One thing that frustrates me about universities and colleges that don’t close their campuses, is that administrators are likely looking to the public schools for a cue, in a cover-your-ass type move. But that is exactly wrong. However hard it will be to close college campuses and switch to remote learning, it is FAR harder […]
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Not everyone who will need to work or study remotely has reliable internet access. As a public service note, and as a member of my library board, I’d like to make sure folks know that the Oak Park libraries (and parks) all have free WiFi, and will also allow you to check out a WiFi
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Anand has a sniffle, and I am almost positive that it’s not coronavirus, because that is super-unlikely here in Chicagoland right now, but we’re keeping him home tomorrow just in case, to see if it clears up. I was already wondering whether it would be more responsible to teach remotely, given that I’d just attended
So, I think I’m ready to talk a little about this new project that crystallized last week. (Photo of dragonfruit chocolate bars ‘crystallized’ for inspiration.) There are multiple elements coming together in this, things I’ve been working on and thinking about for a long time. I’m still not positive of what the final shape
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I just spent an hour answering some interview questions about the history of queer SFF, answer as a writer, editor, teacher, and arts administrator. I’m looking forward to reading the final round-table discussion. (I mean, not really a round-table, since we’re not responding directly to each other, but a set of responses, at any rate.)
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Woke up from a dream where I was scolding a grad student for avoiding her grading. I don’t supervise any grad students. I *am* the grad student. It’s 7 a.m. on a Saturday, brain, and I’m not even behind on my grading. Ease up!
Yes, I left my laptop in my office on Monday. Whew. Coming in just now on Wed to teach and confirmed. I *thought* so, but wasn’t positive I hadn’t left it in a classroom… Just one in a series of discombobulations this week. Sigh. I *also* apparently scanned in the reading for the students whose
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Really lovely class just now. We’re at the end of the second week, so have mostly settled into figuring out who is actually in the course, so took time today to do introductions. It meant we didn’t get to the reading (since the first half of the 50 minute class I spent on reviewing some
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Foggy campus today! That’s my office building, with my office on the 19th floor, lost in the fog…
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Okay, finally feel like we’re in the swing of the semester properly, second week in. Getting sick first week = NOT RECOMMENDED. But I don’t look (or feel) horribly sick anymore, I barely coughed in today’s lecture, and we had a great discussion of Amal El-Mohtar‘s “Biting Tongues” today. They loved the poem, btw. Popular choice!
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