The daughter (giving the piggyback ride in pic 2) doing a thing that starts tomorrow.
Tribune Review
My Shakespeare students are off peer reviewing their term paper rough drafts. I’m officially guarding their water bottles and key rings.
I’ve finally started to create female uniforms for the #neovictorian fantasy #steampunk æthership from the bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult children.
Find yourself someone who makes you plomeek soup like Nurse Chapel makes for Spock.
Spaghetti dinner with my son.
Classic. So good! #startrek #tos
Enjoying an ice cream cake, apple pie, and the classic Star Trek episode “The Doomsday Machine.”
So peaceful and majestic. Another outing with my son.
Sunny but cool. Great day for a long walk with my son.
Snazzy officer uniforms from the #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult children. Women’s versions are coming! #blender3d #design #aesthetic
Can you really say you’ve designed #neovictorian uniforms for a fantasy #steampunk cruiser unless the LtCmdr’s sash fits perfectly between the jacket and waistcoat? I think not! #blender3d
Helping students find my office (St. Joseph 403)
More Adventures in Suburban Adulting
About four years ago I bought an electric mower that was quiet enough that I could listen to audiobooks while doing my suburban adulting duties. The battery held enough charge that I could get about 1/2 of my lawn done at a time so that summer I bought another battery. A couple years later I…
It’s such a privilege to introduce these young people to Shakespeare’s body of work.
After starting my 200-level “Shakespeare in Context” students on a few sonnets, I assigned Twelfth Night (most had never read a Shakespeare comedy before) and Othello (they loved Iago), and then asked them to sample four different plays — The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, and Jonson’s…
The Cosmic Brownie fairy has visited my office. Is “brownie fairy” redundant? Thank you anyway.
The chief engineer does not know where the floating lamps are coming from, but he looks great in his leather elbow-patch jacket and pantaloons tucked into high boots with spats. #steampunk #blender3d #neovictorian #unity3d #aesthetics #design
Look what mysteriously appeared outside my office door!
I think I smelled a hint of my mint toothpaste just now. Wishful thinking, or another sign of recovering from #COVID19?
For the past 2 weeks I have slept a lot, coughed a lot, and one of my four classes is a week behind where I had hoped to be, but I guess I’ll be okay. Still dealing with some heavy eldercare and other issues that I just don’t have the energy to write about here,…
T-Shirts for student journalists who recently leveled up to “staff writer”(with bear signed by 20 years of editors)
I just thought of a time before you were born when I should have been kind, but I can’t remember whether I was.
Sometimes when I’m driving along lost in thought, I flinch. If my son or my daughter asks me what’s wrong, I’m rarely able to articulate an accurate response like, “I just thought of a time before you were born when I should have been kind, and I can’t remember whether I was.” So I usually…