The Redheaded Penguin

Photos for the past few weeks should be posted sometime soon… I have them, but haven’t had the time to get the cropped/resized/etc and posted. But, I got this email today and just had to say something somewhere… I’ve change the names to help protect the guilty…

04/15/2008

Mr. Mark Turner
Texas State University San Marcos
Psychology Dept
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666-4685

Dear Mr. Turner,

Please let me know if you are looking for a textbook for
your Summer/Fall courses, or if you need supplements for
any ****** textbooks that you are currently
using. There are approximately 3 weeks left of the
semester!

Enjoy your week,

Okay… Just a few things… First, it’s Dr. not Mr. If you’re going to try and get me to commit to using books from your company, please get my title correct. I don’t use it often, but I did earn it. Still, I could overlook this. Second, I don’t spell my name with a ‘k’, so going back to the first point… if you aren’t going to get my title correct, you should at least spell my name correctly. And yeah, there are only 3 weeks left in the semester. In fact, textbook requests were due in over a month ago. So, if you wanted me to consider books you might have for my courses, you probably should have contacted me a few months ago rather than waiting until the last minute.