Random Thoughts Anew

[mamselle]

^ Unrelated.

Grace denatures those twin sins of Sloth & Despair.

Latch onto Grace.

M.

[downer]

Cortana actually sent me a useful reminder today.

[marshwiggle]

Cortana actually sent me a useful reminder today.

It's been a year and a half, and I haven't had that happen yet. Congrats!

[mahagonny]

'What does "woke" mean? It means you're a loser. Everything "woke" touches turns to shit.'

DJT, who, despite being a serial liar, somehow managed to say something that is obviously true and needed saying before anyone else did.

[mamselle]

Y'aint woke, ya broke, bro.

M.

[fishbrains]

I wonder how many of these high school students who are in "quarantine" at home are still going to their after-school jobs?

[FishProf]

I was in a place that probably needs a mask mandate, and NO ONE was masked.  Smolt got strange looks when I made her mask up in shops.

Now, we are home, where things are still largely under control and the numbers of the masked (sounds like a horror movie title) are approaching 50% by my informal estimate. 

Those two observations couldn't be connected, could they?

[apl68]

I wonder how many of these high school students who are in "quarantine" at home are still going to their after-school jobs?

I wonder how many high school students actually have after-school jobs?  They seem to be pretty rare anymore.

[downer]

I feel bad for the dept chair calling around trying to find an adjunct to teach a Zoom class starting tomorrow.

But not that bad.

[marshwiggle]

I feel bad for the dept chair calling around trying to find an adjunct to teach a Zoom class starting tomorrow.

But not that bad.

Did someone quit at the last minute? Or was this just ridiculously bad (or non-existent) planning?

[downer]

I feel bad for the dept chair calling around trying to find an adjunct to teach a Zoom class starting tomorrow.

But not that bad.

Did someone quit at the last minute? Or was this just ridiculously bad (or non-existent) planning?

I imagine some plan fell through.

[mahagonny]

I feel bad for the dept chair calling around trying to find an adjunct to teach a Zoom class starting tomorrow.

But not that bad.

Did someone quit at the last minute? Or was this just ridiculously bad (or non-existent) planning?

I imagine some plan fell through.

I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.
Sometime ago, I wanna say like June or July 2020, they asked me whether I was planning to be working with them again in the fall. I answered yes, which turned out to be what happened. I realized that was the first time, other than getting hired initially, that anyone had asked me straight out, was I planning to continue. I used to think this was odd, as your contract expires at the end of each semester in no uncertain terms. Of course nothing gets signed anymore. Someone in one of the offices just forges your signature on the contract to get it moving, in the first week or two, hopefully.

[apl68]

Heard outside a local beauty shop:

"You can't walk past the shampoo bowl back there, because the bathroom stinks so bad!"

Were they talking about the shop they were standing in front of, or another one in their experience?  If the former, it might explain why they were all standing outside.

[AmLitHist]

I feel bad for the dept chair calling around trying to find an adjunct to teach a Zoom class starting tomorrow.

But not that bad.

Did someone quit at the last minute? Or was this just ridiculously bad (or non-existent) planning?

I imagine some plan fell through.

At my place, and when I was chair, if this happens, the chair has to teach the class. 

[ciao_yall]

I feel bad for the dept chair calling around trying to find an adjunct to teach a Zoom class starting tomorrow.

But not that bad.

Did someone quit at the last minute? Or was this just ridiculously bad (or non-existent) planning?

I imagine some plan fell through.

At my place, and when I was chair, if this happens, the chair has to teach the class.

What if the chair wasn't qualified?