Courtney (Dr. Version)

That’s THREE bad calls on the refs in 11 minutes of football. I know they’re the third team on the field, but this is RIDICULOUS. #JaguarFootball

Monday Night Football is like a sorority mixer in the south. Everyone is dressed up and fancy and I’m just here in leggings and my “Jacksonville Football Angry Kitties” tshirt.

Not to repeat myself, but 4 work email addresses is the absolute WORST. I’m bad enough with 1 work and 1 personal. This is insanity.

MICHIEL COXCIE (1499-1592), CARTOONIST; WILLEM DE PANNEMAKER (ACTIVE 1535-1578), WEAVER Noah Builds the Ark "Story of Noah' series Brussels-Brabant, 1563-1566 Tapestry; gold, silver, silk and wool In 1556, Philip II acquired a set of tapestries that told the story of Noah. However, in 1559 the ship carrying them to Spain sank and only two hangings were saved, so the king ordered another set in 1562. It originally consisted of ten tapestries, only three of which are still extant: one shows God commanding Noah to build the ark, another depicts the disembarkation after the flood, and the third is this scene, where the biblical patriarch is giving his sons instructions on how to build the ark. For the borders, Philip II chose his coats of arms and a few animals alluding to the four elements silhouetted against a landscape in the background, whose painstaking details must have posed quite a technical challenge. This tapestry arrived in Madrid in 1566 and was displayed in emblematic settings like the Monastery of El Escorial.

spiritually and emotionally I am these lions from a 1500s painting

A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.

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One of my first year students just asked “would it be weird if I asked to read your dissertation?”

When I explained, no, but that dissertations are essentially book-length, they went “YOU WROTE A BOOK!?”

Is this what celebrities feel like?

I need more of you and your eels in my days. thank you very much.

Dang I am so proud of these kids.

From a ho-hum sort of class meeting that offered them something to legitimately reflect on a bit of poetry that seems simple at the surface, but invites so much more.

Yep. Proud.

They've since submitted reflections about materials we've read in class, Oliver's poem was one of the many "required" sources to use.

Yet so many latched onto it, noting how they at first passed it over as "dumb poetry." But then realized how much they needed the reminder to slow down, to see.

In my FYS class, I had my students read "The Summer Day" by #MaryOliver. They didn't think much about the poem or the other text they read for the day. It was a Monday, the start of school. It was a blah sort of class period. A little of a bummer to me for a favorite poem of mine.

That’s not how a Venn diagram works?

Never to early to think about Halloween costumes

a black cat with green eyes is holding a nail file in its paws ALT: a black cat with green eyes is holding a nail file in its paws

As they should be.

Some days are hard.

And then I have my students use social annotation software (high five to #Hypothesis) to read Columbus's letter to Isabelle & Ferdinand & some of their comments start with "OMG, THE ABSOLUTE EGO OF THIS MAN!" and I just know that there is truly hope for this world.

For the record. It COULD be just me — I’m not at my best since, you know, losing my job and trying to find a new one.

Is it just me, or would this generation of students rather be lectured at than engage in any sort of seminar-style dialogue?

And how long do I beat my head against the wall before I stop trying to make discussions happen?

The DMV is going on my list of "places where I get WORK DONE" - Just graded 3 assignments for two classes in like an hour because I have nothing else to do but wait. Let's hope my battery holds up.

I try so hard to not let them, but rude/mean/accusatory student emails just crawl under my skin in the worst way.

Walking through the library and seeing so many computers with Ch@tGPT up on them breaks my heart for this generation.

That millennial urge to delete all socials and sink back into the primordial ooze of the “before times”

What’s the point of paying for Spotify premium if you get a (VERY) limited number of audiobook hours per month?

What’s the point of paying for Spotify premium if you get a (VERY) limited number of audiobook hours per month?

I’ve gotten very accustomed over the past three years to teaching 75min classes. I forgot how to teach 50min sections and it’s killing me.

At a minor league AAA baseball game and one of the players on the opposite team is booing the MASCOTS.

Who does that? Who hated whimsy that much?

Trying to normalize not answering "Things are good!" when asked how I am and things are, in fact, not good.

Eelephant. 100%.

The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.

It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.

(Published May 2025)

Have to love bright sun weather delay (and yes, the storm came in massively a little later).

Yeah, campus gym I’d expect it.