Greetings, Internet! Hope everyone’s staying as safe and sane as possible. This week, the Mets are back (!), my advisor gave me lots of scholarship to read as I revise the chapter I submitted (of course, it’s all in German), and I’m really digging vocal lessons. Daily summaries below! Day Three Hundred and Eighty-Six (4/2/2021) … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 56
Greetings, Internet! I hope everyone’s staying as safe and sane as possible. This week, I almost finished season one of “Titans,” got back into the swing of teaching (after Spring Break), and I went outside three times in the same week! Daily summaries below! Day Three Hundred and Seventy-Two (3/19/21) Was on the phone with … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 54
Greetings, Internet! I hope everyone’s staying as safe and sane as possible. Week 52, holy mother of pie! This week, I started watching spring training games (hooray for Gary, Keith, and Ron of SNY! #LFGM), learned how to program drums into my musical projects, and turned in my first dissertation chapter! Daily summaries below! Day … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 52
Greetings, Internet! I hope everyone’s staying as safe and sane as can be. This week, I had my teaching judged by my professor (spoiler alert: did not go well), had all the feels while watching “WandaVision,” and continued to trudge through my dissertation. Daily summaries below! Day Three Hundred and Fifty-One (2/26/21) Did the FES … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 51
Greetings, Internet! I hope everyone’s staying as safe and sane as can be. Both my parents got the vaccine, I finally started the first draft of my first dissertation chapter, and I sent in a copyright application for “Jackass”! Daily summaries below! Day Three Hundred and Thirty-Seven (2/12/21) Did the FES cycle.I don’t know what’s … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 49
Greetings, Internet! I hope everyone’s staying as safe and sane as can be. This week, my advisor approved my dissertation chapter outline (the chapter writing shall commence soon!), I posted another original song, and I finally took my camera out of the box! Daily summaries below! Day Three Hundred and Thirty (2/5/21) Emailed my outline … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 48
Greetings, Internet! I hope everyone’s staying as safe and sane as can be. This week, I drunk-ordered a camera, outlined my first dissertation chapter, and began TA-ing over Zoom! Daily summaries below! Day Three Hundred and Twenty-Three (1/29/21) It was COLD last night. I went to sleep wearing four layers.Did the FES cycle for 45 … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 47
Greetings, Internet! Hope everyone’s staying as safe and sane as can be. Holy cow, we're at week 40! NYC got hit with snow (I haven’t gone outside to check yet), I continued to watch “Broadchurch,” and my sister moved to California! Daily summaries below! Day Two Hundred and Seventy-Four (12/11/20) My niece had a hard … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 40
Greetings, Internet! Hope everyone’s doing as well as can be given all of the seriously messed up things that happened this week outside of our quarantine bubbles. This week I got to see my family for an afternoon (pie was had, which was amazing), learned that perhaps now is too early to add flute into … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 11
Greetings, Internet! How’s everyone doing? Well, April happened. That was somehow fast and slow? The ukulele channel has upgraded to a setup with a real microphone, the world continues to be chaos, and I’m actually making progress with some of the main primary sources of my dissertation (even though it is looking less and less … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 7
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