MJ Wall
@mikala11nicole.bsky.social
"Do good & do well." CompRhet MA (UMass Amherst '20: Writing Studies, community, carceral pedagogy); Published by Salvation South; 7th gen. Southern Appalachian; Boiled Peanut Enthusiast; she/her △
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UGA student walking by recorded the dulcet tones of a Kirby Smart crashout
October 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
UGA student walking by recorded the dulcet tones of a Kirby Smart crashout
3rd trimester check-in: I added Dr. Scholl's inserts to my Crocs clogs.
November 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
3rd trimester check-in: I added Dr. Scholl's inserts to my Crocs clogs.
The absolute trap of trying to wait until I have 'enough' energy to complete tasks while pregnant
🐡☠️
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October 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The absolute trap of trying to wait until I have 'enough' energy to complete tasks while pregnant
🐡☠️
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I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.
wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...
wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...
Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?
Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.
wordinblack.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.
wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...
wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...
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starting to think bog bodies had the right idea all along. why am I checking emails in a tiny cubicle when I could just walk outside and let the earth envelop me in her peaty embrace
October 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
starting to think bog bodies had the right idea all along. why am I checking emails in a tiny cubicle when I could just walk outside and let the earth envelop me in her peaty embrace
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I will not be jumping through any hoops for the rest of the year. Maybe not even for the foreseeable future.
October 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I will not be jumping through any hoops for the rest of the year. Maybe not even for the foreseeable future.
A construction worker on our family farm littered with their lottery ticket today (a $10 losing one). I want to know if the scratch-off is how they begin their site work, entertain themselves during lunch, or conclude the day, if they would have left early to cash in wins, and if they always litter.
September 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
A construction worker on our family farm littered with their lottery ticket today (a $10 losing one). I want to know if the scratch-off is how they begin their site work, entertain themselves during lunch, or conclude the day, if they would have left early to cash in wins, and if they always litter.
I've avoided alcohol, neon colored beverages (could really go for a Baja Blast), and tried to monitor sweet treats. If my hips get any creakier in the next (final) three months of pregnancy, pills will be popped as needed. Pro-acede-acedem-acetaminophen over here.
September 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I've avoided alcohol, neon colored beverages (could really go for a Baja Blast), and tried to monitor sweet treats. If my hips get any creakier in the next (final) three months of pregnancy, pills will be popped as needed. Pro-acede-acedem-acetaminophen over here.
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Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
Happy "surprise bloodwork" Thursday🎉
August 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Happy "surprise bloodwork" Thursday🎉
Trying my best to refrain from over-apologizing to students who send overload requests this week, but each extra human adds significant assessment time (and my brain is 🍤🍤🍤 already)
Also our classroom was easily 85 degrees today, so no more warm bodies allowed. Snowmen only.
Also our classroom was easily 85 degrees today, so no more warm bodies allowed. Snowmen only.
August 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Trying my best to refrain from over-apologizing to students who send overload requests this week, but each extra human adds significant assessment time (and my brain is 🍤🍤🍤 already)
Also our classroom was easily 85 degrees today, so no more warm bodies allowed. Snowmen only.
Also our classroom was easily 85 degrees today, so no more warm bodies allowed. Snowmen only.
Photographers, don't tell people to suck in their bellies when you take professional headshots. Whatever the goal is there, find another way to state it.
August 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Photographers, don't tell people to suck in their bellies when you take professional headshots. Whatever the goal is there, find another way to state it.
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Turns out, a lot of PhDs—and a lot of care.
Composition Studies 53.1 is now live.
Featuring essays on grading contracts, conference futures, sustainable teaching, and editorial care.
Read it here: compstudiesjournal.com/current-issu...
#cs531 #compositionstudies #rhetcomp #writingstudies
Composition Studies 53.1 is now live.
Featuring essays on grading contracts, conference futures, sustainable teaching, and editorial care.
Read it here: compstudiesjournal.com/current-issu...
#cs531 #compositionstudies #rhetcomp #writingstudies
compstudiesjournal.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Turns out, a lot of PhDs—and a lot of care.
Composition Studies 53.1 is now live.
Featuring essays on grading contracts, conference futures, sustainable teaching, and editorial care.
Read it here: compstudiesjournal.com/current-issu...
#cs531 #compositionstudies #rhetcomp #writingstudies
Composition Studies 53.1 is now live.
Featuring essays on grading contracts, conference futures, sustainable teaching, and editorial care.
Read it here: compstudiesjournal.com/current-issu...
#cs531 #compositionstudies #rhetcomp #writingstudies
Why is it that Rhet/Comp is always a few steps ahead of the rest of academia
June 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Why is it that Rhet/Comp is always a few steps ahead of the rest of academia
The last two students in my classroom today--the final day of Dual Enrollment finals--were willing to offer a few opinions on their first-year composition experiences (they took both ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102 with me this school year, which was my first at their particular school):
May 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The last two students in my classroom today--the final day of Dual Enrollment finals--were willing to offer a few opinions on their first-year composition experiences (they took both ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102 with me this school year, which was my first at their particular school):
In three hours, I dropped from 47 essays to review to a whopping 46 essays to review.
