@NorthLæraðr I guess that someone signed up for something health-related, but didn't want to give their own phone number and so gave a random one, or one that is close to theirs but not exact. Unfortunately, they gave my number.
@bobble Happened to me before, I repeatedly got calls for "Alicia" who had given my phone number for something Blue Cross related. They harassed me for like 2 weeks until I finally just blocked their number and told them I would submit an FCC complaint if they called again
@NorthLæraðr nope. Though, there are some students already back in small groups: ESL learners, special-ed students, and those who have trouble learning at home because of various technical/learning-style challenges.
When the physics workbook says I can "use tools commonly found in an AP physics lab" I go "but I have literally no idea what those are because I've never been in an AP physics lab"
I used to see my friends at the very least for a few minutes before school started... I've seen one recently to deliver a present, and that's it since school began
@bobble I don't even see 80% of my friends even in person, so it's not much better :/
You see, a third of the students are on-campus at a time, and pretty much a majority of my friends chose to stay in distance learning or are in a different hybrid group
Our apartment has also been pretty empty these last few months. A lot of my friends have health conditions and autoimmune conditions that would make COVID very dangerous for them, so we haven't taken any chances.
A friend of mine who is a nurse was terrified because the hospital didn't provide proper PPE or PPE training for the longest time, she was the only PPE-training-certified person in the hospital that she knew of and their gear was not sufficient to treat COVID patients. So she basically quarantined herself from her kids for a month or so because she knew she was just going to get infected at some point and didn't want to infect her kids with her.
And my mom doesn't really like getting shots, so my dad got annoyed at her when she almost refused to take a flu shot when she went to go see her primary for something
@Sciborg My dad's work told them to reuse their PPE. You can imagine he was quite annoyed by that
The Hawai'i hospitals have the stupid restriction that if you're not the patient you can't go in. So my grandma, who has the beginnings of dementia, had to navigate the halls by herself to get to her cancer treatment, and my grandpa stood outside and hoped she didn't get lost. You can image that he was upset with this.
Another friend of mine was fresh out of nursing school and got called in to work at a New York hospital, and she quit after three days because she couldn't take the stress of making life or death decisions about who to unplug from ventilators. Basically called me in tears because she had to make life changing decisions in her literal first days as a nurse.
@bobble Definitely, that's not to discount you guys at all. You all had a horrible time with school uncertainty and a terrible end to the year. We all had a crappy pandemic time. I just felt so bad for my healthcare friends who had it way worse than I did
One time I told a teacher it was urgent, so he wrote it after-school in front of me, printed it, signed it, and then just gave it to me without any privacy envelope or such.
Yeah, the professor that I had write it for me was like "hey you wanna read it? I wrote some nice things about you" and he just let me read it. He was super chill
@bobble My band teacher basically makes you fill out a pre-form that talks about all the great stuff you did in his class, presumably so he doesn't have to actually write one?
@Sciborg "Student excelled in only demonstrating his utter incompetence. Would say only useful as a janitor but worried about school's plumbing system"
"Student somehow managed to make every combination of chemicals available in the chemistry lab. Recommend only if you want many toxic explosions daily"
"Thus spoketh the LORD God of Israel: 'And I ye shall grow like the hairs of those who could not have gotteneth their hairs cut during COVID, and I shall maketh thee as prosperous as the economic situation of 'Murica'"
> 1Ti 2:9 Likewise, the women should adorn themselves in appropriate dress, with modesty and soundness of mind, not with styles of hair braiding and gold or pearls or very expensive clothing
> 1Ti 2:9-10 Likewise, the women should adorn themselves in appropriate dress, with modesty and soundness of mind, not with styles of hair braiding and gold or pearls or very expensive clothing, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God
I have a dinner date in an hour, so I'll probably drop my second C4 hint before I leave :p there has been a lot of focus on a thing in the C4 I honestly didn't intend to be important, so I'm going to clear that up with the second hint and maybe that will help make things more straightforward.
C4 Hint #2: "Attendees" exists only to make the surface grammatically correct. It's not a vital part of the wordplay. (I apologize for confusion, it's only my second C4 and I forgot unnecessary words are discouraged. It's the only word I consider truly unnecessary in the clue.)
Between "City A" and "City B", there is a big cable which contains 100 separate wires inside it. Unfortunately, the wires are knotted together and we can't tell which head of a wire in one side (City A), belongs to which tail on the other side (City B).
The only tools that we have are:
A power o...
Side question: there was consensus reached that open-ended puzzles are no longer allowed, right? Because the tag wiki says it is "currently being debated on Meta", which is not true.
I think my wordplay is okay, I have thoroughly checked to make sure it is completely clued and that I have the correct definition half/wordplay half format. I'll post in a few minutes when I've tweaked the surface to my liking :)
so throat is most definitely intended an most likely legal
