How Do You Feel Today? v4
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- Cagliostro
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Thanks everyone, and especially you Savor for offering something many have not been able to...empirical hope.
And StevieG...funny, I thought I was the only one that felt we were kindred spirits.
And StevieG...funny, I thought I was the only one that felt we were kindred spirits.
Life is a waste of time
Time is a waste of life
So get wasted all of the time
And you'll have the time of your life
- deer of the dawn
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Cags: Please keep us posted. <3
Here in Jos, I am in my classroom working (lunch break now). Our school is probably the only school in West Africa posting all of our classwork on Google Classroom and other online assets, and it's been quite a learning curve. It's not likely that we'll be able to reopen before the end of the school year, so this might be it. (Stag of the dawn and I both tried working from home, but our internet sucks there so we're at school today.)
Going out, it didn't look much different from any ordinary day. Some businesses were closed (those who aren't selling food, pharmaceuticals, cooking gas, or telecommunications) but there were still plenty of people out and about. Using the kekes (three-wheeled conveyances you see in every movie about Thailand or India), crowding the marketplace, walking around doing whatever. The panic on seeing non-black people seems to have abated (the assumption was that all foreigners could be infected).
We have an option of evacuating in a few days, a flight arranged by the US Embassy, but there are a lot of reasons why it's probably just as well we stay put. We are still praying for guidance on this, but I think we're operating on the thinking that we're staying here.
In some positive news, all my family are well, so far. Also I will no longer teach grade 3 after this year, next year I will be an Assistant Principal (while continuing to teach K-5 Music part time as well). I'm like, yay. Who knows if the school will be here next year?
Glad to see people here are checking in, keeping our spirits up here.
Here in Jos, I am in my classroom working (lunch break now). Our school is probably the only school in West Africa posting all of our classwork on Google Classroom and other online assets, and it's been quite a learning curve. It's not likely that we'll be able to reopen before the end of the school year, so this might be it. (Stag of the dawn and I both tried working from home, but our internet sucks there so we're at school today.)
Going out, it didn't look much different from any ordinary day. Some businesses were closed (those who aren't selling food, pharmaceuticals, cooking gas, or telecommunications) but there were still plenty of people out and about. Using the kekes (three-wheeled conveyances you see in every movie about Thailand or India), crowding the marketplace, walking around doing whatever. The panic on seeing non-black people seems to have abated (the assumption was that all foreigners could be infected).
We have an option of evacuating in a few days, a flight arranged by the US Embassy, but there are a lot of reasons why it's probably just as well we stay put. We are still praying for guidance on this, but I think we're operating on the thinking that we're staying here.
In some positive news, all my family are well, so far. Also I will no longer teach grade 3 after this year, next year I will be an Assistant Principal (while continuing to teach K-5 Music part time as well). I'm like, yay. Who knows if the school will be here next year?
Glad to see people here are checking in, keeping our spirits up here.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. -Philo of Alexandria
ahhhh... if only all our creativity in wickedness could be fixed by "Corrupt a Wish." - Linna Heartlistener
ahhhh... if only all our creativity in wickedness could be fixed by "Corrupt a Wish." - Linna Heartlistener
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Woke up inside the Island of La Grande Jaffe again. That's three days running this painting by Seurat has cast such a spell on me.
Getting a little irritated by this so, imagined walking to the dark rectangle on the far side and entered as if through a door ...
hopefully this has put and end to the mysterious infatuation.
Getting a little irritated by this so, imagined walking to the dark rectangle on the far side and entered as if through a door ...
hopefully this has put and end to the mysterious infatuation.
- Cagliostro
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Actually, my 8 year old daughter did a prank yesterday that was glorious. I was going to post a picture of it, but I don't have an online post a picture thing, and I can't get it to work through Facebook. So, I'll describe it.
Essentially, she got some cardboard, taped it to the toilet underneath the seat so that the toilet itself was covered, cut a small hole in the cardboard, and wrote "Expert Mode" next to the hole.
I almost didn't see it.
