Couch 216: The Baseball Couch

Costco pizza does a number on my tummy - I can't eat it. Tastes good, but....

mine was an emergency cuz it had become so inflamed it was encroaching into my liver. I was in the hospital 4 days. My body has never been too happy with me, always doing weird stuff. Like a year ago I couldn't just have normal appendicitis, no my body had to make that appendiceal mucocele thing and give me shingles all at the same time. And the year before that the staph infection in my face that hospitalized me. and we won't even talk about my mental health issues. it's always trying to mutiny in one way or another! haha

I think maybe stretching your jaw. I know somebody who went to someone (it may have been her dentist but I can't remember) and he stretched her mouth out. She said it was scary but helpful.

I am sitting through the most ****ing useless training session in this technology we're using to teach this fall (staggered attendance, so we lecture in-person and via some Zoom offshoot called Flex at the same time). I am so confused and frustrated (and so is everyone else) about the way the university is communicating overall about the fall.

And the moderator just yelled at us for asking questions about *faculty*, not *students*. Well, duh. We have health too.

I've contacted the ADA office last week and asked to be exempted from teaching in-person for my small courses because everyone will be wearing masks and I won't be able to hear. No masks on Zoom and I can get a captioning program if I need it. Haven't heard back yet.

I think I know why they stuck him outside. Maybe he'll tire out soon or get laryngitis.

I don't hate kids. I heard them a while back playing hide and seek and thought it was cute. This one's just grating on my nerves today.

We just got the "masks at all times" announcement - let's make it so the professor and the students are stupidly uncomfortable for 90 min (my classes are 90 min 2 times a week) to help with learning.

Wait'll you get the "faculty are in charge of staggering attendance for classes but they can't do it by anything obvious like names because FERPA and any regard to the student's schedule in other staggered classes" announcement.

I learned in my sociology class that the wealthy are less likely to show empathy. This is also true of college administrators, the academic equivalent of "wealthy."

Pick randomly sounds like a good option, then let them do one-for-one trades with other students to fit their schedules?

We got permission to wear face shields instead of masks so students could still see our lips moving and we could move around the classroom and not have to stand stock still behind a podium. I'm counting it as a win.

You are way smarter than any administrator at my school.

cleaning out a closet today I found an old school pic of me when i was 12. i'll share this briefly for anyone curious. I always felt so ugly and so freaky. why did i feel ugly and freaky?!

cleaning out a closet today I found an old school pic of me when i was 12. i'll share this briefly for anyone curious. I always felt so ugly and so freaky. why did i feel ugly and freaky?! it's funny cuz I've been growing my hair again and it's almost this long now.

Aww, you were totally cute! When I was that age I had braces and wore glasses that were way too big and was all gangly and awkward. I hated 12. It's when I first recall feeling suicidal. It's a hard age.

Aww, you were totally cute! When I was that age I had braces and wore glasses that were way too big and was all gangly and awkward. I hated 12. It's when I first recall feeling suicidal. It's a hard age.

Aw, thanks for sharing! You look neither ugly nor freaky--gorgeous hair! My hair when I was 12 was an atrocity...perhaps I'll attempt to dig out a photo at some point.

Artie, look how cute you were! Before they invented photoshop!!! Gorgeous hair! Beautiful eyes! Endearing smile. Lovely skin.

Youth IS wasted on the young!