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But this has too much ice for me. They warned us they couldn't get all the ice off. Let it be known NO ice/snow had been removed from the handicapped lot in and in front of the building was a literal rink. Another coworker was out and he walked in with me in case I couldn't do it (No issues0

The heaters are broken so the rooms are icy.

When I left at five all the feet had taken off the snow. It was a bare ice floe. I could barely walk to the car. I texted my coworker and said end your lab. You'll never make it in the dark. I called off for tomorrow. I missed Wednesday's lab might as well miss both.

That'll get me down to Gallipolis earlier so I can hit the library and lunch before my mammogram.

community recs just remember halfamoon, the prompts are up, let's celebrate the ladies of fandom

and fandomtrumpshate is up and running. Auction off your skills, help people. Fandom helping people is a great thing. I need to get my offer in.

Rocket made me laugh. He wanted out this morning. I opened the door. That -5 F (-21C) air hit him, he dropped to his belly, scuttled backwards and used his litter box. Yeah I thought so.

I had nightmares all night so I was hoping for that snow day. I pull the curtains and nothing so I don't check my phone. Heck when I rolled out at 9 AM it was 40. I get to work and I need my phone to get onto my teaching software and work email. to my surprise the sheriff has texted. Now good ol' sheriff frazier is loosey goosey with declaring snow emergencies. And it's not just level 1. No it had gotten up to level 3. That means I shouldn't have been on the road. PERIOD.

I'm baffled. It's 40. It's dry. Why is it level 3. Why do I have 20 emails saying they can't be there. Why did we close two branches of our campus north of me? What the hell happened 10 miles away from me? I ask everyone who drove much further. NO ONE saw any winter, not even north in Jackson. So this must have been the narrowest band storm in existence.

Now I know almost no one from the midwest to the east coast is escaping this weekend's snow. A coworker's daughter works at Kroger and you can't even order food. They're completely booked out. I do hope I can get up there tomorrow. Okay I HAVE food. I'm a bit of a food hoarder by nature. My real mission is to cook off several meals in case the power goes out. Given my power has been going out for no reason, I'm worried. I'm fine with being snowed in. Without power, much less so. And remember everyone fill your car's tank if you can. If you live where winter is, don't let that go below a half.

Today was annoying AF though. The lesson capture software won't work even with IT fucking around with it for 15 minutes. And yesterday (if I mentioned it) only half my class was in the online homework section so I have the book store manager look into this and she tells me I never asked for this (then why is half of them in there?) and I wanted a paper book. No I didn't ask for that and do you need me to send back YOUR emails saying you had set up the online purchase? When I got back from class I got an email 'it'll be fixed tomorrow.' Yeah...


I do have one community rec, one that I'm already a member of and have fun with halfamoon from their profile: Half a Moon is a fourteen day challenge celebrating female characters in fandom, which will run from February 1 through Valentine's Day. Fanfiction, vids, recs, art, picspam, icons, meta, fanmixes, and outside links to content fitting the theme of this community are all welcome--the only rule is that the primary focus must be on a female character or characters.


( check out the prompts under here )

It started good really. The first class went well. I answered a few emails from basketball girls who are gone this week and one anatomy student telling me for some reason she was put in DM's lab instead of mine. I said it has to be a mistake. We'll sort it after class.

I'm finally putting away Terror Town when a half dozen of my students come blazing up to my office. 'WE Were Pulled Out Of Your Lab!!!' WAAAAAH. WHY?

I get from them that the 'dean' ordered this. WTF? My dean is good about communicating and I can't imagine her doing this without telling me. I take the gaggle of anxious students down to DMs office because they're upset, they want my class, the head of their program wants them in my class since she rearranged her whole class schedule to fit them in there. Which yes that's true. It was a big drama after Thanksgiving.

DM's now upset because her labs can't take 26 more students. I run back to my office pull up my class schedule. It wasn't just that the ultrasound students were taken out of my friday lab. My lab is GONE. No trace of it. WHO would have done this?

I call my dean. She's at lunch. I call the nursing/allied health dean and she's like WTF are you talking about? I didn't do that. Talk to the registrar and get the paper telling them to cancel to the class to see who did it. Oh great idea. Before I can, my dean calls my chair. SHE didn't do it either.

