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Yayness! [livejournal.com profile] herne_kzn and his Lovely Companion are returning to Cape Town in the near future! The LC apparently has a job in Gardens, and the Dynamic Duo are looking for a flat in that approximate vicinity. Please would Capetonians keep their ears to the ground for likely opportunities? You can leave (non-lewd) suggestions on [livejournal.com profile] herne_kzn's blog or litter the comments here with them.

Gawsh, I'm glad it's Friday. The grad list went up this week, and I've thereafter seen a small, sad trickle of students who, in blissful ignorance of the giant gaping holes in their curriculum choice, fondly imagined they were graduating. Number of students in tears in my office this week: three. Number of insoluble curriculum screw-ups: four. Threats of legal action: one. (Futile, they sign taking liability for their choices whenever they register, thereby acknowledging that curriculum advisors are only human and occasionally miss the aforementioned giant gaping holes). Number of screw-ups for which I was personally responsible, at least as unearthed this week: none, fortunately.

Back to the loving hyper-linguistic arms of The Middleman! Goofy Middleman Exclamations Du Jour: "Katy bar the door!" "As serious as a Hefty bag full of Rottweilers!" "Grapes of Wrath!" "Gobsmackit!" "Aw, phooey!" "Hands across America!" "Sands of Zanzibar!" "Guns of Navarone!" and the perennial favourite, "Dagnabbit!" Bonus pun points for "I've got an heir-lock" and "Elemental, my dear Watson", and sf geek cred for the Frank Herbert Junior High School.

Date: Friday, 18 September 2009 09:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tngr-spacecadet.livejournal.com
Some friends just sent out an email ad for their flat, so I forwarded it to you to pass on.

Date: Friday, 18 September 2009 10:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] extemporanea.livejournal.com
The incredible power of Teh Internets! thank you, much appreciated.

Date: Friday, 18 September 2009 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bend-gules.livejournal.com
The grad list went up this week, and I've thereafter seen a small, sad trickle of students who, in blissful ignorance of the giant gaping holes in their curriculum choice, fondly imagined they were graduating.

I have a recurring dream/nightmare in which I'm back in university, and have somehow both left out a required course until my last year, AND neglected to attend for the first six weeks of term.

Details vary - sometimes it's an essay-per-week course, and so now I'm several essays behind; other times I have to visit the most soulless and humourless prof I encountered in university to beg permission to join the course.

Sometimes I've forgotten to take a course at all, and cannot graduate.

I'm not sure how I feel to find out that this actually happens.

Date: Monday, 21 September 2009 06:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] extemporanea.livejournal.com
I fear it does. Unacceptably often, even. You would be amazed at the extent to which students wilfully resist absorbing basic, vital information. I've taking to emailing the entire undergraduate cohort in the faculty on important deadlines, but they ignore that too. Sigh. I'm sure you were far more organised.

Date: Saturday, 19 September 2009 06:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] veratiny.livejournal.com
I always have these dream of having to go back to high school and re take my matric--including the afrikaanse exam. I was smarter at exams back then so it is not a good dream!

I missed my graduation the first time around thanks to huge gaping holes in my transcript (I must have had one of those human advisors). Still it ended up being for the best as I realised that I had done a history major backwards (3rd year in 2nd, 2nd year in 3rd). So six months later doing two cushy first year subjects I had a double major. Sometimes these things are for the best--part of the reason I got my current job (which I love) is thanks to that history major.

So when they cry and gnash their teeth...you can know that for at least some of them it will be the best thing that could have happened!

Date: Monday, 21 September 2009 06:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] extemporanea.livejournal.com
The difficulty is in persuading a 22-year old that in fact one extra year is nothing in the greater scheme of things, and will offer, as you say, all sorts of lovely extra opportunities. When you're under 25 a year is apparently several decades and not to be borne.

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