My university has suspended all in-person classes for the next month. Everything will be taught online. I'm one of only a handful of people in my department who has significant experience teaching online, and I've been pulled in a million different directions the past few days trying to get everyone else set up so that they can do at least the basics of posting assignments. Also, teaching math online really requires a tablet and stylus, and the department has nowhere near enough of those to go around.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
'Lineage'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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.
Hil R. - Mar 12, 2020 6:16:09 pm PDT #17553 of 30019
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil R. - Mar 12, 2020 6:23:19 pm PDT #17554 of 30019
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Also: this afternoon, we got a campus safety notice that there was an "emergency" on a particular street near campus, where a lot of the frat houses are, and that everyone was supposed to avoid the area. For the next hour or so, I could hear a bunch of sirens going back and forth, several times, on the road outside my office, which would be the fastest route between that street and the hospital. Then about an hour later, we got another notice saying that the emergency had been resolved. Nobody seems to know what happened. I'm halfway suspecting that we're going to hear that someone at one of those frats tested positive (which would then probably mean that a whole ton of other students are infected, too.)
Pix - Mar 12, 2020 6:37:45 pm PDT #17555 of 30019
The status is NOT quo.
I received and completed our 2020 census today!Me too. I know that sounds like a weird thing to be happy about, but I guess it feels like one little cog in the machine is still turning, at least.
We have one more day on campus tomorrow to finish remote learning training and then start WFH on Monday for the next two weeks. The two weeks after that are spring break, so the first time classes on campus could start again is April 13. I'm just hoping that drastic action over the next month will flatten the curve.
NILLY! Hi. Nice to see your pixels. I'm sorry things are so stressful there right now.
And yeah, lots of other people I want to give a virtual hug to. I'm glad we still have this community during this challenging time.
Hil R. - Mar 12, 2020 6:48:30 pm PDT #17556 of 30019
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Also, hi Nilly! Glad to see your pixels, even if the reason is quarantine.
Hil R. - Mar 12, 2020 6:50:17 pm PDT #17557 of 30019
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
remote learning training
We're not even getting that. We were pretty much just told to figure it out.
-t - Mar 12, 2020 6:58:55 pm PDT #17558 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Wait for tomorrow, JZ
Hil R. - Mar 12, 2020 7:04:04 pm PDT #17559 of 30019
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The Orthodox rabbinical council in the county where I grew up has closed all the synagogues, and put out a letter telling people that they should not organize prayer groups on their own, should not invite each other over for Shabbat meals, should not organize playdates for their kids, essentially should not interact with anybody outside their immediate family. All the kosher restaurants under that group's supervision have been told that, until further notice, they should only serve take-out and not seat anyone. The schools all closed within the past few weeks. The only exception is funerals -- religiously, you need ten Jewish men to say certain prayers at a funeral, so funerals can be immediate family plus as many additional people as needed to get to that ten, but no more. They're keeping the mikvahs open, and I can kind of understand their reasoning, but I also think it could backfire badly.
Katerina Bee - Mar 12, 2020 8:02:59 pm PDT #17560 of 30019
Herding cats for fun
Can you stand a piece of good news?
My cat Pearlie has been very sick and skinny due to a mysterious imbalance of one liver enzyme. I've been force feeding just to keep her systems functioning, which worked on her a year and a half ago.
Today she was excited to be presented with kibble and gave me her signature melting look. I'm so relieved that I am beside myself.
flea - Mar 13, 2020 12:56:12 am PDT #17561 of 30019
information libertarian
I got a work email at 9:30 that our distribution center was closing until Monday due to a staff member being in quarantine, and at 11:00 got a robocall that my kids' high school would be closed today because of a parent in quarantine.
It's going to be such an interesting time at work. I have one staff member who was visibly freaked out on Wednesday and has now called off sick through the weekend; she could be actually sick but I suspect she's just worried.
Theodosia - Mar 13, 2020 1:09:20 am PDT #17562 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I woke about 4 AM with worry about what is going to be going on at work and for all the people I know (including all youse Buffistas), so I read some of Trevor Noah's BORN A CRIME and felt a little bit better because yo Apartheid was evilly fucked up beyond belief. So I felt a little better, but I'm just exhausted.
And I don't have to make a whole lot of decisions at work, aside from ordinary things like figuring out who gets what box and where I can find a small spatula that a little old guy who likes to mix up his own oatmeal can use easily.
With so much of the Boston traffic not happening, it should be easy to drive around, except to the hospitals. So thre's that.