Heh, no, I think it's just Thursday.
No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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.
Theodosia - Aug 11, 2022 8:27:28 am PDT #16809 of 30000
'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"
Gudanov - Aug 11, 2022 8:47:52 am PDT #16810 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
The house across the street just went on sale and it looks amazing. This house was in terrible shape a couple of years ago, but the people who moved in did a spectacular job. Probably a tad overpriced, but I wouldn't be surprised if they get it with the current market. [link]
meara - Aug 11, 2022 8:48:17 am PDT #16811 of 30000
No I just have back to back to back meetings while also having a headache and stomach upset. Ugh. Do not want that OR institutional misogyny!
Gudanov - Aug 11, 2022 8:50:54 am PDT #16812 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Sorry about the institutional misogyny y'all.
JenP - Aug 11, 2022 9:01:47 am PDT #16813 of 30000
They did do a nice job!
Pix - Aug 11, 2022 9:11:16 am PDT #16814 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Yes, but when the professions were codified, teachers were predominantly female and professors were predominantly male. Women are supposed to work long hours, for little pay, and no time for intellectual expansion (intellect? in those pretty little heads?) because it's all For The Children. Professors are doing serious mental work and need to be supported in it, dontchaknow.
I heart Calli. This is all true. It's also, though, a product of funding. Most K-12 schools don't have the resources to pay someone on sabbatical. I am certain my school would be more than happy to grant me a one-year leave of absence and save my job for me, but I wouldn't have a salary or health care, so...
Also, I am about to start my 26th year in the classroom. OMGWTFHOW
meara - Aug 11, 2022 9:17:23 am PDT #16815 of 30000
I mean, don’t knock a leave of absence if you can do COBRA (and possibly earn a little money some other way?) Though a year would likely be too long/hard to handle for money (though maybe not for sanity-restoration)
Pix - Aug 11, 2022 9:20:17 am PDT #16816 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
COBRA would be almost $1000/month on top of no salary (and we need every penny of what I make). But someday I will retire! So I'm thinking about that.
-t - Aug 11, 2022 10:59:14 am PDT #16817 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I was trying to figure out how to do some kind of sabbatical when I hit 7 years here, maybe not a full year but some extended time off, but that was 2020-2021 so that became no time off ever...
Heh, no, I think it's just Thursday.
My immediate reaction on seeing this was "but it's not Thursday" so that should tell you where my head is at. Or at least where it is not. I don't even know what day I think it is.
dcp - Aug 11, 2022 11:32:09 am PDT #16818 of 30000
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye
I think it's just Thursday.
"I never could get the hang of Thursdays."