My Hotmail address had my name in it without any numbers or punctuation.

This is my summer of reading for fun and doing mediocre needlework (with a side of decluttering/cleaning), and putting off course prep and writing until late July and beyond.

Elon Musk is like a Scooby Doo villain who dresses up as a ghost to scare everyone away from the theme park but forgets that his business is theme parks

Toni Morrison: "[fascist politics] changes citizens into taxpayers—so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good."

PBS crossover where in the middle of an antiques roadshow episode a body is found and then hercule poirot shows up?

Shirley Jackson's letter to a disappointed reader in 1953 is going to be my mood for the rest of 2023.

Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. Todd Waterbury, Angy Che and myself, The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵

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Here’s a semi-annual reminder to my fellow university faculty: basic justice demands you use Universal Design to build “reasonable accommodations” into your courses from the ground up as much as possible. Disabled Students fighting bureaucracy to access education is NOT equity.

Tenure track full-time writing faculty position at community college in the St. Louis vicinity. 5/5 load, likely to include online courses, opportunity to include literature/film/creative writing/professional writing. DM for more info

The college would have a lot fewer problems if faculty and staff stopped bringing problems to our attention.

My mentor Bradley Dilger posts this all the time, but he’s on private, so I’ll copy and paste: “Hey students: even at Inbox 99438207, or peak Calendar Tetris, you are never bothering me when you ask for help. It's the best part of my work.”

The only November challenge I care to do is Narnia November, where you drop all real-life responsibilities and step through a wardrobe to have tea and crumpets and adventures with a faun.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

System update and/or forgotten password means I haven't been able to check enrollment in my courses to know which will definitely make. Definitely a blessing disguised as a problem.

Les Miserables soundtrack (saw it on Broadway during the big 8th grade trip)