Today:
– I have been working non-stop from 11 am to 9 pm.
– I have worked on my research, taught classes, and graded papers.
– I caught three students using Google Translator.
– I caught two plagiarists.
– I had to listen to a student claim in a presentation that euskera (the Basque language) is “exactly like Spanish.”
– I had to listen to the strep student’s new story about yet another disease that prevented her from being in class today.
– All I did for fun today was bitch on my blog and cook a vegetable soup.
– Translated a letter to the publishing house for somebody. Without using Google Translator.
– Had to put up with a student throwing a hissy fit because I gave her a B on a paper.
For all of the above-mentioned reasons, I will now drop into a bath-tub and stay there for a long time with a mask on my face, a book in my hands, a glass of home-made vegetable juice by my side, and a rose-scented candle on the sink.
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I would have had a glass of wine too after a day like that!
Funnily enough I had to put up with (or not) a hissy fit too, from my ex-h’s partner. I told her to get lost and put the phone down. Life’s too short to listen to the paranoid witterings of some mad woman (when you’re not paid to do so).
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“Life’s too short to listen to the paranoid witterings of some mad woman (when you’re not paid to do so).”
– Exactly!
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Your story about a student throwing a hissy fit over a B reminded me of a skit that was on SNL back in the 1970’s when it was funny (probably before you were born). NBC is very militant about and successful at keeping vintage SNL content off YouTube, but I did manage to find a transcript. Enjoy.
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