i've started just saying "twenty gallons of water" immediately and flatly whenever someone tries to tell me how they used ChatGPT on some work project and boy it's pretty effective to dissuade people from using ChatGPT
I only teach online and hybrid classes, and I don't give any in-class exams except for an interpersonal speaking exam in hybrid sections, so "extra time" for me is simply an LMS setting. I don't have an office as an adjunct.
Got my super duper senior flu shot at 1:00 today, and then I came home and did a bunch of strenuous garden stuff, and now I am sorry.
My students always seem surprised when I say, OK, yes, we will do these things in your letter and here's how. My concern is almost all students get the same accommodation--extra time on exams--and some don't use it. Seems like an easy way for an administrator to do a lot of letters fast.
Now my husband says he needs a whole new shed just for his Halloween decorations. He would call it the Ghoul House.
My husband spends his free time these days looking at social media to see how other people are using their 12 ft skeletons. Not sure what he's planning to do with his.
“Much of Brazil is burning as tens of thousands of fires rage around the country, half of them in the Amazon rainforest. Exacerbated by a severe drought, the fires threaten one of the world’s most crucial ecosystems and are consuming the Amazon’s vast stores of carbon“
Hot, dry conditions have fueled an unusually destructive fire season in Brazil, spiking carbon emissions.
So, yeah, I think you do need to rewatch WandaVision before starting Agatha All Along.
A project of mine is to reread books I loved long ago or classics I've never read. I remember reading East of Eden in HS, 50 years ago. I loved it. I'd always thought I read it for class, but now that I'm almost finished with it again, I can't believe that. It must have been from the HS library.
Had an errand to run up north and west of us, so we stopped at Fish Creek to look around. Love the smell of dry, fallen leaves.
