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It has been too long since my last update. It has also been a very busy month. Let me see if I can recap.
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A few days ago I get two messages from students: the first saying they were staying home because they were around someone who tested positive for covid, the second saying that when they got home from school they tested positive. After emailing the nurse and informing her of students this student was in close contact with (we had a lab and I do NOT have enough materials or space to give each person their own setup) we ended up with about 8 students who are now in quarentine. That is just from our team of 125 students. There are more students quarentined from other teams.
Many concerns. First, the school is pushing hard to go back full in person. If we had this many quarentined with just our hybrid classes of 11 - 21 students, how many will be affected with a class of 30? The district claims I can fit that many in my room socially distanced and that they only need to be 3ft apart now instead of 6ft, but theoretical capacities and actual capacities are totally different! Plus they never considered the fact that we do not have enough equipment to set up 10+ different lab stations. So my kiddos will be working in groups of 4 at least on their labs, which is more close contact time. So stupid!
Other concern: if this kiddo had gone to get tested earlier then why were they in school!! Unless they got a rapid test after school, but I doubt that. So this parent sent their kid to school with the possiblity that they would be positive for corona virus!
I want to say that the fact the district pushed hard to get all teachers vaccinated helps (I just got my 1st dose of the vaccine on Friday), but that does not help contain the spread of coronoa virus. I'm more worried about my student's families getting sick than myself.
Again, this is so stupid.
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From the advice of a friend I downloaded this dating app called "Hinge" and started testing the waters of dating. I'm suprised that I've already had more then 5 people like my pictures and responses enough to want to chat with me. Granted trying to keep a conversation going is like pulling teeth, but there is at least one person I'm very interested in and so I guess I get to be the extrovert to try to keep them engaged. We'll see if something happens from all of this.
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Started to get into streaming on twitch, if only a little bit. Doing this mostly for my upcoming tournament for Final Fantasy Free Enterprise. This is a randomizer of the Final Fantasy IV game for the SNES, japanese version. It is a lot of fun! You start off the game like normal, except you get the airship right away. Then there are random objectives to complete, key items are all randomized, bosses randomized, shops and treasure randomized, characters randomized. Lots of fun. Been doing the seed of the week for a while and this week I placed 6th of 21, and a few weeks ago I was also in the top 10 of like 40. We'll see how this goes, I'm excited and nervous.
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Birthday is coming up next week. It feels weird. I'll almost be 40. My friends are turning 40. I still don't have my own house or kids. Some days I feel like my life plan is all out of wack, some days I feel like I will never own a home or start a family, and most days I feel like that I will forever be romantically alone. Most days I embrace my hermit status and just don't care about the world. If I won the lottery I might just move to far northern minnesota and just enjoy life alone. Probably not. It is tempting some days.
As a treat I ordered myself two cakes from Taste of Scandinavia: a lemon torte to share with coworkers at school and a princess cake for home. Excited for both!
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I have been doing Duolingo for Spanish for almost a month now, ever since I had that very intense vivid dream. I think I'm progressing ok, I do a little every day at least and I learn something new each time. Hopefully I can get it to stick.
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Back has been acting up again, on Wednesday it hurt really bad. Probably due to how I have been sitting in the computer chair. I have been seeing a chriopractor since December when I had that really bad paralyzing incident, but I don't know how affective it has been. I have always been suspicious of chriopractcy, but maybe it's just my skepticism. Maybe I'm just getting old. Next appointment is on Monday, we'll see what happens. Beginning to wonder if it has been a waste of money.
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A few days ago I get two messages from students: the first saying they were staying home because they were around someone who tested positive for covid, the second saying that when they got home from school they tested positive. After emailing the nurse and informing her of students this student was in close contact with (we had a lab and I do NOT have enough materials or space to give each person their own setup) we ended up with about 8 students who are now in quarentine. That is just from our team of 125 students. There are more students quarentined from other teams.
Many concerns. First, the school is pushing hard to go back full in person. If we had this many quarentined with just our hybrid classes of 11 - 21 students, how many will be affected with a class of 30? The district claims I can fit that many in my room socially distanced and that they only need to be 3ft apart now instead of 6ft, but theoretical capacities and actual capacities are totally different! Plus they never considered the fact that we do not have enough equipment to set up 10+ different lab stations. So my kiddos will be working in groups of 4 at least on their labs, which is more close contact time. So stupid!
Other concern: if this kiddo had gone to get tested earlier then why were they in school!! Unless they got a rapid test after school, but I doubt that. So this parent sent their kid to school with the possiblity that they would be positive for corona virus!
I want to say that the fact the district pushed hard to get all teachers vaccinated helps (I just got my 1st dose of the vaccine on Friday), but that does not help contain the spread of coronoa virus. I'm more worried about my student's families getting sick than myself.
Again, this is so stupid.
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From the advice of a friend I downloaded this dating app called "Hinge" and started testing the waters of dating. I'm suprised that I've already had more then 5 people like my pictures and responses enough to want to chat with me. Granted trying to keep a conversation going is like pulling teeth, but there is at least one person I'm very interested in and so I guess I get to be the extrovert to try to keep them engaged. We'll see if something happens from all of this.
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Started to get into streaming on twitch, if only a little bit. Doing this mostly for my upcoming tournament for Final Fantasy Free Enterprise. This is a randomizer of the Final Fantasy IV game for the SNES, japanese version. It is a lot of fun! You start off the game like normal, except you get the airship right away. Then there are random objectives to complete, key items are all randomized, bosses randomized, shops and treasure randomized, characters randomized. Lots of fun. Been doing the seed of the week for a while and this week I placed 6th of 21, and a few weeks ago I was also in the top 10 of like 40. We'll see how this goes, I'm excited and nervous.
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Birthday is coming up next week. It feels weird. I'll almost be 40. My friends are turning 40. I still don't have my own house or kids. Some days I feel like my life plan is all out of wack, some days I feel like I will never own a home or start a family, and most days I feel like that I will forever be romantically alone. Most days I embrace my hermit status and just don't care about the world. If I won the lottery I might just move to far northern minnesota and just enjoy life alone. Probably not. It is tempting some days.
As a treat I ordered myself two cakes from Taste of Scandinavia: a lemon torte to share with coworkers at school and a princess cake for home. Excited for both!
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I have been doing Duolingo for Spanish for almost a month now, ever since I had that very intense vivid dream. I think I'm progressing ok, I do a little every day at least and I learn something new each time. Hopefully I can get it to stick.
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Back has been acting up again, on Wednesday it hurt really bad. Probably due to how I have been sitting in the computer chair. I have been seeing a chriopractor since December when I had that really bad paralyzing incident, but I don't know how affective it has been. I have always been suspicious of chriopractcy, but maybe it's just my skepticism. Maybe I'm just getting old. Next appointment is on Monday, we'll see what happens. Beginning to wonder if it has been a waste of money.
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