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Database maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

Current Mood: productive

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School again, plus...?

H'okay. Grades from our first Current Event Journal for Social Problems are finally in.

...I got 100%.

I'm more confident about my second CEJ than I was about my first, even with overhearing the teacher say she was planning to grade the first very liberally. Like the Asynchronous Class Notes assignments for the first third of the semester, we are assigned three of these, of which the lowest scored will ultimately be dropped from our grade.

Methinks I might indulge myself and take a zero on the final one.

After stopping by the ceramics lab this afternoon, I finished my pieces for the throwing assignment! I've got doubles of each piece, as assigned, which is more than rather a lot of my classmates can say 😓 Apparently, including the wheel in Ceramics 1 is specifically a community college thing in this state, while other institutes will have coil-and-pinch and slab stuff in Ceramics 1 and save throwing for Ceramics 2. With all the trouble my classmates are having, I can understand that! In any case, I'm glad I managed to finish my stuff. Pics soon, I hope!

Finally, I made a new mood theme! No pics as yet, as I am being lazy about it, but I'm submitting it for consideration as another official mood theme, so hopefully everyone will get to see it soon anyway 😉 I must confess that I stole an idea from someone's planning at the beginning of last year and made cloud moods. Still, I did my best to follow the official mood theme preferences to a T this time around, which meant a maximum of 30x30 pixels in size, which is tiny. I expect that someone who wanted to work with the full 100x100 pixel space, or even 50x50 pixels, would have a better time of it!

I may see about getting a basic screencap of the moods up at some point, but I'm not sure I'll be uploading all of them individually this time 😅

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community: thursday recs

Thursday Recs

Scooting in with some Thursday Recs!

Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!

AWS outage

DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

Current Mood: stressed

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school life

Homework Woes

Blaaaaargh, I really, really do not like these "Current Event Journal" assignments for my Social Problems class!

( Assignment instructions under a cut )

I just. That's a badly written assignment, right? We haven't actually gone over how to critique the articles in class, like how to find things to critique, and it sounds like opinion articles would be best suited for this? But the assignment doesn't specify opinion articles, it just says that it has to be about a sociological problem.

I went with the radioactive shrimp for my first Current Event Journal project, and I'm going with the Trump administration's layoff of a lot of the special education workers in the Department of Education for this one, but like. How to critique that. Do I need to be looking for less accurate reporting? How do I communicate how I found out that the information was inaccurate? We haven't even gotten the first one back, so I can't refer to any feedback for more information!

Anyway, it's a headache.

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community: thursday recs

Thursday Recs

Crawling in with Thursday Recs!

Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!

Current Mood: busy

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school life

I guess I'll talk about school some more?

Okay, update time. Hmmm...

School continues apace! We're at the half-way point in the term, and so far my grades are looking good in Intro to Human Services and Social Problems. I'm optimistic about my grade in Ceramics, but I don't expect to have a good idea about it until next week; we're doing a critique of our first major project on Monday (already rescheduled twice, blergh), and I expect we'll get our grades on that after.

I've got at least a paragraph for each of my classes, but they get pretty long, so I'm cutting them individually.

( Social Problems )

( Ceramics )

( Intro to Human Services )

That's about it for now. I will continue to plug away!