Have you ever found yourself wondering what we think of Bobby Holik? Wonder no more! That is just one of few topics covered in the most recent edition of the IPB Hour! We cover all of the aspects of Free Agency Day (that we could remember from a week ago on this a lazy summer work night)! Bobby Holik impersonations, Wild West history, Pando jubilation, we’ve got it all!
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IPB Hour Episode Seven; 33 min.
I do a mean Bobby Holik impression myself!
I just listened to a bit…your Holik voice was really good!
That was an impressive 1:42! (Updated Note: You fixed it, thanks) Much better than The Trap!
Also: Rolston isn’t so much icing on the cake as he’s the cake itself. He’s got filling as he can play any forward position. He’s got substance as he’s a proven scorer on a Minnesota team in recent seasons. He’s got flavor with a slap shot that could finally – FINALLY – improve the power play.
Oooh! I love a good Holik impression — we’ll have to meet up so we can hear yours, Pam!
Speaking as a Pando fan, Rolston was the icing on the cake of a UFA day that saw Pando re-sign. :P (I’m mostly joking, of course. Rollie is definitely the cake itself. :D)
I love that everyone’s got a Bobby Holik impersonation!
John, that cake analogy was so poetic!
That was an impressive 1:42! (Updated Note: You fixed it, thanks)
Was it not playing right when you first tried it? Sorry about that! I actually didn’t touch it after it got published (I generally only listen to the first few seconds once it’s published) so whatever the problem was, it apparently fixed itself! Nice!
Mmmmm… Rolston. I love his shootout slapshot.
Shootout slapshots are hott! I just hope it doesn’t lose its bite now that he’s a Devil. It seems like we’re the kind of team that would bring back the Rolston who was notorious for either shooting wide or hitting the goalie straight in the center of his chest all the time. :P
Boooo. Mo signed with the Ducks. How did Mo, Nazzy, and Bert end up signing with the three teams that I loathe the most? Heh. That’s just strange. And apparently we’re signing Demitra tomorrow. I’d rather have Mo…
Lovely podcast ladies! I don’t think I can do any player impressions. Although I stole Bert’s “It is what it is.” when I don’t want to explain something. Hee.
Oh, no, alix. I’m so sorry! He signed with the Ducks? That’s crazy. He’ll regret it, if that makes you feel better. Guys like Pronger don’t make exceptions for teammates, you know. :D
Poor guy.
He’ll get to hang out with Burkie and Nonis again. But yeah. Pronger. *Shudder* Gillis better have something up his sleeve besides praying to Ikea that Sundin wants to sign with Vancouver. Because this sucks so far…
I’m only three minutes in and I already fell out of my chair laughing. I’m not sure if that was a Holik or muppet impersonation.
Gillis better have something up his sleeve besides praying to Ikea that Sundin wants to sign with Vancouver.
You never know… the ones that don’t do anything might be the smart ones.
I think may favorite part was the part at the end about Toronto looking at what the Devils were doing and decided to sign CuJo.
I also agree that letting Jagr and Avery go was the worst thing that the Rangers could do from a couple certain slag faced whores’ perspective.
Holik is Marty’s studefish. It’s the concept that hott people hang out with ugly people to make themselves more attractive.
I know this feeling, so I connect with Bobby, a tad.
notorious for either shooting wide or hitting the goalie straight in the center of his chest all the time.
Somewhere in the Czech Republic, Al Kotalik’s ears are burning.
And happy Tuesday morning, IPB!
I also agree that letting Jagr and Avery go was the worst thing that the Rangers could do from a couple certain slag faced whores’ perspective.
Exxxxxcellent!
Also, no Muppet sounds as derranged as Bobby Holik!
Happy Tuesday morning to you, Amy!
Morning, IPB!
I only got a chance to listen to the first two minutes of the podcast before I was rudely interrupted, so hopefully, I’ll have a chance to finish that up this evening.
Bummer!
Oh, alix, I meant to say earlier, I’m so sorry Morrison signed with the Ducks! That’s rough.
You guys, today has been BRUTAL. I was in the office at 7:20 (in the morning) for last-minute preparations for this high-level, super-important videoconference my VP tasked me to administer. So after doing some email catchup and housekeeping here, I drive over to the site that’s hosting the meeting, thinking I’m just going to touch base, make sure they get things started right, and then book it. But no. My VP asks me to stay for the whole four-hour affair so I can distribute microphones during the various Q&A sessions. So I settle in, and when the first Q&A starts, I’m ready to do my job and all… but then the VP leaps to her feet and enthusiastically emcees the session (and all the ensuing ones) herself. So I just spent my morning attending a four-hour presentation on medical imaging in various stages of drug discovery and development. My science quota for the next SIX MONTHS has been met.
alix, I second the sympthy on the Morrison front. What kind of person VOLUNTARILY signs with the Ducks? I’m SO sorry! :(
Frisby, :^::::::::::::::::::::: to the muppet comment!
