- Grandfather is in hospital for two weeks now. WAs supposed to be released today, but something serious came up... worried. lots. - Flushed my favorite hairbrush down the toilet by accident ( A case of 'you can save it!!!' => "booonk" => "toilet." - Spent trice my normal commute time to work ( ~2h instead of ~40 min ) because of major traffic jam - Customers being like 'we bought your product, but actually despite us priorly acknowledging, our users are too stupid and we need to you to create functionailty X within 2 weeks or we consider the big contract void because you are supposed to know...' (my interepretation, but that's how it feels like)
I came into the office to discover that the radiator busted so water is all over one of the cubicles, which happens to be the cubicle of the two professors least tolerant of BS
I found out that the reason I was having trouble breathing last week and still am having a little trouble is because the brilliant cleaning lady used Windex and a water-bleach solution
My possibly-bio-dad is going in for surgery tomorrow for skin cancer (assuming they didn't mess up his scheduling again)
I'm having a lupus flare and have been since the second week of starting this job
It's like 30 in my office when the radiator's working, and it's not working, so my fingertips are pinkish-purple
I have little work to do because I caught up on everything for the most part
I won't be home to sign for the dice my fiance ordered for me so I can teach my niece and nephew to play D&D this weekend
I'm lactose and fructose intolerant so I can't even sob my sorrows into a container of ice cream
I came into the office to discover that the radiator busted so water is all over one of the cubicles, which happens to be the cubicle of the two professors least tolerant of BS
I found out that the reason I was having trouble breathing last week and still am having a little trouble is because the brilliant cleaning lady used Windex and a water-bleach solution
My possibly-bio-dad is going in for surgery tomorrow for skin cancer (assuming they didn't mess up his scheduling again)
I'm having a lupus flare and have been since the second week of starting this job
It's like 30 in my office when the radiator's working, and it's not working, so my fingertips are pinkish-purple
I have little work to do because I caught up on everything for the most part
I won't be home to sign for the dice my fiance ordered for me so I can teach my niece and nephew to play D&D this weekend
I'm lactose and fructose intolerant so I can't even sob my sorrows into a container of ice cream
You definitely need a whole lot of hugs. And maybe baby therapy. Baby therapy is great when you can hand them back.
I came into the office to discover that the radiator busted so water is all over one of the cubicles, which happens to be the cubicle of the two professors least tolerant of BS
I found out that the reason I was having trouble breathing last week and still am having a little trouble is because the brilliant cleaning lady used Windex and a water-bleach solution
My possibly-bio-dad is going in for surgery tomorrow for skin cancer (assuming they didn't mess up his scheduling again)
I'm having a lupus flare and have been since the second week of starting this job
It's like 30 in my office when the radiator's working, and it's not working, so my fingertips are pinkish-purple
I have little work to do because I caught up on everything for the most part
I won't be home to sign for the dice my fiance ordered for me so I can teach my niece and nephew to play D&D this weekend
I'm lactose and fructose intolerant so I can't even sob my sorrows into a container of ice cream
You definitely need a whole lot of hugs. And maybe baby therapy. Baby therapy is great when you can hand them back.
If you lived in NYC I would agree to baby therapy. Baby therapy rates a solid 10/10, even when the baby is puking. Peekaboo is legit.
I super didn't miss group assignments. Why are these even a thing.
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SylandraJoin Queue for Mafia GamesThe Last Mafia Game
I am barraged with sniffles and I agreed to do a thing tomorrow for a long-time friend and weep. I don't want to commute so far just to talk with a sore throat for several hours!
"Oh yeah, you're a naughty mayor, aren't you? Misfile that Form MA631-D. Comptroller Shevat's got a nice gemstone disc for you, but yer gonna have to beg for it."
Down with the flu + coughing/congestion + mystery allergy rash making it hurt to walk + my ovarian cysts deciding now is a good time to deliver stabbing pain. Imagine period cramps but worse - before they figured out what it was, they thought my IUD may have ripped its way through my uterus, that's the level of pain.
Just...huddling under a blanket trying not to die for the next day or two.
Caught one of my group members blatantly plagiarizing and deleted the offending section from our group document. Now she's upset that I deleted "her work," which was literally just text copied and pasted directly from the first google result on the topic.
Sorry, but I'm not about to let you add that crap to an assignment my name is on. If you want to sabotage yourself with academic dishonesty, do it on your solo projects.
Sure am glad we're assigned to the same groups for every group assignment for the rest of the semester!
Caught one of my group members blatantly plagiarizing and deleted the offending section from our group document. Now she's upset that I deleted "her work," which was literally just text copied and pasted directly from the first google result on the topic.
Sorry, but I'm not about to let you add that crap to an assignment my name is on. If you want to sabotage yourself with academic dishonesty, do it on your solo projects.
Sure am glad we're assigned to the same groups for every group assignment for the rest of the semester!
I had similar problems when I was a student.
