[Fic] There You Are

Fandom/Arc: The Untamed / Home Is
Characters/Pairings: Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
Summary: Some yes-we-are-together smut, immediately after the end.
Meta: Porn, Romance, Fluff, I-4
Word Count: 3445

When they were finally settled in one of the second floor rooms, been assured of fresh blankets, had the virtues of the kitchen extolled to them, and were finally alone in the cool, blue shadows of early evening, Wei Wuxian found himself once again at a loss for what he should be doing. This had not been on his mental road-map at all.

Read: Ink Burns | AO3

Umich, how so brainless?

*crawls out of the hell-pit of this week*

Ugh. I mean ugh.

So, yes, hi. This week, Umich finally decided to move classes online. This happened in the form of a message on WEDNESDAY saying that classes were cancelled for the last two days of the week to give faculty time to shift to online. It didn't have a smiley emoji on the end, but you could tell it would have if the uni president knew how to add one.

Umich, and ESPECIALLY the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, which employs me, is a wholly residential school. It prides itself on being a residential school, with the residential experience, and only a smattering of online programs at the graduate level in the professional Colleges. When I say that the university is utterly, abysmally, unspeakably unprepared to do any online teaching whatsoever, I am understating the case by about a thousand percent.

Nevertheless! Four whole days, to prepare to go wholly online!

I should, perhaps, mention that my unit, all seven of us, are the ones who would be responsible for online education at LSA (all 20,000 students and 4,000 instructors worth of LSA), supposing there was any online education, which there isn't. If you think this means there are exactly two of us (one of them me) who are in any way prepared to support the (4,000) faculty in this, you would be correct.

Now, I saw this coming last week, and have been writing webpages of recommendations and resources like a madwoman to get them up in time, and I made it by the skin of my teeth, but of course then the entire goddamn College ignored that advice to attempt to almost ALL hold class by videoconference. Never having done so before. In the middle of the whole rest of the country trying to do the same thing. I'm sure you can imagine how well this is going so far, and we haven't even had actual classes that way yet.

So, my boss is losing her mind, my team is losing their minds, my faculty are losing their minds, and it wasn't until Friday that the uni president finally, finally caved in and said non-essential staff should go remote too.

Non-essential staff only, mind you. The University isn't closing. Oh no. My parent unit is still responsible for assisting all those instructors who want to come in and use their classrooms as usual to lecture to empty seats and be recorded with Lecture Capture, and call it teaching. So, the rest of Technology Services is losing their minds also.

But I and my team, at least, will now be able to do what we can from home, instead of (just for example) taking the bus in every day. *sings hallelujah to the tune of the Loan Ranger theme, which comes out sounding quite suitably unhinged*

So, yeah, that was my week. How was yours?