My lunch smells like dog food

Sigh.  Why does everything TV dinner related that has any meat stuff in it always smell like canned dog food?  Is the meat in my "Healthy Option" cuisine really horse meat?  Or is the grub I'm feeding the dog just super awesome?   It looks pretty tasty, right?  Its steak and protabello pasta......  I eat everything with this spoon by the way.  My workplace does not sponsor free cutlery.  Might buy a SPORF - spoon+fork+knife at Eddie Bauer.

You know what was tasty though?  The chicken piccata I had last night.  That was a keeper recipe.  Delish.

So today marks my first CRAZY class free day.  My grand finale was to provide "feedback" on the course.... Heres what I said:



" One of the elements I quite liked was in the structure of the lectures.  They were well formatted and the conversational flavour made them very easy to absorb.  But I gotta tell ya - I found the course to be so complicated for me to participate in, particularly in the discussion boards and at the workshop. And while its no ones fault at all - it just is what it is - I didn't feel like I could participate in the discussion board not being a student of disability studies.  I was just too overwhelmed I guess with the sheer volume of dialogue, and my lack of familiarity on so much its subject matter.  I felt like a team of 1 way out of her league.  I don't have people with mad histories of any kind in my circle, and I think I am entirely too analytical and argumentative to be able to contribute effectively in this arena.  But that is just me and I am simply sharing - and not attempting to adjust the course in any way.
We talked a lot about everything through the survivors eyes - I wish we could have gleaned a heightened understanding of the why things were how they were from the caregivers perspectives.  Someone somewhere gave a thumbs up to all of those awful treatment procedures - why?  I guess thats why I will never be an activist.  I'm far better at debating the other side...of anything!.
Thanks for your tutelage.  It made for some conversations in my home never had before!"

This is what professor McWacky said.......

" Those DST students can be very formidable, I agree.  They have so much real life experience.  In a way, this course is overloaded with teachers.
On the other hand, imagine how rare it is to get the chance to spend 14 weeks with people who know so much!
on talking about everything thru survivors' eyes:  that's deliberate.  Disabled people are tired of being talked about and are demanding to do their own talking.  There's no question that there is a caregiver perspective;  there's no question that there are a lot of wonderful caregivers.  But this space is not for them;  they already have lots of spaces.  This space is for survivors.
I'm so glad you liked the course."

I'm fighting the need for rebuttal.....its over.  I don't recall saying I liked it at all.......and clearly I missed the survivor pre-requisite.  Ugh.  14 of the longest weeks of my life.  So glad this is over.  Two weeks of reprieve and then on to finance & stats.....and a new program at Michener. 

Also - today my wheels went in for their 119000km check up...to the tune of 400$ for an oil change that just kept  turning into something uglier and uglier.....sigh.  I need to start carpooling.


AAAAARRRRRshmallows, by Terry Border.  Hee Hee...now lets take on the week

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