Buying my new car, which I will pick up on the 30th!

I have SO MUCH grading to do (I didn't do any over the Thanksgiving break). But in exciting news, I'm getting a new car!

You can also get a sore throat with the flu which is expected to be very bad this year.

There was a Thanksgiving potluck at work today and I am SO FULL of delicious food! Next potluck will be Thursday for the feed the neighborhood gathering--I am excite! Lots of groceries to pick up tomorrow.

Trump's Education Dept wants to 'declassify' nursing as a professional field. In its proposal, the department is changing definitions of professional degree programs & excludes nursing altogether. Changing the definition blocks nursing students from federal loans & loan forgiveness programs👇

You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?

Every time I go to a community meeting I learn more about how Tesla has fucked us. #fareastaustincdc #hornsbybend #neighborhoodmeetings

At the community meeting for my neighborhood and they have breakfast tacos, so this is already starting well. #austinscolony #fareastaustincdc

Voted today, go me. Lots of TX constutional amendments.

I'm teaching until 7:30 tonight and I just spilled my late lunch/early dinner of mac and cheese all over the place. At least I ate the apple first? Wish me strength making it through 2 more classes.

Interview went okay. I felt like I was repeating myself and stumbling over my words more than I have in previous interviews, but it is what it is. Hopefully will move on to the next round!

HEB delivered a brisket queso dip to me by mistake and I have no idea what to do with it (I don't eat meat). They did refund me, which was nice, but I do not need this large thing of food I won't eat.

I have my interview today and I am sooo sleeeepy! Just made myself a third cup of tea; hopefully that will help!

I am so tired and I still have a 2 hour pharm class to teach that begins in 27 minutes.

Just...fuck you Joss Whedon.

I am at the airport, at the gate, and ready to be done with other people. There are people on the phone and families and just plain PEOPLE EVERYWHERE and I am ready to be done with being surrounded by talking strangers.

Back in front of the fireplace at the Hyatt.

Spent some time today at the Duane White Feather exhibit at the Walker Art Museum today. The rest of the museum was good, but her work was AMAZING. Wanted to buy the book, but it was too heavy. Heading back to the hotel after I sit for a bit.

On the plane to go to the AASHE conference!

Happy New Year to those celebrating! L'Shana Tova!

I got the warrant page for my dissertation! Only thing left is editing for publication!

I'm on Tumblr again, and more than I am here these days. I am desperately searching for people to talk about the weewoo show with. It kept me sane while writing my dissertation (which has been approved! woohoo!). Buck and Tommy have consumed my fannish life. I have written, and plan to write more.

Just got four vaccines: Covid, flu, pneumonia, and RSV. My arms already hurt; I’m ready for a miserable weekend if need be.

Happy #BiWeek ! 💗💜💙

After some encouragement from various people, I've decided to apply for [redacted]. We'll see how it goes.

Heard back from my quant committee member yesterday (and he finally signed with his first name, so I guess now that I have a doctorate he considers me worthy), & I just sent off the final revision of my dissertation! Woohoo!

Happy birthday to my dear @skyekilaen.bsky.social!

So far the theme of the week seems to be having hot flashes in class. Do not want. Also, so many many many little tasks.

Forgot my computer glasses and had to park up a big hill. The day can only get better, right? #seconddayofclasses

I survived teaching my first class in a year and a half! It is really hot outside & I had to go to the portable to get white cardstock! I'm not sure how my feet & joints will survive when I'm teaching 3 classes in one day!

This first week back is kicking my ass. And the cats don't know what to do with the fact that I'm gone all day! Can't believe classes start on Monday.

Have successfully registered car and gone to campus. Trying to work on about 5 different things at the same time. Save me from Lighthouse, the bane of my existence. Also re-doing schedules and syllabi is not fun. And my one class looks like it won't make, which means I don't know what.

This workshop on Blackboard Ultra is sooooo boring. In the third hour and am not sure I'll make it through to 4 o'clock. But there are important things they haven't covered yet, like the gradebook!

Got my emissions test done today but have to go to DMV itself to renew registration. NOt gonna have time today since I have a meeting at 1! Unless the meeting is unhelpful & I decide to ditch it.

Dissertation revisions are going to kill me. And if they don't, my new job will. ARGH.

I have to do revisions on my results section and it's very confusing trying to figure out what my committee member wants. I need to get this done this week. I start back to work in my new job next week! #dissertation

I did it, y'all! Passed with revisions! Sigh about the revisions, but I am now DrShelleyRN! Might have to look into changing that here.

Once upon a time a bunch of farmers in the Middle East came to an agreement allowing some slinky local creatures to do pest control for their crop storage. Cut to 9,000 years later: Happy International Cat Day! icatcare.org/internationa...

3 hours until my defense, yipes!

Practice is going well minus my continuously scratchy throat. I'll be needing to take sips of hot tea!

Busy prepping for defense on Friday! Also now getting emails from folks in the new dept (Allied Health Sciences) I'll be teaching in, so that's fun (not sarcastic).

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Just did my first, very awkward and jumbled up run-through of my dissertation defense. It took 40 minutes (including 5 minutes for me to show the video), so the timing is okay. Super awkward pauses though; I need to tighten it up a lot!

[putting dishes in the dishwasher] get lost, suckers [now that the dishes are clean] oh no, they’re back

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Why I can’t get any work done.

I think I'm ALMOST done with the powerpoints for my defense presentation next week.

I have gotten a look at my schedule for the fall and it is...confusing. I'm only teaching pharm and med term, but I'm teaching some F2F, some DL, and some dual-credit, and some are the second 8 weeks adn one is the first 14 weeks. It's going to take some getting used to!

Today I ended up getting iritis again, going to urgent care, paying that copay, paying an uber to go back and forth to the ophthalmologist, plus that copay, & now I'm on eyedrops again. Needless to say, I didn't get much done on my dissertation presentation today, although I tried until my eye ouch.

Working on my dissertation presentation is slow work. It's coming along, though. Just slowly. And don't get me started on the presentation for my Ethics of Care class, which is VERY slow-going.