TFW your ILL comes from the library you were a student worker in 24 years ago...

Pretty sure if you haven’t experienced multiple Thanksgiving day fires by the time you’re an adult youre doing something wrong

Now is obviously the perfect time for me to remind you of two early 20th c. passport facts that always entertain me: (1) the most common adjective used to describe peoples' facial features (forehead, nose, mouth, you name it!) was "medium"; and (2) Ezra Pound had an imperial chin.

Aging parents are no joke, but at least I get to add the legal title "Responsible Person" to my resume.

Kind of feel like as a society we've moved past the point of "out of office" replies.

Reading Claude McKay’s letters and doing my best not to just live-tweet the whole thing at you BUT I do need you all to know that in 1925 McKay wrote Langston Hughes a letter about meeting Jean Toomer at Le Dôme!!!!

Bummed that I voted by mail instead of finally seizing my opportunity to vote in a neighbor's garage! (this article old, but proof we have garage voting!) www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that any time you have a deadline for one project you’ll be full of thoughts about another.

One of those pesky days where the more emails I send the more emails I get!

Can't believe I've only this year realized my inevitable lazy Halloween form.

Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?

Well, none of my 33 classroom students said anything, but a student at the writing center was enchanted by them.

Wish me luck on my annual experiment to see if one (1) student will comment on my Halloween earrings.

brb, showing my kid Clue for the first time.

GOOD MORNING, Senator Jeff Merkley is 13 hours into holding the Senate floor. Open the live stream on every device and support this 68yo man as he makes a stand for his state and our democracy. These stunts MATTER. Especially as they build in numbers and chip away at the false pretence of normalcy.

You'll have to wait for July to read it, but @seeshespeak.bsky.social and I recorded our conversation on Monday, and we have THOUGHTS.

Happy “listening to Rocky Horror in your car in the way to work” season to all who celebrate.

Some of you have real seasons, and some of us have "California neglected to insulate houses" seasons.

In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.

It's a rare day that the social media feed makes me feel better!

I’m actually going to need a whole extra week between now and Monday, thanks.

I want you to know that the audience of a Rilo Kiley show in Berkeley looks exactly how you imagine

One of the main things I have going for me as a teacher is I'm really good at Google (and therefore really mad at what's happening to its results).

I've exhausted my bi-annual quota (2) of James-brother-related posts this week. You'll have to wait until 2027 for any further Jamesian thoughts. Sorry!

There are few things that make me happier than the fact that William James’ house looks like this at Halloween.

I don’t miss tweeting through conference panels, but I do miss the restaurant recs and other tidbits of a good conference hashtag @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Just had the world’s best bus experience. I love Boston!

Moon lighting up the bay on the way in to Boston. See you soon @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Hi @moderniststudies.bsky.social friends! We hope you'll join Friday's workshop "What Do People Do All Day (Off the Tenure Track)?" A conversation about understanding and navigating precarity (whether you're contingent or want to best support your colleagues). Workshop registration not necessary!

NOT ENOUGH HOURS IN THE DAY, SEND HELP.

Somebody stole my bike :(

A former student winked at me, and I assume we’ll both spend the rest of our lives embarrassed about that.

Love that a selling point of refrigeration was “you can go visiting whenever you like”

TFW you have an epiphany about a text, only to realize you're 100 years late.

Woohoo! If you'll be there, we'd love to see you at the Friday afternoon workshop on "Organizing and Advocacy Across Contingencies" Kate Schnur and I have organized. All--whether contingent or not--are welcome (everyone also welcome at the CCIS drinks happening Friday eve).

Women demand pockets, c. 1928

I’ve been sitting on announcing this was coming until it had a cover, but I am so excited about every bit of this!

This is the first time I’m seeing the cover and I am SO EXCITED!!!

Perfectly normal Monday night of having my mind blown by an article in citation systems from 1999

My mom put a couch in the middle of her kitchen, which is simultaneously a ludicrous, Frat-house, choice in decorating, and also weirdly convenient.

Cannot overstate how important this one particular farm stand is for my mental health.

Always fun to find oneself in the research zeitgeist! If this interests you and you're attending MSA, please join Caroline Krzakowski's and my seminar on Bureaucracy and Infrastructure!

My kid let me read him poems out of my c. 2000 Norton to fall asleep tonight, so I think my work is done.

Hope to see you soon!

This is happening tomorrow, and I hope you'll join us! We have a few prepared thoughts, but mostly it's a chance for contingent/independent scholars to pool ideas and strategies for research funding!

These are our Classy bibs.

Please come! We'd love to swap ideas with you!

Come share your thoughts and experiences finding funding as a contingent scholar with us this coming Tuesday!!

Google search got rid of the part of the results page where they tell you how many search results there were and I hate them more every day.

Shoutout to my phone for suggesting I might want to correct my last name to cannonball.