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? Academia continues to plummet both on my campus and across the country/world, I’ve been learning about the world of flutes, my video posting schedule has gone from Monday/Wednesday/Friday to Monday/Thursday, the WiFi went out in my neighborhood for the first time since the lockdown began, and I started therapy! What … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 10
Greetings, Internet! I’m remembering that I’m a graduate student with academic obligations (that I shall continue to fulfill even as academia crashes all around), so this week has been a neat balance of non-dissertation-related readings and a seminar. Also went on a “Phantom of the Opera” kick, as if I was back in senior thesis … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 9
Greetings, Internet! This is the week I got to unbox my guitar, name her (Ginny!), and play her until visible cuts appeared on my fingers (lovely visual, but the cuts shall heal, and then I shall become a better player). I also ate a lot of cake as I read about the implosion of academia/higher … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 8
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
