Scheduling!Fail ... and Merlin

Jess is - Aggravated!Dalek

Some important things you should know to understand my irritation and strange/unhealthy desire to EXTERMINATE things:

1. I love lists. This is not relevant, but you should know that I'll be using them often.
2. Its Friday, specifically Friday morning.
3. I used to have a 9 am class, but have recently dropped said class in favor of my sanity.
4. I'm running participants for my senior thesis in psychology. We're aiming for 70-80.
5. Number 49 was supposed to come in Monday, originally, and rescheduled for 10 am today.
6. I wanted to sleep in. (Silly Merlin was distracting me from finishing my grading in a timely manner last night...)
   
7. Number 50 (1 pm today) was supposed to come in Tuesday, and then yesterday, and missed both of them without any prior notice.
8. I thoroughly dislike it when people waste my time. The only person who can waste my time is me, darn it!
9. I slept through my phone alarm (thank goodness for Nicole's, or I really would have been late!) but as such slept through when I could have eaten breakfast.
   
10. Number 49 is currently more than half an hour late and counting.
11. I can't go get vending-machine!poptarts until I know 49 is definitely not showing.
12. I could be asleep right now.

So, folks, what do you think - is common courtesy too much to ask these days? Its not like we're asking all that much of our participants - come into the lab at your assigned time, do ridiculously boring tasks for half an hour, and tell us if you were suspicious of anything before you leave. For this, they get all kinds of extra credit and chances to win money and good karma!

Did I not do enough studies as an underclassman? Maybe this is just karma laughing in my face because we kept joking about it while writing up the proposal for this study last semester. Please, karma - don't be mad at me!!!

I'm actually mostly just using this post to vent my wrath before I email 49 and tell said participant that 1) they will have no further chances to reschedule because technically we're supposed to do part 2 (lab portion) within 5-7 days of beginning part 1 (email survey thing) .... so we won't be able to use their data if we wait past today, and 2) I now have to dock extra credit from their account for not showing up (they know about this already - I just experience unholy glee in reminding them... because they're wasting my time). I don't want to be too snarky in this email, just in case they have a legitimate reason for not attending which would make me feel like a terrible person. But damnit, I just want to snark!

Maybe a change of topic would be good.

Watched some more Merlin last night while conspicuously not grading the homeworks I was supposed to... and there was an awesome moment with the sneaky evil!sorcerer character (played by Pippin from Keen Eddie) who does his while diabolical rant to paralyzed!Uther about why he's going to kill him (....like you do), sounding very much like Inigo from Princess Bride. (look at all the references I'm making! glee.)

Evil!Sorcerer: Hello, my name is... actually, my name is kind of wimpy and unimposing so we're going to forget that one.
Paralyzed!Uther: *blink*
Evil!Sorcerer: You killed my mom! .... and my dad! ... actually you basically killed everybody, you psychopath!
Paralyzed!Uther: -__- (I would be throwing a tantrum right now.... if I could move!!!)
Evil!Sorcerer: Prepare to die! .... slowly, and painfully. I'll watch.
Paralyzed!Uther: *blink!!*
Evil!Sorcerer: ....beetle?

Ah... I feel strangely better. And its after 11 so 49 is out of luck. Polite, snark-less email time. *grumble*

- Jess

** Awesome Dalek icons credited to Alden from tetrap.com. **

EDIT: 1 pm (waiting for the new #49 to show up *crosses fingers*) ... apparently it was Lancelot (*giggles* .... he lances.... a lot) that we were originally comparing to Inigo Montoya last night. but I think Edwin the evil sorcerer works just fine too... and is possibly funnier. I mean, seriously - we can't use the beetle line with Lancelot!

EDIT: 1:20 pm - still waiting. R yelled at the 10 am and apparently she's coming in at 2. We shall see. Attempting to use my time productively...while sitting in plain view of the door in case 49 does show, trying to catch up on a project of mine that I am very, very far behind on. I would much rather be on the computer, but I'm afraid this room can only be seen by half of the door *rolls eyes* and if someone is not seriously committed to this study, they'll just keep walking. grmph.

EDIT: 2 pm - the original 49 is here! I guess R is very scary when threatening people with bodily harm. Bwahahahaha.