Epic, I am so sorry for your loss.
Can't any one of your damn little Scooby club at least try to remember that I hate you all?
Spike ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
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Anne W. - Sep 22, 2011 1:21:52 am PDT #29987 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Hil R. - Sep 22, 2011 2:39:37 am PDT #29988 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil, can you get together with the other professors so that each of you covers a building? If everyone is giving the same exam, they should be able to ask questions of any of the profs.
I'm not sure. A lot of the other instructors have all their students in one room, so I'm not sure if they'd be willing to rearrange stuff like that. I'd already thought of asking other instructors who have rooms near some of mine to check in on them, but two of my rooms are in buildings that don't have anyone else giving this exam.
On a side note, this situation irritates me and makes me bitter, because this kind of shit is what I do. There's no reason for this kind of disorder and inconvenience.
The department had to fire several administrative people over the summer, because of budget cuts, and one of them was the one who used to organize this stuff. So now other people are trying to figure out how to do it.
hippocampus - Sep 22, 2011 2:48:46 am PDT #29989 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
Epic, I'm so sorry.
Hil, that's a crazy situation.
Hil R. - Sep 22, 2011 3:10:47 am PDT #29990 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm still trying to figure out how I ended up the unlucky person with students in six buildings. I looked through the list, and there are a few people with students in three buildings, but most have one or two, and no one other than me has more than three.
sj - Sep 22, 2011 3:22:40 am PDT #29991 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Epic, I'm so sorry.
Hil, that is insanity. Good luck figuring out what to do.
Toddson - Sep 22, 2011 3:57:13 am PDT #29992 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
a weaponized silver fleur de lis stopper for wine! It's pretty, functional and can hurt people
Now ... if you could only set it on fire ....
DavidS - Sep 22, 2011 3:58:29 am PDT #29993 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Her: And here's one of the best podcast readers I've ever heard. She's called "FayJay" and she's reading these Sherlock fics.
Cool! You need to share that with her.
Zenkitty - Sep 22, 2011 4:06:04 am PDT #29994 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Epic, I'm so sorry about Domino.
Fred Pete - Sep 22, 2011 4:16:03 am PDT #29995 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
All sympathies, Epic.
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2011 4:43:43 am PDT #29996 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
if he was trying to get a gift that effectively communicated a lack of commitment
I know you have different expectations of the relationship than he does, and I know I'm a commitment phobe to put them all to shame, but I don't get this. It's a birthday gift for the first birthday you've had together. Is there an expectation of a commitment gift at this point? And other than rings, what does that look like? I mean, what he got sounds really nice, and I don't get what's missing.