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oh yeah I'd feel good if the yanks had hung on for sure, didn't mean to take the win away from you just trying to make myself feel a little better
Why?
--LeVar Burton
Maybe. I don't think it would if you tell it not to.
It's pretty sweet, though.
I would join but they don't allow us filthy Canucks on there
Your room hates non Americans.
For the same reason that Sophie C. Currier pissed me off.
Pregnancy oughtn't be an excused absence.
Because condoms.
That's idiotic and anti-feminist. Women shouldn't need to set their lives aside if they want to have a child.
You're not dumb, you know you're being sexist, knock it off.
_J_ you are being a sexist jerk here.
If I was at home I could use my VPN but I'm at work so no go
Basically, she signed up for the class knowing that, if her pregnancy went well, she most likely wouldn't finish the class.
That, to me, seems like an odd thing to do. It's not terrible. But I don't quite understand the thinking that supports such an action.
Though, maybe this student will be an exception to the rule, and after giving birth she'll crack open her ethics book.
I really want to give The Secret World a try buuuuuut between Funcom and a monthly fee I cant do it.
I've got the wig for Ezrael.
But if I went as Finn it would fit with Patty's theme (her and her sister are doing Princess Bubblegum and Marceline).
And if I went as Lupin it would fit with Mike's theme (he's going as Jigen).
But I kind of want to go as Raz from psychonauts.
Or I could go as something else?
maybe she didn't realize she wouldn't be able to do it?
and then later either she can do it or she'll find she can't and take it from there
I'm mostly just venting.
I'll give her the incomplete without a problem. Cause, you know, it would be practically problematic for me to deny her the incomplete. Practically? She gets the incomplete without any questions being asked.
But in principle? It kind of grinds my gears a bit. Not that I'm down on women. I'm down on students signing up for classes the completion of which they take to be optional.
I have the same feeling about other incompletes I have to give out. And my guess is that if I vented about those, I wouldn't be accused of being sexist.
Ludious I happen to dress really nice.
That's very likely. I've had some friends, and past students, do the same thing. They're going to be the female who can carry a fetus to term and work a job and go to school. But then it doesn't work out because carrying a fetus to term is an incredibly difficult task.
I'm not sure if they underestimate how difficult pregnancy is, or overestimate their own abilitites. Maybe both.
It's just a pet peeve I have.
Winky it was a joke.
True. I'm probably making a bad abduction.
Bad, bad abduction! Naughty abduction!
but just... think about how you say things I guess. 'pregnancy ought not be an excuse' isn't going to go over well with lots of people.
I just wanted to punch them until they stopped feeling.
Pregnancy can be variable on the degree it stresses the body. There are shit tons of factors attached to it. And for some they can work into the 8th month others can't.
Human bodies, pretty damn annoying that way.
Ludious I am aware, and text did not accurately convey my intended tone of "pretending to not look hurt".
That's fair. My phrasing could have been better.
I need to be more careful / thoughtful when venting.
But the e-mail just showed up and I thought, "God damn it; not again!"
Winky why do we keep addressing each other in this manner?
I get ya
I'm off to bed for real, goodnight everyone