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Mobile Suit Gundam Cola enjoys when you put your hand in its slot.

MWAH!

That said, I really don't want to go to work. Can I sleep instead? Please? Someone give me a note?

Kids today...

Okay.

I'm sitting in my office when a student comes in without even bothering to knock. A feces brown shirt with even browner tie, wire rimmed glasses, and black slacks.

"I need a thing? It goes from the little thing to the wider plug?"

(...we can't help you get a date.)

Meanwhile, he keeps stammering. "I need it for a presentation! The little thing! You guys are supposed to have them, right? With the caps and the hook?"

(I need a pony. What the hell is this thing?)

I'm about to ask him to slow down and define why he barged in, exactly, when he pauses long enough to collect the fact he still hasn't told me what he needs beyond really vauge circumlocution.

"I need...um..oh. It's the thingy that lets me hook up a projector to my iBook?"

(Ahhhhh. Now, there's that 'need' again, but.)

I speak up, finally. "Linda," the secretary, "Has them down the hall in 203. You can probably check one out."

Without even nodding, he backs quickly out of my office and speed-walks down to Linda's, and I swear to god his head was bobbing like a bird's.

What ever happened to the tradition of a rum ration at work?

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Well. Stanley Gold just resigned from Disney.

I believe this can now officially be termed 'two to the chest' for Walt Disney, Inc.

In other news, back from lunch, got a package from mephron (you rock!), and working on fixing a laptop.

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http://www.penny-arcade.com/childsplay/index.htm

I'm really proud that I helped with this. If you've not heard about it, I ask you to go look, and if you can spare the money, to contribute.

An old lion stands, watching.

There's a professor in the Chemistry department. He retired 15 years ago, and works even harder now than when he had a full teaching schedule.

These days, when he isn't advising I.S. students, or doing some of his own research or hobbies, he donates money to provide scholarships, speaks at some NAACP stuff (he's black, and very big into providing education), and has helped power several science based summer camps and programs, including the B-WISER camp at Wooster. I know he does other stuff, too, and he's in the ACS hall of fame. (scrion666, can you fill in any of these holes or errors I may have made?)

The B-WISER camp is where I frequently run into him, as I've technically worked for him every time I supported the camp at Wooster. But I tend to see him around campus, and he's always been full of energy and an amazing man.

Up until a few months ago, he and his secretary had shared the same office in Severance since he started teaching. Then they moved him to the admissions building because a new faculty member needed an office. Now they're moving him to a small house with two other Chemistry emeriti.

Today, I talked with him for a bit, and he was terribly sad. He's having to give up a lot of things he's appreciated because of leaving Severance, including a lot of the B-WISER stuff that he can no longer easily co-ordinate with his department or other faculty. He can't do as much research as he'd like to. He doesn't have as much to do.

It hurt to talk to him, because he's done incredible things for the College, for education, and now...now he's almost being put off to the side and left.

It's depressing what this place does, sometimes. And I can't decide if I like being associated with it, at moments like that.

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Okay. After a good dinner, a fun conversation with paisleycat, nearly pulling something in my leg walking, and relaxing, life is not so bad.

In fact, life may well be good.

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http://powerhouseanimation.com/heroes.html

Go enjoy. :>

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Gwuh. My MUSHing and AIM all went to shit.

I guess that's a sign to go to bed.