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posted by [personal profile] orichalcum at 03:54pm on 05/01/2009
Bad: You know a cold has gotten even more unfun when your poor wrecked nose starts bleeding...

Good: I felt the Manticore kick this morning!

Bad: This @%@#$@%@%@#$@ cold has meant that I didn't get much work or writing done this break.

Good: I'm immensely looking forward to teaching my next course, which has an awesomely funny professor - who advised me and the other way cool fellow not to do too much work this quarter and to focus on our academic writing, not the "benighted little angels."

Bad: I'm not going to my academic conference this weekend, due to, well, a lack of reasons to go.

Good: I'm not going to my academic conference this weekend, which, frankly, is not exactly a barrel of laughs at any point.

Bad: My teeth are still kinda tingly and hurty in cold weather.

Good: I didn't get a root canal over break, because apparently I don't need one. I may need implants for my mutant baby teeth, but they can't do that till 6 months after I give birth, anyway.

Bad: I'm feeling kinda overwhelmed by social commitments right now.

Good: I get to see lots of awesome people in the next two weeks!

Weirds: General piece of advice for folks and their siblings: When submitting an email address for use by an alumni college interviewer, "insanejohn@gmailcom" (actual first name changed) is not necessarily the right way to send a first impression. While "bookcrazy" is slightly better, it still leads me to associate you with mental illness rather than, say, the qualities I'm really looking for in a future student of my institution.

My classes this quarter have a 2-1 or, in one case, 3-1 (12-4) M-F ratio. Two male profs, two female fellows. This is going to be...interesting.
Music:: Part of This World
Mood:: 'sick' sick
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posted by [identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com at 12:19am on 06/01/2009
HUGS. And virtual chicken soup. Colds SUCK and I hope you feel better soon!

And yay for kicking Manticore! :)
 
posted by [identity profile] meepodeekin.livejournal.com at 12:21am on 06/01/2009
Hee hee. I remember when we started at Yale and you could still choose your own username. One (slightly crazy) friend of mine ended up stuck forever with the email address "yaleboy@yale.edu". We told him not to at the time, but he didn't regret it until he was applying for jobs...And that's not nearly as bad as "insanejohn" is.

I'm sorry about the cold. I know all about the sadly unproductive winter break, more's the pity. In any case, it sounds like there are several goods out there. And I look forward to hearing teaching stories about your crazy gender balance. Unsurprisingly, it's a problem I see a lot of, so I'll be interested in your take.


 
posted by [identity profile] hca.livejournal.com at 03:25am on 06/01/2009
Yay for kicking Manticore, indeed. And I'm sorry to hear about the sucky things.

Did I know that you had mutant baby teeth? It's one of my claims to fame! Five "retained deciduous teeth"! (or however you spell that) I have been to a few dentists as I've moved around, and none of them have ever met anyone with five. They're all impressed. Um... yay? I expect implants are in my future, too.
 
posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 03:46am on 06/01/2009
Yes, we have discussed our shared kindred before on LJ, in fact! I only have 2, so you clearly have more superpowers than I do.

Sadly, according to my endodontist (who I really liked! Why is it that the medical professionals I like the most are the ones who refuse to work on me because they're non-interventionist???), implants are usually not covered by most dental insurances and mega-expensive, so you want to save up and shop around. Mine have lasted so far, but now are decaying and curving in ways that if they last too much longer, they'll require even more extensive surgery eventually. :( But still, not a problem for another year...and maybe I'll somehow wind up in a job with the awesomest dental insurance ever.
 
posted by [identity profile] kenjari.livejournal.com at 04:08am on 06/01/2009
Also, it can take about two months from the beginning of the process until the implants are fully installed.
 
posted by [identity profile] hca.livejournal.com at 04:07am on 06/01/2009
Yeah... I did (sadly) know that they're considered optional by most insurance companies. Optional, my ass. I need them to chew. I have been dealing with this by covering my ears, chanting lalalalala, and planning to be the one person ever who makes it to 100 with all of them still functioning fine and implant-free.

... I perhaps ought to consider a back-up plan. :)
 
posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 05:15am on 06/01/2009
Well, this has also been my approach until now. Now in cold weather, my jaw hurts...

Maybe Obama will give us all awesome dental insurance?

 
posted by [identity profile] pseudosilence.livejournal.com at 05:54pm on 06/01/2009
So sorry about the cold. I hope we aren't the guilty culprits for giving it to you.

Also, as someone whose senior major class had an even worse male to female ratio (12-2), I suspect the women in the class will be very glad of the female fellows, however odd the power dynamics.
 
posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 06:54pm on 06/01/2009
I don't think so...I think this is something I already had and is just taking a heckuva long time to get over.

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