Ugh. The premise that you don't have a life worth preserving if you don't have a family drives me batshit. Good on you for standing firm, Vortex.
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2009 1:03:37 pm PST #2541 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Vortex - Mar 03, 2009 1:31:53 pm PST #2542 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
And the shit keeps rolling. Just found out that I didn't make the interview cut for a job I wanted (it was a reach, but still) and they've instituted mandatory unpaid leave.
Cashmere - Mar 03, 2009 1:41:31 pm PST #2543 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Wow, Vortex. Throw in a little rectal surgery and it's the best day ever. Yikes.
Stephanie - Mar 03, 2009 2:14:12 pm PST #2544 of 30000
Trust my rage
Puerto Rico announced today they are laying off 40K government employees. People are sort of freaking out.
Vortex - Mar 03, 2009 2:17:50 pm PST #2545 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Cash, you jinxed me. I don't know whether to scream or cry right now. Remember the stupid student assistant who didn't make the copies because there was no paper? I have just now discovered that he has done something else stupid. You know how when you're in college, you have a "school address" where you're living and a "permanent address" where your parents live?
I have now just discovered that for "school address", he put THE FUCKING UNIVERSITY'S ADDRESS in the database. So, having printed a bunch of letters and FedEx labels, I now realized that all of the letters are wrong, the labels are wrong and HE'S A FUCKING IDIOT.
Stephanie - Mar 03, 2009 2:20:20 pm PST #2546 of 30000
Trust my rage
Wow, that is crushingly stupid.
Hil R. - Mar 03, 2009 2:22:13 pm PST #2547 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Oy, Vortex.
I gave my students a midterm today. It went pretty well, I think, except for one problem -- on one of the questions, a student pointed out that I'd said to find the tangent line at a particular point, but that point wasn't actually on the curve. He was right, so I picked a point that was on the curve and told everyone to use that point instead. This point that I picked somewhat at random turned out to be one point that the curve wasn't differentiable, making the problem have no answer with that point. Oops.
SailAweigh - Mar 03, 2009 2:51:40 pm PST #2548 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
{{Bitches}} Today does seem to have been the shit special sandwich, hasn't it?
::passes the tequila to everyone::
Vortex - Mar 03, 2009 2:55:09 pm PST #2549 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I gave my students a midterm today. It went pretty well, I think, except for one problem -- on one of the questions, a student pointed out that I'd said to find the tangent line at a particular point, but that point wasn't actually on the curve. He was right, so I picked a point that was on the curve and told everyone to use that point instead. This point that I picked somewhat at random turned out to be one point that the curve wasn't differentiable, making the problem have no answer with that point. Oops.
eh, sounds like a gimme to me.
Vortex - Mar 03, 2009 2:59:13 pm PST #2550 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I mean, I'm trying to give the kid the benefit of the doubt, but seeing as how the database has a field for "school address" and one for "permanent address", is it too much to think that he'd figure that one out?
I just figured out what the problem was when one of the student's address was "Registrar's Office".