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#4886 – professor chaos

one of my classes this semester is a history of the united states after 1865 class. it’s an online class. the midterm was to be done last week and turned in online by sunday. since i didn’t have my textbooks with me when i was in huntsville, i worked on the midterm on sunday. no problem, right?

in the online system that we use for this class, the professor has to create a link for each particular assignment; you click on the link and it brings up a screen where you choose the file to upload for that assignment. well, i would have been able to submit my exam if there was a link for me to upload the exam! i looked in the technical support conference that the professor created to see if anybody else was experiencing anything similar and there were already 3 or 4 people who were having the same problem. i left a message in there about how i was having the same issue so at least the professor could see that i would have turned it in online if i had the option to. (i wasn’t going to email it to him directly because he had already informed everybody that one particular assignment was going to be the last one that he’d accept sent to his own personal email and that any future assignments should be turned in online.)

i checked again on monday, but still no upload link. more people replied in the technical support forum about how they didn’t have the option to upload it and were hoping that they wouldn’t be marked down. i don’t see why anybody would be marked down if there’s absolutely no way to submit the exam.

checked again yesterday, no more posts in the technical support forum about this, but no upload link either.

checked again right now, there’s a few posts in the technical support forum from people who tried emailing the professor directly to see if he’s ok, but nothing else. no upload link, and no reply from the professor. i hope he’s ok!

but… uh… so what happens now?

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#4882 – free filet

it’s 11 pm and i’m about to go to bed. wtf. this is not me.

my coworker kendrick was originally going to be flying back to maryland this evening, but he was able to get his stay here extended one more night so he could help out some more and go to dinner with us (sharla, a supervisor from maryland who is now one of the supervisors here in huntsville, took us folks who were helping out with training for dinner at this fancy restaurant called “grill 29”). kendrick bet that he’d be able to get a king-sized room instead of a room with double queen-sized beds and i doubted he’d be able to get that. when he did, he and i went to inspect the room and i got my revenge on him by letting loose in his room. he fought back with some chemical warfare of his own, i escalated it by letting loose in front of his a/c unit, etc.

for dinner i had a filet mignon and a jumbo lump crab cake with garlic mashed potatoes and white corn cheese grits. good stuff! we got a bottle of wine for the table and we got to talking about different antics we’ve been up to… now some of my coworkers know about my partying ways. (i already showed the picture of me as flava-flav to one of the guys in the call center here earlier today, hah):

Yeahhh boyyeeee

yesterday at the office we got to be part of a show ‘n tell where a new training class got to ask us questions about what things were like working in a call center, and this morning one of the HR supervisors said they had a focus group with some of the people we were training and they want to have us back (“next week”, apparently, but the supervisors said no, hahah). that’s nice, i’ve enjoyed helping out with the transition here.