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Public health killjoy riding bikes Mastodon: apollonio@fediscience.org (she/her)
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Wow UCSF's donor event (I was a presenter; I am not a billionaire) completely wiped me out. Also it was a TOTAL TRIP. They put out blue carpet on the dirt pathways. There were golf carts taking people from building to building. The reception bar offered hard liquor.
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We just bought tickets to Japan and my host university let me know that they're putting us up in Shinjuku; it's starting to feel like this trip will actually happen.
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I submitted my grant proposal 3 days early. Yeah, that's right. Our 8 postdocs definitely will not submit early, or probably sleep at all this week. So it's not like I'm off the hook, but at least I have one less major thing to do.
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I'm so excited: we have secured a local travel agent for the trip to Japan (my visa only covers the week I'm teaching; for any additional time and to bring the family having an agent in Japan is mandatory, for COVID tracking reasons)
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For years I've been trying to convince our oldest that elections matter. This year they started community college. Yesterday they grabbed the ballot information packet, read the community college board candidate statements, circled their top choices, then insisted I vote for them
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The kid named our robot vacuum Hal 4500 (as in, it's half as smart as Hal 9000) and over the last few months we've realized that it's the only robot vacuum (or robot anything related to the household) we know of that's explicitly male.
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Me: ha Kid: what Me: I read a quote that was exactly what I expected Kid: what Me: they said, "Nothing can change the fact that we like it when cops get killed." Kid: oh, punk rock
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I finished the draft of my grant proposal at 8pm tonight. It's due Monday so this is early, by historical standards, which means that although I'll be revising all weekend, I will at least get some sleep. It was a lot.
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I'm headed to Tokyo on faculty exchange at the end of the year and my spouse keeps sharing updates about visiting Japan that seem like weird jokes. All foreigners must wear special masks?
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I just learned that I was one of many people who evacuated upon hearing the *very faint* alarm and then got scolded for "not evacuating immediately." That's not a good look for UCSF Facilities
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Update on my office evacuation: construction workers dropped paint thinner into the air vents yesterday. A professional air quality monitoring team has been entering occasionally in hazmat suits to test, and says it's not safe to return.
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I got evacuated from my office this afternoon after we were informed there was a hazardous materials release but have we gotten any further updates? We have not. Tomorrow I decided I'm definitely working from home, but still: no information whatsoever?
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I had concerns about teaching 100 people in person today but the CO2 monitor never got above 500 and everyone was masked. The students were great too.
Portable CO2 monitor reading 459
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The library in Ukiah is making me wish I lived anywhere near Ukiah: ukelele starter kits? a seed library? an e-library petting zoo? the long-standing "amble and ramble" walking book club? Their PR is incredible
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Working with the kid to fill out CCSF employment forms today. "Why are there so many of these? What's a voided check? What's a sexual harassment training attestation? How do I get a TB test?" Truly, the only difference between UCSF and CCSF is one letter
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Spouse: hey what's that bus? Kid: that's the 29, it goes down 25th and Sunset, it's a good transition bus because it connects to all the train lines and goes through a lot of residential neighborhoods, as well as CCSF So that SF Rec and Parks Transit camp totally paid off
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Our teen, who blew off most of high school, finally revealed how things are going in the first few weeks of college: acing every class, 100% across the board. I'm thrilled and relieved; so far this is incredible
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Every year I discover that another of my coworkers loves trains as much as I love trains, then we spend a big chunk of every meeting comparing lists of best train rides and train travel wish lists. Eventually there will be so many of us that we get no work done at all
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We've been trying to convince our trainees to stop perseverating on "perfecting" their writing (never gonna happen) and embrace writing garbage, and to model that we've all been sharing our drafts before making any edits. It's surprisingly fun!
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Our older kid got their first job offer earlier today and it's at the library (!!!) and I'm still so delighted that I can't contain myself, I feel like the greatest parent on earth
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Today we cleaned out the younger kid's closet, plus the rest of the room, so we could move the hanging rails to almost-adult height. It was a lot of work but the place looks great now
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We got our kid a California ID and pre-registered them to vote while we were there. The state of California just sent us a voter registration notice indicating that years from now at age 18, voting materials will be sent. Pretty cool!
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