My BIL got engaged yesterday! I thought he would be a permanent bachelor, but he found the right girl, who will rock climb with him and even dive with great white sharks with him. I'm so excited for them, and can't wait for their wedding. I love weddings!
It was 90 degrees this morning at 8:30 when I dropped my DD off for school. I feel like such an asshole complaining when my husband has to work in it all day and I get to go to an air conditioned office but damn this is MIZ weather.
Asshole part 2. I am super excited to go to a 3-day tradeshow in Vegas next week. Like, I cannot wait to get away from my husband and kids so I can sleep in and relax when not walking the show. Momma needs a break.
I feel like I couldn't make this up if I tried. So I teach online classes for a community college in my old city. Yesterday when a student called me during my "office hours" in a panic because she'd been e-mailing and e-mailing me using the e-mail link within Blackboard about a test she failed and hadn't gotten a reply. At first I thought she was lying because I check my work e-mail constantly, but I promised her I would look into the issue.
So I e-mailed myself from the link, and sure enough the e-mail never arrived in my inbox. I tried it again, same result.
After an HOUR on the phone with tech support this morning, I finally learned that the college issued me a new e-mail account over the summer, never told me about it, NEVER ACTIVATED THE ACCOUNT, but still hardwired it into my course shell in a way that can't be changed. So I now have two work e-mail accounts, one of which all of my kids were apparently e-mailing for the last two weeks of class and never getting responses from, and one that I had listed in my syllabus that a handful of them were e-mailing from their own accounts instead of the link, that I replied to immediately. The e-mails that were sent before the account was activated (which was TODAY) are apparently gone, so I have no idea who e-mailed me or what their concerns were.
I am livid. This is the sort of shit that students are directly asked about in course evaluations, and through no fault of my own I completely dropped the ball on communication for two full weeks of class. I have no idea who to yell at right now, but someone is going to get an earful because this was not cool at all.
I just got a call that another kid pushed DS into a chair and he bashed his mouth so his gums are bleeding. She said his teeth aren't loose, should I still take him to the dentist? I haven't seen him yet, she said he's stopped crying. I leave in 30 minutes to pick him up. My poor DS
He keeps getting hurt by other kids. He's big and obnoxious, and I guess he's getting on their nerves but USE YOUR WORDS!