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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I love travelling with people, but when you're on your own, it's easier to say "Screw the schedule!" and take an afternoon off, or change plans to spend longer at the museum/park/country lane or whatever.
Wish I could have gone with the Ecuador tour, but financial prudence won out -- I'm living on my savings at this point.
Woo! The doctor made his morning rounds at the hospital and kicked mom out! She is on her way home.
Good news, Laura!
Have a great trip, shrift and brenda!
I hope you can find some relief, ita.
Excellent news, Laura.
I've been told by the physician's assistant to go to the ER, which just made me start crying more.
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Oh, ita. I'm so sorry. I hope they can do something for you at the ER.
JFC -- I just went to talk to a colleague because I had seen that she was heading up some effort around diversity here (which is terrible), and she said that she and others had been surprised to see their names attached to it. Which means that somehow ("somehow") three of the ~5 black people here were publicly assigned to "diversity" without being aware of it.
That has happened here too. But now, I think we are down to one black faculty member (and 3 staff members).
It is also weird, because we are in nursing, so one of our biggest "issues" is around how to recruit more men! I would recruit them by letting them know that they will move up the latter more rapidly than I have ever seen anywhere (we have one second career male student that took only 3 years to become senior leadership at a hospital)! It is bananas. It even happens to the men who start as secretaries.
ita- I am so sorry. This is just awful.
ita, I hope the ER give you some relief and isn't also a PITA.
Brenda, pix, ND, Godspeed and have great holidays. I'm sure you will love Ireland pix.
Great news on your mom, Laura.
I just took my many frustrations out on my forsythia. It is now half as tall with a v. bad haircut.
I would recruit them by letting them know that they will move up the latter more rapidly than I have ever seen anywhere (we have one second career male student that took only 3 years to become senior leadership at a hospital)! It is bananas. It even happens to the men who start as secretaries.
Arrrgggghhhh. Our fucking society.
I am a little cranky because my old student worker (male), who was promoted to my level a year after he was hired has now been promoted 2 more times and we are probably equally smart and personable and helpful. And I am 15 years older than he is! And it is weird promoted too-- like they just keep "noticing" all the work he is doing and promoting him to positions they create, he isn't even really advocating for things in a big way!