I like French, comics, books, podcasts, (board and roleplaying) games, biking, and trains. I try to stay organized and in good (physical and mental) shape.

Moi, j'aime le français, les BD, les livres, les podcasts, les jeux (de plateau et de rôle), le cyclisme, et les trains. Je fais de mon mieux de rester organisé et en forme (physiquement et mentalement).

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Over lunch, I continued a new (for me) book on the history of French and decided to email a thank you to a wonderful BYU professor who taught a class on that subject. I think of him often and am embarrassed I hadn’t reached out earlier.




Last week, I confessed to my colleagues some of my quirky passions, like radio dramas and Franco-Belgian comics. This week, driven by a compulsive need to outquirk myself, I am listening to a radio drama adaptation of a Franco-Belgian comic.




I think my favorite takes on La Marseillaise are the 1812 Overture and that scene from Casablanca.




Gotta say, Amazon, the amount of effort you’re making me go through to cancel my Prime membership is just validating my choice to do so.




One of my favorite “not designed for that” uses of the macOS app Alfred is to strip formatting from text when copying from one doc to another—paste it in Alfred bar in between, and voilà!




Just misspelled my own name in an email because I didn’t want to be impersonal by using my text expansion-powered signature 🙄




This post is a test of Twitter integration with my new Hugo blog (via Siri Shortcuts).




Hello World! This is a test of a Siri Shortcut for posting to my new Hugo blog from iOS.


📚 bookblog: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 2015-2019, issues 37-41 (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)



I feel pretty confident that this is the last of the TPBs that I’ve previously read. When first starting it, I thought that I hadn’t read it before, but it became familiar pretty quickly. I still miss Henderson’s art, but the series continue to be good! North has good ideas, Brain Drain is inspiring in a funny and goofy kind of way, and Squirrel Girl continue to represent intelligence and empathy.