I think my supervisor did too... some days his office was just unbearable. (down)

lol!

I laughed so much at this. I used to be dangerously addicted to the Sims and almost entire days could drift by as I micro-managed my little families. True to form, all of my sims had to be perfect. A grades at school, marry their childhood sweetheart, reach the top of their chosen career whilst maintaining a spotless home and 20 simultaneous best friends. All the while my actual life slid down the plughole
8-)

Me too keep calm! Teehee :) I'm sure my boss has caught me harvesting aubergines more than once (cheaper than artichokes you see, I got bored before I got to the high-end veg).

Confession of sorts....

A salesman just came to the door and asked me "are either of your parents in?"

He just left with a flea-ette in his earhole.

Now this is bad... but I just cant help it...  I've got a big crush on my dentist, normally I hate going to the dentist, like the next person, but now I'm quite happy to go, and I dont even notice the drilling and all the horrible things that are happening because I am aware of his hands touching my face - thats bad isnt it? Sorry its my guilty secret; although I did say to my husband I found it a bit disconcerting that he wasnt the normal old, stiff, frumpy fart I that I have become accustomed to  :$ Must go and check when my next app is :p

My God, talk about feelings of inferiority - everyone's got better confessions than me! Smelling your own bowel gas though - that's a bit narcissistic. I feel like I'm watching an old episode of Eurotrash reading that.

I know Wally, I find some things disturbing to read even on a comedically motivated internet forum thread, but I suppose my washing up crust would outrage some people too.

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I may as well ask you people this because at least you don't know me, so even if I seem neurotic it won't matter too much: a while ago I as at my dear, old friend's dad's 70th birthday party; myself and a group of female friends were standing outside the social club bantering with their boyfriends and one of their boyfriend's brothers - the lads were standing quite a way away on the other side of the club entrance. Anyhow, we were making silly comments across at eachother and the friend's boyfriend's brother shouted across at me 'will you come out with me then?' - I hade been moaning about being poor so shouted back, in a humorous way 'only if you are a millionaire'. There was a sudden silence as dust balls blew across the car park and everyone stood statue still. My good friend leaned in close, looked right into my eyes and whispered 'he is eska, he's a multi - millionaire business man'. Did I commit a massive faux pas? Was that a really daft thing to say? I'd got on pretty well with the brother before that when we chatted at the party, but ever since it's been a bit awkward. What do you think?

Right, well, here's my confession for the day. I've written 1121 for the discussion of my paper which I have to get published and I have to say it's the longest way of spelling the word 'crap' known to mankind.

I hate the intense weeks of the academic term. When you get to the middle of the working week even the first letters of the last 3 days of it spell WTF.

Time for some management speak: blue sky thinking, think outside the box and so on.

Hahaha. No, not at all a bad thing to say. Statistically speaking how many people can you say that to and then find out that they are actually not just a millionnaire but a multi-millionaire? A curious and funny co-incidence but certainly not a massive faux pas! You didn't know at the time, cos you definitely wouldn't have said it. I can actually put it into context and even beat your faux pas. When I was doing one of my degrees I had an old microbiology lecturer who, I didn't realise this at the time, had a severe leg length discrepancy. Anyway, he had quite a sense of humour so everyone used to laugh and joke with him. So, me being the idiot that I am, I was walking past him going into his office one day and I saw his strange shoes and I went 'Ha, love the footwear!'. He just stared at me dead and didn't laugh. I later found out about his leg length discrepancy and if the ground could have swallowed me up there and then... Suffice it to say that things were a bit awkward having to attend some of his lectures for the next 2 years of the course.

whahaha Wally funny story and thanks for the re-asssurance, it was a very strange coincidence that I sad that - I've never said it before, or after. I have a story from the other day: I was giving feedback to a rather mouthy student with whom there has been much to-ing and fro-ing in seminars, but with whom I now have a mouthy humorous rapor. The assignment was 'Reflective Writing' but she'd written 'Reflective Writhing' and I started laughing my head off as I said really loudly wahhhaha so your presenting us with you reflective writhing; if you do that for the right lecturer you'll get a first, cue guffaws of laughter from other, waiting, students and a non plussed look from the writher. She went on to explain that she was dyslexic - oh god!!!!!! thoughts raced through my brain: I'd let bitter revenge for previous peskiness on her part lead me into scaring her for life and provoking a law suit against the university and thus black listng myself amongst academia. Luckily however, she just didn't know what writhing meant, but kind of smirked a bit when I, and the rest of the group, told her. She seemed perfectly happy and laughy the rest of the time, so maybe I'll get away with it. Watch this space.

I'll just say briefly and make another confession in the process; you've got to be so careful with what you say to students. I had one last week. I was lecturing on drug therapy for rheumatological conditions. I'd used a cute little picture of a gold tablet to illustrate the gold therapy that is used. And the student went 'wow, are the tablets made of gold?'. So I said, 'no, they don't give you pieces of gold to swallow'. So all the other students laughed and he gave me one of those 'if looks could kill' faces, greatly offended. It's not like I went out of my way to offend him; it was just such a silly question, I didn't know what to say in response.

maybe I'm really blunt, but I say things like that to my rowdy, cheeky first years all the time, but I suppose that's because they're asking me complainy questions in response to not doing the work, like 'why do I have study xyz topic when I learnt that already at A'level?' And I say 'unfortunately, the module isn't designed around you as an individual' I also say things like 'the feedbacks ession will be much easier for me if you are not all standing over me, please wait over there.' I dunno, it's this stroppy group I've got. I think I should maybe b more careful.

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Yeah, I've got bit lax too in my manner with students. It's so easy to do. I have a really lazy guy in my class, never reads the books and hands all his work in late. We were talking about a part in a novel and he gave me his opinion and then said 'is that right?' I found myself genuinely laughing and the I said 'yes' in a sarcastic voice :$ I'd better explain- it's a literature course and I've spent the entire time explaining that seminars are for sharing your opinions, that there's no right or wrong answers...and they still come out with things like that!
ETA: I did feel bad afterwards though.