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My Latest Special Snowflake

December 4, 2009 in Rantings, Work-Related by Julia | 8 comments

Received via email tonight (per­sonal data changed to pro­tect the student’s iden­tity): hello pro­fes­sor this is ********** in your ********** class, accord­ing to a friend in the class that you gave back the exam 2 grades in class which i asked you for it before i left the class on mon­day, you told me you didnt have […]

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One Reason to Love Ubuntu

November 3, 2009 in Rantings, Techie Trivialities, Work-Related by Julia | No comments

A lot of my co-​workers don’t under­stand why I loathe Win­dows (or any­thing Microsoft) so much. Nor would they “get” why the news today that the fac­ulty are get­ting new lap­top com­put­ers run­ning Win­dows 7 to replace our desk­top com­put­ers made me bang my head on the desk. Sev­eral times. My cur­rent desk­top com­puter is set […]

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Catching Up Is Hard To Do

November 10, 2008 in Miscellaneous, Work-Related by Julia | No comments

So I go away for three and a half days with highly lim­ited com­puter access (just a brief chance on Fri­day to check email). I come back to over a hun­dred per­sonal emails, not quite that many work emails, var­i­ous and sundry forum post­ings at the Glass Haven, bunches of Tweets, and over 350 things […]

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One more show to go

December 3, 2007 in Business, Lampworking & Glass, Work-Related by Julia | No comments

I fig­ure tomorrow’s show (the first annual GPC Arti­san Craft Fair) is a crap shoot.? I am just tak­ing bead stuff, no books, because I know I can fill up a six-​foot table with just my and Mincot’s bead stuff.? I’ll have loose beads because I know some peo­ple do make their own jew­elry, but […]

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Time for a tiny break

November 20, 2007 in Miscellaneous by Julia | No comments

Ahhh, Thanks­giv­ing break.? A whole five-​day week­end, no classes to teach and no meet­ings to attend.? Never mind that I have my par­ents, the Off­spring, and Min­cot com­ing for Thanks­giv­ing lunch; I’m work­ing at Good Mews on Sat­ur­day for adop­tion coun­sel­ing;? the GPC? Arti­san Craft Fair is in two weeks and I need to take […]

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