Urgent: In need of a clue or two...

Student emailing me ad nauseum over several days and with more and more exasperation at my not helping her since on her view of WebCT there was no sign of the code I kept telling them they needed to keep handy for access to the online workbook. I described and redescribed where it was located on the WebCT page, each time with a mention that she should just come to office hours and look at it with me in person. Finally she comes in and I show her the code which is indeed there on every single student's view...

"Well in my defense, on my computer it was below the bottom of the screen."
"Well, in my defense, I didn't know I needed to teach Scrolldowns 101."

Student absent for the last 3 class periods, the latest of which was our first chapter test, came up at the end of class today... (Note lack of explanatory preamble re: why she missed.)

"Hi! I wanted to know when I could make up Wednesday's vocab quiz." (my italics)
"Um, you can't. Review the syllabus absence excuse guidelines. While you're at it review the syllabus itself which will tell you we had no vocab quiz at all. Instead you can read about the chapter test you missed, which you can't make up either."

Of course I didn't answer this way - but in a perfect world I would have the right to. (Tho, for the record, the non-excuse girl really is SOL for the test make-up.) Then again I wouldn't have used my perfect world responses in a perfect world either because they wouldn't have been so slack and presumptuous in the first place.

Ah well... In a way it's good it took this long for anyone to spark my blogbug - maybe it means there's hope yet. In another way it's good someone finally did - kinda comforting to know the world isn't coming to an end or anything.