Beginning of 3rd Week

I've been procrastinating working on a real language sample analysis mainly b/c my kiddo is incredibly unintelligible. I didn't even know where to start so my cool prof/clinic supervisor asked, "didn't you guys have to buy a LSA book before?" I answered "no" too soon as she pulled a purple-covered textbook off her shelf. "Oh, yeah! That one! I, um...sold it." "What! You sold a COMD textbook?!" She actually said it in a joking tone, but I got the point...Thank God she lent me hers.

That was no drama compared to the other drama I've been dealing with this quarter. I'm not going to delve into the drama with Crazy Prof (just yet). Mind you, it's only the end of 2nd week, too. I have a new Diagnostics (Dx) supervisor, and I accidentally spelled her last name wrong in an e-mail. Boy did I strike a nerve.

In one e-mail, she wrote, "By the way, you need to know how to spell my name!" Sorry, lady!

So in a subsequent e-mail addressed to my Dx team, she purposely spelled my name wrong. I wouldn't've thought it was intentional except that she has correctly referred to me by my first name before. In this e-mail, she referred to my two classmates by their first names, but kept referring to me by my last name. Fine. Not fine is that she kept writing, "Lianne."

Uh, ok.

Nonetheless, I've learned that even when people overstep professional boundaries, it is still best to remain professional, so I apologized for misspelling her last name and politely asked that she refer to me by my (correct) first name. I didn't even mention how she kept getting my name wrong during our first meeting.

Signed,
Andrea Lianne