Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦
@lectio.bsky.social
PhD student in English lit, adult ed teacher, reader, spec fic writer, and all-around nerd and horsegirl. she/her/they/them
Uh... Americans? You, um, okay down there?
October 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Uh... Americans? You, um, okay down there?
Legitimate pitch I received today for a service to promote to my students who want to be authos. Don't worry, they can offer ghaostwriting, too. And a discount! 👻
September 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Legitimate pitch I received today for a service to promote to my students who want to be authos. Don't worry, they can offer ghaostwriting, too. And a discount! 👻
Pretty Penny would like you to know that screens shall not contain her.
August 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Pretty Penny would like you to know that screens shall not contain her.
How my candidacy reading is going...
I made countdown formulas and a spiffy chart for my reading spreadsheet.
That counts, right? #phdstudent #englishphd
I made countdown formulas and a spiffy chart for my reading spreadsheet.
That counts, right? #phdstudent #englishphd
August 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
How my candidacy reading is going...
I made countdown formulas and a spiffy chart for my reading spreadsheet.
That counts, right? #phdstudent #englishphd
I made countdown formulas and a spiffy chart for my reading spreadsheet.
That counts, right? #phdstudent #englishphd
Mr. Rogers hopes to be nominated next year.
August 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Mr. Rogers hopes to be nominated next year.
I'm starting the work of reading for next year's candidacy exams in English literature, and I will take any and all of your candidacy prep advice! #phd
August 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I'm starting the work of reading for next year's candidacy exams in English literature, and I will take any and all of your candidacy prep advice! #phd
Listen 2: Malcolm Forsyth's Atayoskewin. The piece was commissioned by Shell Canada to mark the 1984 opening of the Scotford Refinery.
August 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Listen 2: Malcolm Forsyth's Atayoskewin. The piece was commissioned by Shell Canada to mark the 1984 opening of the Scotford Refinery.
Tonight's listening. 🎧
August 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Tonight's listening. 🎧
Imagine my delight when I discovered today that used classical music LPs sell for $5 at the record store...that's all!! Sorry to say that I won't have the record player until tomorrow, so tonight I'm just looking at the covers.
August 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Imagine my delight when I discovered today that used classical music LPs sell for $5 at the record store...that's all!! Sorry to say that I won't have the record player until tomorrow, so tonight I'm just looking at the covers.
These little cats have captured my heart.
July 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
These little cats have captured my heart.
Saw a very cool pile of snakes doing snakey things on yesterday's run. These are little garter snakes.
July 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Saw a very cool pile of snakes doing snakey things on yesterday's run. These are little garter snakes.
Here comes today's forest fire smoke...
June 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Here comes today's forest fire smoke...
I'm in the midst of writing my course outline for Wri 426 Romance and Erotica (conted.ucalgary.ca/search/publi...), and this ad from our extension programs came up on LinkedIn. Honestly, I would say that also MY life is changed by teaching just as much as I hope for change for my students.
June 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I'm in the midst of writing my course outline for Wri 426 Romance and Erotica (conted.ucalgary.ca/search/publi...), and this ad from our extension programs came up on LinkedIn. Honestly, I would say that also MY life is changed by teaching just as much as I hope for change for my students.
Just a great day.
June 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Just a great day.
Also got to give the baby some head scritches. He's got some teeth now!
June 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Also got to give the baby some head scritches. He's got some teeth now!
We had a lovely ride yesterday. Bit smoky and it's quite dry.
June 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We had a lovely ride yesterday. Bit smoky and it's quite dry.
I visited the @romtoronto.bsky.social as a research student today to access their Herbarium for a writing project for my PhD...I wish I could go back to tell eight year old me these things are possible. What an incredible day!
May 31, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I visited the @romtoronto.bsky.social as a research student today to access their Herbarium for a writing project for my PhD...I wish I could go back to tell eight year old me these things are possible. What an incredible day!
A rhyme I've learned as I continue to work with the Herbarium:
sedges have edges,
grasses do not,
rushes are hollow
but they're all monocots
sedges have edges,
grasses do not,
rushes are hollow
but they're all monocots
May 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A rhyme I've learned as I continue to work with the Herbarium:
sedges have edges,
grasses do not,
rushes are hollow
but they're all monocots
sedges have edges,
grasses do not,
rushes are hollow
but they're all monocots
Some of my doctoral research for my science fiction English PhD has led me to the @ucalgary.bsky.social Herbarium for the summer. Today I looked at the pulvinus of a runner bean and some wild oats (which are not good to sow because they choke out beneficial cereals).
May 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Some of my doctoral research for my science fiction English PhD has led me to the @ucalgary.bsky.social Herbarium for the summer. Today I looked at the pulvinus of a runner bean and some wild oats (which are not good to sow because they choke out beneficial cereals).
I voted in the advance polls but I saved my sticker to wear today!
April 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I voted in the advance polls but I saved my sticker to wear today!
Well, now I know why my bird feeder empties out so quickly!
April 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Well, now I know why my bird feeder empties out so quickly!