What I would do is, in the first week of receiving the assignment, do the whole thing on my own, as tough as it would be. Then, if one of my group mates failed to do their part or plagiarized or anything like that, I would inform the professor and say, "I will be submitting the part they were supposed to do as my own work, but they have failed to do their part appropriately" and let the professor handle it. At least in my college, professors were A-O-K with that. So long as you had a completed, coherent project.
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SylandraJoin Queue for Mafia GamesThe Last Mafia Game
Groups suck. The lazy people know the hardworking people will always last minute rescue everyone in a quest to save their grade. The appeal on the teaching side is it's faster to grade five assignments than twenty-five or whatever. [/doesn't assign them anyway on principle]
"Oh yeah, you're a naughty mayor, aren't you? Misfile that Form MA631-D. Comptroller Shevat's got a nice gemstone disc for you, but yer gonna have to beg for it."
The only good instance I remember from group work that I liked, was this one progressive professor who tried to get us to form in a holacracy instead. We'd do individual work, and turn it in, in addition to a mashup final paper, but then we submitted reviews of other group members to the professor to tell them who slacked, who didn't. The prof who had copies of our individual work could grade that, and compare it against the one final paper (we had no other tests or anything, just the paper and a 6 minute Pechakucha presentation) to make sure there weren't any shenanigans.
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Spring break! ...which means my mother insists of me staying with her. Which is unpleasant enough, but her internet is also so bad that even Lusternia lags. Not looking forward to the five hour trip either.
The college has just shut down all water in their buildings. A professor and I figured we would check to see just what this means by trying to use a water fountain. It shuddered and spurted out a few high-velocity water projectiles before making a sound like someone was manually trying to shift the pipes. Also, no water in the toilets or coming out of the sinks. Gods I love public colleges.
Groups suck. The lazy people know the hardworking people will always last minute rescue everyone in a quest to save their grade. The appeal on the teaching side is it's faster to grade five assignments than twenty-five or whatever. [/doesn't assign them anyway on principle]
I feel the pain. At the beginning of the semester we were given a group poster to make. Fine. I'll deal with it, and try and reign in my please-just-let-me-do-everything-because-you-all-suck attitude. But then, another module also gave us a group project to do. Again, lumped with girls who care more about makeup and who they're going out with, where they're going tonight and who they're going to do the naughty with and NOT WRITING ABOUT BIRTH PLANS FOR AN IMPORTANT CORE MODULE.
On the upside, our group for the poster got together today and we were very productive and managed to get the poster somewhat finished, even if through the whole thing I was biting my tongue because I had so many ideas, I had to prompt the rest of the group to say things because they were just dead silent. I don't know. Why is no one worrying that it's due at the end of next week like me?!
[sorry for the rant, I feel better at getting this off my chest]
This isn't any easier to deal with online either. Had a group project with a group of full time students while I was working, put in the time during breaks and lunches to ask what needed to be done (since the rest of the group had already spoken and divvied the assignment). Silence. Asked again when I get home. Silence. Check the next morning and two of the team had started and finished a conversation about the assignment and how lazy everyone was and how they were just going to finish it together over email/IM (which I'd provided on my end). Half that course's grade was tied up in a group project I got no input on and excluded from.
Group projects are the devil. Which is honestly the most awful thing, because learning to work and collaborate in groups is such a useful skill but it's impossible to do unless you can get a group of like-minded people. The only time I've had decent group project was when the professor allowed us to kick out non-useful members, we did have to prove it to the professor, but he was always watching the group dynamics for who showed up to class and who didn't so if your thoughts on a person matched up with his, you could find a solution.
Forced group projects, where you have no choice on your partners are just awful though.
Avurekhos says, "Dylara's a PvP menace in my eyes, totes rekting face."
The eye of Dylara materialises in your hands and flings itself around your neck, tightening incomprehensibly until it is irremovable. Perfectly clean, this eyeball has been wrenched from the socket of Dylara. It has been animated by some unusual force, constantly looking around itself as if in shock or fear. It is bathed in a light covering of white flames that roll endlessly over its surface. A single chain of empyreal metal pierces either side of the eye, allowing it to be worn around the neck.
Them: Why didn't you approve this customer? Me: They owe us money, we didn't pull their credit. Them: But they have a 700 credit score. Did you pull Transunion? Me: They owe us money, we didn't pull their credit. Them: If you didn't pull their credit, how do you know you don't want them? Me: Because they....owe....us....money. Them: Ohh they owe you money. You didn't say that. Me: ...........................
WORK IS FUN.
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IT subjects had this weird tendency at Uni to end up with the "I'll do everything" person/people commandeering every assignment.
Like, some people will set deadlines and tasks, and then just do the stuff other people were assigned, often before their own stuff. Others would be the leader and not even set tasks.
In one subject our marks were assigned by the group and the leader tried to give himself 100% while also failing people because, ultimately, he didn't delegate anything to half of the group.
Is why I don't like working with couples/best friends, cause there was this tendency for it to be worse when they like hang out and happen to start working on the assignment together
IT subjects had this weird tendency at Uni to end up with the "I'll do everything" person/people commandeering every assignment.
Like, some people will set deadlines and tasks, and then just do the stuff other people were assigned, often before their own stuff. Others would be the leader and not even set tasks.
