Travis Knapp

I appreciate your perspective (and sharing it). My first day as an instructional designer is tomorrow - I think I'm in a similar boat, perspectivewise, and will likely have many convos about this

I can't pay for something that makes up an alternative for Shortcakes when that diner already exists in Stillwater!

(kidding - I assumed it was a rights issue when other OSU details were accurate. Loved the book; it was so human)

Moving and changing local airports has introduced a new O'Hare quirk, which has now happened 2 subsequent times: arrival flight lands an hour early. Park and wait for scheduled gate to be open. Get to gate well past scheduled arrival time.

At least today's layover isn't 10 minutes.

Saw Yo-Yo Ma perform tonight. He was exquisite. Wonderful to step away from life's worries for a few hours and be enchanted by Bach (and others).

As a soft-G person, I liked the rationalization that if you treat it like an initialism (g-i-f), the soft G makes sense. But if we extend the "how do you pronounce graphic" to other letters, we'd be changing the pronunciation of a lot of vowels in things like NASA or FBI or scuba.

Same. I was on a 15-hour flight and realized minor dehydration gave me an uneasy stomach. I'll take extra bathroom trips if it means less discomfort.

My last flight into ORD landed 40 minutes early. We parked for 20 minutes and they let people use the bathroom as we waited for the gate to be available before resuming taxiing. We got to the gate 10 minutes late.

One of my favorite faculty anecdotes was when Dr Dickey told a story shout some Eliot conference in StL and visitors really wanted her to take them to some spot of biographical significance. "It's a parking lot now, but sure we can go."

Early modernist here: my grad institution had a lot of medievalists involved in department administration. They may have been the more active/vocal part of the MedRen interdisciplinary group, too.

One unexpected benefit of leaving the TT job (to support partner taking a job at a larger university)? Relearning to love my local, non-academic library.

Here for Bloo on Bluesky

Nebraska gets Schlafly Pumpkin Ale, so I guess I can get my basic on this fall.

Labor Day seems an appropriate occasion to spend the morning filling out job applications.

I did that route, getting on at Fargo. My partner and I (mid-30s) were usually the youngest people in the dining car. Wasn't uncommon for older travelers to say they preferred it to the hassle of air travel. We'd fly if we had to do it again, unless stopping at Glacier NP.

I'm willing to travel for brownies

"But, your fathers, who had not adopted the fashionable idea of this day, of the infallibility of government . . . They went so far in their excitement as to pronounce the measures of government unjust, unreasonable, and oppressive, and altogether such as ought not to be quietly submitted to."

There's a line in Viet Thanh Nguyen's "The Uncommitted" that seems apropos...

My partner got me a Sodastream to try to economize my soda vice. I used to buy Pepsi in bulk for similar reasons.

Tried accessing all the URLs listed in an author's note from a book published in 2000. Was not expecting the only working one to be an angelfire link.

We were so disappointed they were closed for the season when we visited over Easter a few years ago. All the billboards!

It's also awful and should be avoided at all costs.

I am also not a big fan of Chicago-style deep dish, but it's more tolerable.

(Also, hi, Rebecca! Sorry my first interaction in a while is StL slander)

Oh, Early Modern English. Will my students have comments about "how greatly I Iong after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ"? I imagine so.

The heart wants what the heart wants

My article on the beauty of holiness in #earlymodern England is now on JSTOR: www.jstor.org/stable/27371...

It's not always about altars...

To avoid the two-body-problem, I'm looking at changing careers. Wasn't expecting to see a bunch of grifter academies on LinkedIn looking for instructional designers or curriculum designers.

The US may be crumbling, but my undergrad mentor just sent me an email that ended with the sweetest postscript telling me to let him know when I'm comfortable calling him by his first name instead of "Dr. so-and-so" and that it took a former Rhodes scholar over two decades to get there.

Forgot the #earlymodern tag! And probably others.

Picture of the title page of the March 2025 (94.1) edition of the Journal of Anglican and Episcopal History, with five articles about Richard Hooker, by Rudolph Almasy, Daniel Graves, Travis Knapp (me), David Alenskis, and Hannah Wygeria.

Had a nice present waiting on my porch when I got home from #rensa25 and #shax2025. My article on the beauty of holiness (including uses by Prynne and Burton) is published! Can't wait til I have a digital version to share.

"Leonard Cohen is Donne's truest successor" is not a statement I was expecting to hear this morning. (Made by Achsah Guibbory)

#rensa25

I've found the Star Markey Grocery across from the Marriott is reasonable!

Just realized March Madness started today. This poses a serious threat to networking during downtime between #rensa25 and #shax2025 sessions