god, 6,000 words is a lot at first

COOL I just made a date w M to go see the Amy Sherald exhibit at the BMA, then dinner at Gertrude's, then seeing the new Phantom at the Hippodrome. I love a good set design! And I cannot wait to see the colors in Sherald's exhibit, my god. To be alive at the same time as an amazing artist! Unreal.

so many animals when I try to call out their name I am like John Cusak guessing Maxine's name in Being John Malkovich Nadieeegoiiivvvvannn

Bees?? The Middle English word ‘bede’ meant “prayer.” People started to keep track of their prayers with a string of little balls. We now call those little balls “beads.”

If anyone was looking for solid evidence that a crash is imminent, here it is:

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. It's ushered in an era of “brain rot.”

2496 good words cleaned up today! exciting. I have to finish this chapter a month before it is due bc I will be away. Working really hard on it in November so I can just revise it in December.

so great that SIGDOC is going open access. Just saving all these papers into Zotero for later, tagging them up!

I love Zotero so much 📝

NO meetings today! 😀! going to: ✅walk pups ☕write 1 hr on my travel & rhetoric chapter ☕read 1 hr for my chapter ☕write 1 hr on my CCI chapter ☕read 1 hr for my chapter ☕DL and read assignments for 670 ☕read for W12 670, think of activities ☕outline Nov Updates memo to PRWR faculty 🍷have a wine

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

Mr. Sputter

Looking NW at sunrise and knowing I have it in me to cause some lake effect snow this weekend 🌊🌊

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

buying travel insurance is like purchasing a star 🔭

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller November 05,1949

The country has spoken. Get ready to drink some soy milk and hire minorities.

When you have cats nothing scares you anymore. That thumping on your door late at night? Cats! That disembodied yowling coming from behind the drapes? Cats! That shadow slinking up and down the stairs? Cats! Haha! Cats!

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller November 04,1954

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

The IRS is reportedly not offering its Direct File program next year. Here’s a look back at how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free: (Published 2019)

so sweet when your traveler friends say they are down to meet you wherever you are in month X. Even if you don't meet up it is still thoughtful!

today I need constant updates to keep me going. ✅process applications ☕Notes for class ☕Examples for class ☕Upload graded comments ☕walk dogs ☕teach class

[Werner Herzog voice] Actually, the McRib never goes away. It is we who are here for a limited time.

more news like this ❤️

This week I received four items through interlibrary loan and document delivery, and I gotta say, that service suite continues to be a shining example of society functioning as it should. Eduroam is another. Thank your librarians working on ILL in the background. They do saintly work.

Let’s go! Get out and Vote!!

Academics, you will Geek: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ex_... #justright #amwriting

just finished Country Girl, the memoir by Edna O'Brien, that I got earlier this month at the Strand (my 1st time going there!). Appreciating its unconventional organization; it read true to thought. 📖

swear to god I would not have had such a bad high school depression if I'd had a big ole Labradane like Nadine running downstairs every morning, wagging her tail for breakfast, always 110% happy to see me

everyone else has a song playing in their mind while grading, yes? Right now it is Danza Kuduro and I swear it makes giving feedback go a little faster

The BBC's Accessibility Guide has several resources, including step-by-step instructions to using assistive technologies. The resource includes insight into several assistive technologies, including VoiceOver, JAWS, NVDA, TalkBack, ClaroRead, and Dragon. bbc.github.io/accessibilit...

Today's tasks ✅ change flight #2 😮‍💨 ☕make list of trip to-dos ☕grade 7 assignment descriptions ☕write a LoR ☕finish prepping 670's lecture ☕write for 1 hour on chapter ☕walk puppers x2

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Sad about Teen Vogue.

kitten nicknames for Saoirse so far: Scribble, Scrap, Soot Sprite

wearing an argyle sweater vest and a navy cardigan; going for an Alex P Keaton meets Mr. Rogers look today

today's work ☕meeting w a student ☕write a letter of recommendation ☕give feedback to 6 lessons ☕walk pups ☕lesson plan for tomorrow ☕finish my own updated teaching philosophy ☕writing group at 5pm ☕plan out November big picture stuff

this is a list I am talking about, skipping past all the sweet stuff: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/d...

I met a guy, "Monk," in Mexico who would pack clothes he planned to get rid of, shed them along the way, and just buy occasional new shirts to replace, etc. One girl in the hostel wanted the team Italia shirt he was discarding, so that worked out. I truly love all my clothes, tho.

a trip of a read

Good morning. We’re open!

books ready for pickup at the library 📚 I don't even remember adding some of them to my cart; that is the treat of reading a NYer on the bus. I know Post-Traumatic came from a NYer rec. I think A family lexicon, too.

there is an ad at school to watch the vintage movie Twilight together in the student union this weekend, that is all

I teach journalism, so it hurts a little more when I have academic integrity issues with students. Like, if you are willing to cheat because it's hard, civil society can maybe find a different way to use you.

Whenever I see coverage of parties at Mar-a-Lago I just always imagine it smells like a 1985 Bloomingdale’s perfume counter in there.

Wait so long to do laundry that you rediscover an entire wardrobe you forgot you owned.

Some of my favorite thrifts: 👗DVF wool long sleeve Lee dress x 2 (in red and black) 👞Frye oxfords 🥣my porcelain mixing bowls in Daffodil ✅any wool dress I wear (esp plaid) ✅any wool pants I wear (esp plaid!)