Only she did via a rubber stamp (why are we rubber stamping stuff like this?) Turns out DM wanted to move her friday lab from 121 (which is MY lab and where my lab was at the same time...) but when they put things through going up the chain they accidentally dropped DM's lab number off and thought it was mine so combined my lab with DM's on thursday evening.

At least it was an easy fix. I told the students. They're like HOW did you get that fixed so fast. I was THAT angry, that's very motivating. I wrote an email to the others to explain and later found out so did my chair as an apology (she knows my temper and probably assumed I ripped someone's head off)

Everyone was traumatized. Nothing got done. Terror Town remains standing another day.

I come home to find a message from Carelon that said Medical Mutual (my former health care insurance) had contacted them about care for me. WTF?!? That's a behavioral health clinic. Is someone committing me and I don't know about it? At this point, that wouldn't be anyone's worst idea. So now I need to call them tomorrow.

I had planned during my office hour to finish a fandomtrees story but then all that happened and I didn't and now that person has 2 stories and doesn't need mine. Eh, I will finish it anyhow. There are still several trees with only one gift if anyone wants to take a shot.

Also I bought something over the weekend, the aluminum free deodorant. I figure it's winter I won't sweat too much. It's supposed to be healthier Monday I wasn't impressed with it. today with all the extra stress, I smelled like an unwashed horse in the desert sun. I will be getting actual anti-perspirant next time I'm in town. I'm NOT the person to go aluminum free apparently unless we want to smell like it's 1830 and I need a tussy-mussy to hide my stench.


And I'm too drained to go into tuesday's fannish 50. I'm going to crawl into bed and finish my novel (it's so good).

Normally around now I'd be doing my year in review of all the stories I wrote but I don't think I'm going to do that this year. Almost no one here is in my current fandoms and I ran a lot of the stories here so those who were going to read them probably have already. I haven't seen anyone else doing any end of the year stuff yet either so I'm sure I'll be doing something.

Instead I thought I'd throw it open to everyone what's your most current fandom that's eating your brain. Talk about. Tell us why. I don't care if it's one you've been faithful to for 30 years or one you found this weekend, let's hear about it.

Here's mine. The Amazing Digital Circus What? You expected it to be Hazbin Hotel right? Well that's true but I've talked about it a lot. While I am not as actively writing TADC (nor do I plan to) I love this weird animation. I will say much like other shows I love (Prodigal Son, Hazbin) that it took until episode 3 for me to really get into it. That's the same here and that's why I'm putting that episode here. It's still my favorite.

TADC is interesting because you have such personalities in it, Kinger whose mind is so damaged he can't function except in the dark where things are quieter, Ragatha of the toxic positivity and people pleasing. Zooble with body dysmorphia, Gangle with depression, Jax with some kind of trauma that has made him an asshole and into this comes Pomni, the latest person sucked into the game that is the circus, who turns into the group therapist after a fashion. Running the game is Caine, the AI that is having his own psychotic episode.

It's 3-D animation which I generally do not like but the story telling is very interesting once it hits its stride. It's also free over here on Youtube (I know, I know)




I did get my meds in theory. It was the doctor who missed the request in the system. She fixed it within the hour. But there was a lot of snow today. Probably more tomorrow but I'll have to go to CVS regardless as tomorrow my insurance ends.

I did a lot of work on my classes. Still so much more to do. Ugh, I always do this, put it off to the last minute.









You can click the eggs if you want.

And there's a bunch of that. Some happy tears by those eeking past, some because they realized they can't pass. Actually the afternoon allied health/nursing crew did much better than their morning counterparts. Only 3-4 aren't going to make it. I still have to add in some of the online homework, drop two low labs/homework and add in extra credit (that's a problem for friday)

I wrote a ton during the test PLUS the writers' zoom today. I got 4530 words. WHOO HOO. One fandomtrees is done, one is nearly done and a third is started. Look at me go. Now if only original fiction was this easy.

Now I have given up on my fridge. I realized I have like 3 days left before I go home so even if I get the kitchen pristine when could the landlord come? The freezer is fine and I always empty the fridge when I leave. I'll clean it all up and then call them when I'm back in January. Please call them. This has gone on too long.


