Good luck, flea. As Suela said, life is too short.
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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.
DXMachina - Jun 25, 2020 1:32:05 pm PDT #22800 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
-t - Jun 25, 2020 1:52:07 pm PDT #22801 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Go sister is of Consuela!
Huzzah for the assembled chair!
I did get sone groceries I did not do any yard work. I am hoping that after mostly lazing around today I'll be able to get stuff done this weekend...meanwhile it's goldfish crackers and Diet Coke for dinner.
msbelle - Jun 25, 2020 2:02:54 pm PDT #22802 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
oh noes - more thunder tonight.
I'm going to put on some audio and see if we can just work through it without needing to relocated to the basement.
-t - Jun 25, 2020 2:13:20 pm PDT #22803 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Good luck msbelle. Probably too late for today, but have you tried calming pheromones or thunder shirts? As I say that kind of remember that maybe you have, but perhaps I am thinking of someone else...
Consuela - Jun 25, 2020 2:31:17 pm PDT #22804 of 30019
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Here's a little inspiration: [link]
-t - Jun 25, 2020 2:44:26 pm PDT #22805 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Very cool
Sophia Brooks - Jun 25, 2020 2:57:18 pm PDT #22806 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Yay flea! You might also want to look into online instructional design. There is definately a need and it matches librarianship skills pretty well. In another life I would have been a librarian, but it would be futile and a huge paycut for me to go into it now. My class on instructional design was full of librarians
Sheryl, I am sorry about the equipment. I hate screwing up at work, but people screw up, especially when things are stressful right now. If you are lucky enough to be in a non-toxic environment, people forgive you.
I did a small gathering for my godson's graduation. It was literally just me, Maria and her two kids. I think we have basically decided to be a pod. We are both going almost nowhere (her school year is over, I am working from home, and we both do limited grocery runs, but mostly get delivery). If we do our grocery runs together, we are sort of in the same boat, and I am not taking Uber. And I can have Aidan come back and change my lightbulbs I can't reach. I will quarantine after the one day I have to go in to help run a lab, but we will be wearing full PPE (face shields, masks, gloves, gown). I think there was a limited time I could be alone.
I also got my Mac from work delivered to my home, so now my working from home experience will be so much better! I have a giant screen! It sounds like we are basically working at home for the foreseeable future unless we need to be in for student facing reasons, like the lab in late July. If we come back in we will basically all be in our separate offices zooming with each other, so it just seems silly! I still have my whole PC set up at work if I have to go in.
My instructional design team (composed of both faculty and staff) just got notified we won an $18,000 innovation award! Unfortunately, it does not mean we get bonuses, but we have this money to decide how to spend for the student's to get the best online expeience they can, But that was a great vote of confidence from our Dean
Calli - Jun 25, 2020 3:12:33 pm PDT #22807 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Congrats, Sophia!
And congrats, flea. I'm also working in instructional design these days, and it's enjoyable work.
Jesse - Jun 25, 2020 3:31:59 pm PDT #22808 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That all sounds really good, Sophia!
askye - Jun 25, 2020 3:41:01 pm PDT #22809 of 30019
Thrive to spite them
flea I think you did the right thing.
Man, talk about mixed signals. We've been told we have to use or lose or leave by Nov 1. Cool. But we are also told we can't use anything but what we have , even though we will earn PTO. Cool. BUT we were also told to schedule all our vacation now.
Except I can't schedule my PTO time because I don't have enough right now, but I will have more, but I can't schedule it until I've earned it. So now I have to ask tomorrow if I should schedule it off as unpaid time and then try to convert it to PTO later.
I'll be able to take a week in Aug, Sept and Oct if I can use the PTO and personal like the manager has explained it.
Congrats Sophia!