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[cornerofmadness]

I spent all day wondering was my severe heartburn (which totally ignored nexium) and nausea from stress, heat (it was close to 90 today but the idiots turned the a/c off two weeks ago. Dudes, it's not cold yet) or the gastric paresis. In the big school meeting I realized no, it was from the one stinking advil I took for my back pain (which it helped) I'm not supposed to take NSAIDS because of my stomach but damn, usually I can get in a few days to knock down the inflammmation in other bits before my stomach loses its nut.

Had a major fair today for the undeclared freshman. I brought toys. I think other faculty were more impressed with my toys, especially Ratty the sex-changeable rat. Talked to a few kids who had NO IDEA that grad school was up to four more years. One wanted forensics (five year masters) and chiropractor (hello, doctorate, four years). Yeah...not the way to attract majors but you know you have to understand we don't give out advanced degrees like cracker jack prizes

A student informed me today that there is no longer a Roy G Biv. nope, apparently Indigo, much like pluto, has been kicked off the team....

Hmm found out that work is now spying on us and social networking use. I have mixed feelings about this. I DO believe you should be working at work and not pissing around. On the other hand the college demanded we make Facebook pages. that's the only reason I have one. worse, I went on FB today and it didn't tell me that it was doing that. However, others went on legitimate websites for work and it DID tell them it was logging them being on a social network. So not only are they spying, they told us they were (prehaps hoping it would act like a speed limit and curb us) but it's NOT SPYING RIGHT. THat's what disturbs me.


Dear Kanda

Do not bite thru my Achilles Tendon. If you bring me down like a wounded water buffalo I WILL fall on you and nobody will be happy

Do NOT sit above me then sudden dig both sets of claws into my head and grab hunks of hair and rip them out. That is not grooming. I do not want cat spit in my hair and you shouldn't want hair spray in your mouth.

Sitting on my lap and trying to lick off my eyeshadow is just plain weird. Stop.

I DO admire you working up the courage to come into the room while Mr Hoover was at work, stalking him like you meant it even if you did chicken out at the end.

My walls, doorframes, legs and clothing are NOT for climbing. Claws are a privledge that can be revoked. Yes I'm not a fan of declawing but exceptions can be made (and in my case, being diabetic, probably should be)

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[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Pewter is snoring so loud behind me.

Kanda, you're BAD.

Ew. To the whole thing about work. Ew.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

poor Pewter.

Kanda is about to get shipped to bob_fish

yeah, it's like uh WHAT? Administration, seriously what

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

She's stopped snoring. And has been outside recently, so yes, she's still alive. And Even letting Vinnie curl up in her stomach area. Aw, cute.

I'd like to see that shipping process.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

aw that would be cute

he'll be lucky if i punch him air holes

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

They're all somewhere scratching, now. Despite not having fleas, they're very itchy this fall.

Snerk.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

so is Kanda. so am I

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking some vitamin E might be on the list of Things To Buy soon for the elds.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ah

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

*does the dance of being about to get a crazy cat in the mail*

My wife is going to totally love me for this. "Look at these chunks of hair and flesh he ripped out of my scalp!" Isn't he a darling? At least you named him right.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hahaha, it's like getting a package of evil

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

My favourite kind of package ♥

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it's just a matter of finding out which is the bitey end

speaking of fun evil, trying to figure out what Chris would do at a party while under cover

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

Young Chris or Chris as she is now? And do you already know what her cover story is (party guest, waitress, etc.) or is that what you're trying to figure out? I can see Chris now posing as someone's drunk aunt (not Roy's because, uh, they go to a lot of trouble to keep that under wraps), getting information out of people by pretending to be the harmless, chatty drunk auntie. Meanwhile she's actually nursing the same drink all night (which she can sip at for authentic gin breath) and taking mental note of everything she sees and hears.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

since this is for ladyfest, i'll email you the details

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I suppose knowing the boss might be looking in would put a certain self-censoring twist on FB activity. I've been censoring myself to a degree, just because I've started worrying about potential novel readers getting turned on by my opinions on other subjects.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i censor myself on FB because i did make it because my college ASKED me to. Students friend me. So my FB is very Dr. Evans and not the relaxed me.