Schnookie, that’s awful. I’m so sorry you had to do that!
Thanks Meg! If I don’t get one of our fancy little cash awards for going above and beyond after sitting through that whole meeting, I’m going to be so pissed! :P (Just kidding. Although on the way out, one of the scientists in my group was telling me that I’d picked a good meeting to get stuck in, because at least we were looking at pictures of MRIs and stuff like that. She said that if it had been any other subject, she would have had to leave during the midway break because it would have given her a headache. And she’s a scientist!)
The salespeople in my office have to go to an hour or so presentation for Shrek the Musical today. I don’t know if that is as bad as a four hour presentation about pharms but I’ve been to a couple of these, and if the show doesn’t supply food & booze it can be quite uh hellish.
Schnookie, that’s AWFUL!
Did you sit in your chair and roll your eyes and make faces and huffing noises to show your misery? That’s what I usually do. :D
I dunno, Morgan. The fact that there’s even the possibility of food and booze makes it better just on principle. :P (How about we combine them into a four-hour, food-and-booze-free presentation on medical imaging on Shrek the Musical? That would be a humdinger of sheer boredom!)
Shrek The Musical vs. four hours of MRIs… Hmm… That’s a tough call.
Did you sit in your chair and roll your eyes and make faces and huffing noises to show your misery?
I think I did all those things involuntarily as I was struggling not to visibly fall asleep! :D
Schnookie, that’s awful. I hope at the very least you get to leave early for sitting through four hours of medical talk.
There’s going to be a Shrek musical? Is the world really crying out for one?
What, Amy, you’re not ordering your Shrek The Musical tickets in advance?
There’s going to be a Shrek musical? Is the world really crying out for one?
Apparently so.
At least they’re not calling it “The New DreamWorks Musical: Shrek” so I (grudgingly) suppose it’s got that going for it. Then again, I’d rate the chances of my going to see it as exactly nil.
Sounds like torture, Schnookie. I hate it when I have to go to seminars (about some pompous jerk’s research) every wednesday during the semester. Usually I do the wonderword from the newspaper.
My science quota for the next SIX MONTHS has been met
If only mine could be filled. Unfortunately it will take a lifetime.
Shrek the Musical & Billy Elliot the Musical are the big fall shows this year.
And yes Shrek came about because Dreamworks saw how much cabbage Disney is making on Lion King and Mary Poppins and Little Mermaid (kinda – Little Mermaid really stinks actually).
Still with Disney and Dreamworks, and Grease being cast be reality shows etc., Broadway just continous a slow and painful slide into becoming glorified, expensive Six Flags shows…
I think in meant continues… Spelling gene? Ain’t got it!
Still with Disney and Dreamworks, and Grease being cast be reality shows etc., Broadway just continous a slow and painful slide into becoming glorified, expensive Six Flags shows…
Well at least I don’t have to feel bad about not even being able to afford the cheap seats to those shows. :)
glorified, expensive Six Flags shows
I shouldn’t laugh but… :^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
I worked for a summer as an assistant stage manager for a small opera company that was affiliated with a big, well-known, very popular summer peforming arts center. This was back when Riverdance was huge; they were performing for a week or two at the big center. One day the big head cheese for the opera sat in on one of the final rehearsal run throughs. When it ended he walked to the stage and said stuffily, “Well, it’s no Riverdance.” That’s what shows like Shrek the Musical make me think. “Well, it’s no Shrek the Musical…”
Usually I do the wonderword from the newspaper.
If I’d known I was going to be stuck in the meeting, I’d have brought the NYT crossword! :D
(And I don’t mean to badmouth science or anything. I’m just a terribly incurious person and always hated science of any kind. As someone was telling me this morning about how much I could learn about medical imaging, I was thinking, “There’s a reason I have a degree in Art History.”)
Broadway just continous a slow and painful slide into becoming glorified, expensive Six Flags shows…
Ouch. And :^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Still with Disney and Dreamworks, and Grease being cast be reality shows etc., Broadway just continous a slow and painful slide into becoming glorified, expensive Six Flags shows…
The Grease casting show was just painful. I gave up after the first episode.
“Well, it’s no Shrek the Musical…”
Hee!
Alix, I’m really sorry about B-Mo signing with the Ducks. You gonna be ok?
Going to listen to the podcast now! (it just came up in iTunes, so yay!)
I’m just a terribly incurious person and always hated science of any kind.
Is the MacGyver seven-season marathon having no impact on you?! For shame!
(Just kidding.)
Is the MacGyver seven-season marathon having no impact on you?! For shame!
Well if it was a four-hour presentation on the use of smoke bombs made out of household cleaners in drug discovery and development, I would have been hanging on every word!
