who was the most gung-ho about the entire thing, and yet whenever she came to class, she never had any ideas for her own subject area, just everyone else's. It is now an hour and a half before class starts. We're going to try to meet an hour before class and get shit figured out. Well, I know two of the four of us are going to meet before class, I don't know if the other two are even going to get the email and show up.
This is stupid because this is a group project. If one person doesn't pull their weight, the rest of us are screwed. So that's great. I freakin' hate group projects unless it's a partner thing and there are only two of you. Less people to depend on, basically.
Also, my Computer teacher keeps giving us assignments. One due tomorrow, one due Monday, we have a final project she's going to talk about tomorrow, plus we have our final. There is only a week and a half of school left until finals! Our final project is due AFTER we take our final test! She didn't do a very good job of putting everything together, since now we have all this extra stuff due at the very end, and she let us out of class early so many times, gave us tons of "Work Days" and crap like that, and now we have all this crap due at the very end. Grr.
One more thing. 8am yesterday morning: *Bam Bam Bam!* *Ding Dong, Ding Dong* *Bam Bam Bam!* *Ding Dong, Ding Dong* WTF! It's something important, otherwise they wouldn't have kept knocking on the door and ringing the doorbell. Aaron and I are both sound asleep when this happens, wake up, fumble around for our glasses, race to the door, open it to find the landlord. "You guys haven't smelled anything weird in your apartment, have you?" he asks. "No," we reply, "I think it's the heater out in the hallway." "Oh, okay," he says, and leaves.
The heater in the hallway, for some background information, has been running on a fairly high level to keep the entryway warm, as it's been below freezing every day for the last 4-5 days. And out in the hallway it smells like a combination of gasoline and oil. All the time. The smell, however, is strongest by our door, and the door of the boiler room, not by the heater. So I guess he was just making sure we weren't going to die due to gas inhalation. Which was nice of him to care, but it still smells like that in the hallway. We're not sure where it's coming from, and apparently, neither is he, because he shut off the heater, and it still smells like that. I bet it's coming from the boiler room, which shares a wall with our kitchen and the computer room. Hope nothing blows up. If it does, I have renter's insurance, however.
Such stress! I'll blog more later, about work and hours getting switched around and people not happy about it, but this post is plenty long without all of that.
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