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here's a funny conversation topic i had a with a friend: if you're over the age of 25, when's the last time you really *ran* in a panic (like you were late, chasing after something, etc. things like a marathon don't count!) and what was it for?
a kid at work.
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work stuff
(aka bitching and moaning)
So my coworker either doesn't know or doesn't care about the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation-
(essentially: intrinsic- wanting to do it for yourself, extrinsic- motivated by someone else)
-and she's been giving her kids prizes and candy when they do something right. All. year. long. Her kids finish the day with lollipops and bubbles and stickers, and my kids do not.
I'm trying to teach intrinsic motivation- doing the work and following the rules because it leads to success. (I put my shoes on all by myself! I read the whole sentence! I was the first one done cleaning up!)
Because extrinsic motivation only works as long as there's someone motivating you, and when someone stops offering you prizes, you no longer have the ability to motivate yourself.
But I look like a meanie to my students, because the OTHER kids get candy. Why don't I give them candy?
Anyways, I promised my kids candy for the last day of school. They deserve it.
We’re winning.
I found his bio on societyofpresidentialdescendants.org and it was so delightful I had to copy paste the whole thing:
“Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing for the sheer pleasure of it. Aside from books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House, Ulysses created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel, appeared in 2012. His most recent novel, Cliffhanger, was released by JMS Books in December 2020.
“Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of 45 years. They have two grown children, adopted in 1996.
“Ulysses is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.”
And frankly, the novels sound like they slap:
Desmond was nominated for a Lambda Award.
“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know ... they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.
having now read the first of this man's vampire books, you can absolutely tell that he cares a lot about historical furniture because oh my god he really wanted to tell us about all the historical furniture in this vampire's house. material culture as foreplay. seduction via theses about chairs
Okay so as someone who has read his book "Cliffhanger":
It's absolutely a love story for art museum curation. Wow, did this guy love his time working with art museum collections. I learned some things.
The race aspect of his book is... not subtle. Alex White is albino, Xander Browne is black.
The supernatural element is belabored, for no actual supernatural payoff
They do in fact get together in the end. Big happy ending.
It's kind of sweet
It's also kind of weird. Like if you think about it it's totally justified, it's fine. But it's weird. :\
Yeah the relationship is between two art history specialists, and much as the vampire book deals with furniture, this book deals with a bowl that crosses art history specialties. We learn a lot about this bowl, and about how people study items like this. It was no surprise to look at Grant's bio and find out he had worked in art museums in the past.
My favorite part was the older uncle. Reminded me of people in my own family.
Had the end of year parent-teacher conferences today.
It was a big love fest. I love all the kids, the parents obv. love their kids, and the kids have grown so much this year. The parents are so supportive of their kids, and there's really only one family where I'm like, "Your kid would be doing BETTER if you sent him to SCHOOL more often!"
So we all just had a "you're so great, thank you for supporting kiddo this year" fest over video. I think I just had a phenomenal first class, with phenomenal families.
We've got a little more yet to go, but the year is basically done now. This week we're talking about emotions, making friends, and reading The Book With No Pictures (honestly one of my favorite children's books for reading to emerging readers).
(My kids are almost all starting to read, and this book really encourages reading while also being very, very funny.)
What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?
64 or lower
65-67
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No preference
What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?
64 or lower
65-67
68-69
70-72
73 or higher
No preference
Anon you fucked up so bad
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pride month!!!
Is that a miette?
Pride for you! Pride for a thousand years!!
you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!
Updated for Pride Month...
We’re winning.
I found his bio on societyofpresidentialdescendants.org and it was so delightful I had to copy paste the whole thing:
“Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing for the sheer pleasure of it. Aside from books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House, Ulysses created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel, appeared in 2012. His most recent novel, Cliffhanger, was released by JMS Books in December 2020.
“Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of 45 years. They have two grown children, adopted in 1996.
“Ulysses is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.”
And frankly, the novels sound like they slap:
Desmond was nominated for a Lambda Award.