I’m just a terribly incurious person and always hated science of any kind. As someone was telling me this morning about how much I could learn about medical imaging, I was thinking, “There’s a reason I have a degree in Art History.”
You know, I think that’s ok. Since I totally zone out when people are talking about art stuff (but I’m trying, really hard! My also-a-barbarian sister and I went to the Van Gogh and the Rijks museum today and everything)
The Grease casting show was just painful. I gave up after the first episode.
I saw some clips on The Soup of the reality show for casting the Legally Blonde musical. That was plenty. :D
And I don’t mean to badmouth science or anything.
That’s okay, I didn’t take it that way, and even if I did, I wouldn’t mind! I hate science and I love science (it’s the math of science that really interests me – how dorky!). Sounds like something else we talk about a lot on this blog!
(it’s the math of science that really interests me – how dorky!)
One of my best friends has a PhD in biostatistics, so I don’t think that’s dorky at all! :D
I hate science and I love science (it’s the math of science that really interests me – how dorky!)
I get the impression that I love science, but science just hates me. Luckily for me, I also love math and math apparently loves me back. So yay that :D
(bwuahahaha, Holik impression. No, no I didn’t rewind 5 times, what makes you think that?)
Yea, the Holik impression had me amused for a good 10-15 minutes after I shut down my computer last night.
Mags, I feel the same way about science and math.
Biostatistics sounds cool, but I’m more of a calculus kind of gal.
I’m glad you guys enjoyed the Holik impression! It’s been amusing us for YEARS! :P
Hey everyone!
How was the weekend? Some crazy signings. I liked the IPB Hour, summed a lot of thing up quite nicely.
Man, I love science! I’m just terrible at it. In order to graduate from college I had to take three science/math courses. I took viticulture 3 – (intro to winemaking), intro to general nutrition, and microbiology 10 – (history of infectious disease). Yep, making the parents proud.
In order to graduate from college I had to take three science/math courses.
Nice choices! I had to take two science classes to get my BFA — I took etymology and sociology of cities.
Oooh! I wish I’d had those science options! In order to get into the Early Childhood Education grad program (which I dropped out of after two weeks — so glad I went to all that trouble!) I only had to take two science courses and one math course. I took Astronomy and “Biology for Non-Science Majors”. It was me and the Div. I jocks. Heh. I totally schvitzed about the math, because I kept trying to enroll in really basic shit, and kept getting rebuffed. The worst day of my life was finding out that I wasn’t allowed to get credit for Algebra because I had placed out of it. The happiest day of my life was finding out that I was getting full “you don’t have to take another math class in your life” credit for a not-very-good AP Calculus score.
Hey, a 4 on the AP test got me out of Calc 1. I was happy for that. Of course I went all the way to Calc 5 as an undergrad, and Calc 7 as a grad…but who’s counting.
To graduate college, I had to take some humanities electives, so I went the pysch route with pysch 101, conditioning and learning, and social pysch. Fun classes, actually.
I took “Disease: Myth and Reality” and “Environmental Science” as my two science classes. The former was nothing more complicated than high school health, while the latter focused on environmental disasters and was a lot of newspaper reading.
Yes, I realized that I spelled “Psych” wrong every time in that comment. If only I had been using Firefox!
Nice choices! I had to take two science classes to get my BFA — I took etymology and sociology of cities.
Sociology of cities? That sounds awesome and far from science. Kick ass.
I totally schvitzed about the math, because I kept trying to enroll in really basic shit, and kept getting rebuffed.
That’s exactly what happened to me with the foreign language requirement! I was forced to take a years worth, so I tried to enroll in Spanish 1. But 3 years in high school meant that I had to start waaay higher than intro level. So I took Italian.
Because I’m an idiot and I didn’t know any better, I took all the advanced science and maths classes when I was in pre-dental and basically killed myself (or at least my social life) with the amount of work I had to do, but I hardly had to do anything when I did get into dental school. And now that I’ve switched and will be taking economics and marketing, I get to do all the advanced math shit all over again, because the courses aren’t coordinated between departments *headdesk*. But whatever, I was good at it, so I’ll probably live :)
Calc SEVEN??? *Faints dead away*
Amy, I think your science classes sound DELIGHTFUL. In the immortal words of Zach, if I could do it over again, I might do things differently. And take courses like those. I mean, Astronomy? Way more sciency than I expected. :P
Don’t worry Mags, the advanced math is the good stuff!
The classes I did have to take (as a mechanical/aerospace engineering major) had names that made my friends chuckle, like “Fluids”, “Vibrations”, and “Heat Transfer”
Calc 7 was my favorite. It was basically complex variable theory and intro to the calculus of variations. Saying that makes me sound smart, but I’m really not.
Life science-y things make me want to faint dead away! Like the shit my sister (Val) does. It makes my head spin.
But 3 years in high school meant that I had to start waaay higher than intro level. So I took Italian.
