[EmperorMagus]

The undergrad student society that I am a part of (by no choice of mine) lost 35k within the first week of classes on an event. If that wasn't enough, they proceeded to cut everything on their budget (secretly btw) without touching their own (the executives and council members) "retreat" (to a ski resort ffs) budget for 10k.

Also the Professor who hasn't returned my grades for assignments I submitted 6 weeks ago. Despite their multiple promises that "I will post the grades today".

[Mezla PigDog]

Alzheimer's Research UK Christmas appeal ad with Santa having Alzheimer's and the elves trying to fix him. Too far, too far

And the bub is sick which is heartbreaking (and sleep ruining).

[Lady Bliss]

QuickTidal, on 18 November 2016 - 02:18 PM, said:

We live right downtown in my city, and as more time goes by (I've lived downtown now for 12 years) more sketchy and scary stuff happens in our neighbourhood. More crazies. More crime. Like I can't even be sure when I go out of my house that I'm not going to be accosted by someone. I've always got my eye out for sketchy stuff now. I've literally been conditioned to EXPECT that kind of thing whenever I'm out. The more things that get reported on the news that happen near our condo, the more annoyed I get. I can't go to get a coffee in the morning on a Saturday a block away without being confronted with crazy people, or criminals, or just general nonsense. In fact, it's easier to count on my hands when I DON'T see that, rather than when I do.

This is no place to raise a family. And both my wife and I WANT to skip out to the suburbs...but we have to wait till she's off Mat Leave as we can't get a mortgage when she's on it as they look at her income on Mat Leave as opposed to what she makes when she's working (I haven't a clue why; it's not like she's out of a job or something). So we are stuck, at least till next fall, living in a place where I feel apprehensive about taking my daughter out in the stroller, let alone the baby bjorn.

Sigh. Messing with my groove man.

I understand! When I first moved to San Francisco I had to get a studio in the city with Blissling, and I was afraid to be out after dark with her because of all of the homeless and drug addicts. I was terrified someone would try and snatch her from me. You obviously have a high amount of awareness for your surroundings, so I'm sure the little one will be fine with Dadddy watching over her!

[EmperorMagus]

If anyone is curious, I still don't have my grades back. (I know no one is but anyways.)

Everyone around me is tired of me complaining so I'm on ME doing it.

Jesus how can someone with a PhD be this disorganized. I'm getting GAD from all this stress.

[Imperial Historian]

Have you met someone with a PhD before? From my experience disorganisation is pretty common...

[EmperorMagus]

Imperial Historian, on 21 November 2016 - 07:57 AM, said:

Have you met someone with a PhD before? From my experience disorganisation is pretty common...

Disorganized as in being untidy/misplacing things I agree. Lord knows most of their offices pain me. Disorganized as in not meeting deadlines, never before. Almost all of my profs so far have amazed me at the level conscientiousness they display.

[MTS]

EmperorMagus, on 21 November 2016 - 08:10 AM, said:

Imperial Historian, on 21 November 2016 - 07:57 AM, said:

Have you met someone with a PhD before? From my experience disorganisation is pretty common...

Disorganized as in being untidy/misplacing things I agree. Lord knows most of their offices pain me. Disorganized as in not meeting deadlines, never before. Almost all of my profs so far have amazed me at the level conscientiousness they display.

As a teacher I can say that delays like yours are not too uncommon. I teach 130+ students, and if I get, say, 100 assignments, and it takes me 20 mins to mark one (due to giving it proper attention), it would take more than 30 hours for me to finish one set of assignments. That's not to mention doing all the other things that the job entails, so I might only get to spend 1-2 hours a day on marking. Depending on the task, 6 weeks might be a long time to get that amount of marking done, but rather than incompetence their failure might be in being too optimistic about when they could get it all finished.

General time management might still be an issue (I know way too many incompetent teachers...), but just playing devil's advocate.

[Maark Abbott]

Not been well lately. If symptoms are anything to go by, I might have Coeliac. Wonderful.

[Mentalist]

This ridiculous wind. And me getting a sore throat (largely due to said wind and me being in denial about my window insulation being worn out).

This evening I'll have to do smth about my window. Which is not smth i'm looking forward to.

[EmperorMagus]

MTS, on 21 November 2016 - 01:01 PM, said:

EmperorMagus, on 21 November 2016 - 08:10 AM, said:

Imperial Historian, on 21 November 2016 - 07:57 AM, said:

Have you met someone with a PhD before? From my experience disorganisation is pretty common...

Disorganized as in being untidy/misplacing things I agree. Lord knows most of their offices pain me. Disorganized as in not meeting deadlines, never before. Almost all of my profs so far have amazed me at the level conscientiousness they display.

As a teacher I can say that delays like yours are not too uncommon. I teach 130+ students, and if I get, say, 100 assignments, and it takes me 20 mins to mark one (due to giving it proper attention), it would take more than 30 hours for me to finish one set of assignments. That's not to mention doing all the other things that the job entails, so I might only get to spend 1-2 hours a day on marking. Depending on the task, 6 weeks might be a long time to get that amount of marking done, but rather than incompetence their failure might be in being too optimistic about when they could get it all finished.

