This would be a really good moment for Democrats to start acting more like a political party than a Ponzi scheme.

I know literally nothing about them that I didn’t learn from one of their commercials, but the Husband and Wife Law Team seems like a genuinely adorable couple.

I really feel for whoever is going to have to come up with the inevitable American Girl doll based on this era

I don't know how people cope with having hundreds of unread emails...I have 12 right now and its been an ongoing distraction throughout the day.

I am here exclusively for pet pictures, updates about articles, and sports things I don’t understand (but it seems like you are having fun).

The moral arc of the universe may bend towards justice, but we were never promised monotonicity.

Okay, but like half of this is me installing and uninstalling the app as a way of dealing with social media anxiety.

If someone is really interested in improving efficiency in academia, they should focus on developing a spam filter that is effective against emails from predatory journals.

2016 was my last year of grad school, so I absolutely refuse any efforts to feel nostalgic about it.

The Lexis feature where you can copy with citation is top tier, and I would love an equivalent feature for social science articles.

I'm very excited about this, but someone needs to investigate the apparent correlation between Animal Crossing releases and global emergencies.

My Google Scholar yearly numbers always look so sad in January.

This is why I channel Victorian-era letters while writing work emails.

I am meant to get writing done tonight.

I need to start keeping track of how: (1) how long I procrastinate starting a writing project and (2) how long it takes me to get into the groove of writing it. The ratio here is becoming genuinely embarrassing.

I was just thinking about this as I was closing the multiple pop ups required to access any site these days (50% of which will pop up again as soon as I navigate to a different page on the site). Who decided this was a good idea?

My deeply unpopular but entirely correct opinion (completely unrelated to politics): you do not need a new organization container/tool/device/plan/whatever, you need to get rid of 50% of whatever is in the cabinet/drawer/closet/whatever you are trying to organize.

Yes, because the *name* is what needed to be fixed about Microsoft Office.

I need a version of dry January but for cheese.

I am so in love with the yarn I am currently knitting with that I hope it takes me forever to finish this sweater.

I forgot to save the last apple slice for my dog, and her rage knows no bounds.

MacBook Air’s battery life is so good that I sometimes forget that it’s the type of thing that needs to be charged.

Hydrocolloid bandages are one of the few specialized products I've encountered where the extra benefits are worth the extra cost.

Bad decisions aside, it did come out cute. I knit the sweater part of this in exactly a week, which taught me two things: I can knit a sweater in a week, and I never want to knit a sweater in a week ever again.

I really want to make this clear: we need to be very careful how we approach 2026. Nobody jinx this thing.

It is shockingly difficult to source buttons in the dense suburb where my parents live (and I grew up). RIP Joann's.

One transcontinental flight and a day spent watching Lord of the Rings (the best Christmas movie ever) with my parents later... (I forgot to size down for the ribbing so I will be redoing that)

Power is back, so I can return to frantically trying to knit this sweater before Christmas. (Fortunately the matching pants are already done)

So far my trip to San Francisco has involved both Waymo rides and knitting until the sun goes down because there is no power, and I feel like I’ve lived in multiple centuries while I’ve been here.

I also like to display my kindle in front of my full shelf of California Reporters.

Made it about a third of the way into the second leg. It’s adorable, but I’m getting sick of orange.

I see people posting about finishing grading, and may this energy find me (preferably tomorrow).

Progress from Saturday morning to Saturday night. I love the part of knitting when things start to look like what they are going to be.

Wake Up Dead Man is great so far, but there’s something a bit uncanny valley about a movie set in a Catholic church with little apparent understanding of Catholicism.

My students are doing final project presentations today, so I made peppermint bark chocolate chip cookies.

I got a thank you for accepting a review request that included a calendar invite with the due date! I'm not sure how common this practice is, but it's such a great idea.

Making bad decisions (casting on for a Christmas present knit on December 1)

Good news: I found a dog food that my super-senior dog (who should put on a few pounds) is excited to eat. Bad news: it is the smelliest thing I have ever experienced in my entire life, and I am a vegetarian. Please send help.

Nothing says late November like baking pumpkin bread (for pumpkin bread truffles!) and outlining a pre-analysis plan.

I'm teaching my last class before my sabbatical today. I really enjoy teaching, but I am SO UNBELIEVABLY excited for the research projects I have coming up.

Look, when you make the professors curse, things are not going well.

Microsoft Office has taken to randomly removing its icons from my dock, and I don't know how something can be this ubiquitous and this bad.

I look forward to the inevitable natural experiments from education scholars.

Having a whole section of laws describing what people are allowed to do in a bunch of contexts, and then another whole section describing what they are not allowed to do in those same contexts is a wildly inefficient way to organize a statute.

Sunday night knitting.

If this news cycle continues, I am going to have so many muted words that my entire feed will be cooking projects and pet pictures.

How it started | How it’s going (exactly 15 years later)

I will say I feel much better about my spelling right now.