I’m thinking this is a potential cottage industry that might help supplement my retirement. I will start taking orders (minimum 2) starting November 15th. Get yours in time for the Holiday season; every home should have at least two!!!! I am still working on a viable pricing model as well as a bun warmer.
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I worked all day on completing the analysis of the interview I’ve been transcribing for the last four days, and finished 20 minutes before I had to leave for class.
Class began with a return of our midterms, which overall were “disappointing” according to the professor. The grades ranged from 64 to 97. I got a big fat 77. A big fat C, the lowest grade I’ve ever received in all of graduate school.
| 98-100 | A+ |
| 93-97 | A |
| 90-92 | A- |
| 88-89 | B+ |
| 83-87 | B |
| 80-82 | B- |
| 78-79 | C+ |
| 73-77 | C |
| 70-72 | C- |
| 68-69 | D+ |
| 63-67 | D |
| 60-62 | D- |
| Below | F |
The next hour was
Next we went around the room, and gave short, oral summaries of the findings of our interview analyses. It was literally laughable (in a pathetic, sad kind of way) — the difference in the oral presentations made between the linguistics majors in the class and the non-linguistics majors.
I came home and did some emotional eating — eating an entire family-sized bag of not Orville Light Popcorn, not even Orville Butter Popcorn, but Orville Movie Theater Butter Popcorn.
