Things I talk to my #MLIS students about:
*my salary (as an adjunct & as a librarian)
*my student loans (how much I owe & the PSLF process)
*vocational awe (RIP Fobazi)
*Melvil's legacy & why it matters
*the job hunt (I show them my academic interview day schedules & they're horrified).
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Thanks! I was waiting for the grant to hit the website, but they still are not up...

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

I've been sitting on this for a while, but I was awarded an IMLS grant last year. Since it's on the banner for my school's website, I guess I might as well announce it here...

The license they have for me is different than the one I had been given; I had to re-register to establish the student licenses for this semester and was given a new license...that wasn't sent? And the old license expired? Fascinating. What marvelous record keeping.

<software redacted> company responded to me. We’ll see how this goes…

Future singer/songwriter?

I moved everything to cash a year ago. Bonds and mutual funds until sanity…or something closer to sanity…isn’t TACOing the market.

Oh, and the contact emails are different between the text of the no response email letting me know my license should be active, the "sender" of the same email, the cc:ed email with presumable monitoring of other emails, and the website.

using said software to teach and grade. Waiting 3-5 business days for a response is a problem, especially when I couldn't renew it at the beginning of the semester, when I knew it was going to expire AS I REAPPLIED.

<software redacted> with an academic license gives me a "license expired" notice, and the online platform asks me to purchase access. I assume my license is expired, so I reapply. The response? "You already have a license." No, apparently I do not. And I'm in the middle of the semester /

Yay and congrats, but ugh.

I had one that I simply could not update the formatting on last week. It bothered me.

I was asked for a 250 word author bio. I am not writing that much about myself; they got about 75.

My Wisconsin-born eldest (almost 9) was horrified. Wisconsin, the state that brought you cannibal sandwiches.

Same. I was thinking of starting one… I did them with students a couple weeks ago and wrote most of an article.

There are a couple of others, but the main/original is in Portland (I used to volunteer there). I haven’t, but that is probably one of the next phones for our house, considering our toddler chucked my spouse’s phone out the second story window (and tried to do mine, but fortunately it didn’t fall).

Same. I didn’t know you were doing a PhD! Exciting!

Yeah, I had my laptop start to die during my comps. 8 weeks, 3 questions, all on a computer that was crapping out. Get a backup (free geek ebay! We have a Linux mint desktop that my eldest uses from them. It’s a nice little machine).

MURENA. Autocorrect strikes again!

Mirena Fairphone Gen 6s are out. They’re designed to be modular with user-replaceable parts available…

Have you considered a de-Googled phone?

Jeez.

Eldest insisted on taking tuna salad for lunch to spring break camp. This will be interesting…

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An opossum. They will play dead.

Swans and geese can be contained in IKEA bags…have any on hand?

Paws are called “murder mittens” for a reason…

Are there any rules here about the likelihood of said animal getting in the shop?

MapQuest is NOT forcing AI down your throat like Big Tech. Our directions are like grandma's recipes. They've worked for decades and nobody’s asking a robot to optimize her mac & cheese.

Well, one of the math nerdy friends…