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breakfast, mirrors + (some) thoughts

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Babes and bots,  Hello! How are you doing? I am drinking coffee with an egg, vegan sausage, and two delicious pieces of toast sitting in front of me. It was 0° outside this morning. I went for a run. Now I'm waiting for my students to take advantage of all their resources, which actually means that I'm waiting on zoom for someone to show up to Office Hours, which actually means I'm writing this blog. Later, I'll grade some shit.  Here's what I've been working on: a piece about mirrors, a piece about my mother, my usual bird garbage, and a piece about my dad's first wife! It's wild. This is one of the earliest mirrors on record:  You might also argue that water is the earliest mirror on record, but that is far less exciting. However, the fascination with finding these artifacts is interesting to me. Perhaps it is not the artifact but what it represents.  In the summer in Minnesota when I'm surrounded by trees and teenagers, I have little to no intere...

the new year, waxing poetic + (a few) fragments

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Babes and bots,  Happy New Year! We are well into January and things are starting to ice over. When was the last time one of you took a big bite out of a sandwich? I'll be honest, it's been a while and I LOVE sandwiches. Anyone got a New Year's resolution? I resolved not to buy any new books (unless for class) this year and run 10 miles. Things have been going swimmingly so well, without mentioning the lack of running.  So far this year, I've... been to my first drag show!  had sex in the snow!  hiked in Rocky Mountain National Park!  had two panic attacks!  finished two books!  scoured over internet investment advice (I still have no money)!  made vegan chocolate chip sprinkle sugar cookies!  eaten sooooo much Trader Joe's popcorn!  watched two episodes of Station Eleven!  had a lot of thoughts about the new Elvis movie!  read Daily Mail almost every day and am now convinced I know more about Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, ...