hvincent @hvincent@scholar.social

i should start telling people i manage developers as part of my work

like, i keep them organized and clearly labeled in a locked cabinet and wear the proper safety gear when handling them, and ensure that they are diluted at the correct temperature and then stored in containers that minimize oxidation

i've been managing developers for over a decade, hire me for your startup

(but then it's like, wouldn't it be cool if i was in a place where if i don't mesh with like eight very specific people, there's like two hundred other people to speed date through and try to find someone else to mesh with?)

whenever i look at grad schools a thing that keeps feeling like a sticking point for me is how huge all the big public research schools are, and i'm so used to this moderately sized collection of misfits carving out niches into forgotten basement spaces, i don't now where to begin to think about how to slot into a bigger institution

am i just really neurotic?? having a giant tangled mess of PDFs that range from being named with only DOIs to download(2).pdf to authortitleyear seems to be totally standard for everyone i've worked with and every professor i've had, regardless of their generation??

(mostly history/anthropology and art, which i guess is a less computer-savvy field, but also i'd have expected better overall document organization habits)

i swear if i am even in a position to teach a class that involves distributing 3 dozen or so individual readings, in addition to attaching a bunch of PDFs to whatever course management system, i am also going to make the PDFs consistently named, provide a bulk download option, and also a .bib file

(what i have to deal with right now is definitely an improvement over course readings getting emailed weekly but still, it's such a pain, to shoehorn this all, into zotero)

it's finals week here, time for me to periodically make all the students in the computer lab stand up and do a bunch of wrist/shoulder/neck stretches with me

my university just joined NCFDD and sent out a link to https://www.facultydiversity.org/ with instructions on how to sign up for sponsored membership, is this actually a thing or is this as much of a bs handwavy lipservice thing as it looks to my cynical brain in the first three seconds of reading?

perhaps they could be kind and filter those emails so anyone in, say, the bottom 5% of pay grades is spared being pressured to set up a recurring deduction from their paychecks

wow, i really wish there was a way to opt out of the continuous flow of emails from the university about how, as someone who is employed by the university, i really should consider giving them money for all these great new initiatives coming down the line.

i already did; it's called tuition, which i paid in full as an undergraduate here!!

and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE

i should start telling people i manage developers as part of my work

like, i keep them organized and clearly labeled in a locked cabinet and wear the proper safety gear when handling them, and ensure that they are diluted at the correct temperature and then stored in containers that minimize oxidation

i've been managing developers for over a decade, hire me for your startup

one time my boss borrowed eating implements from me and when he was washing them to give them back i caught him putting them down in the lab sink where all the chemicals go and then washing them

i refused to take them back bc of personal safety and he got confused and felt bad, and tried to justify that because he washed them with soap and water it should be fine

buuuut that's beyond my personal risk margin, i'm around this shit all day long, i gotta minimize contact when i can

it's me, the lab safety mom, yelling 'WHY IS ONE OF THE LOUNGE COFFEE MUGS ON THE EDGE OF THE SINK WHERE PEOPLE USE TOXIC CHEMICALS' to an empty room

are you kidding me, i went back half an hour later and they're still there

are they going to watch the entire game in the only ungendered restroom in the building

are they really

stood outside of the only ungendered restroom in my entire building for ten whole minutes listening to someone watching a football game on their phone inside, gave up, went back to my lab

yes, instead of taking courses this semester, i'm going to therapy and drafting extremely silly fanfiction. i am 32, i own a house, i can do what i want,

for a while i was trying to push out at least one thing every calendar year because i felt this pressure to not have gaps on my cv, but also i was comparing myself to peers who do art closer to full-time; it was getting in the way of things that are also important to me, like having adventures and getting enough sleep every night.

i need this semester off to readjust my focus, so i'm just doing my dayjob and nesting in the new house and having some small adventures.

a student asked me if i'm taking classes this semester and i said no, then asked if i'm working on any photo projects and i said not really, and i said i'm taking at least the semester to reset for some downtime. after a short pause, the student remarked on how that's refreshing to hear, and that productivity culture is bullshit, and i said there's no rule that says you have to do everything constantly.

i'm glad i have a life that let's me take these breaks.

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