And as for my readers, this is why my real name isn't going on the books. Jana has her own blog and if I ever finish an erotic novel will have her own FB. My non-erotica name is in the works

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how the penname situation will end up working out with me. I had always assumed I'd be writing romance under a female name, but now my publisher is using my real name for Storm Chaser. I'm okay with continuing that with other genre's I want to get into, such as YA mystery, action/adventure and eventually SF, but more mainstream publishers might not want to confuse readers who know me from one genre. If my career progresses, I might have to keep a chart going to remember who I am!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

haha. I'm already there. I barely know who I am any more :-P

But I DID want to separate out my erotica writing from the others and you can see the overly religious nature of where i live in my other post. they would NOT be happy about my erotica career especially if they knew it was predominately homosexual

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Makes perfect sense to me -- and an excellent example of when those pennames are needed.

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

I want to see Ratty the sex-changing rat.

I actually have quite strong feelings about being monitored at work for internet usage. If I've just taught a four hour session and I want to sit down with a cup of tea and check Facebook or lj, what's wrong with that? One of the things I've always liked about university life is being judged by my output rather than by people policing my workflow. If you don't do your job in this field, it's going to show pretty damn quickly in the undone admin, unmarked papers and disorganised lectures. There's also never a time when I would be working for six hours at my desk without taking brain-resting breaks from time to time. And in a job like mine (I don't know if it's the same in your department?) where I'm routinely expected to take substantial piles of marking and other work home evenings and weekends AND to pump out publications in my spare time, I expect a bit of flexibility (and respect) in return for that.

I also agree with you that social networking and professional networking are too difficult to tell apart these days. I don't use Facebook professionally because I have too much personal stuff on there but I know numerous academics including my boss who use it exclusively as a professional tool.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I have three networking accounts to check through work (and post to, and comment on, etc.). Will probably have another one shortly.

Of course, mine is the Boss who usually has his RPG up and running on his computer whenever I wander in, so him saying, "Don't look at personal email" is highly unlikely.

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

You haz a nice boss. These days.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

You are so right. He brought me iced tea back when he went to lunch.

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

That is nice.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

:D Of course, this is after telling our new intern that I "have dyptheria or something."

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'll try to take a picture of ratty whenever i remember my camera (forgot it all week)

I do agree with that (and I think this is directed MORE toward the secretaries and other staff who DO waste a lot of work hours pissing around). The faculty's job is in front of the class. If I'm actually IN my office, technically I'm not really working per se. I mean no one pays me for the time it takes me to grade papers etc. I'm only paid for face time with the class so...

my facebook was made because the college wanted me to do it. I put nothing there that I don't want students to know. That's what this blog is for. But the snooper was picking up on CNN and Cnet as social networking. hell it alerted to OUR college homepage

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

Exactly. That's how my pay works too - my face time pay covers an elastic amount of other work like preparation and marking, which it's up to me to manage and deliver. I think if this issue came up in my department, my answer would be that if secretaries/admin staff are pissing around, it's up to their manager to deal with that. Academics manage themselves, that's how our job works.

Well, that sounds pretty ridiculous. Given the snooper is picking up on all kinds of innocent things, some of which are actually work-related or even necessary, hopefully lots of lecturers will bring this up and whoever instituted this policy will see sense.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

agreed. my school sometimes baffles me with its choices

[vampedvixen.livejournal.com]

I just started taking Intenzyme Forte (https://www.dcnutrition.com/products/Detail.CFM?RecordNumber=182) in lieu of NSAIDS. It's supposedly good for inflammation AND your stomach. I'm still trying to figure out how well it works though..

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. i'll have to look at the pharmokinetics of this.