Well. I sent my students an e-mail this morning letting them know we were pivoting to online today, because I don’t have the PCR results back, and I don’t want to risk this cold actually being COVID and my bringing it into our (fairly small and close quarters) classroom. That is all well and good. …
I’m thinking a lot about social interactions these days. When we switched to shelter-in-place, they mostly went away. As we got used to using Zoom, we added some socializing back in, and that was a lifeline during the pandemic. But there are two big issues that I, personally, have with Zoom and other online interactions: …
The U of I system just sent out a note that they’re requiring everyone on campus be vaccinated and boosted; decisions about masking will be made by each campus individually, and we don’t have word on that yet. We’ll be discussing appropriate mitigations for OPRF at the next D200 high school board meeting in a …
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My head is not doing well with this stupid cold (coughing, sneezing, stuffy head, the works); I could take DayQuil and power through, or try to teach on Zoom to be less communicable, at least, but I have not actually cancelled a class yet this semester, and I’m going to set a good example of …
Board meeting done, 6 – 9:30. Oof. It would be easier to have these be shorter if there wasn’t so much important material to go through….ah well. Two important items from today’s meeting — and I am speaking just for myself here, not for the board: 1) We are currently staying the course on COVID …
PSA: If you’re a student, or the parent of the student, or a mentor to a student, maybe check in on how they’re doing keeping up with their work. Both Kevin and I are seeing more missing work from students this semester than we’ve ever seen before (in 30 and 25 years of teaching, respectively). …
UIC just pivoted to remote teaching tomorrow due to winter storm and dangerous roads. I’m pleased to see this — maybe they won’t ever make us drive to work in dangerous weather again? Let’s all work from home if we can, and leave the roads as clear as possible for those essential workers who do …
Well, I made kazillion mistakes in the process, but I’ve made my first piece of clothing FOR MYSELF, from a fabric I designed, so I’m going to call it a major win. Please do not look at the wonky seams, or the way it gapes a bit in the front — I wasn’t using a …
Stylish young cafe worker leaned over to whisper that she LOVED my hair. I was going for kind of a desi Fraggle vibe for teaching today, so I guess it’s working for me.
Well, first day of the semester in-person (third week in actuality) got off to a rousing start; I woke up with a pulled muscle in my back. Not super-painful, thankfully, more twingy when I move the wrong way, but it’s making me clumsy, witness the fact that I spilled my chai all over my desk …
