Just crying while watching the Artemis re-entry live feed. Normal end of the semester meets perimenopause meets the world is absolutely on fire things. Also can't stop thinking about Carroll. This is all fine. 😂🌕💕
Got my first tattoo 20 years ago. It's big -- a pinup girl all the way down my ribcage. I have always loved her but it wasn't the cleanest work. I got her expertly reworked yesterday in a 3hr sesh. Can confirm 2 things: 1 I'm still a badass & 2 ribcage tats are maybe a younger person's game. Ow!
Family is in town -- the ultra-conservative part. She swears up and down that the SAVE act won't impact her because "she's been married over 50 years, so it's fine." I'm not starting these convos but LORD, how I want to end 'em. But sure... I'm the crazy one for not changing my name.
If you know me in real life, you know I'm a life-long (rabid! trivia-laden! generational!) hockey fan. That just no longer applies to the NHL. And that's truly, madly, deeply EASY to say. Fuck all this noise.
I am ready for Bad Bunny! #BenitoBowl
Left the house this afternoon for the first time since Saturday. Got home, unloaded groceries, slipped and did a Full Unplanned Split™️ on the ice. On the plus side, hypermobility means the split was fine. My lower back would, however, like to speak with my supervisor.
Watching my second favorite movie of all time (Princess Bride) on the TCM app to support the Rob Reiner marathon... and am just delighted that my first (Singin' in the Rain) and third (Philadelphia Story) films are referenced in the pre-show posthumous interview! #OldSoul #FuckIce
I made them last night and *chef's kiss.* A family favorite, especially as a mashed potato skeptic!
As a diehard Penguins fan, lifelong Caps hater, and professional dramaturg, Heated Rivalry is a whole wild ride of context, structure, and YEARNING. I'm a Malkin girly thru and thru but this has Sid the Kid (and Ovi) written all over it. 💗
Watching my husband be a (great) uncle melts my heart. 💕
Making things has always been a balm for my weary heart... now more than ever! 💕
A trio of ceramic piggy banks. They have big cartoony eyes, wonky snoots, and large uppy ears.
I also recently joined my local pottery studio... I've been practicing my throwing and made piggy banks for some kiddos in my life. The bodies are thrown and the features are hand-built. It's all glazed in mottled pink with underglazed eyes. One eye fell off in bisque but will be glued back on.
A close up of a handmade quilt. The blocks are a large eight-pointed star with small patterned fabric pieces in colors like orange, purple, burgundy, and yellow.
Then, I finished a lap quilt I started a few years ago... it's a bit witchy, with an eight-point star design for the wheel of the year (holly for Yule, strawberries for Litha etc.). Most of the fabric came from my stash so it's scrappy.
A white woman with gray hair wears an orange retro swing coat with a pink collar. She is standing in front of a sage green brick wall.
Still full of existential dread but trying to go slow and take time for myself this winter break. That mostly looks like being creative just for the sake of creativity. First up -- I made myself a Sasha Starlight swing coat. It's an orange wool with dusty rose velveteen and silk lining.
Four thrown clay bodies in the style of small "chip and dip" dishes. The proportions are wildly different because I'm not a good potter.
Spent the morning in the studio because work is heart-achingly depressing right now. I glazed four tiny pieces with a hand-painted leopard spot finish, trimmed a mug and two vases, and threw four olive or pistachio dishes. So I can be productive, jut not about the things that are breaking my heart.
Priority registration with 60+ advisees from damn near every major on the same day as a widespread Canvas outage? Priceless. Pray for me and my poor inbox.
Having all the power go out on most of campus during rehearsal was never going to be optimal. But on a day we also got an alert email about an escaped convict? On day 2 of spooky season? Priceless. And yes, I made everyone leave together, & organized walking buddies bc I have seen that movie!
I had 10 meetings today, taught one class, and am heading in for a three hour rehearsal. Tomorrow, I teach two classes and have -- at current count -- 13 meetings. Cosplaying Ron Swanson to be OOO on Friday for a wee anniversary getaway is more daunting than I expected!
Today, I learned that I'm not a natural at teaching a discussion course with a cap of 35 students. Thursday is another day etcetera but woof.
It's so good that I love you the way I do. Otherwise, I'd have to dip you in honey and feed you to bears.
would love to see more of this, as my sense has been that the grotesque dynamics of academic labor have meant that it is most often precariously positioned colleagues, including non-TL faculty in writing, who are targeted by admins whose goal is to secure “faculty buy-in” for AI mainstreaming
I'm so stressed about the start of term BUT at the same time, so stinking pumped to be teaching Dramaturgy, Communities, and Theatre History I this semester. Despite all The Shit™️ of higher ed in 2025, I continue to be FUCKING AGOG that this is how I get to spend my professional life.
I took Biomedical Ethics. It was a *lab* course for non-science majors & it rocked. I also took ChinaPop as my freshman sem, which was about intersections bt Chinese pop culture & history/politics. (I was a Theatre/English double major). Take weird classes, kids! Knowledge enriches your life!
Do you think your feelings? I mean, *think* them instead of just, like, feeling them? If so, may I recommend having a designated Crying Movie™️ to use when you need to force the feeling? Mine never ever fails and it's (my) therapist approved! #sobbing
I'm teaching a Communities class this fall. One facet I'm pumped about is real-life civic participation. Also thinking about a "bingo card" for tangible activities. Get a local library card, obtain absentee ballot, attend a city council mtg etc. What ideas do you have for other fun things? #teaching
My sweetest girl. It brightened my heart to see her sweet snoot today on SAA's feed. She casts a long shadow -- and it's not just her ears I'm referring to. 💕🐶🪽🌈🌁
I hope you'll listen to S3, subscribe, and leave a (nice) review, if you're so inclined. Season 4 is also launching this summer and we're excited to keep the dramaturgical fun going all summer!
Then, Jovita Roselene and John Williams envision Molière in his Taylor Swift era by thinking about the grey area between a writer's self-revision and adaptation theory and locate the playwright as a kind of "reverse Swiftie." open.acast.com/public/strea...
