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…
Almost 10 years ago, I got sufficiently bored that I wrote a blog entry about things I decided I was “really, really bad at.” I promptly forgot all about it. But then, because I’m a narcissist/procrastinator who reads my own blog for fun instead of doing work, I came across…
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…
(Minimal spoilers — I’ll be describing the basic plot premise, the characters, and a scene that occurs about a third of the way through the movie without giving the particulars.) Every genre of writing is tough in its own special ways, and mystery writing is no exception. I’ve discussed some…
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,…
It’s Eevee. I picked Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee. The first brand new Game Boy game I ever requested and got — as opposed to, say, hand-me-downs from my cousins or whatever the store clerk told my parents to get for a birthday present* — was Pokémon Blue. I can still…
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…