Hil, if your slacker adviser is anywhere in Virginia, I'll go talk to him for you.

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Vortex, that's what I thought too.

Plus - doesn't this make him eligible for ita's Silver Fox site?

doesn't this make him eligible for ita's Silver Fox site?

Whoot! Extra Tennant! I like him better as a brunet, because I think he looks all over pale with the grey hair, but I'm not mad at anyone who goes au naturel.

Let me go bookmark Seska's post.

I am also getting increasingly irritated with my advisor, who promised he would submit his letter of recommendation by Thanksgiving, has not submitted it yet, and has not responded to any of my emails since before Thanksgiving, and I can't go find him because I'm still in NJ. And I've gotten a few more emails from places where I applied telling me that they can't consider my application complete until they receive the recommendations.

The utter lack of respect and professionalism from this guy just continues to amaze.

I read the article, it may be that he's done it for the role he's playing, as an villain :)

Thinking about it, it's really hard to say whether he's just stopped dyeing it brown, or is dyeing it grey for the role. Either way, I don't think it looks at all bad. It gives him a definite 'grown-up' aura.

Re Zenkitty's spoiler font, I agree entirely. To add my own view in that area: Girly parts. Not fun. I am so sick of three-weekly periods and everything that goes with them.

Also, in relation to the above, I'm having that week (the one in three) of being so bendy, I subluxate every two minutes and end up in a little heap of pain on the bed at the end of the day. I went shopping today, safely cocooned in my wheelchair, and still subluxed every single joint in my body. Joyous. I am going to lie here and watch old Lost episodes (we're doing a bit of a Lost marathon) and not move. Seems safest. < /pain rant >

And I've gotten a few more emails from places where I applied telling me that they can't consider my application complete until they receive the recommendations.

Can you forward them to him?

You know, each one with a note, "Just checking with you on the status of my letter. ______ is still waiting for it."

Does the dude have a secretary or assistant?

smonster (and anyone else in her general line of work), do you know anything about the Global Reporting Initiative [link] ? How is it perceived among people who work in your field?

I don't know if he even reads what I do send him. There have been plenty of times when I've been in his office and he opened his email to print out something I'd sent him a few days ago, and I saw that the subject was still highlighted like he hadn't even opened it yet. I don't think that piling on more emails will do much of anything.

I subluxate every two minutes and end up in a little heap of pain on the bed at the end of the day.

Dude. That sucks. And why does no one TELL US THIS STUFF when we hit puberty? B/c it's an issue even for people with normal joints and I didn't find out until I was 25 or so.

I don't know if he even reads what I do send him. There have been plenty of times when I've been in his office and he opened his email to print out something I'd sent him a few days ago, and I saw that the subject was still highlighted like he hadn't even opened it yet. I don't think that piling on more emails will do much of anything.

Not that I really think it will help, b/c he's proven himself to be an unprofessional asshole of the highest order, but is his office open when he's not there? I'm a fan of putting important items in peoples chairs, though of course he could just disappear them into one of the many piles of paper I assume his desk endures.