A "boo-hiss"!

We're having some randomness today, starting off with a little "boo! hiss!" from me.

My classes are overlapping

I opened up Blackboard on Sunday and had a dismaying realization: my summer classes overlap for two weeks.

BOO! HISS!

I've never taken summer classes before, and it didn't occur to me that summer holds fewer than sixteen weeks. Which means for this week and next week, I'm in both classes.

I would have preferred for them to just accelerate each of the classes by one week, but I suppose that is a logistical issue, since the courses are all designed to be eight weeks.

The main issue for me, I suppose, is that I didn't realize this ahead of time, so it was an unpleasant surprise. I should have looked more carefully, although it's not like that would have changed anything.

The especially unfortunate thing is that my last residency meeting happens in this two-week stretch, so that's an extra day I have to be at the hospital. And this one requires a 75-minute online class to be done beforehand.

To add insult to injury, I have an eight-page paper due in week two of this new class. Also, in our introduction discussion post, we had to include three scholarly references, which is absolutely silly to me. In an introduction post??

BOO! HISS!

I have to keep reminding myself that:

Relief is coming

I graduate from residency at the beginning of August, so that will be one thing off my plate.

And then starting on August 23rd, I will go down to two shifts a week instead of three.

(When I went in to tell my director, she was like, "Noooooo!" and I felt a little bit bad, but as I told her, I am feeling way too crispy these days, and something has got to give.)

So, in about eight weeks, things will get a little bit easier.

(Except, in the fall semester, I need to add some extra classes to make up a few credits. But WE ARE NOT GONNA THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW.)

A reselling clarification

In reading some of the comments, I realized I might not have made this clear in Monday's post but: I have zero issue with the concept of reselling.

People who trash-pick or thrift stuff for resale aren't doing anything wrong, in my opinion! And the same goes for people who pick up stuff that's listed for free on Facebook Marketplace, which is why I'd have no problem selling that bookshelf I flipped upside down.

My only moral hesitation in that post was about items from Freecycle or Buy Nothing, since those groups have policies that place restrictions on reselling. Aside from that specific circumstance, I think reselling is a-ok. 🙂

(I know people like to pick on those who thrift for reselling purposes, but my goodness, last time I checked, thrift stores are hardly lacking in inventory, and also, the resellers are buying the items, which means they are indeed supporting the thrift shop and its cause.)

Considering others

I was thinking about the recent ethical topics we've been discussing, like being cheap (in a negative sense), or reselling an item you've fixed up, and I was pondering the truth that some of this is solved simply by considering others.

If we consider others, we won't behave in ways that are greedy, and we won't use other people's generosity for our gain. And if we have a heart that considers others, our behavior will be generous to others.

I know ethical issues sometimes get murky and require nuanced thinking, but I think we can clear up a lot of these dilemmas if we put ourselves in other people's shoes and think about how we'd want to be treated. 🙂

As always, anything I brought up is fair game for commenting. If you want to add a "boo! hiss!" in solidarity with me, I'd appreciate that. Heh.