less miserable, more annoyed
Jun. 17th, 2008 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianI am past the gallons-of-snot phase of my illness, and luckily the muscle and joint aches only lasted about half a day. Still too tired to do much. (Raspberries and other helpfulness provided by thoughtful Wim.)
Mostly what I am doing today is legwork for future TA work, since I don't currently have other funding for next fall and winter. The way to TA anything good is to approach the professor(s) before turning in your list of preferences, so they recommend you to the assignment committee. Judging by the number and style of rejections I'm accumulating, it appears that in most cases this happens a year in advance, and where it doesn't the professor still would rather have their own student if said student might be interested. Grr. Not that I hate teaching intro courses, but I'm supposed to do a 400-level one at some point and I was hoping to get it off my list soon.
I'm also working on a quick talk about my stickleback rotation project, to be given tomorrow. And Squeak is at the vet, where her teeth are worse than they thought. Dizzy is okay with her mouth short on teeth, but I still worry a bit.
Mostly what I am doing today is legwork for future TA work, since I don't currently have other funding for next fall and winter. The way to TA anything good is to approach the professor(s) before turning in your list of preferences, so they recommend you to the assignment committee. Judging by the number and style of rejections I'm accumulating, it appears that in most cases this happens a year in advance, and where it doesn't the professor still would rather have their own student if said student might be interested. Grr. Not that I hate teaching intro courses, but I'm supposed to do a 400-level one at some point and I was hoping to get it off my list soon.
I'm also working on a quick talk about my stickleback rotation project, to be given tomorrow. And Squeak is at the vet, where her teeth are worse than they thought. Dizzy is okay with her mouth short on teeth, but I still worry a bit.
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Date: 2008-06-17 07:49 pm (UTC)if squeak comes home from the vet sans a few teeth but with some meds she has to take, do NOT for the love of god grab her jaw and pry her mouth open even if she is being recalcitrant about taking the pills.
(coco is a different species, of course, but she finally went for the pills in easy cheese, after having done her best to bite me. she only has about nine teeth yet, so really, it wasn't very painful. but it made me sad.)