i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
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the funniest thing ever just happened! (it's at least on my top-10 list of highly ironic tales).
sandy parsons was the very first instructor i worked with here and she asked me to copy another instructor's course to use for hers. i asked if she had permission and she yelled (i swear i am not exaggerating; i had worked here for 2 days) at me for not knowing that all the college of ed instructors had an "understanding" to use each other's materials. i chalked that one up to institutional culture and left it alone (at usc, i would have asked for a form from the original instructor saying it was okay).
today, sandy walks in and asks if i've given guest access to an instructor who had asked for it. and she wasn't happy to learn this new instructor had asked for a copy of the course to use for her own. fortunately, i had not yet done any work on that course and so sandy was going to "speak" with the instructor about it and send me an email telling me what to do next.