More from the Virgin!challenge

[icarus]

More from the sga_flashfic virgin challenge. This is nice steamy PWP, and I like the idea of John keeping such an extraordinary secret.

At The Violet Hour by linaerys, NC-17, John/Rodney

John takes a poll. "What if you were changed into a woman? What would you do?"

I'm hungry for more of these.


"I hate group projects" revisited

Do any of you gamble? I'm taking bets.

The history:

- We had one initial group meeting.
- I postponed one Thursday meeting to Saturday (midterms, cancer in the family).
- She no-showed on Saturday due to an emergency (key locked in a theatre). I was left standing in the rain, though that was largely WG's fault. We postponed that meeting to Tuesday.
- Tuesday she asked if we could postpone to Thursday.
- I was 15 minutes late Thursday.

Received an email from her that she was "at the meeting place now and I can't wait any longer."

Trouble is, the email was an obvious fake sent three hours after the time she was claiming she was writing. Unbelievable. The date stamp is a field that will update to the time you sent it, you can't copy and paste a fake one into an email. One: the field will update; the time on her "4:50pm" email was 7:49pm. Two: not every email program uses the same type of date stamp; my gmail program doesn't even use that format.

I've lost all respect for her and her excuses. But we still have a presentation to do, and all I care about is that she comes through.

- She postponed our meeting to Tuesday.
- I sent her an email saying "yes, Tuesday, great" but we clearly have an administrative problem since we've both missed meetings, let's get together on class break Tuesday to work it out. Is the location a problem? In the interim, let's work on our presentations separately and paste them together later.
- Tuesday she was not in class. I got an email (in plenty of time before our meeting) saying that her personal life was a mess. She postponed to Thursday.

Here's the bet: Today's Thursday, but oh shit, she wasn't in class today. Our meeting is in half an hour.

So a show of hands.

Who thinks she'll be here?

Who thinks I'm wasting my time waiting?

Place your odds folks.

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Well, I did mention the fake datestamp on the email but he's very hands-off when it comes to groups. As far as he's concerned it all comes down to group relationships, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

*sighs*

Icarus

[chrissie-m.livejournal.com]

Which only makes sense to me if learning about group dynamics is one of the stated goals of the course, and reporting on how well or how badly the group worked is part of the project.

Otherwise, that's a load of crap.

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think you're now at the point where in your shoes I'd be devoting lots of effort to a thorough revamping of the group project, to the tune of "The project as assigned was impossible to complete due to the unavailability of my partner. However, in its place I've prepared this abstract titled Absenteeism: The Breakdown of Personal Responsibility in the Post-Millenial Workplace and Its Negative Effects on Productivity and Community. My partner was kind enough to provide a wide assortment of examples for use in this treatise."

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of discussing the impact of absentee voters on the democratic process. Because I really am seeing how when no one shows up, the people who do just shrug and do whatever the hell they want.

Icarus