.. I was crabby this morning. Kind of a contiuation of the yesterday crabbys...
She came by my office after class with a small apple... a "crabby apple".
She's quiet -- she has a good sense of humor.
Some days I need her more than others -- and today was one of those days.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Maybe I'm too cranky to be a good department chair...
This week we got some sad news...
When I came to BNCC, the department secretary had been here for eons. She died suddenly this week. She'd been retired for at least 5 years.
Personally, I find it sad in a pretty abstract way -- her retirement should have been longer etc...
I'm probably not more sad because she barely acknoweldged my presence.. She wasn't rude, but she also didn't do anything to help the newbie faculty member..
I suppose that is because she was too busy helping some of the others -- those same others who are currently asking a lot of her successor.
Which is why I get kind of irritated when those others expect ME to coordinate the memorial stuff... really, folks. She saved you a heck of a lot of time by typing your crap, running your scantrons and doing a lot of the stuff I did for myself and STILL do for myself.
Why don't YOU do it -- and I'll slip some cash in the envelope... because, I think she did help me call someone to un-jam the copy machine once in my first year... that's got to be worth something.
yea -- maybe I'm too cranky for this job, but -- if so -- bite me.
updated to add: Since I had to go to the grocery store anyway, I decided that my part would be satisfied by buying a nice card for others to sign. That's enough... 10 minutes in the sympathy card isle and a few bucks...
When I came to BNCC, the department secretary had been here for eons. She died suddenly this week. She'd been retired for at least 5 years.
Personally, I find it sad in a pretty abstract way -- her retirement should have been longer etc...
I'm probably not more sad because she barely acknoweldged my presence.. She wasn't rude, but she also didn't do anything to help the newbie faculty member..
I suppose that is because she was too busy helping some of the others -- those same others who are currently asking a lot of her successor.
Which is why I get kind of irritated when those others expect ME to coordinate the memorial stuff... really, folks. She saved you a heck of a lot of time by typing your crap, running your scantrons and doing a lot of the stuff I did for myself and STILL do for myself.
Why don't YOU do it -- and I'll slip some cash in the envelope... because, I think she did help me call someone to un-jam the copy machine once in my first year... that's got to be worth something.
yea -- maybe I'm too cranky for this job, but -- if so -- bite me.
updated to add: Since I had to go to the grocery store anyway, I decided that my part would be satisfied by buying a nice card for others to sign. That's enough... 10 minutes in the sympathy card isle and a few bucks...
Extra-credit from New Kitty
New Kitty really is Hubby's cat.
She has one of those automatic litter boxes (best thing EVER!!).
Her favorite toy is a laser pointer.
She has one of those water fountains for cats.
This week, the water fountain stopped working. New Kitty was depressed -- and I was too busy to fix it until this morning. Fixing it entails giving it a good scrub to get all the stray cat hairs out of the works...
Just now I walked by the cat's bathroom. New Kitty was sitting by her fountain admiring it. I paused to speak with her -- and she gave me the most grateful look I've ever had from her.
Getting extra-credit is nice.
She has one of those automatic litter boxes (best thing EVER!!).
Her favorite toy is a laser pointer.
She has one of those water fountains for cats.
This week, the water fountain stopped working. New Kitty was depressed -- and I was too busy to fix it until this morning. Fixing it entails giving it a good scrub to get all the stray cat hairs out of the works...
Just now I walked by the cat's bathroom. New Kitty was sitting by her fountain admiring it. I paused to speak with her -- and she gave me the most grateful look I've ever had from her.
Getting extra-credit is nice.
Who is really clueless?
... me or Student..
Hint -- I wasn't the one who wrote, "like we discussed in class", in a paper DUE on the date of the class discussion. I suspect the paper came from someone else's ethics class, but I can't prove it. The fact that the paper didn't fulfill the assignment was enough to down his grade substantially.
Hint -- I also wasn't the one who tried to slip his paper on Rawls into the stack on Held. Ummm -- dude, like I wouldn't notice? Since I grade the papers in order, yours wasn't with the Rawls stuff I was handing BACK the day you did it. Why the heck do you think I do it that way -- to catch little cheaters like you.
Besides, the paper you gave me was almost as bad as the Kant one...
Hint -- I wasn't the one who wrote, "like we discussed in class", in a paper DUE on the date of the class discussion. I suspect the paper came from someone else's ethics class, but I can't prove it. The fact that the paper didn't fulfill the assignment was enough to down his grade substantially.
Hint -- I also wasn't the one who tried to slip his paper on Rawls into the stack on Held. Ummm -- dude, like I wouldn't notice? Since I grade the papers in order, yours wasn't with the Rawls stuff I was handing BACK the day you did it. Why the heck do you think I do it that way -- to catch little cheaters like you.
Besides, the paper you gave me was almost as bad as the Kant one...
Monday, October 06, 2008
Now I'm confused...
... a couple of weeks ago the hospital sent me a collection notice.
I paid them -- what I thought I owed, not what they thought I owed. The difference was $128.00.
Today I got a REFUND check from them for $32.00... because I've over-paid them.
ummmm -- yea.
I suppose the only answer is that the insurance company got the bill "adjusted" by $150.00.
I'm good with that.
I paid them -- what I thought I owed, not what they thought I owed. The difference was $128.00.
Today I got a REFUND check from them for $32.00... because I've over-paid them.
ummmm -- yea.
I suppose the only answer is that the insurance company got the bill "adjusted" by $150.00.
I'm good with that.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Maybe I'll have hair by late January...
... at least I hope so, as my favorite conference seems to be happening!
I've just submitted a paper proposal-- and I think I'll go even if I'm not giving a paper.
So -- maybe by January I'll have some hair AND a paper on justice after the war to present...
of course, now I'll have to write it... but, I'd have to write it anyway.
I've just submitted a paper proposal-- and I think I'll go even if I'm not giving a paper.
So -- maybe by January I'll have some hair AND a paper on justice after the war to present...
of course, now I'll have to write it... but, I'd have to write it anyway.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
A quick trip to the mall...
... becomes more interesting when the power goes out.
The power outage was less than a minute. The chaos at the Body Shop took at least 45 minutes to resolve.
Naturally, while we waited we went to the game store and to Apple -- both to shop and not to buy.
We also went to Bath and Body works -- and ended up with some nice home scent stuff... but, not candles. Thinking about New Kitty setting herself or Old Kitty on fire would surely counter the relaxation promised by the burning candle. Instead, we got something that will plug in and not burn cat fur.
The power outage was less than a minute. The chaos at the Body Shop took at least 45 minutes to resolve.
Naturally, while we waited we went to the game store and to Apple -- both to shop and not to buy.
We also went to Bath and Body works -- and ended up with some nice home scent stuff... but, not candles. Thinking about New Kitty setting herself or Old Kitty on fire would surely counter the relaxation promised by the burning candle. Instead, we got something that will plug in and not burn cat fur.
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