At Marquette the day before or after a holiday counted as missing three classes. Which mattered because with four or more absences the professor could deregister you from their class.
We don't have that kind of power here. We can't even enforce prerequisites. (Seriously. The computer registration system isn't set up to check whether a student has taken all the prerequisites before allowing them to register for a class. If a professor wants to, they can go through the list, individually check each student's transcript, and deregister the ones who don't have the prerequisites, but there's nothing preventing those students from just registering again. Also, only professors have that power -- for classes taught by non-tenure-track faculty, there's nothing we can do.)
Of course. Guy with hyuuge shoulders in the middle seat. Feel bad for the lady in the window.
3 hr flight....
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We've got the full week off for Thanksgiving, but most students leave sometime Friday.
That's so annoying -- I bet they expanded it because of people not showing up for classes the week of Thanksgiving!
I had 14 of my 80 students in class this morning.
I gave them my "We few, we happy few . . ." speech and we got down to work.
Omg why am I at work? It should be my day off, but I switched days so I could take next Friday off. Except I don't really have much to do. So bored.
I spent half of yesterday cleaning my office. Today I've got a few hours of meetings, and then an hour or so of work...and then I think I'll clean my office some more.
I have nothing to do at the moment--I'm waiting for a client to get back to me.
I'm hoping I can leave early but I'm fearing the client won't get back to us until this afternoon or Monday and I'll end up staying here until the 5:22 train.
Also, I am having pie for breakfast. Pumpkin pie, with pecan-gingersnap crust. Mmmm. The restaurant we are eating at on thanksgiving is not having pumpkin pie. Wtf? So I had to make some.
I drove this morning, and construction just hated me -- I lost a fare on Beacon Hill (they cancelled before I arrived) because I had to detour TWICE and there are only one way streets going in the wrong direction.
I only got like $30 in fares in three hours of driving, seriously. My resolution is to try to stay out of Boston, at least trying to get back over the river rather than get drawn further into Downtown. Also, getting started earlier, before rush hour hits prime time.
