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orichalcum) wrote2009-01-05 03:54 pm
orichalcum) wrote2009-01-05 03:54 pm
Bads, Goods, and Weirds
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.
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.
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And yay for kicking Manticore! :)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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... I perhaps ought to consider a back-up plan. :)
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Maybe Obama will give us all awesome dental insurance?
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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.
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