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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: 2021-10-11 05:32 am (UTC)"HUGS"
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Date: 2021-10-11 10:21 am (UTC)