{"id":573893215,"date":"2021-05-05T21:35:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T01:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573893215"},"modified":"2021-07-20T15:28:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T19:28:39","slug":"results-still-happily-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/05\/05\/results-still-happily-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"Results: Still happily negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a new thing. I&#8217;m running a new campaign that aspires to highlight our scholars in the building. We&#8217;ve been mulling this over for a while, but we&#8217;re here now. I&#8217;m basically in a soft launch, because everything feels like a soft launch right now. So it&#8217;s a little social media showing off the thoughtful and important work of people. The idea is that they&#8217;ve done the hard part, let us help show it off just a smidge more.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s Jess Tompkins, who has just completed her doctoral work, talking about the research. Kinda neat.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Does the character matter in video game play? That&#39;s a question <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jess_tompkins_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jess_tompkins_<\/a> asked in her recently defended dissertation. <\/p>\n<p>ICR and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUMediaSchool?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IUMediaSchool<\/a> congratulate Dr. Tompkins on her accomplishment. Here she explains part of her research. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUImpact?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IUImpact<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUBloomington?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IUBloomington<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tlXmtBkJbk\">pic.twitter.com\/tlXmtBkJbk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ICR_IU (@icr_iu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/icr_iu\/status\/1389949677882200064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>All summer I&#8217;ll tinker with settings and styles and, one day, I&#8217;ll get it just right. Perhaps, by the time the fall rolls around and we&#8217;re back to the new normal &#8212; har, har &#8212; this will be a part of something larger that really brags on people.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a thing to do.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannercapers.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Walked over to the IU Auditorium for a mitigation test today. They&#8217;ve been running spit tests on campus all year, and since November or so, they&#8217;ve been doing the lab work here, too. All a part of the work the university has put into keeping students and employees safe. It hasn&#8217;t been perfect, what could be? But it has been beyond substantial. It has been thoughtful. It has been effective. It&#8217;s gratifying to know that the people that are making the really big decisions are handling things like this conscientiously, and are taking the best advice of the science &#8212; from their own experts and points beyond &#8212; and applying it as best they can. It&#8217;s been the best part of the year.<\/p>\n<p>They did all of this testing with some thought, and some randomization. So it might be that you lived in a place where it would have been difficult to control spread, so maybe you got called in a lot. You might have had some exposure, so you got called in. Or it could be, like me, you got something akin to a jury duty lottery. Sometimes it is just your turn. But, soon after the vaccines rolled out &#8212; get your shot &#8212; the university decided that once you were fully vaccinated you didn&#8217;t need to do mitigation testing anymore. <\/p>\n<p>But you can still schedule your own, even if you&#8217;re vaccinated. Looking after people. Anyway, on the walk over:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may21\/may05.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that was one bit of the walk. I enjoy that little stand of trees. Usually a photograph is about timing, but if there&#8217;s any sun in the sky it&#8217;s the right time to take some kind of picture right there. <\/p>\n<p>Walk in, scan your ID card, get a little vial, spit in it a bunch, and then wipe it down and put it in a little tray. Later they&#8217;ll send you an email letting you know how it went. The turnaround today was just over six hours. <\/p>\n<p>Still happily negative.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannercapers.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is the week where I begin to rediscover free time. During the regular school year I am on campus until all hours of the evening on two or three nights a week, getting done just in time for a late dinner and dishes and trying to stay awake so it feels like I have some free time to read or watch TV or maybe accomplish some minor task around the house. (I usually don&#8217;t.) The other days of the week I get to the house just in time to go ride a bike or do something like that. It fills the schedule six days a week, somehow.<\/p>\n<p>But now I can go back to being done at 5 p.m., or thereabouts, and have full, consecutive, evenings to myself. There&#8217;s still bikes to be ridden and stuff to do around the house from time-to-time, but it feels different. It&#8217;s a part of it, rather than an obstacle to it, somehow.<\/p>\n<p>Monday we went for a bike ride. Yesterday I didn&#8217;t know what to do with myself, so I mostly did nothing. Today we were supposed to go for a bike ride, but I got a late start back and so we postponed it and the timing was such that I couldn&#8217;t start in on something before dinner. So, again, I didn&#8217;t know what to do with myself. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cat toy, in evening sun. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oYCeOfEpGS\">pic.twitter.com\/oYCeOfEpGS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1390100554291064843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But we had dinner earlier, and at a reasonable hour. A nice change of pace. <\/p>\n<p>Some nights during the school year it&#8217;s 9 or later before dinnertime. <\/p>\n<p>All of that wears on you a bit, is all, and when the summer comes I am happy to finally work my way toward something a little less clock-driven.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always nice to see how the other half live. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a new thing. I&#8217;m running a new campaign that aspires to highlight our scholars in the building. We&#8217;ve been mulling this over for a while, but we&#8217;re here now. I&#8217;m basically in a soft launch, because everything feels like a soft launch right now. 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