Same thing happened to me, including the taking of Italian. I do kind of wish that I followed through on becoming semi-fluent in either language though.
I mean, Astronomy? Way more sciency than I expected.
My physics teacher in high school had a PhD in something concerning Astronomy. Poor guy, he was so smart he couldn’t really convey everything he knew to us.
Don’t worry Mags, the advanced math is the good stuff!
Yeah, I know. It just, gah, I’ll probably be the only girl in the class again. My life is so hard! ;)
But 3 years in high school meant that I had to start waaay higher than intro level. So I took Italian.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::: I also switched languages when I got to college for that same reason. 4 years of Russian looked better on paper than it was in practice, but that wasn’t going to stop my university from making me enroll in more advanced classes than I was comfortable with. So I took Ancient Greek. (Biggest mistake of my academic life, by the way. I chased it with German to fill my 4-semester language requirement. Dude, four semesters of Greek would have killed me.)
And yeah, I’m not allowed to take the English or French Intro course on account of already speaking them, but also not allowed to enroll in any of the more advanced courses because I haven’t taken the intro. WTF is up with that!
The classes I did have to take (as a mechanical/aerospace engineering major) had names that made my friends chuckle, like “Fluids”, “Vibrations”, and “Heat Transfer”
Hee hee! That’s awesome!
Yeah, I know. It just, gah, I’ll probably be the only girl in the class again
I know that feeling
“Fluids”, “Vibrations”, and “Heat Transfer”
That is so cool! I’d last about two minutes in those classes, I bet.
I was so, so, so, so pissed that getting 5s on the English and Art History APs did not place me out of Intro to Essay Writing and Intro To Architectural History. (Shortly after the semester of Architecture History, the head of the Architectural History program said, “Why did you take that class? You shouldn’t have!” Thanks. Thanks a lot.)
Same thing happened to me, including the taking of Italian. I do kind of wish that I followed through on becoming semi-fluent in either language though.
That’s pretty funny, Amy. Great minds…
I stayed in good shape for a while, as one of my roommates was fluent in Italian and a lot of the guys I worked with were Mexican. But, it’s all fallen out of my brain now. Except I still get to practice my Italian on the guy who sells olive oil at the farmers market. But I think I keep mixing up my words, back and forth between languages.
I know that feeling
I thought you might. I took a some sort of chemical engineering in dental research class in pre-dental too, and the professor seriously asked me if I’d got lost at the start of the first lecture. It was sort of adorable and at the same time horribly sexist.
I think I keep mixing up my words, back and forth between languages.
I do that all the time, and most often I don’t even notice. People will ask me to repeat what I said and then I’ll get it right. Heh.
I was so, so, so, so pissed that getting 5s on the English and Art History APs did not place me out of Intro to Essay Writing and Intro To Architectural History.
Really? All mine did!
When I started college, I was in the IB program, so I had mixed AP/IB credits. Most universities have individual reviews for the IB credits, so they told me I’d have to sit a French credit by exam (since I didn’t take my French IB tests) but I got a nifty little letter in the mail that pretty much said “Congratulations! You never have to take an English course…EVER!” I tested out of all my English credits, all my core history credits, and 11 hours of French (I was one question off from having my full 14 hours of French taken care of). Government and Economics got taken care of, too.
I think I went into my freshman year of college with 37 credit hours pre-assessed by the university.
Wow Mags, what a jerk. Amazingly enough none of my professors ever said anything like that to me. One of them made me cry, but that had nothing to do with me being a girl (well, the crying did, but not the reason for crying). He told me I couldn’t be an engineer at his office hours because I couldn’t figure out how to do a problem that I had blown on the exam. In retrospect he was right.
I do that all the time, and most often I don’t even notice. People will ask me to repeat what I said and then I’ll get it right. Heh.
I hear ya Mags, it’s definitely tough to keep it all straight. Especially when Italian and Spanish are so similar. Get a few drinks in me and they start coming out all a mish-mash. People probably think I’m speaking Esperanto or some shit.
Really? All mine did!
NYU is stupid, I guess! In the end the English turned out OK because it meant I got to take an honors English course for arts students the second semester (yes, that’s right, NYU was going to make me take two semesters of basic, intro to writing even though I got a 5 on my English AP without breaking a sweat). I got to see MacBeth for free, and my teacher was really awesome, and my classmates were all very cool people. The Intro to Art History was less OK. What a freakin’ waste of my time. I begged the teacher to let me out of it so she gave me an impromptu pop quiz. She said, “If you can tell me the architect, date, and significance of these monuments/buildings, you can place out.” She proceded to name four really basic, obvious ones (Fallingwater, Versailles, St. Peters) and then one obscure Baroque chapel by Bramante. I was momentarily flustered so she said, “No! Take the class!” I realized five mintues too late that I should have said, “I can’t tell you the architect and date but I can tell you why I think it’s from a certain era and why it’s probably significant!” So because I didn’t think of my feet then, I had to sit through a semester of “This is a building by Frank Lloyd Wright — listen up, students! That’s Frank Lloyd Wright; we must always say that middle name! It’s part of his name!”
