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.
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.
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.
I prefer a vat of acid. Piranhas leave bones.
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.
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::
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.
He told me to find somebody else to correct the writing in my dissertation, because he doesn't have time and it's not his job, anyway.
I'm actually not going to have time to work on it until Wednesday or Thursday, but, any Buffistas willing to read it Friday or over the weekend? I'm also going to ask a friend of mine who graduated last semester, and maybe one of the other professors in my department. (I'm debating the wisdom of asking the other professor with "My advisor says he doesn't have time and it's not his job." It would be satisfying, but probably not such a good idea.)
Edit: I'm just looking for people to read the introduction, not the entire thing.
My throat hurts and I'm coughing and feel sick. I better not be coming down with something.
