The University asked me for a report, which I eventually sent. They told me it was no good. I had to print it out, sign it and send them a scan. So what if I don't have a printer or scanner? That's my problem. I printed and signed the document as soon as I could and thought that was it. Nope! Yesterday I got another email telling me there was a new ( Read more... )

So about a week ago I announced when and how I was going to organize that test. I'm sure I did ( Read more... )

I get that I need to check my mail more often, now that the Plague is upon us, but did you really just ask me to respond to your email within two minutes?

(Yeah, I read it a couple hours later. Oops.)

So the other day a coworker sent me an email, on my private account, in a fairly informal tone, asking me about some of my students' grades. Not an unreasonable request. They're his students too and our classes are closely connected. So I email him the grades. A few days later he emails me again, this time using my work email. This one phrased in a ( Read more... )

Apparently it's one of my neighbors' birthday or something. For some reason they're celebrating it out in the hallway. The noise carries all through the whole building and the hallway stinks of cigarettes, because of course they picked one with no window. Also, a few hours ago I heard some people arguing, another neighbor crying loudly and someone ( Read more... )

So I get a call from  an unknown number. I'm a little surprised to hear the guy speaking English. He speaks with an odd accent I can't identify, but claims to be calling from London. Whatever. He says it'll only take two minutes, so I agree to keep listening. Someone once told me telemarketers get paid more if you agree to hear what they're selling ( Read more... )

The neighbors' dog started barking again, as he does when they leave him alone for too long. I was trying to read the paper I'm supposed to review, but focusing on it just kept getting harder. After a while, I opened my door and looked outside, but there was really nothing I could do, so I just slammed it shut in frustration ( Read more... )

Around mindight I got another email.

"I don't see how these pictures are different from the old ones!"

Argh! I barely got any sleep tonight,because I spent hours trying to figure out what font to use and then some more time changing every piece of writing in the pictures to that font, and then some more making sure it looks good. Then I checked ( Read more... )

Dear person who reviewed my paper,
So you've proved a new theorem using my results? That's great! You should totally try to publish it. You get a new paper, I get a citation. Everybody wins! So why are you trying to make me include it in my paper instead?
I mean... I can do that... But why?

It snowed today. It is May 9th and it snowed for at least half an hour. What the hell?