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!

For those who remember, TableTalk shutting down.

That's sad.

Also, (from a tweet from Mother Jones): Did the Florida Legislature accidentally ban sex?

You know: oops.

For those who remember, TableTalk shutting down.

Aw, that bums me out.

Gosh. It's so weird. Now I'm having WXing and People's Forum flashbacks, as well.

Now I feel hella old.

Wow, no more Table Talk! Weirdness.

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

They can access the UPS status from their end, too, so they can see it. I get that they have a procedure to follow, but it's long and frustrating and not very service-y to the customer.

ION, how do you kill ants? Other than squashing each one? I came home to a kitchen full of ants, and if I don't die from disgust, I have to kill them, but I have no idea how. This hasn't happened since I moved in with Tim, and prior to this I lived in apartments where you just called Paul the superintendant when bugs showed up.