I was invited to use one at an Italian spa! They called it a “Scottish shower” - idea is very cold water in dumped on you all at once. Often part of a sequence with other types of saunas/baths. I declined.
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I was invited to use one at an Italian spa! They called it a “Scottish shower” - idea is very cold water in dumped on you all at once. Often part of a sequence with other types of saunas/baths. I declined.
Have you seen this website? Visit window views from around the world: www.window-swap.com/Window
At least everyone present received details about the free local counseling resources available to everyone at the college? Grim. Sitting with gratitude for all the people who in one role or another try to facilitate meaningful conversations of any kind.
This a.m. I taught about the deaths of Socrates & Hypatia. An attempt to create space to discuss the potency of worldview difference without descending into debates about hot topics. Sometimes the long arc of human history helps me have hope;other times that hope seems for others in a distant future
Logging on to this now... already zonked from the work week and perhaps hoping against hope for inspiration but topic/line-up looks good and we need to be having these conversations: www.chronicle.com/events/virtu...
Now this is a political platform. The FIFA grift is shameless so I don't expect them to listen, but maybe it nudges the conversation? "Game Over Greed" a good slogan for many uses.
An actual goal from fluid play. Nice connect from Zendejas. #USMNT
Heavy work/grading day so didn't tune in for Italy's World Cup qualifier. 4-5?! That's not a game for the work week. Even Gattuso looked stunned at the end despite the last minute victory.
In the same boat in the last year or so! Used to love saying I was 5’ and 1/4”… alas. Still hold out hope I can re-lengthen neck/spine just enough with renewed Pilates efforts. Curses to all the online work required of us.
College email includes warning of an alligator sighting in the lake across from my dept. building… one more hazard to navigate this week. cc: @stacyparkerlemelle.bsky.social
My summer students really had 80s nostalgia for some reason… peppered me with questions one day. Strangest misconception was that we were healthier then. So I had to explain going out pre-smoking bans.
Well, 2nd half not really much better. One wonders what the #USMNT training sessions have been like as there just seems to be a kind of drift.... Shot of the game = Klinsmann grinning in the VIP boxes.
My thought exactly!
1st half: #USMNT OK (until goal 2) yet clear there is no cohesion; lines/partnerships not used to playing with each other. Korea pressing well, so any flow towards their box interrupted at the 18. Also I know the negatives, yet do appreciate when "away" fans seem to be enjoying the night #USAvKOR
This is a very cool lady and I want to be like her when I grow up. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I listened to a podcast recently about religious orders taking the hard decision to “move to completion,” as in close a particular convent and redirect any new novices to join other orders. I admired the wisdom & courage of their conversations - and I wish the same for these AI ventures.
So sorry to hear this. With appreciation for the life and work of Andrew Huse. USF’s Florida Studies program and archives are a gem.
Not in @maxrushden.bsky.social ‘s league.
Yes! The party is where we make it 😎
My parents are in town. We went out for Italian Ice this evening. My mother ordered (and ate) a pumpkin spice Italian ice. My Italian-American father, always up for desserts, didn’t even want to “share.” These times we are in.
Ha. Send me to Strasbourg!
Even better with a Chelsea-style 7-year contract.
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I appreciated this story about the Miccosukee people, who were part of the lawsuit that is shutting down Alligator Alcatraz. english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
Was thinking I needed to make something special for myself now that both colleges I work for are back in session…
Yes, and I thought this is what people liked about the virtual DNC roll call... going around and seeing/hearing the wide range of people participating.
Enjoy your visit. Downtown area… Kaya: guide.michelin.com/us/en/florid... Camille: guide.michelin.com/us/en/florid... Strand: guide.michelin.com/us/en/florid... Otto’s High Dive: guide.michelin.com/us/en/florid...
Photos: Orlando rallied and repainted at the Pulse crosswalk
Thank you. Shared with a colleague in Jacksonville who had choreographed an in memorium dance performance at our college.
It was really noticeable to me when I moved here how many public reminders of welcoming/safe spaces were visible, including a paved roundabout at the hospital that received many of the wounded from the shooting. To treat this as a pol statement only instead an act of public grief is heartless indeed
When Convocation begins with the Emergency Announcements and how to find the emergency exits… hitting a little differently for me this year I have to say.
Shared intentions from our NWSA session today. Wishing us all a good teaching year: ~It's about them (our students). ~Our teaching is our resistance. ~Minimize parts of the job that drain us. Bring joy back. ~Relax more. Classroom time can be community time. ~I want to remember our human inheritance
Tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon - 3:30 Eastern. 📚Registration link in thread.
