Jessie Reeder

people with kids should get extra vacation days they can use to clean the house

Do you guys think that in the next fifteen years, writing will become like sewing is now? Nearly entirely automated except by a few holdout practitioners considered eccentric and old-fashioned?

What a dark fucking day in the darkest of timelines.

told my students today that i think catherine zeta-jones as eustacia and clive owen as wildeve in the 1994 return of the native were banger casting choices, and i don't think they knew who either of them are. 😬

translation: he wants to lower inflation through mass unemployment

i don't think we should lose the capacity to be galled by the fact that the President of the United States believes that a trade deficit is the same thing as a budget deficit

Oof I haven't seen that. Do you have a link?

Oops 😬

Are they very stupid, or do they genuinely want economic collapse?

And I know this is a "por que no los dos" situation but which fucked up horse is pulling the cart here?

I'll note again that it would have been pretty good if universities stood up for themselves and the value of education and research when they were under attack the last several years by these same forces, rather than folding like cheap tables.

"steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king" bob dylan
窃钩者诛，窃国者侯。- 庄子

Probably not the best sign that the Nazis had a word for it

I probably should have included nurturing my marriage oops lol. Priorities!

I just want to be a good mom, succeed in my career, maintain friendships, get exercise, pursue a couple of hobbies, save some money, and have a clean house. This shouldn't be literally impossible.

UNC eliminates diversity gen eds. It's been 18 days since Jan. 20th. The speed of the capitulation is revolting.

How are y'all getting students to do the reading? I have strategies cobbled together from the years, but I feel like AI has changed the game and I'm a little stumped.

Reruns!

do you do it... sheepishly?

ooh i don't have space for this in my life but i want to

whatever hobby you choose, i recommend going too deep into the youtube tutorials/subculture. will maximize derangement and time consumed.

Do all you 18C scholars just pretend people didn't write 3000-line poems about sheep shearing, or do you actually read those things?

I like to obsessively care for my many houseplants, and I'm starting to get into fancy tie dye.

Maybe!!

old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper ALT: old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper

Ok I need advice on teaching Storm-Cloud, because every time I do I'm basically just like ... Ruskin, man.

Good call!! Thanks!

Ooh, interesting! Thanks!

Thanks, I'll check these out!

Ah! I've even taught this before, thank you for the reminder! I'm not devout about "the literary" 😏

I teach HT in my Brit Lit survey and I'm sooooooooo sick of it.