Happy birthday, Deena!

ION, I just posted this in Facebook, but I was heading here first and got sidetracked:

Cool story on how non-toxic hydrogels are helping the world plant gardens where they couldn't grow so well... Silly title, though.

[link]

Are you fucking kidding me? I just got a call from one of my students who lost his scholarship ("I just found out because Financial Aid sent a letter to the wrong address") He said "I'm in shock, it's so abrupt". I was like "what do mean, abrupt? Didn't you know that you didn't meet the GPA requirement in May" He said "I thought I had" @@

Let's not even talk about the countless emails that I sent out in May and June about checking their accounts to make sure that their scholarships were listed online (technical issues this year). Never got a call. Because if I had, I would have told him that he lost his scholarship. Ugh!

Work rants? Oh goody. Dear Professor Nutbar: Yes, I got your email. Yes, I got your proof corrections. I'm sorry I took two days to respond to your urgent request for the instructions I have already sent you twice. Yes, I will send you a corrected proof to review. I'm terribly sorry our standard formatting destroyed the grace of your beautiful equations; I will personally take two hours and put them all back the way they were and format your article around them, because that's better than listening to you bitch and if I don't you'll run whining to my boss and she'll tell me to give you what you want anyway. No, I cannot arrange to send proofs when there isn't a conference going on; there's always some damn conference going on. Yes, I understand that you're very busy. Sure, have a deadline extension; take all the damn time you want. Just don't be surprised when your article isn't in this month's issue.

You know what we need? Pinch hitters for jobs. Someone to come and do our job for, say, a month; they get the paycheck and we get a vacation instead of a nervous breakdown. Anyone in?

I got my office/guest rooms pics up! Yay! It's so nice to be sitting here doing stuff in such an organized space.

[link]

xposted with Natter

Aims, is my filing done yet?

t narrows eyes at Sean

I will totally fly out there and risk permanent deafness to kick your very cute ass.

Yay! I get to see Aims!

Sean, see, you are doing it wrong. Don't ask if it is done yet, you need to phrase it as a command. Watch.

"Aims, finish my filing."

Ooh, ooh, even better phrase it as a commanding question, so as to suggest some sort of flaw in her as a human being....

"Aims, why isn't my filing done yet?"

Hey, Dromiceiomimus! Are you still punching children?