Coming Home to Cut Loose
Nov. 18th, 2010 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenny_wildcatToday was early-out day at school and thank heaven it was. One of the boys was having one of his pouty-ornery-PMS days. This kid is pretty hit-and-miss. Some days he's fine and dandy, others he's a right pain in the arse. Mostly when he's like this, I just leave him alone unless major problems develop. The other two boys, however, were very nice and considerate today. They even walked me out to my car when school let out (of course, my car was parked next to theirs, but they were very gentlemanly about it). Even so, I was glad when I got home.
So I get home and I realize that - where I thought I was completely finished with my Research in Library and Info Science class, I really have two more online discussions to go. This class has totally kicked my behind. The topic is dry and the professor is humorless and I simply have no desire or intention to go into any kind of research at all. I'm not exactly sure why it's required, but it is or I wouldn't be taking it. So, I have to at least pretend that I like it - for now.
There is one good thing about the online discussions, though. I can post in both discussion forums in one afternoon and call it good. So, that's what I'm doing. One of the forum discussions is this:
Why should you publish/present your research?
And I think I have a great reply:
You know in movies where a man is doing household chores and he sometimes waits to absolutely finish until his wife comes in to see him finishing up? Why does he wait? For the simple reason that if a man does housework and his wife doesn't see it - it never happened! Same thing could be said of research. If a researcher goes to all this trouble to research something and never shows it to anyone, it's the same as if the researcher had stayed home and ate Cheetos.
Maybe it was the kind of day I had at school, but I laughed my head off at that. Whenever I have a less-than-happy day, it's nice to come home and totally be silly.
(I haven't posted that reply to the class discussion. I think it's perfectly logical, but I'm not sure if my professor and my classmates will see the humor in it. Or maybe my classmates will laugh too).
So I get home and I realize that - where I thought I was completely finished with my Research in Library and Info Science class, I really have two more online discussions to go. This class has totally kicked my behind. The topic is dry and the professor is humorless and I simply have no desire or intention to go into any kind of research at all. I'm not exactly sure why it's required, but it is or I wouldn't be taking it. So, I have to at least pretend that I like it - for now.
There is one good thing about the online discussions, though. I can post in both discussion forums in one afternoon and call it good. So, that's what I'm doing. One of the forum discussions is this:
Why should you publish/present your research?
And I think I have a great reply:
You know in movies where a man is doing household chores and he sometimes waits to absolutely finish until his wife comes in to see him finishing up? Why does he wait? For the simple reason that if a man does housework and his wife doesn't see it - it never happened! Same thing could be said of research. If a researcher goes to all this trouble to research something and never shows it to anyone, it's the same as if the researcher had stayed home and ate Cheetos.
Maybe it was the kind of day I had at school, but I laughed my head off at that. Whenever I have a less-than-happy day, it's nice to come home and totally be silly.
(I haven't posted that reply to the class discussion. I think it's perfectly logical, but I'm not sure if my professor and my classmates will see the humor in it. Or maybe my classmates will laugh too).
