Bah. I broke one of our client's servers, so overnight they were getting calls from all over the world that people couldn't enter their time sheets. So my boss called me early this morning so I could come in early and fix it.

Turns out I had updated one server but forgot to update the other one. But I fixed it now, so people can enter their time sheets and get paid.

My office is an icebox. Pls send warmth.

I have 2, maybe 4, hours of work to do this week. Which means I should just get it done and get on with my life, but simultaneously means I am completely unmotivated to get started.

Let me phrase this is cowgirl.
GIT-R-DONE, JESSE, GIT-R-DONE!

Hee! I'm gitting.

Like it's putting the onus on the gay person rather than emphasizing creating a safe environment in which the person feels comfortable coming out at work.

"It's safe to come out" posters can be a useful part of creating a safe environment. But you can figure out on your own whether or not it's safe to come out in a given environment. And one poster isn't going to change things. (For that matter, neither is an annual presentation on diversity.)

My first thought on "lesbian evangelist" was that this woman is a lesbian and Evangelical Christian, which might be an unusual enough combination for her to feel like coming out about both.

That was close to my first thought, too -- I was thinking that she has a career as a Christian evangelist.

Vortex, I have come to the conclusion that 99.9% of student workers just suck. I'm not even at work, and I am dealing with my student who did not put in her hours this week and my boss is flipping out because the student did not send her the hours.

Edit- and my student workers at the theatre-- I asked my best student if she could finish a project on her own (without me there) by the time we started wearing costumes. I told her that I would have her do other things while I was there, if she could finish it on her own. She said yes. DAYS go by and the thing is still not finished, so the night before I call her, and she was all put out with me because I told her I needed her to finish before we wore costumes the next day, and I made her come in at ass o'clock in the morning to do it. She told me that I really needed to ask her to do things ahead of time so she could plan her week!

K-Bug is experiencing a bit of the flip side of that situation. She recently started a retail sales job. In September, I think. Apparently last night there was talk of recommending her as a lead sales clerk. She was surprised and told me she doesn't feel like she has enough experience. I reminded her that so many young workers, volunteer or not, are not invested or all that reliable, so when you find someone who is, there are incentives for retention.

I had a good student like K-bug, and I practically begged her to not graduate so I could keep her! It makes a huge, huge difference n my productivity.

Vortex, I have come to the conclusion that 99.9% of student workers just suck.

yep. I was spoiled by my first student worker who was AWESOME. I had 2 or 3 projects and was rushing to finis hone of them, and she had done her part of it. I said great, I just have to finish X, Y and Z tomorrow. I get into the office, and there's an email with X, Y, and Z attached and a note saying "I know that you're swamped, I just finished X Y and Z because I had some time, hope this helps" and then she didn't even put the time on her time sheet! (I made her change it)

I will give this one some credit. She said "I will go to the lab and download it from the email and bring it back and finish it" so, kudos for being proactive and finding a solution.

Damn, this is like a nightmare....

Man Actually Conscious Throughout Two Decades of "Coma"

Twenty three years ago, a car crash left Rom Houben totally paralyzed. Doctors gave him a battery of tests and concluded that he was in a vegetative state or a coma. Except that they were wrong: he was conscious the whole time but unable to tell anyone about it.

‘I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,’ said Mr Houben, now 46.

Doctors used a range of coma tests, recognised worldwide, before reluctantly concluding that his consciousness was ‘extinct’.

But three years ago, new hi-tech scans showed his brain was still functioning almost completely normally.

Mr Houben describes the moment as ‘my second birth’.