Another pet peeve. People who cherry pick what they want to work on. Your job includes x, y, and z. You can't ignore z just cause you like x and y better.
And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
SuziQ - Mar 29, 2010 10:31:44 am PDT #19627 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Kat - Mar 29, 2010 10:35:46 am PDT #19628 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Work pet peeve? The fact that they might layoff 5,000 teachers/librarians/school nurses and still give us a 12% paycut on top of the 5 furlough days we are getting this year (just announced) and the 7 furlough days next year.
iSearch is actually pretty fun. Or it can be. 40 pages is about right, but it should include more than just expository writing.
Kat - Mar 29, 2010 10:36:31 am PDT #19629 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Best part of my job? Spring break and I got a pedicure today.
Jesse - Mar 29, 2010 10:36:53 am PDT #19630 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Work pet peeve? The fact that they might layoff 5,000 teachers/librarians/school nurses and still give us a 12% paycut on top of the 5 furlough days we are getting this year (just announced) and the 7 furlough days next year.
I'm pretty sure that's not actually a peeve.
Kat - Mar 29, 2010 10:37:33 am PDT #19631 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Well, it's the thing I'm most upset by. 5,000 people would be like laying off all of JPL.
beekaytee - Mar 29, 2010 10:37:48 am PDT #19632 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
The only help I ever remember getting in school was grueling spelling quizzes. They served me well, in the end, but were fairly death-march-like.
What is your current stupid pet peeve about your job?Clients who know that they pay in 4 session increments but who do not look at the calendar to accommodate for the 5 week months. I don't like having to remind them. Must find a fun way to do this...or at least a preemptive one.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 29, 2010 10:42:07 am PDT #19633 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Wait! In 4th grade my mother helped me learn all the State Capitals. I still remember that Frankfurt is the capital of Kentucky because they sell frankfurters at the Kentucky Derby!
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 29, 2010 10:42:35 am PDT #19634 of 30001
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
Taking a business-related cell phone call ON THE TOILET. When the stall next to you is occupied.
Y/N?
And this, my friends, is why you should never talk on your phone in the bathroom. (Gross but hilarious)
Jesse - Mar 29, 2010 10:47:28 am PDT #19635 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, it's the thing I'm most upset by. 5,000 people would be like laying off all of JPL.
Yeah, I'm saying it's Actual Badness.
DavidS - Mar 29, 2010 10:50:41 am PDT #19636 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Was he supposed to be doing stuff throughout the year that contributes to it?
It is and he has been. He interviewed an expert on the history of the presidency and has been working on stuff. But he managed to fluff over the last checkpoint where the teacher makes sure he's on target and has somehow excused himself from finishing on time because of his mother's surgery.
It is a huge project, and the point of it (from my perspective) is to learn how to manage a big project, and stay on schedule. (Which, of course, he is not doing.)
Emmett's attitude about schoolwork is basically that it's a tithe he has to pay to do what he wants to do. He'll pay it - he does his homework without argument. But he doesn't give it his full attention, and he doesn't do it to learn. He's not invested in it.
To be honest, I'm sympathetic with that attitude. His workload at school is very heavy; as Gud notes the standards and expectations are much higher than they used to be. He already works harder than I did.
At the same time I want him to buy in to his own progress. It's a been a big discussion this year because he wasn't invited to be on the travel team in baseball - despite his talent and achievements - because of his attitude about practices. Not that he's a malcontent, or uncoachable or anything. But he doesn't use it as an opportunity to improve. He's not self motivated that way. It's what he has to do to play.
Anyway, iSearch has not been foremost on my mind because we've been juggling a bunch of crises and I blew the deadline.
I'm not even mad at him, really. I wouldn't have wanted to write a forty page paper when I was 13 either, and I certainly wouldn't have been capable without parental assistance.
But it's going to be a tough couple of days. Not just because of the work, but he's going to be emotional and upset and balking about it too.
But I hope I can put it in the proper context for him so that he sees that it's time to buckle down and grind through.
That is also a valuable lesson - how to dig out of a hole.