3) If I'm coming home the rest of y'all of got crummy airports that need a ton of extra time to deal with traffic and poorly planned security and bad layouts and rude people and gross weather. And I'm impatient to get back to my chile and cats and cute airport.

2)I live in Albuquerque, we really do have The Best airport. Cute, just right size to comfortably walk the terminal, has tons of good seating & great views. If I'm leaving town I NEED time for a last post-security greenchile cheese burger/breakfast burrito & pinion coffee. That's just the rules here

1) I don't drink. And even when I did the airport was not the place I wanted to to it. You do know you can not make everything about booze, right?

Apparently while I was in the TA saltmines I missed you all arguing about getting to the airport early?

Same on the mixing and moving problem.

But I was born in Colorado and spent some child/teen years there so going with Rocky Mountain Oysters.

I often unfollow accounts for "ai" content. If I wanted copilot bullshit I would ask it myself. LLMs are notorious for dangerously false info and should be recalled for harming consumers.

omg, this! I struggle with getting students to explore anti-abortion thought seriously, anti-suffrage thought seriously, anti-vax thought seriously. My famous refrain in all of my classes is, "We have to take our historical actors seriously!"

Lol. Could save two days drive and just go to Farmington or Roswell. Can get a full immersion experience of bigotry much closer to home than Iowa.

Like the anti-social sites which should not be named in polite company.

I like Mutual Aid but have not read the new edition yet. I've seen it work well in a varying-levels group.

What's your stance on education workers, including graduate students?

Student [to their friends]: I am never telling you who I have a crush on.

Me: Well, that means you'll never get married because getting married is just telling the whole world who you have a crush on.

Student: Oh god. I never thought about it that way.

About 2x/yr I go check in on the bad places and um, wow, no wonder no one is OK.

He really should have taken history of western civ and learned about WWI flu casualty rates

I like landscape, looks like would hold more books that way. And with a little edge the curve could still be a shelf for something interesting.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

I think both might be the answer?

And remind me when I'm not dead inside and we can chat oil industry. For now: oil execs can't have the gap between oil & solar get any worse for them or they'll be sunk. They HAVE to keep prices as low as possible or risk losing entirely.

This hits hard today. Part of my rage at the moment is that I can excuse absences and have a comforting office but I can't fix the system.

What a Monday. So tired I feel mean and want to talk trash and when is it my turn to have a tantrum?

Anyways, gonna go take a shower and try to get to bed early.

It absolutely is.

And I absolutely sent him to the same office previously mentioned in hopes they can help him at least get temp accommodations or something, anything to find some scraps of support. I can excuse work, have a safe office space & human sympathy but am not qualified for what he needs.

Same in American Studies. lol. Gonna have a real nice discussion about institutions replicating inequality and the need to know the norms to survive.

Fuck that. Also, I had a different student who has genuinely A LOT going on and really needed a professional to talk to and they turned him away. I, too, have RAGE.

They want flexibility for them but me to be constantly on call answering email at all hours and on all days and somehow don't seem to get the disconnect there.

Thank you for articulating that. I think it is part of my speechlessness bec we've all been so deeply failed by the institution in so many ways.

Lol. Yeah. My kids are 18 & 21 so I have a strong set of boundaries around other people needing to FAFO is not my problem.

Right? And I am really clear that everyone gets 2 lowest grades dropped and I have generous office hours if they want to come make something up. It is entirely up to them to show up if they want to fix a bad grade. Which another student did do this morning!

That's good to hear! We will be having that discussion now.

Unfortunately I am the graduate student instructor of record on this one so it remains my problem.

Indeed!

Aaaaand they cut the funding for it this last year and turned it into basically just how to resister for classes and do paperwork with none of the important socialization content anymore.

I did have that discussion on the 1st day... which one of them didn't attend.

AND it is in the syllabus, which clearly no one has read....

I emailed her back before noon on Monday which seems like a very fast turn around to me!

And yes, I am. FML.

Maybe I'll also discuss concepts like the hidden curriculum and grad student working conditions, while I'm at it. I can even tie it in with course content and make this really solid.