I’ve set it in another post, but going to back to college for my MBA as a millennial parent of 3 is really fucking hard. I’m doing homework from 9pm to Midnight every single night with only an occasional bathroom break and to check out Meh at 11. The worst part is I’m on class 3 of like 26, so I’m still in the early stages of this cycle of suck. I just want to go back to the days of putting the kids to bed and reading a book or something.
I’m now working on an Organizational Behaviors class which seems easy enough on the surface but is a LOT of reading and writing so many papers.
@show_the_maw My father didn’t stay up late, but rather got up very early (four thirty ish) most days for many months to study for a real estate license, while he was working as a public employee. He was in his late forties about then.
Props to him; he got his license.
If it is for something you really want to do, keep your goals in sight.
On a related note, I read “Organizational Behaviors” and it immediately made me think of two things: Companies acting badly and Employees trying to unionize. Both of which led me to thinking of A**z*n. Maybe therein lies your future.
@phendrick You know, I’m really proud of your dad.
So far I’ve been pretty disappointed with how out of date (2002? Hello) some of the reading material has been for this class. Anything older than 2021 really needs to be taken with a grain of salt and teaching some of these old methodologies are going to get some classmates in trouble if they try and implement these leadership styles against today’s workforce. Oh well. I’ve left my comments in the discussions but it’s up to the professor to change her ways.
@phendrick@show_the_maw - oops I had forgotten you were doing online… so likely this why they aren’t updated. Plus with online whomever is teaching the class generally has zero degrees of freedom. They are given the shell and required to follow it without any changes. With online the university usually makes many of the decisions that are left to faculty if the class was face to face.
When you get fed up just say to yourself over and over “There are good reasons why I decided to do this. The fact that I can’t think of any of them right now is not good enough reason to quit.”.
@PooltoyWolf
[You didn’t mention the others: Your inflatable and whoever took the piicture.}
If you had said “depressive rain” or “repressive rain” or even “impressive rain”, I would have thought, “Oh, OK, hope you get some sunshine”.
But in what way is rain “oppressive”? Like some political policies? I’ve heard a heat wave called oppressive, but never rain or any other weather event. (I guess a tornado or hurricane could be oppressive, though.)
Maybe too much meta for somebody at the beach; ENJOY YOUR VACATION! Watch out for broken glass, jelly fish, sharks, and drunk spring breakers who forgot to go back to college.
@phendrick Mom took the photo, and Loba is the name of the inflatable German Shepherd. I used the word ‘oppressive’ in the same way I’ve heard other locals use it to describe the seemingly never-ending rain that prevents you from doing everything you want to do outside! Though even inside the condo, there’s plenty to do. (LEGO sets, movies, and just snuggling, to name a few.)
@phendrick@PooltoyWolf I didn’t understand the word ‘oppressive’ for weather until I spent time in the South in Summer. Coming from the West coast I didn’t understand the concept of humidity as something to ever notice or worry about. Then living in Houston for a while for work, ‘oppressive humidity’ made sense finally. The 100/100 especially: 100 degrees and nearly 100% humudity.
@phendrick@pmarin So much so that the official Orlando airport Twitter has made a sort of meme about the feeling you get when you walk out of the airport.
My standard answer to a question like that is: Average
Because I typically am doing “OK” - nothing too bad and nothing exceptional.
I like to reserve my superlatives for special occasions so that they don’t lose their meaning.
(Besides, the asker usually doesn’t really care and is just making idle conversation anyway.)
@Kyeh Thanks. I’m doing better. Yesterday morning, I couldn’t say “spaghetti”. It kept coming out “pasketti”. It never lasts long, never longer than an hour. And since I know what it is, it’s not scary. Brian usually says “go take a pill” when I let him know I’ve lost my words, meaning Excedrin migraine. That helps.
I’ve been lucky that the headaches have rarely lasted longer than a day.
@Kyeh It was, I couldn’t figure out what was happening. The words came back, followed by the headache and it all made sense.
I have a friend who is triggered by the sun and heat. It wasn’t any fun for her when they went and visited family in Arizona in the summer.
The coolest thing (my first migraine) was my eyesight. Honestly, it wasn’t scary, I was just amazed at what I was seeing. I couldn’t focus in the center, but there was like a circle around my iris and it was made of rainbow-filled, puffy zigzags. I’ve never done hallucinogens, but I imagine that was kinda what they look like.
As long as there was no pain, I was okay. lol I’m not a fan of pain.
@Kyeh@lisaviolet The rainbow filled puffy zigzag can also be a floater, a physical artifact inside the eye. I have at least two. For some people, having one of those contact the retina triggers an instant migraine.
@lisaviolet@werehatrack That’s fascinating - it made me wonder whether Louis Wain might have had headaches like that? (Evidently the schizophrenia diagnosis is disputed now by some people.)
Meh
I am doing well.
I’ve set it in another post, but going to back to college for my MBA as a millennial parent of 3 is really fucking hard. I’m doing homework from 9pm to Midnight every single night with only an occasional bathroom break and to check out Meh at 11. The worst part is I’m on class 3 of like 26, so I’m still in the early stages of this cycle of suck. I just want to go back to the days of putting the kids to bed and reading a book or something.
I’m now working on an Organizational Behaviors class which seems easy enough on the surface but is a LOT of reading and writing so many papers.
@show_the_maw My father didn’t stay up late, but rather got up very early (four thirty ish) most days for many months to study for a real estate license, while he was working as a public employee. He was in his late forties about then.
Props to him; he got his license.
If it is for something you really want to do, keep your goals in sight.
