Daily parking

Fog, fog everywhere.

Unfortunately, as I start teaching at 8:00 am on Thursday, I didn't have time to go picture-hunting.

This awesome tree grows right by the edge of the asphalt parking lot across the street from Thompson Hall, a short walk from my university "home."

This week just sucks. Not only am I busy from sunrise till cows come home, so are HD and LM. I feel like I haven't REALLY seen either one for eternity. Tomorrow they are camping, while I am participating in a recruiting event for my college...

HD ran into an unpleasant situation yesterday. One of his past students has committed some serious  intellectual theft by claiming credit for other students' work on her "professional" website. She is interviewing for an academic position at our alma mater, and though HD was not listed as one of her references, of course our old profs contacted him to talk about her.

Her CV is bogus, filled with stuff she never did, and her landscape designer website consists of other people's work which she claims as her own. HD is justly livid, and considering what steps to take to address her lies and deception.

It's such a strange world, the world of ideas. One of the projects she claims as hers was done as a course requirement by her classmate, D, a licensed landscape architect, who was getting his master's degree alongside her to be able to teach part time. HD contacted him just to make sure he had nothing to do with the situation. Needless to say,  D is ready to flatten her, as she is stealing his very real daily bread from him by taking credit for his designs. He has no idea how she got a hold of his work to proudly feature it on her website, which may mean this whole scheme begun while she was in school (she graduated a few years back). She may have gotten a hold of his electronic drawing files by simply walking over to his computer and copying them in his absence.

Inconceivable.