Anya ,'Empty Places'
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Gudanov, Windsparrow and beth are my brother and sisters in the posting policy. Unless it's a long conversation, and at this case I'd probably come up with an apology, but IMO, all posts, even in conversations, are a chance to talk about something new/interesting.
~ma to erin.
House~ma, Erin!
Oof, I'm tired. Alarm is going to go off in five hours. Ick. But I'm excited for the first day of classes since I've been back at school without the kidlets for two and a half weeks. So much more fun when the students show up! I'm even pretty well prepared for once.
And in YAY! news, Drew and I booked our wedding reception/party tonight! As you know, our actual wedding will be in Maui on January 5th, but now we have a date and time for the big par-tay for friends and family. It will be January 23rd at Ramsey's at the Club in Toluca Lake. We'll be sending out official save-the-dates in a few weeks, but you've all got the inside scoop. I am so relieved that the big details are now worked out. Phew.
Yay Kristin!
And Good luck to all buffista teachers!
Kristin, that place looks positively gorgeous. Congrats!
It will be January 23rd at Ramsey's at the Club in Toluca Lake.Ooo! That is the day after opening!! I might be able to escape TX to attend! Oooo!! :: crosses fingers ::
ION - CraxyRightWingUncle has struck again. I replied with a polite e-mail saying fear mongering is bad. Research information before blindly forwarding e-mails. We'll see how he takes that. I will say, he has been pretty good for about a month now on not forwarding anti-Obama e-mails. Apparently he calls my sister and tells her to forward them to me so I get them. Thankfully, she is smart enough to see the e-mails are BS and doesn't.
Happy Back-To-School Day, teachers! (I miss teaching most on the first day of the school year.)
A lot of the jobs that are looking for new Ph.D.s are adjunct positions
That's the case over here too. Lots of time-limited contracts. Universities are having funding problems. Hence my struggle to find PhD funding, too...
I don't mind popping in something totally non-related. I accept the fact that sometimes my post will slip beneath the waves unnoticed, the price to pay for the freeform thread.
And me.
Talking of which posting policy: I am going abroad tomorrow. This is great, but I'm worrying about the flight. We always have extremely difficult arguments with check-in people about whether or not I'm going to get a seat near the front. There is no way to reserve in advance, our travel agent doesn't know what their seat booking policy is, and we can't get through to the airline. Nyagh.
Also, I saw myself in the photos that people took of the Greenbelt festival, and now I remember that I *really* need to lose weight. Sigh.
I replied with a polite e-mail saying fear mongering is bad.
You are a very restrained person.
our travel agent doesn't know what their seat booking policy is
Isn't that her job to know this kind of information, or find out for you?
Isn't that her job to know this kind of information, or find out for you?
Our usual one is on business away from the office. Her replacement doesn't know and can't find out, apparently. He had a vague idea about some seats possibly being held for disabled people on a first come, first served basis. Which is fine, as long as they aren't allocated to other people before we arrive. Hmph. *worry*
Seriously, the fun I've had with check-in people and flight staff over the EU flight regulations relating to disabled people. We've actually been told outright "That law is not our policy. We have a policy about disabled people and this is it," regarding sitting me where they bloody well like. If they said that about health and safety law, there'd be rather a lot of trouble...
Seriously, Seska, this is outrageous. Is The Girl a lawyer, by any chance?
Heh. No, The Girl is not a lawyer, although she's recently taken some law courses because she's interested in discrimination law. It gives us just enough knowledge to tell people what the law is, but not enough to make them enforce it.
The disability law situation varies a lot across the EU. Ireland, where I travel a lot, has some infrastructure issues because of only recently becoming economically more developed, but the attitudes at Dublin airport are always overwhelmingly better than at London Heathrow. Similarly with the States - my experiences improve drastically from the moment the plane hits US soil. In this case, since I haven't been to Spain since I've been using a wheelchair, I've no idea what the situation will be. But I don't expect it to be great on this side of the world :/ Oh well - all part of the travel adventure. Sort of.