West of the Moon

housekeeping.

The semester has started well, if busily. More posting in the next few days, maybe, but in the meantime, some links I want to get out there before my computer loses all of these lovely open browser windows I’ve mentally tagged “of possible use in weblog”. Mostly academic-related, although not entirely.

New Kid on [...]

Tags: academic job market, academics, feminism, history, miscellany

long time gone.

How does it end up being so long between postings? I don’t mean it to be. Actually, in this case I have a few very good reasons. One big reason is that I’ve been working a lot–I’ve been making great productive use of my unscheduled no-teaching-required time this summer. All [...]

Tags: miscellany

tiny roundup.

Oh, the horror of the link-dump post, but here, a few things I’ve been meaning to point y’all towards:

The Accidental Scientist. A weblog affiliated with the Exploratorium (sometimes known as “the world’s best science museum”), featuring smart and thoughtful science writing. Not updated often, but always interesting.
One of those anonymous academic weblogs: Female [...]

Tags: miscellany

jumble.

The problem is not, really, that I don’t have anything to say. It’s more that I have too much to say. I’ve got so many things that I want to write about that they’re all getting jumbled up with each other when I try to actually sit down and post.
Such as: the expected [...]

Tags: miscellany, strange horizons, teaching

whole wide world.

That was some unexpected radio silence, sorry about that. Will try to do better in the future.
As it turns out, I’m not the only one who’s been busy, though. First Alan and Starr snuck off to get married (an event I couldn’t stop talking about for a day or two, since it made [...]

Tags: family, miscellany

bits and pieces.

Partway through composing a couple of longer and more substantive posts, but in the meantime, I’ve been accumulating odds and ends, things I meant to draw some attention to. On with the eclecticism! (And hello, people coming from the History News Network! Nice to have you visiting.)
Last year, when A. was in [...]

Tags: art, miscellany

roundup.

I’ve been trying for about a week now to corral my thoughts on another step in the syllabus construction process, namely, how to deal with historiographical issues and other debates in the secondary literature. I’m not getting anywhere with that. (Oh, and also, I’m returned from the Las Vegas Birthday Extravaganza, but I’m [...]

Tags: miscellany

missing week.

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

spring cleaning.

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 [...]

Tags: housekeeping, miscellany, photos