Monday, December 05, 2005

Factually correct?

So I submitted the first draft of a paper to my SM last Thursday for her to check if I'm on the right track and make suggestions where necessary.
I just got it back. It's been reformatted, which I think is a waste of time because it isn't complete and I prefer to tidy up the format at the very end instead. But I can deal with that, it's not my time that was wasted anyway.
What I can't deal with is that my SM has added, in blue and couched in parentheses, next to every single factual detail and statistic, the comment: (Factually correct?)
Factually correct?!?
This phrase appears no less than THIRTY times in 16 pages, I shit you not.
I mean, does my SM think that these details and figures randomly pop into my head putting in motion an involuntary chain of events that culminate in the content of the report? Or perhaps she thinks my fingers are just the instruments of an unseen being, like God or the Devil or maybe even Leprechauns, and that I have been completely unaware of the fact that I had actually prepared a report and submitted it for approval...
Oh oh wait ... ouch... there's just something I need to grab out of my arse right now... oh looky here, it's a table of percentages... maybe I should just try to pop that into my next report?
Save me.

1 comment:

sternstadt said...

LOL your SM's a total douchebag!