Wash ,'War Stories'
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.
Oh, I've done that, Dana. Not the best.
To be honest, I would hesitate to go help someone up these days. I would get close enough to ask if they were all right, though, I hope.
Y'all, I'm pretty much out of can and I have another 2 hours of work. Just drained.
Me too, -t. This week has been mad and I'm ready to fall asleep on the couch. Whaddya mean two more hours of work?
It's past 10pm here on a Friday night. I spent the better part of the last 90 minutes trying to verify some statistics for a policy class (on a subject I now find so very boring, after researching it since October). I eventually gave and asked the person who wrote the slide I wanted to elaborate on where he got the figures from, because they're not in the sources he mentioned.
The isolation, the analysis process, and the time of day almost make me miss dating.
I should basically be done with working for the week, except my big boss is all het up about something I might be able to do something about, if other people are available, but then again maybe not, and who knows who is available at this point!
WAHHHH I am having to read OSHA documents to determine how we handle things if they re-open offices and we want people to wear masks.
The CT Board of Regents has announced that almost all college summer courses will be online. For lab courses, like the one I'm scheduled to teach (maybe), the plan is to separate the labs from the lecture portions of the course, and open the buildings in August to do the labs all in a bunch, regardless of when the lecture was taught. Separate grades will be given for the two portions (again maybe, they aren't being very clear on that). They are also unclear as to which lab courses this would actually apply to, since they keep talking about upper level labs and in the same paragraph mention doing demos for intro labs instead, much like we're doing now.
So right now I have no idea if I'm teaching this summer (registration is open, but the response hasn't exactly been brisk), or when I'm teaching if the course does run, or even where I'd be teaching. Interestng times.
Got an official email yesterday saying, "No more overtime without prior written permission from the director." My 40 hours for this week have now just concluded, and the work laptop is powered off until Monday morning. No more extra effort from me.
The CT Board of Regents has announced that almost all college summer courses will be online. For lab courses, like the one I'm scheduled to teach (maybe), the plan is to separate the labs from the lecture portions of the course, and open the buildings in August to do the labs all in a bunch, regardless of when the lecture was taught.
It is apparently possible to send labs (I don't know what labs, I just heard "labs") to students at home! Which sounds crazy, but apparently is happening here.
I did get to talk to the one person, and we're going to come back to it next week, so I can legitimately say that to the big boss and not worry about it.
My niece did that in the before times for an online lab course, I want to say chemistry but I'm not sure. It was very cool, but was also something that was designed into the course.
I work on a Microbiology Lab that is "at home" as well as an Anatomy and Physiology lab. We contact with a vendor who puts together the lab kits and manuals and we make them take pictures and write lab reports and upload them. Of course, you have to be able to have a space in your house where you can, say, dissect a fetal pig or grow cultures without a pet or kid getting into it. It is also a HUGE amount of labor grading for the instructor because there is a lot of plagiarism in the lab reports because people put the answers online!!!