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[35/365] phonology lecture
Feb. 4th, 2019 06:11 pmI woke up at 4am and couldn't get back to sleep. I was at work and uni for a combination of seven hours today. Which I know is only a work day for a lot of people, but it's a lot for me.
Especially when I had to find the new room for my lecture. Which I did manage. It's a weird building, an old one that has been (is being?) renovated. So the lecture theatre was like halfway up a set of stairs. The lecturer did that thing again where he asked us near the end "would it be all right if I kept you till, say, three minutes to the hour?" (we're supposed to finish at ten to) and then just did it. Who's going to say no?
I was sorely tempted to, though. Not only can I not hear anything after 2:50 anyway because the hallways outside get so noisy with students who have been let out on time, not only is it stressful for me to feel rushed when I have to pack up my laptop, make sure I've got all my things in my two bags, and juggle my cane to get out of the room, but today the staircase was lined on both sides with kids waiting to get in for their lecture. I really dislike having to do stairs where I can't hang on to a railing or at least lean on a wall or something. And there was no other apparent exit from the room -- I have no idea what a person who needed step-free access would do.
He also did that "I am neither autistic nor a sociopath" line again. So I'm going to have to say something. I am not looking forward to that but it needs doing. I got Andrew to find me a good link to send him about how autistic people do have theory of mind for fucks sake. Just need to amass some spoons before I can email him.
Especially when I had to find the new room for my lecture. Which I did manage. It's a weird building, an old one that has been (is being?) renovated. So the lecture theatre was like halfway up a set of stairs. The lecturer did that thing again where he asked us near the end "would it be all right if I kept you till, say, three minutes to the hour?" (we're supposed to finish at ten to) and then just did it. Who's going to say no?
I was sorely tempted to, though. Not only can I not hear anything after 2:50 anyway because the hallways outside get so noisy with students who have been let out on time, not only is it stressful for me to feel rushed when I have to pack up my laptop, make sure I've got all my things in my two bags, and juggle my cane to get out of the room, but today the staircase was lined on both sides with kids waiting to get in for their lecture. I really dislike having to do stairs where I can't hang on to a railing or at least lean on a wall or something. And there was no other apparent exit from the room -- I have no idea what a person who needed step-free access would do.
He also did that "I am neither autistic nor a sociopath" line again. So I'm going to have to say something. I am not looking forward to that but it needs doing. I got Andrew to find me a good link to send him about how autistic people do have theory of mind for fucks sake. Just need to amass some spoons before I can email him.