southerntransplant
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« Reply #36390 on: February 09, 2012, 09:37:05 AM » |
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The Email I Hate:
"ST, this is Collaborator. It is very important that I talk to you today. Please let me know when you can talk."
The Ensuing Phone Call I Hate:
Collaborator: "How are you?"
ST: "That depends. What's up?"
Collaborator: "How is the weather there?"
ST: <incredulous> "Shout-ey, with a chance of cursing! What the f*ck did you want to talk about?"
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"I tried to walk into a Target, but I missed. I think the entrance to Target should have people splattered all around" - Mitch Hedberg
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tinyzombie
She of the Ass-Kicking Socks, and a
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elevate from this point on - chuck d
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« Reply #36391 on: February 09, 2012, 10:01:20 AM » |
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I am unbelievably tired, and I don't know why. I fell asleep way early last night, and I'm still yawning.
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Correct, as usual, TZ. That's because you are not Dude. TZ, however, is Dude. TZ is my favorite. I wish YOU began with A. |
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ab_grp
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« Reply #36392 on: February 09, 2012, 10:10:44 AM » |
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The Email I Hate:
"ST, this is Collaborator. It is very important that I talk to you today. Please let me know when you can talk."
The Ensuing Phone Call I Hate:
Collaborator: "How are you?"
ST: "That depends. What's up?"
Collaborator: "How is the weather there?"
ST: <incredulous> "Shout-ey, with a chance of cursing! What the f*ck did you want to talk about?"
Yes, times a thousand. |
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notaprof
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« Reply #36393 on: February 09, 2012, 10:13:37 AM » |
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I am unbelievably tired, and I don't know why. I fell asleep way early last night, and I'm still yawning.
You overindulged. You have a sleep hangover. |
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"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
"When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."
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marigolds
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i had fun once and it was awful
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« Reply #36394 on: February 09, 2012, 11:30:21 AM » |
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The Email I Hate:
"ST, this is Collaborator. It is very important that I talk to you today. Please let me know when you can talk."
The Ensuing Phone Call I Hate:
Collaborator: "How are you?"
ST: "That depends. What's up?"
Collaborator: "How is the weather there?"
ST: <incredulous> "Shout-ey, with a chance of cursing! What the f*ck did you want to talk about?"
Yes, times a thousand. This is the faculty version of the student-written introduction that begins with "since the beginning of time..." They gotta ease in, man. |
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"You and your mom are hillbillies. This is a house of learned doctors."
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chaosbydesign
"I like to lyse bacteria. Did you know I'm utterly insane?"
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I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.
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« Reply #36395 on: February 09, 2012, 11:44:36 AM » |
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I forgot to go to something I should have attended this morning. Oops.
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Seriously, I tried to lick my own face. Ah. Typical ivory tower pedanticalness.
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nucleo
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« Reply #36396 on: February 09, 2012, 01:11:50 PM » |
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As if it weren't enough that I have pneumonia, spucleo seems to be coming down with whatever it was I had last week that led to pneumonia. Blargh.
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dr_alcott
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« Reply #36397 on: February 09, 2012, 02:15:05 PM » |
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"Shout-ey, with a chance of cursing!"
That describes the weather here to a tee. Nucleo, hope you and Spucleo feel better soon. |
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I am an insanely elegant, super classy poor white, for the record.
I love everyone here!
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madhatter
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Just killing time
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« Reply #36398 on: February 09, 2012, 02:53:33 PM » |
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Note to self: don't make small talk with ST!
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"I may be an evil scientist, but it doesn't take a degree purchased from the Internet with your ex-wife's money to know how special and important you are to me." -- Dr. Doofenschmirtz
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lohai0
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« Reply #36399 on: February 09, 2012, 03:05:40 PM » |
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I know that my chair is in charge for another year or so, but forcing me to come in on my day off (first time in grad school I was able to schedule myself a day where I wasn't on campus) for ten minute advising meetings in the middle of the day is just plain mean.
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This semester's going to call for an increase in my liquor budget.
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neutralname
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« Reply #36400 on: February 09, 2012, 03:33:54 PM » |
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I know that my chair is in charge for another year or so, but forcing me to come in on my day off (first time in grad school I was able to schedule myself a day where I wasn't on campus) for ten minute advising meetings in the middle of the day is just plain mean.
It is both mean and stupid. |
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." Vladimir Nabokov
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lohai0
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« Reply #36401 on: February 09, 2012, 04:16:44 PM » |
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I know that my chair is in charge for another year or so, but forcing me to come in on my day off (first time in grad school I was able to schedule myself a day where I wasn't on campus) for ten minute advising meetings in the middle of the day is just plain mean.
It is both mean and stupid. In our meeting today (which was definitely one of the top 3 most enraging conversations we've had), he pretty much admitted he is doing it because he can. I may have to go resurrect the Primal Scream Thread. |
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This semester's going to call for an increase in my liquor budget.
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chaosbydesign
"I like to lyse bacteria. Did you know I'm utterly insane?"
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« Reply #36402 on: February 09, 2012, 05:19:48 PM » |
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Dear Apartment Complex,
I hate you. Because you do not have an option for your tenants to see their accounts with you and you don't mail invoices every month, you should make the amount of money due each month consistent. Otherwise, how are we supposed to know how much we have to pay? I have been paying the same amount since I moved in, and now apparently I'm a few dollars short this month because the water charges are now different. Why didn't you tell me? It would have taken two seconds for you to send an email after you received my rent saying "this is not enough, you still owe $X" instead of waiting until the day you're allowed to charge late fees to mention it. Even better, you could have sent an email saying "your rent is $X this month because the water charges have increased".
Why do you find it so easy to get in touch with me with passive-aggressive emails and notes attached to my door when you want late fees, yet you can't get in touch to tell me about charges so I can avoid late fees? Can a payment even be considered 'late' if I didn't know I had to pay it in the first place?
Also, WTF is up with your online system? I need a code to use it now? Are you planning on giving me the freaking code?
I'd come and pay your stupid bill now if you hadn't annoyed me so much. Now I'm afraid to go into the office in case I am unable to control my desire to exterminate you.
You suck.
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Seriously, I tried to lick my own face. Ah. Typical ivory tower pedanticalness.
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scatmanblues
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« Reply #36403 on: February 09, 2012, 06:37:30 PM » |
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In our meeting today (which was definitely one of the top 3 most enraging conversations we've had), he pretty much admitted he is doing it because he can. I may have to go resurrect the Primal Scream Thread.
I'm so sorry to hear you are having to go through that. Hang in there. I have been there, and there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Screaming is good. So is telling yourself repeatedly that you will NEVER do that to your grad students. I chose to look at it as finding the lessons in what NOT to do. Scatmanblues |
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chaosbydesign
"I like to lyse bacteria. Did you know I'm utterly insane?"
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« Reply #36404 on: February 09, 2012, 08:30:24 PM » |
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More than one vent in one day. <sigh>
I am getting quite frustrated with you for ignoring me. Are you doing it because you're not really bothered about seeing me? Or are you doing it because you think you are right about the thing I keep telling you you're wrong about? I suspect it is the latter, because I have no real reason to think it is the former, but either way, it is frustrating, so for the sake of my sanity please stop it. When I say I need you to coordinate times with when I am available, it is because THOSE ARE THE TIMES I AM AVAILABLE. You can tell me I can take time off as frequently as I want a million times and it still won't be true. I don't make s*** up just to inconvenience people -- grad school really does require me to attend all my classes. Not that you'd know, considering you have no experience in academia. Oh, maybe that's the problem...
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Seriously, I tried to lick my own face. Ah. Typical ivory tower pedanticalness.
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