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.
And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?
Xander ,'End of Days'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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§ 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".