Stuck in the Krakoan Age

I've been working my way through the Krakoan Age of the X-Men comics. I got through all of Dawn of X and Reign of X. I went to start Destiny of X and found no books on my Kindle. I was at work, so I just switched to Ultimate X-Men since I really should read…

Finally! Good audio!

I have a specific bar set for the quality of the audio of my videos. I have been having trouble getting to that bar. I bought a really nice mic and have settings in place to filter things out, yet there's always that hiss in the background. Today I finally got that hiss to go…

Onward and backward?

My dissertation chair has the first complete draft of my dissertation. Most of it has been revised according to his feedback, so I'm feeling good about it. I think we're both hoping that whole thing will be done this semester. That means I can start working on other things. Like going back to my master's…

Not doing great

I had an interview for a teaching position on Wednesday that I really, really wanted. I was excited about this opportunity. I feel like the interview went well. Especially since the entire interview was in ASL. I already have anxiety during interviews, and doing an interview in my second language made it a little harder.…

Relief

I live in Ohio. In the spring, Governor DeWine signed SB1 into law, making it much harder for me to exist as a cultural studies scholar in Ohio. You can look up the details if you'd like, but it is a bill aimed at removing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from public colleges and universities across…

Too much reading?

It's the end of the semester and I find myself wondering the same thing that I have been at this time for the last few years, "Am I assigning too much reading?" I try really hard to find readings for my students that relate to class but aren't overly jargon-based or are really long. It's…

Working *with* my ADHD

Late last year I was finally able to be diagnosed with ADHD. Which also meant being able to start taking medication for it. Yay! Seriously, I've known that I've needed outside chemical assistance for my brain. And this medication is helping. It's also helping me see where I still need to work on things. One…

Oracle accepted!

About a month ago I posted about a conference I submitted to (https://deviatefromnorm.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/a-glitch-in-the-system/). I got the e-mail that my proposal was accepted!!! This is really exciting for me. One, it gives me something else to work on in addition to the dissertation (and will hopefully inspire more work on the dissertation). Two, I really feel…

“That was a disaster”

That has been calmly popping up in my brain the whole way home today. Let me give you context. I arrived on campus early today and chilled in the car, continuing to listen to my audiobook, before heading in to get things set up for class. Two of my three students are already there. Yay!…

A Glitch in the System

Recently I saw a call for papers for the Comic Study Society. I am a founding member of CSS and I see the annual calls for presenters for the annual conference. Usually it's more of the fact that I can't afford to go, commonly combined with the theme not speaking to me. I saw this…