I know my nerves are ground thin by the fact that my body is grossly misbehaving, but people should still be decent. Just because, you know, decent. If you schedule a meeting with a physical location and a con-call #, I kinda understand if you don't activate the con call -- I mean you might figure after fifteen minutes you have all the attendees you're going to get.
But the very next meeting, also with a physical location and con call in the invite, it'd be decent if you let everyone know it was con call only before they drove out to the remote location and got booted from the meeting room. A real kindness.
ita, that actually sounds more like competence than decency.
I am really supposed to do more things today, but I HATE ALL OF THEM.
I hate everything too. I told my krav partner yesterday that I quit. She said "Me too." and then we kept on training. I said we might as well take the stupid brown belt test tomorrow, and she agreed "And if we fail, we can just be blue belts forever." Works for me.
During the level 5 class the instructor came up to me and took my weapon. "Are you all right?" "No." He handed it back to me and walked away. Which was nice.
Aw, ita. I am a secretary who would never allow that to happen. You want I should train your peeps?
You want I should train your peeps?
Please! And can you train them to accept or decline meeting invites? Ignoring them? Also not decent.
OK. I filled out three of six forms. More or less. I think maybe I'll draft one of the brazilian letters on my to-do list. Right now, not only are all of my tasks tedious, they're all also confusing. I hate that.
OH AND ALSO, on an opposite note to ita's invitation issue: If there is a phone number and an email given for RSVPs, you can pick one, not do both. I swear.
And a corollary for ita's meeting issue: If you have scheduled a meeting with people, do not schedule yourself into another meeting at the same time, and not tell your secretary or any of the first people.
(From John Scalzi's blog):
You know, when Michael Behe, the star witness for Intelligent Design at the Pennsylvania evolution trial, admits on the stand that the only way that ID can be considered a scientific theory is to change the definition of "theory" to such a lax standard that even astrology would qualify as a scientific theory, isn't it time to stop the trial, find for teaching actual science in biology classes, and then send a bill for the whole ridiculous affair to the idiots that changed the school policy to shoehorn ID into the classroom? Does this farce really need to go on any further?
The only value to this whole thing so far is that it got Behe to admit that in order to get ID to work, you have to cheat -- you have to make words mean different things than what they mean. You know, the science community already has a word for the new, more lax definition of "theory" Behe wishes to promote: it's called a hypothesis. Should Behe manage to get his way and change the definition of "theory," what becomes of the word "hypothesis"? Is it demoted? Discarded? Given a nice gold watch for its years of service to the scientific community and then taken behind the barn to be plugged with a shotgun? And if is merely demoted, then what will become of the phrase "drunken paranoid ramblings?" That phrase has nowhere else to go.
Totally spaced, but congrats on the job sj!!!!
