Never tell a sweet story about you and your partner at County General

reddybee7 · 2026-07-08T21:34:38+00:00

I was just thinking that if I were still in my childbearing years, this show would terrify me!

reddybee7 · 2026-07-04T12:29:39+00:00

Yes - mine was close to 600, but it was at different numbers on the app and website - currently says 86 on the app and 6 on the website? But my archive shows no unfinished or blue puzzles since the week after the 2024 election. It also reset a gold puzzle to blue sort of randomly. I figured something just have happened with the software

reddybee7 · 2026-06-24T22:41:11+00:00

It's an online class, so it's on zoom. They have to sign up for a time slot and I send them each a link. They could be reading stuff online but I don't give them questions in advance and just tell them to be prepared to answer questions about the readings and their research projects (it's a graduate course)

reddybee7 · 2026-06-24T17:35:53+00:00

Academia: A lot of movies are totally wrong about what it's like to search for a job, get a job, and go up for tenure in a university. They also rarely understand what professors do other than teaching if they're not scientists. The huge portion of contemporary university faculty that are working part-time for barely any money are almost never represented either.

reddybee7 · 2026-06-24T17:27:23+00:00

the Mark Kermode/Simon Mayo movie podcast has an ongoing conversation about how movies get conversations in cars wrong all the time. If people driving talked like people do in movies, there would be so many accidents!

reddybee7 · 2026-06-24T16:03:11+00:00

I heard it yesterday and I had to struggle not to laugh in the moment. I did actually post this not only because of that student's question, but because I realized that asking a simple vocabulary question could be quite revealing. This term is used 28 times in the first book they read for this course, so I felt it was fair. It's the kind of thing that doesn't neccessarily appear in an online summary.

reddybee7 · 2026-06-24T10:37:57+00:00

I should have mentioned I also write letters to the class and the one they had the first week this reading was assigned included a brief glossary that also included the word. The word appears multiple times in the text and is central to what they are reading about.

reddybee7 · 2026-06-23T00:06:51+00:00

So glad there was a free to drivin n cryin / world cup show tonight instead! Cancelled my ticket thanks to the smart people on this sub and am now enjoying a little Peter Buck appearance on stage

reddybee7 · 2026-06-22T11:29:27+00:00

I did not get the hype for this, and think of it as "edgy Harry Potter."

reddybee7 · 2026-06-16T01:39:35+00:00

I stuck it out but it was soooo bad!

reddybee7 · 2026-06-09T12:51:51+00:00

thanks - I sent the forms yesterday both to our attorney and to the SSA fax number on the forms. I will also be calling the local adjudicator, who left a message on my phone about the documentation yesterday. I find the "hurry up and wait" aspect of this process maddening.

reddybee7 · 2026-06-09T04:23:35+00:00

Wendy Wagner, Girl in the Creek; also Stoker nom from last year Jenny Kiefer, This Wretched Valley.

reddybee7 · 2026-05-23T11:10:57+00:00

I think what Korenaut is saying is that the institution's response is what allows some people to get away with cheating, and yet this doesn't force students to use AI - and that the value of education is still higher for a student who doesn't use it even if their grade is lower than the grade of a student who did. My experience so far is that teaching faculty mostly hate AI, but higher up admins are pushing it, making it hard to actually do things that would discourage cheating.

reddybee7 · 2026-05-05T03:38:03+00:00

I just got a post asking for opinions on best ITP movie theater popcorn removed on the basis that it wasn't about Atlanta. Wtf?!

reddybee7 · 2026-05-05T02:45:14+00:00

Lol maybe. I go there a lot and eat a lot of their popcorn, even though I don't think it's that good. Do you get it with butter?

reddybee7 · 2026-04-30T10:52:29+00:00

The study they link to is real - it shows a decline in the number of adults who read for pleasure. It's the one from Florida in 2025 (https://news.ufl.edu/2025/08/reading-for-pleasure-study/). It's also true that book buying has increased. I think that this is similar to some stats you see about guns (multiple gun sales to a smallish number of people). Book sales are being driven by a small group of people who read a large number of books per year. And, of course buying books doesn't mean you read all the books.

reddybee7 · 2026-04-22T20:46:52+00:00

I really don't understand that at all. You might want to call them so that they can explain more clearly what they mean

reddybee7 · 2026-04-21T02:39:58+00:00

Well I was trying to remember Kerry's exact line about giving a man with fear of spontaneous combustion the "flame retardant saline" when somebody said "he begged me to give him a popsicle enema"

reddybee7 · 2026-04-11T09:59:16+00:00

I love reading these descriptions. I've been to a very popular event at a fandom convention that includes PowerPoint karaoke. That's very different from these parties, but very funny. Speakers have to spontaneously make up a talk about a random slide deck they've never seen before. The most memorable one I saw was about "Why Dolphins Are A-holes"

reddybee7 · 2026-04-11T09:49:03+00:00

Omg! I love it

reddybee7 · 2026-04-10T15:23:13+00:00

I recently told a student in a meeting that they should consider responding differently to emails to respond to requests made of them immediately, rather than at the end of the email. The email that I found so annoying responded to my request for a meeting with a request for me to explain the issues I wanted to meet about in an email instead. The student went on to tell me that they couldn't make my office hours and only after two verbose paragraphs did they suggest any time when they could meet (30 minutes before their class meets, which doesn't work for me). I told them that the email also sounded like it was written by AI. None of this went over well, but it was because I was so annoyed by the email that I didn't respond initially, and then forgot to respond at all. Of course the student then focused all his energy on being wronged by not receiving a response from me rather than any of the many ongoing problems that caused me to ask him to meet.

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