This student is leaving in one week, so I am not too worried about it. I am glad to know that I am not crazy, though!

This was a weird situation because she was recommended to my boss and she and my boss get on very well (boss finds her very professional) and she is graduating with a master's degree. My boss is very team oriented (she is always telling me she is not my boss, we are part of a team). Of course, she also issued a written warning when she thought I wasn't actually treating her with respect, so....

Aw! I want Philadelphia Perkins.

I'm kind of amused by the stupid, but still trying to come up with smart for Allyson.

Lisah the wedding photos (and the folks in them) are gorgeous.

Yeah, I recently told my 25 year old former minion that she needs to take the job search process more seriously than any assignment at work, after she had fucked up a couple of things requested by people she was interviewing with, and she told me she hadn't been! But was going to start.

Dude. I don't understand how a person even needs to be taught that.

she had fucked up a couple of things requested by people she was interviewing with

Guess she doesn't really want a job, then?

Speaking of job searches, I just heard back from the feds regarding my application for the VA hospital librarian job. Apparently, I am "qualified," but not being referred to the employing agency because I'm not "highly qualified." They'll only get back to me if the employer doesn't find someone in this first round of interviews.

Can't say I'm surprised (I don't have the MLS yet, after all), but am a bit bummed. At least I've got my resume overhauled and have started looking, so that's something.

Guess she doesn't really want a job, then?

This is what I'm saying! And also, as it turned out, what the people hiring were saying. So she didn't get the jobs.

I'm looking at flights to London, and dithering. Dithering like THE WIND.

And we have a case of plagiarism where a student copied out of a study guide into a paper. For a class taught by a judge.

We had one where a student copied a law review article verbatim (except for the initial footnote where the author thanked his research assistant. Unfortunately, the professor had read the article. Even more unfortunately is that the student had an A going into the final paper. He could have not turned anything in and still gotten a B. Instead, he will never be admitted to the bar.

My boss is very team oriented (she is always telling me she is not my boss, we are part of a team). Of course, she also issued a written warning when she thought I wasn't actually treating her with respect, so....

See, this is how young people get confused. The "boss" wants to be all touchy feely and "we're all equals", and then gets upset when the kids think that they have an option to do what's required of them.

My revelation of the day: you can't spell "Cupertino" without TINO.

IOW, FUCK YOU APPLE.

While my hard-earned money that I paid for the mythical laptop has already cleared the bank, the laptop is either (1) in The Rift, (2) serving double duty as a waffle maker for the UPS guy, or (3) Tino has it and he is LAUGHING AT MY PAIN.

I know it's totally a first-world, diamond-shoes-too-tight problem to have the luxury of complaining that the computer I paid for has not only not been delivered on time, but has apparently disappeared off the face of the planet, but can't be replaced until they can verify that I am not lying (as in, I really received the laptop but am saying I didn't, so I can get a second one for free). Except, there's this thing where they have the UPS information that shows that UPS NEVER GOT THE PACKAGE. I am not in cahoots with UPS, so I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.

Bah.

You may have already done this, Steph, but send them a screenshot of the UPS status? If that is possible. How frustrating!