Sorry for dumping this you-can't-do-anything-about-this stuff on you guys. It's just that you're the only ones awake. The people who can actually try to help me (or diagnose me as computer poison) are all asleep right now. I e-mailed them (including the poor just-wanted-to-help guy whose computer I just poisoned), but it'll be a few hours before they wake up and see it.

In the meantime, I have to make myself stop thinking about *this* part, and get back to the other million parts I'm behind on. It's just so hard to stop thinking about that nagging thing that wouldn't work, you know?

Oh, well. Focus. Yes. That's it.

I need it for Google tomorrow

Oh, good luck.

Go Emmett!

That would ping me as "wrong," but not because I'm all full of class and such, but because of the proportions of empty wall:pictures.

Fancy high-class book larnin' with the "proportions" and the ":"!

Ha! I only use those fancy words and punctuation marks to impress high-class folks!

Is it wrong of me to think that, maybe, the actual process of looking for a new place may change your boss' attitude a bit, making him realize how valuable you are to the place in general and the symposium specifically?

Unfortunately, no. He believes that I'm incompetent. Before he left on Friday sort of washed his hands of me, said he was going to save yelling at me until the symposium was over, and that I was working below my pay grade.

Allyson, because your boss has (1) told you that he's going to "yell at [you]," but at a future date at his convenience, then surely he knows that by pre-warning you about the "yelling," (2) you *know* things ain't good at work.

And therefore, any boss who tells his employee that she's incompetent ABSOLUTELY has to know that said employee is going to start looking for a job that appreciates her. Seriously. He's all but said, "After the symposium, you're in BIG TROUBLE, missy!" If he's stupid enough to think that, after that, you *wouldn't* immediately start looking for jobs, well, then, he deserves to be left high and dry for the symposium.

After all, why would he want an incompetent person working on his symposium, right?

Seriously. You have to look out for your own interests above all else.

But whose eye level. I am 5'2" I bet Sherlock Holmes is taller than I am!

Your own eye level. He was actually talking about writing on the wall, but his point was that a person will write something on the wall at their own eye level.

Select Sixteen

What's that?

The super-elite East Coast prep schools that have been around forever: Andover, Exeter, Hotchkiss, Groton, St. Mark's, St. Paul's, Middlesex...

Huh. I've never heard of that.

I'm sure it's only important to a small group of aging prepsters.

And googling leads me to believe the list was made by my boy Digby Baltzell!

?

He coined the term WASP, has written a lot about American elite culture and Philadelphia and etc. He was a guest speaker to one of my undergrad classes, and since he had just written a book about tennis, that is what he spoke on. Note: the class was not about tennis, or sports in any way. He was just a really great, impressive, dapper, dotty old guy.

Edited for factual and grammatical accuracy.

He coined the term WASP.

Oh, that would make sense.