OMG, I'm listening to a developer struggle with at least his second language over a poor connection about something that's too technical for me to be able to grasp entirely even if it was orated by Stephen Fry. But we're so far away from that...

I'm tempted to put them on mute and watch Vampire Diaries. At least that way I'll be awake?

A guy here who shot his lover's husband is contending he was told to kill by six-foot-tall demons who looked and sounded like Barry White and Olivia Newton-John

Well, if you're going for an insanity plea, might as well go all out on the insanity.

Demons and angels, Ginger. Which makes me wonder...which was which?

I'm willing to believe they are human and people (though certainly not independent people) and abortion is bad (which I DO believe all of those things) and STILL believe that I don't have to right to regulate anyone else's body!

Well said.

six-foot-tall demons who looked and sounded like Barry White and Olivia Newton-John

Now that's a delusion.

He obviously couldn't tell which was the angel and which the demon or he wouldn't be saying he didn't know right from wrong.

Just because they're an angel doesn't mean they were encouraging you to do right. Haven't you learnt anything from the Winchesters?

Applied theology is hard.

Except now, I'm busy imagining Castiel with Barry White's voice (and Gabriel with Olivia Newton John's), so I'm going to go, ah, apply myself.

I need buffista teacher help. CJ just got his progress report grades and he went from a B to an F in History due to two assignments being marked as missing (2 out of 7 assignments - with 100% on 4 of them). CJ swears he turned them in but the teacher said she didn't have them. Apparently they were in class projects, so it isn't a paper he can just reprint and resubmit.

I keep trying to tell him it is his responsibility to work with the teacher and figure out how to get his grade back on track. He just gets frustrated and tells me it isn't his fault his teacher can't find those assignments. I wish I had something more constructive to suggest to him.

Suzi, I have a couple of follow up questions. Is there a particular reason that there are only 7 assignments? In how long of a period (4 weeks or thereabouts)? That's just me as curious.

If they were in class projects, how did the not being turned in correctly work? I know CJ is frustrated, but he should be reminded that if the teacher doesn't have the work, she cannot magically make up a grade. If the work is missing, is there a way she would consider accepting an alternate assignment on the same topic?

As a teacher if this happened once I'd probably grumble and then possibly excuse the assignment. The difficultly, though, is this has happened twice out of a small number of assignments. Is the issue with HOW the assignment gets turned in? Or just forgetfulness or confusion about when the assignment gets turned in?

Also, how long until the grades are finalized? And is it possible for CJ to bring his grade up in that time? And how could he go about doing that? He needs to have that discussion with the teacher directly, even if he thinks it's not his fault.