Showing posts with label Class. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Class. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 06, 2019
Tuesday, November 05, 2019
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Intergenerational witchery
Nu is wicked in L's wig, my dress, their own hat and cloak. All witches need a coven.
My own coven supported me through the day surgery today--the kindness of everyone from students to colleagues to friends carried me through. The texts timed just as I entered the hospital, EM's refusal to let me cancel, and the offers to drive me home were all I needed for now.
And I actually drove myself home before the lidocaine wore off.
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My own coven supported me through the day surgery today--the kindness of everyone from students to colleagues to friends carried me through. The texts timed just as I entered the hospital, EM's refusal to let me cancel, and the offers to drive me home were all I needed for now.
And I actually drove myself home before the lidocaine wore off.
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Thursday, October 03, 2019
Monday, September 30, 2019
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Call this nosey
When mama's cooking and the smells are driving us wild:
But that's all I have.
I wish I had a picture of the Indian feast I made for KB and her students who were on their way to the temple for navaratri and garba.
But to see the two students from India enjoying my version of Indian food was particularly special! And KB sweetly took back a box of biryani for At--the half-Indian kid who couldn't come.
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But that's all I have.
I wish I had a picture of the Indian feast I made for KB and her students who were on their way to the temple for navaratri and garba.
But to see the two students from India enjoying my version of Indian food was particularly special! And KB sweetly took back a box of biryani for At--the half-Indian kid who couldn't come.
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Friday, September 27, 2019
Monday, September 23, 2019
A New Way
I usually snake through buildings and alleyways in the general direction of Grand River Road to get to class, and today I came upon this loveliness when I turned some random corner from Farm Lane.
Maps (and recipes) are more notional than instructive for me, so I just hope I can find this park again when I head back in that general direction.
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Saturday, September 21, 2019
All because of a gown
I was thoroughly charmed to receive an email from our young alumni awardee, an Oxbridge D.Phil who currently works in Oxford, saying they'd seen my D.Phil robes at convocation and asking if we could meet for a chat to talk about our Oxford connections. They showed up at my office with a packet of McVitie's HobNobs and we had the nicest, longest conversation I've had with stranger ever.
Current state:
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Current state:
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Thursday, September 19, 2019
A Place Called Home
What you can do when your classroom is in the building right next to the art museum...
KatrÃn Sigurðardóttir's "Unbuilt Residences" fit perfectly with the Robert Young passage that begins "You find yourself a refugee..." and so we did a little tour in the last twenty minutes of class yesterday.
#MSUBroad
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Sunday, September 15, 2019
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Saturday at Alma
Spent this Saturday in retreat/orientation with the new MacCurdy women. We got some new furnishings and tees with the last of the budget last year, elected house officers, made plans for a year of programming, and started a statement to change "women's house" to "women-presenting and women-perceived." All in all, a rather busy two days. On to classes...
Nu came along to Alma for the day, and hung out with At helping make posters and eat pizza at his DSA event...
Friday, April 12, 2019
Compulsory Heterosexuality
More than one student has told me how Adrienne Rich's Reflections on "Compulsory Heterosexuality" changed their lives. I was thinking of that today when I was looking for a card to celebrate our newlywed colleague T and her wife whom K and I were taking out to dinner. Even bunnies and birds were pretty gendered, and it took me longer than usual to find a nice card. Between that and having to read a whole Elle article on my phone before I could pick a nice champagne in our budget, I spent way too much time at the store. Ha.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Thursday, April 04, 2019
Honors Day
I woke up this morning excited for Honors Day.
At was nominated for the Kapp Prize
as were two of my students,
and chances were that I'd be
celebrating at the end of the day.
(And not just because it was my Boss Day.)
Sure enough: At's presentation was
AHHHMAZING
and my dear student MW won the Kapp.
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Saturday, March 30, 2019
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Teen Vogue: Fashion, Beauty, Entertainment... and the Resistance
I knew she was brilliant, I had no idea she'd be just so dang nice! I told her what seeing her so Indian name on the masthead at feministing.com more than 15 years ago meant to me, what it means to see her leading Teen Vogue into the resistance... and she wove that into her keynote that evening.
Also: she hadn't had breakfast when I picked her up, and she told me she had texted her mom later to say--Indian Lady picked me up; I got food inside of twenty minutes.
Yup, I have superpowers too.
#SamhitaMukhopadhyay
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Also: she hadn't had breakfast when I picked her up, and she told me she had texted her mom later to say--Indian Lady picked me up; I got food inside of twenty minutes.
Yup, I have superpowers too.
#SamhitaMukhopadhyay
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Monday, March 25, 2019
Plans Are Getting Better
To think that I couldn't wait to start using my 2019 planner, and here I am almost a quarter of the way in, having barely used it. Worse: nearly all of my sabbatical term is over, and I haven't done any of the important stuff I meant to do.
I re-started the planner with all five colors of ink today--I feel so much more intentional and focused when I can confirm at a glance that the various modalities of life are in (chromatic) balance. And I reconfigured the to-do list to make it more realistic given how little time remains between now and getting stuff ready for the spring term.
It may be that it is the prep work that drags the most. And that's where I spent most of my time today--I enjoy being poetry editor--and today was about prepping the selected poems for Dropbox and publication; I love being the advisor to the feminist house--and I spent hours making sure the application materials for next year reached the relevant channels and vetting and worrying about applications; I love teaching in the classroom--and so much of today was re-reading materials and organizing the e-reader (okay this last thing was fun).
Also fun: The Spotify playlist I curated for our class.
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I re-started the planner with all five colors of ink today--I feel so much more intentional and focused when I can confirm at a glance that the various modalities of life are in (chromatic) balance. And I reconfigured the to-do list to make it more realistic given how little time remains between now and getting stuff ready for the spring term.
It may be that it is the prep work that drags the most. And that's where I spent most of my time today--I enjoy being poetry editor--and today was about prepping the selected poems for Dropbox and publication; I love being the advisor to the feminist house--and I spent hours making sure the application materials for next year reached the relevant channels and vetting and worrying about applications; I love teaching in the classroom--and so much of today was re-reading materials and organizing the e-reader (okay this last thing was fun).
Also fun: The Spotify playlist I curated for our class.
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Friday, March 08, 2019
Monday, March 04, 2019
Happy Birthday to me!
We went all the way out to Ann Arbor for brunch... it was delicious, decadent, and worth it.
This was yesterday, actually. I have a difficult work meeting today--more on that tomorrow, and At said he couldn't miss his evening class to do a birthday dinner tonight. L says I should be proud of him for not wanting to miss class (I'm trying!!).
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