When I started back up at Marist, I added a bunch of students' LiveJournals into NetNewsWire. I figured, as a commuter, I wasn't necessarily going to have the best grasp of "the pulse of the campus" as it were, and reading a bunch of fellow students' blogs would be a decent way to keep my ear-to-the-ground so to speak.
This morning, I read an entry from a female student who was excited about her new summer job with the Marist IT department, that was probably going to end up being a school-year position as well. Her excitement and enthusiasm were completely understandable. I remembered getting my first real gig in the IT industry, and how happy I felt about that.
She also said, though, that she felt this pride/fear thing because she was going to be the "first female student IT employee ever," and wondered what it would be like breaking new ground like that, etc., etc.
I posted a comment, asking who had told her that, because back in the 90s, I knew of two different female student IT employees, implying that someone who had talked to her was misinformed. After all, it's entirely possible if she's getting into IT, that she might some day run into the woman who was the first female student IT employee, and that might be awkward.
She gets all shitty about "why am I reading her LJ?" blah blah blah. Her boyfriend chimes in, equally shitty. And it's funny to me because I haven't said an unkind thing to or about her, and yet she feels the only recourse she has is to try and find things to insult me about in return. In other words, because I have seemingly shattered her world-view that she's the Rosa Parks of Marist Female Students, I am now some sort of villain.
Too fucking funny, I tell ya. People need to have the sticks surgically removed from their asses or something.
I'm just happy we have people like you to put dimwits in their place before they actually make it into the real world :)
Incidentally, can't you have a typekey sign in before I hit preview? After I've signed in I have to type the comment again if I forgot to copy it before clicking sign in? Please.
I've never had the time to fuck around with the TK stuff in the "comments" template. If you view the individual archive template (e.g., by clicking the permalink) it works spiffily.
Maybe at some point, I'll have enough ambition to get it sorted out. Unfortunately, the default templates from MT *still* seem to only have the TK stuff in the comment template if TK is *required*.
Permalink way is fine. Never tried it that way.
That's funny... Once I figure out who that is, I'll make sure to make fun of them.... wait a sec... I bet she's going to be working in Networking. Oh good lord. If she can't handle someone asking questions she is definitly not going to last long in Networking.
She can't even say that she will be the first female student in Networking either. I remember the last one.
Reminds me of something that was said during an interview one time:
Interviewee to Only Female in room: "How do you feel having a male dominated department (IT)?"
Response: "Well considering that 85% of the mgmt in IT is female, and females outnumber the males, I feel fine"
I think people have always been morons. Tell her not to put her life online if she doesn't want *everyone* to read it. It's not like you read her diary (or maybe you did, and she's just dumb enough to put it in LiveJournal :)).