IDK About You, But I’m Tentatively Feeling 2022

After two weeks of blissfully doing little more than festive cooking and binge-watching Grey's Anatomy, I've spent the day toiling away at packing up Christmas decorations and preparing for life to resume in a new year. 2022. I haven't seen anyone bold enough to declare that 2022 is going to be their year. Given what …

Shifts (August 2021)

A lot has shifted in the four weeks since my last post: I went to my first ever department function (after a year of being part of the department); I helped my sister move from the rolling hills of Kentucky to the mountains of Massachusetts; I moved a couple of papers from hazy ideas to …

The Fruits of Summer 2021

It's July and summertime is in full swing! The sun barely sleeps, the days are unstructured, the people are scattered, and teaching feels like a pleasantly distant memory. Sweet, sweet summer. Another beautiful thing about the summer? The produce. One of my lunalutions for the month (and also next) is to take advantage of the …

Scheduled Sickness

About 24 hours ago I received my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. I teach on Thursdays, so I spent the weekend doing the teaching prep work that I would ordinarily be doing today because, as expected, today I have been achey, fatigued, and had a low-grade fever that (fingers crossed) seems to be behind …

The One Small Trick That Increased My Step Count By 50% and Made My Eye Strain Go Away

Sorry-not-sorry for the clickbait title, but I couldn't resist. Turns out that taking a ~5 minute break to walk around every ~30 minutes really does make a big difference to screen fatigue and general activity levels. And so, contrary to my expectations going in, Less Sedentary February (LSF): Pandemic Edition was actually... pretty successful. I …

LSF: Pandemic Edition

The now-traditional transition to "Less Sedentary February"-- the period of time at the start of the year where I try to sit less and move more-- has taken on new importance in the midst of increasing screen fatigue and eye strain. Intellectually, I do recognize that I probably shouldn't sit for hours on end, and …

Two Weeks, Two Cakes, Much Chaos

And just like that the first few weeks of January have become an era unto themselves. Gone is the fresh newness of 2021. Instead we find ourselves right back into heightened dystopian political chaos with the storming of the capitol and uncertain prospects of violence. Five and a half days is all it took for …

And We’re Back For 2021 (Maybe)

Happy new year, lunalutions bloggees! It's been a minute, by which I mean a whole damn era or three. When last we met it was February of the Before Times and I had just belatedly settled on my slate of lunalutions for 2020. As people of the Pandemic Times, it will not surprise you to …