Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

A second new employee was introduced to me yesterday, and despite having been hired at the start of last month, in a less than five minute conversation I had my longest talk with the first new employee.

And this was when I was already leaving. Yeah, sometimes you think you got your priorities straightened out, but it seems what you thought was worthy (such as waiting to make sure you are already there when the person you are supposed to meet with arrived) of your time turned out to be a complete waste (not showing up), and you neglected other just as significant duties in the process. That is the problem with only being one person.

@@ I am giving up. The comment count for the student accessible version that has to be moderated has reached a hundred plus. I know most if not all of these are spam.

I have to wish that these are robots but even so there is a human intelligence (and I use that term very loosely) behind them.

@@ Sometimes being used to instant access can get you frustrated. I have been refreshing the Oscars page for minutes now waiting for the last award, Best Picture, and I was getting impatient.

Am I glad Avatar did not win? If you put it that way, the answer is no. I am just glad that it did win a lot of awards on technical merit, but that storytelling still paramount.

I am also glad that literal flights of fancy are getting more nods year after year, not just from the box office.

@@ I do not like it that the students think they can just talk their way out of any situation.

Especially if they want the teacher or the administrator to change a previous ruling, they would rather spit out their arguments against it one by one rather than list down all their points.

This is especially annoying when it is done at the end of the term when it is almost (and usually) too late.

This sort of attitude sadly spills out to not academic-related matters, along with their way of thinking that it is okay to come out with your documents at the last minute.

But when they are up against several administrators at the same time that is where they lose steam.

They prefer to talk to administrators one at a time, and supposedly tell them that the other administrators have already agreed to their idea. But, they could not say this to the first person they talked to.

I have been trying to get them to change their ways, and of course they have resisted.

Session 2995 is coming out as the bad guy, but it is only the middle of the second act for the story of their careers. Class dismissed.