Oh, man, tommyrot, that book sounds so very right up my alley, except that I am already appallingly curmudgeonly for someone of my age and station. I'm concerned that if I actually got my hands on the book, my transformation into a surly old retired Victorian headmistress sitting on a horsehair sofa in her large library, pounding her ivory-topped cane on the floor and grumbling, "Lord have mercy on us all, what do they teach them in the schools these days?" would be complete.

I'm so sorry for the ice everywhere and the not-holidays and all, but with a heaping side of sorry for flea and poor sick Dillo painting everything in his immediate environment with snot.

Natter-inos...WAKE UP. Geeesh, less than 50 posts and y'all are asleep. Too many people with the day off? Or are folks actually working?

I'm ready to run screaming from my office. Some people are making work much more complicated than it has to be.

I'm listening to Austin Lounge Lizards and occasionally yelling, "Safety glasses, people!"* How about you?

(*I practice a very laissez-faire brand of teaching.)

Currently I'm being forced to walk back and forth between my desk and the server room.

I'm compiling a list of free drive space. Exciting!

(*I practice a very laissez-faire brand of teaching.)

Something Mary Kay Letourneau should have done.

"Do these documents need to be added to Section A or Section B?"

Maybe it should be in multiple-choice quiz form.

These documents need to be added to (pick one)
•Section A
•Section B

Sumi, can you contact your landlord to ask for a safe pathway? Or, if you or you neighbors have cats, kitty litter provides pretty good traction on ice. If all else fails then strap some hand towels or something to your knees and crawl out.

Or,

Section A? Y/N

Section B? Y/N

I have laundry in... that's something.

Something Mary Kay Letourneau should have done.

Yes, ideally one should be hands-on only metaphorically.

The guy who was cc'd on the e-mail pointed out to the first guy that it was an either/or question.

First guy replied, saying it should go in whatever section was easiest to find. Which also misses the point, but I am taking the decision out of his hands.

I just ate a bowl of oatmeal and am now trying to motivate myself to get showered and grade. My tendonitis has returned with a vengeance. I've been wearing my brace on and off for a week, but it doesn't seem to be working. Which is bad since I have to grade with that same hand.