I just finished this book and just wow!

Anyone use #storygraph? Feel free to add me (michellejuel) or drop your username below to get connected!

I've just started to journal after trying time and time again over the years. I'm not sure what's clicked this time, but I'm enjoying it

Fitness watches should detect when a cat is in your lap so as to not suggest to get up and move around 🐱

Comprehensive defense ✅
Grading ✅
Submitted grades ✅
Time for winter break!

Strands #280
“A timely theme”
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I got the #Spangram first!

Strands #277
“Gonna fly now!”
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* gestures vaguely around *
* has panic attacks *
Am I right?

I think we're all barely hanging on by a thread 🙃

Lecturer in Discourse Analysis and Stylistics (Teaching-Focused):Oxford Road

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After literally just submitting my comps, I needed this reminder.

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3 weeks to go to CA day!

Just about the right length of time needed to properly panic about the paper I promised to present. Past me must have had greater insight than I seem to have now.

Still, at least there will be cakes.

darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...

A Tortie and orange tabby cats sitting on their human with out stretched paws

My babies missed me #academicswithcats

Michelle Brown doing 2 fantastic back to back presentations developing innovative approaches to analyzing race in interaction 👏🏽 #ncalsi #nca2024 @cuboulder.bsky.social @michelleangel.bsky.social

Top Student Paper panel presenter on K-Pop Army Bombs as a rhetorical thing/object. Brilliant student now doing a musicology PhD at UCLA following a master’s at Alabama.

Cheyenne Zeremba from Penn State University went first w her paper. At end of session, learned that the paper they delivered was chosen Top Student Paper of 2024!

From Texas, Austin, a top student paper on the sufficiency of the NTSA recall notes issued to Tesla after driverless car fatalities.

Michelle from Colorado Boulder brings discoure analysis and intraconstitutive rhetoric formed by racial grammar to the fore in her case study of the confirmation hearings of the first Black female U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

Presenters at the #NCA2024 Top Student Papers session.

Oops, Saturday not Friday 😅

Hopefully it'll be published soon!

Excited to see some old and new faces this year at #nca2024
Come see me present! I'm presenting on Friday on second sight as a stance strategy, and infraconstitutive rhetoric as an intervention into DA (part of the rhetoric top student papers panel!) see you there!

I, too, am an academic with cats

(1) white (woman) victimhood in interaction using critical conversation analysis

(2) Dissertation 😅

Connections
Puzzle #526
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It took me so so so long to get in a groove with this game. I still have to use their hints tho😅

Picture of a frying pan with cooked gnocchi, grape tomatoes and mozzarella balls

Dinner, courtesy of #emeals
It was DELISH