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Ugh cont'd [teaching]
Feb. 21st, 2021 08:56 pmI was so relieved to get that Covid test done last Wednesday. Afterwords they said it could be up to 72 hours before I'd find out the results.
So I waited until Saturday before pulling out the paperwork to check their site. The main page on the site said:
Your important lab results have been delayed by disrupted FedEx operations. FedEx delivery service has been disrupted since 2/13/21 with very few deliveries into our Nashville lab since that date. FedEx informs us they will resume operations as quickly as they can. Our laboratory operates 24/7-once received, all samples will be promptly tested and reported.
When I typed in my number I got a message that read (and still reads): Sample ______ has not been received at our laboratory.
Ugh.
So I emailed my dean to let him know what I know, and the long and short of it is that I am not allowed to go in to campus tomorrow to teach in person.
That's all well and good for Monday, when the main thing on the schedule is a lecture that I can deliver via Zoom.
Not so good for Tuesday's labs or bicycling course, however, nor for the campus critters that need regular food and water. I will learn more in the morning, I'm sure.
Right now I'm just angry about the whole situation. Sure, you could say it's my fault, but there's still the underlying inequity of requiring the specific test type (PCR) that either costs $120-150 out-of-pocket or requires a trip in a motor vehicle. It isn't as though I have any control over where the sample gets sent.
And then, to add insult to injury, this evening I'm discovering that all of the lecture slides I made last spring on the work computer won't back-convert to the older Fruit presentation software version on my laptop. If I wind up stuck at home this week I will most likely just throw up my hands and work off of the pdf handout versions from last spring because I am already over this nonsense and the semester hasn't even started yet.
Clearly it's time to go to bed.
So I waited until Saturday before pulling out the paperwork to check their site. The main page on the site said:
Your important lab results have been delayed by disrupted FedEx operations. FedEx delivery service has been disrupted since 2/13/21 with very few deliveries into our Nashville lab since that date. FedEx informs us they will resume operations as quickly as they can. Our laboratory operates 24/7-once received, all samples will be promptly tested and reported.
When I typed in my number I got a message that read (and still reads): Sample ______ has not been received at our laboratory.
Ugh.
So I emailed my dean to let him know what I know, and the long and short of it is that I am not allowed to go in to campus tomorrow to teach in person.
That's all well and good for Monday, when the main thing on the schedule is a lecture that I can deliver via Zoom.
Not so good for Tuesday's labs or bicycling course, however, nor for the campus critters that need regular food and water. I will learn more in the morning, I'm sure.
Right now I'm just angry about the whole situation. Sure, you could say it's my fault, but there's still the underlying inequity of requiring the specific test type (PCR) that either costs $120-150 out-of-pocket or requires a trip in a motor vehicle. It isn't as though I have any control over where the sample gets sent.
And then, to add insult to injury, this evening I'm discovering that all of the lecture slides I made last spring on the work computer won't back-convert to the older Fruit presentation software version on my laptop. If I wind up stuck at home this week I will most likely just throw up my hands and work off of the pdf handout versions from last spring because I am already over this nonsense and the semester hasn't even started yet.
Clearly it's time to go to bed.
