#teachereducation peeps. Has anyone been to this conference? Is it worthwhile? #academicsky www.chicagosummit.org

Mrs. Delarocker’s 50th birthday is right after Christmas. She’s hard to buy for on a normal year. However, I have just had a gifting epiphany, and I just need to tell someone, anyone, that I have achieved transcendence. Thank you for listening. #staymarried

My youngest is wrapping up their first semester at my university. Spoiler alert: telling parents of freshmen to “let go” is easy. Letting go of your own kiddo is not.

Friends, my university is for hiring tenure-track faculty positions in biology, education, math, English, psychology, and civil engineering. Join me in the beautiful Pacific Northwest! Please share far and wide. workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau... #academicsky @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social

Friends, my department is hiring a tenure track assistant/associate professor of education. Please share this opportunity far and wide. Assistant or Associate Professor of Education workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Mt. Rainier from my office window this morning. No filter. #academicsky @mountrainier.bsky.social

My youngest, a freshman at my university, just got campus library job. I joked that I have an ILL book that’s three months overdue (which is true), and they straight up ratted me out. The library fuzz are now breathing down my neck. How sharper than a serpent’s tooth, indeed. #academicsky

@duchesssexpert.bsky.social I’m rarely on Bluesky, but I was thinking about you the other day and thought I’d look you up. Lo and behold, here you are. We lost contact when Twitter devolved, and I regret that. I hope you’re well, my friend.

Office hours music - 6/4/25 #academicsky

What should have been a quick oil change in preparation for my upcoming 2000 mile mountain motorcycle extravaganza hit a snag in the form of pinhole leaks in my cheapo oil recycling tub. But now the dinosaurs have been returned to their cages, & we launch on Friday. @royalenfieldriders.bsky.social

Fresh from the groomer. Total babe magnet.

Pagliacci.

Yesterday, I sat in a committee meeting, had a paper rejected, prepped for finals, secured some funding, admitted some grad students, wrote some marketing copy, celebrated our salutatorian (ed major!), revised a chapter proposal, & had dinner with a monk. A pretty normal day. #AcademicSky

Mrs. Delarocker and the breadstick #felinesky

Special delivery! #felinesky

Two firsts this week. I submitted my first fiction manuscript for publication, and I received my first rejection letter for a fiction manuscript. When I said I wanted to bring balance to the Force, this isn’t what I meant. #sciencefiction #academicsky #writersky

I submitted my first science-fiction manuscript for publication yesterday, and the editor still hasn’t given me a decision, despite having had a whole 24 hours to read my work with care and precision. Do they think I’m compulsively checking my email for fun? #DoBetter #AcademicSky #ScienceFiction

Well, I’ve submitted my first ever fiction manuscript to a publisher. This is a new kind of feeling. #academicsky

The primary benefit to riding a motorcycle is the smugly superior coolness that it bestows upon you, but calculating your MPG is a close second. #motorcyclesky @royalenfieldriders.bsky.social #academicsky

Academic journal editors: do your journals have policies about the use of Chat-GPT or other AI tools in manuscript generation? Do those policies differ if the usage was self-disclosed by the author?

Melt. #felinesky #academicsky

So I posted a video on Instagram, and I added a Paul Simon classic for music. IG shortened the name, and I feel like there’s a message in there for me.

Mt. Rainier from my office window. @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social @mountrainier.bsky.social #AcademicSky

Mrs. Delarocker won’t announce it if she has some down time, but there will be signs.

Office hours music - 4/17/25 #AcademicSky

I’m back on my midlife-crisis-motorcycling-to-work nonsense, and it’s glorious. She’s the prettiest girl at school. @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social @royalenfieldriders.bsky.social #AcademicSky

Felis Friday #AcademicSky

Moonlight through cherry blossoms. Taken while walking the dog last night.

Backyard delights

Friends, we’re hiring for tenure track positions in history, sociology, poli sci, accounting, and exercise science. Come be part of something great Also, this is literally the view from my office. You, too, could work in the shadow of Mt. Rainier. #AcademicSky @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social

Middle Delarocker is Boston bound and ready to take the musical theater world by storm. #proudpapa #AcademicSky

Flying back to Seattle via Munich. There’s an empty seat next to me. #blessed

Not gonna lie: it’s a little disappointing to walk into a Polish cafe and hear Pink Pony Club.

Conference concert update: when given the opportunity, academics from around the world will clap on one and three. #AcademicSky

A Polish cover band playing “Back in Black” at the gala dinner was the conference surprise I didn’t know I needed. #AcademicSky

At the breakfast bar in my Polish hotel.

I’m so jet lagged that I broke my own rule and went to a McDonald’s in a foreign country. How the mighty have fallen.

Conference bound! Next stop: Poland and the “Identifying and meeting the professional needs of teachers - discourses of modernity” conference at Jan Kochanowski University. Looking forward to working on behalf of humanistic education with my European colleagues. @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social

Middle kiddo just got accepted to his very prestigious and VERY expensive dream school. I’m so happy for and proud of him, but also aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh(!)

Getting ready to make some spring noises. #MotorcycleSky @royalenfieldriders.bsky.social

Am I favored by the gods? My lawnmower started on the third pull after sitting all winter. You be the judge. #AcademicSky

So much depends upon the red lawn mower glazed with rain water beside the near-bloomed tulips

Loaf

My birthday party was a success.

This is 50.

Office hours music -3/20/25 #AcademicSky

Office hours music - 3/19/25 #AcademicSky

@saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social was delighted to host young scholars from Federal Way Public Schools as part of our Kinder-to-College partnership! Thanks to all, esp. the kindergartners, who are dreaming big and working hard! You’re creating a better future for all of us. #AcademicSky

Super excited about the Lego sets that arrived today (one for me, one for the SPED dept). My cats are excited about the delivery for other reasons. @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social #AcademicSky

Emerald City Comic-Con with Minirocker. Much fun ensued. 10 points if you can identify my cosplay.