I just pissed off a student. He asked me for scrap paper, and I directed him to the recycling bin. He wrinkled his nose, and walked over to our display of handouts (many of which are color prints) and grabbed a stack, saying, "I'll just use these." I stopped him with a severe look and, "those aren't scrap paper, so please don't use them that way." He then gave me the speech about how his tuition pays for everything here.

I think I broke something trying to keep my eyes from rolling out of my head and my lips from not forming the words, "You're a jerk."

Instead I pointed out that using resources that way will most certainly increase his tuition next year. With a big smile on my face.

Ugh, Sparky. What an entitled little twitwaffle.

Is it so wrong of me to laugh at him and think about how (the way the legal job market is these days) he'll have significant debt and no job, while I'll still have mine?

Some days, I'm plain evil.

What an entitled little twitwaffle.

I love the term twitwaffle. It sounds like something you could order at a trendy cafe: "I'll have the twitwaffles with the wankersyrup-"

OK, I'm not going any further with this....

OK, I'm not going any further with this....

Surely the Devon cream is coming...

Is it so wrong of me to laugh at him and think about how (the way the legal job market is these days) he'll have significant debt and no job, while I'll still have mine?

That's not evil. That's the truth.

Okay, it's a little evil. But deliciously and rightfully so.

Anybody else have The Crushes That Never Die?

Oh yeah. And one is a boyfriend from 40 years ago. What different path might have been taken...

twitwaffle! Love it.

Go you, Sparky. That reminds me of something that happened to me while working a back-to-school event last week. A student threw a can in a cardboard recycling cart.

Me: That's for cardboard only. The recycling bin for cans is over there.

Student ignores me for several seconds, his friend sniggers.

Me: Someone will just have to sort it out later, SO IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND...

Student finally gets can out, without looking at me, while friend continues to snigger.

Who knows what he did with it after he walked away.

Recycling is the only thing I will actually get confrontational about.

I'm a little worried about taking acetominephen and aleve together. Thoughts?

I take them together all the time, with doctor approval. Just make sure you don't go above the recommended dose of the acetominephen.

Recycling is the only thing I will actually get confrontational about.

I am that way about littering, too.