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The Goblin Countdown
05/11/2004 09:31 pmIckle Izzie is feeling sort of strange today. Grumpy and cranky and extremely irritable. It's especially annoying to find a nice quiet little computer lab and then to have one's space invaded by a bunch of squawking gits. Oh. The evil eye must have worked. They have just pissed off.
Was supposed to go to the annual Frogfest over at one of the nature reserve lakes on the other side of Dursleyville. Was last there two years ago. There's a special walkway through the swamps and marshes so you can get right in the middle of froggie territory and then afterwards they have a barbecue and sausage sizzle. Iz even put on her proper shoes today because the area is notorious for tiger snakes. Wearing sandals would be pretty silly even for a creature like Iz who likes the dear little things. Not only are they venomous but they are sort of snappy and like to stand their ground rather than slink off unobtrusively like most serpents.
But the Iz felt so frazzled and frumpy that we ended up not going in the end.
The ma has been reminding the Iz with great glee about how many weeks are left of the Izzie goblin days. And today it was sort of strange. At 11.30 today was Izzie's very very last Goblin class. It was managerial accounting.
In two weeks time will be the exams and some time after that, the ickle Izzie will be cast into internet exile. Will no longer be able to save stuff except in LJ and will not even be able to download any attachments in email except in the weekly visits to the ma's place.
Been looking through the questionses trying to work out where the instructions are for LJ picture hosting but have found absolutely nothing at all.
So we'll soon have to start moving stuff onto one of those USB thingies or saving all the Izzie goblin files as geekmail attachments.
This silly subject - managerial accounting has 30% of the mark as assignments and stuff and a ridiculous 70% for a two hour exam. That is really simply outrageous. Last time the Iz had an exam worth 70% was also last November. It just happened to be the third day of a stinking heatwave with 80% plus humidity. Iz got 70% in the mid semester exam that was worth the other 30% of the total mark and there was no reason why the big one should have been much different. Well, there would have been no reason if the Iz had not spent the night awake because it was so damned hot and stuffy and then turns up to the exam brain dead and totally stuffs it up. Somehow managed to scrape a 53 in Taxation. But that was cutting it pretty damned close.
Well. This time will be going into the exam with 25.4 of the necessary 50 marks to pass already accumulated so that is pretty reassuring. So it should not be too difficult to get 25 out of 70. Of course we are aiming a bit higher than that. 45/70 is what the Iz wants and if she stops procrastinating, it should be quite possible. Especially as this is what Iz calls one of those buzzword bingo units.
Cornelius's class has an exam only worth 40% of the total. Of all the subjects that the Iz has done, this is the only one where we are going into the exam without any feedback at all. We have not received one single mark for anything. This idiot is coming up with all sorts of excuses why and for the first time, just about everybody is pissed off with him and not just Izzie, Megan and Elizabeth (also known as the Axis of Evil) He will simply not listen when we were all complaining and saying that we need to know where we stand going into the exam. He keeps saying that marks are not the main thing. This fixation of students on marks is extremely unhealthy and that there should be other reasons for learning.
Will get back to Fudgie boy later. It just so happened that yesterday was the day that we got to mark him and it wasn't just Izzie filling in lots of 2's and 3's out of 10 in the various parts of these silly student assessment surveys. Not only are they supposed to be anonymous but every single other teacher has had a student collect all the forms and place them in an envelope and seal and sign it and hand it to a rep from Student Services so that the teacher never gets their paws on them. He never did that. He did leave the room and got his partner in Crime to put them in the envelope. She was glancing at them 'to make sure that no one had forgotten any questions' They did also have special comment forms that are optional. Unlike the others, these are not designed to be scanned by a computer in the Department of Student Services but are a chance to give direct feedback to the teachers. Anonymous of course - well as anonymous as hand writing can ever be.
You can fill them out with suggestions about what was good and bad and what improvements could be made. Iz had considered at one stage filling one in. It's one thing doing it when you have already accumulated 60% of your mark but when you don't know what that mark actualy is, it would be like kissing a tiger snake. You would never be able to prove that they didn't fail you out of sheer malice. And since there's not many folks in the class, it would not be too hard to guess who had written which comments.
The ma was always telling the Iz not to rock the boat and bite the hand that feeds her but the Izzie attitude is that she will not sell her soul and be a brown nose. Especially when they make a big thing about wanting us to think about issues and that you can say whatever you like as long as you can justify your position and back it up with logical argument. They did not actually like it at all when any of us did just exactly that but they did not have a leg to stand on because we were playing by the rules.
