One week to go. Many sighs
Trying to keep my footing in de Nile; every time I start thinking about anything beyond the immediate, or being back in person, and I just can't get work done. Requires some strange mental gymnastics...
View ArticleOnce more into the breach
We start welcome week tomorrow.The weekend has been the usual blur of students with issues, can't access the welcome week timetable, didn't plan to return to university until Thursday even though we...
View ArticleWell that was... interesting (random bullets of the first week back with...
working on campus is seriously cutting into my work time - between the commuting and the time wasted to being knackered from dealing with people and the anxiety, I'm strugglingI managed three days of...
View ArticleWhy do we always think it will get better soon, but it never does?
I am so tired of team teaching and having to be the mother hen. Especially when people agree to do stuff then make drama and expect special praise for actually doing it even if its tiny, or agree then...
View ArticleTheory and reality in HE administrivia
As part of my current administrative roles I'm invited to monthly training events and am "strongly encouraged" to attend at lesat some of them (they're on Wednesday afternoon which is sports/no...
View ArticleHallowe'en
My nibling has always been really into Hallowe'en even though it's barely noticed in our family traditions - the dressing up and the sweets at first, and then the general gothic and gore and...
View ArticleBreaking my own rules
...and blogging via my university issued lap top. Because I didn't get around to swapping them out (no D&D for two weekends running because of busy teens which removes the driver, & I...
View ArticleOn a brighter side...
We did get to play D&D today (even if it was partly because one of my players has Covid and was not well enough/allowed to go out and do anything else but felt like she wanted the distraction of a...
View ArticleWe trundle on
Fluffball has (re)discovered that the radiator is delightfully hot and that he can tuck himself almost under one of the downstairs ones completely out of the way of all draughts. He has also...
View ArticleForgetting things
Forgot to blog last week when I had my personal laptop out.Found last year's Christmas cards, written and stamped, but unsent.Writing lists of lists in hopes of not forgetting other things.End of...
View Articleso nearly nearly nearly there...
Hello blogworld. I am nearly at winter break. SO NEARLY. Teaching ended on Friday just gone, but I am working Monday and Tuesday. Partly that was to give me a proper weekend (I had a dental...
View ArticleHappy Christmas Eavesdroppings
I've mentioned before that my house has no front yard, and is on a quite busy street connecting two different shopping areas, so there are a lot of people moving through and it's almost impossible NOT...
View ArticleNew year, Old Meme, reused title...
See also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011.That was a year, and this will be a dull meme [said that before! But for some reason I still find this sort of thing...
View ArticleIn which the cracks are really obvious
We forgot a module. Collectively, forgot to request timetabling for it last Spring, forgot to check for it in December, forgot it. A small module, but still... And it's all just Too Much.We aren't...
View ArticleIn which I am Very Tired and I Whine
Well that was a rather rubbish week. I'm really tired, not sleeping well, overwhelmed, and probably having allergies (it's very early, but also very mild climatically after a cold spell, and some...
View ArticleTeaching starts tomorrow
and I am not ready... (well, I'm ready for tomorrow, which is something? Even if it is just tutorial?)Also Fluffball keeps sitting on my arm, my mouse (with my hand on it), my keyboard keypad - but...
View ArticleDownsides to working from home
Things that (very very rarely*) happen when on campus:I'm on a call with an upset student - just as they burst into tears, I hear That Ominous Noise from behind me, the one all cat-owners recognise,...
View ArticleMy cat is weird
Had a day on campus last week. First I got up earlier than normal and fed Fluffball early - he was pleased but also confused so mixed EATING breakfast with YELLING for breakfast which is what he'd...
View ArticleWhat WAS I doing? RBOC
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...
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