When I talked with elite uni presidents and administrators, they weren’t so much dismayed by what I detailed in #LowerEd as much as they were interested in HOW THEY COULD COPY THEIR SUCCESS. Masters degrees decreased regulatory risk, increased revenue, & made for pretty charts
I could have made a lot of money had I been willing to brand the right language for adopting for-profit enrollment forms, online degrees, and masters degrees for elite and selective institutions. To them, the crisis was competitiveness.
I know this much, I’m not buying crawfish in an airport. I don’t even buy the airport sushi unless said airport is on the water. And I eat gas station food!
Airport employees are subcontractors of subcontractors twice removed. No sir and no ma’am.
You gotta eat seafood that’s as close as local as is possible and prepared by people whose house you can run up on if the seafood ends up being spoilt. These the rules.
I am pretty fanatical about my bedroom. I watched my mom struggle with sleep most of my life. I take sleeping very seriously.
I barely have a TV normally but I haven’t had one in my bedroom in over ten years, easily. I can track it because it’s the last time I had a roommate *shudder*
You could write a small book about the beauty accoutrements that white women claim not to understand and yet consume regularly. It’s one of that tribe’s odder performances.
A couple months ago I did a very systematic, possibly criminally nerdy overhaul of my whole packing situation. A label maker and packing cubes and diagrams were involved. It has already paid off. So much less stressful packing for a work trip now.
The biggest improvement is having a complete set of travel duplicates for all my hair and beauty crap. It was such a hassle with COVId (and not cheap) but now my bag is always packed with every essential I need. I just throw underwear and clothes in the bag.
I even keep a set of workout clothes and shoes in the bag. That was a big deal, too. I guess I try to do stupid exercise now or whatever.