I'm angry at myself because I heard he was in the hospital and didn't call, figured it was NBD. And I'm angry at health insurance, b/c I think he had the surgery to try and avoid the new punitive BMI rates.

I survived a shopping expedition for more soup and some oscillococcinum. spendy and perhaps craxy, but i'll give homeopathy a try when i feel like crap.

smonster, deny that friend request like it's on fire. no good comes from that kind of contact.

They released some 911 recordings from our omg tornado and one guy is just totally chill. It's exactly what I suspect mine would have sounded like if I were there. He was calling in because there was a barn in the road. No accidents or injuries.

it's amazing how chill people can be in really dire emergencies. i remember once on a really bad traffic accident the caller was soooo chill that at some point i asked "is anything on fire?" just as a time-filler question while i was typing something important and he was like "yeah, the tanker truck is flaming, some guy's yelling that it might explode." that was more than 90 seconds into the call...

And yet people who are calm in a crisis get dinged in court cases for not being hysterical enough, so "obviously" they didn't really care.

health ma~~~~

car problem solving ma~~~~

sorry smonster

DCJ, that's awful.

i remember once on a really bad traffic accident the caller was soooo chill that at some point i asked "is anything on fire?" just as a time-filler question while i was typing something important and he was like "yeah, the tanker truck is flaming, some guy's yelling that it might explode." that was more than 90 seconds into the call...

That is perhaps TOO chill.

I just figure that my freaking out at that moment helps no one. So calm and explain. And, um, hope there's no court case where I sound apathetic.

Still, fire should be mentioned. With a caveat from me that it was not my fault things are on fire this time.

Still, fire should be mentioned. With a caveat from me that it was not my fault things are on fire this time.

I am quite taken with the caveat to your caveat.

A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend. A vague caveat makes me worry about liability.

Within about three hours of releasing final grades, seven students have emailed me asking for higher grades. Not a single one of them has any good reason, other than that they think they deserve higher grades.

Awww. But one just emailed me to tell me how much she enjoyed my class, and that I'm the best teacher she's ever had.

yay for positive feedback! keep that, and ignore the rest ;)