I went in to the counseling services office to pay off my balance, where the receptionist told me I only owed $328. We checked with the accounting rep I spoke to earlier today and she somehow subtracted $135 from $1030 and got $675 rather than the $895 I expected to pay, to which I said "good enough, here's a new check."
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 28, 2022 3:11:37 pm PST #13478 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Trudy Booth - Feb 28, 2022 3:14:41 pm PST #13479 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
JZ, let's trust that the tuxedo kitties of Ukraine are headbutting their little hearts out right now. Sweet decent things are ultimately what people fight for after all.
Sheryl - Feb 28, 2022 3:22:33 pm PST #13480 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
sigh...it's Monday.
msbelle - Feb 28, 2022 3:31:31 pm PST #13481 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Toddson, ask for some headphones to wear for your Zoom meetings.
bennett - Feb 28, 2022 5:06:11 pm PST #13482 of 30000
Toddson, the person in the office next to mine uses speech to text software, and the person on the other side has to be on the phone all the time dealing with problems. Noise-cancelling headphones have saved my sanity.
Jesse - Feb 28, 2022 5:16:13 pm PST #13483 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've been back in the office for a couple of weeks, and I love it! But we get to do what we want, schedule-wise, everyone has an office they can shut the door on, and everyone is vaccinated and wearing masks.
-t - Feb 28, 2022 5:17:41 pm PST #13484 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, good reminder to bring my noise canceling headphones in with me! Just in case I need them, I don’t really know what to expect
-t - Feb 28, 2022 5:47:26 pm PST #13485 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I’m having night before the first day of school flashbacks
JZ - Feb 28, 2022 6:23:16 pm PST #13486 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I survived a day at the office! There was almost nobody there, including nobody from my division, despte the fact that there's supposed to be one clinical person there at all times, so I don't know what's up with that. But I'm wrung out and undelighted by all of it.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 28, 2022 7:25:41 pm PST #13487 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
That is good to hear, JZ. We went back officially in August. There was all this back and forth and schedules and planning and such, but of course it doesn't REALLY effect faculty, they can do what they want within reason (they are clinical faculty, so they are hired at the pleasure of the Dean yearly, rather than being tenured).
When Omicron hit and we cancelled classes again, I think everyone has just noped out and is just doing whatever they and their supervisor wants or will tolerate. (The Dean clearly wants everyone there at all times). The secretaries who "had" to be in are just working from home again. I have been working from home again as needed to log on to 8 am meetings. I was planning on going in tomorrow, but frankly I have been responding to those Facebook posts during trying to provide IT support (note I am not IT) to students in the online program I work on who do not get Box AT ALL. But also, they had a delay getting started because IT just f'ed up their Box accounts. They are collaborating with a partner and keep overwriting the other's work and wanting me to "merge" it somehow. I want to sleep in tomorrow because none of them have followed the explicit template (they deleted my placeholders where you could just click a plus sign to add your video and are trying so many workarounds!), instructions and instructional videos I made and are all angry because technology doesn't work. I want to be like- no- you didn't read. Anyway, I may not go in tomorrow either.