General time management might still be an issue (I know way too many incompetent teachers...), but just playing devil's advocate.

She has two TAs to assist her, so I think her situation isn't too bad.

But I guess I have been spoiled by all the good instructors I have had so far. Just not used to it. (also the fact that 65% of my grade is dependent on it, so ...)

[QuickTidal]

Mentalist, on 21 November 2016 - 02:36 PM, said:

This ridiculous wind. And me getting a sore throat (largely due to said wind and me being in denial about my window insulation being worn out).

You're telling me! It's been terrible since yesterday.

[Mentalist]

QuickTidal, on 21 November 2016 - 06:27 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 21 November 2016 - 02:36 PM, said:

This ridiculous wind. And me getting a sore throat (largely due to said wind and me being in denial about my window insulation being worn out).

You're telling me! It's been terrible since yesterday.

Debatable. I'd be willing to go as far back as Saturday evening.

Still, beats Ottawa and their expected 20 cm of snow...

Either way, bundle up the baby when you take her outside.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 21 November 2016 - 06:50 PM

[QuickTidal]

Mentalist, on 21 November 2016 - 06:49 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 21 November 2016 - 06:27 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 21 November 2016 - 02:36 PM, said:

This ridiculous wind. And me getting a sore throat (largely due to said wind and me being in denial about my window insulation being worn out).

You're telling me! It's been terrible since yesterday.

Debatable. I'd be willing to go as far back as Saturday evening.

Still, beats Ottawa and their expected 20 cm of snow...

Either way, bundle up the baby when you take her outside.

Absolutely. We were tempted to take her out yesterday for the Santa Claus parade...but the weather made us say no way.

But yeah, the part of the city I live in is normally a wind tunnel....this morning it was nearly unbearable! The 'Sauga has been no better near work.

[worry]

Yah it's seriously awful, I can't believe the brutality of that bus bent around the tree. That and the DAPL jackboots -- I mean ND law enforcement officers -- shooting tear gas, rubber bullets, and high pressure water hoses (in freezing temps) at NoDAPL people from behind a barbed-wire fence are both going to haunt me for a while.

[Andorion]

I seem to have hurt my back. No clue how. Now having trouble staying seated for a stretch

[QuickTidal]

death rattle, on 22 November 2016 - 01:48 AM, said:

I mean ND law enforcement officers -- shooting tear gas, rubber bullets, and high pressure water hoses (in freezing temps) at NoDAPL people from behind a barbed-wire fence are both going to haunt me for a while.

As a non-American, can you help me understand that? Like as far as I knew you could disperse protestors with non-lethal means....but to me blasting water into protestors in freezing temps seems like a pretty fast way to get people killed by hypothermia and such, no?

How did that get the go-ahead, and how is it being allowed at all?

[Itwæs Nom]

QuickTidal, on 22 November 2016 - 03:20 PM, said:

death rattle, on 22 November 2016 - 01:48 AM, said:

I mean ND law enforcement officers -- shooting tear gas, rubber bullets, and high pressure water hoses (in freezing temps) at NoDAPL people from behind a barbed-wire fence are both going to haunt me for a while.

As a non-American, can you help me understand that? Like as far as I knew you could disperse protestors with non-lethal means....but to me blasting water into protestors in freezing temps seems like a pretty fast way to get people killed by hypothermia and such, no?

How did that get the go-ahead, and how is it being allowed at all?

And apparently concussion grenades.

[QuickTidal]

Jeezus.

[Darkwatch]

Abyss, on 18 November 2016 - 06:04 PM, said:

Can we at least sauté them first?

Sure, why not. We can do it in mineral oil.

[worry]

QuickTidal, on 22 November 2016 - 03:20 PM, said:

death rattle, on 22 November 2016 - 01:48 AM, said:

I mean ND law enforcement officers -- shooting tear gas, rubber bullets, and high pressure water hoses (in freezing temps) at NoDAPL people from behind a barbed-wire fence are both going to haunt me for a while.

As a non-American, can you help me understand that? Like as far as I knew you could disperse protestors with non-lethal means....but to me blasting water into protestors in freezing temps seems like a pretty fast way to get people killed by hypothermia and such, no?

How did that get the go-ahead, and how is it being allowed at all?

It got the go ahead because in an oligarchy, what's "legal" is what your corporate masters say is legal. I'm not saying the country is 100% an oligarchy, just that on the ground here the behaviors certainly resemble one at a localized level -- it remains to be seen how accountability plays out as it rubs against other American institutions, but there's a very long history of Natives getting the short end of that stick too. There's calls for federal investigation, obviously, but I don't know if that'll come to anything. We'll see.

Nom is right, and that woman may lose the arm all together. And the sheriff's department involved is denying everything, from water cannons to dispersal explosives, despite all the evidence. Here's a good (if long -- the first half will give you the gist well enough) article on that night: http://thefreethough...-protector-arm/
I suppose you can call it biased -- it clearly has a perspective sympathetic to the NoDAPL side -- but I fail to see how a so-called "neutral" news source that claims this was a "clash between protestors and police" could be said to have any credibility at this point.