Yes, I’m in a vile mood right now as evidenced by this photo I just took of myself. And in case you want to be critical, I don’t teach today and feel entitled to wear this dress because it’s hot.
The reason why I’m wearing this mean look on my face is the following. Today is the day that I need to resubmit my article with the changes that I have introduced. The changes have turned out to be quite profound and now I’m worried the journal will not want the article at all. I’ve been futzing with it since 8 am because I feel incapable of letting it go.
And in the midst of this painful process, I had to interrupt what I was doing and go all the way to campus to attend a committee meeting.
“Which ones of you served at this committee last year?” the bureaucrat du jour asked the committee members.
We all raised our hands.
“So all of you know how this works?” the bureaucrat continued.
We nodded.
“Well, then you know more about this than I do because I’ve never done this before,” the bureaucrat said. “In this case, if nobody has anything else to add, we can just end the meeting.”
After which I had to wait for my bus to come for 20 minutes.
And this is why I have this mean look in the photo.
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I was up until 2:30 finishing a tax return for a partner who will be out of town after today, so needed it done to look at by this morning. She didn’t come to work until 11am.
Gotta love it when people are so awesome at scheduling other people’s time…
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Letting go is hard. I have a little ritual with breathing and jumping around that I do before submitting or resubmitting a piece. (This is one reason why I work at home rather than in the shared space my school has for postgrads.)
Also? Even if you were teaching today, I don’t think anyone would have a right to criticize you for wearing that dress.
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I’ll definitely try jumping around. And possibly yelling at the same time.
“Also? Even if you were teaching today, I don’t think anyone would have a right to criticize you for wearing that dress.”
– You know how people are. Whatever one does, especially if one is an educator, there is a long line of critics.
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Damn, youre pretty hot looking when youre mad. 🙂
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And since I’m angry 95% of the time. . . 🙂 🙂
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Touchè… 🙂 🙂
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…no fuck is being given about the other 5% of the time.
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Hey Clarissa
I think this might put a smile on your face. One more reason I love football. 🙂
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kluwe/an-open-letter-to-emmett-burns_b_1866216.html
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It’s not nice to be interrupted. I had to interrupt my thinking about my thesis to go to an international conference. I felt a terrible hunger to get back to it.
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Hope your day improved 🙂 I have a good solution to make you happy… whenever you get really mad just think about the brilliant comments your readers (such as the esteemed Matt 🙂 ) have to offer daily!
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Ok, I’ll try that! 🙂 🙂
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For some reason the first thing that came to mind was “thug life”. No idea why.
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Think that now you’re at home already. At least.
I am beginning to be in a vile mood myself today: go on the Internet and the 1st bit of news I read is about a famous woman abuser and pop singer, Chris Brown, getting “a tattoo of a woman who has been battered in basically the same way as he battered Rihanna”. AM wrote about it with the hideous photo too:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/11/what-chris-browns-tattoo-tells-us-about-violence-against-women/
That CB is a vile abuser and wants to brag about it is one thing, but that he feels free to do such without fear for his singing career tells a lot about society as well. So, I don’t view it as matter not deserving wider analysis (unlike some golf-player cheating).
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The guy is a vile cockroach. I have no idea what goes on in the minds of idiots who hand over their money to him.
Soon I’m going to start removing myself from the news cycle by force because too often it just saps my energy and leaves me exhausted and bitter. 😦
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