Celebratory Plaid
Back to teaching post-strike; wore celebratory plaid, dark academicals on theme….
Serendib Teaching
Good Things of the Last Few Days
Good things in the last few days: • I finished revisions on the pilot script for _Liminal Space: episode 1_ and sent it to someone in the industry who agreed to look at it. It will probably come to nothing, but I worked hard on it over the last several months (taking two screenwriting classes
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Faculty Strike at UIC
The faculty are on strike at UIC. I’m not teaching today anyway, so it doesn’t affect me or my students directly yet, but if it continues tomorrow, it will. Hopefully they’ll be able to negotiate a fair contract soon.
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Not Loving It
Wednesday, we did intros in my creative writing classes — I have them put a beloved book (or short story, or TV show, or movie) on the board, and then we go around and they talk about what they like about it; it works a lot better for me than the more standard kinds of
Classroom Location… Check!
Professor drag, check. Matching mask, check. Knowing where my classroom is — hang on, let me look that up — check! Once more into the breach, dear friends…
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Nostalgic Hand-Collating
For some reason, my syllabi collated fine, but my first day’s reading (a PDF) didn’t. Probably something I did wrong in settings — oh well. There’s something nostalgic about hand-collating the materials for the first day of class… This is chapter 1 of Le Guin’s _Steering the Craft_ — they’re buying the book, but I
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When Tech Makes Life Better
I’m finishing up prep for the first day — re-doing my syllabus because I found multiple mistakes in the one I printed last night (sigh), adding some books to the bookstore course form (students won’t need them for a while). The UIC bookstore has updated their system, making it MUCH easier to add books for
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Recording of Secret Identities Talk
Something fun — here’s the recording of the “Secret Identities: Comic Books in Higher Education” talk I did with Mark Martell and others. Great discussion; I learned a lot! And I got to geek out over Elfquest at the end, and now I want to re-read that whole series… https://t.co/ddEKYdgWOL
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Araby
Nice family moment yesterday I just wanted to note — Kavi is reading Dubliners in high school, and I mentioned to her that I teach “Araby” out of that, and she was assigned to read that story for today, so when she was doing homework yesterday, she asked if I would read it to her,
Autumn Vibes for Teaching
Autumn vibes for teaching yesterday. I’ve been trying not to buy clothes because I have enough clothes, but occasionally I succumb to adorableness. I have a new velvet jumper — I can’t remember the last time I wore a jumper. It’s comfy! (U.K. / Australia / etc. folks, Americans don’t mean ‘sweater’ when we say
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