But it's not one of my days without some kind of annoyance. So I've been waiting on the drop for the Hazbin Hotel S2 trading cards. There was a preorder option that I couldn't do for some reason. I tried to get a ticket, didn't see it (probably sold out) so they had 2 days of preordering. It opened today for the rest of us at noon. I had the cart loaded. 1200 pm I hit buy. Gone. Sold Out. In the hour after that I needed to dress and get to the test, they put out the second run and it was sold out too by the time I sat back down at 120. OMFG. I know that there'll be other runs. I don't actually care that it's not first run. I love trading cards. I just wanted them to look at them. Hell I'm so old by the time they're really worth anything I'll be dead. Of course knowing this fandom as I now do, the preorders were bought out by scalpers and those cards will be sold in the thousands of dollars (oh hell no). End of the world, no? Annoying, yes.

That part of what the academic coaches did was sit these students down and really look at them and ask are you SURE about your career pathway? I try hard not to judge because I don't know everyone's hardships but it's HARD not to when you tell me leg muscles are the carotid artery or lungs. I know they're going down the word bank and just picking out words but surely by the time you hit college you have to know your lungs and your carotids are NOT in your fucking legs. You just want to say healthcare is not for you or maybe, if possible, come back when the hardship isn't in your way (or talk to someone about whatever it is) because if they fail twice, the third time is nearly impossible to pass and I'm not sure what hospital is going to hire someone who fails anatomy multiple times (and the last time I interviewed in a hospital they wanted grades all the way back to middle school which was nuts.

I did get to the coffee shop today and Krogers and to CVS and who do I see in the window but one of my former students. Do you recognize me she asks. Yes (I did but not her name) She's here doing her pharmacy post-grad internship waiting to pass her boards so at least some of my student do goo.

This day disappeared like it was a race car at the Daytona 500.

I have a fanfic I wanted to make look like hand written letters. I'm struggling with work skins on AO3 and some of the fonts are hard (and honestly I'm not sure the younger readers could even read script) so I guess I'll just use Italics (it was easier to read than some of those fonts)


Have some science saturday


Science history: Female chemist initially barred from research helps helps develop drug for remarkable-but-short-lived recovery in children with leukemia — Dec. 6, 1954


MIT invention uses ultrasound to shake drinking water out of the air, even in dry regions Oh look it's Uncle Owen's water condensers that Luke was supposed to be fixing


Volcanic eruption triggered 'butterfly effect' that led to the Black Death, researchers find

Geminids 2025: The year's best meteor shower is coming, with a second shower hot on its tail

How a bacterial toxin linked to colon cancer messes with DNA

Moss spores survived in space for 9 months

Last night I was not tired. 3 AM I'm still wide awake. Finally drift off, wake at 630. I mean 3 hours is enough, right? Fell asleep grading tonight, big red line straight down someone's test.

My stomach is higher acid now than it has been and I have more sore in my mouth. sigh.

Left here with a weird call from my dentist. We had to bill something for the comprehensive exam (which my insurance doesn't allow more than 2) What comprehensive? You didn't even take X-rays and Aspen only did a follow up. I'll need to call my insurance. Came home to an even weirder call on the messages, something about medical mutual making a referal to Anthem Blue Cross...um WHAT? Insurances don't refer to each other. I have no idea.

I had to do a make up lab in the middle of the faculty meeting about all the forced Republican laws we now have to follow in OH (where in universities must bow to Republican rule or be closed more or less, fun fascist times)

What I Just Finished Reading:

Haunted Cemeteries of Ohio

A Twist of Murder - Charles Dickens is the detective, yes another real person fanfic mystery. So far I am unimpressed.


Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Kumar Som - boring AF memoir theoretically about a trans journey, mostly about watching her building alcoholism and whining about how hard it is to make a living as a graphic novel artist

What I am Currently Reading:


Death at the Door - a meh paranormal mystery


Wyches - a graphic novel horror I got from the library

Ripped Tide - short mystery I got at the WV book festival. It is...bad.


What I Plan to Read Next: To die Once, Poorly Made and Other Things


November's readings. You know how I like to talk books so if you see something interesting.


