You're a mean one, Dr. Grinch....

I had an awesome weekend peeps. Which definitely made up for the Lack of "weekend" on the preceeding Saturday and Sunday. It was really great. Well, Friday was great, Saturday was mostly hungover, and Sunday was also good and restful and just what I thought I needed.

But today, I am decidedly Grinch-y. What's worse is that I'm feeling Grinch-y over a number of things, some of them pretty stupid and inconsequential, and some of them over stuff that I should be pretty excited about.

Because:

Opportunities = AWESOME!!!

But:

Opportunities = some very tough decisions, or actually, some not-terribly-tough decisions For Which I Will Have To Explain Myself, and turning down some opportunities that many people would give a limb for in order to make the right stuff happen for myself, which makes me feel like a spoiled little shit, and therefore Grinch-y about the fact that I have no right to feel Grinch-y.

grumble

I planned poorly this week.

Forgot there were only 4 days until the next weekend, Tuesday felt like a Monday anyway, and plotted out a 5-day protocol. Dumbass.

Oh well, so I lose a Saturday. Not like that's never happened before.

Then the fucking reaction on day 1 degraded so I lost another day to repeating it. No weekend for AA.

/grump

Albatross #2

See ya later, sucka!

(Dear readers, whatever positive influence you have in the universe would be most appreciated. This paper is a good one, but it's gonna be a fight to get it through review I think. I hope I am wrong.)

What. The. Fuck.

FERPA, anyone??

Apparently, a pregnant student's grade at UC Davis Veterinary School was put up to a class vote.

This is so wrong on so many levels that I don't even know where to begin trying to dissect all those layers. Fortunately, I don't have to. Or rather, I shouldn't have to. We have legislation in place for this shit. This is precisely the sort of thing that FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) - the clue is in the name, folks - is meant to prohibit. It does what it says on the tin. It protects student privacy. ALL students have a right to this privacy, and to fair grading, not a class vote, regardless of whether or not they have a fetus in their uterus. Her grade should not be in question, and neither the grade nor her pregnancy is a matter of her classmates' concern. Period.

The prof who put that out there to her classmates fucked up. Big time.

I hope that the student who has been subjected to this extreme violation of her rights and privacy gets a speedy and satisfactory resolution and I hope it is made clear to the prof in no uncertain terms just how badly he cocked this up.

h/t Isis

...aaaannnnd ACCEPTED!

Shazam!

Albatross #1 has left the building!!

Woohoo!