Poutine at a Canucks game. No helmet, but delivered right to my seat in the arena. With beer. Pure heaven.

So apparently grabbing a guy by the head, slamming him into a stanchion, then slamming him by the neck into the ice is just a double minor. Cool.

The pace of this Stars-Wild game is great.

I told my students once, “Folks, I’m not doing this to torture you. For every 4-page paper I assign you to write, I write about 20 pages in feedback. I assign these because I really think it will help you learn.” Don’t know if it helped, but I’ll never forget the shock on their faces.

I think the Pens have overall looked much better this game than last game, but the way they gave into frustration on that PP is just disgraceful. NO urgency to get the puck back.

A brindle whippet sleeps curled into a little ball on a brown leather couch.

It’s hard to explain the happiness I get watching this little dude snoozing next to me.

Get to proficiency in Finnish. Learn violin. Make a lot of sweaters. Travel to watch a game at every NHL arena in the league.

I don’t know that it’s as bad as that. They were pushed off their game by a more aggressive team and seemed overwhelmed by the pace. But most games, if you allow only 20 shots, you feel pretty good about that. Now only having 17 of your own is obviously bad, but it was a tight game throughout.

Welp. Game 2 will tell us a lot: either this Pens team will rise to the challenge of playoff hockey, or this is going to be a short series.

This? babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ui...

There’s no way to couch this: Vance is getting pillowried during negotiations in the former Ottoman Empire sofar.

From the annals of shit my spouse says:

Spouse: There’s actually some dispute about the origins of Cointreau.

Me: Oh, yeah?

Spouse: Yeah, it’s a bit of a cointreau-versy.

Me: …

Spouse: (giggles maniacally)

If I could give people one piece of advice for a happy life, it would be: whatever measurements the recipe gives for the sauce, make more.

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it:

International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

Aligning yourself with patriarchy won't cancel out that, as a woman, you're inherently expendable.

Just sayin'.

Screenshot of a seminar description that reads: “SEMINAR » Contemporary Pedagogies of Reading Early Modern Literature Thursday, April 2nd 2026 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Il Mineral B • Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center Academic LEADERS: Catherine R. Clifford, Hastings College and Jess Hamlet, Alvernia University This hybrid workshop-seminar welcomes classroom activities or assignments, pedagogical essays informed by theory, and/or reflective essays on success and failures. We welcome materials on class and the study of humanities disciplines; the "value" of reading; common student resistances to Shakespeare; reading early modern literature within the context ofl arger political attacks on higher education and the humanities; comprehension; methodologies; assessment; and making reading practices visible. Home Feed Messages Schedule

It was a great morning discussing pedagogy and early modern lit at SAA—I learned a lot from the conversation and have lots of new ideas to implement in my classroom!

The ice at the Ball Arena in Denver as the Avalanche and Canucks warm up.

And inordinately happy middle aged woman takes a selfie of her new Makar Avs jersey in the restroom at the Ball.

Watching the Avs at the Ball arena is one of those bucket list games for me. Bonus: I was able to get the throwback Nordiques jersey I’ve been wanting. I used to watch the Nordiques on the French-language broadcast channel we got when I was a kid in Maine! Go Avs Go!

My Uber driver to my hotel in Denver told me that he once skated with Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe when he was a young man in Detroit. This is already a fantastic trip!

With my second and final term as dept chair winding down, I decided to sign up for summer violin lessons. Will report on whether learning a new instrument at 46 is more frustrating than low-level admin work.

As a Gen Xer, I can tell you boomers and even my own generation comparing their 20s to today’s 20-30 year-olds needs to stop. I paid $600 for a West Hollywood apartment at 23. Today it’s $3500. Burgers weren’t $20, they were $6 to $8 in a nice restaurant. Life is not comparable.

There are at least three major news stories about sexual assault and abuse of power by men in prominent positions this week. Government, labor, academia; the culture is everywhere, and women disproportionally bear the weight of the consequences.

If this week feels extra heavy, be kind to yourself.

I am glad to know that I am not the only person who felt that way. The plot was kind of a mess?

I wonder if there will ever come a time when submitting an essay doesn’t make me want to puke.

A brindle whippet, half-covered by slate blue sheets and a blue comforter with white grid marks, raises his head, one ear folded back, looking confused as to why his humans are up already.

That first Monday of Daylight Saving Time feeling.

Cook County prosecutors dismiss 21 cases against ICE protesters, including suburban moms arrested in sit-in Cook County prosecutors dismissed 21 cases that were filed against protesters at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview.

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Congratulations!!!

Sleepy perfection!

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

A brindle whippet’s head sticks out from under a blue comforter on an otherwise unoccupied bed.

Literally the sleepiest dog ever. Does not understand why humans get out of bed when the little box goes beep beep beep.

If you give Einstein your credentials to log in, then it can access ALL of your campus portals: your financial accounts, transcripts, email, health records, &c. because all of that is under one umbrella. Literally the only way to your LLM is through your campus login. The security risk is massive.