okay wait new ask: if you had to give a ted talk or go to a powerpoint party, what is one (1) specific aspect of women's hockey, potentially lesser known, that you'd want to talk about?
lmao OKAY right now specifically it would be "here are all my opinions about the draft process, the entry draft, and what the league should do next. I have a ten-year strategic plan for continued league growth. mark walter meet me outside I just want to talk"
outside of that I think the cultural historian in me would jump out and I would have to talk about the role sports play in urban culture and social identity, and specifically what is happening with the pwhl in context of that (both similar and different)
and secretly I have a real presentation in draft form that is "what museums can learn from women's sports"
Just wanted to pop on by and say I had a dream about Jax last night
We were just chatting in various settings from all that I can remember, he was shifting sizes every now and again but we weren't making a big deal of it. At one point the conversation turned to how he preferred being held when he's small, when it's unavoidable, and I brought up that picture you had made of him, i think the caption was 'hanging limply like a sulking kitten' or something?
It was a good dream, and I didn't wanna be weird about it but I guess I just wanted to thank you for your work, your creations, and for sharing them with everyone. It was a nice sleep, and I was glad I got to ponder silly things with Jax for at least a bit.
I hope you have a great day and weekend.
~ SleepAnon
That sounds so wholesome! I'm glad it was a good dream.
Thank you so much for this. It's wild to me that my work touches other people or gets in their brain enough to cause dreams, but it makes me so happy when people tell me things like this!
Never worry about it being weird, I love hearing from people~
@sleepanon tagged me. Thanks for the mention, feels like it’s been ages since I actively tried to get into a book so these are a bit everywhere and a mix of fiction and non-fiction.
Last book I…
Bought: The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Borrowed: Bright-sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
Was Gifted: Maus vol. 1 by Art Spiegelman and American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, also I’m sure as a joke Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman by Marjorie Hillis
Gave/lent to someone else: Think the last thing I lent out was a late art history professor’s self-published manuscript that he had handed out.
Started: The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey
Finished: The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Gave 5 stars: The Jade Peony and All That Matters by Wayson Choy
Gave 2 stars: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. The one book that immediately comes to mind that I have little goodwill towards, and that was long before the film or knowing about the author.
Didn’t finish: The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey, My attention span is just not what it used to be though I know I will get to it again.
I tag @bandit1a, @whatevergreen, @lemoncranes, and @soldstoicsoul. I’d like to hear from anyone that follows me and/or would like to share. Feel free to tag me in those posts as well.
I'm not a studyblr but my lovely friend @sleepanon requested this and who am I to deny her
Notion sponsor me xo
Step 1. I make a masterlist of big deadlines for the whole semester on its own page.
This includes holidays, conferences, my own self-assigned deadlines for paper drafts, one and two week warnings before big projects were due, etc. I put anything on here that does not recur on a weekly basis.
Step 2. On a second page, I create a template button with my weekly schedule.
This includes weekly classes, when I cook, time set aside for running, rest/naps (because I knew I would need them) and (when I was still in school lol) one hour of “admin” work every day. This was when I would answer emails, run errands, make phone calls to schedule doctor’s appointments, etc. I like “admin” time because I’m not constantly answering emails all day and I don’t push off other organizational tasks (as much). It includes time when I do recurring weekly assignments as well as chunks of ambiguous “work” time when I can do other tasks or work on the longer papers/projects. Here’s an example from my last fall semester.
Step 3. Once the weekly schedule template is created, you can use that to build your schedule each week. You can look at semester master schedule to add in important dates/meetings. I also typically assign how long I think each activity will take.
Step 4. I really like notion for planning my schedule because you can rearrange your day very easily thanks to the “click and drag each line” feature. So if a meeting gets moved, for instance, it’s easy to just drag it to later in the day. You can also drag things you don’t finish to the next day or trade tasks between two days if there’s something on tomorrow’s list you’re willing to do and something on today’s your not. Also, because I’m not a socially spontaneous person, if I get invited to do something spontaneously, this setup allows me to quickly figure out what I can put off, if I can afford to stay up late to finish work, etc. But this is super type A of me so I know it’s not for everyone haha.
Step 5: Finally, at the top of each week I keep a running list of tasks I haven’t assigned to a specific day. I also keep a list of things I need to remember for the next week at the bottom of my schedule
this is most of it but im happy to take questions :)
I wanna start with the books I am currently reading because it will take a while until I can start with the books in my tbr (that’s also a vague list I had in my mind, haha)
Currently reading:
“Mindset” - Dr. Carol S. Dweck (really enjoying this)
“Der Idiot“ - F.M. Dostojewskij (really enjoying!! I am almost halfway through, wow haha)
“Weihnachten auf der Lindwurmfeste“ - Walter Moers (Well, a “christmas book”. I usually love Walter Moers’ books but this one... not so sure. However, it’s as always really well written... and I will finish it this weekend hopefully)
TBR (in no particular order) :
“Der Zauberberg” - Thomas Mann
“Mayonnaise and the origin of life” - Harold J. Morowitz (I got this as a christmas present :D, read the first chapter, it was fun)
“Infinite Jest“ - David Foster Wallace (Let’s see... It’s massive... will probably take me 2 years?!)
“A Short History of Nearly Everything” - Bill Bryson
“Labyrinth“ - Friedrich Dürrenmatt (If you don’t know Dürrenmatt, I strongly recommend his books - my favourite one is “The Physicists“)
“Zugvögel“ - Charlotte McConaghy
Either “The Character of Physical Law“ or “Six Not-So-Easy Pieces“ by Richard Feyman (these books are on my shelf for a while now and I wanna tackle them finally)
And there are some other books on self-development I am thinking of reading but I haven’t decided yet...
I’m tagging everyone who would like to share their tbr (I’m always curious :) ) and
I missed this very catchy tune when it came out last summer, let’s have a listen to The Twenties 乐队 from Beijing. =D
We have featured them a few times, but really it has been too long. (See previous posts HERE, and ALSO HERE, and OVER HERE.)
The demo above is in Mandarin, but they have a new English single that dropped this week, as well as a 2018 album. Check the music (and lyrics) out at Bandcamp
More links: Douban, Spotify, weibo. There are other bands called ‘The Twenties’, so finding their official MV channel is proving elusive. Any help with a link, I would appreciate! =)
UPDATE: Big Thank You to @https://sleepanon.tumblr.com/ (@sleepanon) for finding the INDIEMUSICLIVE page on the Chinese video site bilibili, a bunch of live clips from The Twenties there! =D (It looks like a great channel for C-indies in general)
i’d have to say bio! it’s probably what i’d be doing if i wasn’t doing what i am.
14. Favorite humanities subject?
literature lmao. is that cheating? idk, but it is!
15. Class that you’ve always wanted to take but never had the chance?
i’ve always kind of wanted to take a latin intensive? also a variety of science classes, see answer to #13
36. Best feedback you’ve ever gotten on something academic?
oh, man. ummmmmmm let me see if i can find it. it was a big reason why i didn’t quite the phd after a year. and i went back to it multiple times during my second year. hang on, i’ll update in a minute!
