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Jan. 21st, 2018 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesYesterday I was woken up considerably earlier than I wanted to be by something melting and dripping irregularly on the outside of a window. So I hauled my carcass out of bed and dealt with the chickpeas I'd been soaking overnight and ended up with beans and greens for lunch (chickpeas, chicken broth, garlic, as much Swiss chard as I could stuff in on top of the chickpeas, and a can of drained diced tomatoes). I don't know which particular spot it hit, but it for sure hit at least one. And it was even better for breakfast this morning. And, since it has greens in it, I could probably bottle it and sell it as Trump repellent.
I really can't decide if I want to go to ADEA in March. HSDM will pay for the registration, but the hotel and flights are on me. And I would need to buy some conference-appropriate jackets. And I would probably need to hire a professional cat sitter, because feeding Lily is a Process (although I did hear her eating dry food the other day, so maybe there's something to the Temptations treats = feline heroin theory). But I haven't quite recovered from accreditation enough to do anything that complicated and work-related. But my boss is perfectly happy for me to go. But damn it, I don't know!
I'm enjoying a book called Code Girls, which is about women recruited by the US armed forces in WWII to break Axis codes (mostly Japanese, in this book). They started recruiting in Ivy League colleges and shifted to teachers' colleges and teachers in the south. One of my grandmothers was a teacher in New Hampshire in WWII. It's interesting to think about what might have been, but I might not have known about it anyway, because the women who did this work took some serious oaths of confidentiality and apparently some of them still have a hard time talking about it.
I know last weekend was a long weekend, but I sort of feel like this one needs to be a long weekend too. I really hate using personal days in January, though.
I really can't decide if I want to go to ADEA in March. HSDM will pay for the registration, but the hotel and flights are on me. And I would need to buy some conference-appropriate jackets. And I would probably need to hire a professional cat sitter, because feeding Lily is a Process (although I did hear her eating dry food the other day, so maybe there's something to the Temptations treats = feline heroin theory). But I haven't quite recovered from accreditation enough to do anything that complicated and work-related. But my boss is perfectly happy for me to go. But damn it, I don't know!
I'm enjoying a book called Code Girls, which is about women recruited by the US armed forces in WWII to break Axis codes (mostly Japanese, in this book). They started recruiting in Ivy League colleges and shifted to teachers' colleges and teachers in the south. One of my grandmothers was a teacher in New Hampshire in WWII. It's interesting to think about what might have been, but I might not have known about it anyway, because the women who did this work took some serious oaths of confidentiality and apparently some of them still have a hard time talking about it.
I know last weekend was a long weekend, but I sort of feel like this one needs to be a long weekend too. I really hate using personal days in January, though.
