What do you "assign" to the Shire? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lhunardawen · 12-05-2006, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Celuien

Lengthy conversations with my sister about the Krebs cycle via IM...written in 1337. Such fun.

Wow.

Celuien · 12-06-2006, 06:59 AM

We were trying to come up with a story about the cycle to help her memorize it for finals next week. Finals, by the way, belong in Mordor, and I'm glad I don't have final exams anymore. It was a pretty horrible story. Example: It all started when Ox[aloacetate] and Py[ruvate] got together over orange juice [=citrus fruit = citrate]. Then they left, so the juice was alone [alone = isolated = isocitrate].

I think the 1337 made the story more memorable.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 12-06-2006, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Celuien

Finals, by the way, belong in Mordor

So true. My only two finals are both the last day of finals week.

I assign the friends of mine that are paying for me to eat next week, because I've got about $30 left on my meal card to last me until next Friday.

littlemanpoet · 12-06-2006, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Celuien

It all started when Ox[aloacetate] and Py[ruvate] got together over orange juice [=citrus fruit = citrate]. Then they left, so the juice was alone [alone = isolated = isocitrate].

I say old bean, that most assuredly belongs in Mordor - or at least ATM.

THE Ka · 12-06-2006, 04:01 PM

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So true. My only two finals are both the last day of finals week.

I feel guilty for celebrating the end of the quarter now, since my finals ended yesterday, and all of my friends have them today and tomorrow. Well, at least there is friday.

I assign to the Shire finals via final papers. They seem to be less of a worry over, and much more rewarding to turn in. Especially when you can finally go to sleep at night and not have half of the paper going through your head, because you've re-read it millions of times.

~ Ka

Orominuialwen · 12-11-2006, 01:15 AM

Having one of your classes finish more than a month before all your others. And having the final for said class be a take-home test.

Tea. Especially chai. There's nothing better to warm you up on a cold day than a steaming mug.

Kath · 12-11-2006, 03:17 AM

Sitting in the kitchen trying to revise, and being interrupted by the sudden need of my housemates to be 5 again. We made paper snowflakes and started a collection for Christmas decorations, and we made an extremely irreverent nativity scene. It was great fun.

Lalwendë · 12-11-2006, 12:38 PM

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Sitting in the kitchen trying to revise, and being interrupted by the sudden need of my housemates to be 5 again. We made paper snowflakes and started a collection for Christmas decorations, and we made an extremely irreverent nativity scene. It was great fun.

Christmas is so much fun when you live in a shared house - we used to have a traditional enormous pre-Christmas feast, before everyone went home for the season. One of the blokes would cook it and we'd cram into the living room and eat until we burst. Lovely.

Sent it before and I send it again: Christmas! Fab! I've just come home from an afternoon spent eating and drinking with colleagues and laughing about weird stuff, to a lovely fully trimmed up living room. I've got about 300 white lights and a load of blue ones in the window and its lovely and cosy. Two weeks today I shall be lying on the settee, full of roast beef and gravy and roast taters and sprouts and feeling all content, like any good Hobbit should.

littlemanpoet · 12-11-2006, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by THE Ka

Especially when you can finally go to sleep at night and not have half of the paper going through your head, because you've re-read it millions of times.

Huh. I s'pose I slept better in uni than the average bloke, but it would've done me good grade-wise if maybe I'd re-read my papers more than about half a time....

12-06-2006, 06:59 AM	#2
Celuien Riveting Ribbiter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Assigned to Mordor Posts: 1,767	We were trying to come up with a story about the cycle to help her memorize it for finals next week. Finals, by the way, belong in Mordor, and I'm glad I don't have final exams anymore. It was a pretty horrible story. Example: It all started when Ox[aloacetate] and Py[ruvate] got together over orange juice [=citrus fruit = citrate]. Then they left, so the juice was alone [alone = isolated = isocitrate]. I think the 1337 made the story more memorable. __________________ People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.

12-11-2006, 01:15 AM	#6
Orominuialwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA) Posts: 632	Having one of your classes finish more than a month before all your others. And having the final for said class be a take-home test. Tea. Especially chai. There's nothing better to warm you up on a cold day than a steaming mug. __________________ Gone for lentSeeyou at Easter! (And on Sundays too, maybe.)

12-11-2006, 03:17 AM	#7
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Sitting in the kitchen trying to revise, and being interrupted by the sudden need of my housemates to be 5 again. We made paper snowflakes and started a collection for Christmas decorations, and we made an extremely irreverent nativity scene. It was great fun. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”