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Maybe Lowe's (pronounced Lowe's in our house due to a kid) should stock ibuprofen next to the paint brushes for people who think, hey, the bathroom is the smallest room in the house! We can knock this out in a weekend! (Tomorrow is day 4).

Don't schedule medical tests for 24 December. Skip work & deal with that nonsense on a different day. (This is the 2nd year in a row I've spent the day like this).

I dreamed I was presenting a conference paper on "syllabi as reconciling documents" & if anyone can tell me what I might have meant by that, I'd be grateful. #academicsky

I am once again asking you to check the syllabus and spell your professor's name correctly on your paper.

The Dodgers hate their east coast fans. I have to teach in 6 hours.

OMG #Dodgers it's after 11 00 EST. How am I supposed to sleep after that 9th inning!?!

I think Orel Hersheiser's favorite word is "elite."

Today, a student told me she's really getting into Toni Morrison's Paradise, & she would never have picked up this book if she hadn't been in this class. So it was a good day.

Weird compliments: Yesterday, my dentist complimented my saliva output.

Back to school faculty meeting: the provost gives out 3 faculty awards & 1 staff award. Wanna guess the gender of the faculty who won prizes and the gender of the person who won the staff prize?

Arlen has better bike infrastructure than Fayetteville NC, & Fayetteville is real. We'll, kind of real. It's not like we've got decent bike infrastructure or anything.

My husband called a movie "cringe," & the 19yo says, "Cringe is dead." 23yo agrees- it's judgemental. 19yo explains: "Let people enjoy their silly little things. Let them have joy in their lives." The kids are all right.

Well, if you're near Fayetteville next Sunday then I got something even more exciting for you. Come get involved!

Kershaw is driving me nuts. Any other situation, he'd already have the Ks. C'mon, buddy. #mlb #Dodgers

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15-20 helicopters in formation overhead, moving towards Ft. Bragg. Isn't it TACO time on base tonight?

I'm a faculty rep for a BOT committee. At today's meeting, we talked about how international students are afraid to come here, & measles. What a world.

Yankees who?

Watching LAD vs NYY & they keep running the catfishing Nana mattress commercial. It's disturbing in & of itself, but is made moreso by the fact that I used to play in a church handball choir with the actress.

My son is helping me clean the laundry room. Like, I moved the washer & dryer & he's back there clearing out junk & sweeping & mopping on the (absolutely true) premise that he's skinnier than I am.

I have a student who apparently makes her living doing "Get Ready With Me" TikTok videos, so she did one for her final project, in which she did her makeup & discussed the class, which she summed up: "10/10; would emotionally spiral again." I might put this in my annual review & on my faculty page.

Today I taught a Ukrainian English teacher the phrase "play Devil's advocate." This is the second most exciting thing I've done this week. The most exciting? I came home on Monday w a migraine coming on, so I switched dinner nights with my husband, took a shower, took medicine, & slept for 11 hours.

"we''ll make the deal for them" trump fundamentally conceives as every interaction as a variant on rape, exhibit #1239878927891237891230789413

Help me keep track of detained academics! Khalil, Suri, Ozturk, Alaweih, Taylor, Doroudi, Kordia, Chung, Srinivasan, Petroleum, Gunaydin. Who am I missing, #academicsky ?

I have plans for this big storm we're expecting. The wind should blow hard, first, to knock down all the pollen; then a whole bunch of rain to wash it all away.

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

Syllabus planning for classes in Women writers & Global lit-- looking for lots of fiction on living in totalitarian/absolutist societies. Shortish books (200p) preferred. #books #booksky

A shared understanding of the big picture organizing problem we face can help us develop solutions. @jessicacalarco.bsky.social l boiled down the essence of the problem in a very short Bluesky thread: bsky.app/profile/jess... 2/18

I live in Fayetteville, NC, land of giant lifted F-150s & dead pedestrians. I try to bike places, but it is frequently unsafe. www.fayobserver.com/story/opinio...

When my aunt died, about 8 years ago, I inherited her Dodgers paraphernalia & some of her scarves. I wore one yesterday & it still smells of her perfume. (I want to say Halston?)

I wore this shirt to the grocery store today & a black lady chased me down in the parking lot to give a hug & then rant about "the orange man."

School is canceled due to ice, so I am home watching baseball.

I'm a little late to getting my s* together here, but I'm starting a daily practice of calling my Senators & Rep. I'm going with "I'd like to know his position on X" -- is there anybody on Bsky set up to give daily suggestions regarding what to ask our congresspeople about?