Sarah Gunning, Ph.D.

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Pantone’s vibe of the year is uneasy institutional silence

the entire point of a university education is to challenge, question, interrogate

cranberry bagel/English muffin December ❤️🧈

✨communication is so hard; unsure why folks think it is easy
✨working backwards is often best
✨chill is still the goal
✨stay working 9-5, M-F
✨writing group memberships work! Be in three.
✨an Everything Notebook is essential
✨debriefing helps a lot
✨do your best & let it go

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

mood

Reflecting on this semester:
✨pedagogy courses are always fun & challenging, get lots of new ideas from ea other❤️
✨section approvals need to occur >2weeks from sem start
✨just open the doc + write✅
✨lateness = off on the wrong foot
✨paper & pencil mockups are best
✨invites > events
✨summer = writing

☕hash out where we are re: the fall newsletter
☕remain chill
☕writing group 2: more chapter work
☕Honors College get together re: admissions
☕more work on chapter
☕walk pups in the snow or no?
🎳 bowling with faculty to celebrate our admin's retirement
Big Friday 📆

Today's tasks
✅meet w faculty about planning out next year of classes
✨learn 2 PRWR students were accepted to National Advanced Writing Symposium: "Continuous Collisions: Writing, Publics, Pedagogy" hosted by Johns Hopkins University🎉
✅writing group work on chapter
☕meet w GAs & see where we are

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a blackboard with the words " anyone ? anyone ? " ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a blackboard with the words " anyone ? anyone ? "

Hey #dhmakes folks, would anyone be up for scheduling a quick zoom call to chat with me about your practice and making? I'm running a new iteration of Critical Making, and my students always benefit from hearing your advice!

“As a writer you have to be willing to say, Yeah, that’s not good enough, over and over and over again.” —Maggie Nelson

thank you! I enjoy being in this new world! 😆 I also love a great jumpsuit.

mentally thanking authors Sarah Perry & Michelle Orange from the Baltimore Writers' Conference for saying "What is this paragraph doing?" while I revise my work 📖

Books I would love in my advent 2025 calendar:
📖all the Rachel Cusks (!) <--I've finally libraried-them out
📖Anne Truitt: Daybook, Turn, & Prospect
📖Joan Didion: Notes to John
📖The assassin's cloak: Diarists
📖Virginia Woolf: A writer's diary

who knew I am a maxi dress person? I had no idea. I just bought a cute one on ebay (again). Thanks, India, for opening this whole new world for me.

I think this is why I love watching Love Island so much: humans are just animals/chemicals on this planet, negotiating presence with one another. Love seeing relationships unfurl. And furl.

the idea of wanting to bring, like, a cake & clementines to celebrate a big thing for someone, and recognize the event, but I also remember doing that recently and how so many people present were weirded out by that/didn't partake.

Sometimes I am on the wrong planet. 🫠

Someone sent this to me as proof that *i* am wrong about my own self.

Anyway, all of this fabricated. Just untrue and not even close to the direction of truth.

of course they can't recall what they had "written," because they don't even read the output before submitting their "work." They are just ticking off a task. ✅

This is just sad.

sinus headaches! Why.🤕
JK I know why... drastic weather changes

Ooh definitely using this in my rhetoric & science course

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

Me, in my 40s, still: oh that’s the rich people mustard

it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on December 4, 1987.

Doesn’t seem great that all the animals are turning to booze.

George Michael was so iconic.

I would love a single pysanka; an embroidery is out of the question