And I am complaining here because I need to yell and Zack has already heard it

Get ready

I'm READY.

List of "reading" for this week:

a. CBS Nightly News: IDEO's Deep Dive, parts 1, 2, and 3.

b. The Art of Innovation text, chapters 2 and 5

c. link to Stanford DSchool in syllabus

d. Video -Design Thinking- what, how, why, and when link in syllabus

e. an optional youtube video Design thinking for every endeavour- link in syllabus

f. Design Thinking-Maximizing your students' creative talent video link in syllabus.

g. two youtube videos on empathy-link in syllabus

h. Harvard Business Review article-Design thinking comes of age.

i. The Art of Innovation chapters 3 and 10

j. Field Guide to Human-Centered Design ( one of required texts) pages 27-67)

My eyes are glazing over

"a" above is ninety minutes of video made in 1999 that cover the SAME INFORMATION as chapter one of the book we are reading which we read last week

I WATCHED TWO HOURS OF VIDEO MONDAY

AND MOST OF IT WAS REPETITIVE

It's like he found a list of potential assigned reading/video for this class and just assigned ALL OF IT

ALso theres a team project

because of course there is

This is the nightmare scenario

so we got team assignments Thursday

So far still one no show in the team email I started

No topic decided on

................ c..... cool.........

BUT we have to turn in a progress report for the week AND a Gantt chart (excel progress chart with team member assignments/dates for project goals etc)

tomorrow

So I email and was basically like, "whattttt do you want we have done almost nothing"

....um,

and got back, "If you cannot accomplish the assignment as a team, then each person should do those assignments individually.

"

?!

"This amount of work is meant for a group of people but you should solo it if everyone else is irresponsible because that's your problem now"

We have to pick a topic???? but apparently he wants us to do stage one individually? and then choose a topic from our separate??? work????

Let me tell you about "Innovation and Design Thinking" because it is some BULLSHIT

Cripes.

Honestly the topic picking part is what I don't want to do, I will solo it from there

Unrelated Molly just bit through her Cephalexin and I just heard Zack go, "Now there's pill all over the floor" really sadly

sxjfdaFA

Cephalexin for what?

She has a skin thing

She's always had it but this summer it got horrible

She goes to the vet again tomorrow

I wish her luck.... and fewer halved pills

She's had two rounds of cephalexin and prednisone so I'm hoping I can try managing it with claritin at this point

(they also gave me antiseptic shampoo but I am a slacker mom who hasn't bathed her with it even though we've had it like 4 weeks)

Bathing animals is hard

It makes my back hurt and you're supposed to leave this stuff on for like ten minutes which is... danting

daunting**

Trying to keep an animal larger than.... like... Shura in place for ten minutes is really harrowing.

I say that but Newt was smaller than Shura and I would NOT have been able to keep him in a tub for ten minutes

hahahaha oh Newt

Newt was an unstoppable force when he didn't want to do something

Apparently he's pretty well behaved in his new home unless you give him food he doesn't want to eat

Then it's confetti time

it would really be just like ten mins of telling her no when she tried to lick it, and she is really biddable so she would listen but still it sounds horrible

(I missed you rehoming him! When, why, how?)

Almost a year ago! He went to a woman who had an entire room converted to a bird bedroom and another bird already, and an outdoor aviary she was building for the warm months!

OH so he is a happy baby huh?

Oh VERY happy. He LOVES his new place and talks all the time and has bonded with the other parrot.

That is honestly awesome

It was mostly that Joe's caique Peppers passed away very suddenly and with Newt the only bird in the house, it was harder to work out time for me to work with him one on one with his anxiety issues, and I wanted to see him thrive.

Well I'm glad he is! <3 I remember about Peppers, that was sad.

Yeah it was brutal. VERY hard on Joe.... and I felt responsible and so on, even though it wasn't something I could have prevented. But because Shura REALLY wanted to interact with the birds and it was VERY unsafe, having Newt solo made it harder to coordinate floor time for birds without like.... trapping Shura in another room while she cried......

Yeah I feel you on the "unsafe"

Merlin (who spent a very expensive night in an oxygen thingy at teh beginning of the year BECAUSE OF A DOG INJURY) think that inside dogs are totally different from outside dogs

Oof oof oof

and tries to provoke Max, especially, the play with him. Complete with fun playful mouthing

Max outside is still terrifying.

Max inside, "please put your teeth near me while I bat at your ankles"

Is Max still raw chaos energy

Ummm not so much? He is like 8 1/2 though

He can be but usually he's chill. Still runs away every chance he gets tho

And new people inspire lots of jumping and barking until he's greeted

God, it has been so long.......

I know right?\

I'm gonna be back in Georgia this December.... I wonder if I can make it out to you from............... Douglasville?

That is like... an hour ishhh? in not-rush hour time

I would make that trip to see you if you were in town

Do you know dates yet?

That's not bad! I'll definitely hit you up closer to time, then..... not yet! I should probably start looking at them, but this involves coordination with my mother so it's like..................................

Yeaaahhhh

I DO want to see you though, I got to see Rowan last year and it was the fucking highlight of the trip.

Rowan SHOULD be the highlight of all trips tbh

(Speaking of people I haven't seen in forever...)

And we aren't even super far apart

It's almost like adulthood is time consuming and unpredictable

haha just a little

I'm over it, I'd like to return it pls

Big fucking same. I don't even work (but instead I get to tango with the SSI Office of Adjudication and Review and I think I liked Starbucks better)

tbh sbux beats every job

but ESPECIALLY fucking with ssi etc

I have to make myself start applying in my field later this fall

(trying to get through the first set of 8wk classes first)

But I don't want to, Starbucks is way more flexible and fun

I loved working at Starbucks more than almost any other job. Joe tells me it was like living with a ghost he never saw when I was working just 20 hours a week so I accept that I am just not going to be able to work, but. But!

Yeah I could tell from here that it was Too Much

but I totally understand why you loved it too

Especially now that I have a manager who isn't batshit insane

Oh god YEAH THE MANAGER MAKES A DIFFERENCE

And god I guess it was obvious to everyone huh

That homework list...

Thank goodness for video on 1.5x speed

Also yeah fuckin ~design thinking~ was a topic in engineering graphics too and ugh

And yes I am all about hanging out with yall

SO I get??? the thing? with design thinking. I am NOT ABOUT the "colorful, curved lines, non-linear" amount of woo involved in this particular class. (We are keeping a "creativity journal" weekly too)

But like. The process of developing human-focused solutions at it's bare bones is good.

Also Rowan WE could theoretically hang out before december lol

Especially if you are down for D&D because it is Zack's whole life lately

Sure, I'm down for that. Not before Friday though, school starts tomorrow.

First week is always a mess

....what's a "creativity journal"

.. I went to try and find a succinct quote but there are two pages about it in the syllabus in lieu of any kind of definitive instructions. Basically a colorful, five minutes five days a week thing where at least one entry applies a "brainstorming technique"

No using it as a diary, no to do lists. Just you know... other things....

Just realized he wanted my name on every page oop

....huh.

I'm..... hm