Now in what business world can you do the following: Ignore an email for fave days then clearly acknowledge how OTHER people are more important hence the lack of a response to the initial query. (Spelling an grammatical errors included for good measure!)

JUST SAY IT: YOU ARE AN AFTERTHOUGHT.

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Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:36 AM

Dear Sarah,

I have been waiting for a couple of other tentative meeting committments early this wek to resolve to finalize my availability. Tomorrow morning before 9am would be fine. It is rather late notice now, but this morning about 10am or late in the day today. would also be OK.

Regards,
Lea.


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The paperwork for my degree came through this afternoon. I got a shit mark and feel like a complete fucking failure. Three years of dealing with the above is not acknowledged at all in my degree. God, I just want to bang my head against the wall as hard as I can. Give me the last three years back. Please.

I dont post in here very often. For most of the last 8 months I have lived somewhere with no internet or sporadic unreliable internet. Welcome to Australia. Anyways, the internet is not my complaint today.

This could be the first (or most recent) entry of perhaps a new blog of dealing with Grad School supervisors who clearly don't give a fuck as shown through their behaviour of treating you like a complete afterthought.

The only thing I edited out was email address and signatures. Pay attention to the dates of the emails and the lack of "dear/ to" and actually signing the emails in some cases. I can't decide if that is better or worse then pretending we are in an episode of Gossip Girl and using only first name initials. The one word or one line responses unfortunately or something of an commonality. But again, is it better or worse than no response at all?

Maybe the next chain of emails will be when she arranged two meeting with me then didn't bother to show up!



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Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM

Dear Lea,

I have attached my Thesis files that have been submitted to Mark for his review. He has said he will be consulting with you on these amendments.

In preparation for my Thesis to be finalized and printing the final copies, does your offer for the lab to pay for Thesis binding and submission in final form still stand?

Regards,
Sarah


Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:23 PM

Thanks for these files Sarah.
The lab will make a contribution to the costs. If you obtain information /quotes about the specific costs involved I can give you a firm indication in advance or if you provide me with the receipt when you are done I can dermine at that stage.
Regards,
Lea


Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:47 AM

Dear Lea,

Thank you that would be appreciated for the lab to make a contribution. The lowest quote I have received is $240 all up for final submission of the Thesis. If you can let me know if this is suitable that would be good.

Regards,
Sarah


Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:08 AM

Can you forward me details of quote please?


Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:26 AM

Printing $55 at SGS print room + Binding $65 verbal quote over the phone = $120 per copy. x 2 = $240.


Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:36 AM

Sarah,

The lab can cover the cost of 3 bound copies - the two that need to be submitted and one for me. I will reimburse you - you will need to keep the reciept. Hope this helps.

I understand that Mark will be getting back to you very shortly if he has not already done so.

Regards,
Lea.


Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:09 AM

Hi Lea,

That will be much appreciated. Just to clarify, the lab is willing to cover $360 of the submission process? ($120 x 3)

Regards,
Sarah


Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM

Yes.


Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:46 PM

Dear Lea,

I have a copy of my Thesis for you as requested. I can drop it off Monday or Tuesday morning prior to 9am if you are available.

The total cost of the submission process was $327.10. It would be appreciated if you could reimburse me at that time.

Sarah


Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM

Dear Lea,

Did you receive my previous email? I await a response from you.

Sarah

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And how long will I wait for a response to this one!?

i saw someone else posting a list of all the good things that happened over the last 365 days. 2008 was far from a perfect year, but some absolutely fantastic things happened among all the bullshit drama i could have done without. i will focus on those and leave out the items that i will preferably be deleting from memory.

all the good stuff:

