I have about 7 weeks vacation right now, that is use it or lose it, although because Covid they are letting us get a payout for 60hours. I wish they would let us pay it all out and start fresh. I have taken 2 weeks since 2018, and I can rollover 5 weeks, but I am just never getting to use this without screwing over someone. I am annoyed at single user dependencies, but there are so many things that just shut down when I am out.

Two weeks in 3 years is not enough time off, Sophia! Although I understand the pressure to not leave everyone else in the lurch.

Crosstrain someone on your own.

Ooh definitely Sophia! Normally I don’t have a problem taking it but between project issues and lack of places to be, this year has been rough. We can carry over 2 weeks, but i still am struggling to figure out when!

I am not on indie comics Twitter and I suspect I’m glad about that.

Two weeks off in three years is DEFINITELY not enough time off.

This is more along the lines of "Twitter changed its font" or "Facebook moved the lefthand sidebar to the right". Even if 99% of users think it's fine, the social media response is largely HOW DARE YOU MAKE A CHANGE I HATE YOU FOREVER.

That is ALWAYS my reaction and I ALWAYS get over it in about 30 minutes, so that's why I keep that first reaction to myself now. Because I am an adult.

I was supposed to be going back to the office as of 9/13, but they just pushed that off indefinitely because of too many new cases on campus. Boooo.

Well, I've been back at work for two weeks. Two colleagues and at least one of my students are Covid positive. I'm feeling kind of blah and my sinuses are hurting and my temperature has been around 99-99.5, so I got a Covid test this morning. Waiting for results. I'm really not sure whether it'll be positive or not -- I could have some other virus or a sinus infection or something. I'm pissed off that I need to be teaching in-person with full classroom capacity in the first place.

Ugh, Hil. Wishes for negativity. I've had several tests, and even knowing that it is likely okay it is still anxiety-inducing to wait.

Happy Saturday. I leave on vacation on Wed, so I am in full pre-trip prep.

Doing laundry now. Next up:

roomba downstairs
vacuum upstairs
clean bathroom
schedule COVID test

then:

take compost out
resist buying anything while out
clear off counters

late afternoon:

mow lawn (since more rain is possible tomorrow)

Where are you going? I know you had to cancel something, but what did you decide to do?

I am really trying to cross train! I think I actually have to cross train the director, who is new. Most of the “lurch” stuff tends to involve being a person who can fix things that have never come up before! My new duties for instructional design basically have back-up, but the Center for Lifelong Learning has a director who has only been appointed since July and a new assistant who started in August. But they are both great and quick to learn, so I am hopeful they will be up to speed soon. We also have to be able to transfer some of the technology support for certain programs to IT- we have an odd strution where instructional design is not part of IT reporting structure- most of our instructional designers (except 2 of us) are faculty and the two of us report to them. So when we introduce new technologies, I think IT sort of resents it and just sends it to us! But I get it, because the problem sometimes stems from HOW the instructor is using the technology for learning, which we can help make suggestions. But sometimes the issue is “I can’t log in”, which I hate supporting.

Also, what was the old very funny website that Danny Lavery had before he was Dear Prudence?