So three of my students failed to even bother to write their research papers worth 25% of their final grade, yet they still come to class. Denial? Idle hopes that class participation will see them through to the glory fields of a hard-earned C? Total cluelessness? I don't get it. It was a seven page paper, for chrissakes.
The result of a recent domestic dispute regarding the grocery bill has resulted in a contest between Paully and I.
First, the dispute: Jen claims the pooled grocery money ought to be spent at the local hippie-fied co-op, where Jen gets a discount because she volunteers. But even so, co-op groceries, being organic, local, are expensive. Paul claims the pooled grocery money ought to be spent at Win-co, a Cub Foods type place that is cheap and has a few organic offerings. (y'all have Cub in Ohio, right? Big boxy discount place?)
The contest: For the next month, we split the grocery money in half. Paul must spend his half only at Winco, Jen only at the co-op. We will reconvene in a month and see who bought what for how much. Paul's claim: Jen will starve because there's no way she can ration $144 over a month's worth of co-op groceries. Jen's claim: Paul's support of the profit-minded Winco and their genetically engineered produce section will support the longterm BAD THINGS about America, and 40 years from now he will rue the day he pledged his allegiance to ten ramen soups for a dollar. Game on.
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