I think I’m turned off to art history because of the “humanities” class i had to take in high school. Instead of junior and senior yr english, the honors students had “humanities 1 and 2″.
All we did was watch boring slide shows of art and buildings and stuff and the teacher was really creepy and weird. That was probably a big factor. I’ve hated that stuff ever since. Nothing was worse than when we had to learn about classical music. So boring!
When my sister was working on her Petroleum Engineering degree, we gave her a hard time about her “Fluids” class.
But then we felt all intimidated by her “Thermodynamics” class.
For all I know, it’s the same thing.
I had to take two science classes for my Advertising degree and my goal in choosing was to not have to dissect anything. So I took environmental biology and I think ended up being mostly ocean animals. And I think I took basic geology. But not the same kind of geology classes my sister was taking, that’s for sure.
Aw man! This is nothing I love more than slideshows of art and buildings! :D I was so sad when I graduated and it meant that I would never have a reason to take a slide exam ever again.
Pam, we had to take Humanities as well, but only senior year. I had a really good teacher, so I enjoyed it quite a bit. Unfortunately I took an art history course in college with one of the worst teachers I’ve ever met…so that sort of ruined it.
my goal in choosing was to not have to dissect anything.
Word! My desire to avoid dissecting things actually extended to not wanting to do any work that required being in a lab. If there were extra lab hours involved in passing the course, it was off my list.
yes, that’s right, NYU was going to make me take two semesters of basic, intro to writing even though I got a 5 on my English AP without breaking a sweat
That totally blows! I got a 5/7 on my IB exam and breezed through ALL of my English requirements. That totally defeats the purpose of testing out! I would’ve shot myself in the head if I had to sit in a freshman comp class.
Your intro to Art History reminds me of an instructor I once had. I took an intro to Philosophy course in community college that was harder than some of the stuff I had gone over in 4-year university. The instructor was a very pompous, very intellectually snobby lady who had nothing but derision for the entire class. I learned a lot, but I wound up having to tutor half the class.
While I realize that yes, Descartes is a fundamental dude in philosophy (and I love Descartes!), taking high school age kids who have mostly done fill in the blank work sheets and then throwing stuff like Heidegger, Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard at them is pretty hardcore. When some of the kids in my class just didn’t get it or asked for more explanation, she acted like we were too stupid to live. I hated that class.
Conversely, the intro to Phil. class I took at a 4 year university? Show up to class three times during the semester, watch a movie (American History X, The Matrix..and something else) and then write a paper on the elements of philosophy you found in the movie.
I always found the reversal fairly funny, since people seem to rank 4 year schools above community colleges.
My desire to avoid dissecting things actually extended to not wanting to do any work that required being in a lab.
There were “lab” hours for my viticulture class. And by “lab” I mean either out in the vineyard, or in the fermenters, or in the tasting room. I sacrificed, for the good of science.
Unfortunately I took an art history course in college with one of the worst teachers I’ve ever met…so that sort of ruined it.
Awww… that’s too bad! I only had one lousy art history professor. Of course, Rutgers’ Art History department’s policy was to accept “blanket dates” which meant I never had to memorize anything more than the dates of periods of art history, and then know which period the work in question belonged to on exams. It was a totally bobo way of learning it, but I’m never one to complain when I’m handed a low degree of difficulty in life. :D
I had mixed feelings about my freshman art history class. I was in the art department my first year, so it was a serious class. The thing I didn’t like was that it was at 8am, 5 days a week. I was so looking forward to being a cool college kid that didn’t have to get up early for classes.
Other than that, I found it all very fascinating.
(I saw a show last night with a lady that was an “Architectural Historian” and I thought that might have been an interesting pursuit.)
And by “lab” I mean either out in the vineyard, or in the fermenters, or in the tasting room. I sacrificed, for the good of science.
It’s a rough life you lead, andrew. :P
It’s a rough life you lead, andrew. :P
Hee! Surprisingly enough, it actually turned out to be a very difficult class. They probably just wanted to ensure that morons like myself weren’t enrolling just for shits and giggles (and science credit!).
Patty, I can assure that that Fluids and Thermo are different things. And neither really is my cup of tea. My specialization is solid mechanics.
Andrew, I think if the class was run better and the teacher was not so much a creep, I might actually have liked art history. High school students are very impressionable, and a shitty class like that can deter them from an entire subject alltogether.
For some reason, andrew, I’m not surprised to hear that you got science credits for a wine-making class. :D
Although I shouldn’t talk. I got credits for a class called “French New-Wave Cinema.” Where we watched incomprehensible (even with subtitles) French movies from the sixties and took multiple choice tests on them.
