Personal question: How old is your computer?

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Xist

When I was growing up, my family regularly said that I tried to be annoying.

"What?! No! I'm not trying to be annoying!"
"So, you're naturally annoying!"

I didn't come from a nurturing home...

My mother's family also has some weird interactions. No wonder I've been keeping contact with my mother at a minimum, and avoiding her mother at any cost.

my supervisor in Page said "You're a boy! You're weird!"

I was a 38-year-old 6'2" man with facial hair, so calling me a boy was strange.

Was I inherently weird to her for being male?

Some women love to complain about "gender" stereotypes in the workplace, yet they're extremely judgemental when a man performs some jobs which are steerotypically more sought after by women.

Women have complaints like "Other women are jealous of my beauty"

This sounds definitely like some things I used to hear my mother saying about every woman she saw as a "competitor", even when circumstances would render any competition unlikely at all

[redpoint5]

'Weird' is the contemporary way for women in the US to convey disinterest/unattraction toward someone/something.

It (labeling as weird) was unsuccessfully deployed as a political strategy in the recent US election.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

'Weird' is the contemporary way for women in the US to convey disinterest/unattraction toward someone/something.

That's a different circumstance. But anyway, my mother used to tell me I was acting "weird" in the woke/Karen-ish way whenever I displayed my disapproval to something inappropriate or embarassing she said or did.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by JSH

Over the years it seems that you have butted heads with every supervisor you have had. You either complain they don't communicate what they want or you complain the way they want things done is stupid and you are going to do things your own way.

Every supervisor ever?

What about the one with whom I try to maintain contact, who has written me letters of recommendation, including for grad school?

What about the work one who I had since 11/08/2021?

I also asked him for a letter of recommendation.

I have had two clinical supervisors for a semester each and I reached out to each recently.

Originally Posted by JSH

Also - if everyone is telling you that you need to be treated for autism - you likely need to be treated for autism. That would go a long way to explaining why you can't seem to communicate effectively with your supervisors and maybe treatment will help with that.

A diagnosis won't tell me the expectations my supervisors don't communicate, like this:

She kept complaining that I never filled out lesson plan forms even after I pointed out I never saw one and she never sent me a copy.

[freebeard]

You will want to replace your computer Real Soon Now.

Is This The Next Big Thing - Near Zero Energy Chips

I'd learnt about the Landauer Effect back in the day. Now there is a commercial product -- big and slow, but 1000x more efficient. The estimates for AI's power requirement can be reduced by three orders of magnitude.

[Xist]

How old are your computers again?

I needed to finish about 7.5 hours of simulations Friday and submit reports to my head professor.
The site has Learning and Assessment modes and Learning indicates whether or not your selections are correct.

Assessment doesn't give you any feedback until the end and after an hour and a half, I desperately required feedback, so those took longer than they should have.

I also got yet another 4 hours of hearing screenings, so I completed 11.5 hours this week.
The head professor will discuss the 5 simulations with me tomorrow and assign 5 more.
I sure hope that my reports are good guides for my side of the discussion!

She is also arranging for 3 hours of in-person hours on Tuesday.

That sounds a bit like what I was supposed to do in the fall, but my alarm didn't go off.

Now I use my iPad.
I don't really use it for anything else.
Next week I will have another 5 assignments and something called Standardized Patient Experience on Friday.

They have actors come into the clinic and we work with them.

It isn't a speech clinic, it is a health clinic.

The head professor told me they would see us, so I reached out, and like everything else with this school, I didn't hear back.

Yeah, let me just waste tons of my extremely limited time to see if I can get anything useful out of this.

The first-year students will see one client each, but I will see 3!
That will be 25 hours.

Unless I get 35 in the following 2 weeks, I will be behind, but apparently they don't hold our clinical hours against us as long as we were on-site 25 hours or at least as much as possible.

We will see.

The head professor said "I know that your family isn't supportive(!), but no more family emergencies, for the rest of the quarter, you are the family emergency."
So, I drove Mom to urgent care and then to an appointment at 07.
That was brilliant, they made her wait over an hour just to tell her the doctor she was supposed to see wasn't there that day.

