Wot in this day and age
A few recent niggles and peeves.
Eurostar onboard wifi FAIL: I can bear with a proper announcement that alas, it is not working on this particular trip, but I am yay irked when it is, apparently, functional, only, really only in some very specialised sense that means, pretty much not, actually.
Hotel which did indeed provide free wifi but room signally lacking in power sockets: the only two not already attached to lights, fridge, tv, coffeemaker, etc, were a) clearly there for the convenience of housekeeping b) in the bathroom.
Also, bad show on the cybersecurity front with your wifi generally, hotels: apart from the one that did not even have any gesture to a password, there was the one which issued all guests with the same user login/password, which cannot be very secure. (Me, I have a VPN.)
Is it, in this day and age, really a mark of respect and esteem to address a scholar to whom you are writing for information as 'Mrs', especially when the subject was a fiery feminist of extremely radical views? Did my generation get into arguments and get considered stroppy for insisting on 'Ms' for nothing? (Quite apart from the, hello, Dr? here.)
Also the peeves are restless when I am solicited for information (at least twice in the past week) on sources or existing scholarship which I feel a scrutiny of the references in my relevant works (some of which they purported to have read) would have revealed.
Today was stressful (there was a point where it conformed entirely too closely to my travel-angst dreams) and I am grumpy. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2830678.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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