Since Random Thoughts Thursdays pretty much have been taken over my Eurovision stuff, I figure that I would move my random a** thoughts to Wednesday. Eh, maybe I should have moved Eurovision crap to Wednesday.
-I give the folks from NYCRuns an A+ for customer service.
-While last week was a bit rough for me, I’m ready to be more positive in getting my professional and physical life together. Normally, I’m not a fan of sappy things, but I like the messages on my street’s repainted police barricades. FYI: These barricades are not here because of a high police presence (although crime in NYC has been rising). They are here to block car traffic for our Open Streets program.
-Very fitting because I’ve started doing yoga again.
-I guess the family of NYC half and full marathon bandits are back.
-Brief backstory: During last year’s NYC Marathon, I saw this family (a mother with her four sons) a few times running the marathon. However, I do not think they ran the whole thing because I passed them a few times during the marathon, but somehow they were always ahead of me. I think they ran portions of the marathon but took public transportation to different parts of the marathon.
-I will say that folks were enraged. For instance, folks were trying to find out who the mom was so they could inform child protective services. While I did not mind this unregistered family running the marathon, I just thought it was a bit weird, but not abusive to the point of trying to get her kids taken away. So I guess crashing long-distance races is their thing. . . Well, technically the mother’s thing because I do not think any of the boys were excited to do this.
-LOL this perfectly describes me. I dunno why but I’ve never been a fan of walking.
-BUT, that’s changing. I’m going to try my hardest to go for 2-3 mile walks during my lunch break. Near work, we actually have the “serenity” stroll . . . which is not very serene.
-Every semester, I always have one of these students in my Gen Bio class.
-I was a little confused by this email. After class, I made a ~20min step-by-step video explaining how to make various types of graphs. Why would a make a video showing you how to do something only for you to do something completely different?
-Oh this student could not come to class one day because her dog “ate” her laboratory coat. Yeah. . . ok.
-OK, I’m all randomed out.
Questions of the Day
-Now that we have officially entered the Spring season? How’s the weather in your parts of the world?
-If there was one thing in your life that you could redo, what would it be?
-Anyone has some run faces.
Social Media Plug:
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I didn’t think the dog ate my … blah blah blah … was actually ever used.
But now I know!
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The student probably hid a steak 🥩 inside of the coat and let the dog go at it.
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I have a friend who teaches College level Chemistry and the excuses the students come up with for not doing/completing assignments are both sad and funny.
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Thinking back to my college years, I never had the balls to make some of the requests that some of my students have made. “Oh, I see that I have a 54% average in the course. Is there any way I can pull this up to a 90% even though there only one week left in the semester?” You’re failing the course, but expect to earn an A within a week?!!!! Keep in mind, I provide grade updates after every exam so there is NO reason that any of my students should be surprised with their final grades.
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It’s spring here, all the magnolias and cherry trees are out and it’s lovely. I have a day off tomorrow (because my next-door neighbours are having their two massive trees cut down and a) it will be noisy, b) my office overlooks them and I do not want to see this) and I’m going to go and visit some particularly nice trees, as well as trying to get some new running shoes.
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Purchasing new shoes is definately in the works for me. My current shoes are from 2 seasons ago so I’m afraid that I will not find them. Note: The shoes are not 2 seasons old. I bought them last season, but I was really lucky that the shoe store had the same shoe (in my size) from the previous season. I l like to stick with one model/brand of shoe for as long as possible. You know, old dogs; and new tricks.
Have fun shoe shopping and enjoying nature.
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That is unbelievable to bandit the race with 4 kids in tow? first rule of banditing is don’t be obvious (never bandited personally). love the student question and the “no subject” on the email. I get some dumb emails in my work but students must be a gold mine of dumb questions! at least it’s entertaining?
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