cornerofmadness

Today was round 1 against the cheaters. I took our dept admin assistant with me and I said 'we're following the syllabus' and ALL items but a pen/pencil will be up here in the front with me and I want to see those phone before you put them in the book bag. (that's why I needed help watching them).

The looks of panic and fury were flying fast. They were pissed and scared because you knew some of them didn't study. They planned to cheat. The one I knew had been cheating tried to sneak her phone back. I made her put it down. She didn't even score 50% but of course not, I haven't seen her in a month since the last test.

Rolling my eyes hard at Amazon. I bought some socks which were vacuum packed so they could be put in a padded envelope to save on packing and environmental costs (which are high in online shopping) and what did Amazon do? Shove it in a big ass box with tons of paper waste.


Here's a few things for fannish 50


Masters of the Universe This looks kind of amazing even though I don't like live action versions of animation and let's face it, He-Man wasn't long on plot. that said this guy looks like he was born to play He-Man


as for the rest of fannish 50 have the remaining four meta pieces I did for marchmetamatterschallenge That way they're here if somehow they're taken down at AO3. I've never had issues with meta there but others have apparently?


( The Morningstars' Fatal Flaw )


( Vox Out of history )

( Lyrics that make you go huh? )

( Glow Up )

That's what we're being driven to. Nursing is probably pissed at me because I refuse to do one of my classes online. It's for the freshman. No, we're not. So far these online classes are a nightmare of failing software.

We had a pointless all-school meeting (we do every month) and I'm like why are we voting on this? It's mandated by the state. We have to do it.

Sigh. And again no one but me cares.

Maybe others might have thoughts/suggestions. I'm thinking I'm revealing one character's backstory too much too soon. I think I would like it to remain hidden a little longer but the problem is Asha (a detective) knows his secrets. Lilian (her new partner) would ask about this guy. His employee is the sex worker/dancer who is killed in chapter 1. She would ask. So I'm like great now everyone knows his secret and we're only in chapter 4.

I'm not sure I see a good way around it other than maybe his history isn't as well known as I thought but really that makes no sense either. He was taken by a m ajor sex trafficker as a child. Asha knows what Goren did to children. He was one of those they couldn't make things stick to (rich buddies buying him out of trouble) so not sure how to write my way out of this hole. Maybe it's not as disappointing as I think it is.

Yoga went really well tonight. She modified it so I could do 90% of it but one thing I did (and easily) was one that it was easy to move past my natural joint movement into bad zones (which I often can't tell because of my condition) and I think that elevated butterfly move pulled my groin. Rolls eyes.

What I Just Finished Reading:

With Friends Like These by Alissa Lee


What I am Currently Reading:


Violet Thistlewaite is not a villain any more so far, I really like this one

Back to Zombie Day Care just to get it over with and tick off a few challenge boxes


What I Plan to Read Next: The Death Card (an arc I just got in the mail) and The Book woman of troublesome creek for the book club

have an EKG and then have someone from the clinic calls you to talk about it. Since they almost never call you for a normal, I'm like OMG I'm dying. No, my doctor was just exercising caution. the EKG is 'mostly normal' but there was no more details. They posted the strip in a blurry pic to my portal. I'm assuming they mean the tachycardia. I'll see the new cardiologist in a couple weeks so we shall see.

No one came to micro today. I'll point out spring break doesn't start until Monday. out of 40 students I had 10. And being the bitch I am I had a test in anatomy today (found out there's one tomorrow for my ultrasound students) most of the sports teams were gone and someone cheated on the exam. I didn't catch them (it's hard I'm in a hole in an auditorium and even if I walk up and down the steps, I take steps SO slowly they have warning so what's the point. Another pissed off student turned them in. I'm saying nothing but I know how they're cheating and next test, without warning, I'm taking all that away. (i.e. every phone must be placed on MY table)

I wish I could stay over near Cinci for more than 24 hours tomorrow. there is SO MUCH food Restaurants of every kind. I'm thinking Korean. Oooo the choices.

but damn today was something. I woke up 40 minutes before the alarm. Got 2 miles from work and realized I had forgotten my phone on the charger. Because of the multifactorial verification I can't get into my work email or the online teaching stuff.

I can't turn around as I was giving a test in the morning. The entire handicapped parking lot was full (we have asked parents of CCP kids to STOP fucking parking there to wait but no one enforces this) so I have to park up the hill.

So after the test I run home (I'm only 10 miles away) Also today was SO much warmer than yesterday I don't even care I had to run home. I changed shirts. Go back. Students were supposed to show up today but didn't (but at least I got stuff graded).

I still can't get anything done at work and more and more is getting added on us and then the dean in charge of this is gone effective today. What happened? No clue.

I get to CVS and the line is so long I eat my KFC sandwich in line and wasn't halfway thru it (but I was out of both meds so I had to get them)

I'm not bringing you any new Fannish 50 today but I'm really looking forward to being able to share some of the open calls later this week. I am lining up stories in my head. I'm thrilled to finally have things that might fit some of these open calls.

It's women's history month so I hope to highlight a woman a day, oh probably not every day but I'll try.


So while this is niche for Pittsburgh, it's our women of WWII which with the way Trump and Hesgeth are ripping out military women's history, I think it's important to share it so those fucks can't succeed. You can see it here.

I spent all night grading exams (so no time for fandom tuesday) That's not what disheartened me. I had six people get 100%. I had six get less than 50% but I feel more like that's on them. The majority of the class did well. We'll see if the ones who didn't do well come talk to me.

No what disheartened me was the young lady with the Charlie Kirk god bless t-shirt on. I do not engage in talking with students about politics (the closest I get is my stance on anti-science and vaccination which is not surprising given what I teach) never have not even before Ohio made it more or less illegal for me to challenge a student's beliefs.

But it DOES sadden me to see a group of people prop up someone who is/was actively hurting them. You want to scream do you realize Charlie Kirk would not want you in my class? That he said women's brains weren't good enough, smart enough to handle it. Women like me are a waste of space, that he advocated that given women the vote was the worst thing we did.

I want to ask what DO you get out of this. Please tell me.

sigh.


BUT!!!!! I do have good news! 13 people want my water aerobics class. Unless someone on the wellness committee votes it down it should be a go after spring break. I'm so happy. I'm debating going to yoga tomorrow (or again because it's very hard on me)

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.