In which Jessica rants about respect and lack thereof

This is the second time I'm going to rant about this, because it's legitimately upsetting me.

If I give you respect, I expect that in return.

Is that weird? Because I figured that was how everyone operated in life. So, why am I finding out that more and more people that I know or have to deal with aren't reciprocating respect? Am I not worthy of being respected? Because I'm easy going, do I just automatically get taken for granted? Because I'm a student, does that mean I'm below you as a person?

How about if I just start disrespecting everyone by saying what I really think and feel? Can I demand respect once I start doing that and will I actually get any from doing that?

Apparently it must work, because I've had to deal with many teachers who operate this way.

I am so sick and tired of teachers demanding respect when they won't even respect me as a person, let alone a student who is trying to get a decent education, so I won't kill anybody in a hospital setting.

I'm sorry. Where was I disrespecting you to get such a smarmy e-mail, saying "I would have thought that you had ________ already?"

No. Not all of us have laptops we can carry into class to take notes off of and not all of us are seers who have the foresight of thinking, "Hm. The exam is on Monday. I bet the teacher will take down all the powerpoints on Friday just to fuck with us."

I've attended every single class and sat in the absolute front row - what more does this woman want? I take notes from her lecture and then go home and compare them to the powerpoints so I know what to focus on, rather than wasting more computer paper and ink by printing for her class.

I'm sorry I don't save powerpoints to my computer, because I've never had a teacher decide to remove powerpoints THE WEEKEND BEFORE A FINAL.

Just what the fuck.

Do not bitch about the "lack of respect" given to you, when you act like a shitty human being to someone who just asked a question, with no hints of anger, with correct titles for you, correct grammar, and even ended the message with a thank you.

I'm so sick of it. This teacher is so lucky her "teacher evaluation" forms are already sent in, because if they weren't, I'd give her hell to pay with the comments I'd leave.

I can understand being unprofessional if someone is unprofessional to you first, but there's no excuse for this behavior when I did nothing to deserve it.

I HATE GROUP WORK

Before I start studying, I just have something to say about this stupid group project.

Brief back story - it's for a research methods group and we had to design our own research study and describe how we'd get the information the scientific/correct way.

I started this project by picking out the layout, a pretty impressive one with yellow/gold tetris design on the bottom border, because we're doing a project on High-Fructose Corn Syrup (I thought it was clever) with a clear and easily read font, and I also put together a rubric for each of the PowerPoint slides and filled in some of them.

For SOME reason, looking at the final PowerPoint, the layout has been replaced with a GREY AND PINK background, bolded Century Gothic font hot mess and my suggestions for the group have just gone completely over their heads.

Our study wasn't using statistics, so WHY do they think we need a p value? Because we don't and I've said this every single time they ask.

Let's just take a look at the cover slides for a nice comparison -

I just don't understand why they felt the need to change it to something that doesn't even make sense. Are aesthetics really that overrated that we can't be bothered to have our layout design somewhat correlate to what we're actually talking about?

The slides don't all look like the title one, but still, I don't see what the problem was with the original one, unless they are really offended by the "black font on white background".

The sooner this project is over with, the sooner I can just resume not giving a fuck, because this whole process has been ridiculous since this started.

Funny moments that haven't been recorded elsewhere :D

*eating at Sonny's with my parents on one side of the booth and me on the other side. I finish up my meal and look over to see that my mom and dad's meals are practically touching. SHOVES EMPTY TRAY INTO DAD'S PLATE. Dad and I start LAUGHING hysterically*

Mom: "What's so funny? Are you laughing at me? I don't see what's so funny!!"

*talking about some actor on Law and Order (or something) who ended up getting bells palsy*

Professor: "He was so attractive, but now..."

Me: "Poor guy.."

Christine: "Poor guy.. he had so much going for him."

Me: "And now.. now he's hideous."

*laughing back and forth as we continue about this when the professor asks us why we're laughing so hard, so Christine explains*

Professor: "well, maybe if you're into pirates, he would be, but ya know!"

*looking up at the ceiling during post-conference*

Christine: "What are you doing?"

Me: "Oh, my neck hurt, so I figured looking up would help."

Christine: "Yeah, I slept on my neck wrong, so I should try that too."

*Christine looks up at the ceiling*

Professor: "Christine, what are you doing?"

*Listening to One Direction in the car with my parents*
One Direction: "Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed."
*Dad sassily swings his head and shakes his torso*