The second time is different
May. 6th, 2019 02:10 pmFinished my re-watch of Guardian with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mckitterick yesterday (his first time watching, poor thing). It was easier, but still rough. Whew. Bless the man for honestly enjoying the ride with me. I'm so lucky to have a partner who delights in my ridiculous fangirling and occasionally joins me in the squee. We're gonna watch it again with the results of solo 's subtitling project sometime later this year. This week's project is downloading the series from YouTube since nobody trusts it to stay available there once it's up on Vicki. A million thanks to naye for this incredibly helpful response to my request on that process. Apropos of nothing besides guardian!guardian!, qikiqtarjuaq posted this gif of an innocently-blinking Shen Wei in a comment thread and I'm just...nklfjdas l;jfahdlkh asdfiy wa
In non-Guardian news (what is that???) work is bananas. Today I got to run around the hallways of my building looking for a faculty member--any faculty member!--to be a warm body in a defense because one of the committee members failed to show. Haven't had to do that since my first year in this job so that was a nice throw-back. And I canceled my trip to visit my parents next week because students are coming to me with pleas to help them do things waaaaaay in advance (like scheduling exams and defenses for DECEMBER) and I can't tell them no. Since my mom won't be around the week after finals I'll travel to Indy sometime in June. I'm still taking the vacation days, though, because otherwise I'll just lose the hours--KU won't compensate me for more than 176 hours of accrued vacation time.
Fuck KU, for real. I could go on and on about the provost's and dean's insulting responses to complaints about my ~nonreappointment~ from students and faculty, but I'll limit myself to two examples that pretty much sum it up. At one meeting, the provost said "I hire and fire people all the time and I'll continue to do so" and at another meeting the dean just flat-out refused to answer any questions, claiming "personnel matters" despite the fact that people were asking general questions that weren't about me at all. I always knew higher admin was a circle-jerk of bureaucratic posturing but this just proves it beyond any doubt. What a bunch of douchebags. Own your bad decisions, you overpaid slime buckets. Stop with the platitudes and gum-flapping because you aren't fooling anyone.
I'm beginning to worry over the cost of individual insurance. Last time I looked (when I thought about leaving this job a few years ago) it was about $250/month for the minimum coverage. That was before the 2016 U.S. election, though, and now that number is around $400/month. My savings is gonna run out a lot faster with those numbers so I'm looking at having to find Actual Employment much sooner than I'd planned. Which might mean I can't do the 8-month herbalism apprenticeship program? I don't know. God, nothing's ever easy, is it?
Except watching Shen Wei's perfect fucking face which is so easy I've done it for about ten minutes now.
mckitterick yesterday (his first time watching, poor thing). It was easier, but still rough. Whew. Bless the man for honestly enjoying the ride with me. I'm so lucky to have a partner who delights in my ridiculous fangirling and occasionally joins me in the squee. We're gonna watch it again with the results of solo 's subtitling project sometime later this year. This week's project is downloading the series from YouTube since nobody trusts it to stay available there once it's up on Vicki. A million thanks to naye for this incredibly helpful response to my request on that process. Apropos of nothing besides guardian!guardian!, qikiqtarjuaq posted this gif of an innocently-blinking Shen Wei in a comment thread and I'm just...nklfjdas l;jfahdlkh asdfiy waIn non-Guardian news (what is that???) work is bananas. Today I got to run around the hallways of my building looking for a faculty member--any faculty member!--to be a warm body in a defense because one of the committee members failed to show. Haven't had to do that since my first year in this job so that was a nice throw-back. And I canceled my trip to visit my parents next week because students are coming to me with pleas to help them do things waaaaaay in advance (like scheduling exams and defenses for DECEMBER) and I can't tell them no. Since my mom won't be around the week after finals I'll travel to Indy sometime in June. I'm still taking the vacation days, though, because otherwise I'll just lose the hours--KU won't compensate me for more than 176 hours of accrued vacation time.
Fuck KU, for real. I could go on and on about the provost's and dean's insulting responses to complaints about my ~nonreappointment~ from students and faculty, but I'll limit myself to two examples that pretty much sum it up. At one meeting, the provost said "I hire and fire people all the time and I'll continue to do so" and at another meeting the dean just flat-out refused to answer any questions, claiming "personnel matters" despite the fact that people were asking general questions that weren't about me at all. I always knew higher admin was a circle-jerk of bureaucratic posturing but this just proves it beyond any doubt. What a bunch of douchebags. Own your bad decisions, you overpaid slime buckets. Stop with the platitudes and gum-flapping because you aren't fooling anyone.
I'm beginning to worry over the cost of individual insurance. Last time I looked (when I thought about leaving this job a few years ago) it was about $250/month for the minimum coverage. That was before the 2016 U.S. election, though, and now that number is around $400/month. My savings is gonna run out a lot faster with those numbers so I'm looking at having to find Actual Employment much sooner than I'd planned. Which might mean I can't do the 8-month herbalism apprenticeship program? I don't know. God, nothing's ever easy, is it?
Except watching Shen Wei's perfect fucking face which is so easy I've done it for about ten minutes now.