Couch 224: 2day, 2morrow, 4evah!

I went all online (we had a choice) - most of my students were not coming into the building and if we used a classroom, we had to be masked.

My father was vaccinated pretty early on; he's in assisted living and the pharmacy went to them. My sister is over 65 and has finished both vaccines just in the last week. I was early mainly because I was determined to get my husband the vaccine because I knew if he got COVID, he was going to be severely ill, and I signed myself up at the same time because I also qualify with health issues. As fast as I was, I wasn't fast enough to help him. Even with one vaccine, he has now been in the hospital over a month (probably was positive when he got the first vaccine and we didn't know it).

I will say my one vaccine seems to have kept me from getting nearly as sick as my husband or my son, so I do think it made a difference for me. Even though I still got COVID between vaccinations, I was much less ill than they were, and I have health conditions that could have landed me in the hospital for a lengthy period like my husband.

Husband is now in the intermediate care unit - step between ICU and regular room. I am guessing they will move him back to the long-term acute care hospital at some point this week, but I'm okay if they take their time. I don't want him to end up in another medical crisis and have to be placed back in ICU. This has been such a nightmare of a month.

The mask is a pain. In my lecture voice mode, it slips around and I have to keep pulling it back up. It doesn't do that in normal conversation with it on, I must move my jaw more when lecturing.

I had trouble sucking the mask into my mouth when lecturing- I think I must get animated.

It's my Dad's birthday today. He is turning 69. I need to start planning something big for him next year.

I had to try quite a few different masks before I could find one that I didn't have that problem with. My masks are almost along the lines of a singer's mask so that I can project my voice without sucking in my mask. It took some definite trial and error to land upon the right one for the job.

I already have a prototype SD Action Figure. Includes flying squirrel suit. Motorcycle and smoker extra.

My uni installed huge sheets of Plexiglas in front of the lecterns; as long as I stay behind that, I don't have to wear a mask. For the first-year master's students, I required half of them to come in person one week, while the other half was on Zoom; then we'd switch the next week. But the classroom mikes were so poor, I'd have to repeat whatever a classroom student said so the online students could hear. Yuck.

The second-year students had the option of attending in-person or online. I got tired of talking to 1-4 people in person, so I moved it all online. It works fine for us. It's not ideal, but it's workable.

Don't forget the years past the best by date labeled condiments next to the smoker.
You make me sound like evel knievel.

We asked for plexiglass but because the univ leaders were pandering to the moronic mayor who was against it - the mandate is masks.

Don't forget the blow torch. Or does that come with model 2.0?

My school was considering giving faculty members their own little Popemobile-style head cases so they could walk around while teaching.

And the classroom mics are terrible here too.

Does the Deluxe SD action figure come with a wooden stake and a silver bullet?

Are the stake and bullet for use against therapists?

Then you could be like twins with the food delivery robot thingies!

What else? We’re talking stopdog here.

1. I now want a popemobile-style head case.
2. The wooden stake and silver bullets would be tucked inside the squirrel suit, I imagine.

I couldnt resist moving the cat tree under the Le Chat Noir painting i did

Life imitates art! Its like he has the exact same amount of gruntle! Cats are so smart!

He always looks like that except when he is frightened or hungry or smooching

Having a lot of flashbacks after an alter showed up.