- Today, in class, I discovered that I'd prepared all the slides for NEXT week's weekly seminar, not this week's seminar. oops! Wishing the trimester away... well, I am. Aren't we all?
- Doomscrolling is so tempting, but it's not helpful. But the news is so bad...
- As a tutor I was asked today to reach out to Ukrainian- origin students in our department, which went smoothly but was still an extra bit of emotional energy from a nearly empty pot. This is the sort of tiny thing that students need, that matter, but that have no value in the career sense...
- I hate that I envy people who are at institutions where the union met the threshold to take action. I know it's hard, but when I actually want the opportunity to get off the hamster wheel, even at the cost of pay deductions, it's not a good sign. The signs in general are not great.
- Also any ideas what is with students who refuse to attend online and say they will ONLY attend in person sessions? (I asked their views about moving one, 9am, seminar (on the "bad day" after the uni club night no less) online in a module which has a lot of on campus content coming up, because attendance at in person has been POOR - around 40%, and often with only one word contributions however hard I try to make space for students to speak and make it easy - low attendance REALLY doesn't help). I get they're tired of online, but why would you just not attend?
- My sister's birthday today, and my nibling made her a cake in secret, and she's adopted a new (adult, sad story, very needy and very much in need of her expertise) dog, who is getting on really well with the current family dog. I'm so glad she had a great day, nice things may be tiny in the individual but they MATTER.
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What WAS I doing? RBOC
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