ethics, shmethics
A tale told in bullets:
1.) I woke up this morning at 6am. Not on purpose.
2.) SK made me toast and a boiled egg so I'd have some energy for my test.
3.) SK told me she was mauled by a hot dyke during her first-aid training yesterday. At first, she let me think it was not such a hot dyke who did the mauling, and I was ready to go find and beat up that dyke. But then she told me the name of the dyke in question and... well... she's pretty hot in a powerful and exotic sort of way. Somehow, my playful jealousy morphed into a sort of pride. Good job, sweetie. You attracted the attention of somebody really yummy. You get a gold star.
4.) I drove to the University of Portland. Woe be unto anyone who read my last post and believed what I wrote and went to take the MPRE at Portland State University. That was WRONG WRONG WRONG. I knew where the place was located, I just accidentally used the wrong name. Mea Culpa.
5.) Speaking of mea culpa, U of P had a lot of Jesus stuff around. Have I lived here 6 years w/o realizing U of P is a Catholic university? I swear to god, my exam room had a wooden crucifix hanging on the wall by the door. Yikes. I felt a little bit harrassed by that limp corpse of Jesus, just hanging there and looking down on me -- if I fail the MPRE, I'm suing.
6.) While the limp corpse of Jesus is allowed in the exam room, water bottles and earplugs are not. WTF??? Can I not stay hydrated while I take my exam?!? Can I not block out the sounds of my neighbors' sighs and shuffling feet w/ my giant, orange earplugs?? Are you kidding? How could I possibly cheat with a clear Nalgene bottle and foam earplugs? Felt like ridiculous overkill after the bar. Sure, they were adamant about NO CELLPHONES, but that makes sense. Water bottles and earplugs? I considered those things *necessary* until today. Oh well. Another reason to sue if I fail.
7.) That's all. It was over fast and I left in a hurry and now I'm home waiting for the reality of my newly realized freedom to dawn. Or waiting to feel motivated to clean my house. After two and a half months of neglect, it could really use it.
1.) I woke up this morning at 6am. Not on purpose.
2.) SK made me toast and a boiled egg so I'd have some energy for my test.
3.) SK told me she was mauled by a hot dyke during her first-aid training yesterday. At first, she let me think it was not such a hot dyke who did the mauling, and I was ready to go find and beat up that dyke. But then she told me the name of the dyke in question and... well... she's pretty hot in a powerful and exotic sort of way. Somehow, my playful jealousy morphed into a sort of pride. Good job, sweetie. You attracted the attention of somebody really yummy. You get a gold star.
4.) I drove to the University of Portland. Woe be unto anyone who read my last post and believed what I wrote and went to take the MPRE at Portland State University. That was WRONG WRONG WRONG. I knew where the place was located, I just accidentally used the wrong name. Mea Culpa.
5.) Speaking of mea culpa, U of P had a lot of Jesus stuff around. Have I lived here 6 years w/o realizing U of P is a Catholic university? I swear to god, my exam room had a wooden crucifix hanging on the wall by the door. Yikes. I felt a little bit harrassed by that limp corpse of Jesus, just hanging there and looking down on me -- if I fail the MPRE, I'm suing.
6.) While the limp corpse of Jesus is allowed in the exam room, water bottles and earplugs are not. WTF??? Can I not stay hydrated while I take my exam?!? Can I not block out the sounds of my neighbors' sighs and shuffling feet w/ my giant, orange earplugs?? Are you kidding? How could I possibly cheat with a clear Nalgene bottle and foam earplugs? Felt like ridiculous overkill after the bar. Sure, they were adamant about NO CELLPHONES, but that makes sense. Water bottles and earplugs? I considered those things *necessary* until today. Oh well. Another reason to sue if I fail.
7.) That's all. It was over fast and I left in a hurry and now I'm home waiting for the reality of my newly realized freedom to dawn. Or waiting to feel motivated to clean my house. After two and a half months of neglect, it could really use it.
posted by reasonably prudent poet at 11:19 AM
6 Comments:
Wooooooo! Congrats on finishing once and for all! Too bad about JC - hope he didn't fuck you up too much.
Bullet #3 - You are hilarious. I wish Katr had given me a gold star the one time I got hit on by a sex columnist/burlesque dancer after a performance. Instead, she just DIDN'T BELIEVE ME. Clearly, she was jealous.
I got some crucifixes in my room but no jesuses on them. i have a Jesus and also a Mary, but they are not being crucified.
We don't have alot of crucifixes at my baptist college. but i did go to a doctor's office once a few years ago and they had crucifixes everywhere. and a poster of mel gibson's passion of the christ, which had just come out. obviously i go to a christian school and have no problem with christianity-based places like that, but something about christianity going with medicine didn't seem appropriate, anyway i didn't go back to that doctor's office.
roro -- thanks! sk definitely deserves a gold star. and wow -- that's just cold, coming from katr. obvious jealousy.
scg -- correct me if i'm wrong, but i thought the defining feature of a "crucifix" was the crucified christ? which distinguishes the crucifix from the simple "cross" -- which is just a cross. that's what i always thought.
anyway, while i am not a hater of jesus, i'm not a christian either and i was really surprised to see so much of jesus around the u of p campus. i'd made the assumption that it was a public university -- obviously it's not.
of course, as a law person, i'm curious about the first amendment implications of making us take the ethics exam in a room w/ a prominently displayed crucifix. unfortunately, i don't have the brain power to really think the issue through today. oh well.
oh, i didn't even know there was a dif in crucifixes and crosses. but i guess i was wrong. ok then, i have CROSSES but no jesuses on them. yeah, "crosses" is more appropriate anyway, cuz these little ceramic cute things i have are nothing like the actual wooden things that romans used to kill people with. i'm glad you told me that so i won't go around a ignorant hillbilly anymore. (Not on that subject, at least).
i don't think that anybody cares about separation of church and state when it comes to taking tests. i went to a public high school, and when we had to take our ap english exam, we took it at a local CHURCH (yeah, that's right), and there were crucifixes (yeah, with Jesus) in there, but only like 1 or 2 in the room we were in. i had the same doubts you did about the legality of it.
Don't you know that if you have Jesus, you don't NEED water bottles or ear plugs? Come on, everyone knows that...
I wish I had a limp Jesus corpse.
Steve~
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