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Not me sliding into Jennifer Garner's Instagram DMs this morning, trying to get help to nominate her for a honorary degree. She's West Virginia's favorite daughter! Let's do this!

Hi ISA/IR friends-- I'm looking for someone to be a discussant on the following panels. The ISA Virtual Conference runs from July 30 to August 2. If you could help, please let me know. If registration costs are going to be an issue, we can work something out as well.

Channeling one of my favorite TV doctors today... but it's a beautiful day to get some writing done.

Would anyone be willing to share their grad IPE syllabus with me? I haven't taught it since Spring 2021 and I'd love to revamp it a bit. Feel free to share via email: christina dot fattore at mail dot wvu dot edu. Thanks!

I decided to skip the Greek Currency Crisis today and instead tackle Brexit because I was losing student interest in all these various monetary policy issues. It was a win!

Good thing about going to a conference: I have some exciting new ideas for new projects! Bad thing about going to a conference: I still have old projects that I need to finish before I start on anything new.

My students are getting some left over trick or treat candy because our bowl was too dark for ToTers to realize there was some good candy in there!

Ever have one of those weeks where you're coming off an illness and you just can't connect to anything you were working on prior to that? Sigh.

I haven't been to an in person conference since 2019-- and I'm going to ISA-NE this week. I am so nervous. It doesn't matter how many conferences I've been to, getting back up on that horse is nerve wracking!

I need to start making better choices about what I *need* to do in academia vs what actually makes me *happy* about being an academic

Why are conclusions so hard to write?

Currently reviewing an article that should have been desk rejected. What a waste of my time.

A great post by Active Learning in Political Science this morning!! activelearningps.com/2023/10/23/t...

I’m feeling under the weather (no COVID) so I re-watched Practical Magic. How is that movie 25 years old?

Women more likely to leave academia due to work place climate than due to work family conflict.

I went to the Eras movies yesterday afternoon and it was amazing! A great treat after grading all morning! And yes— I got merch!

I read through my whole book draft. Welp. I guess it’s time to write the conclusion.

Just finished making friendship bracelets with my daughter for the past hour. It’s small things like this that kids remember ❤️

My seven year old told me that her least favorite subject at school is social studies, and that's just a dagger in this mama's heart!

I'm reading through my book manuscript in order to (1) revise and (2) make it easier to write my conclusion and damn, my theory chapter is on fire!

I just found out that my university has an autism support group that costs— I am not joking— $5000 a semester. It’s cost prohibitive. they said it isn’t free bc it doesn’t create an equal opportunity for students. At $5k a semester, it sure doesn’t create an equal opportunity!

Also, yes, my kitty Ruthie loves to literally snuggle— see that little hug? She’s so sweet.

My public library card is currently suspended because my daughter has two over due books. It is killing me not to be able to check stuff out via Libby right now. #booknerd

Just realized that the working title of my book is … very similar to one published not in my field but in a related field about 6 years ago. Argh

“These actions serve as real-world lessons in business and economics and though difficult, will better position the Chambers College for the future,” Kaull said in an email to The Daily Athenaeum. This is how our university talks about people losing their jobs. How crass.

After stressing all week, I wrote an INSANE amount this morning. Just went at it. Yes, it's important to touch your research every day, but there are just some times when lightening strikes!

Sometimes you just need to throw out the powerpoint and use the chalkboard. Cheers to a great afternoon class.

As much as we might grumble about this task, there is nothing better than writing a letter of recommendation for a truly exceptional student.

I bought this particular chair for my home office during COVID and now, three years later, I hate it. Or maybe I hate the clutter on my desk. I don't know. All I do know is that I don't want to write.

I'm so tired of the discourse at my university that only a *small* percentage of students were vocal about their opposition to the program cuts and only about *1/3* of the faculty participated in the vote of no confidence. Those voices were incredibly loud and deserve to be heard.

This is the best take on the strike auction, hands down.

So excited to be going to ISA Northeast this November! I'm on two great gender focused panels and it will be a quick trip to Providence! Funny enough, this will be my first in person conference since 2019-- and it was the last conference I went to before COVID.

I'm so thankful for colleagues and fun in the midst of all this mess:

The Richie episode of The Bear Season 2 was a nice reset after that Christmas episode.

As a woman in science, I feel I need to make it clear: -I am confident -I know what my strengths are -I know how to "lean in" It doesn't make a darn difference. Wish we'd stop trying to mould women to the environment rather than changing the environment.

Trying to convince my husband to buy Pentatonix Christmas tickets!!

I let the 7 year old watch the Taylor Swift Reputation tour movie on Netflix last night. It’s one thing to listen to Taylor, it’s a whole other thing to watch the concert happen.

If you're a sucker for Persuasion retellings (I sure am!), Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin was perfection. It's been a while since I devoured a novel in one sitting, but this one did the trick last night.

I woke up with the most horrible tension headache. No advil in sight, so I'm trying to fight it with caffeine. So far, the headache is winning.

My surprise for today-- Gettysburg PA has a legit Starbucks store. Things I never could have imagined 20 years ago.

Going on a roadtrip today and just downloaded two books from @hoopla.bsky.social to enjoy on my drive. Both are romances so I'm hoping one of them is a good one!

Thank you @oliviawrites.bsky.social for this beautiful essay and the reminder that all bodies deserve love <3

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Not sure how anyone at WVU is getting anything done this morning. We have a Faculty Assembly at noon to vote on no confidence in our university president and to freeze the academic transformation process. Lots of emotions running high in Morgantown today.

I’m feeling so run down today but I have no other symptoms. Maybe I’m just sick of the constant drama at my university.

After a grueling few weeks here in Morgantown, the family and I spent the weekend in Pittsburgh. It's such a great city and my kids really enjoyed being able to walk or ride a train to different places. Back to the grind this morning!

Lounge? We have a kitchen with a sink and a microwave. Good enough.

I‘ve realized that I’ve stopped taking pictures of everything and am enjoying the moment instead. I kinda love that for me.