Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Steph, I wish you felt better! How miserable.
I had parents contact me ALL THE TIME about their child's grades when I worked at KU. Mind you, it was usually for a class I didn't even teach!
I always FERPA'd them; by law, you can't even acknowledge a person is enrolled or not without written permission, much less discuss grades.
But my god, we had a ton of helicopter parents and I was always wanting to slap them: your kid is over 18, and didn't do the work. Tell them to suck it the fuck up.
I would have more patience if this was some random, rare occurrence, some injustice with an unfair teachers, but I saw it wayyyyy too much, and basically, the vast majority of it was for kids who were fucking around, and for grade-sucking. By parents! "My kid won't keep his scholarship/get into med school/be happy unless he gets a higher grade!"
ORILLY? I guess your kid should have DEVOTED MORE EFFORT, then! @@
Ugh, yeah that sounds incredibly sucky. breathing~ma
There's nothing more wearing than a cough.
I will once again advocate steam. I have a steam inhaler gadget and also take long hot showers. Sometimes it seems the crap in my lungs has sort of solidified, and steam will help loosen it. The problem with it, the neti pot and the like is that when you feel bad, they all seem like too much trouble. I also always put Vick's on my chest, but I think its effect may be mostly psychological, since my mother did that for me and her mother put camphorated oil on her. It probably goes back generations, through onion poultices and mustard plasters back to a root.
Teppy, that is pretty worrying.
highly subjective testing indicates that nasal irrigation provides only very temporary relief from cold-related congestion, and zero relief from post-nasal drip. Sure, it flushed a significant quantity of snot out of my nasal passages, but the human body is remarkably efficient at replacing that loss. Right back to where i started in less than a half hour.
Health~ma to thems that needs it. Ugg. I hate being sick.
A student's father just emailed me to ask for a higher grade for his son. I so don't understand this.
That is all sorts of wrong. At least it was e-mail and not a phone call. Less confrontational, I suppose. When I started at the University, my boss said "Be thankful you aren't a Professor. Nothing more annoying than a Helicopter parent. Worse than a swarm of mosquitoes!!"
The father says his son "showed improvement on the final exam." No, he really didn't.
If ya could give a grade for effort, swell. But your grades are for the work done.
I know, the standard line was given. But still. Dumbfounded.
WS &DCJ, glad to hear you got some wheels. Crossing fingers this one lasts you a long time!
There was more. But forget. Mom is visiting tomorrow for the weekend. Ugg. House isn't cleaned. But. She, being a horder, will think the place is great. Eh. There is that.
Now I just need to step away from the iTunes, as editing/fixing the metadata is the biggest timesuck there ever was. Especially when you have over 13,000 tracks.
wow! Drama at the University during holiday break. So yesterday a ZotAlert went out (campus alert in case of problems) that was basically an APB for a dude accused of domestic violence with attempted strangulation. WTF right? This evening, an update that he was found deceased. No other details. That's some crazy shit, yo!
They should make a reality show of campus cops. Too bad no university would want that type of publicity.
They did make that show.
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I just realized one of the schools was my grad school.
t rolls eyes
Wow, we're all sick. More health~ma to erin, Teppy, Barb and everyone else who needs it.
Teppy, if you keep having breathing problems, then I echo the cries of "urgent care!" But if it helps, your symptoms sound a lot like mine, and TG telephoned my doc on Thursday and was told it's bad 'flu that's been going around. Really bad, but 'flu. But I am not a doctor nor do I play one on etcetera, so.
Fever went back up yesterday, but seems to be down properly now. Hoping for the ability to leave bed today. And to eat food!
oooh, prescripton cough syrup w/ codeine is, like, the BEST THING EVAH. Imagine sleeping! Without coughing! And when you wake up in the middle of the night coughing, all you have to do is swallow another dose and then back to magic land.
I've been taking codeine to sleep. It helps a lot. I need some cough syrup though - hacking my lungs up. I won't get to the doctor now because it's the weekend, so no prescription stuff for me, but Tesco's sells the best glycerin cough syrup in existence, so I'll be sending TG to get some of that (if she isn't already sick of running my illness-related errands. Which she probably is).
Can't remember if I congratulated you, Aims - if not, huge congratulations on the teaching job! That's fantastic. I hope it goes really well.
Glad to hear you got a new truck, Andi and DCJ. I hope it serves you well.
Utterly amazed to hear that Hil and Sparky get parents calling to ask for higher grades. Never once happened when I was teaching young adults. I'll be interested to see if the university students I teach next semester have more involved parents (although I doubt it). Maybe if I were teaching at Warwick or Oxford!
omnis, that's weird. (The most eventful thing that's happened at my uni since I've been there: students setting waste paper bins on fire.)
OMG, it is so windy outside that it is super super loud out and I can't sleep. (also I had upsetting nightmares about missing my flight).
