Just sent the rough draft of my last diss chapter to my advisor. Still tons of work to do, but this has been herculean (very tight timeline), and I think I need a margarita!

This last year I've been working on an interview project asking marine scientists about the places that they study. I thought this project would center on science and place but what emerged is a complex portrait of a discipline responding climate and social change. Read more below!
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Love the person at the IU bookstore who signed off on the “Indiana beat everybody!” t-thirt. I didn’t even go there and I want one!

I worked with one of the basketball guys on a poetry project as an undergrad, and we had to give a performance at a local coffee shop. In our performance, he was sitting down, and I stood next to him, and he was still fully as tall as I was standing (and might have actually still been taller?).

The seminar is undefeated

Anti-caffeine was in with some colleagues a few years ago and it’s just. Why would I give up the most pleasurable small thing in my morning..? But this is why. Same whole 30 denialism-as-control.

Oh! Spouse wanted one a few years back, and I was pleasantly surprised by the price point (nowhere near as exorbitant as a treadmill, for example). We admittedly don’t use it to extremes, but seem to have gotten a passable one for ~100 bucks. Did have to use Amazon, which is a drawback.

Dissertation chapter ain’t writing itself! Trying to keep chugging with small progress 💪

Two of my niche interests together!! But where are the dog rates?? This feels like something @weratedogs.com would like to know about!

"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

I had an English professor who taught our class that all writing is political. Signed up for that second major in English the next semester.

I unironically dream of my car being part of one of these campaigns

It is one of the not-so-secret delights of being an Early Modernist to shock and awe your students with the level of thirst in EM texts!

They're a hot weather staple, but even when I'm out in cooler weather, they still help!

It sounds like you might benefit from taking a salt tab during/after. They really help me to actually feel like I can re-hydrate on the run, and make me feel significantly better during/after.

See also: the student who asked me "what was your experience living through first wave feminism" when I am ~10 years older than said students.

Maybe instead of unyoking sciences and the humanities these folks should join a union.

Let me tell you about how often I've explained my English Ph.D. project while wearing my alumni Geology hat in the ~5 days I've been wearing it.

Zotero lost all of my notes on a very important text I've been working through, on this, the first real day of Daylight Savings Time. Feels like a sign to just pack it in and go back to bed.

I agree, but will probably not be asking this question quietly.

huge congrats to all the reasonable & evenhanded university presidents who set new records for advance compliance on this, since nobody even had to ask before they all lined up to make dissent into a crime

Yay! my favorite Ph.D. sidequest so far (which I also consider one of the more important, designing a cosmopolitan exhibit about the Early Modern era with our library) won an award! Everything is on fire, etc. etc., but this has been a joy! library.ucdavis.edu/graduate-stu...

I think they are, in fact, dirtbags. Just for accuracy?

See also: how I'm escaping The Horrors

Spouse is reading Paradise Lost for the first time, so I spent last night on the couch listening to him "Oooo" after all of the best parts of Book I (spoiler alert, that's basically all of Book I).

Have I reached peak English Academic??

Our department is reorganizing our library space and as a result, I have brought home a host of Austen novels and thus no longer have any excuse to have not read them. Will I turn into a Victorianist? Check back for updates!

Why is rereading your own writing so cringey? It's almost as bad as hearing your voice recorded 😬

Don't worry guys, getting so much "Do not obey in advance" practice fighting my own institution for funding. There's gonna be so much "do no obey in advance-ing" around here

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

All happy essays are alike; each unhappy essay is unhappy in its own way