Ugh, I did a completely idiotic thing.

chatelaine
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:58:41 +0000

I had a very cool prof for a class during my fall semester - we’ll call her “Sue” – and had her again THIS semester for another course. We got along really well, always chatted before class, exchanged e-mails a few times (she was really helpful on giving me some pointers on my degree track, etc etc). I had to WD from her class this semester, unfortunately, and when I e-mailed her to let her know, I mentioned that she had turned up in my People You Might Know list on FB and that I added her - but didn’t mind in the least if she ignored me, since I’d understand a prof not wanting to add students on a sosh networking site.

Long story short, she added me back, I really didn’t think much more of it until yesterday when I came across an interesting article and thought “Huh, I bet Sue would like to see this, I’ll drop it on her FB wall.” Went to her profile and… you guessed it, found that I was blocked from her FB.

I wracked my brain trying to figure out what I did, and my most likely guess is that I curse in casual conversation, A LOT. I mean, I’m pretty sure I’ve set the world record for dropping the F-bomb, especially if I’m raging about something or other at the time. I’ve obviously NEVER done that while talking to Sue, but I let it fly pretty openly on my FB updates. Thing is, Sue is a really sweet, sort of timid woman, and I think my language totally made her go ‘ew ***’ and hit the block button. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a general f-list trimming bc I’m 90% positive her number of friends is the same as when she added me (I noted it back then because I was surprised at the number).

Here’s the question: I really do respect Sue enormously as a prof and adviser and had planned on asking her to be my adviser as I had PLANNED on taking more of her courses in the future. Now I feel completely weird and awkward, and want to know: Should I do what my gut says and just basically avoid her from here on out? I’m pretty positive I don’t have to take any of her classes unless the other profs teaching the same courses don’t have any slots left, and that’s unlikely. I just don’t want to deal with an entire semester(s) worth of awkward interaction - it was obviously incredibly stupid to add her on FB and it’s not a mistake I’ll make again - but tell me, CC: What say you?