wasting the day away...

it's wednesday.

my work for the semester has been done since monday. if it were just up to my schedule, i could have actually left town yesterday.

but, my students have their final tomorrow, so i figured i'd be nice and have extra office hours this week while they study, since so many of them said they'd need it and it would help a lot.

don't get me wrong, i'm happy to help. but here it is, less than 24 hours before the exam, and i've been in my office for the past 3 hours. NOT ONE PERSON has shown up. if i could have predicted that, i could have slept in another hour, i could have gotten a haircut this morning instead of tomorrow on the way out of town, SO MANY other things i could be doing.

but alas, 10-6 today i said i'd be in my office to help, and here i sit... working on my research and playing minesweeper alternately... such a productive day. (sarcasm)

one of two things is going to happen, and both are potentially frustrating
(1) no one could show up all day, and when i just spent 8 hours sitting in a very quiet math building, glued to my office when i could have been getting lots of other last-minute-get-out-of-town things done
(2) since they all decided not to come in the morning, a TON of students will come after lunch time and due to volume, not all of them will get their questions answered.

it's not like i've not given them ample opportunity. monday's office hours were like this too... 3 people came in for 5 minutes each in the course of 4 hours. and i've gotta pack to be gone for a month tonight. it's not like i'm not available. they're just not showing.... oi.

we shall see.....

complete tangent:
in happy news, the fridge at home is nearly empty, so i'm getting takeout for dinner. the gas station down the street from me has a new kitchen in the back that serves southern food. ben, jessica, and i tried it out on saturday afternoon and it was amazingly good. seriously, you don't think of gas station food as that great, but it seems to be this guy wants to run a takeout service, doesn't need a whole building to himself, just a corner with a grill and a fridge, so he rented the corner in the station. now i have somewhere to go to get catfish and cornbread that even delivers to my house and is cheap. yay! when i ordered on saturday the cook asked me "girl, where'd you learn to order soul food?" and when i said i was from memphis he got super excited.... he's originally from arkansas and just enjoys making good eats even while stranded out in jersey. :P good food, good people. makes laras happy. :)

... now if only some students would show to entertain me with questions...

the end.