Wednesday, October 03, 2001
teaching has to be tough. i cut my teachers some slack, unless they are bitches to me. i hated UW because i always got stuck with TA's, and I usually knew more than them. seems like the same thing at Community College, only the TA's are called Professors. whatever, fuck school :)
hydrogen ion, ion meaning having a charge or whatever the technical definition of an ion is, as in H+ as in an H without the electron, as in just a proton in 99% of hydrogen ions..... some of them have neutrons, but not many. she was right with that one, a hydrogen atom is proton and an electron, but to make an ion, you strip away the electron, leaving only a proton :) have faith!! she knew something at least. sounds like that is the only thing she knows, but hey, she is a bio teacher, and a bio teacher at shoreline, so what do you expect.
workity work work. anyways, today and tomorrow are plant delivery days at this one park. my foundation spent $60000 on plants this year for this one park alone, so we have to organize the drop offs for over 10000 plants here. its fun, native plant growers are cool. they like us because we actually put their stuff to good use. we like them because they give us our plants. so plant delivery days ROCK. and I get to sleep in tomorrow, ohhhhhh baby. I just got put on this new project team, it is going to be a lot of work, but it should be pretty cool. I am taking over the spot on the team that my favorite co-worker freed up when she left on tuesday :( sucks, we are down to 9 staff members, 2 of which can't work in the field because of "injuries." then there is another person who doesn't really do much, and me who doesn't really do much, leaving 5 real people to lead these 15 some projects we have or whatever. luckily we only have about 7 getting plants this year i think. but damn.... at least 2 of those 5 people are actively looking for new jobs, and another has been sending resumes out. climbing the ranks. not that it really changes much. it means i am alone in my office downstairs now, but they will probably move me upstairs pretty soon, because there aren't may people to fill the upstairs up ;) sounds like we aren't hiring anyone either. doh, i am going to be the last one left, and i am going to be in charge....
hydrogen ion, ion meaning having a charge or whatever the technical definition of an ion is, as in H+ as in an H without the electron, as in just a proton in 99% of hydrogen ions..... some of them have neutrons, but not many. she was right with that one, a hydrogen atom is proton and an electron, but to make an ion, you strip away the electron, leaving only a proton :) have faith!! she knew something at least. sounds like that is the only thing she knows, but hey, she is a bio teacher, and a bio teacher at shoreline, so what do you expect.
workity work work. anyways, today and tomorrow are plant delivery days at this one park. my foundation spent $60000 on plants this year for this one park alone, so we have to organize the drop offs for over 10000 plants here. its fun, native plant growers are cool. they like us because we actually put their stuff to good use. we like them because they give us our plants. so plant delivery days ROCK. and I get to sleep in tomorrow, ohhhhhh baby. I just got put on this new project team, it is going to be a lot of work, but it should be pretty cool. I am taking over the spot on the team that my favorite co-worker freed up when she left on tuesday :( sucks, we are down to 9 staff members, 2 of which can't work in the field because of "injuries." then there is another person who doesn't really do much, and me who doesn't really do much, leaving 5 real people to lead these 15 some projects we have or whatever. luckily we only have about 7 getting plants this year i think. but damn.... at least 2 of those 5 people are actively looking for new jobs, and another has been sending resumes out. climbing the ranks. not that it really changes much. it means i am alone in my office downstairs now, but they will probably move me upstairs pretty soon, because there aren't may people to fill the upstairs up ;) sounds like we aren't hiring anyone either. doh, i am going to be the last one left, and i am going to be in charge....
