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Oct. 8th, 2021 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. Fiona is home from school today because we had six inches of rain last night leading to flash floods.
2. In related news, our roof is leaking in three places. But it is the best case scenario for a roof leaking. Nothing has been damaged, it can be fixed relatively easily and not super expensively I think, and I believe it will be fixed in the next few days. I am very grateful for all these things (but also super annoyed, not gonna lie; sometimes I do fantasize about strangling the guy who sold us this house).
3. This past week, a couple teensy frog buddies have been chilling out on the window of the study. I smiled every time I looked up from grading and saw them.
4. My colleagues and I presented virtually at an international conference on the scholarship of teaching and learning on Thursday; our panel went very well although it was sparsely attended. However, this was the worst run conference with the worst communication of all time. I will never ever have anything to do with this conference ever again. And it was $200 for an online conference, WTF. I got an email demanding payment before I got an email confirming my proposal had been accepted (at which point I sent a snarky email to the coordinator that I wasn't about to pay that much money without an official confirmation that I was an actually a presenter and suddenly they were able to communicate with us in a much more timely fashion when money was on the line LOL.) Thank goodness I got funding to cover it. If you're interested, PM me and I'll tell you who to avoid.
5. Fiona needs glasses, but she barely needs them; the optometrist said she only needs to wear them at school to look at the smartboard. The eye exam was like a Monty Python sketch, though. Apparently, the RX is determined mostly by pictures they take of your eye now, and the whole, "Is this better or worse?" with the different lenses during the exam is just to confirm/fine tune it, and thank goodness because Fiona just bombed the eye exam. IDK what her deal was, if she was afraid to get something wrong or what, but she pretty much just read all the letters wrong every time, and the doc would look at me like, WTF, and I was all, IDK, and it was absurd. But she has the most adorable little tortoishell glasses that'll get here in a couple weeks, and hopefully her eyesight won't deteriorate any further for a good long while.
2. In related news, our roof is leaking in three places. But it is the best case scenario for a roof leaking. Nothing has been damaged, it can be fixed relatively easily and not super expensively I think, and I believe it will be fixed in the next few days. I am very grateful for all these things (but also super annoyed, not gonna lie; sometimes I do fantasize about strangling the guy who sold us this house).
3. This past week, a couple teensy frog buddies have been chilling out on the window of the study. I smiled every time I looked up from grading and saw them.
4. My colleagues and I presented virtually at an international conference on the scholarship of teaching and learning on Thursday; our panel went very well although it was sparsely attended. However, this was the worst run conference with the worst communication of all time. I will never ever have anything to do with this conference ever again. And it was $200 for an online conference, WTF. I got an email demanding payment before I got an email confirming my proposal had been accepted (at which point I sent a snarky email to the coordinator that I wasn't about to pay that much money without an official confirmation that I was an actually a presenter and suddenly they were able to communicate with us in a much more timely fashion when money was on the line LOL.) Thank goodness I got funding to cover it. If you're interested, PM me and I'll tell you who to avoid.
5. Fiona needs glasses, but she barely needs them; the optometrist said she only needs to wear them at school to look at the smartboard. The eye exam was like a Monty Python sketch, though. Apparently, the RX is determined mostly by pictures they take of your eye now, and the whole, "Is this better or worse?" with the different lenses during the exam is just to confirm/fine tune it, and thank goodness because Fiona just bombed the eye exam. IDK what her deal was, if she was afraid to get something wrong or what, but she pretty much just read all the letters wrong every time, and the doc would look at me like, WTF, and I was all, IDK, and it was absurd. But she has the most adorable little tortoishell glasses that'll get here in a couple weeks, and hopefully her eyesight won't deteriorate any further for a good long while.
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Date: 2021-10-08 07:37 pm (UTC)Frogs are the best. Toads too. I adore them.
Today is dad's 83rd birthday and our tiny clan is gathering at my place. This was all mom's idea and that means she must be feeling MUCH BETTER. I am exhausted from showering and decluttering (the dining table is my office) and now I am checking Dreamwidth before unloading and loading the dishwasher. Mom is bringing all the food. So grateful we can do this.