On a related note, I read “Organizational Behaviors” and it immediately made me think of two things: Companies acting badly and Employees trying to unionize. Both of which led me to thinking of A**z*n. Maybe therein lies your future.
@phendrick You know, I’m really proud of your dad.
So far I’ve been pretty disappointed with how out of date (2002? Hello) some of the reading material has been for this class. Anything older than 2021 really needs to be taken with a grain of salt and teaching some of these old methodologies are going to get some classmates in trouble if they try and implement these leadership styles against today’s workforce. Oh well. I’ve left my comments in the discussions but it’s up to the professor to change her ways.
@phendrick @show_the_maw If these are online classes they often only update them every 5 years or so.
@phendrick @show_the_maw - oops I had forgotten you were doing online… so likely this why they aren’t updated. Plus with online whomever is teaching the class generally has zero degrees of freedom. They are given the shell and required to follow it without any changes. With online the university usually makes many of the decisions that are left to faculty if the class was face to face.
When you get fed up just say to yourself over and over “There are good reasons why I decided to do this. The fact that I can’t think of any of them right now is not good enough reason to quit.”.
@show_the_maw
If you haven’t already seen it, it might help your determination to watch [about 10 minutes]:
Not super good, not super bad. In other words, super meh.
@ACraigL, is there a tee shirt for us supermehn?
@phendrick will this do?
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/sleepyman-sleepygirl
@ACraigL
[political comment removed]
I’m spending the week at the beach with my boyfriend! It’s nice, between the constant oppressive rain.
@PooltoyWolf
[You didn’t mention the others: Your inflatable and whoever took the piicture.}
If you had said “depressive rain” or “repressive rain” or even “impressive rain”, I would have thought, “Oh, OK, hope you get some sunshine”.
But in what way is rain “oppressive”? Like some political policies? I’ve heard a heat wave called oppressive, but never rain or any other weather event. (I guess a tornado or hurricane could be oppressive, though.)
Maybe too much meta for somebody at the beach; ENJOY YOUR VACATION! Watch out for broken glass, jelly fish, sharks, and drunk spring breakers who forgot to go back to college.
@PooltoyWolf I really could go for a week at the beach right about now. Enjoy it!
@phendrick Mom took the photo, and Loba is the name of the inflatable German Shepherd. I used the word ‘oppressive’ in the same way I’ve heard other locals use it to describe the seemingly never-ending rain that prevents you from doing everything you want to do outside! Though even inside the condo, there’s plenty to do. (LEGO sets, movies, and just snuggling, to name a few.)
@phendrick @PooltoyWolf I didn’t understand the word ‘oppressive’ for weather until I spent time in the South in Summer. Coming from the West coast I didn’t understand the concept of humidity as something to ever notice or worry about. Then living in Houston for a while for work, ‘oppressive humidity’ made sense finally. The 100/100 especially: 100 degrees and nearly 100% humudity.
@phendrick @pmarin So much so that the official Orlando airport Twitter has made a sort of meme about the feeling you get when you walk out of the airport.
@pmarin I live in Houston. I grew up in Miami. I moved to Houston for the cool, dry climate - and that is not an exaggeration.
Where did I run into this sinus infection?
@hchavers Mine tend to fall from the trees and other flowering plants, and the skies.
The problem is, you don’t have to run very fast to run into them, and you cannot run fast enough to escape from them.
Alive and grateful.
Better than my coworkers whose kids have strep throat this week.
I wrote a song about, wanna hear it? Hear it goes…
/showme I’m fine
My standard answer to a question like that is: Average
Because I typically am doing “OK” - nothing too bad and nothing exceptional.
I like to reserve my superlatives for special occasions so that they don’t lose their meaning.
(Besides, the asker usually doesn’t really care and is just making idle conversation anyway.)
@macromeh My usual responses are *Still vertical" and " I’ll know later".
Migraine week. Transient aphasia. Fun aural stuff.
Stupid ass weather.
But I did get a Pinnacle Moviebox Usb-710 up and running on a win 11 machine. Now I can copy digital tape from the Canon Elura 100 to the laptop.
Yay!
@lisaviolet
I hope you feel better soon!
@Kyeh Thanks. I’m doing better. Yesterday morning, I couldn’t say “spaghetti”. It kept coming out “pasketti”. It never lasts long, never longer than an hour. And since I know what it is, it’s not scary. Brian usually says “go take a pill” when I let him know I’ve lost my words, meaning Excedrin migraine. That helps.
I’ve been lucky that the headaches have rarely lasted longer than a day.
@lisaviolet I had no idea migraines could do that - how bizarre! It must have been scary the first time it happened.
@Kyeh It was, I couldn’t figure out what was happening. The words came back, followed by the headache and it all made sense.
I have a friend who is triggered by the sun and heat. It wasn’t any fun for her when they went and visited family in Arizona in the summer.
The coolest thing (my first migraine) was my eyesight. Honestly, it wasn’t scary, I was just amazed at what I was seeing. I couldn’t focus in the center, but there was like a circle around my iris and it was made of rainbow-filled, puffy zigzags. I’ve never done hallucinogens, but I imagine that was kinda what they look like.
As long as there was no pain, I was okay. lol I’m not a fan of pain.
@Kyeh @lisaviolet The rainbow filled puffy zigzag can also be a floater, a physical artifact inside the eye. I have at least two. For some people, having one of those contact the retina triggers an instant migraine.
@Kyeh @werehatrack Interesting.
I’ve had less than five in the years since I started getting migraines, so I like to know more about them.
@lisaviolet @werehatrack That’s fascinating - it made me wonder whether Louis Wain might have had headaches like that?
(Evidently the schizophrenia diagnosis is disputed now by some people.)