Schnookie, you’re a Rutgers grad? Me too!
I think I went into my freshman year of college with 37 credit hours pre-assessed by the university.
Wow. That’s impressive. I ended up entering college with 15, which allowed me to only really need two classes my last semester. But when I did the math, it would have cost me the same amount of money to go part time versus taking the full time load. So I went FT and got to take more fun electives.
I was pretty much in awe of my art history professor. I was very impressionable as a freshman. I also was in love with my sociology teacher. Heh.
But the aura that surrounded my art history professor disappeared when he showed an “art” film in class, with no warning, that included somebody killing a rabbit.
I immediately decided he wasn’t all that.
For some reason, andrew, I’m not surprised to hear that you got science credits for a wine-making class. :D
It sounds funny, but my school has a very serious wine making/fermentation sciences program. It’s a big deal there! I sure as hell wasn’t taking calculus.
I got credits for a class called “French New-Wave Cinema.” Where we watched incomprehensible (even with subtitles) French movies from the sixties and took multiple choice tests on them.
Ha! That’s pretty awesome. I took “Italian American Cinema”, where we got to watch classics like Birth of a Nation and The Godfather along side not-so-classics like Rocky and Saturday Night Fever. I’m not making this up.
But when I did the math, it would have cost me the same amount of money to go part time versus taking the full time load. So I went FT and got to take more fun electives.
Amy, I had almost the exact same situation, except I did go part time. I took 8.5 units in my last quarter. The counselor was like, “Are you sure you don’t want to take a full load? If you fail one of those classes you won’t graduate.” Needless to say, I stayed the course. I had to pass frickin’ phys. ed. to graduate with exactly 180 units!
It sounds funny, but my school has a very serious wine making/fermentation sciences program.
I can see that. It is an actual science. I shouldn’t pooh-pooh it.
Schnookie, you’re a Rutgers grad? Me too!
Woo hoo! Go Scarlet Knights! Go Douglass College Class of ’99! (Actually, I was a commuter student. My affiliation to Douglass is just that I had to pick a college and when I was transferring in, someone I knew suggested I pick Douglass. I only took one class in my three years there on the Douglass campus.)
I went the fun elective way, but I don’t think I explored any other ways. I also took “The American Novel” (which I loved), “Medieval History” (which teacher I hated), “American Foreign Policy” (lots of interesting spy stuff — the prof’s favorite subject), and a course about books being made into movies. I’m horrified just reading that list.
Awesome!
RU school of engineering ’04
I was technically affiliated with Rutgers College for housing purposes, but I dont think that it exists anymore. Now they call it “the college of liberal arts” or something.
I took Bowling as an elective at Oberlin. But I totally missed out on the fun electives because I was busting my ass to fill all the requirements for this Early Childhood Ed program that I eventually dropped out of. Me so stupid. :P (I also limited myself to classes being offered on just one Rutgers campus, during a short window of daytime as I was commuting and keeping my evenings open for my Devils season tickets. Yup. I prioritized hockey over my own education.)
Yup. I prioritized hockey over my own education.
It seems to have worked out pretty well. You’re not surrounded by early-childhood students. That’s a huge plus. The Devils saved you from yourself!
Needless to say, I stayed the course. I had to pass frickin’ phys. ed. to graduate with exactly 180 units!
I never had to take phys. ed. Bless the Jesuits for that one.
My favorite “required elective” was The American Presidency. We got to watch “The West Wing” and “Wag the Dog” during class, but we also worked our butts off in writing papers. I liked classes that had a good balance like that.
keeping my evenings open for my Devils season tickets. Yup. I prioritized hockey over my own education.
I love it. I do that now. I refuse to take night classes (a lot fo grad classes are at night) because I need to be free for hockey. Thankfully, I’m just about done with classes, so this isn’t a problem anymore…until I get a real job.
I can see that. It is an actual science. I shouldn’t pooh-pooh it.
It’s okay, it’s fun science!
But yes, it’s a pretty big deal. Robert Mondavi (does Mondavi ship their wines all around the country? They’re everywhere in CA) donated a multi, multi million dollar performing arts center to the university.
You’re not surrounded by early-childhood students. That’s a huge plus. The Devils saved you from yourself!
Hee! Actually, the Devils saved me as an undergrad from taking fun electives more than anything else. All the good stuff like what y’all are talking about was at night. Or at least after 4:00, which was my cut-off for getting home in time to head out for games. (The Devils saved me from what Pam’s talking about with the grad school night classes. And thereby saved me from going into teaching. So yeah, they saved me from myself in a lot of ways, in a lot of stages in my life. Thank you, Devils! Without you, I wouldn’t have been sitting through that MRI presentation today! Instead, I’d be in the middle of a three-month vacation right now! :P)
Robert Mondavi (does Mondavi ship their wines all around the country? They’re everywhere in CA) donated a multi, multi million dollar performing arts center to the university.
