I want to go back to there
Jun. 5th, 2012 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynSorry that it's taken me so long to start uploading pics from my trip. It's driving me crazy that I can't post the pics here from my Flickr account; does anyone know the trick to that? It's weird -- I can't post the direct links to the pics there in ANY of my forums, not here, not Tumblr, not anywhere. It makes no sense to me. Anyway. I thought I'd just start out with some random stuff from the beginning, and maybe post a couple big picspams, and then start posting a photo or two at a time. Since I took 667 photos (too bad I didn't take one less! Then I could have had 666 from the one trip), I think it would drive people nuts to look at that many photos. These are from the first couple days I was there.
The first ones are some of the pics of my room and the wraparound porch of my villa. I was on the second floor, and the building has these semiprivate elevators so that you only ever see the people who are on your side of the building -- two other units. Kinda cool. The bathroom isn't even all in these photos -- there is a huge linen closet behind me, and a makeup-type vanity on the other side. The bathroom alone was as big as my new addition on the house. I'll spare you the pics of the other two bedrooms and palatial bathrooms.
This is red crested cardinal, which are prevalent on the island, and zebra doves, one of three dove types you see everywhere. And of course, the ubiquitous jungle fowl I mentioned before. The black swan is from the entrance pond at the Grand Hyatt, where I went my first day to get a massage and mani-pedi. It has amazing grounds.
I saw this fascinating horse with striped legs in a field on my way up to Waimea Canyon.
Pics from the lookout at Waimea Canyon, the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific." The haziness is a combination of the zoom lens and the stuff they call vog, volcanic smog, since Kilauea has been erupting since the 1980s. It's also a bit misty out, which locals told me makes the vog more distinct. And yes, that last one is my fat ugly face. I don't normally take pics of myself, but for some reason that day I wanted to prove I was there or something.
Arg. I am having a nightmare of crap with the UW over my class that's less than a mere two weeks away. They took me off payroll, so I can't access my email, which meant I never saw the new form to fill out to reactivate my employment, and they've never sent me a contract, but they keep sending me contracts for a guest lecturer spot I did in April over and over and over again (but never for the one I did in May). This is just... a nightmare. I'm trying to be nice to people, but christ on a crutch, what a clusterfuck. I may never get paid at this rate. If just one person had bothered to tell me they severed me after my class last year, I might have been able to anticipate this (probably not, because I was not expecting such a colossal fubar experience). And I love how they keep saying "severed," which calls to mind Section 1 on La Femme Nikita, where you are cancelled.
The first ones are some of the pics of my room and the wraparound porch of my villa. I was on the second floor, and the building has these semiprivate elevators so that you only ever see the people who are on your side of the building -- two other units. Kinda cool. The bathroom isn't even all in these photos -- there is a huge linen closet behind me, and a makeup-type vanity on the other side. The bathroom alone was as big as my new addition on the house. I'll spare you the pics of the other two bedrooms and palatial bathrooms.
This is red crested cardinal, which are prevalent on the island, and zebra doves, one of three dove types you see everywhere. And of course, the ubiquitous jungle fowl I mentioned before. The black swan is from the entrance pond at the Grand Hyatt, where I went my first day to get a massage and mani-pedi. It has amazing grounds.
I saw this fascinating horse with striped legs in a field on my way up to Waimea Canyon.
Pics from the lookout at Waimea Canyon, the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific." The haziness is a combination of the zoom lens and the stuff they call vog, volcanic smog, since Kilauea has been erupting since the 1980s. It's also a bit misty out, which locals told me makes the vog more distinct. And yes, that last one is my fat ugly face. I don't normally take pics of myself, but for some reason that day I wanted to prove I was there or something.
Arg. I am having a nightmare of crap with the UW over my class that's less than a mere two weeks away. They took me off payroll, so I can't access my email, which meant I never saw the new form to fill out to reactivate my employment, and they've never sent me a contract, but they keep sending me contracts for a guest lecturer spot I did in April over and over and over again (but never for the one I did in May). This is just... a nightmare. I'm trying to be nice to people, but christ on a crutch, what a clusterfuck. I may never get paid at this rate. If just one person had bothered to tell me they severed me after my class last year, I might have been able to anticipate this (probably not, because I was not expecting such a colossal fubar experience). And I love how they keep saying "severed," which calls to mind Section 1 on La Femme Nikita, where you are cancelled.
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Date: 2012-06-05 11:47 pm (UTC)sorry about the UW crap - hopefully someone will smarten up and get their act together
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Date: 2012-06-06 12:04 am (UTC)As for the pictures -- I think it might depend on what permissions you have set. Also, half the time the address is https, and I have to manually rewrite it as http.
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Date: 2012-06-06 05:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-06 03:12 pm (UTC)As someone who worked at a university until I retired last month, I think I can suggest how to deal with UW. Make print-outs of the contracts and any other email sent to you from them recently. Take these with you when you go to the campus to the office from which they were sent - probably payroll - and talk in person. You can be polite but firm - you are tall, so you can loom naturally. Don't leave without an answer or information about who can provide one. Email exchanges can work if the problem is clear, but when there are complications it's better to talk in person. Some people will do well at problem analysis and solving on the phone or via email, but others do not. Action in person will get attention.
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Date: 2012-06-06 03:14 pm (UTC)great pics!
Date: 2012-06-10 05:54 pm (UTC)