I don't understand this heat thing you people are talking about. Chicago is cold and wet and foggy and dismal.

Okay, it's clearly one of those days where even with productivity in place, I'm not going to actually get anything done, because every damn thing will need just one more thing before I can finish. And I'm too tired to do the one more thing. Maybe I should just file and shred. Surely I can handle that, right?

Keep it simple - skip the filing and shred everything?

Tempting.

Google has announced a "Death Manager" - rather, an inactive account manager. If/when you die (covering all bases), and your account is inactive, google will contact you, a trusted contact and then delete your account after a set period of time.

All your gmail, youtube videos, etc. will go bye-bye.

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Good thoughts, msbelle!

I have an appt with a parent who is mad because I won't accept her son's late paper. Which has prompted me to go into lawyer mode (labelled that way by coworker who has argued a case in front of the Supreme Court), gathering documentation including her son's resetting the parent account with grades, a signed syllabus, and a bunch of other papers that were making a case.

Really? This is how you want it? Fine. I also changed the grade weighting in my gradebook back to what is on the syllabus which has unweighted a ton of CST prep we have done this week and will do next which was driving UP student grades. Including her son. Who went from a low C to now an F. Good job, parent! Way to make me re-evaluate what I'm doing.

Hah, Kat--my roommate actually is a lawyer, and totally has lawyer mode. She was trying to film a blog entry as a "please pick me for your blogger team!" thing for an upcoming race, and totally was SO SERIOUS all "You should pick me because (a), (b), and (c), and in conclusion..." and I was like "Uh, NO. SMILE."

Then she said she'd discouraged her bestie from calling or texting during work hours not because she's busy but because she's likely to respond in a lawyer mode and her bestie is apparently Not Amused by that.

including her son's resetting the parent account

Doing what now?

But I am not, nor have I ever been, a lawyer. I am just all about evidence. Sigh.

I should be grading, but geez! WHY?

brenda, I have an online grade book. There are three accounts assigned to every student -- a student account and two parent accounts. Students can access their records separately from a parent accessing the grades. I can see when a parent has accessed the account. If they accessed it last semester but not this and if they have reset the password (which is in the case of this family), then I can see that info also. The parent account info was reset in August and never checked (which usually indicates that a student reset the password and not the parent).

If a parent tries to say that he or she wasn't aware of the kid's grade until now then that's usually the piece of info I want to discuss. Why haven't you checked the grade on line (when your son has 22 logins for this semester alone)?