So that's why it's called 'going postal'.

[stillane]

I have not committed homicide today.

This is worthy of note. No, really. You see, I got up exceptionally early to run an errand, and then went back to sleep, and when I woke again it was to find an email waiting for me. This missive was from my third thesis committee member, stating very politely that she had not yet actually received her copy, and as the defense is on Monday, could I please email her a version.

The same thesis that was sent via intercampus mail about a week ago.

Yeah. Bet you all didn't know I knew words like that, huh?

Long story short, campus mail kept picking it up, deciding they didn't know what to do with it, and dropping it back off at our bio office, where they circled the appropriate destination and stopped just short of attaching a map. This vicious cycle continued for days. Only no one told me. I walked into the office to find it in exactly the same position I'd left it. Also, it's been raining all day and then some, so about noon I looked like a really, really pissed-off drowned rat with hair the size of Texas and that crazed, panicked look to the eyes that speaks of small-scale armageddon. Thus ensued the mad dash to the committee member's office at the other campus - and greyer, I so incredibly owe you one for that - and eventually it all got sorted out. With the bonus application of fudge and gummi frogs, which make everything better. Whew.

Crisis averted. I need a nap.

Comments

[eccentric_hat]

Good grief, that would have given me a heart attack. I'm glad you got it sorted out!

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Having seen you since, I feel goofy replying, and yet also silly not doing so. Therefore, new subject. How's Milton?

[eccentric_hat]

Meh. It'll get done. At least, it had better get done. I'm still going around paraphrasing Paradise Lost to everyone I see, but I've found some stuff to talk about in the one scene I was stuck on, and soon I get to move onto the part I wrote another paper about before. I'm definitely shooting for the minimum length, though. (Every time I say "8-12 pages" people say "oh, so ten pages." I don't really think so, this time around.)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Gah! I think intercampus mail offices make sure to send their most incompetent people out to deal with and lose important things like copies of theses... or internal grant checks (which happened to me a couple years ago and almost led to mass slaughter).

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I can fully get behind the urge to massacre over that one. Last year, someone misreported my graduation date to the loan-giving sorts and I started getting notices that I was in default a full year and a half before any of them were actually supposed to come due. That got ugly.

And campus mail services have not been impressing me much this year. This is only the latest in the list of things that have gone awry on their end. I've had a couple package slips that turned up a month or so late, and a bill that showed up a whole day before it was overdue. *headshake* I fear your hypothesis is correct.

[feartheotter.livejournal.com]

I want some fudge and gummi frogs :'(

Good to know that - despite much nincompoopery - all is well, though.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Umm... can I wish you future fudge and gummi frogs? Hee. I kind of like it as a blessing. Forget 'May the sun shine warm upon your face'; it's all about the lime amphibians. *g*

All is getting well. I'm going crazy by incriments, but by 5 on Wednesday, it will all be over. Just need to keep the wheel spinning until then. *g*

[feartheotter.livejournal.com]

Mmmm.... Lime......

The quote that leaps to mind is *spin the wheel, raggedy man!" which leads me to picture some kind of ninja action ocurring.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, my kungfu is best.

[feartheotter.livejournal.com]

Order any ninja swords off eBay? ;)

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Psh. Forged my own, of course, in the spirit of Sean Connery. *g*

I'm better with staff fighting, actually. Spent a full summer once learning how to hit things very fast without getting hit very hard in return. I'm definitely rusty on the hand rotations and rolling maneuvers, but one of these days I'm going to get back into it... Only sword work I've done is theater related, and thus exceedingly choreographed. Well, until Hamlet got pissy, and then all bets were off. *g*

[feartheotter.livejournal.com]

See... that you have a response like that.... tch. Too cool.

[enname.livejournal.com]

Our internal mail has lost my thesis confirmation three times so far. I finally just gave in and walked over to the faculty and dumped it on the desk. Still, one of my friends just found out today (four months later) that the regular mail system managed to lose her application for a scholarship, and that would be why she hadn't heard if she had gotten it.

Smash a plate or something, there is no way to handle the Byzantine structure of university bureaucracy. Well unless you are Yoda.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Ah, but jedi am I, see you.

I've decided there's a mail conspiracy. They're out to disrupt the educational advancement of us all. Who needs black helicopters when you've got postal incompitence?

Huh. I hadn't thought of going distructive on inanimate objects, believe it or not. This deserves some consideration. I'm toying with the idea of burning various things - *cough* early drafts *cough* - in effigy once this graduating thing is in the bag.

[enname.livejournal.com]

Listen to the force Luke...

That is it, the cunning plan! Carefully disguised as admin, but truly a plan to subvert the future of the world by ruining education through ninja like bureaucratic warfare. Only someone truly determined to be destructive could be that incompetent. *nod*

There is a long, hallowed tradition in my household (it started a year ago) of burning in a bonfire all unwanted drafts and comments. Prefably this should be done at midnight with some sort of wild orgy going on, but hey. Midday and a box of matches works for me too. In the meantime, I do recommend breaking inanimate objects. Oddly satisfying and they don't try and sue you... :P