daily post?
Jul. 2nd, 2020 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaWhy not? I managed to post yesterday, if I do it again today, that is every day this month.
The day started out well. I woke early and with energy, so I did a workout, which means that I have done a workout every morning for seven days. I am using the DownDog HIT app, and have worked myself up to a 15 minute session (a week ago it was 8 minutes), with 30 seconds workout alternating with 5 second rest. I have told it to give me level 3 upper body, but only level 2 for core and lower body, because I still want to get better at handstands, and this seemed like the best way to get it to pull helpful stuff for that goal from its database.
Then I did a little bit of weeding in the garden. The squash is starting to grow big enough to believe that I will get to eat some. The pumpkins on the other hand, are still very, very tiny. When I came in I made a really yummy
Pear and mango Custardy cake
98 g melted butter
1 c Norrskensfil (219 g)
0.5 c milk (146 g)
0.5 c water (87 g)
1/2 c almondmeal (65 g)
4 eggs (256 g)
1 c flour (145 g)
193 g mango (1)
302 g pears (2)
Whip egg whites
Beat yolks add butter and water
Add flour
Mix in buttermilk
Fold in whites, a bit at a time
Bake 150 C
Then I went to the computer to work, but instead of making much progress, I got to experience the joys of dealing with bureaucracy:
I applied for the LTU physiotherapy course this spring (the day the applications opened). Sweden uses a single university admissions department, for all Swedish universities, and their web page indicated that they only wanted my official high school transcripts, and that my previous university degrees don't matter. This struck me as weird, given that I graduated high school 39 years ago. But I ordered my high school transcripts to be delivered, and included a letter with my application saying that I have a Bachelors, Masters, and PhD in geology, and would they like those transcripts too? (with which I included photos of the degrees) They never replied to that letter nor answered the question. They did, however, send me a message on 16 June saying that they had looked at my transcripts, and found them insufficient in math courses. I called them, pointed out that while I may not have taken many math classes in high school, I had gone as far as calculus in University, and I thought I would have no problems with the math required for this program. The guy I spoke to agreed, and told me to submit a form for them to consider my life experience, which I submitted within the hour after speaking with him. Today I get a message from them saying that since that form arrived too late they will not consider it, and I am not qualified for the program. I promptly wrote back to point out that I had submitted the form within the hour after they asked for it, and that can't possibly count as late. They replied at 16:15 saying that the deadline to submit that form was the day before they asked me for it, and if I have any further questions please contact the university, which is open till 16:00. Stay tuned tomorrow for another exciting episode. Will the poor person stuck answering the phones tomorrow when the rest of the university is on summer holiday be able to help? Will our our hero be stuck in a bureaucratic dead end, unable to qualify for a course they may well actually be over-qualified for? Will some job offer come through that sounds more fun than becoming an undergraduate student again?
The day started out well. I woke early and with energy, so I did a workout, which means that I have done a workout every morning for seven days. I am using the DownDog HIT app, and have worked myself up to a 15 minute session (a week ago it was 8 minutes), with 30 seconds workout alternating with 5 second rest. I have told it to give me level 3 upper body, but only level 2 for core and lower body, because I still want to get better at handstands, and this seemed like the best way to get it to pull helpful stuff for that goal from its database.
Then I did a little bit of weeding in the garden. The squash is starting to grow big enough to believe that I will get to eat some. The pumpkins on the other hand, are still very, very tiny. When I came in I made a really yummy
Pear and mango Custardy cake
98 g melted butter
1 c Norrskensfil (219 g)
0.5 c milk (146 g)
0.5 c water (87 g)
1/2 c almondmeal (65 g)
4 eggs (256 g)
1 c flour (145 g)
193 g mango (1)
302 g pears (2)
Whip egg whites
Beat yolks add butter and water
Add flour
Mix in buttermilk
Fold in whites, a bit at a time
Bake 150 C
Then I went to the computer to work, but instead of making much progress, I got to experience the joys of dealing with bureaucracy:
I applied for the LTU physiotherapy course this spring (the day the applications opened). Sweden uses a single university admissions department, for all Swedish universities, and their web page indicated that they only wanted my official high school transcripts, and that my previous university degrees don't matter. This struck me as weird, given that I graduated high school 39 years ago. But I ordered my high school transcripts to be delivered, and included a letter with my application saying that I have a Bachelors, Masters, and PhD in geology, and would they like those transcripts too? (with which I included photos of the degrees) They never replied to that letter nor answered the question. They did, however, send me a message on 16 June saying that they had looked at my transcripts, and found them insufficient in math courses. I called them, pointed out that while I may not have taken many math classes in high school, I had gone as far as calculus in University, and I thought I would have no problems with the math required for this program. The guy I spoke to agreed, and told me to submit a form for them to consider my life experience, which I submitted within the hour after speaking with him. Today I get a message from them saying that since that form arrived too late they will not consider it, and I am not qualified for the program. I promptly wrote back to point out that I had submitted the form within the hour after they asked for it, and that can't possibly count as late. They replied at 16:15 saying that the deadline to submit that form was the day before they asked me for it, and if I have any further questions please contact the university, which is open till 16:00. Stay tuned tomorrow for another exciting episode. Will the poor person stuck answering the phones tomorrow when the rest of the university is on summer holiday be able to help? Will our our hero be stuck in a bureaucratic dead end, unable to qualify for a course they may well actually be over-qualified for? Will some job offer come through that sounds more fun than becoming an undergraduate student again?