Week 10 and a blast from the past

It's odd. With things back to normal on the supply side I see more and more workers in the store being careless with their own health. Apparently everyone is required to have a mask. But no one is checking to see they are wearing them properly. More and more you see them with their mask not covering their noses or even down on their necks while doing their jobs. Not all of the workers are like that, but it's discouraging to see somebody collecting large amounts of groceries for delivery in the parking lot not wearing a mask while they are doing it. Where are those piles of groceries going? To a group home for at-risk adults, or teens? To a nursing facility? Wearing the mask may be uncomfortable, but it's not just there for your own protection.

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Being interested in languages I've been watching this guy's videos for a while. He mostly talks on Old Norse Language and sagas. I found this older video today on a subject that hit close to home. Namely how universities now operate in a kind of never-never-land where the professors who should have the most to teach, do very little teaching. And most of what students are paying good money for is being taught by rather low paid help, often who have worse benefits than the dishwashers in the university cafeterias.

I could see this coming as I was working on my own dissertation. The huge boom of new students that started university at the same time I did was leveling off and there just weren't jobs for young professors opening up any more. I went a different direction outside of academia and don't regret it. My grad school girlfriend transferred and got her PhD at a much more prestigious university. But she bummed around for a good 20 years like the guy in the video, before she got a permanent job with all the perks. It's not what we expected when we started grad school.

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