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I am still tired and my throat still hurts, but I got through another day at work. Did I finish all the tasks I should have done? Not hardly! But I got through 85% of them, which I feel is reasonable for a day when I was running on about 70%.
(My home Covid test was negative, so I presume this is just a medium-ish cold -- sore throat, no energy, internal temperature regulation gone slightly haywire, and now a stuffy nose has joined the symptom list, blargh.)
On Sunday night I turned in the final graded assignment for my Coursera class on medieval European Christian women's spirituality. Last night I got my grade for that assignment, and if they are weighting the grades for the entire course as described on the grades page, I got an 89.6 for the course as a whole.
That grade is meaningless, of course, since I was doing the non-credit version of the course and signed up basically for the hell of it, but I do like to do well on things. I would have scored better, but I wasn't taking the first written assignment seriously and am a bit out of practice at whipping together a short-form essay response at the drop of a hat. Ah well, so it goes.
It was nice having a semi-structured Thing To Learn for the past five weeks. I might poke around Coursera and see if any of their other free courses catch my eye.
But tonight I am once again going to bed early, because I have to be at the rental office at 9am instead of 10am, since I am leaving an hour earlier than normal so I can go prepare other people's taxes in the evening. *sigh*
Every year I ask myself why I sign up to be stressed out and over-busy for three and a half months. The answer is that A) tax returns are fun (YMMV, but this is my truth), B) extra money is nice, and C) tax prep is a highly portable skill and I like to keep my professional registrations current at someone else's expense.
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Unrelated news: we are slowly proceeding through the eviction process against one of our tenants. New York has a lot of tenant protections, which is usually a good thing! But when you have one person who is making every other resident of a building miserable for MONTHS, and in fact has driven two other tenants out of their apartments due to fear of being assaulted and inability to sleep because of excessive noise, it is extremely frustrating to not be able to kick that person out faster.
Anyway, a little bit before I left work this evening, the cops came by in response to yet another disturbance this person caused. I let them in to the relevant floor of the building, but they didn't need me around after that and honestly I would prefer never to interact with the tenant in question, so I don't know what happened thereafter. I suppose I'll find out in the morning.
(My home Covid test was negative, so I presume this is just a medium-ish cold -- sore throat, no energy, internal temperature regulation gone slightly haywire, and now a stuffy nose has joined the symptom list, blargh.)
On Sunday night I turned in the final graded assignment for my Coursera class on medieval European Christian women's spirituality. Last night I got my grade for that assignment, and if they are weighting the grades for the entire course as described on the grades page, I got an 89.6 for the course as a whole.
That grade is meaningless, of course, since I was doing the non-credit version of the course and signed up basically for the hell of it, but I do like to do well on things. I would have scored better, but I wasn't taking the first written assignment seriously and am a bit out of practice at whipping together a short-form essay response at the drop of a hat. Ah well, so it goes.
It was nice having a semi-structured Thing To Learn for the past five weeks. I might poke around Coursera and see if any of their other free courses catch my eye.
But tonight I am once again going to bed early, because I have to be at the rental office at 9am instead of 10am, since I am leaving an hour earlier than normal so I can go prepare other people's taxes in the evening. *sigh*
Every year I ask myself why I sign up to be stressed out and over-busy for three and a half months. The answer is that A) tax returns are fun (YMMV, but this is my truth), B) extra money is nice, and C) tax prep is a highly portable skill and I like to keep my professional registrations current at someone else's expense.
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Unrelated news: we are slowly proceeding through the eviction process against one of our tenants. New York has a lot of tenant protections, which is usually a good thing! But when you have one person who is making every other resident of a building miserable for MONTHS, and in fact has driven two other tenants out of their apartments due to fear of being assaulted and inability to sleep because of excessive noise, it is extremely frustrating to not be able to kick that person out faster.
Anyway, a little bit before I left work this evening, the cops came by in response to yet another disturbance this person caused. I let them in to the relevant floor of the building, but they didn't need me around after that and honestly I would prefer never to interact with the tenant in question, so I don't know what happened thereafter. I suppose I'll find out in the morning.
