One of my pet peeves is when critics make arguments about characters played by multiple actors (for example, in theatre) based only on the text of the script. We see this kind of argument a lot in when, for instance, historians assess the accuracy of plays that depict historical figures,…
I’ll do you one better: why is Gamora? (aka, previously: how to email your prof/GA) First of all, just in case, yes, you are definitely “allowed” to email* your prof or GA. As a university instructor, no matter how much I might playfully grumble about my workload, I highly encourage…
Because I loved their production of The Magician’s Nephew last year, I went to see the Shaw Festival’s 2019 production of that other seldom-adapted Narnia story, The Horse and His Boy. This adaptation took a few more liberties with the original, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing (particularly since the…
These three months might as well have been a big ol’ one called “MOVINGEMBER.” Husband and I moved from a smaller, older apartment to a bigger, still-old-but-renovated condo. Hooray! But also: lots of work! So pretty much the title this quarter should be more like “9 Things That Made Moving…
NOTE: The style of communication I’m about to describe is culturally specific: Western, white, upper-middle class, Anglo-Saxon. Not every professor or TA will feel comfortable with this culture. It’s OK if you don’t either! It’s also OK if you choose not to use these tips because this style would make…
AKA, I wrote the first version of this before the final season of Game of Thrones*, but I guess it’s even more ~*~relevant~*~ now? If there’s one thing I’ve learned from teaching a course on professional presentations, it’s that sticking the landing is the hardest part. New speakers — heck,…
Winter is a tough time for me, so although I was expecting the trouble I had compiling this list, I was expecting the opposite kind: actually, there were too many things that made the past three months better for me! #blessed Seriously, though, I am really lucky that so many…
Gamers tend to have strong feelings about motion controls. Part of this is due to hardware limitations that make most motion controls less precise than button presses. Other times, it’s because it turns out that imagining yourself, say, throwing a Poké ball in the world of Pokémon, is a very…
Sitting in a seminar on the skill of feeling grateful, I realized that I was feeling resentful instead. And I wondered why.
It’s that time of year again! The time when we all get to see how over-optimistic I was last January! Here we go with my goals for 2018: 1. How to better understand spoken German. Starting in March, I began listening to a learning German podcast every weekday: Slow German.…