Oh, OF COURSE he donates a hoity-toity performing arts center. But not a hoity-toity viticulture center? What, is he afraid of educating his future competition? :P
I have heard of Mondavi, but I’m not a wine shopper so I can’t vouch for it being at our stores. I’ve seen commercials, but I’ve also seen Tim Horton commercials so it’s no proof. :D
Thank you, Devils! Without you, I wouldn’t have been sitting through that MRI presentation today! Instead, I’d be in the middle of a three-month vacation right now! :P
I totally forgot about that!! Stupid Devils!
(I forgot about that while also IM’ing with my teacher-on-summer-vacation sister. The same one with the Petroleum Engineering degree. I’m such a slacker.)
Oh, OF COURSE he donates a hoity-toity performing arts center. But not a hoity-toity viticulture center? What, is he afraid of educating his future competition? :P
HA! I had actually never, ever thought of that. Too funny.
Speaking of season tickets, and being entirely off topic, when the hell will the 2008-09 schedule be released?
I’m hoping for a good away game during my winter break.
Apparently the NHL schedule is historically released on the day after the MLB All-Star Game (because there’s no other sports news that day), so we’re positing we’ll get the schedule a week from tomorrow. But don’t quote me on that. I heard it from Pookie, so if it doesn’t play out that way, blame her!
And Patty, I would never have made it to the three-month summer vacation if I’d gone into teaching. I’d have burned out after a week in the classroom and called it a career. :D
Speaking of season tickets, and being entirely off topic, when the hell will the 2008-09 schedule be released?
I dunno, but it has to be soon. I got my “purchase your season tickets now” today.
I got my “purchase your season tickets now” e-mail today.
Sorry.
So if the schedule doesn’t come out in a week, it’s Pookie’s fault? got it.
I’ve already paid for my seats next yr (::grumble:: $27 ::grumble::)…so I’d just like to know on what nights they plan on torturing me. At least there wont be a 9 game road trip to open the season that has to be balanced with home games every fucking night in february. (thank god gas is cheaper in the winter!)
I got my “purchase your season tickets now” e-mail today.
Sorry.
Thanks for clarifying. Because I’ve been getting my “purchase your season tickets now” scroll from the Flyers on the bottom of my local NBC feed for AGES now. :D
Alright everyone, I have to cut myself off now and finish this actual “work” I’ve been doing. Have a nice rest-of-the-afternoon!
Bye Pam! Have a great afternoon yourself!
And I’m outta here now, too, for a nice long nap!
The Devils helped save me from a life working in theater! I don’t know what I was thinking considering going into a career that would require almost exclusively nighttime work. Me so smrt! Fortunately, my grad year-and-a-half mostly coincided with the lock-out, so I was able to take a fun night class or two (Reference Services for the Humanities — WOO! Government Documents — BOO!). And now, speaking of reference books, I suppose I can’t ignore any longer that I haven’t gone out to the stacks here to keep them in order in an embarassingly long time. Take that, professor who thought it was so important for me to take Intro to Architecture — I’m going to get paid to alphabetize books!
(Oh, and Patty — Architectural Historian is my dream job. I secretly considered thinking about thinking about applying to the Institute of Fine Arts to get a degree in Architectural History. It’s located in this Beaux Arts mansion a block down from the Met, which would have just been the single coolest thing ever. The problem was I didn’t take any foreign language in college. Booo! So now sometimes I daydream about magically getting a second Masters in Art History or Performing Arts and magically becoming an Art History or Peforming Arts librarian. But since magic is literally the only way that would work, I’ll stick to alphabetizing self-help books and Dan Patterson novels until the day I die [while hoping the NHL decides to pay me and Schnookie to write years of On The Road With IPB].)
So much for the Devils getting Jason Smith.
Looks he just signed on with the Sens for 2 years. Lame.
The Sens?! That is lame!
Looks like Ottawa met Smith’s alleged nine criteria.
Hmph. I’m not interested in nine points that the Sens meet.
Sorry about Smith, Pookie!
Do you think he’ll make the Sens tougher? Or will they make him softer?
Oh, alix, I meant to say earlier, I’m so sorry Morrison signed with the Ducks! That’s rough.
alix, I second the sympthy on the Morrison front. What kind of person VOLUNTARILY signs with the Ducks? I’m SO sorry! :(
Alix, I’m really sorry about B-Mo signing with the Ducks. You gonna be ok?
Thanks, y’all. It sucks. But you kind of knew it was coming when Gillis offered him 1.9 and basically implied Mo was his back up plan in case Mars Sundin didn’t come. I’m not really sure why he picked the Ducks *shudder*. Apparently 9 teams were interested in him. I’m guessing it’s mostly because Burkie and Nonis are there. And it’s a short flight from Vancouver.