“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know ... they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.
having now read the first of this man's vampire books, you can absolutely tell that he cares a lot about historical furniture because oh my god he really wanted to tell us about all the historical furniture in this vampire's house. material culture as foreplay. seduction via theses about chairs
4x01 - Way Of The Warrior
Okay so my Klingon is EXTREMELY rusty, but:
loD-man/men
Daj- to be interesting
jatlh- to speak
'e'- that, it
chaw- allow
'a'- (augments the preceding word. "very")
Sos- mother
li'- to be useful
So essentially, "They say your mom gets around."
do u think omegaverse acknowledges covid-19 and the generation of people who permanently lost their sense of smell like how are they all scenting each other now is the omegaverse economy in shambles
actually pheromone sensing works differently from normal olfaction, since humans in our world don’t have a functioning vomeronasal organ (VNO), we don’t have any data on how covid-19 would affect a functioning VNO in omegaverse AUs
Actually there is evidence that covid probably would affect the VNO and it stands to reason would accordingly impair its function. Briefly:
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid, can only infect cells expressing a certain protein called ACE2
ACE2 is expressed widely in nasal cavity epithelial cells but not in olfactory sensory neurons.
Seo et al. (2021) studied potential nasal targets for SARS-CoV-2 using golden hamsters as a model organism (commonly used as a proxy for humans in virology studies)
They found ACE2 expression in the main olfactory bulb epithelium (MOE, your “normal” nose organ) as well as the vomeronasal organ (VNO)
Several cell types in the VNO were able to be infected and they also found significant inflammatory activity (macrophage activation, apoptotic cells, etc)
The specifics of how covid actually causes dysosmia are not known for sure but epithelial damage by local inflammatory immune responses likely plays a role, especially because sensory neurons themselves are not affected (Bilinska, & Butowt, 2020). Therefore I would suggest a potential similar effect of VNO dysfunction as we see in the main olfactory bulb
From Seo et al.: “Considering the function of the VNO, infection and subsequent pathologic changes may affect the behavior of Syrian hamsters”
If it stands to reason that omegaverse individuals have functioning VNOs similar to members of the animal kingdom, then it is more than reasonable to conclude that covid may cause them to lose not only their main olfactory function, but also their VNO function as well
References: (1) (2)
In conclusion the omegaverse economy IS in shambles.
OP this is very well-written but im still hung up on how you came onstage dressed as a clown only to tear off the costume and reveal yourself as a biologist
@comicgeekery Hey look it's your least favorite thing, now with silly science!
Loving the idea that the ABO-verse might get hit by covid and then become the us-verse, because nobody can smell hormones and get insta-horny now.
Poor guys.
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my newest unpaying roommate
omg yall I live in a townhouse and there is a CREATURE in the wall adjoining my neighbor. It is Godzilla, it is making SOUNDS, and it sounds enormous. I was comparing noises of animals that live in the area and it's probably a skunk? Maybe two skunks? Because it's been making the "skunks arguing over territory" noise in my walls for a LONG time.
I sent a "hey there's maybe an animal in the ceiling?" note to the landlord in November, to no avail. Now I sent him a "there's DEFINITELY a rather LARGE animal in the walls" note.
This is the best enrichment my cat could hope for though. We both woke up around 3am when it sounded like it was coming through the hecking heating vent.
(i really hope it does not come through the heating vent)
Anyways she was been watching the walls while I sit here trying to figure out who my new roommate is. Wish me luck.
So three years and one week ago (I checked), I asked my doctor to refer me for ADHD assessment. He was fine with it, and did so.
About a week later, I got a questionnaire, on paper, through the post. As though I were living in 19ThePast. It had a letter asking me to fill it out and post it back. It took me three weeks to buy an envelope. It took another to actually fill it out. When I did, I inserted the questionnaire, carefully wrote out the address on the envelope, stamped it, sealed it, and looked down to see the questionnaire still on the sofa. I had tried to post them back their own letter requesting I fill out the questionnaire. I, for one, consider this part of the diagnostic criteria.
Anyway, I finally sent it a week later, so it took five weeks in all. That was, as I say, three years ago.
Today, I had to go to the doctor for unrelated reasons, and I was like, "By the way. Do we know what's happening with the ADHD assessment? I know it's a long waiting list, but it's been three years and I literally never heard anything back. Thoughts?"
