sielwolf's Journal: SOL

Well great. Thank you fucking AT&T Broadband! Last night when I was about to do my online help session all my fucking cable service died. EVERYTHING: cable TV and my modem. By the time I figured out what was going on (since I wasn't watching TV so I didn't realize that my SERVICE might have died) I missed my entire help session.

Me: "Hello, AT&T tech support? All my cable services are down. TV and modem."
Tech Guy: "Oh there's a service outage in you apartment complex. It should be up in an hour or so."
Me: "Oh... ok."

That was 9pm last night (Tuesday). This morning: no fucking service. Golden! I stopped by my local AT&T center and they told me this gem "Nope. No servie outage. We can have a tech by tomorrow (Wednesday) morning."

Excellent! Not only did I miss my help session but now I have to do my fucking grading (which is done electronically online) from an on campus LAB.

The FUCK YOU IN THE ASS Trifecta: I received this email this morning "Dear Sielwolf. I want to meet you in my office tomorrow (Wednesday). You have not only failed to teach the students our online help system you missed your E-help session last night. I am not looking for an email reply. I want you to meet me during my office hours tomorrow. Your performance so far this semester has been lacking."

WHOOOP-IE! I'm glad that he has assumed that all my problems so far have been intentional. I also like how it seems that he doesn't read my email (or does and assumes they are Big Fat Lies). Additionally I get to wake up tomorrow at 8am to wait until noon for a fucking AT&T tech to show up, then I get to go to class, THEN I have to meet with my above prof and THEN meet with another prof to see about getting some research I've done published.

Well today's just been a big happy FUCK YOU HAPPY HELLO! Not only does this prove that life is unfair. It also proves that life wants nothing better to grind you into the fucking dirt!

Now I'm in a great fucking mood...

That sucks

[DaytonCIM]

I hope your day gets a whole lot better, my friend.

Take care.

I'm sorry to hear what happened.

[eugene ts wong]

It hurts when you can't do much about it. I hope that things work out.

no words

[subgeek]

sielwolf, i have no words to make this better for you. hopefully it makes you feel better just to know that even though we're across the ether, we do listen to you. i suppose it would be nicer to have some of these people around you listen as well. i can't do anything about that. i get the impression that your prof's communication disfunction is full duplex. hopefully he can quit playing proctologist long enough to listen to your side of things.

if you can, i'd consider logging things that he does that contradict each other. maybe also recording the guidelines he gives you so you can show how vague they are. that way if he tries to make you a scape goat for his ineptitude, you'll have back-up to show to someone else. it seems like he is used to having other people clean his messes up. he's probably convinced himself by now that those messes aren't even his.

ps, i don't know if you were ever into nomeansno, but the JE title immediately brought the song it's catching up into my mind. not really so much you, but the phrase "SOL" usually brings that song to mind. if that's how you're feeling, it's better to listen to that song at full volume.