ringing in the 2008 New Year with Marian and Ciaran at a house party
having my Mum come to visit
40C weather in Melbourne
going to Byron Bay and a return to Surfers Paradise
holding a koala (again) at the Australia Zoo
NEW ZEALAND
cruising on Milford Sound
doing the Lord of the Rings Tour and dressing up in costumes
everything about Queenstown
Emma and Stu visiting from Sydney
Gaby visiting from Japan
arvo beers at the Belgian Bier Cafe with friends
the UNKLE show at the Prince of Wales
watching Pearl Jam videos and drinking too much at WoyWoy
Polly Jean Harvey @Hamer Hall
my birthday @Bimbo Deluxe
the last Saturday in Melbourne drinking with Steph and Megan @the Deck, Phoenix and back at Cherry Bar
kebabs from Stalactites
last night in my apartment hanging out with Sonia, Dawn, Nadeen and Claire
going home
getting the window seat I wanted 'upstairs' on Qantas
seeing friends again
being able to DRIVE
the many trips to West 50
seeing Karen and Steph on Easter weekend
flying out West to Vancouver
staying with Carol and Matt
hanging out with Jen
drinking beer with Jeremy
driving to Seattle
staying with Grant in Capitol Hill
QUEENS OF THE MOTHERFUCKING STONE AGE TOUR
losing 5 pounds due to sweat in Saskatoon
the intoxication in Regina
Infinity (OMG!.. lol)
the club district in Toronto
Bloor Street
Lee`s Palace
seeing Sex and the City with Michelle
New York City
finally meeting Charlene
meeting Josee
MADISON SQUARE GARDENS
the Drake
American friends at the ACC
hanging with Jason NIN preshow
the Loose Moose
Lauren`s friends bachelorette @Flirty Girl Fitness
having lunch with Robin after about 12 years
visiting Montreal
Eddie Vedder shows
hanging with Josee and driving to Ottawa
Massey Hall night 2
roading trippin` to the USA
LIGHTS IN THE SKY
shopping for cheap commodities at Target
more NIN
returning to the land Down Under (and not being in tears on the plane)
seeing friends again
falling alseep at Spleen
getting a job for the first time in over 2 and a half years
having an awesome boss
learning more about Melbourne and the fab transit system
working a conference at the casino
dinner on the Tram Car Restaurant
the work cocktail party and the afterparty
Mads' 30th
Melbourne Cup (members style!) with Jacci
getting free members tickets to Stakes Day
moving and having great housemates
corporate life
finally submitting that MF Thesis
Kirsty's 30th
sitting at the airport with Gaby and Steph
still employed at the end of the year
Christmas in the country --my first UDL
NYE with the ETS crew

too many drinks to count

all of my friends

MFO LULZ

look how l337 ive become, using a mac and everything.

i now living beside flemmington racecourse. i was warned yesterday that spring carnival is going to be the worst two weeks of y life with people everywhere. oh joy. i was looking forward to having the trains running to that station or the week. just not the hundred thousand people in my way.

still working on the thesis things. the amazing things that the supervisor have said to me include: 'i didnt think you were going to finish once you left melbourne', 'have you been working as a waitress while at home', 'have you been traveling?' (that one was between our first and second meetings. the next suburb i am going to try out will be kensington, because it seems like money grows on trees there!

new sporadic internet at this house. telstra is retarded (we all knew that anyways) and didnt realize new houses were being built, so didnt bother to have cable connected for phone, internet or tv. december before all that fun stuff is supposed to be connected.. when it will actually get done who knows.

its birthdays weekend.. i have a 25th and a 30th to go to today and tomorrow. should be fun to go back to 'my old house' in camberwell and meet the parents ;-) that side of town was fun to live in. seems like everywhere means going through the city at peak hour in the morning. the most surprising best way to do that was from carlton north. hardly any traffic and i already had a seat on the tram by the time it got to flinders.

I think Ive been back for a month now. Very busy time indeed. I have lived with two extraordinary people who let me sleep in their spare rooms or living rooms and it was very generous of them. I was supposed to move into a 3rd persons house tonight, but not surprisingly she bailed on me yesterday. Pretty sad when a so called friend cant tell you in advance, but you have the foresight to see it coming. Maybe Ill talk to her more when i get back to Canada since the line of communication has been out for weeks. Thankfully I have other awesome friends and I will be moving now on Monday night to North Carlton for the rest of the week. The city tour it is.

I am actually scared of what the election on Tuesday will bring. I cant vote since im overseas, and its not like my riding goes anything other than red. From what I have heard and read the the stock market crash has made the media even more left wing than before, enticing continued bashing of Harper for the millions of bad things he has done.. like not imitating American policies so that banks are completely fucked. Isnt good that we have a working class Prime Minister? No really. Most people dont know whats its like to have everything handed to you on a silver platter the way former leader have. Some one who had to work for a living seems like they will be more in touch with what regular people want than, I dunno, lawyers with money pouring out their ears? If the liberals get back in, im not coming home. Ugh. Dion as a leader would just be a joke, not to mention I hate how one sided the policies are. I too would love to have qualified for student loans to fund my higher education. Thank you Chretien government for putting me in debt.

It is incredibly difficult to do this round of edits on the Thesis. I continue to get more and more mad as this morning goes on.

I know why I went to the gym so much and spend so much time procrastination online over the last six months.

This morning alone, I have unsubscribed from at least 10 mailing lists of garbage that fills up my inbox. WTF.

The light rain has stopped, for now.

More alcohols tonight, and I really dont want to fall asleep on this one.

The last week has been pretty much a blur. Trying to get organized and sort out everything in Mississauga and prepare to leave. I have been to the doctor's 4 times in the last month.. yay fun. That took up a lot of my free time waiting in their waiting room. Promptness means nothing. Little trips to places that involve organization so that I could have a car to get there in. I cant wait to get out of the suburbs.

