(semi) meaningless post-exam school day again. then there is the manifesto.

i personally feel that the colloquium (is that how its spelt?) is a very good idea, but only if the audience is actually interested and actually have the CAPABILITY to understand what the heck is going on.

i might be being stereotypical and judgemental (and a hypocrite), but from what i observed today, i think that the school was under the false impression that IB students are ALL capable of critical thinking, which is also evident is the introduction of POD to IB students ONLY. what with clapping and cheering at irrelevant comments and actions?! got severely pissed off, then i swore really loudly once my threshold broke, sorry to anyone who was unfortunate enough to hear it.

of course above the ruckus nobody heard it but it took me about 2 seconds to regret it.

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i think exasperation has two types, acceptable and too far. of course now ian and daryl are thinking 'ohoho! eric is very pissed about today!'. actually i'm not, i just got inspired by it.

well what i would define as 'too far' would be unnecessary (more that usual) attemps to simply make every action a chore for the person. example: asking someone to pass you something. in a 'too far' scenario, what would usually happen would be that the exaspeRATOR will say no and refuse and do everything possible to prevent that person from getting the object once the person realises that it was a mistake to ask the exasperator to pass him/her the object in the first place

this is of course rounded off with a feeble attempt at final exasperation in the form of "next time if you want it, please ask"

oh well.

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i think its really stupid how people complain about you being grumpy when they are the freaking people that caused the damn grumpiness in the first place.