Truer words, Calli.
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
brenda m - May 22, 2010 1:50:10 pm PDT #20121 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
sj - May 22, 2010 1:59:49 pm PDT #20122 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Hil, I would really like to hurt your advisor. I can't wait until you no longer have to deal with him.
We are having yummy pasta and watching TV. Just another exciting Saturday night!
Hil R. - May 22, 2010 2:03:52 pm PDT #20123 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
He's passive-aggressively threatening me with not graduating if I don't get the introduction to my dissertation up to his standards. He keeps telling me things to including, then not explaining them when I ask for an explanation, then telling me that the way I've written it sounds like I don't understand it. Because I don't! My last revision came back from him with several words and sentences circled by him and "bad" written next to them.
Oh, and he's also decided that next week is the perfect time, possibly the only time, for him to give me comments on the chapters I sent him at least three weeks ago, and I am being very irresponsible by being out of town next week. First half of the week is job interview, second half is family obligation that I told him about months ago and have mentioned in every email about scheduling stuff this summer.
Calli - May 22, 2010 2:09:16 pm PDT #20124 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Hil, your "advisor" (and, God, if anyone deserves the quotes of heavy-handed irony it's him), should be put in a sack, beaten with large sticks, and dropped in a river. I'd worry that this might interfere with his performance, but he'd probably be more accessible in a hospital bed.
Frankenbuddha - May 22, 2010 2:24:58 pm PDT #20125 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hil, your "advisor" (and, God if anyone deserves the quotes of heavy-handed irony it's him), should be put in a sack, beaten with large sticks, and dropped in a river.
Preferably one with a large population of piranhas.
Typo Boy - May 22, 2010 2:37:30 pm PDT #20126 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I prefer a vat of acid. Piranhas leave bones.
Laga - May 22, 2010 3:03:14 pm PDT #20127 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
My last revision came back from him with several words and sentences circled by him and "bad" written next to them.
This will be an excellent enclosure for the report you write about him when you're all graduated so you can make sure he never happens to anyone else again. What an assbut.
beekaytee - May 22, 2010 3:16:18 pm PDT #20128 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Go, Ryan's Immune System, work those antibodies and killer cells. Get 'em, Get 'em, eat those viruses!
I LOVE this!
::shakes get well pom poms at all who needs 'em::
JZ - May 22, 2010 4:21:13 pm PDT #20129 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Hil, please, please, please follow through on your plan with his other advisee to submit a formal report once you're safely out of there. Shabby, shitty, unprofessional, anti-helpful, crazymaking, should not be tolerated.
I swear I'm just about in a foul enough mood already that I'd find it positively therapeutic to fly down there and cockpunch him just for fun.
sj - May 22, 2010 4:23:09 pm PDT #20130 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
JZ, everything ok?