Rohan Maitzen

Virtually every provincial government in this country is run by the most appalling fucking scumbags. Couldn't risk destroying Canada more than if they were Russian assets.

Ok this one's more tree-ish.

The painting teacher's tree looks like a tree. My tree looks like a weird upside down green cauliflower. 😬

It really is! I love David Copperfield more but GE does so much in such an intense way.

Looking out my windows it's like a shaken snow globe.

I do tend to teach 'with the grain' and I know there are good reasons for reading teaching against it, more 'suspiciously,' but there's so much power in these books and I never get tired of them.

Honestly Miss Havisham pacing and muttering "What have I done! What have I done!" after Estella retorts "I am what you have made me" is not only a moment of high drama and chilling moral clarity but also just so relevant. We are what we do. Monsters are made - but it doesn't have to be too late.

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Yes! One of only a couple left on campus. Early in the term I couldn't even find any chalk for it!

I think we had a pretty good class on Great Expectations this morning, nothing fancy, just me, the students, a great book, a chalkboard, important questions about agency and morality and authenticity and what fiction does and is for. If you show up and care, they do too.

So let’s say you have gotten AI to fake your education, fake your job, fake your romantic life, fake your art, fake your entertainment, fake your dead relatives, what are you spending your time doing? Post-human life seems pointless.

My 11:30-12:30 class is a go! But I will have to be mindful of people who make the reasonable decision not to come in for it.

The exact same time as my online painting class! Maybe I can check in when we are (as we literally will be) watching paint dry. 😁

My first class tomorrow starts at 11:30. 😬

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The thing is, if the storm hits around noon as expected, people who came in to campus now have to make their way home in possible white-out conditions. I get that closing preemptively is also a losing game but absenteeism is going to be high in the morning for good reasons. #sigh

I do actually think it's fair for people to post as 'insiders' to conversations - not every post is for me! But sometimes it is amusing / frustrating to see exclamations or exhortations and not know which of many possible scenarios it's about. :-)

I fear they will cancel mid-day tomorrow for maximum confusion.

“Sportsmanlike conduct” definitely not ever forthcoming from these jerks. It’s just petulance and spite all the way down.

It's baffling and surely in bad faith. It was a global crisis. As you note, instructors wore themselves out trying to meet the moment.

That's my recollection of it too, from when my book group read it a couple of years ago!

Well done! Was it a good one?

(I am that apparently rare breed, a Canadian who has never cared about hockey. Sorry! And #goCanada!)

Your hockey posts need to be a lot more specific for those of us not watching. 😆

I wonder if there's a meteorological reason.

For those of us with Monday classes the timing of tomorrow's forecast storm will be everything. I have already revamped course schedules twice this term for Monday storms! 😫

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This is the one I got - worth it not just for Fred-protection but because I do puzzles on my dining table so it's nice to be able to move when I need the table for other things.

I have a storage box I put it in when I’m not actually working on it. It is great except it slightly constrains what size puzzle I can do!

Making gradual progress on The World of Virginia Woolf, which Maddie gave me for Christmas. Can you see (parts of) Mrs Dalloway with her flowers? And there's EBB lurking on Wimpole Street.

I resisted getting a storage locker when I downsized which has been a good incentive to keep gradually decluttering - including bit by bit clearing my office so that when the time comes it isn't overwhelming.