We're on the "slow progress" side of renovations. Lots of steps - but my white whale (i.e. the nicotine stained striped wallpaper from hell has been vanquished

Stand up for transgender people now or stand for nothing at all: lindseyadler.substack.com/p/the-urgenc...

BTW, I went over to check that all reference to Trans existence had been removed from the Stonewall Monument NPS website (indeed it has). If you scroll down to the bottom, there's a form that asks "did you find this information useful yes/no" and if you click no, you can leave a comment...

Joy is necessary

Emails at zero (minus the three in follow-ups that I'm waiting on more info for) for the first time this semester. I feel my toes touching sand under this water I'm trying to keep my head above

We had a very productive day of tearing out paneling and wall-in ac units from 1970 (we found a newspaper in the wall). Thanks to James for coming to land some muscle to the project

We needed an appropriate outlet for the rage. May we recommend tearing down 70s paneling?

I can tell I've been very stressed about turning my interactive intro course into an online course when I almost burst into tears seeing my students thoughtfully responding to each other in the exercise I created... #justprofessorthings

Today's project at the house is removing the popcorn ceiling in the basement. It glitters

I've been carefully growing this grapefruit since July and today we ate her. Delicious despite being half pith

The problem with using parts of my historical textile collection for teaching means I can justify buying MORE historical textiles...