That was one of the days that my brother-in-law is supposed to provide respite and when we stopped to pick up breakfast, we didn't get home until after an hour after my brother-in-law was supposed to arrive, but he didn't seem to mind playing with his phone on the couch by himself.

I think that my wife's phone is playing videos while she sleeps.
(it is Mom in the hallway)

Mom has me driving her to a procedure at 06, but she hasn't verified if it is a mile away or in another town, so that is fun.

I don't know if she plans on sleeping tonight, so I worry that she won't wake up from anesthesia until she is good and rested.

"Ma'am, I apologize for the inconvenience, but Mom is unconscious in the hospital. Is it possible to reschedule?"
At least I would be able to get a doctor's note!

Since this is one of those things where someone she knows needs to drop off, wait, and drive her home, this can't be relegated to Uber, although when I needed Mom to drive me before I got into grad school, I committed to hiring a sedan driver for the day.

limopedia.com says it would cost $652.80 to rent a sedan and driver for 8 hours.

Let me guess, use my 8% loans for that?

Since her previous appointment was an hour before my brother-in-law was supposed to arrive, we brought my brother, a blanket, and a pillow, and he seemed to nap in the back seat.
I tossed and turned in the driver's seat.

I will bring my laptop and Mom's iPad so we will see if I try to do a simulation while I wait or rest.

I submitted the 5 reports at 2359 and spent Saturday trying to figure out what clinical hours I need for graduation.

I know that I need hours for swallowing and stuff, I just couldn't find out how many I need.

Hopefully, these simulations will cover much of that.

I also tried to figure out what type of hours these simulations are, so we will see what my professor says.

We need 375 clinical hours to graduate, but in order to pass each quarter, we are supposed to have a total of 520 hours, and of course they want us to go above and beyond that.

One of my classmate already has more than 375 hours, but she still needs to spend 25+ hours on-site each week.

I spent today doing 4 simulations I wasn't assigned, but there are a bit over 30 adult and geriatric simulations I haven't done yet, and I figured that if I did some on my own, hopefully I would eventually be assigned some of them, and then I would have an easier time with them.

Well, it is time to get 2.5 hours of sleep!

[Xist]

She had some pre-registration forms and of course, she kept saying she needed help.

It showed appointments in Chandler and Gilbert, but nowhere did it show the time.

They had told her to be there an hour early, but when she called, they said she was supposed to be there two hours early, although at least it was in Chandler.

She yelled at me that we needed to go already, I grabbed my stuff, and waited.

We had planned on 06 and arrived at 0615.

I am terrible at being on-time, but I was waiting on her.

At 08, I e-mailed the head professor saying that Mom scheduled a procedure a couple of months ago, and promised me that I would be at school on-time, but I just wanted to let her know that I might not be.

Then Mom's doctor called and said Mom would be ready in 20-30 minutes.
Google said that it would take 22 minutes to drive to school, so I relayed this to my professor.

I didn't arrive until 0945!

It was weird, my professor was in a meeting, and I don't think that she had assigned me anything new, so with a million and 10 things to do, what was the most important thing to do now?

I started reviewing the evaluation reports that I submitted at 2359 on Friday and the first one showed scores in the 90-100 range.

Let's say there is a family history of autism, we may test a kid to determine whether he is temporarily delayed or he has a developmental delay.

It is possible that the tests won't indicate a problem, but I wouldn't expect to see that in these simulations.

However, I need to score 90% on every assessment, so I think that in my haste, I used my scores, and then wrote that since the client scored 95% on this test, x, y, and z are within normal limits.

I told my professor that I need to redo that and she asked if another case stood out.

I mentioned one of a man with a total glossectomy--they completely removed his tongue after cancer.

I kept thinking of Cotton from Pirates of the Caribbean, but that didn't seem important.

She pointed out parts that are missing from his report, so 0 of the 2 reports we discussed were adequate.

I kept trying to take notes while she talked.
After a while, I realized that I should have used my notetaking app, I'm sure that I missed a great deal.