"I'm begging you, please, don't embarrass me, MF." Listening to Morgan Clae's cover on repeat.

It happened. Wordle 1,765 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I'm really happy this paper is finally out! It's about a course I taught for many years, and it ties together lots of my favorite and most creative ideas. It also deepens my contribution to the ongoing discussion of the nature of inquiry. [Jump to Section 3.4 for a fun image.]

I just got an email from "Person Heather". Definitely...

MILESTONE! I was sent something in Spanish for work this week, and I was able to read it with minimal dictionary support. In the last two years, my reading skill has grown tremendously, listening substantially, and speaking somewhat.

"Humanizing Defining in Mathematics with Sandwiches" by Katz, Lewis, Bagley, Bockting-Conrad, Ho, Libertini, Owens, Pilgrim, Salomone & Shillito about modeling disciplinary and pedagogical practices. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“The only treat I’m particularly interested in right now are his thighs. (No pause) Fuck my life!” -Atlas —JJ Mulder

Surprise additions to my decorations.

Student just used carpooling as a metaphor for a homomorphism!

There ARE no heterosexual reasons to watch Gladiator. -RG/RR

Despite living at THE BEACH, I've always been more of an alpine girly. It would be so romantic for a cute dude to take me to a cottage. *This is legitimately not a HR skeet.

synchronized napping #Cat #Caturday

Apply for the next cohort of Project NExT! [Share with your new hires and other junior colleagues!] maa.org/maa-project-... @joinmaa.bsky.social

I'm super behind on email, which I HATE. I'm going to try really hard to get back to the current moment this week, but please bear with me!

Today! www.onthestage.tickets/show/south-c...

“Most A.I. things aren’t gunna happen because it costs infinite money, provides no value, and is made of crimes.” Alex Falcone

Good dentist visit. I’m proud I’ve been consistent, more because of what it says about my mental health than his approval. But I do not like two people working my mouth together: water pick and suction. TL;DR I don’t think I have a praise kink, and I’m definitely not into threesomes.

My choir is singing a show of bent Broadway covers on Saturday 3/21, starting at 7:30pm at Trademark Brewing in LB. Six full group pieces, some sing-along, and about a dozen individual pieces, including a solo piece from me in the second half! www.onthestage.tickets/show/south-c...

I don’t particularly care for dogs. But when I say it’s hot when a guy loves his dog who loves him back, this is what I mean. www.instagram.com/reel/DTqsQN3...

Frogotten New interesting auto-carrot.

I got to be spicy on a panel today!

C'est moi!

My boss asked me a question in the hall last week. The accurate and useful response was “sex toys”.

This is a shameful non-statement by the AMS. But 100% on brand for them.

More "sandwich" in the wild.

Please consider coming to our next show of you're in the area! There's going to be lots of fun stuff, including me doing something special. www.onthestage.tickets/show/south-c...

Listing "wheelchair access" as an AMENITY with things such as "indoor pool" is certainly a choice... "Rooms now include free gravity, and they are conceptually linked with insidedness."

Yesterday, someone tried to convince me that I could have a surprise child. Honey, no. But also, ally? 🌈

Hey, my institution noticed my new role! [Not with the Oscars] www.csulb.edu/news/making-...

While it's not a big part of my identity, I was technically a Division III NCAA college athlete, so I might have experiences that are a little salient for the discussion Heated Rivalry.

Some things I'm working on this year: +I'd like to be able to teach and flirt in Spanish. +Continue being physically active. Acquire slutty shorts. +Try harder to find a boyfriend. Support is welcome.

Look at me stopping myself from falling on a sword. [Couldn't find a gif, but I'm imagining me lying on a pile of swords, holding a single extra sword off to the side so I don't fall on it.]

At this large meeting, I am the physical embodiment of “math”. People keep gesturing at me to refer to math.

Remembering that time I was told that being abused disqualified me from leadership (claiming I’d be in a position to retaliate) in the same breath that the abuse didn’t disqualify my abusers.

I am being invited to a secretive ice cream party...

Maybe a public statement about executions that is mostly about why you support the myth of apolitical is not going to land how you thought it would?

Ep5: you know I can’t do that Ep6: you know WE can’t do that (recap) From the subtitles. Curious.

The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026. Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans/ for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.

Never mind the jobs you had, five classes you took in college: 1. Psychology of Religion 2. Choral Arranging 3. Galois Theory 4. Song-writing 5. Quantum Chemistry HM (taught): Mind and Meaning

I got a last minute invitation to the boy aquarium tonight. There was no kissing, and if there was secret heat, it was well concealed. Yes, I had a hotdog for dinner.

Completely disband ICE, obviously. Half of my grandparents were refugees, I’m not Xtian, and I’m queer. I’ve been told uncountably many times that this makes my American status contingent, subtly and directly. It’s ghoulish to give that perspective weapons and the protection of state authority.

I'm doing some heavy copy-editing this week. There are a lot of extraneous apostrophes that are starting to make me think either large-language models or at least aggressive grammar tools are being used uncritically.

“You go talk to Kyle. Would you like me to hold your wedding ring?”

I’ve been weary of the MCU for years. I am now excited about the GCU/HRU. AMA

There's a small part of my job that involves people I don't know at all sending me insulting, hateful documents about what they think it means to be ready to guide children's learning. It's very upsetting.

@myqkaplan.bsky.social I wanted you to know that we cited your show A.K.A. in a recent journal article (about defining sandwiches in math class). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My newest paper about defining sandwiches is out! @drew-lewis.com @sbagley.bsky.social @annemho.bsky.social Mary, Jessica, Bill, @matthematics.com Kate, Sarah www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’m having a rough week. I need sunshine.

Yes: Ilya/Lily Shane/Jane But also: Rose is basically Roz. It’s like if Svetlana were Holly.