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 […]
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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
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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.
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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
cw: exercise. So, I’ve hopped back on the exercise wagon, after a few months of not managing it consistently. Honestly, it was pretty rocky during the whole pandemic — initially, I think I was fairly depressed, and my activity levels took a sharp nosedive during lockdown. While that improved for a while last summer, I
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Oof. Long day. This was another of those days bracketed by board meetings on both ends — I started with a collaboration meeting between the SLF and Plurality University at 8:30 a.m., then had a SLF finance meeting and a comics collaboration meeting for Assuming You Survive, then a therapy appointment, a little break for
Barely made it as lines were incredibly long, even the bag check line. Flights are crowded too, lots of asking for volunteers to go later. Plan travel this week accordingly, and wear your good mask!
Hope everyone is having a happy New Year’s Day. Here at Serendib House, I’m trying to start as I mean to go on, which means: • I’ve been straightening up cluttered rooms, getting them in good shape for going on with life and work; it’s all so much easier when I can FIND supplies I
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“Most of the differences between Omicron and previous variants are readily explained by people being vaccinated. Even though they’re experiencing breakthrough infections, those are quite different from a primary infection in a few ways: 1. More head-cold symptoms, fewer high fevers and severe respiratory symptoms. The cold symptoms like runny nose are the primed immune
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Posted by a scientist friend, permission to cut-and-paste. I found it both informative and helpful. ***** “When we were kids, we were taught that certain childhood diseases were things you “only got once”. That wasn’t 100% true of course — we all knew someone who got Chicken Pox twice — but it was true most
