Snowflake challenge stuff

[cornerofmadness]

Because I'm having an I'm gonna barf day, just let me say my office went from 57 on Tuesday to 91 today. I think my university is out to murder me.

And my Prodigal Son story about the thing that bugged me in the episode this week got nearly 90 kudos in under 24 hours. Begging me for a sequel. So I was NOT alone in going huh? about this particular thing. It's amazing to me.

ETA - Wow, it's been a long time since I've deleted a new show after about 10 minutes. Well a show I really wanted to like because I like Rob Lowe

Okay the first meeting with Rob was dumb him standing in a fire station talking about his 'hair regime' but I thought maybe he's doing a schtick to keep his mind off his lung cancer. I'm already leery because a) lung cancer has a piss poor survival rate and I've lost people to it b) and no fire fighter is going to be employed with freaking lung cancer.

but i roll with it and the first disease is interesting up until it's literally liquid mercury on the sandwiches. Excuse me but NO ONE notices fucking silver metal leaking off their sandwiches??? And where does one find that much mercury because I KNOW how hard it is to get because we deal with it in lab in very minute amounts.

I lasted until Rob's at his oncologist and he starts dissing her advice because he doesn't want to stop seeing his hair person because her treatment interferes with his cancer treatment. This is a man prioritizing his HAIR over his life because it's 'his signature look.'

Wow. Really who thought this was a good idea? bye bye




Commit an Act of Kindness (or two or three ♥)

I'm counting the last two weeks at work. Last week I let a student into class who shouldn't be technically but it wasn't his fault that he'd be enrolled and he was kind enough himself to thank me. THis week I've let three other students into a class two weeks late and have sat down on my own to help catch them up. Because they were told their grade was passing (C-) and it wasn't. Again not their fault the registrar is an idiot (she's gone, thank god) I will take my time to help those kids. Technically I was meant to say no. The head of the dept said I shouldn't have. I disagree. I don't mind making more work for me if I can help them.

Comments

[tjs_whatnot]

Ah, you're the best kind of professor. ♥

[cornerofmadness]

I try. None of this was these four students fault and I didn't feel right penalizing them

[silveradept]

Thank you for helping those students recover from other people making their academic lives harder.

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. I couldn't sit there and let that stand just because doing something would make my life harder. I'm fine with it being harder

[sperrywink]

Oh ouch. Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good show at all.

Those are definitely acts of real kindness from professor!you.

[cornerofmadness]

I mean at what point does an actor say 'this is dumb?' or really what in these first two scripts had Rob Lowe going 'wow, I love this character?'

thanks. I try.

[ysilme]

How awesome about the fanfic! :o) Kudos to the kindnesses, too! ♥

[cornerofmadness]

thanks. It's now at 100 in a day. That's a record for me.

Kindness always helps (love your icon)

[ysilme]

Thanks! It's a new one I got, from oraclegreen, the icon comm I linked you to.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks. that's a good one too (I took most of the Prodigal Son ones on offer)

[cornerofmadness]

i'm still stunned about that fanfic.

and thank you

[spikedluv]

I just figure he's in denial about the cancer still. I'm gonna keep watching it for now. There's enough other stuff to keep me interested. (Though if I was a medical person, that type of thing (the mercury) would gall me, just like the court scenes usually do.)

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah often the medical stuff I can't get past. Sadly I just instantly hated Rob's character. Also it was looking a bit too soap opera for me but I hope you keep enjoying it.