Happy Labor Day!
I expect that I will spend my day at labor. I have a paper to work on and grading to do. I am not sure that I have really caught up with summer ending and classes starting. My summer session grades were due on the second day of classes and the administration had 3 full days of meetings in my last week of summer classes!
So tomorrow, I will go to the office, grade some things from last week and tonight's assignments, and work on the paper.
I may set a bug bomb in the house while I m gone. My Bride is away and this will hopefully take out the bugs that have been getting a foothold on the house!
Your plans??
Wishing you the best for your plans clean.
I will spend my day in continued covid recovery (update on the 'venting' thread). The fatigue is something else, even after active symptoms are gone.
Editing, eating.
Was going to take a walk, but flash flood warnings made me reconsider.
HLD!
M.
I'll be working on my classes for the week. Maybe I'll treat myself and buy a plant.
Sorry to say, Labor Day 2022 is not an especially happy occasion. I need the union membership, or at least their presence, for my wages and health insurance, but I don't like their politics. They're all on board with the 'EVERYTHING IS RACIST!' chant. They are in lockstep with the heavy handed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion bureaucracy. Also, they promote the publications of Ibram X. Kendi, who is openly transphobic.
ETA: Sadly, Randi Weingarten and others who insist on progressive politics as the de facto mission statement of teachers unions have paved the way for people this writer/activist to make progress.
https://www.newsweek.com/big-labor-traps-workers-unions-they-oppose-opinion-1738636
Hoping for rain. Boy! do we need it.
Friends have mentioned hot dogs. I'll believe that when I see them.
As a retiree with a handful of irking health problems, matters academic no longer much concern me. I keep up with my college because I kept my e-mail and I get all the bulletins, plus notes from the Chair. Who says, "Changes are coming, not all good." I could see thunderclouds in the distance when I retired; now, apparently, thunder rumbles are audible.
Due to recent events, I will also reflect on caregiving as invisible and incessant labour.
AS seen in this writing, for example:
https://www.donnathomson.com/
My deepest appreciation to those who take good care of others who need it.
I am deeply unhappy that caregiving was stripped out of Biden's bill, whether for children, adults, or all disabled persons.
^ Agree, having worked in healthcare, albeit not as a direct caregiver.
My day so far: editing, decent; eating, decent, no complaints.
M.
So far, I have spent today day eating tacos and laying on the couch. Truly glorious way to spend a Monday.
Quote from: Sun_Worshiper on September 05, 2022, 03:23:47 PM
So far, I have spent today day eating tacos and laying on the couch. Truly glorious way to spend a Monday.
That sounds awesome! BTW, I did buy myself some plants!
It rained, so I didnt feel like going to the office.
I did grade from my living room chair. I sent emails to several students to warn them that they had missed the first, or second, or both deadlines that occurred in the last 2 weeks.
I was too lazy to really want to get out of the house for the required four hours that the bug smoke/fog needs, and then the time it takes to air out the house.
I did get some containers out and fill them with dishes. TOmorrow I have a doctor's appointment so I plan to set the bombs off before I leave, and then go to lunch, and maybe the office depending on how long everything takes. Then I will come back in the early afternoon and air out the house and then start the dishwasher going and wash one cabinet at at time for the next few days! to get everything back to usable.
My Bride is scheduled to return with her parents from Big City Cancer Center on Thursday. Her dad's last radiation treatment is tomorrow afternoon, and he doesnt want to over do anything in a rush to return home. I m sure that everyone is eager to get home, but not so eager to pack up the car and make the long, slow drive back... especially as it has been raining a lot lately. I think that the weather is showing that it will be clearing off some on Thursday for their return trip.
By then, the cleaning lady will have mopped the floors, washed the counters and cleaned up any deceased critter corpses so that My Bride is spared all of those tasks after being gone for all that time!
We have flights booked for our delayed honeymoon the week before Thanksgiving. I have renewed our Nexus Cards, which comes with TSA PreCheck and Global Entry. I dont know if we will need to be interviewed again. I doubt that I will, but she changed her name when we married (which is a huge pain in the ass, that keeps on biting it seems!). So we may have to travel to Canada sometime in the new year if we can get an appointment scheduled, IF it is required. I hope not! But Spring Break at or near Niagara Falls may be required... as we also have a vacation cruise to Alaska in late May, and I sure have had enough experiences with the Canadian Border delays to know that the Nexus Card is well worth the $50 is costs for the 5 years!
Well, Ive rambled enough! I hope that everyone has/had a Great Labor Day! No more real days off until Thanksgiving (October in the Arctic and November for the 'rest of the World!'
As I ramble on, this past summer was my last expected year to teach! IF I teach a summer class this coming year, it will be just one online class in a 5 week term.
Quote from: evil_physics_witchcraft on September 05, 2022, 03:31:13 PM
Quote from: Sun_Worshiper on September 05, 2022, 03:23:47 PM
So far, I have spent today day eating tacos and laying on the couch. Truly glorious way to spend a Monday.
That sounds awesome! BTW, I did buy myself some plants!
Treating yourself, whether to tacos or a plant, is the right thing to do on a day like today.
Quote from: evil_physics_witchcraft on September 05, 2022, 03:31:13 PM
Quote from: Sun_Worshiper on September 05, 2022, 03:23:47 PM
So far, I have spent today day eating tacos and laying on the couch. Truly glorious way to spend a Monday.
That sounds awesome! BTW, I did buy myself some plants!
Sounds like one of the best days!
And Yes! to all the plants!
I had a 4 day weekend since I worked my weekend rotation at the library the previous weekend.
We had BBQ on Saturday.
Safe and smooth return travels to those who got away for a final round of vacation!
Yes to tacos and plants! :)
I got some butterfly bush, yarrow and a nice elephant ear plant.
Couldn't get my lawn mower running, so I did other needed yard work instead.
For lunch I was invited by some good friends from church to eat grilled steaks with their family. It was wonderful! They're good folks--although I did find myself wondering, given how generous the steaks were, whether they had rustled a small herd of cattle from somewhere.
Also caught up on some reading.