12/06: Happy Stupent

For those of you who think I'm a total meanie, I just wanted to let everyone know that my stupent who was MIA for five weeks is off the hook. I let her slide and told her I'd give her an incomplete and let her re-take the course (without paying) and change her grade in the spring.

Merry Christmas!
(See? I do have a heart!)

12/05: Crazy Family

I will digress from academia to speak about my family who are, apparently, as crazy as my instructors and students. Christmas is coming and I struggled to buy all presents pre-Thanksgiving so that I could enjoy the holidays. Both grandparents are trying to snag all of my gifts for my kids and have depleted my inventory. Next, my own sibling called me to complain that she cut open a package with a gift for my son and ruined it. When I laughed and said, "Wow, glad that's YOUR problem!" she replied with "It IS YOUR problem...it's a gift for your kid!"

What the friggity-frig is up with that???? She's as bas my stupents who don't take responsibility for crapola when the chips are down and they realize that they aren't earning a passing a grade!