#ooc

Ideas for later

Shipped out a bunch of stuff to all coworkers for a meeting we're having today. One person doesn't have it yet.

ME  [7:37 AM]
What's up with your package delivery?  Did you request to have packages held?

Tracking Number: 9405503699300139104814
Your item is being held at the CHICAGO, IL 60626 post office at 7:55 pm on December 1, 2020. This is at the request of the customer.

COWORKER  [7:56 AM]
No, I don't have any holds. I never spoke to anyone

ME  [7:57 AM]
OKay. Looks like you need to go to the post office to pick up your package.

COWORKER  [7:57 AM]
nah, I'm yelling at them
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I get that is your perogative

but the post office is 2 blocks from your house

and we are all waiting on you, and otherwise will have to reschedule the all-hands meeting

jerk-ass

UGH

/roll coin

Work is being a Thing today

No worries. I will leave the scene with Lavender paused 🙂

❤️ and not ignoring you

I know G

BUT

the package mysteriously arrived!

So that's one thing fixed from earlier

¯\(ツ)/¯

A watched Pot never joints

wait..

/roll 1

mmm

One character short of a solid 10 NPCs for a roll-off. The Dogs get an entry 😄

I will attend very slowly and as I give in to temptation between pressing tasks

waves Popping in briefly during lunch.

I should start lunch....

Lunch = lettuce, cold cooked sweet potato, leftover turkey, and honey mustard dressing. And an apple. Not too shabby.

sigh Students...my "live office hours" are from 9:30 to noon, every damn day. How come I'm getting emails from four of you at 12:05?

children or adult students?

11th and 12th graders.

so - both

at the same time

bless

oh dear

a lovely age

And trust me, pandemic in an inner-city, poverty-stricken context is not making it any better.

Oh, some of them aren't waking up till 10 🙂

Well, yeah...but some of them don't have any technology access at all. I see about a third of my total students regularly. About a fifth haven't shown up at all so far this year.

Oh geez

It's so stupid. internet should be considered a public utility before now, and ESPECIALLY now

But Net Neutrality is SOCIALISM

Yup.

We've been trying like crazy to get laptops to all the kids, but... shrug

meeting in 3 min - will follow back up after!

And then there are the ones who, yeah, are basically killing time until they age out.