Coincidentally one of my oldest friends was home for the last few weeks and we got to catch up a couple of times. We tried to figure out when the last time we saw each other was and could pin to 3 years ago, but we werent certain about it. That was nice, I hadnt talked to her since right before Christmas of last year.

My Thesis draft is finally completely. Lack of communication all the way. I have nothing nice to say about the University or the lab at the current time. After doing a Hons.B.Sc. in a school that more than 70,000 people attended I have never felt more like a number in a situation where I was supposed to have direct interaction and contact with my "teachers". What a joke.
Because the supervisor has no idea of anything that doesnt relate to work, I had to relive the poisonous time of 2006 when I was trying to leave Grad House. I feel like sending them an email saying I am suing them for harassment. I have never wanted to watch anyone be beat over the head with a brick more than that cow that works at the front desk of that place. DIE. How come the top people I cannot stand are all in the same city?

My Dad's birthday is today so we have more family fun tonight. The house is full which is shit cause my packing room has someone sleeping in it currently and I cant kick them out..
Hrmm.

The Montreal shows were a lot better than I expected. All the Pearl Jam songs I dont particularly care for in live shows.. stuff that stalls the first encore and loses momentum, yah well, Eddie rocks them.

Highlights:

Man of the Hour, Driftin', TYYAM w/ Liam, Masters of War, Let My Love Open the Door, the NEW SONG!, Blackbird, Lukin and Motherfucking PORCH!!!

EV teasing DTE the first night and RVM the second when someone shouted for it.. doing the guitar behind his head and everything. He's been taking guitar lessons with Mike McCready ;-) And Mike is doing fine, he's still handsome (erm, or something like that).

People that ask for attention need to DIE. Sit you ass down Eddie does not need to see you act as a conductor during Small Town. Although, that idiot STFU after he got a beer. But for real, if it isnt people yelling stupid shit, its them still competeing with "I can wave my arms more than you can!" Youre clearly over 35: GROW UP.

The guy who got his kid pulled up on stage was a real douche. No one wanted to see your dumb ass walk out on stage. The girl looked petrified and hardly looked at the crowd. Apparently this is the new way to live through your children: bring them to a Pearl Jam or related show, have band members spot them and give them items off the stage like tambourines or guitar plects, so that you can feel gratified your ugly mug didnt get anything. Seriously?

Playing "Ooh Boston!" was entertaining too.

Liam and EJ: Aside from the fact they are RAD, how cute were they the second night drinking water because they were still hung over from the night before.. At 8pm. I know Aussies go hard.. The first night they both had a glass of red wine.

oh, and I got in trouble during Trouble.. (haha) for taking photos with no flash. Second song in, I am told I will have to check my camera I say I will stop and put it away. Asshole venue security says that if he sees it again I will be kicked out. Two people in front of me have a cell phone and/ or a camera using flash out for the rest of the show. WTF? Yah, its fucking rude to use flash so I wasnt. Everyone else WAS and got to keep their cameras.

here's TR watching that poser 'we need money so lets have a reunion' band aka. rage against our bank accounts, at Lolla today. is it weird that the second thing i noticed about this photo is 'hey, there's Pete!'



lots of not so much going on recently. three people i know decided to fly to chicago this morning.. from buffalo. i am jealous they have cars to get themselves to america and the land of cheaper domestic travel that leaving from my local airport. these guys decided on wednesday that it would be fun to go to chicago for the long weekend. when i found this out last night i was thinking, good on ya for finally seeing my way of thinking: "hey, lets go to < insert city here > um, now!" anyways, they left at 7am to get to the border and make sure they got into america in time for their flight.

my brother and his gf left this morning just after 6.. so my Dad tells me, i was fast asleep.. with the intention of missing border queues as well. i think they made it across without any dramas because at 10:30 am they were just north of pittsburg ready for a full day of shopping.

tonight i had a most random aural craving of listening to REM. instead of just d/l'ing albums i went to go find my cds. what a completely foreign concept these days to go back to those silver discs.

my kick ass long weekend involves my usual of procrastinating and working on my totally awesome thesis. booyaa. beat that people who actually leave their houses!

when i was editing drafts in february.. yes THAT long ago, M used to marvel at how marked up they were. maybe i am that stupud. this is either draft 3 or 4 of a result chapter, that has been corrected multiple times already. i literally LOLed at this because i wasnt expecting it to be this penciled over.




best comments on everything i got in the mail today include:

"this paragraph is completely elusive- what is the point?"
"this is an unfortunate choice of terminology."

thank goodness my hormones are at a low point this week. two weeks ago was one of the worst weeks in my life, i would not be able to handle that again.