Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦

I finished filling out my annual graduate award competition application today. I hesitated, but I added menopause as an allowable inclusion for the section on things that can impact research and coursework. It's not an illness, but the poor sleep - for one - sucks.

DO YOU BITE YOUR PAW AT ME SIR

The Rebecca Solnit Collection ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd, including Rebecca Solnit’s rainbow-hued essay collections! “Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.”  —The New Rep...

The Rainbow Collection; @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social’s essays make great gifts!

Roll for initiative.

me: i need a delicious source of potassium

banana: i'm here for you

me: i am also an avid fan of slapstick comedy

banana: ok you're not gonna believe this

...how...how even...?

The John Cage 4:33 of books.

It's clear, crisp and sunny today -- a perfect day to put bed pillows outside to air.

Sloppy snow on center Street.

Bare road and traffic and a pathway choked with snow and slush

Roads are cleared down to bare pavement but the sidewalks are a sloppy mess. @calgary.ca @jeromyyyc.bsky.social why can't we do just as well for pedestrians?

Just look at those mouse sleeves...absolute fire.

One MILLION birbs!

Image of news banner. Left side headline reads 'Criminal cases against ex-fbi director Comey, Leitita James dismissed in blow to Trump administratrion.' In the centre is an image of a red square with white text that says Breaking News. On the right side, headline reads 'This N.B. observatory has monitored more than a million migratory birds.'

For a moment, I was really excited for the bird observatory.

Go go go! You can do it!

New northwest pipeline risks hazard of landslide tsunamis Major Projects Office needs to be wary in its planning for pipeline projects to tidewater

I wrote about the under-appreciated hazard of landslide-triggered tsunamis, which need serious consideration in discussions of new pipelines from Alberta 🧪⚒️
@theglobeandmail.com @davidebybc.bsky.social @natural-resources.canada.ca @mark-carney.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social

"Geology usually happens slowly, except when it doesn’t." LOVE this.

a cartoon character says i was saying boo urns ALT: a cartoon character says i was saying boo urns

Boo-urns.

We're going to the bookstore!

@mattcahill.bsky.social happy birthday to us!

I have hiked along the Burgess Shale in Yoho...it's very cool but very slippy!

ensured that even after 50 years, the Edmund Fitzgerald is *still* the last large ship lost on the Great Lakes. It's not just a meme, it's not just a song, it's given the families of working sailors peace of mind that they'd never had before 1975.

I'll finish out the day's Edmund Fitzgerald posting by pointing out that Gordon Lightfoot was afraid the shipwreck would just be forgotten, like the thousands of ships lost before her.

Thanks to him, their memory will live forever, and their fame brought about improvements to safety that have...

YouTube video by GordonLightfootVEVO The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Live In Reno)

IT'S TIME!

I feel like I am just finally recovered enough from Spread Me to be ready to read this in May....preordered!! :)

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Imagine Yourself Happy - Small Wonders Isn't that interesting? I will die in perhaps two minutes because of something I couldn't even see.

The professor in "Imagine Yourself Happy" by Premee Mohamed takes just four minutes to record a message. Take a few to read it and a few more to have a cry afterward:

Pre-ordered!

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Where They Sleep by Heather Clitheroe On those late afternoons, when the day slipped away and the night lights came, the shades would wander out from the empty hills, down to the road. All kinds of them. People we knew. But more we didn't...

Ghostly BCS for Halloween! "Where They Sleep" @lectio.bsky.social BCS #419: "the shades would wander out from the empty hills. People we knew. But more we didn't, moving slowly along in search of something, somebody. Then they would mill aimlessly" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/wher...

You know things are bad when thousands of Albertans are watching the leg livestream at 8:45 in the evening lol #ableg #abpoli #abed #cdnpoli

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