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- March 11, 2019 Next flight has no headrests, which is way more comfortable (for me, at least).
- March 11, 2019 Currently on board one of those planes where what is intended to be a head rest for normal people is, for me, a “shoulder-pusher.”
- March 8, 2019 My previous planner post is only half-joking. I spent a lot of time last summer setting up productivity systems, and this semester is showing their weak spots. Eager to revisit.
- March 8, 2019 I have five months left in my twelve-month planner, which naturally means I’m already thinking about my next one.
- March 7, 2019 I have been getting emails incorrectly calling me “Dr.” or “Professor” since I was an undergrad with my own section of French 102. Now, it’s nice to get one of those and be able to suppress the instinct to correct the sender.
- March 7, 2019 There’s something about stepping onto a new bus that makes me feel like I’ve stepped into the future. I don’t need jetpacks, just clean seats and an electric motor.
- March 6, 2019 I’m trying to succinctly describe a Latter-day Saint “solemn assembly” in an academic manuscript, and it’s a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.
- March 6, 2019 One of the things I like most about a manuscript I’m currently working on is the chance to visit literature from a few fields that are adjacent to where I usually cite from.
- March 5, 2019 Public library holds and academic library holds are two of my favorite things.
- March 4, 2019 Dans une semaine, je serai à Québec, et j’ai trop hâte.
- March 4, 2019 Have not made as much writing progress today as I’d like, but today’s progress has validated both my use of a structured folder system as a “reference manager” AND my decision to memorize the keyboard shortcut for French guillemets.
- March 4, 2019 This week, I will be putting my nose to the grindstone to meet the deadline for submitting an article to a special issue whose editors have repeatedly blown past their own deadlines. 🙄
- March 2, 2019 Thanks to latitudinal differences, my spring break trip to Québec is happening while there is still snow there but after winter boots have gone on clearance here.
- February 28, 2019 I recently had students modify a “life simulation” as an exercise in examining the values embedded in games, and their collective rage that choosing to read a book increases the “loneliness” score is so satisfying.
- February 27, 2019 I spent most of my morning preparing to give a methods workshop that only one person showed up to... and yet, it went much better than the only other time I’ve given a methods workshop.
- February 25, 2019 My toddler just suggested cleaning something around the house so we could put off something she knew she had to do but didn’t want to. Looks like she’s developing valuable skills for grad school.
- February 25, 2019 Emailed my Kentucky General Assembly representative this morning to express concern about a bill and got a personal answer back by afternoon. Way better than responses I get from US House/Senate.
- February 25, 2019 I’m currently phasing in a new “professional picture,” and every time I look closely, I see the compression shirt I had on under my dress shirt because it was freezing outside during the shoot.
- February 22, 2019 Tfw you and a co-author disagree on a question of punctuation, so you text your editor sister for backup.
- February 22, 2019 Today’s writing is powered by The Doubleclicks, based on an endorsement by @macgenie Hard to believe it took me this long to start listening to them!