in my experience this comes down to whether you give spring break a week number or not. some do, some don't, it's confusing. (I do give it a week number in my agenda cuz it is one right? so we are in week 15 over here already)
spiral-bound print copy of The Black Box, spring 2026 issue. Mountain bluebird in pine branches on the cover
latest issue of the campus arts magazine! one of the most fun crunchtimes of my job every year
I used to be one of these people. I've worked on it, I do more prep with students now, but am also not sure if I'm doing enough. part of it does need to be learn-by-doing I think
good news: we had just enough of our Apple tv trial left to binge the show. delightful stuff
*and* my dear local bookshop is pre-ordering Platform Decay for me. hurrah
yep-- just because qualitrics and survey monkey and google forms are all very user friendly survey-making tools does not mean making good surveys becomes magically effortless
it seems everyone thinks survey design is super easy. it definitely is not! especially not if you want actually meaningful data
last time I taught we did chains first with 2 colors. undecided for this one but I may have them start with rings (which is how I learned)
I get to teach a little tatting workshop at the Flagstaff Wool & Fiber Festival this summer!
Sunday, June 7
www.flagwool.com/store/p26/In...
okay when is the next Murderbot audiobook gonna be available? what am I supposed to do until then?
The Bride was a poetic, slightly intoxicating carnival ride of a movie. playful in the most deadly serious of ways. I do recommend
ooh, seconded-- that sounds awesome
tomorrow! excitement!
www.tournamentofbooks.com
(yes I am a tiny bit sad to be missing #4c26 and the chance to see bunches of farflung gradschool people this year, but annual literary bloodsport shall be a grand consolation) #tournamentofbooks
so looking forward to all the reviews that are part of this best and silliest little book award
and the slides from this talk are here in case anyone wants to peruse myerauedu-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/person...
#SWPACA2026
randomly popped in to a panel on Chicana literatures. happy to 1) learn the term querencia and 2) add Jennifer Gihvan's Trinity Sight to my reading list, among many other neat ideas about postcolonial alternate futures from all the panelists
#SWPACA2026
and yes we can argue about whether Critical Role really counts as a podcast during q&a
#SWPACA26
presenting at #SWPACA26 this afternoon, all about (what else?) podcast, transcripts, access, inclusion, and how fan communities help make things happen. specifically featuring @criticalrole.bsky.social and @naddpod.bsky.social and @themcelroyfamily.bsky.social
purely inspired by this post and yet skeptical about all the hype, I gave these a try and might be kindof obsessed now. I have binged the first 4 murderbot diaries all in the last week-ish. need more.
gray handknit fingerless gloves
finally finished knitting these gloves
This isn't new news, Substack has been known-shitty for years. But, worth shouting for the people at the back www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
ooh yes I loved that show
how am I, a college professor who has almost only ever ever taught adult learners, just now learning the word "andragogy"?
why has all the teacher training I ever received just gone with "pedagogy"?
hmmmm.
aw thanks :)
pretty weird to have kept an old classproject blog for so long
books. the best escape.
(I'm also pretending I didn't google Kunstler, leaning into the death of the author, and hoping my grandma wouldn't've really agreed with the guy's delusional reactionaryness. sigh.)
more importantly, Naomi Novik is super amazing
plaidsicle.blogspot.com/2026/02/book...
milk, no. orange juice? all the time when I lived alone during grad school
"...for as the uprising of that spirit drove the tyrant from our shores in 1776, so it has ever since arisen, and still will rise to deliver our country from the perils of the hour..."
(from the end of this 1903 booklet I recently narrated for Librivox
librivox.org/the-tale-of-... )
what sugary fuel will best keep me focused for the next several hours of finishing up all my tenure application documents on this everso exciting Friday night?
and on top of seconding all the Prarchett of course, these 2:
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell (a GBBOesque mystery recommended by all the ladies at my craft store, multiple pov narrators, so charming)
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks Dalton (maybe you've read this one cuz climate apocalypse?)
I also had a Barbara Kingsolver phase for a minute-- Animal Dreams and her book of poems were the best in audio I think
