Spleen-venting, in the five minutes before staff meeting....

[katallison]

Thing that annoys me: When I yield to a student's pleas to meet with him on this, my last day before vacation, and set an extra-early appointment time for him, and have to get up extra-extra early because I also have to bake two quiches to bring to the staff potluck, and so before dawn I arise and race around all morning, chopping and baking and finally hauling ass + quiches in to the office, inadequately caffeinated and with messy hair and sweating --

--and the goddamned student doesn't show for the appointment.. GRRRRrrrrrr.

Plus, I can't remember if I turned the stove off before I left home. I kind of think I didn't. Oh hell and damnation.

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[cereta.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hate that. I've finally gotten to where I won't make special appointments like that anymore. I had one student beg and plead and all but threaten to go to my boss to get me to schedule a conference on a Friday so she wouldn't get the absence for missing her Thursday conference. I replied that (a)she was asking me to walk to work, or take the bus, just to meet her on a day that I had no other reason to come to school on, and (b) given that she hadn't managed to make it to any of the ten hours I was at school Thursday (including the two hours during which her class was held), I didn't have a whole lot of confidence that she'd be there.

She dropped my course.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Yeah. ::sigh:: At least the staff meeting turned out less insanely boring than I'd feared. And hey, exciting news re: your Baby Timeline! You're a brave, brave woman, Lucy, and best of luck to you with it!