the internets are dangerous, very dangerous
Let this be a warning to all of you. I found a funny website today and wanted to share it with everyone so I went to Blogger, logged in, and posted away. I was especially pleased because I figured out how to embed a link within text. And the website I wanted to point out to all of you is pretty funny. About a 6 on a 1-10 Internet-funny scale.
So around an hour later, I was all on my way to orchestra practice and I had five minutes to kill, so I checked my email. There, amid work and Barbara emails was a brief note from Katie (tall Katie) with the subject line "ummmmmm...Deborah?" and a message asking if I really meant to post an informal entry on the HISTORY OF AMERICAN LIBRARIANSHIP CLASS BLOG that began "ooooooooh, ladies" and ended with a link to the new blog of a late eighties pop-rap star.
I freaked out, as you can imagine. I went to the CLASS BLOG and couldn't alter the entry so I freaked out some more and emailed my PROFESSOR and asked him to please excuse my unprofessional post and delete it if he could. Then, just imagining all of my classmates viewing the inadvertant post knocked some sense into me. So I went back to Blogger, logged in (my previous missing step), and deleted the post. And of course I had to go back to my email and send another message to PROF.D. asking him to ignore my previous email and telling him that the CLASS BLOG was all good. That's right, Katie, bless her little heart, saved me from complete and total academic humiliation so I would like to send all of my props to her.
Here is the link to the funny website [note the link embedded in the text]: I invite you all to stop work for some Hammer Time. I'm afraid it's not worth all of the hype detailed above.
The moral of this post is: don't be stupid. And if you are stupid, don't email your professor before you have exhausted all other options.
4 comments:
You know you're sad--no strike that--really bored at work when you not only check this blog for updates but also the boring blog about the History of American Librarianship for updates. Glad my boredome saved you from academic humiliation...what are fellow librarians for? :)
deborah, that link could have related in some way to this week's discussion of race and gays in the history of librarianship! mister hammer posted his own lyrics about freedom and how he won't give up on his life... i could see some parallels to librarianship (we women who do "nurturing" work won't give it! it's our lives!). but now, sadly, we'll never know where the discussion could have gone...
by the way, could you tell me the secret to embedding a link within text?
mister hammer.
*snicker*
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