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@Cupcake So is Peter Parker.
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SANTA CLAUS IS IMMUNE TO COVID-19!
https://nypost.com/2020/11/20/santa-claus-is-immune-from-covid-19-says-dr-anthony-fauci/
Please share with all the children.
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I took part in a (handmade items) secret santa. I shipped early both to avoid my procrastination/distraction from making me late and because all of the warnings about shipping delays made me nervous since my recipient is in Alaska.
She received it today and oh god, the amount of gushing in the Discord group is embarrassing me. In a good way, but still! She decided (smartly, since she's the first to receive) not to reveal I was the one who made it for her (so that other people don't have an edge on guessing their gifter) so I've been squirming all day with this sense of 'this is too much I want to say you're welcome and-'
I've never had anyone be this grateful for something I made for them before. It's lovely.
Based on her interests/profile (lives in Alaska, likes having colorful/fun things to wear in the cold, likes Firefly, works with at-risk kids and likes having fun/bright things... I mean, there was more, but those are what stood out to me! (Actually, also that yellow is one of her favorite colors which ties into how I decided on what to make.)
So, I made her (these are the photos she took since I dumbly forgot to take any good ones before I shipped it out) a Jayne hat:
and a jar full of lucky stars:
Apparently the kids already love the stars
I can't yet express to her how glad I am that she loves her gifts and that the kids she works with loves them too so I'm expressing it here. Seeing someone so full of joy for something you made is like, the best thing.Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice Are the stars made out of glossy paper?!
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@SilentHills said in RL things I love:
@Auspice Are the stars made out of glossy paper?!
It's a shiny-shimmery paper I ordered specially.
This paper! It's the proper length/size for folding stars.If you order it, be warned that it ships from Singapore so it takes a while to arrive. But it is v. good paper for it. Even with my being rusty in folding, I only had a few that didn't come out right and had to be thrown out.
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I may or may not have just caused a riot in the forum for my current course over the bullshit way the TAs have been grading assignments.
https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello -
This is my vibing playlist, when I'm not listening to the Christmas playlist (I'll post that one in December).
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@Aria
When I was a TA my professor gave me strict rules for grading and I followed them. He would then instruct them to come to him if they wanted to discuss their grades. 7/10 times he would raise their grade and the other 3/10 be all, "yeah, my TA got that right, your answer is way off."I worked for a religion professor and I think he just enjoyed talking about his content matter.
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@silverfox said in RL things I love:
@Aria
When I was a TA my professor gave me strict rules for grading and I followed them. He would then instruct them to come to him if they wanted to discuss their grades. 7/10 times he would raise their grade and the other 3/10 be all, "yeah, my TA got that right, your answer is way off."I worked for a religion professor and I think he just enjoyed talking about his content matter.
Yeah, see, if this was just a question of answers being legitimately wrong, that's fair! I know I'm smart, but I'm not amazing. But this is like.....
On my last assignment, I got an 80.01% in a class where my lowest grade until then had been a 92%. I looked at the answer sheet after they released it and it turned out that the answer sheet the TA had put together was not only wrong, but wrong in such a way that their calculated answers for multiple questions make no sense and violate a basic principle of what we're studying. They ended up having to correct grades for the entire class by about 10-12%.
On my current assignment, I got a 77.75%, which is a 'C', but in grad school a 'C' is failing. The reason? There was a question about what the order winners (the thing that ultimately drives a customer to make a purchase) are where I said it was their low cost. The "correct" answer was their extreme manufacturing efficiency, because..... it allowed them to have the lowest cost. There was a three part question about priorities in each phase of this company's life cycle, with five potential priorities listed. I answered with the top priority for each phase. I get my grade back and it's all marked wrong for not identifying every possible priority among the five in each phase. That would be irritating but fine, except the professor said in his open office hours to choose the top priority. Those two question alone meant a 20% reduction for the entire assignment.
I'm not the only student in the class that's irritated right now. There's multiple people saying that not only are these grades the lowest grades that they've ever gotten on anything in the entire program, but that they're blindsided by the grades we get back every week. When something seems clear and easy to understand they bomb and when they think they don't understand something at all, their grade is fine. That seems like there's something fundamentally wrong, because it's one thing for a group of students to say they're having trouble understanding the material. It's another thing for a group of students to say they can't even gauge whether they understand the material week after week.
At this point, I'm starting to suspect that this course is considered one of the most difficult in my program not because the material is particularly complex or difficult to understand, but because expectations aren't clear. Either the professor and the TA aren't communicating, the TA isn't communicating to the grading team, or the TA doesn't understand the material well enough to create a reasonable grading rubric for the other team members to use.
I do not love any of that, but I do love the fact that enough students suspect there's something seriously wrong that we've started asking for them to release the average grade on every assignment. And since the TA has refused, we've all started talking to each other more and agreed to submit a lot of regrade requests so this reaches the professor's desk.
If we're all legitimately doing poorly, cool. School can be super hard. Believe me, I earned that B- in my computer programming courses. But if we're all doing poorly because one arrogant but mediocre dude has overestimated his ability, doesn't like being questioned about it, and is dicking around? Yeah. I'm glad I kicked off the "nah, bro, we're gonna fix this" riot.
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... why are the TAs writing the answer sheet. I was always given an answer sheet but for a religion class there could be many right answers.
Just wow. I'm sorry this happened to you!
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Are you taking an MBA?
This sounds like the sort of stupidity MBAs are taught.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede said in RL things I love:
Are you taking an MBA?
This sounds like the sort of stupidity MBAs are taught.
Yes.
https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello -
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede said in RL things I love:
Oh dear.
Well, we’re here for you.
I am going to remind you that you said that when I need survey responses for my marketing classes.
https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello -
Tim's Cascade chips has a flavor called "Sasquatch Surprise". If you can get it, and like the brand, they are the absolute tastiest chip I have ever put in my mouth. It's also pretty much impossible to describe, it's like vinegar and oil and bbq and honey.
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@Sunny said in RL things I love:
Tim's Cascade chips has a flavor called "Sasquatch Surprise".
I originally read that as "Time's Cascade chips" and was like whoa that's pretty high concept for potato chips, going back to the past when sasquatches still walked the earth
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@Aria said in RL things I love:
I am going to remind you that you said that when I need survey responses for my marketing classes.
I am going to remind you that asking me to fill out surveys is sort of like asking your most hated child to serve as your executor.
I mean, do what you want, but I can't be held responsible for your choices.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede said in RL things I love:
@Aria said in RL things I love:
I am going to remind you that you said that when I need survey responses for my marketing classes.
I am going to remind you that asking me to fill out surveys is sort of like asking your most hated child to serve as your executor.
I mean, do what you want, but I can't be held responsible for your choices.
I mean, my nana set her favorite child up as the executor of her will and it was a terrible choice. Because my aunt was the sweetest, kindest, friendliest woman in the world.... who was also wildly irresponsible, eager to please, and far too trusting of people who ultimately scammed my family out of $80,000.
So far, what you're telling me is "Cranky but competent and probably responsible lawyerbot sounds like a good idea."
https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello -
@Aria said in RL things I love:
So far, what you're telling me is "Cranky but competent and probably responsible lawyerbot sounds like a good idea."
The surest sign you have found that right attorney is hearing that they don't honestly give a fuck what you choose, but that there are only two choices to be made.
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