Was supposed to go to the annual Frogfest over at one of the nature reserve lakes on the other side of Dursleyville. Was last there two years ago. There's a special walkway through the swamps and marshes so you can get right in the middle of froggie territory and then afterwards they have a barbecue and sausage sizzle. Iz even put on her proper shoes today because the area is notorious for tiger snakes. Wearing sandals would be pretty silly even for a creature like Iz who likes the dear little things. Not only are they venomous but they are sort of snappy and like to stand their ground rather than slink off unobtrusively like most serpents.
But the Iz felt so frazzled and frumpy that we ended up not going in the end.
The ma has been reminding the Iz with great glee about how many weeks are left of the Izzie goblin days. And today it was sort of strange. At 11.30 today was Izzie's very very last Goblin class. It was managerial accounting.
In two weeks time will be the exams and some time after that, the ickle Izzie will be cast into internet exile. Will no longer be able to save stuff except in LJ and will not even be able to download any attachments in email except in the weekly visits to the ma's place.
Been looking through the questionses trying to work out where the instructions are for LJ picture hosting but have found absolutely nothing at all.
So we'll soon have to start moving stuff onto one of those USB thingies or saving all the Izzie goblin files as geekmail attachments.
This silly subject - managerial accounting has 30% of the mark as assignments and stuff and a ridiculous 70% for a two hour exam. That is really simply outrageous. Last time the Iz had an exam worth 70% was also last November. It just happened to be the third day of a stinking heatwave with 80% plus humidity. Iz got 70% in the mid semester exam that was worth the other 30% of the total mark and there was no reason why the big one should have been much different. Well, there would have been no reason if the Iz had not spent the night awake because it was so damned hot and stuffy and then turns up to the exam brain dead and totally stuffs it up. Somehow managed to scrape a 53 in Taxation. But that was cutting it pretty damned close.
Well. This time will be going into the exam with 25.4 of the necessary 50 marks to pass already accumulated so that is pretty reassuring. So it should not be too difficult to get 25 out of 70. Of course we are aiming a bit higher than that. 45/70 is what the Iz wants and if she stops procrastinating, it should be quite possible. Especially as this is what Iz calls one of those buzzword bingo units.
Cornelius's class has an exam only worth 40% of the total. Of all the subjects that the Iz has done, this is the only one where we are going into the exam without any feedback at all. We have not received one single mark for anything. This idiot is coming up with all sorts of excuses why and for the first time, just about everybody is pissed off with him and not just Izzie, Megan and Elizabeth (also known as the Axis of Evil) He will simply not listen when we were all complaining and saying that we need to know where we stand going into the exam. He keeps saying that marks are not the main thing. This fixation of students on marks is extremely unhealthy and that there should be other reasons for learning.
Will get back to Fudgie boy later. It just so happened that yesterday was the day that we got to mark him and it wasn't just Izzie filling in lots of 2's and 3's out of 10 in the various parts of these silly student assessment surveys. Not only are they supposed to be anonymous but every single other teacher has had a student collect all the forms and place them in an envelope and seal and sign it and hand it to a rep from Student Services so that the teacher never gets their paws on them. He never did that. He did leave the room and got his partner in Crime to put them in the envelope. She was glancing at them 'to make sure that no one had forgotten any questions' They did also have special comment forms that are optional. Unlike the others, these are not designed to be scanned by a computer in the Department of Student Services but are a chance to give direct feedback to the teachers. Anonymous of course - well as anonymous as hand writing can ever be.
You can fill them out with suggestions about what was good and bad and what improvements could be made. Iz had considered at one stage filling one in. It's one thing doing it when you have already accumulated 60% of your mark but when you don't know what that mark actualy is, it would be like kissing a tiger snake. You would never be able to prove that they didn't fail you out of sheer malice. And since there's not many folks in the class, it would not be too hard to guess who had written which comments.
The ma was always telling the Iz not to rock the boat and bite the hand that feeds her but the Izzie attitude is that she will not sell her soul and be a brown nose. Especially when they make a big thing about wanting us to think about issues and that you can say whatever you like as long as you can justify your position and back it up with logical argument. They did not actually like it at all when any of us did just exactly that but they did not have a leg to stand on because we were playing by the rules.
