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.

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.

Maybe not directly, but it might help you if you ever needed to prove to a potential employer that the problem was on his end and not yours. (Document, document, document!)

Dear Bitches with young girls, I need some book recs. My BFF's daughter only sits still when she's reading, and fortunately she loves to read. She's 12 or 13, can't remember, and is into young-adult paranormal romance (like, alas, Twilight) and mysteries (she's read Cleo Coyle, and I don't know who that is). She also has read Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code and enjoyed those. She has all the Stephanie Meyers books, and something called Generation Dead.

Does anyone have any recommendations of books she might like?

Madeline L'Engle's books. The Wrinkle in Time series and the Austins.

I am trying again:

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?

Zen, Melissa Marr's series, beginning with Wicked Lovely, or Libba Bray's, beginning with A Great and Terrible Beauty. There are also a couple of Alice Hoffman books out there for the YA market.

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.

I've tried post-its on his office door. So far, that seems to be the best way to reach him, but I can't use it for anything that's too long to write on a post-it or anything private, and I can't do it at all now since I'm in NJ. I'll be back in DC next week, though.

The department secretary knows what's going on, since he's supposed to give the recommendation to her and then she copies it and sends it out to all the schools, and she's been asking me whether she should just send out the others without his, and I told her that he said he'd get it in by Thanksgiving, I don't know why he didn't, I can't find out why he didn't because he's not answering my emails, and I'm sorry to create more work for her, but the best idea seems to be to send out the others now and then send his separately once he submits it.

Zen, Teppy really liked the Kiki Strike books.

I like Holly Black's Tithe and it's followups.

Zen, The Morganville Vampire series [link] and/or the Vampire academy books [link]

(both of which are Jilli approved)

3 hours of meetings. Huuuuunngryyy!

As for books, not a girl, but if she likes mysteries, when I was a kid, I liked the series "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators". It might be a bit dated now. But I liked them.