The first weeks of school have all the animals in this house very sleepy. Self included. It is really quite shockingly draining, being out in the world and interacting with people (and potentially more COVID) again. As much as I love the energy of teaching in person, it’s sort of surreal how I’m first buoyed […]
Hey, folks — I think I haven’t been good about telling you about weekly podcast drops! Let me catch you up on the last few weeks: Ep. 19: “Ellen and Delia, Pt. 1″ is out now!” Mary Anne and Ben catch up with old friends Delia Sherman and Ellen Kushner. In the first half of
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First class went well, I think — small room, a dozen students, each of them able to have an empty chair on either side, which is…something? Not as much distancing as I’d like, but could be worse. They said they could hear me fine without amplification, so that’s good — I ordered a headset thingie
I have a student who’s thinking of writing a speculative fiction piece centering on the Japanese internment camps. He needs to read about 8-10 books this semester as part of his research for that — I’d love recommendations. I was thinking of No-No Boy, for something directly relevant to camps, but also Lisa Goldstein’s The
Will the students be able to tell I’m smiling at them from behind the mask? I hope so. Maybe the purple hair will help?
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Syllabi and course materials done, uploaded, e-mailed, and printed. Yes, it feels a little goofy doing it three different ways, but redundancy is my watchword at the moment, in an attempt to forestall students’ complaints that they can’t find the information… And now, a snack, and then, to bed.
Hey, SF peeps. Help me update my resource list for my students? I’m looking for more suggestions for writer of color SF/F anthologies & magazines (not necessarily American): • AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, edited by Ivor W. Hartmann • Apex Book of World SF, vol. 1 & 2, edited by Lavie Tidhar •
I have about two hours left of work to finish getting ready for semester start tomorrow, and I am completely failing to make myself do it. I think I could have used another month or three to recover from last year’s remote teaching…
I’m really looking forward to getting back into the classroom (vaccinated, masked, spaced as far apart as the room will allow). The university is encouraging us to accommodate students’ requests for remote instruction as possible, which in theory, I agree with. If someone is sick, I don’t want them coming in, especially if they have
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