JZ, yay!
I am not having a good morning. I slept through two alarms and didn't wake up until 7:10...that's about 90 minutes late...and after a quick shower and a frantic call to the upper school admin assistant, flew out the driveway and into nasty rush hour traffic. What is normally a 45-50 minute drive took 90. I missed a department meeting and the first half of my first class, and the person covering my class just let them sit there and talk. Argh. Not that I can blame her, really, since she didn't get the sub plan I'd emailed, but still. Then I taught the second class, and now I'm sitting here without food or caffeine, staring at the huge pile of grading and feeling sorry for myself. My pity party, let me show you it.
You know the saying, "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing?" Modern customer service is more like that multi-armed woman in Tin Man.
You know the saying, "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing?" Modern customer service is more like that multi-armed woman in Tin Man.
Yeah. Modern customer service is often like "The left hand has no idea how the spleen works."
So I can't get too specific without being more identifiable than I like, but my mother just got a MAJOR scholarly recognition -- like, most significant article in this scholarly field for the entire year -- and I wanted to brag. Nonspecifically. I might even get more specific later, but I think the prize itself may be news-embargoed or something, so I guess I shouldn't do it now.
And I'm sure very few even of you well-educated folks will ever hear about it, but it's still, if you'll pardon the expression, Made of Win.
Hey, Em...speaking of your mom, she was supposed to contact me in Feb. re: setting up her Internet, but never did.
She get that taken care of?
Well, congratulations Emily's mom!
I'm sorry, MM -- I think that's when her husband had another stroke, so she may have put off dealing with it and then, knowing her, completely forgotten about it. I'll poke her to see if she's still interested the next time she's in Michigan. Honestly, I thought she'd already talked to you and taken care of it!
Thanks, all! She is kind of made of win, if just a WEE bit intimidating to grow up with.
think that's when her husband had another stroke, so she may have put off dealing with it and then, knowing her, completely forgotten about it.
Whups. I didn't know her husband had a stroke. Now I feel like an asshole.
No, we never got it taken care of. We were scheduling calls to talk about scheduling, kind of thing, and then she never called back.
Don't sweat yourself over it, I just wondered what was goin' on.