Blade Girl 1 manga, contemporary

Anne of Green Gables classics

Revenge, Served Royal historical mystery

The Tea Dragon Society fantasy middle grade graphic novel

Lackadaisy: Volume #2 historical fantasy graphic novel

ElfQuest, Volume One fantasy graphic novel

Spell-Bound rural fantasy, Appalachian gothic

Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir memoir graphic novel

A Twist of Murder historical mystery

I didn't get home until 8 after setting up a muscle practical but that might not even happen as a snow storm is on its way.. Fun times.

So tired, I took my night pills, forgot, took more pills (tomorrow's morning pills) by mistake (Nothing much to worry about but I probably won't sleep since one is sort of an upper).

Watching The Running Man for the first time in forever (the Arnie version) I loved this moving growing up. It's corny yes but oddly enough it predicted a lot of things (only off by a decade) including a fascist president, media controlling everything and deep fakes.

Speaking of fascist presidents, I had a dream I was in my grandmother's house and Trump was in there hiding and we were trying to root him out. Thanks brain.

My tooth/throat got much worse today, lost my voice. I'm wondering if they're related as the 'tooth' is more the gum around it.


Music Monday - a song you like that is covered by another artist. I'll give you both songs






And I have to admit I think I prefer Disturbed's

And one of my favorite filk singers has passed Filk Legend Leslie Fish Has Died

So out of 70+ faculty the same 21 people who do everything are the only ones who voted and four more voted to take the insurance that means we lose our doctors, our HSA, to save 100$/month but has a 9K deductible vs the 3K we had and oh the insurance is under major investigation by the federal government for fraud. Thanks for voting to make sure we're one health crisis away from homelessness there. But also the rest of the faculty, why are you not helping? Do you all have spouses with better insurance? Are you on medicare? Any good reason you weren't there for us?

But I was trying to find a little joy in the day and I did get paid for my short story today. That's great. I've been waiting for MONTHS on this, literally at least 6 months and I've been wondering when we were going to market it. Turns out next month and it'll be out in January.

In the opposite of joy my gastric paresis is acting up so bad. Ate and apple, puked in my office trash can and then my blood sugar dropped out because lunch was in the trash. F.U. life.

But in better news, the blood from my dexcom wasn't from infection. The skin had broken down under the glue so it's getting a rest.


Music Monday, prompt - a song that tells a story. Oh there are OH so many.

this Abney Park one isn't a happy one per se. Robert hasn't talked much about it but some of his stories and songs suggest he grew up in an abusive situation


And Reba had a lot of them. This one had me writing some romance story about a guy named Chance Deveroux back when I was in college but I never finished because I was told guys can't be part of the main focus of a romance. It had to be all the woman's pov (I know better now of course but it was most likely a horrible story anyhow)

I don't want to put too much in writing for safety's sake but leave it at our health care choices at work are either the crap insurance we have at 40% more cost OR some bullshit United Health Care thing where the coverage is based on how THEY think the doctor is performing and if their medical care 'is a good health care choice.' with a NINE THOUSAND dollar deductible. Why? Because we used our insurance 'too much' and 12 of the 14 insurers we contacted refused to speak to us.

This is why our health care is shit. This is why doctors are quitting left right and center. Because it's just as batshit crazy to deal with it from the doctor's side. I kinda feel like throwing up.

I was happy at least that the hip calmed down enough for me to attend our last yoga class of the semester.

And I did see the last two Hazbin's without being spoiled. This felt SO MUCH like Prodigal Son season 2, parts I loved, parts I outrightly loathed. (and once again oh look we can't have the superpowered character mucking things up so let's make him act like an idiot to get him out of the way.

I'm starting in on the Mighty Nein. It's...not what I remember but it's been a year or more since I listened to this and who's to even say it's starting in the same place as the actual campaign. I think it's giving a lot of backstory instead. The animation style is good though. I hate Beau though. I don't even like the character to start with but I swear to god she looks just like Sokka from Avatar the Last Airbender to the point I did a double take.

What I Just Finished Reading:

Anne of Green Gables

Elfquest volume 1

Blacksad - a anthropomorphic noir graphic novel

What I am Currently Reading:

The Tea Dragon Society

A Twist of Murder - Charles Dickens is the detective, yes another real person fanfic mystery. So far I am unimpressed.

Haunted Cemeteries of Ohio - you know why



Revenge Serve Royal - historical mystery

What I Plan to Read Next: Death at the Door one of the many arcs I'm SO behind on.