UIC just pivoted to remote teaching tomorrow due to winter storm and dangerous roads. I’m pleased to see this — maybe they won’t ever make us drive to work in dangerous weather again? Let’s all work from home if we can, and leave the roads as clear as possible for those essential workers who do […]
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Oof, tired. But got through day of in-person teaching (high-energy, drained afterwards) and trudging around in snow (tiring, not used to it), and even the slightly overdue set of story edits I needed to send to Emily for my Tor.com story (exciting, and only took 45 minutes or so to do, but somehow I had
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Well, first day of the semester in-person (third week in actuality) got off to a rousing start; I woke up with a pulled muscle in my back. Not super-painful, thankfully, more twingy when I move the wrong way, but it’s making me clumsy, witness the fact that I spilled my chai all over my desk
We lost Janet Smith today, our UIC faculty union president. She’d been fighting cancer for a long time; I don’t know the specifics, but I’m guessing it finally got her. Janet showed up, though, through chemo and illness and all the rest of it. She showed up for all of us, and spoke a hell
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UIC has just let us know that we’re going to do the first two weeks of spring semester classes online, given the rise of Omicron, what’s known as an adaptive pause. I’m glad they’re letting us know now, rather than just before the semester starts; it’ll let me plan better for two weeks of fully
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Editing to clarify — read the actual article, not just the clickbait headline. The point they’re making doesn’t apply to all MA programs, or even all MFA programs. There are good programs that offer a decent return on investment of time / money for the average student. But there are a vast number of very
I admit, I’m feeling a little blue right now — I’ve just had to cancel the SLF’s Portolan Writing Project Kickstarter, after putting a tremendous amount of time and effort into promoting it over the last month. In the last hour, we’d gotten up to almost $5200 in pledges, with 95 backers, but we’d set
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We did break $5K last night, and more than 90 supporters — thanks so much, folks! https://www.kickstarter.com/…/the-slfs-portolan-writing… Facebook is still throttling my ability to tag in my friends so they can actually SEE these posts, which is more than frustrating. At this point, with five hours left in the fundraiser, I think we’re probably looking
Folks, it’s Giving Tuesday, and also the last day of my non-profit Kickstarter. I’ve been asking all month for people to like / comment / share my posts about the Portolan Project, but today, I’m asking you to contribute. https://www.kickstarter.com/…/the-slfs-portolan-writing… This is the project of my heart — bringing free writing lessons to the world,
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Last in-person teaching day of the semester, and I think it’s indicative of my burned-out state (and that of everyone around me, I suspect) that I sewed this matching mask for my top, and then LEFT IT ON THE KITCHEN ISLAND. Sigh. Oh well. This is another long salwar top that I cut the bottom
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