saraluckelman.bsky.social
#Logician, #Onomast, #Medievalist, #AcademicMama, #Author, #Immigrant, founder of SFFReviews.com and @EllipsisImprint. Co-president of @ducu. Own views. Robot.
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I keep meaning to give it a listen. The show I went to in Amsterdam ~15 years ago where they came on stage, played all of Hidden, and then left, with ZERO audience interaction, remains one of the best shows I've ever been to.
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Frozen pizzas and M&Ms straight from the grocery store, because I spent far too much time this afternoon dealing with the Brazilian eVisa website to actually plan for/prep/cook the supper I had thought I'd get to do, since I had the day off...
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SKEEPS. I DID IT. I ticked 14 items off my todo list today, and there is currently NOTHING ON TODAY'S TODO LIST!
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In an ongoing attempt to take all my annual leave in a given year, I have the day off today.
This means there's only 12 items on my todo list! But 71 unread emails from the last week...
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Devious!
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I don't have a local nemesis, but I did recently exchange trainer codes with someone who works at the same uni as me, and she was like, wait, YOU'RE [user name redacted], I always see you in gyms! and I felt like a local celeb.
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Accomplished 11 things today (yeah, I'm calling it now, I can already tell I am going to get *nothing* done tonight), leaving 10 on the list. Unread emails from the last week count: down to 35!
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@vickyblake.bsky.social representing Leeds UCU at the National Rally in Newcastle.
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I was SO PLEASED, because it turned out I didn't have any appropriate meetings yesterday, and G reported back a lower mark in her Latin exam than she had been expecting, so it would've felt a bit mean to call her that instead of reminding her one exam doesn't determine her worth.
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Only 18 items on my todo list for today, and only 3 of them are overdue! But back up to 63 unread emails received in the last week.
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I accomplished *19* items on my todo list today (leaving 13 remaining on it...), and managed to reduce my "unread emails received in the last week" from 105 to *37*.
I am exhausted.
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Heh, curious to see your user handle, as I run sffreviews.com!
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I never would have thought to find a fiction book that overlaps the content of our nonfiction class in this way, and so wanted to recommend it all to you!”
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couple of weeks — questions of language and translation, questions of access and exclusion, questions of colonization and colonialism, issues of industrial action and the origin of the word ‘strike’.
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(OTOH, I *have* read Babel, and read it at a time where it was so timely to what was going on in my institution, I recommended it to my students:
“Despite being set in alternate-universe 1830s Oxford, the story is remarkably apt for what we have been talking about, and living through, in the last
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I can't answer this question because I haven't read very much dark academia SFF, but I suspect that this fact is very closely tied to the fact that I am an academic working in an institutional context that is swallowing me alive and don't really care to read stories about that...
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the university as an accessory to predation if not as a predator itself, an indifferent machine that grinds up those desperate enough to take a devil's bargain in debt and crushes them if they falter even for an instant?
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I then gave the CV to incoming students during induction week and as an exercise made them find all the errors in it. I hope that that served as encouragement to not rely on ChatGPT during their studies...
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I once asked it for my CV. It was *fascinating* to learn that I went to university in Colorado (I have been in Colorado a sum total of less than 12 hours in my entire life), and that I'm a fellow of some Royal Society or other.
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I can TOTALLY work "sea potato" into one of my work meetings today. Or in convo with me kid.
It's definitely an insult that needs prefacing with "absolute".
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30 items on Tuesday's todo list. 6 overdue. 9 due today. 219 unread emails in my inbox, 105 of which arrived in the last week.
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16 tasks accomplished. 13 still left on todo list. Down to only 51 unread emails that have arrived in the last week.
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The data speaks for itself. Arts, languages, literature and history have high job placement while Computer Science is facing massive failure in placing graduates. Clearly CS is a ripoff degree with poor value for money. (Tone acidic sarcasm) futurism.com/computer-sci...
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to the extent that it felt like they almost broke the fourth wall.
I really enjoyed that. This "social commentary" aspect is also one of the reasons why I think "The Eclipse" is one of GMMTV's best series.
It's an aspect I don't often find in US dramas. Maybe I'm just watching the wrong ones.
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In fact, one of the things I really liked about S2 was one of the things I really liked about Beyond Evil -- both of them were not just good stories, but they also felt like they were very pointed social commentaries on contemporary Korean legal systems and structures --
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But they pulled it off! All the same characters -- plus some new ones, a new story -- but one that was both deeply tied to details from the previous season AND entirely new. A friend had described the "enemy" in season 2 as the system, rather than any specific criminal, and I thought that was apt.
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We smoked the last one an hour ago.
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Wait, there were Protestants in the 15th C?! They must have been VERY secret indeed.
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Heh, I am currently at 4.9k followers...
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Next week's todo list has 43 items on it.
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4. Of what needs to happen every week, I can accomplish barely half of it. There is just *too much work* for one person.
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Across the entire week, I received over 400 emails, of which I was able to deal with ~330, leaving 70 waiting for me to also deal with next week. Some are asking for updates on tasks that I need to be doing. I can either *do tasks* or I can respond to emails about doing tasks, but not both.
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3. I managed to be this productive this week only because I almost completely ignored my email. Of the roughly 60 messages that came in on Friday, I was able to deal with/respond to only 20 of them. The rest will roll over to next week.
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2. Every day I managed to accomplish more than what was due that day -- and yet I *still* moved 7 items to next week's todo list which are past their due-date, some of them massively.
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Conclusions:
1. Completing an average of 11 quantifiable tasks every week day is honestly Damn Impressive, and is evidence that I am (a) not a slacker, (b) extraordinarily efficient and productive, and (c) quite well organized.