Is Burke some kind of svengali or something? Because he seems like the kind of guy I’d rather NOT play for. He must have a different personality around players. :D
He must have a different personality around players. :D
That involves a chair, a pocket watch, and a memorized spiel of “You are feeling very sleepy…you are feeling very sleepy…yes, come to Anaheim, play for us…”
Yeah, I think pretty much all the dudes in Vancouver LOVED Burkie. And it always seems like he has guys saying “I’d go to war for Burkie and blah blah blah” He must be a total sweetheart off camera or something.
What the heck? Have we signed Demitra or not? I’m so confused. It’s written everywhere, but no one official will officially announce it.
haha…hey alix, did you see that the Blues tendered an offer sheet to Bernier? Looks like Davidson is pissed about the Nucks trying to poach Backes.
HA! I was just about to post that, Andrew! Oh Gillis. Payback is a bitch. Heh. Gms are such babies. At least it’s reasonable to match…
And hmmph. Big Bear gets no more honey! What was he doing signing that after he said he was excited to be “a Canucks”?
And hmmph. Big Bear gets no more honey! What was he doing signing that after he said he was excited to be “a Canucks”?
Well, I’m sure being a Canucks is nice and all, but millions and millions of dollars is also pretty sweet. At least it wasn’t an offer sheet of Vanek proportions.
Maybe he’s excited to be “a Canucks” but he’s more excited to be “a Blues”?
Yeah good point. 2.5 ain’t bad. We got a shit load of cap space.
Maybe he’s excited to be “a Canucks” but he’s more excited to be “a Blues”?
Heh! Apparently.
So, just in case you don’t hear this enough from me, Matty rocks at life! Check this out. Hee.
Vancouver Canuck defenceman Mattias Ohlund is ready to go salesman on Mats Sundin at a moment’s notice.
“If Mats calls, trust me I will put in a good word for the team,” Ohlund chuckled Monday. “I haven’t spoken to him or the Canucks or anybody regarding him. Maybe I should call him. I don’t know if it would help or not. I guess it couldn’t hurt.”
Okay, I finally figured out which muppet I was reminded of earlier. From now on I am referring to Holik as “Beaker”.
Alright good. Gillis matched. Game, set, match.
Frisby, that’s so funny because this Playoffs Schnookie and I decided Mike Richards sounds just like Beaker! Beaker the Muppet is everywhere in the NHL!
We can’t call Holik “Beaker”, because that’s what we already call Richards! And since I like Richards and loathe Holik, it just won’t do to be confusing them. :D
alix, I’m so sorry that your new, loyal, happy-to-be-a-Canucks guy is ALREADY trying to be a slag-faced whore. I’m sure he didn’t mean it!
I think Big Bear was just all adorably confused. He probably thought he was signing on to play for the Canucks for 15 years and score 30 goals and be a lifetime Canucks.
What? Richards is already Beaker? Why didn’t I get the memo? When did you send it out? TELL ME WHEN!!!
We sent the memo out after the Devils lost to the Rangers, so you’re excused for not remembering. :D
How’s the house going, by the way? Now that you’re all settled in and all.
He probably thought he was signing on to play for the Canucks for 15 years and score 30 goals and be a lifetime Canucks.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Oh, TOTALLY.
It’s going ok. I’m finally able to relax more on the weekends. Don’t have to worry about running to the dump or to Home Depot. There are still plenty of things on the list to check off, but nothing major.
There are still plenty of things on the list to check off, but nothing major.
Wow! You’re way ahead of us if there’s nothing major left to do! And really, the day there’s nothing left on the list to check off is the day you need to get a new house, right? :P I’m so glad you’re getting to relax more now! Have you built your skate ramp yet?
Congratulations on being able to relax a bit now!
Well there is one major thing left to do, the roof. It appears that I’m going to have to pay somebody to do it since I can’t convince my coworkers to help. The roof is a little more important than a ramp, so the ramp will have to wait.
Hm. I might prioritize the roof, too. Of course, I’m someone who has been watching mold growing on her bathroom walls for three years and has yet to call anyone about fixing it. So I’d probably actually attend to neither the roof nor the ramp. But you know what I mean.
Good luck story: The storm door had to be force closed (I thought I might have to replace the whole thing) and it wouldn’t stay open when I slid the little metal tab up to the air cylinder. I was using a gallon jug to hold it open when I brought in groceries. So I went and bought one of the heavy duty cylinders (only $12) and not only does it hold the door open, but the door also closes itself now.
Success! Score Homeowner 1, Storm Door 0!
Are you guys (girls) American?, just kidding. Just listened to the show. Pretty entertaining and that Holik impersonation what surprising… Didn’t expect to hear that. Hiolik has a higher voice than most women and you know why he can’t frown? Have you ever tried to do that with a unibrow!!!
Great show, very entertaining!!!!
Good to hear people talk about hockey!!!
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