Am in semi-lockdown with a 2.5 year old. It's joyful but exhausting in a way I didn't understand was possible. And that was before we all got COVID.
Also can you try the web interface for your email? That's what works for me when I can't see the body of the email in whatever client I'm using.
Kids suck the life right out of you.
1: She emailed my gmail account. Both on the web and my phone, the message disappeared when I went to read it.
(And that sounds exhausting. Sympathy.)
It's a mildly entertaining answer, for what it's worth.
I'm cranky and tired from teaching remote this first week back.
I'm cranky and tired from TWO FUCKING YEARS OF PANDEMIC.
And yet ... I am well aware that I have it so, so much easier than pretty much everybody else -- certainly much better than the parents of an under-five-year-old.
I gotta say though, my level of interaction with 2.5-year-olds has been less than I would prefer in recent years. I need to get a babysitting gig, I think.
I remember in third or fourth grade, my son's teacher's emails always started with "Listen up fives, a ten is typing." Everyone agreed she could pull it off, but the principal eventually stopped it.
I'm not sure if I get it, but it's still making me laugh really hard.
1: She emailed my gmail account. Both on the web and my phone, the message disappeared when I went to read it.
Did she somehow mail with a font color that matched the background color?
Trying gmail (on the desktop), when reading the message there are three icons on the top-right of the box, [star], reply, [three dots].
If you click on the three dots one of the options from the menu is, "print" try that and see if you can read the text there.
I do not suggest that this will work, but hey, it might: when you view the message on a laptop (I used Chrome) (but NOT Android -- I tried that (Chrome) and did not see the option):
at the upper-right-hand-corner of the message (not the whole UI) there is a "three-dot thing that gives you a drop-down menu" and in that there is "Show original". This will give you the original RFC822 message. If the teacher didn't do something cray-cray, it's quite possible you will see the text there.
Another idea: view the message, click within the body, then "control-A control-C" (to copy the body) and then
1. paste it into a Word document, or even better, a text-editor (e.g. Emacs).
2. paste it into an empty email draft, and then "control-A control-C" again, and choose "remove formatting" (it's the "Tt" with a slash thru it).
I guess the last paragraph of the post was invisible too.
9 is right! She somehow used white font.
13 is funny.
It was actually a font written with her urine and you have to heat it up to see it.
My kid was 4 when this stuff started and is now six. I guess I could have it worse, she could be even younger. (I know I could have it worse in a lot of ways.) This past week was a bit of a regression. Class was fully virtual for more than half of her school, including her. It went better than last year, which was entirely like that for us, but even so I really, really hope they go back in person next week. Although omicron does give me pause, because it really seems like it's everywhere. Three families we know and the kid's music teacher within the past week.
So, I was out much of today running errands. It's the first time since April or so that I've seen nearly everyone masked indoors. Noticeably different from last week.