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Yes, that's right...the title of this entry is "..." indeed. Why? Because I am literally speechless.

Now, everyone at AU has heard me rant about the Frat Monkeys, and a few people at home have as well, so I'm not going into details about the sitauation. So let's just suffice it to say that there is a very large group project about religion in Russia and the US, that somehow I got stuck with 2 Pi Kappa Alphas (PIKEs, for those of you who don't have their branches at your school). I was not happy...PIKE guys do not have the reputation of being decent human beings, not at all...and while Brendan and Alex were at least nice, neither of them knew anything about the topic and constantly missed/were late for our meetings, thus fucking up my schedule to no end. At any rate...once I discovered that I was partners with Frat Monkeys who declared themselves to be completely incompetent writers, I quickly volunteered to write the paper, if they would handle the research and the presentation. They eagerly agreed and I was relieved, because this paper is a huge part of our end grade.

Well...I was incredibly wrong....I had to meet with them several times over the course of a week and a half, because for some odd reason they felt it necessary that I be there...whatever...it didn't start bothering me until they started cancelling at the last minute.

So...presentation went pretty well, and the FMs gave me their research as well as notes so I could write the paper. *NOTE: I should have known this was going to be bad when it was changed from a 15 page maximum to a 15 page minimum* But last night, I got down to hardcore work on the paper and would you like to guess what I discovered? I can scarecely believe it myself.

They skipped over 300 years of Russian history. I am not exaggerating. They talked about Michael Romanov (the first Romanov who took the throne in 1613) then went straight to the BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION IN 1917. When I saw this...I think I just sort of stared...it's not like they neglected to talk about one of the tsars...they didn't talk about ANY of them. They didn't do any research on any of them...and I'm just utterly speechless.

I can't even summon up the energy to rant about this, though a huge part of me wants to be indignant about the whole situation but I can't, because this is at least partially my fault. I really should have given them an idea of what sort of things they should cover, but never in my wildest dreams did I think that they could possibly just think it was OK to skip almost the entire Romanov dynasty... I mean, maybe one of the tsars or some sort of obscure policy but the entire royal line? They're the fucking ROMANOVS for the love of all that's good and decent.

I still maintain that I made the right decision, in offering to write the paper. Granted, about 2 or 3 extra hours of work has now been created for me, but at least I know exactly what else I have to cover...

Karma has once again proved, I am her bitch.