Essentially, she got some cardboard, taped it to the toilet underneath the seat so that the toilet itself was covered, cut a small hole in the cardboard, and wrote "Expert Mode" next to the hole.
I almost didn't see it.
Life is a waste of time
Time is a waste of life
So get wasted all of the time
And you'll have the time of your life
- Linna Heartbooger
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Oh, Cags!
That is amazing... sounds like she "gets" the sense of humor that is fitting to you / the males in your house.
(says the person who, when one of her munchkins was littler than he is now actually had him use air-scare-quotes* on the words "delicious food." In reference to food I required him to eat.)
understood! then you probably have a sense of where all my time is getting sucked away to now that it feels very legit to spend large hours of my life online. which is what i had wanted to do anyway but was usually so conflicted about.
Av- have u made any Discord servers yet?
* Air scare-quotes? Finger scare-quotes? What do people call it when someone tries to use scare quotes in person when they're talking out loud?
That is amazing... sounds like she "gets" the sense of humor that is fitting to you / the males in your house.
(says the person who, when one of her munchkins was littler than he is now actually had him use air-scare-quotes* on the words "delicious food." In reference to food I required him to eat.)
...I'm already lagging a different RP type thing (although not a "traditional" game) on a Discord I'm on...
understood! then you probably have a sense of where all my time is getting sucked away to now that it feels very legit to spend large hours of my life online. which is what i had wanted to do anyway but was usually so conflicted about.
Av- have u made any Discord servers yet?
* Air scare-quotes? Finger scare-quotes? What do people call it when someone tries to use scare quotes in person when they're talking out loud?
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
Hey Cag, you're in our thoughts. Keep us posted.
I'm looking at switching to working from home. Honestly, I've asked my employer about it before, but now they're actually letting people. Unfortunately, when we tested my connection it wasn't fast enough - they want a decent buffer to ensure service quality.
But I'm switching to Comcast (even though I hate those bastards) to make it possible. Plus, it'll be nice pulling the trigger on buying a game and not having to wait several hours for it to download - maybe only one or two
I'm looking at switching to working from home. Honestly, I've asked my employer about it before, but now they're actually letting people. Unfortunately, when we tested my connection it wasn't fast enough - they want a decent buffer to ensure service quality.
But I'm switching to Comcast (even though I hate those bastards) to make it possible. Plus, it'll be nice pulling the trigger on buying a game and not having to wait several hours for it to download - maybe only one or two
"You make me think Hell is run like a corporation."
"It's the other way around, but yes."
Obaki, Too Much Information
"It's the other way around, but yes."
Obaki, Too Much Information
- Sorus
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I've always just called them air quotes.Linna Heartbooger wrote:
* Air scare-quotes? Finger scare-quotes? What do people call it when someone tries to use scare quotes in person when they're talking out loud?
Oh, a change is coming, feel these doors now closing
Is there no world for tomorrow, if we wait for today?
- Sorus
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Despite the fact that I am still working Mon-Fri (though on a reduced schedule), it really is all starting to run together. At the end of last Wednesday my boss said 'See you Monday' and we both stopped and had to think about that for a minute. I knew it wasn't Friday, but it took me a minute to come up with what day it actually was.
They're shutting down most of the bus lines here, so that should make my commute more interesting, and not in a good way. They're promising the worst transportation day since the quake of 1906, and unlike most of their promises, this is one they can probably deliver on.
The mask I ordered on Etsy will hopefully arrive early this week. I feel a bit self-conscious wearing a mask, so I will probably add my steampunk goggles and some chainmail - if you're going to be weird you might as well fully own it.
They're shutting down most of the bus lines here, so that should make my commute more interesting, and not in a good way. They're promising the worst transportation day since the quake of 1906, and unlike most of their promises, this is one they can probably deliver on.
The mask I ordered on Etsy will hopefully arrive early this week. I feel a bit self-conscious wearing a mask, so I will probably add my steampunk goggles and some chainmail - if you're going to be weird you might as well fully own it.
Oh, a change is coming, feel these doors now closing
Is there no world for tomorrow, if we wait for today?