You are spending a lot of time on couches.

We could all get off the damn couch if Hil's advisor would stop being such an utter ass.

Much vibeage and sympathy to Pix's friend and her family, and keep-feeling-better~ma to Laga's dad.

And, omnis, if you're at a state-run university, I think I know which modules you're slogging through. They really, truly are lethally boring.

Plus, as a bonus, my officemate and I were doing some budget work earlier today and realized that there are a handful of really crucial functions hidden somewhere in the application the modules cover that would make budget work infinitely easier, but the modules completely neglected those functions in order to focus more closely on the vital tasks of pointing and clicking, and learning that a menu of icons and a drop-down menu can contain the exact same items.

The only consolation is that we at least did them online, while a couple of coworkers got suckered into taking an actual class - which consisted entirely of the stupid modules on an overhead projector while a miserable unwilling teacher walked up and down the rows of miserable unwilling students saying things like, "See where it says to point and click? That's what you point at, and then you push down on the mouse button to click it."

"See where it says to point and click? That's what you point at, and then you push down on the mouse button to click it."

Wait, what? Explain that again.

Also, if someone tells you to "write 'click'", where do you write it?

::kills tommyrot, stuffs him under couch::

Sorry, dude. You left me no choice.

I feel you, JZ. I had to spend an hour on a conference call going through an online procurement site that went very clearly, again and again, through how to download a fucking attachment. To be fair, it didn't help that people kept asking stupid ass questions: "So when I click and the box comes up, do I hit Open or do hit Save?" Stabbity stab stab.

"So when I click and the box comes up, do I hit Open or do hit Save?" Stabbity stab stab.

"So I click OK on this, right?"
"Right"

I know restating things is supposed to be good, but, dude, we've done this same procedure ten times already.

I had to spend an hour on a conference call going through an online procurement site that went very clearly, again and again, through how to download a fucking attachment. To be fair, it didn't help that people kept asking stupid ass questions: "So when I click and the box comes up, do I hit Open or do hit Save?" Stabbity stab stab.

Sometimes I forget that the a good portion of rest of the world is not as smart as us. We're doomed.

I vote Hil's advisor has to take the class that JZ's coworkers had to take, only the instructor is as charming and dedicated to advancing the students' interests as Hil's advisor is, so he has to keep re-doing shit, like 15 times, and then has to totally retake the whole class, three times. And while he's at the class, he leaves a car window open, so some anonymous drunk takes a whizz right through the open window. And then when Hil's adviser comes out of class to go home, everything around is all closed and locked up, so there's no place to borrow a plastic garbage bag or tarp from, and he has to sit in the wet spot.

Shir (or anyone else who knows): someone I was talking to is looking for things written by Israelis, in English, criticizing the IDF actions against the flotilla. I pointed her to a few Haaretz editorials. Anywhere else you can recommend?

Damn WS, that's a smackdown worthy of the Empress herself!

Color me very impressed indeed.