Greetings, Internet! I hope everyone’s staying as safe and sane as can be. This week, I waited out my covid quarantine after my symptoms mostly went away, binged the new “Stranger Things” episodes, and got back into the swing of dissertation writing! Daily summaries below! Day Eight Hundred and Six (5/27/22) Woke up at 4:30am. … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 116
Greetings, Internet! I hope everyone’s staying as safe and sane as can be. This week, my bestie and I flew to San Francisco! I got to visit my sister, brother-in-law, niece, and nephew! And you bet my sister and I ate all of the treats. Daily summaries below! Day Seven Hundred and Ninety-Two (5/13/22) Happy … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 114
Greetings, internet! Here I am to shake my fist at the entity that is the Princeton Housing Office (or whatever they go by; quite frankly I am too annoyed with them to spare the minute it would take to look up their official name). For the past two years, I have lived in university housing … Continue reading The Quest for Accessible Housing
Greetings, Internet! The title of this post might seem odd. I did burn my Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) bridge a couple of years ago, so I might seem a tad hypocritical when I say that I’m grateful for what I got out of my Ed.M. degree in Higher Education. Indeed, over the past … Continue reading Dear HGSE, You Weren’t All That Bad
Greetings, Internet! I had a completely different post in mind that was all written and ready to go, but then I decided to rewatch “DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story” (2004). It is probably my second favorite sports movie of all time (because nothing will ever top “A League of Their Own” (1992)). Anyway, when I … Continue reading Why I Love Patches O’Houlihan
Greetings, internet! A while back, I wrote about Access-A-Ride (AAR). I complained about it, but only because it is virtually the only inter-borough travel option I have as a wheelchair user in NYC, and it is not very good. It is unreliable, disorganized, and very likely understaffed and overscheduled. Since that post, it has gotten … Continue reading Adventures in Paratransit, Part Two: Two Strikes for Access-a-Ride
A physical therapy post! Huzzah! I did a post a couple of years ago called “Standing with Context” in which I explained what it looks like, and then what is actually happening, when I do standing exercises. I also did one on the importance of core strength. Go read them if you haven’t yet. This is … Continue reading Squatting with Context
Greetings, internet! It’s been an absurd amount of time since my last update, but my excuse is that I started a PhD program in History, and it has pretty much taken over my life. Over the semester, I put “write blog post” on my weekly calendar, and every week I’d look at my calendar and … Continue reading Five Lessons from My First Year of PhD-ing
Greetings, internet! At the end of my previous post, I said that if there was any interest, I’d post an annotated bibliography of things that you could read if you wanted to learn more about disability in higher education. Most of the comments were pro-bibliography (yay!), so I’ve cobbled together a list of articles and … Continue reading A Brief Reading List on Disability (and Higher Education)
Two posts in the space of about a month? It must be summer vacation. Remember how I mentioned that graduation happened in my last post? Yeah, well, I skipped Commencement and the diploma ceremony. I told people in my program that it was because I had a friend’s wedding to go to, but in all … Continue reading Why I Skipped Harvard’s Commencement
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