And today's doctor (a different one) pulled up my history to have a little look, and discovered that a week after I'd initially gone in - during the time I was supposed to fill out the questionnaire but was still vaguely trying to remember to buy an envelope - the referral people had responded to my GP and said "She hasn't done a questionnaire so we can't assess her." At which point, my GP was supposed to call and share this with me so we could discuss
He did not.
And then, of course, they did get my questionnaire, and he should have forwarded THAT to the assessment people at that point to advance the process.
He did not.
Which means I have just wasted three years and a week waiting for an assessment that was never coming. The whole thing came to an end. That was that. At no point did that first doctor ever reconsider any part of my case. He was told they couldn't proceed, and didn't even think to tell me; he just thought "Well, sucks to be her" and then moved the fuck on with his life, I presume.
FORTUNATELY today's doctor was fantastic - she immediately printed out the questionnaire, gave it to me with a pen, and told me to fill it out and immediately give it in to reception before I left. So huzzah for her, and we are back on for ADHDiagnosis, but Jesus Pissing Christ
They expected someone who's getting evaluated for ADHD to return a mail questionnaire within a WEEK?!
When my kiddo was a preschooler and being evaluated for various things, the behavioral health clinic gave me like ten pages of printed questionnaire.
They were poorly copied, to the point that some pages were diagonal and text was running off the page. Some of the print was blurry. And the questions were like... Open ended... With like three narrow lines of space to write a response. Just looking at it made me want to throw up.
I finally had a meeting with a nonprofit caseworker in which I showed them the questionnaire and my feeble attempt to fill in the first page and I just burst into tears. I was like... This thing is horrible and I can't make my handwriting fit on the lines and every time I sit down to work on it, my kiddo climbs all over me and I don't understand how behavioral health thinks I could ever complete this.
Later that day they sent me a digital version (which was much shorter and the questions made more sense) and like... Was that first questionnaire a test of some sort? It kind of feels like whenever a parent presents a child for evaluation the first thing they do is try to break the parent down.
And like... Knowing that many of these things (adhd / autism / PDA / SPD) have a strong genetic component... Why do they do they make getting help for your kid so reliant on the parent being able to get thru this obstacle course of things designed to be hard for people who... aren't... typical...
Anyway I think I got a very bad grade in Autism Mom, which I really don't regret at all.
I later found out that the clinic (which never responded anyway) was neck deep in abusive types of "therapy" and known to be horrible to neurodivergent parents. So 🖕😁🖕 to them.
Kiddo (now 13yo) has been seeing an occupational therapist "coach" for five years. Who is absolutely brilliant and lets me communicate via text and has pretty much saved our lives.
So yeah. I think the people who design those things as a requirement for getting help without any consideration for the needs and struggles of the people they're supposedly meant to be serving... Those folks should be dipped in sugar and hung out for the bees.
HARD agree- it's my first year teaching pre-k, and a couple of my kids need/should get some forms of additional teaching. Speech, ADHD screening, etc.
I fully expected to have some part of this be my job, because how would a parent know how to do this? Wouldn't the school have forms and the contact number for services?
No. I filled out forms for one kid, that's it. Parents are really left to just... figure it out. No help, nothing's easy.
Air Whales
why are all the actual real human jobs like baker and florist and childcare worker barely paying livable wages but the fake jobs like ai specialist boot licker or marketing campaign dick sucker making six figures
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I definitely headcanon that a) Garak is deeply judgmental about how willing Starfleet people are to have sex with sinister aliens and also b) Garak is perfectly happy to be the sinister alien in question whenever the opportunity arises
What's a book written by a woman that changed your life or that you consider a classic? Any genre, any language.
The Giver by Lois Lowry was my first dystopia, and my first book with an ambiguous ending. I relished that uncertainty, until I came back as an adult and found that more books had been written and it was a series now. I liked the other books, but I was almost disappointed that the ambiguity was answered.
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech was the most poetic book of prose I'd ever read. "The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in." I didn't know books could sound like that. But it's a coming of age book about a girl from the east coast of the US sailing across the Atlantic to meet her grandfather. It goes to some deep places, and I'd love to see it taught in middle schools.
The Circle of Magic books by Tamora Pierce. I'd never seen magic that looked so much like the magic we did in my pagan community- but there it was! I love all of Tamora Pierce's books, but these were the ones that changed my life, because it was seeing my community, and later my first queer character.
