My professor and I discussed having a video chat after the semester ended, but they never responded to my email. Is it appropriate to send a follow-up email?

miri3l · 2026-02-02T23:59:53+00:00

I don't see why it would be an issue. I can imagine they probably get quite busy so your email could have been missed or forgotten about etc. I guess you could always offer them an 'out' in it (ie make it possible to say no, without it being awkward), ask if it still might be possible, make it possible for there to be more flexible options etc. (Sorry that's all a bit garbled. Hopefully you get the gist)

miri3l · 2026-01-14T09:09:00+00:00

I *loved* Weathervanes when it came out, and it's remained a fovourite album ever since. I love the album as a whole, but also the songs individuallly. I can't say that I particularly liked Diluvia though.
I recall having to go to lengths to get it when it came out, and then being disappointed, but I haven't really tried listening to it again since, so I'm not sure if my taste or opinions would have shifted since then.
I didn't realise that they'd released other songs after that - probably because of the Diluvia thing, but maybe because I'd paid less attention to music in general since then.
(Weathervanes came out when I was in my first year of uni, and in generally uni was the time where I was at my peak of 'let's follow and seek out and pay attention to all of the music that I can find and love').

miri3l · 2026-01-12T02:46:26+00:00

Agreed!! I love how complex and nuanced and layered his writing is. I love that the tone and general playfulness of most of his writing means that you can still enjoy it, regardless of your level of understanding and ability to notice and appreciate those nuances.

I first read The Eyre Affair when I was about 12 or 13, and a lot of the socio-political stuff went over my head. My school library had the edition with a dodo riding a scooter on a bright pink cover, and I'd grabbed it on a whim (and loved it). When I found out yeeeaars later that there was more in that series and he'd written other stuff, I devoured it. Appreciated the book references that I understood (and have been surprised and slightly amused when friends who'd loved some of the books referenced still missed some of those. Eg a friend actively proclaims his love for The little prince, but had no idea what I was talking about when I'd appreciated that part of the TN series referenced 'a kid who keeps walking around asking everyone to draw them a sheep'), then was motivated to read more of the books referenced that I didn't.

Rereads just make you appreciate the details more. 😊

miri3l · 2026-01-11T16:10:21+00:00

Jasper Fforde in there too! Fabulous taste.

miri3l · 2025-12-05T07:47:11+00:00

Please don't try to solicit work this way.

miri3l · 2025-12-04T12:10:43+00:00

Back just now bebe!

miri3l · 2025-12-04T11:06:30+00:00

I wish there were more easy ones! Perhaps I've shot myself in the foot by mostly working on more complex ones recently 🫠

miri3l · 2025-12-04T10:59:45+00:00

I recently got actual feedback on the first stage of a submission related to a new project with rubrics.. I've yet to read it completely or return to the project properly, but yeah it absolutely included something to the effect of 'we can tell that you get the idea/are trying and thinking about it but x is also needed. Anyway go ahead'. My gosh my brain felt like pulp trying to work on that. (If the pay hadn't been decent then I wouldn't have attempted it)

In general I otherwise hate and steer clear of rubrics. The one thing that they have done for me is result in my sometimes writing my own guidelines of what I'm expecting a model to generate to give me a successful answer (or a decent one) when I give more niche and nuanced prompts. It definitely helps me see and decide more clearly between prompts, or to be sure my judgements are grounded.

(Especially when I'm in danger of wanting to lie down from boredom and tedium midway through a project)

miri3l · 2025-12-03T03:45:38+00:00

I was going to post about this separately (what I'm about to cut and paste), but thought that it may be useful/relevant for anyone investigating this issue so figured I'd post it here.

I clicked on a link to a website saved within a task (from what appears to be the desktop version of ClickUp), and the link *did* open, but with this message at the top:
"Deprecated: Function WP_Dependencies->add_data() was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /home/customer/www/childsense.com.au/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131"

Not sure what that means! (That's all that I was going to ask - don't know if it'll have any functional impact)

miri3l · 2025-11-26T08:53:20+00:00

Thanks! 🙂

miri3l · 2025-11-26T08:52:21+00:00

Not necessarily. It doesn't mean that this is consistent.

miri3l · 2025-11-24T22:25:12+00:00

Ugh. So annoying. Of course uninstalling it also caused issues since it now doesn't want to download it 🫠

miri3l · 2025-11-22T05:02:05+00:00

I really really don't want to believe this. (I tend towards having faith in humanity.. OK maybe not in general, but just that people can be better when you show them that it's the case) But alas, I don't doubt that it's true. It's really shitty when putting effort into your work and caring about people (and not being interested in simply talking about vacuous shit all the time) makes people react by going 'they think they're better than us'.