Glad Fiona is doing okay. My older boy had the same thing in high school; we noticed he would squint and sent him to the optometrist. He wore his glasses almost all the time until he lost them in his brother's bedroom. Then occasionally he wore his girlfriend's glasses to drive. But one day he just... stopped and I guess that was that. He likes sunglasses to drive -- Joe Biden style, but I think that is a coincidence. I am sure he is fairly unaware of what the president is doing unless there is a meme or something.
Okay I will stop rambling in your comments now.
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Date: 2021-10-08 08:17 pm (UTC)To both of you: I'm reading and thinking and caring...just not in a talking mood these days...
But speaking of online conferences...neither one might be interested, but FSNNA is virtual again: https://fsn-northamerica.org/register-for-fsnna21/
LMK if you're around. I don't necessarily go to all the panels, but i like hanging in the Discord.
<3<3
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Date: 2021-10-08 08:29 pm (UTC)I know how it is about not having much to say. I had a bike wreck in August and broke a bone in my foot and have been very subterranean while trying to heal up from that. Totally did not have time to do that.
But Mother Nature had other plans. And I had to make time. A lesson in patience for sure.
Hope you and yours are doing well.
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Date: 2021-10-09 02:39 am (UTC)I wanted to offer, at least!
Hope you're feeling better re foot. That sounds tough!!!
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Date: 2021-10-09 11:49 am (UTC)I completely understand. This is such a weird and emotionally draining time for everyone.
Thanks for the conference info.
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Date: 2021-10-09 11:47 am (UTC)Josh told me the other day he thinks he needs glasses; of course, he's not on our vision plan, so he'll have to wait until January to go. LOL But fortunately our vision insurance is really, really kickass. Like excellent.
*hugs*
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Date: 2021-10-08 08:20 pm (UTC)Boo for roof issues and flooding.
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Date: 2021-10-09 11:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-08 10:40 pm (UTC)That's an outrageous price for an online conference. They can't even make the argument that the convention centre is demanding an unreasonable amount of money/a guarantee of some sort.
Awwww, on the glasses.
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Date: 2021-10-09 11:54 am (UTC)I mean, the group I'm the president of did charge a small fee for our online conference last year because we paid for our journal to be printed and mailed and for an award to given to a graduate student, and we wanted to bring in money to cover those expenses. But it was like peanuts. 200 is highway robbery.
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Date: 2021-10-09 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-10-11 01:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-11 10:19 am (UTC)One of my struggles has been to grow the conference. It has not grown. But it has not diminished, so. *shrugs*
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Date: 2021-10-11 02:27 pm (UTC)I would NOT be surprised at all having seen some where the whole committee went 'HUH????' in unison. :D
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Date: 2021-10-12 10:15 am (UTC)You have to wonder what is going on in some of these people's minds.
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Date: 2021-10-09 12:13 am (UTC)The glasses sound pretty! The designs can be really flattering these days.
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Date: 2021-10-09 11:55 am (UTC):)
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Date: 2021-10-09 12:23 am (UTC)Teeny froggies? How cute!
I'm glad your presentation at the conference went well, despite it being run by circus monkeys.
And I bet Fiona looks awesome in her little glasses! Hopefully, she'll get the hang of going to the eye doctor soon!
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Date: 2021-10-09 11:56 am (UTC)She looks so cute in the glasses, just utterly adorable.
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Date: 2021-10-09 01:51 am (UTC)I think the EyeBuyDirect two for one sale is still on--one pair to wear, one pair for you to stash for when the first ones get lost.
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Date: 2021-10-09 11:57 am (UTC)The last conference I presented at had almost a hundred people in the audience of my panel, though, which is wow.
Thanks for the heads up.
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Date: 2021-10-09 09:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-09 11:58 am (UTC)But it will look good on the CV, especially that it was an international conerence.
That sounds like a great conference model, get the people in-person who can be while giving others a virtual option.
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Date: 2021-10-09 10:12 am (UTC)but she pretty much just read all the letters wrong every time, and the doc would look at me like, WTF, and I was all, IDK, and it was absurd.
Hee! <3
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Date: 2021-10-09 11:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-09 05:47 pm (UTC)How frustrating about the roof. I hope it can be fixed quickly.
Aww, frog buddies!
Wow, that conference sounds like a hot mess.
Fiona is going to look so cute!
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Date: 2021-10-10 01:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-11 05:32 am (UTC)"HUGS"
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Date: 2021-10-11 10:21 am (UTC)