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I work in Higher Ed. History PhD; MSLS. Ex-librarylander/resrch admin; you get the idea. I post about baseball, birding, cats, & etc.
l still have hope despite everything & am endeavoring to be kind. Opinions strictly my own; she/her/hers. KY
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So I got straight up "middle class," but a lot of the test is geared around meat? So all of my "ew no that's revolting" selections are mostly about which ones are meaty.
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During the pandemic, people often asked for my opinion. I told them that I can tell them about past pandemics, but I couldn't necessarily predict how the current one would play out. History can be a powerful guide. But nothing in the present or future is fixed. I think there's hope in this message.
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I confess I was expecting "Pnina Tornai, but make it blingier" -and that honestly would have been better.
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Another series that I thought ended well for most of the main characters' arcs: Big Love. Oh, and The Americans!
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All the good wishes as you take the next step on the new path. You'll be awesome.
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Our yard seems to have a goodly number of fireflies this summer!
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The new terminal at MCI is indeed very nice! I found the old one to be pretty depressing TBH but my parents loved it because they could park right outside the terminal and not get confused about parking. Now they understand how cell phone lots work and I think they're coming around.
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It is definitely iced coffee all the time right now at my house.
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Hey! This is great. You'll be great. All of that! :)
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The Lives of Others is still a movie I think about often, especially in <waves hands> current times. I've still only watched it once, perhaps out of a weird fear that it won't be as good as I remember?
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I am so sorry about your Jack.
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Our feline overladies are happy to contribute.
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I ditched my long-time OBGYN because she was starting to book annual appointments *a full year* out.
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He is even holding the cat correctly with appropriate support!
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I can't imagine I'm the only one hearing "The Room Where it Happens" in my head right now.
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it baffles me why more people wouldn't want to have this brief interlude from a Richard Scarry book in their lives.
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Are you getting temps from Tass to write this?
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If the OP is in a location with a large university and it's anything like the one where I used to work, said uni was desperate to hire in house temps. The same people then not infrequently got hired into regular full-time positions in their departments.
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Kevin, I'm so so sorry about both Lulu and Megatron. Extra internet scritches for Yoshi. Our feline overladies send their love too.
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That was the one common vaccine on the adult schedule that Walgreen's denied me. I might try again. The pharmacist on duty told me that if I was under 60, I'd have to be immunocompromised to get it - which doesn't quite match their own guidelines, but I must not have felt like arguing that day.
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Qualtrics run amok! I have probably screened an instrument from a research protocol at some point that actually looked like that.
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I'll be sorry to see you leave too, but I completely understand. I'll keep an eye out for your work. All the best to you.
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I think about this episode sometimes, including when I see burned out porch lights in my neighborhood. People complain about our (pretty laissez faire HOA for 2025), and yet. 👀
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I am glad that the concern seems to have been considerably overblown. Yikes.
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That's my grad school alma mater & it makes me extremely sad. From the school that had Herman B Wells as a president.
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Oh nooooooo. I'm so sorry. I hope your symptoms are mild and that you're able to take it easy for several days.
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I always think about oral contraceptives like this, especially when I think about the robust market for alternative history sci-fi that is usually about "what if x won the y war instead of z." I was certainly not around when the pill rolled out! But, women's history undergrad major and so forth.
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Back in the day, MapQuest advised us to drive down logging roads in Michigan that no longer existed.
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Again, along with the "federal budgets cuts are an existential crisis" conversation that we need to be having, we need to be having the "if you don't fund us, you don't get to control us" conversation re: state governments. Public universities are jewels. But they're not publicly funded anymore.
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I've been angry for years that states want to fund a fraction of the operations of state unis but have 100% of the say.
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My work computer keeps getting updates pushed that include Copilot and I keep having to uninstall it. 🤦
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And all of your students use block print letters and nobody knows cursive anymore, I'm guessing? (based on peeks at my spouse's tests these days)
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It's probably going to be a bit too chilly to leave my windows open tonight where I live! Flove it!
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About the same where I live. Iced tea already in the fridge, but I'm sitting out on the porch eating tiny little local strawberries, and I've seen a hummingbird already since I got out here. :)