don't cross the streams!

* I hate group work on school projects. This is bad news because apparently I am going to be doing a lot of them. I don't think I'd done any since high school before this. I was a math major as an undergrad and that's a keep-your-eyes-on-your-own-paper field of study outside of tutoring and my first masters degree didn't involve any, probably because they assumed we were grown-ups working full time and did not need that kind of crap. But twenty years (in the workforce being on committees) later, I'm stuck learning how to collaborate because this program is making no such assumptions.

I'm a misanthropic control freak with high standards and low tolerance for stupidity, which in theory is the worst possible combination for teamwork. In practice, though, people at work are generally happy to cede control of things so long as they look good in the end. Here, I have to play nice and it's making me nuts.


* The instructor for a webinar I participated in had all sorts of fannish sites on her browser bookmark bar -- tumblr, DW, ao3 -- and I was a little distracted by it. Do I know this person in my fannish life? Also, I keep my fannish life and RL separate and this person is at least unashamed to be seen as fannish and I'm not sure if that speaks well of her or poorly of me that I marveled at that.