Today’s teaching #pandemicfashion is inspired by The Gilded Age, which I’m quite enjoying — if you liked Downton Abbey and have access to HBOMax, this is for you. You know if there’d been a pandemic during the gilded age, all these folks would’ve had coordinating masks custom-sewn for their outfits by day two! Should be […]
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PSA: If you’re a student, or the parent of the student, or a mentor to a student, maybe check in on how they’re doing keeping up with their work. Both Kevin and I are seeing more missing work from students this semester than we’ve ever seen before (in 30 and 25 years of teaching, respectively).
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Today’s #pandemicfashion for teaching features ombré purple hair, fabulous ombré earrings by Alix Mikesell (and there will be more of her fabulous earrings available at our party on the 12th, if you’d like to swing by, locals!), and an ombré mask — trying a new style. Everything ombré today. Alix’s earrings aren’t really technically ombré,
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Snow day here in Chicagoland — which doesn’t mean the kids are out of school, alas. Chicago Public School is still meeting in these conditions, which I think is a TERRIBLE decision on the part of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and it’s hard not to see it as petty revenge on her part against the teachers.
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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
