I’ve committed to a reading list for my lecture course, and am nearly done with one for the seminar as well. I also expect to have tentative syllabi for both by the end of this week, which is nice. (Although I don’t yet know the scheduling on my seminar, and that impacts the [...]
Tags: history of science, syllabus, teaaching
Posted in academic | 2 Comments »>Home again, and exhausted. I’m spending today trying to catch up on things, but it’s difficult putting the pieces back together after unexpectedly losing an entire week. Where it used to be mid-June, it’s now late in the month, almost July. I still haven’t put together the reading lists for my fall [...]
Tags: grandma, miscellany
Posted in personal | No Comments »>My dad gave the eulogy at his mother’s funeral yesterday. He said that what he wanted to do was tell people a little bit about her life, because she never said anything about it herself. And it’s true, she didn’t. Dad knew things because he talked to her all the time; ever [...]
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Posted in personal | 4 Comments »>My grandmother died this morning. When I was a little kid, she showed me things from her yoga class, how to sit half-lotus, and she taught me to play cards, poker and gin and six kinds of solitaire. She crocheted a blanket for me once, all bright-colored borders and little flowers, and it’s [...]
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Posted in personal | 13 Comments »>Just a quick FYI for anyone who might notice: the Strange Horizons discussion boards have been temporarily disabled. It looks like one of the administrator accounts was compromised, and we’re keeping the whole thing offline until we have a chance to figure out what happened, repair the damage, and find a way to keep [...]
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Posted in science fiction | No Comments »>I was on two panels at WisCon, and despite my initial mild skepticism, they both went very well. Interesting panelists, engaged audience members, a good balance of who got to talk when, etc. (Both suffered slightly from my own personal need to talk constantly, but I don’t think I crossed the line into [...]
Posted in personal, science fiction | 2 Comments »>So, for those of you who haven’t had the chance to hear this from me in person, the update. I’m going to be teaching at Berkeley next year. It’s a one-year lecturer position, and I’m doing two classes each semester.
This fall, I’ve got one lecture course and one seminar. The seminar will [...]
Another new recipe victory last night! Not nearly as fancy as the last one, but really satisfying. I have this cookbook, China Express, that I bought just after graduating from college and have been in love with ever since. I used to cook from it a lot more, and my basic marinades [...]
Tags: food
Posted in personal | 2 Comments »>First we had the months and months of increasing chaos as the dissertation took over more and more of my life. Then we had the weeks of celebration surrounding graduation, and the week of travel and wonderful amazing visiting with friends. And then, this past week, we have apparently had hibernation. I [...]
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