The Ice is Thin, Come On Dive In

Rant ahead. Feel free to skip.

This semester, after all tests have been graded and grades submitted, I've had the following complaints:

1. Student just asking for a B+ rather than a B to help their GPA.
2. Three students asking for extra credit now that the semester is over so that they can improve their grades.
3. Two students asking for a specific breakdown of how I calculated their final grades (even though it's listed in the syllabus, they just would have to do a little math).
4. One student who I kindly gave an Incomplete to a year ago suddenly trying to make up all of that work in the last three days of this semester before the Incomplete turns into an F on Thursday.
5. Another student asking for an Incomplete for heath reasons that she at no point in time informed me of even though all semester all she did was one quiz and one test (missing another dozen assignments and two other tests).
6. One student asking to answer the last essay questions of the test because he "forgot" to do so when he was actually taking the test.
7. One student asking to take the test late because her uncle died.
8. Another student asking to take the test late because he forgot when the test was due.
9. One student insisting she should be getting an A in class despite failing (by a LARGE MARGIN) two of two tests and the term paper which are 75% of her grade.
10. At least three students insisting that they turned in material despite there being a zero in the gradebook for those assignments for at least the past couple of weeks. (Two were correct and they had turned in late assignments that got buried in my inbox, but still! You need to remind me sooner! I did fix those grades without issue. The third student, though insisting he had turned something in, didn't turn in anything.)

This doesn't count the two students doing last minute make-up exams after missing the in-person exams this semester. This also doesn't count the departmental coordinator (who has even MORE students complaining at her) getting mad at me for something I can't help. She's a dear and I like her, but I swear I'm doing my best.

Guess who's going to be a real bitch about turning things in on time and grading next semester?

scribefigaro and I have officially relocated about 20 miles down the road.  Moving sucks!

We're not very happy about the move, but it was necessary.  Scribe's commute was terrible and this will save him about two hours of driving a day.  He had to suffer through rush hours of two difference metro hubs, and now he only kind of has one.

But this move does mean that we're living in a slightly smaller apartment that's slightly more expensive.  I had to say goodbye to the walk-in closet (*sniff*).  I also have to figure out where all of the stores, vets, doctor offices, and gyms are in this new area that I've only ever driven by in the past.  That's a pain.  Finally, and most sadly of all, we had to say goodbye to our neighbors.  We had a good set at our last apartment building and we all really looked out for one another.  Even the "weird" guys in the building, though... off, stayed to themselves and were incredibly quiet.  (One would even hide from me if he saw me coming.)

The move itself was about the nightmare we expected.  Hard, hard work.  My thighs are a-burning today after all of those stairs.  We even hired movers that were expensive, but worth every penny.  We've started making the place look like "ours" again, which is nice, but it's currently almost 2PM and we've not delved into a single box yet, today.  Oh well.

Also, Comcast is the suck.  It took 5 service calls and roughly 2 hours on the phone for them to figure out the cable box they sent us does not work for our zip code. *headdesk*  So we'll have cable tv... probably never, the way things seem to be going.

Okay, enough complaining.  Now is the time for more procrastinating on my work before the school year begins (on Tuesday)! Yay!

So, my insomnia has been back, going on about a week and a half now.  It's definitely a noticeable pattern.

I fall asleep some time after midnight or so and sleep until 5:30 AM.  Usually, I get up to go to the bathroom, and go back to bed to fall back asleep.  Only I haven't been able to do that second part lately.

I'm up until scribefigaro's alarm goes off and he goes off to work.  Only at about 8:30 or 9:00 (9:30 today) do I eventually get back to sleep.  Then I sleep until 11:00 and my whole day is ruined.  At least this is happening on my "vacation" and I have the time to sleep in.  But there are things that I need to be getting done and it's starting to annoy me to sleep in so long.


So I'm still a little on the sleep-deprived side even though I don't get out of bed until 11AM.

Hopefully this will pass soon, but it's really annoying.  It's happened before, about 8 or so years ago, and it eventually worked itself out, but it was total hell.  Really, it just wears on you to keep thinking that you'll fall back to much-needed sleep at any moment just to keep watching the clock tick away for hours.

Bleck.  I'm grumpy.  :(

Yesterday I was a steaming pile of fail.  Ugh.

Then, this morning I woke up to puppy barf on the carpet.  Just gross.

So: MEME!

1. Reply to this post with "FOOTPRINTS!", and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

( ICONS! )
That was fun.

Now I have to go see if I need to treat the carpet again.  D:

This whole satellite thing is just annoying the everliving shit out of me.

LKJSDLKJSDFLKJ

We fixed the satellite so that it's no longer permanently affixed and I called to have maintenance come out and inspect it so that we can get our wonderful little green tag so we won't get any more nastygrams.

Great.  Terrific.  They said they'd be out when they could.  When they came out before, they were here by 8 or 9 AM.  It's nearly 1 PM now and I have shit to do today.  I have a monster grocery list I need to tackle so that we don't starve to death by tomorrow (I exaggerate, but we are low on most things we regularly eat).  I'd like to exercise, even if it is 100% humidity out there.  I'd like to be able to leave the damned apartment.

But no.  I have to stick around because I have dogs, so the maintenance guy can't just let himself in if I'm not here.  And I want to get this damned dish taken care of.

GRIPEGRIPEGRIPEGRIPEGRIPE

*sigh*

ETA: Just called to ask WTF, day's almost over.  They told me that it looks like it now won't happen today, but maybe tomorrow. l;aksjdfa;lskjfdlkajsdlkasjfdl;sakjfdlkajsd

Congratulations, writers of House.

Not only did you totally destroy the House/Cuddy ship*, but you've actually made me hate House.

I get that his character is supposed to be self-destructive.  It's been hammered home for almost the whole 7 seasons this has been on the air.  But rather than give him some character development towards becoming somewhat more humane and almost likable, you've decided to push the limits of just how awful House can be.

While I know there will never be a true redemption for House, I watched to see if and how he could overcome his demons.  Too see him become truly selfish and throw an awful, dangerous tantrum where people did get (physically) hurt just soured me on him as character.

Congratulations.  You've probably just lost yourself a loyal viewer.

*Side rant: While I wasn't overly invested in House/Cuddy, I did like them together and saw them as compatible in their own strange way.  However, you writers, for whatever reason, decided that they could never just be happy together, even for like two episodes.  As much as I liked the idea of them together, I never quite got it when it happened.  They always seemed to be struggling and not that happy.  Therefore, I have a hard time buying that they're so miserable when they're apart.  Seriously, I can't see why House is being such an ass about being broken up when he pretty much whined his way through the ins and outs of his relationship with Cuddy.

First, the negative stuff.

( Job angst )

But moving on to happier subjects.  aamalie made me a pretty!

( Amazing art )

And now, to the shipping meme where I feel I must cheat.

( Day 20 - The "can't stand the sexual tension any more" pairing? )

Due to a tragic treadmill accident yesterday, my butt really hurts.

And, sadly, because no one was recording it, I'll not win $10,000 on America's Funniest Videos.

This was a lose-lose.

Yesterday was not my day.

:(