Ever get the feeling you should not have gone to work some days?

[greatauntoftriplets]

First the servers crashed -- no e-mail, no access to network until shortly after 2. We could get on the internet, though :evilgrin:

Now, a strong wind has knocked down a tree branch on land adjacent to the employee parking lot, which took out some electrical wires and started a small fire. As a result, the electricity has been flickering on and off for a while -- and we have been warned it could get worse.

[Ellen Forradalom]

1. Yes, if you work with computers some days inevitably are a waste

Hard drives die, servers give up the ghost, the electicity goes out, the phones die...you wonder why you're there. Keep a knitting project in your desk drawer for such occasions.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. You can read a book far more surreptitiously than knit.

Too bad I don't have one here.

[commander bunnypants]

3. Every friggin day

DDQM

[Chomskyite]

4. Yep. Shouldve called in sick today.

Got reprimanded over the inclusion of a dark-humored joke in an assignment sheet I gave out to my students. It asked them (these are college students) not to write about 1) abortion 2) parking 3) divorce or cohabitation or else "the teacher may be seized with the urge to reach for a double barrelled shotgun and bring it to his lips."

A student's mom called and complained to a vice chancellor about it.

Needless to say, I don't believe I'll be showing these classes that episode of Homicide I'd planned to show them in about two weeks . . . .