In one subject our marks were assigned by the group and the leader tried to give himself 100% while also failing people because, ultimately, he didn't delegate anything to half of the group.
Is why I don't like working with couples/best friends, cause there was this tendency for it to be worse when they like hang out and happen to start working on the assignment together
On the plus side, it prepares you very well for work after Uni
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EveriineWise Old Swordsbird / BrontaurIndianapolis, IN, USA
Our local library is screening "Vaxxed" and having a discussion about "the controversy of vaccine".
I need a one-way ticket to We Actually Listen to Facts Town. Right now.
Everiine is a man, and is very manly. This MAN before you is so manly you might as well just gender bend right now, cause he's the manliest man that you ever did see. His manly shape has spurned many women and girlyer men to boughs of fainting. He stands before you in a manly manerific typical man-like outfit which is covered in his manly motto: "I am a man!"
Daraius said: You gotta risk it for the biscuit.
Pony power all the way, yo. The more Brontaurs the better.
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Tonight amidst the mountaintops
And endless starless night
Singing how the wind was lost
Before an earthly flight
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Atlantis is my client of choice! (Guide)
- Grandfather is in hospital for two weeks now. WAs supposed to be released today, but something serious came up... worried. lots.
- Flushed my favorite hairbrush down the toilet by accident ( A case of 'you can save it!!!' => "booonk" => "toilet."
- Spent trice my normal commute time to work ( ~2h instead of ~40 min ) because of major traffic jam
- Customers being like 'we bought your product, but actually despite us priorly acknowledging, our users are too stupid and we need to you to create functionailty X within 2 weeks or we consider the big contract void because you are supposed to know...' (my interepretation, but that's how it feels like)
=> grump
Just...huddling under a blanket trying not to die for the next day or two.
Sorry, but I'm not about to let you add that crap to an assignment my name is on. If you want to sabotage yourself with academic dishonesty, do it on your solo projects.
Sure am glad we're assigned to the same groups for every group assignment for the rest of the semester!
What I would do is, in the first week of receiving the assignment, do the whole thing on my own, as tough as it would be. Then, if one of my group mates failed to do their part or plagiarized or anything like that, I would inform the professor and say, "I will be submitting the part they were supposed to do as my own work, but they have failed to do their part appropriately" and let the professor handle it. At least in my college, professors were A-O-K with that. So long as you had a completed, coherent project.
I'm a consent-based roleplayer! Kindly ask first, and I will return the favour. Open to developing tinyplots.
Atlantis is my client of choice! (Guide)
I have come to the conclusion that I do not have the patience for a child.
The college has just shut down all water in their buildings. A professor and I figured we would check to see just what this means by trying to use a water fountain. It shuddered and spurted out a few high-velocity water projectiles before making a sound like someone was manually trying to shift the pipes. Also, no water in the toilets or coming out of the sinks. Gods I love public colleges.
I feel the pain. At the beginning of the semester we were given a group poster to make. Fine. I'll deal with it, and try and reign in my please-just-let-me-do-everything-because-you-all-suck attitude. But then, another module also gave us a group project to do. Again, lumped with girls who care more about makeup and who they're going out with, where they're going tonight and who they're going to do the naughty with and NOT WRITING ABOUT BIRTH PLANS FOR AN IMPORTANT CORE MODULE.
On the upside, our group for the poster got together today and we were very productive and managed to get the poster somewhat finished, even if through the whole thing I was biting my tongue because I had so many ideas, I had to prompt the rest of the group to say things because they were just dead silent. I don't know. Why is no one worrying that it's due at the end of next week like me?!
[sorry for the rant, I feel better at getting this off my chest]
Forced group projects, where you have no choice on your partners are just awful though.
The eye of Dylara materialises in your hands and flings itself around your neck, tightening incomprehensibly until it is irremovable.
Perfectly clean, this eyeball has been wrenched from the socket of Dylara. It has been animated by some unusual force, constantly looking around itself as if in shock or fear. It is bathed in a light covering of white flames that roll endlessly over its surface. A single chain of empyreal metal pierces either side of the eye, allowing it to be worn around the neck.
Me: They owe us money, we didn't pull their credit.
Them: But they have a 700 credit score. Did you pull Transunion?
Me: They owe us money, we didn't pull their credit.
Them: If you didn't pull their credit, how do you know you don't want them?
Me: Because they....owe....us....money.
Them: Ohh they owe you money. You didn't say that.
Me: ...........................
WORK IS FUN.
Although even the crappy goop spins are marginally better than the crit and tf ones...
Like, some people will set deadlines and tasks, and then just do the stuff other people were assigned, often before their own stuff. Others would be the leader and not even set tasks.
In one subject our marks were assigned by the group and the leader tried to give himself 100% while also failing people because, ultimately, he didn't delegate anything to half of the group.
Is why I don't like working with couples/best friends, cause there was this tendency for it to be worse when they like hang out and happen to start working on the assignment together
On the plus side, it prepares you very well for work after Uni
I need a one-way ticket to We Actually Listen to Facts Town. Right now.