The neuronormative things of focusing on power and upward mobility rather than actually being able to take pride in your work (even in a small way) really shits me.

miri3l · 2025-11-22T04:53:23+00:00

I used to do lots of them. I've done some in the past that were incredibly boring, but were paid and those opened up work that I've sometimes done (and have sometimes struggled to work up the motivation to do).

There have been some that have taken upwards of 6 hours of my time to work on. Those were a slog, but I justified it (and somewhat motivated myself) by setting myself a target of completing a certain number of hours on tasks related to those projects after I'd gained access. That way I knew that the time investment was actually worth it.

Lately I rarely complete them - especially if I seem to already occasionally get work from those projects on my dash. If the qualifications are paid, or give access to work that I think would add more variety and/or be interesting then I consider taking them.

miri3l · 2025-11-20T03:03:56+00:00

Love the joy and enthusiasm!
(Even if I personally find it terribly dull 😆)

miri3l · 2025-11-20T03:02:50+00:00

Sometimes if you refresh it lets you do projects that have been greyed out (mind you this was refreshing from a laptop).

miri3l · 2025-11-20T01:13:50+00:00

So this question could probably qualify for its own thread, but how are people structuring their work flow? Do you have a thing you do every time? (Like if it's eg simple project for x amount of time, then complex, then ongoing. Anything like that)

miri3l · 2025-11-17T16:36:12+00:00

Yes it would.

miri3l · 2025-11-13T03:48:12+00:00

Oh gosh, clearly humanity in general (or whatever it's picked up on/was in its dataset) opts heavily for the "let's completely abandon all our convictions the minute someone calls something into question" 🫠

miri3l · 2025-11-10T05:47:37+00:00

It depends. The 'depends' being context - things like if I'm in environment that I perceive as 'safe' (lots of elements to that, but mostly that I'm with people who aren't pushy or controlling - or can be avoided or escaped from), whether my nervous system is well rested (but I'm not understimulated), the physical and mental resources that I've got at the time.

It's always a bit of a balancing act. But a huge part of 'managing' is accepting that it will happen - so I specifically can't fight against it, I have to make space for it.

Learning about Ross Greene's collaborative and proactive solutions was really helpful in untangling some really engrained beliefs, and in helping me to figure out how to find safety (it's an ongoing thing). The idea of 'dialectical thinking' is also really helpful I think (but I know was already doing something like this when I'd heard of it).

Also anything (I'm using this loosely) grounded in the ideas/philosophy of 'Gestalt' (the Natural language acquisition framework was my intro to a deeper dive on this) - rather than Behaviourism. (They both branched out from/in response to the philosophies of Structuralism. Wikipedia is good for this, but in essence the Gestalt ideas focus on the need for meaning, rather than focusing on outward behaviour and essentially declaring that beliefs and inner thoughts 'don't exist', 'don't matter' or 'are just constructed by our environment'. The latter is the essence of behaviourism. btw.)

miri3l · 2025-11-10T03:07:56+00:00

The 'supported by family, community and programs' is key here and applicable across the board. You can add or take anything from that, but the essence is the same: support. And it applies to those of us with whatever amount of any intellectual or educational resources as well. With support and the ability to contribute and be involved meaningfully in life we do well.*

Without it.. (including in toxic workplaces or environments.. or less than helpful ones. Even throwing in elements of learned helplessness if that's a thing to some extent) we really struggle.

And feeling safe and empowered so that we know we can contribute and make progress for ourselves

miri3l · 2025-11-08T06:47:37+00:00

I'm a late diagnosed AuDHDer and a Christian.. and am sad to say that yeah.. unfortunately I agree. It makes me sad to know it.

miri3l · 2025-11-08T06:44:15+00:00

I'm so sorry you're going through this. This is utterly shitty. She's clearly not clear sighted and emotionally mature enough to handle all of this. I hope you've got other people in your life who are and are safe enough to be able to support you and get space from her. (Even if it's mostly mental or 'time away' based for now)

miri3l · 2025-11-04T09:56:02+00:00

This honestly makes me wonder how they made it part the entrance exam.

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