I'm currently struggling with writing assignments in grad school as well as trying to write report cards, so therefore I suddenly had an urge to post something here. I wonder why....
Anyway, I was working on report cards, when I noticed one of these "smart tags" appear under the word "ART" on the student checklist. These are little letter i's that appear under names and things in Microsoft Word. Apparently, they are supposed to be useful, but they are basically distracting to me and I see them and end up posting here or doing some other thing that keeps me from continuing to work.
Now, why would an "i with a circle" - which is how I think of them - appear under ART? Would it give me a link to the Metropolitan Museum of ART, the Louvre, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, etc???
Nope.
It gives me links to stock quotes and financial exchanges. It looks like a bunch of these companies say ART in their titles!
I'm not so desparate (yet) to see what these companies are really about. Although you could ask me in a week closer to the report card due date and see if I have.
Is this the sign of the times? Art is reduced to stock quotes???
Perhaps there's a paper for grad school in this somewhere, after all....
