Day 2 - Biden said the pandemic is over

Dealing with that crazy OSD bitch again…

Striders group tonight…we walked at the Bridgeport Paseo…

9/19/22. Monday

8:30-9:00 - I’m awake and the dog is licking my hands so we get up and do our morning routine. Cheese for her; coffee for me. I go upstairs.

9:00-10:30-I read Afterlife, a Books and Brews book club pick.

10:30-1:00 - bullet journal.

1:30-2:30-I check email at College No. 2 and respond to my eight online high school students. One of them does not understand why we are no longer on Week #1 even though I’ve emailed the Syllabus and the Audio Syllabus to her on five different occasions and we are now on Week #3.

-Several of the students were unable to log into Canvas last week, so I email them the quizzes they missed. I also grade a few emailed quizzes that I authorized from my F2F high school students at the Catholic high school.

-I get an email from HR informing that I’m getting evaluated this year even though I was just evaluated last May. No. I email HR and refute the upcoming eval, adding that I was just evaluated and it doesn’t make since that I would have another eval so soon.

2:30-2:45-The Canvas shell for my new 8-week class is ready at College No. 1 so I go online to check the schedule of classes to see when it starts (10-10-22).

-I note that crazy OSD bitch sent a 1-pg, single-spaced, incoherent email (27 lines), interspersed with several words in Size 24 font, indicating that she is screaming. This email was sent at 9:00 am this morning and is impossible to interpret because it’s filled with run-on sentences that make no sense. She appears to be upset over my terse response on Friday to “See syllabus”, but it’s difficult to determine. Here’s a sample:

“The original syllabus I downloaded on August 13th did not indicate the exam is due by October 9th. My email on September 16 reasoning was I am not clear if I needed to make arrangements with OSD, also since the exam is provided through Canvas, how will my accommodations of 2x examination hours for a 2-hour class be implemented? You are aware with Microsoft Windows Office Suite, when one downloads a file with the exact same name the user is alerted there are two files with the same name. This reviews the 2nd download with the 1st and highlights changes/differences.”

This next section contains words in 24-size font, indicating that she is SCREAMING at me:

“IN CANVAS: MIDTERM (CHAPTERS 2 THRU 6) (TO BE COMPLETED BY 11:59 PM, ON SUNDAY, ON 10/9/22), DID NOT HAVE THIS ON THE ORIGINAL 8/13/22 DOWNLOAD”

My official diagnosis for this student is…she’s nuts. I don’t understand the email - I have no idea what she is trying to say.

I respond, and cc Dr. LL for good measure. Dr. LL does nothing as this train wreck continues.

“Please note that the Syllabus is subject to change. Having said that, the Midterm was always due on 10/9/22. BUT it was scheduled to post with the course content for the week of 10/2/22. I merely added a clarification to the Syllabus informing the students that the Midterm would be due the following Sunday, 10/9/22, by 11:59 pm., like the rest of your assignments, to avoid confusion. In other words, the Midterm will post on 10/2/22, but is due the following Sunday or 10/9/22. The clarification was needed due to the fact that this is a fully online class with assignments due every following Sunday. Because it was only a clarification, I saw no need to send an email blast to the students advising as such.”

Did I answer her email sufficiently? I have no idea, but my response took over an hour to craft, a complete waste of my time.

2:45-3:00-I update Attendance for Specialty Class 1A.

3:00-3:30-I take a break and finish the rest of my leftovers from last night.

3:30-3:45-I check the content for my F2F Thursday evening class and make sure it’s ready.

4:00-4:25 - I make a list of the Specialty Class 1A students who either failed to do the assignments or scored Ds and or Fs on their assignments so I can email them later.

4:25-5:00-I send a lengthy email to the student who says she is waiting for me to override the Inquizitives she took on the wrong platform. I tell her, professionally, that she is a f—king liar. The reason she received 0s on the Inquizitives is due to the fact that she failed to answer the requisite 20 questions NOT because she took the test on the wrong platform. If you don’t answer at least 20 questions, you get a zero - she knows this because several of her Inquizitives contain at least 20 questions that she answered. I also compile a list of those students who failed to complete their CA Inquizitives and inform them that they have a 0 on those assignments as well.

-5:15-6:15-I take a fast shower and put on light make-up because I’m meeting my Striders group at 6:30. At least the location is close by - we stage up at Bridgeport elementary school today.

6:30-7:30-I walk alone and try to mull over some of the problems I’m having with this online high school group. While I’m walking behind Gretta, at the Striders group, some idiot asks her about her T-shirt, which says “Vasquez Rocks” on the back. When she explains that she is wearing a T-shirt from the National Park, this moron says, “Oh, I thought it was about rock and roll” and proceeds to ask her if she likes 15 bands, one after the other: Steely Dan, Simon and Garfield, the Beatles. I guess this is his ice breker. It’s very irritating. Gretta says she likes Neal Diamond. Whatever - I walk away.

7:30-9:00-My Kohl’s cash is about to expire and I have $54 I need to spend TONIGHT so that means I have to go to Kohl’s in accordance with my Curated Closet Project, the project that turned out to be harder than my PhD program. I buy two pairs of pants and a shirt to go with my green and white striped 70s pants, then pick up two Godiva candy bars as an impulse buy.

9:00-9:45-I stop at Sprouts for supplies: sushi rolls, spring salad, oat milk, cherry tomatoes, grapes, etc. Everything is organic.

9:45-11:30-Home and I clean out the refrigerator, put everything away, then meal prep for the week while simultaneously eating five pieces of sushi. I start boiling eggs while I make two salads with cucumber, tomatoes, boiled eggs, and EVOO. I also make a batch of overnight oats. I pack my lunch bag and add cucumber slices and Taziki dip. Kitchen duty. I listen to Spooked and Deep Questions.

I had every intention of taking the dog for a walk but time got away from me and it didn’t happen.

11:30-12:30-B is coming for patio coffee tomorrow so I sweep the patio and clean the beds and the pots. I think using the leaf blower would be more efficient but it’s too late and I don’t want to wake up my neighbors so I do everything by hand tonight. I have a few bites of my white chocolate bar. I need to water the plants but the patio will flood and B is coming for patio coffee tomorrow; I’ll water after he leaves.

12:30-1:30-Nighttime routine. I pick a hiking outfit for tomorrow. Bed. I set my alarm for 7:00.