I hate that. The Cambridge landlord tried to do that, but I wouldn't let her. How much notice do you have to give? What does your lease say?

I find it highly unlikely. This place was empty when we looked at it, and there have been other apartments in the building empty for months.

Huh. Interesting. When is your lease up, because that's ridiculous? You may want to see what the tenant rights are in your area.

Our lease is up on May 31st. Honestly, I just don't have the energy to fight with people right now. If we find a place this weekend, great. If not, we'll suck it up for one more year and make sure we have a house secured by the end of that year.

Our lease is up on May 31st. Honestly, I just don't have the energy to fight with people right now. If we find a place this weekend, great. If not, we'll suck it up for one more year and make sure we have a house secured by the end of that year.

I think they're allowed to ask for up to 60 days, so Monday, April 1 at the earliest...which isn't much more time and probably not worth the fight, but...

I think they're allowed to ask for up to 60 days, so Monday, April 1 at the earliest...which isn't much more time and probably not worth the fight, but...

Thanks, that's good to know.

sj, good luck with apartment hunting -- it's such a pain, and you two deserve better than you've gotten the past couple of years.

Yay, vw, for school coming together.

A student was just here who needs something video taped today. Our main person for this is out because his father is having some serious health issues which he may not survive. Our fill-in person is up to his neck in requests. The student just gave me a whole snotty speech about how important this afternoon's taping is and how he needed me to assure him it would be taken care of RIGHT NOW. I took great pleasure in pointing out HIS mistake in thinking that we would all be available to to his bidding at a moment's notice and that others, who planned ahead and scheduled media services weeks ago were going to be taken care of FIRST and that I'd be happy to explain to the Dean that he put off the one thing asked of him until the very last moment because he "went away" last week. To borrow from Teppy: Assclown!

Dude, don't make me mad when I haven't had my coffee, yet.

I'm so sorry, Scrappy. You're in my thoughts.

Dude, don't make me mad when I haven't had my coffee, yet.

ok. so t-shirts. We need one of this. And the "must be in want of..." shirt. And...

The student just gave me a whole snotty speech about how important this afternoon's taping is and how he needed me to assure him it would be taken care of RIGHT NOW.

God, what is WRONG with them?

Sparky, your students are apparently the same as my students. I always get tremendous satisfaction from pointing out things like "one week's advance notice" and "subject to staff and resource availability" to them.

There are days when I'm positive I'm the only one in this office with even one atom of common sense. Actual conversation:

Me, to Incompetent!Boss: What's the status of such-and-such article?

I!B: Well, I don't really know.

Me: But aren't you supposed to keep track of these things?

I!B: Yes.

Me: ....

Me: Did you check the Status Sheet document?

I!B: No.

Me: Because, see, the Status Sheet might tell you what the, you know, STATUS OF THE ARTICLE IS.

Another doozy:

Me, to sweet-but-dim co-worker: Where are you looking for the Quark document?

SBDC: In the folder with the Word files.

Me: ....

Me: That's probably why you can't find it. It's probably in the folder with the Quark files.

SBDC: ....

SBDC: That's weird.

That conversation was followed by this one:

SBDC opens Quark file ON HER COMPUTER, closes it, hands printed galley to me.

SBDC: The first paragraph needs bullet points for the list.

Me: ....

Me: You...didn't put the bullets in when you just had the file open?

SBDC: No.

Me: t boggles

Me: Er, okay then.

(Scola, I don't need Craigslist links; I'm good. Mostly amused, but also amazed that these people survived to adulthood without getting picked off by coyotes.)

Students are like this everywhere. They're so incredibly young sometimes. The truth is, had he come to me and said "there's a lecture this afternoon that we'd like taped, please," I would have started to get things in motion. When he comes and says, "I need a lecture taped this afternoon where's [name of media guy]?" my, "gee you're RUDE" sense kicks in and I start answering only the questions he actually asks. All his posturing about how important this lecture is rolls right off me and I don't volunteer to do anything.