It has been really busy with grant projects wrapping up in schools (last week of school was last week), managing a bunch of things, writing grants, etc. However, context clues matter! 9/18
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CC#1: The flight time from Chicago to Calgary is 20-30 mins longer than to Ottawa. I brushed it off for weather-related changes, as a bunch of us (e.g.,
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CC#2: The forecast for Carleton U was and had been overcast and I landed to amazing weather, and the taxi driver (because I didn’t have Uber yet) said how it’s been really amazing all week 11/18
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CC#3: I looked up and made sure I could use Lyft at this conference (yes, Ottawa has Lyft), but landed to YYC with my Lyft app telling me they don’t run in that location yet
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CC#4: When asking people before my trip what there is to do in Calgary, no one had been. I have several friends who went to Carleton U and I also know a lot of people love (and have been to) Ottawa 13/18
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I have learned my lesson here today for sure. To anyone who hasn’t yet made this mistake, I suggest an extra minute of confirmatory effort to make sure this doesn’t happen to you. I *for sure* assumed I would never do this 14/18
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Silver lining is now I have some time and will go on a run (the river on this side of Canada looks great), and I’ll be able to make all my Zoom calls I had set as tentative. If anyone wants to catch up, I have some time
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To my
@mathcogsociety colleagues and friends, I missed the 1st meeting in Oxford and given these events, am missing it again. Surely hoping to make it next year – there’s so much work going on I want/need to know more about. Third time’s a charm, or so I hear#MCLS2019 16/181 reply 1 retweet 117 likesShow this thread -
First time screwing up a conference trip. Also first time doing a mutli tweet tweet. Hopefully I only find myself doing one of the two again HAH 17/18
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Anyone else have stories to share to humor a semi-humored and definitely embarrassed junior faculty member sitting in a hotel lobby because housekeeping is cleaning the room he doesn’t need anymore?
#AcademicTwitter
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These tweets appeared on my TL. I’m originally from Calgary so if you want some recs for food or something let me know.
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