Sure Happy It’s Thursday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Fatwa!
I have an online interview for an online teaching position this morning. I’m supposed to give a 10 minute lesson using software that I downloaded on Saturday (anticipating that I’d get an interview) and that the publisher offers minimal online help for. The interviewers will be the class I’m teaching to, but I have no idea how strict they will be on the 10 minutes, how many questions they will ask (or type) during the lesson, or even what happens after the lesson is over. Meanwhile, I have to wait for them to send me a link to login to the “session” before I can upload my content, make changes to the arrangement of the various screens and panels, drawing tools, etc. When they’ll send that link is anybody’s guess. So I’ll just sit here and wait.
Thanks, TeX. I’m one of those people who show up an hour early if I’m giving a presentation to check out the room, make sure the tech works, figure out how I can move through the space, etc.
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.
Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis the Peasant: You can’t expect to wield supreme power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Arthur: Shut up
Dennis the Peasant: I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
Just finished the interview -- a little over an hour long. I think it went well. Like a phone interview, it was a little hard to tell if I was getting my points across since I couldn’t read body language or facial expressions.
If they like me, I’ll be part of a hiring pool. If any openings come up this school year, they’ll make an offer to the best candidate in the pool. IOW, they may or may not get back to me. If nothing opens up this school year, I have to re-apply for next year.
*Just* barely.
That part probably was overwritten while I was remembering the lyrics (an no Googling, neither!) to “The Philosopher’s Song” and Denis Leary’s “A$$hole” song(s).
I saw this Wil Wheaton post over on AoS where Wil says: “I’m going to acknowledge my privilege right now, before I get into this. Because I’m a middle-aged white dude, I don’t have the same experience in life tha… well, pretty much everyone else who isn’t has. I know that the world is set up to make life for people like me as easy as possible (Scalzi’s “lowest difficulty” setting), and even though I try to see from outside of my own limited perspective, I don’t always succeed.”
After laughing my ass off, my only comment is WTF.
I’m grabbin’ the 0s this morning…but will consider relinquishing ’em to RabBeet if she shows up. 😉
Mrs. Sven --
Adding my voice to last night’s G
reek chorus, I hope you’ll deign to stop in more often, too.A farcical aquatic ceremony might not be any worse than the pawthetic joke our present system has become:
Sure Happy It’s Thursday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Fatwa!
I have an online interview for an online teaching position this morning. I’m supposed to give a 10 minute lesson using software that I downloaded on Saturday (anticipating that I’d get an interview) and that the publisher offers minimal online help for. The interviewers will be the class I’m teaching to, but I have no idea how strict they will be on the 10 minutes, how many questions they will ask (or type) during the lesson, or even what happens after the lesson is over. Meanwhile, I have to wait for them to send me a link to login to the “session” before I can upload my content, make changes to the arrangement of the various screens and panels, drawing tools, etc. When they’ll send that link is anybody’s guess. So I’ll just sit here and wait.
Good luck, Paddy.
Thanks, Mac!
Good luck, Paddy!
This is what you do -- and there are damn few who a) love it; and ii) are good at it. And that’s you.
Thanks, TeX. I’m one of those people who show up an hour early if I’m giving a presentation to check out the room, make sure the tech works, figure out how I can move through the space, etc.
In re: Fatwa’s pic … I thought Monty Python called her “a watery tart” or somesuch.
Hai, Mac, Paddy and TeX!
Paddy --
Bonne chance…and what TeX said!!
TeX --
Hahahahahahahaaaaa…
Hamas claims it built a tank!
Yup…they built a tank, alright. With a fiberglass body mounted on an SUV; photo showing the tires sticking out the bottom at teh link.
Just finished the interview -- a little over an hour long. I think it went well. Like a phone interview, it was a little hard to tell if I was getting my points across since I couldn’t read body language or facial expressions.
Hamas tank!
Verrrwy Scarewy!
Hi, Cali!
Paddy --
Delighted you think teh interview went well; did they say when they’d get back to you?
If they like me, I’ll be part of a hiring pool. If any openings come up this school year, they’ll make an offer to the best candidate in the pool. IOW, they may or may not get back to me. If nothing opens up this school year, I have to re-apply for next year.
Yeah … figures I’d remember the one between “strange women” and “moistened bint”.
::shrugs::
Well, at least you didn’t remember it as “strange moistened bint”. NTTAWWT
*Just* barely.
That part probably was overwritten while I was remembering the lyrics (an no Googling, neither!) to “The Philosopher’s Song” and Denis Leary’s “A$$hole” song(s).
Well, we all know I’m odd …
That’s what makes you part of the family!
Paddy --
Thinkin’ good thoughts on your behalf.
TeX --
What Paddy said.
Meanwhile, I’ll try to hold up my part providing the boring, humdrum, banal tedium ’cause someone’s got to do it. 🙂
Oh…just saw that this is Day 1001 of the IRS scandal.
Grrrrr….
There was an IRS scandal? You’d think that would be all over the news!
Just heard that Maurice White from Earth Wind & Fire is an ex-funkster; dayum.
Arguably my favorite song from their catalog:
Great news, Paddy! Here’s hoping it all works out.
I saw this Wil Wheaton post over on AoS where Wil says: “I’m going to acknowledge my privilege right now, before I get into this. Because I’m a middle-aged white dude, I don’t have the same experience in life tha… well, pretty much everyone else who isn’t has. I know that the world is set up to make life for people like me as easy as possible (Scalzi’s “lowest difficulty” setting), and even though I try to see from outside of my own limited perspective, I don’t always succeed.”
After laughing my ass off, my only comment is WTF.
I would add, “Shut up, Wesley!”
Addendum(b): Someone once remarked that Wesley Crusher was the Jar Jar Binks of the Star Trek universe.