Struggle

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Yesterday was grueling. It was the first day of a new meeting schedule, and also release prep day, and I’m going to rearrange some things for future release days because nope not doing that again. I spent the morning rearranging the database and getting the data alpha ready to review. Lunch, then the viz meeting, a release meeting with a subset of viz, the indicators team meeting (we found and diagnosed a bug!), anomalies meeting with L, then an overdue onboarding meeting with J, and then it was five o’clock. It took another two and a half hours+ to get the release candidate ready to go out to Slack. No good. Dinner, crossword, then P and I discussed the new contract from the English department in the context of some of the policy emails that have gone out lately and their answers to his questions so far. Ultimately we’re happy with a level of risk that includes one of the “hybrid” options offered by the department, where in-person meetings can be split among smaller groups of students. This depends on a university-wide commitment to actual test/trace/isolate policy, and not just a token one made ineffective by lack of staff or optional compliance.