teleidoplex

...because everything sounds better in a foreign language!

I really hate three things.

I hate plagiarism. I had a case of it today (two, actually -- completely duplicate copies of each other). It's ridiculous because it was for a tiny 3 point lab procedure assignment. My policy when I'm teaching my own class is to fail a student for any case of blatant plagiarism, but I'm an AI so the case gets sent to the course directors. It really sucked because I had to talk to them (the plagiarizers) outside during the lab. I informed them that they would get a zero for the assignment and I would forward all the relevent material to the directors including instructing them to each send me an e-mail explaining what happened and why their assignments are verbatim copies of each other's). But after that, I still had to teach the course, including explaining to students why they got poor grades on their lab reports when they obviously didn't cover the basic requirements. I had one student in near tears as I explained to him that I wouldn't be changing his grade. And the plagiarism students kept asking to talk to me outside about their case.

I hate not knowing whether to base my plans on other people. I'm hungry, I'm tired, I'm in a really bad mood, it's 7:00, I think the fox and I were supposed to have dinner together but I'm not sure and I can't get ahold of him to check, so I don't know if I should wait or not.

I hate frittering. People sitting around talking about doing something but not having the balls to decide what to do and just do it drive me nutty. The whole process of a large group deciding where to eat can make me want to kick puppies. Right now I hate myself because I'm frittering. Fuck it.

edit: I got ahold of the fox just as I was leaving, so things are looking slightly up. I still hate plagiarism