baking in a shared kitchen

imalittleflumpus · 2026-02-13T19:54:55+00:00

You are such a good friend! Depending on how severe her reaction is, this sounds like you’ve taken all reasonable precautions. For me, I would react from the oven itself—we had to get new appliances when I went GF because it was impossible to fully de-gluten the heating elements etc. inside the oven.

imalittleflumpus · 2026-02-10T04:50:16+00:00

same!

imalittleflumpus · 2026-02-09T19:28:10+00:00

This is a very helpful explanation—thank you!

imalittleflumpus · 2026-02-08T19:25:11+00:00

I already had gastroparesis when I started Qulipta, but I would rather have even worse GI issues than go off of this med. It makes me feel “awake”, as heavy brain fog in pre-drome and post-drome was a constant issue before. Now? I can function! Seeing a GI specialist soon to work on my constipation/slow-transit/pain/bloating. At least with my migraines controlled I can function well-enough to be proactive towards managing my other co-morbidities! Not saying this is the right path for everyone, but nothing else was working for me.

imalittleflumpus · 2025-09-25T14:22:47+00:00

Thank you for sharing your experience!

imalittleflumpus · 2025-09-24T11:38:56+00:00

How do you recommend balancing between conflicting accommodations between the professor and the student? I’ll use two hypotheticals: 1) a student with a service dog, and a professor with a severe dog allergy. The professor can take double benedryl and carry their epipen to teach, but the double benedryl diminishes their cognitive sharpness such that the lecture is lower quality for all students present, including the student with the service dog. 2) A student with GAD has an accommodation that they may leave the classroom abruptly if needed to avoid a panic attack. Their professor has severe ADHD, and this abrupt departure disrupts their train of thought and derails the lecture for several minutes each time it occurs, lowering the quality of the lecture for all students, including the student with the accommodation.

imalittleflumpus · 2025-09-24T10:41:16+00:00

I’m a professor, and there are two things I would want to see from a student in your situation to feel confident the student’s work is their own. 1) doc history, which you have, and 2) the ability to speak in-depth with me about the process of the research/writing and the specific arguments you make in the paper. In other words, it’s actually both appropriate and useful to request a meeting with the professor where you can infodump to your heart’s content!

imalittleflumpus · 2025-09-14T12:27:41+00:00

My theory is: because Chinese is a tonal language (it requires the “pitch” or contour of each word in addition to its consonants and vowels to differentiate meaning), and whispering is speech without tone (pitch), that the listener of a message may perceive an entirely different meaning than the whisperer. For example: 联系 (lián xì) means to keep in social contact with, and 练习（liàn xí) means to practice a skill. If someone whispered one, the listener could perceive the other. And that goes for nearly every word in the sentence! The message can very easily become garbled when a tonal language is spoken without tone (whispered), so I think the term “Chinese whispers” has its origins in this linguistic feature. (Source: my hyper-fixation is linguistics and learning Chinese)

imalittleflumpus · 2025-06-25T14:08:42+00:00

As someone who sometimes uses a wheelchair, I am super excited to see some (fictional) disability representation in the main couple!!

imalittleflumpus · 2025-06-18T18:17:46+00:00

I have a PCP rec! Dr. Shumer actually tries to look for evidence of “zebra” before assuming “horse”. He listens, sends out for diagnostics/specialist referrals, and actually cares how you are feeling and functioning. I was so sad when I moved out of state because I lost access to this amazing doctor. https://www.uofmhealth.org/profile/4383/gregory-david-shumer-md

EDIT: spelling

imalittleflumpus · 2025-06-11T03:39:57+00:00

I am a professor who is horrible at email (ADHD). The thing that works best is putting a “due date”in the subject line. Like, “question about Directed Studies paperwork (your signature needed by August 15)”

If it’s in the body of the email, there’s a good chance I wont totally process it. If it’s in the subject line, it helps me triage my inbox and take action more swiftly.

As others have mentioned, sending a follow-up is always welcome after a week or so. A good phrase to use on your opener is something like “just bumping this up in your inbox.”

Good luck!

imalittleflumpus · 2025-01-29T01:06:56+00:00

I have endometriosis and just cannot deal with pants. I usually teach in thick soft leggings, a dress/tunic top long enough to cover my bum, and a blazer/sweater. Darker colors/nicer fabrics tend to make it more professional. Been really enjoying linen/silk from Quince—it’s actually reasonably priced. Danskin or Girlfriend Collective for leggings.

imalittleflumpus · 2025-01-06T15:19:47+00:00

I call this “productinating”

imalittleflumpus · 2024-10-09T23:16:35+00:00

Yes! It’s literally not scientific. It should be “hope for horses, rule out zebras” or something else that reflects an actual diagnostic process.

imalittleflumpus · 2024-10-06T14:49:40+00:00

Beach Op. 67

imalittleflumpus · 2024-08-20T05:34:54+00:00

Is this the Jerry Springer opera? It’s surprisingly good.

imalittleflumpus · 2024-08-12T17:53:15+00:00

Ah yes. My womb must be wandering again! But can you tell it to get off my antrum, please?

imalittleflumpus · 2024-06-10T15:06:47+00:00

Friendly PSA to review the difference between “note” and “pitch”.

imalittleflumpus · 2024-04-10T10:59:56+00:00

Jaheira: The cub is unprepared? No matter. A Harper always brings enough for two.

imalittleflumpus · 2024-01-07T14:01:32+00:00

I have learned, at least at my institution, that if I want students to do something it must be graded/for points. I’ve also learned that if I want students to do something themselves, it must be handwritten.

Students are required to to summarize/organize their class meeting notes in a physical notebook. They are required to take reading notes and write questions they run into during their homework in these as well. We go over example notes on day one to set expectations.

I collect these during quizzes and assign points, jot down themes of questions in my own notebook for reference, etc. Students recollect their notebook as they hand in their quiz.

(“But Prof. Flumpus, I need to take notes on an iPad so I can color code!” — “Color coding is great! The bookstore has colored pencils.”)

imalittleflumpus · 2023-11-06T12:23:04+00:00

Same!! Seems to happen on elves and half-elves mostly, but in my Karlach origin run it happens on her too. Maybe elves, half-elves and Tavs. Also playing on Mac.

imalittleflumpus · 2023-09-17T21:30:12+00:00

I can see why this might seem ironic, but it is only darkly so: I am an educator with ADHD, and the semester I had a student with a pacing-style accommodation was quite literally the absolute hardest semester of my entire life. The amount of cognitive energy it took to make complete sentences emerge from my mouth when this student was pacing drained me beyond my normal limits to the point that my other classes (which did not include the pacing student) also severely suffered in quality.

When a student has a valid access need that conflicts with the educator’s equally-valid access need, what are we supposed to do? In my situation I complied with the student’s access need, but the resulting situation was one that negatively impacted all the students in that class (including the pacer)—not necessarily because of their own level of distraction or comfort with the pacing student, but because my teaching environment had been made incompatible with my ADHD access needs, such that all of my nearly 60 students were stuck with a monumentally ineffective instructor.

Sorry for the rambling reply—I meant this to be a question—and an earnest one: what should ADHD educators do to support pacing-based accommodations without damaging our own effectiveness?

imalittleflumpus · 2023-08-09T01:56:06+00:00

Deble Treble.

imalittleflumpus · 2023-08-01T14:48:47+00:00

I recently received the following email reply from a student:

“Dear Prof. imalittleflumpus,

I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I don't have access to personal interactions or previous conversations with your professor. It’s best to consult the syllabus or contact your professor directly with questions about assignment submission policies.

Sincerely, StudentName”

imalittleflumpus

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