Fingers crossed Laurentian University - Université Laurentienne and other PSEs follow Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa 's leadership🤞

Cleaning out a former employee’s desk and came across these cards of the Laurentian University - Université Laurentienne Federation official signing from 1960.

“The Laurentian University - Université Laurentienne workers who remained are under incredible mental health stress, doing more with less and feeling the brunt of the frustration of the community as these secrets about how we got here are hidden from them.” MPP Jamie West

Today, ON Colleges, Universities, Research & Security gave the boot to 11 members on the Laurentian University - Université Laurentienne board of governors. A first step towards reconciliation with staff, faculty, alumni, donors, and community.

#Heardle #7 #Heardle #7 Move over #wordle, this is my kinda jam! 🤟 🔊🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ heardle.app

When you’re told hybrid working is coming to an end… 😭

It’s a “stress eating day” this morning in the office. Anyone else?

So ironic that I look up to this while listening to “The Room Where It Happens” from Hamilton walking in Toronto.

Gone from being a big horror chicken 🐔 to attending a “science of scary movies” book launch. TIL: ⁦Nina Nesseth⁩ and I both had very scary mushroom haircuts as kids. Science North & Dynamic Earth⁩

TIL - Listening about secret societies like the Masons📐, the Illuminati 🔺, and other “societies with secrets.” But will they or won’t they mention the Stonecutters from ⁦The Simpsons⁩ that is the question. 🤔

So, when is that LU ⁦Auditor General ON⁩ coming out? The preliminary report came out 8 months ago. ⁦France Gélinas⁩ said “early fall” - it’s November.

Here we go…

Fitting from Jon Stewart on this “LU Auditor General ON Report Eve”: “If the point of all this is then, is to heal people; the only way to heal a wound is to open it up and cleanse it. And that stings. That hurts. But you have to expose it to air…” youtu.be/6V_sEqfIL9Q

“The document will be available publicly … approximately around 9:30 a.m.”

So it wasn’t “a perfect storm”… sudbury.com/local-news/lea…

So, CCAA was a manufactured crisis and, as Alex Usher and Ken Steele suspected, our leadership drove the bus over a cliff and the provincial government did little to stop it.

Confession: Today was the only time I wore the campus mod shirt they gave to staff under my LU hoodie. After reading today’s AG report my head is spinning and I have so many feelings.

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is “gaslighting” cnn.it/3gJjavy

Setting up my work Zoom voicemail and all I want to do is change it to George's answering machine song youtu.be/ria37d9mInY

As someone who’s had 4-day work weeks for almost a decade using vacation days, can confirm that it helps with wellness and work-life balance.