My laundry, trash, expense requests, and 'read for fun' goals are complete, though. 🐱🐉
My laundry, trash, expense requests, and 'read for fun' goals are complete, though. 🐱🐉
May 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
In three hours, I dropped from 47 essays to review to a whopping 46 essays to review.
My laundry, trash, expense requests, and 'read for fun' goals are complete, though. 🐱🐉
My laundry, trash, expense requests, and 'read for fun' goals are complete, though. 🐱🐉
Hello, Bluesky! Anyone else here advise a local chapter of Sigma Tau Delta? If so, I would love to connect and hear more about what the org looks like on your campus.
April 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hello, Bluesky! Anyone else here advise a local chapter of Sigma Tau Delta? If so, I would love to connect and hear more about what the org looks like on your campus.
Outlook: 8 non-urgent (informational I need to read or resolve after finals)
Moodle: see the ticking of the national debt calculator (www.usdebtclock.org/index.html) and know my digital pile of student work is growing at a slower, but similarly stressful, pace
Happy final two weeks of the semester!
Moodle: see the ticking of the national debt calculator (www.usdebtclock.org/index.html) and know my digital pile of student work is growing at a slower, but similarly stressful, pace
Happy final two weeks of the semester!
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
www.usdebtclock.org
April 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Outlook: 8 non-urgent (informational I need to read or resolve after finals)
Moodle: see the ticking of the national debt calculator (www.usdebtclock.org/index.html) and know my digital pile of student work is growing at a slower, but similarly stressful, pace
Happy final two weeks of the semester!
Moodle: see the ticking of the national debt calculator (www.usdebtclock.org/index.html) and know my digital pile of student work is growing at a slower, but similarly stressful, pace
Happy final two weeks of the semester!
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Composition Studies readers and #4C25 goers, it's time for a subscription discount. Use the QR code below to take $10 off any one-year subscription to our journal. And, if you find Jacob or Zach at 4Cs, show them your confirmation for a free sticker!
April 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Composition Studies readers and #4C25 goers, it's time for a subscription discount. Use the QR code below to take $10 off any one-year subscription to our journal. And, if you find Jacob or Zach at 4Cs, show them your confirmation for a free sticker!
Hogwarts Legacy keeps glitching after I repair Hogsmeade post-troll issues (specifically in the free robes exchange), and Reddit suggested restarting the entire game.
It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of anything, but I had higher expectations for my Switch. And a full reset seems so dramatic.
It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of anything, but I had higher expectations for my Switch. And a full reset seems so dramatic.
February 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Hogwarts Legacy keeps glitching after I repair Hogsmeade post-troll issues (specifically in the free robes exchange), and Reddit suggested restarting the entire game.
It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of anything, but I had higher expectations for my Switch. And a full reset seems so dramatic.
It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of anything, but I had higher expectations for my Switch. And a full reset seems so dramatic.
Peak conference experience (wearing slippers, fidgeting with kinetic sand, no travel time, coffee was free, etc.)
January 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Peak conference experience (wearing slippers, fidgeting with kinetic sand, no travel time, coffee was free, etc.)
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Rather than struggle through S25 lesson planning from the comfort of my home, I'm toting my books and laptop to Boston for a few days in hopes the cold and BPL's green lamps make the process a bit more romanticized, with more creative results and less time committed to screens.
December 29, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Rather than struggle through S25 lesson planning from the comfort of my home, I'm toting my books and laptop to Boston for a few days in hopes the cold and BPL's green lamps make the process a bit more romanticized, with more creative results and less time committed to screens.
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A semester’s end haiku -
LMS. Log in.
Stare at screen and log back out.
Counts as grading, right?
#AcademicSky
LMS. Log in.
Stare at screen and log back out.
Counts as grading, right?
#AcademicSky
December 13, 2024 at 8:31 PM
A semester’s end haiku -
LMS. Log in.
Stare at screen and log back out.
Counts as grading, right?
#AcademicSky
LMS. Log in.
Stare at screen and log back out.
Counts as grading, right?
#AcademicSky
I don't enjoy reading 'for fun' books twice, but I've been thinking about _The Life of the Mind_ by Christine Smallwood often. Does anyone have recommendations for contemporary books in the "depressive realism" category?
Goodreads suggested _Dubliners_.
Goodreads suggested _Dubliners_.
November 19, 2024 at 11:39 PM
I don't enjoy reading 'for fun' books twice, but I've been thinking about _The Life of the Mind_ by Christine Smallwood often. Does anyone have recommendations for contemporary books in the "depressive realism" category?
Goodreads suggested _Dubliners_.
Goodreads suggested _Dubliners_.