Yep. It's Tuesday.
Apr. 9th, 2019 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. I met with my chair today for evaluations, and it was a really gratifying conversation. She encouraged me to apply for promotion to full professor next year and told me that my vita is very, very strong in all areas except scholarship; if I can get an article published this year, she thinks that section of my vita will be in line with expectations. I have worked my ass off in these last ten years, and it is so gratifying to hear my boss say that my teaching and service and community outreach are exemplary. I have an article under review at a peer reviewed journal right now; I suspect it's going to be rejected (I already got a revise and resubmit, and they're taking way longer to get back to me on the revisions than they projected, so that seems a bad sign to me), but I've made my peace with that. I'm going to submit the article I'm in the process of writing about the camp I created for the local high school students, and I'm going to submit a chapter of my dissertation somewhere this summer and cross my fingers. And I might try sending the article that's out now somewhere else if it gets rejected; IDK. In any event, feeling really good about my work right now.
2. Which is good because physically I feel like shit. I assumed when I started taking the vitamin D that it wouldn't take me long to start feeling better. And in that first week, I did start feeling better. I see now that it was entirely due to placebo effect. I feel so tired and worn down and like I could just pass out all the time. I have no energy, and exercising is such a struggle. The only noticeable effect I have from taking the D is that when I take it each week, within a few hours and lasting for about a day, my eyes are much less dry and vision much clearer. And then it tapers off and they get dry and blurry again. Even though taking it doesn't make me feel better or more energized, by the of the week when I've got a day or so left before I can take it again, I start feeling I've been beat up. This just sucks so hard. Everything I'm seeing on the internet says it takes a really long time to get over a D deficiency (and I think it had been building for about a year before it was detected), but I'm so tired of feeling so tired. It seems like a whiny complaint to have. I'm ambulatory; I can work; I'm not in pain. But my mouth and eyes are so dry, and I'm so bone tired, and I have brain fog, and I'm depressed and sad. Woe is me. :(
3. We finally watched another episode of Jessica Jones.
I like the nods to the larger MCU universe like the mentions of the Raft where they kept Team Cap prisoner.
At first I was really glad that Trish and Jess cleared the air. No more secrets. Trish admits to sleeping with Malcolm and to being an addict. Everybody knows the murderer is Jess's mom.
But then it's clear that Trish is still a trainwreck, and no matter how off-putting Jess's mom may be, she's got Trish pegged. I mean, what she's doing is tied up in her addiction issues and everything else, but she is jealous of Jess and she feels inferior and she can't let this go. I mean, one of the shots in this episode or one prior is of her watching her former boyfriend do some important journalism work. She wants so badly to do something meaningful and important, but she is fucking up her friendship with Jess and with Malcolm. This season has made Trish really deeply unlikable for me and I hate that because her friendship with Jess is like the best thing in the whole show. :(
Jeri breaks my heart. I was so shocked for it all to be a scam. Wow. Carrie Ann Moss totally nails that scene when she comes home to a burgled apartment.
I don't know how Jess is going to get around killing the guard. I mean, he's clearly a serial killer and it was accidental, but it's murder.
2. Which is good because physically I feel like shit. I assumed when I started taking the vitamin D that it wouldn't take me long to start feeling better. And in that first week, I did start feeling better. I see now that it was entirely due to placebo effect. I feel so tired and worn down and like I could just pass out all the time. I have no energy, and exercising is such a struggle. The only noticeable effect I have from taking the D is that when I take it each week, within a few hours and lasting for about a day, my eyes are much less dry and vision much clearer. And then it tapers off and they get dry and blurry again. Even though taking it doesn't make me feel better or more energized, by the of the week when I've got a day or so left before I can take it again, I start feeling I've been beat up. This just sucks so hard. Everything I'm seeing on the internet says it takes a really long time to get over a D deficiency (and I think it had been building for about a year before it was detected), but I'm so tired of feeling so tired. It seems like a whiny complaint to have. I'm ambulatory; I can work; I'm not in pain. But my mouth and eyes are so dry, and I'm so bone tired, and I have brain fog, and I'm depressed and sad. Woe is me. :(
3. We finally watched another episode of Jessica Jones.
I like the nods to the larger MCU universe like the mentions of the Raft where they kept Team Cap prisoner.
At first I was really glad that Trish and Jess cleared the air. No more secrets. Trish admits to sleeping with Malcolm and to being an addict. Everybody knows the murderer is Jess's mom.
But then it's clear that Trish is still a trainwreck, and no matter how off-putting Jess's mom may be, she's got Trish pegged. I mean, what she's doing is tied up in her addiction issues and everything else, but she is jealous of Jess and she feels inferior and she can't let this go. I mean, one of the shots in this episode or one prior is of her watching her former boyfriend do some important journalism work. She wants so badly to do something meaningful and important, but she is fucking up her friendship with Jess and with Malcolm. This season has made Trish really deeply unlikable for me and I hate that because her friendship with Jess is like the best thing in the whole show. :(
Jeri breaks my heart. I was so shocked for it all to be a scam. Wow. Carrie Ann Moss totally nails that scene when she comes home to a burgled apartment.
I don't know how Jess is going to get around killing the guard. I mean, he's clearly a serial killer and it was accidental, but it's murder.
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Date: 2019-04-12 01:47 am (UTC)(And Mike Colter is such a dish!)
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Date: 2019-04-13 11:41 am (UTC)One of the reasons I loved Battlestar Galactica reboot so much is that of the three main romances, two of them were between men and women society considers old.
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Date: 2019-04-13 11:14 pm (UTC)//crumbles into a little pile of dust