Swear to God, this charming a****le pulls this exactly when I’m typing my dissertation. Every. Time. #5amWritersClub #PhDSky #CatsOfBlueSky #Caturday

Yes.

🤣🤣 🧐 🤬

Whoever captioned The Triangle did a shit job. Come on. #deaf and #hoh folks deserve better.

With multiple proposals to conferences submitted, the “finding out” in May is either going to be lit or be devastating. #PhD #academia

Current work stoppage. Swear to God, he intuitively knows when I’m “in the zone” and appears out of nowhere to disrupt it. #5amWritersClub #ChaosCat

Spent four days writing up a proposal and my computer decided to delete the work. I had it saved in two places, but it’s just … gone. I’m ready to burn the world down now. #5amWritersClub

Please and thank you.

Words were corralled into some semblance of order. Not many, but more than before. #5amWritersClub

Dammit, tech companies. The only think I need to know about your awesome AI feature is how to turn it off.

Took a short break from “serious” writing to work on my vampire story. 🧛‍♂️ 500+ words were slayed this morning. #5amWritersClub

"In every society fallen to authoritarianism, the state goes after the press first+ closes in on universities next. All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation." www.chronicle.com/article/univ...

Started writing my dissertation. I’m 100 words in. It’s small, but it’s progress, and it’s mine. #5amWritersClub #PhDSky

You know, we never demanded that anyone be a “Kamala Stan”; we just begged you to fuckin’ vote for her.

I’m not really a “New Year’s Resolution” type, but this year, I have one: Finish writing my dissertation. I have bits and pieces of it. Parts of chapters written, extensive notes, detailed outlines, a Works Cited that looks like I robbed a small library. Let’s do this. #5amWritersClub #PhD

Apparently Americans need to be reminded yet again that we have never suspended elections during a war. Lincoln was reelected during the Civil War (a large part of why we have absentee voting), FDR during WW2. It's never been true, and scaring folks with untrue things makes you not a good person.

47 doesn’t have any friends he didn’t buy. I would just prefer he not use our tax money for his friendship purchases.

Because one company has made cancellations so difficult, I was inspired to go on a cancellation spree. Thank you, Difficult Company. — Your being an ass has saved me several hundred dollars in subscription fees. And also, I’m putting you in the book … #5amWritersClub

I got 54 words further on my 🧛 #WIP and that’s a win. Now if I could just summon the will to concentrate on my dissertation … #5amWritersClub

I got a couple words down, and that’s as much as I could muster in my post-surgery fog / recovery. I’m back to the bitey story 🧛 because I can’t think coherently enough for anything #PhD related. #5amWritersClub

One thing about being primarily couch bound after CI surgery, I’ve read four novels from my #TBR pile. At this rate, I may need to legitimately buy more #books …

I’m bilaterally bionic now. It was a fight. — Including telling the insurance company why it was medically necessary … “It is incredibly strange to me to explain why being able to hear with both ears is better than one. It seems self-evident.” #CochlearImplant #MedicareForAll #AdvancedBionics

As part of teaching future teachers how to teach, I have them read (and we discuss) “How Grades Fail” (Schneider). Among several things, it talks about grade grubbing. So now, at the end of the semester, what is happening? Grade grubbing, that’s what. 🙄 🫤 #academia

Today’s work stoppage. He is unconcerned. #5amWritersClub #Caturday

Two flight delays, so far. Playing the game: will I make it home in time to teach on Tuesday?

I look around at all the destruction Trump and his sycophants have wrought, and it occurs to me: We are living em forster’s “The Machine Stops.” They are breaking the government and US society one piece at a time.

“You’re the writer,” I whisper to myself as my characters go off and do things without my permission. #5amWritersClub

No promises that I won’t go full fanboy about the presenters whose work I’ve been intensely reading the past two years. #NAGC

I don’t know what number of draft this is. All I know is that it’s written. And now I get why writers become alcoholics … #5amWritersClub #PhD #academia

The husband is absolutely correct on this one.

I prefer the singular possessive, "Oh, for fuck's sake." It just sounds more professional.

“I think I have it this time.” Me. To myself. For the umpteenth draft of this paper. #5amWritersClub #PhDSky #academia

It is absolutely insane to be completing my university’s ethics training when ethics are so lacking in those leading the Federal Government (looking at you, 47 … and your sycophantic followers).

Watson Hall, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. Home of the Queens University English Department. I have never felt such kinship as this to University Hall at UIC. #5amWritersClub #PhDSky

Today’s work interference brought to you by Koda. #5amWritersClub #CatsOfSky #PhDSky

A bat cake pop!! From Defloured Bakery, in Chicago. #Halloween

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

Dear Prospectus, I know this is the fourth time that I’ve thought we were done. But you keep coming back, begging for revisions. Why can’t I quit you? (Or at least ship you off to committee to be their problem instead of mine). #5amWritersClub #PhDSky

Dear Students, Once again my valiant efforts to grade your work has been thwarted. #CatsOfSky #PhD #AmWriting

I would love to just focus on my writing, specifically my Prospectus edits, but ::gestures at 47’s thuggery on full display in Chicago::. So, there’s that. Sighs. #5amWritersClub

Please, someone know someone …

Dear Student, Koda is not impressed with your level of effort on this assignment. #5amWritersClub #PhDSky #EnglishTeacher

Missed another rapture. Bummer.

How long did it take Trump to realize the escalator wasn’t moving? That’s what I want to know. 🧐 😎 #escalatorgate #UN

Finished the second draft of my Prospectus. Feeling accomplished. Here’s my cat. He’s “helping.” #5amWritersClub #PhDSky #CatsOfSky

Hey, Britain - America has already touched the stove so we don't need to do that, okay?

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.