In yet another episode of 21st century extreme rapid intensification, Major Hurricane #Erin has reached Category 4 intensity overnight. Maximum sustained winds are now 130 mph (215 km/hr), where as yesterday at this time they stood at 70 mph. Thankfully Erin's core is missing land.
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Tell Me About It, the Plenary Session
November, 2019. Unity for Puerto Rico March.
Yes. And I know many teachers who plan to fill the classroom with what the children create or let them have a say in designing the space somehow - as intentional community building.
Nice! On the list 😊
Open to all. NWSA members can log in to their account, guests and friends will be prompted to create a free account to register. www.nwsa.org/events/event...
I’m cohosting this virtual meet-up with NWSA. Join fellow members & the Feminist Pedagogy Special Interest Group. Have a question about trying something new? Curious to talk through a teaching strategy? Or interested in grounding with affirming colleagues? Feel free to bring your favorite beverage!
Near Camp Blanding, less than 30 miles from downtown Jacksonville. Beyond the obvious rights & ethics (and decency!) issues, seems absurd self-inflicted harm to a century of PR for “the sunshine state.”
Fun example of how tech “helps” us… I’m teaching a course at a new satellite campus in 2 weeks. Trying to get passcard access to my classroom, faculty lounge & copy room. So far we have 6 people on an email chain. All good people & a sparkly new campus - watch me skulk by doors to get in week 1
NEW: The NWS has received permission to hire up to 450 meteorologists/hydrologists/radar technicians after DOGE-related cuts. Agency also given a public safety exemption from federal hiring freeze after losing more than 550 people in those cuts. (1/2)
Well it's official: we just got word that @nehgov.bsky.social will not be supporting further seasons of our #WiseWomen series. Disappointing and painful, especially in the wake of the abrupt termination of our previous grant and the clawing back of $38,000 in funding. But here's how you can help:
Renewal by Anderson (windows) asked me the same just yesterday, although in non-heteronormative language. Something of “Do you confirm all deed holders will be at the property…”
I was just thinking... does Aug. 1 or Jan 1 feel heavier for those of us on an academic calendar?
Amazing argument. Thank you.
I really appreciated this episode of @npr.org's Consider This, about the Texas floods, how to talk to people on the worst day of their lives, and the care good storytelling requires. I'll be sharing it with my qualitative methods students this year. one.npr.org/i/1269546823...
OK. Working to be happy for individual Lionesses. Because Italy. Still superb mental effort on top of everything.
Chloe Kelly has lived her best life since escaping from Manchester.
Dated an architect about 20 years ago myself… short version, I relate. Whew.
Sell out. The lot of them.
I can ask!
Definitely an old heavy metal model. Whew. Was thinking about handwriting some assignment instructions if I ask them to handwrite in return. Maybe I can get out the calligraphy tools. :)
After all the Canvas-OpenAI chat yesterday, I dreamed I was awkwardly hauling a heavy, oversized KitchenAid stand mixer up several flights of stairs to my office…. There’s a metaphor. So if any #DHMakes folks or others have ideas, I’m listening 🙃
I love Blue Books. Started thinking about making course-specific "blue book" templates? Not sure what to call them yet - basically mostly blank pages with prompts, excerpts from public domain readings, etc. A way to encourage closing the laptop all together. "Take your notebook to the museum and..."
Final project zines making a come back. Let's go. Maybe I will teach basic book binding.
Too many Ed Tech folks also refuse to acknowledge how many students do not have reliable digital access either. I have multiple students always on the edge with hand-me-down machines, phones substituting as computers, or various housing issues that mean access is severely limited.
The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman
I was listening to the sound on the BBC radio! Pain either way. Thanks for watching with!
Italy fans, it's completely reasonable to be mad about this for the next ~30 years
Why do I like this sport? 💔🇮🇹
Ugh. So painful - and predictable plotting. Sigh.
#Azzurre! Prepared for tears today, yet glad they are on the board. Another veteran goal scorer.
Fantastic
So maybe that yard work I was planning this weekend can be pushed back again... that or I need to invest in floodlights to work in the middle of the night.
Parts of this piece read like a McSweeney's post. In my experience, a "messy girl aesthetic" is equal parts small space living + over-scheduled life: www.realsimple.com/messy-girl-a...
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Feels so harsh. And punishes most the people (players, fans) who did not cause the problem). I understand some action required, yet seems another sign the multi-club ownership issues need to be addressed a different way.
I am so sorry! I disrupted an email chain recently on “AI ethics” with this: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Not that it helped but it was better than screaming
Orlando one degree “cooler” today.
From Chuck Blazer’s cats’ apartment to this. An absurd trajectory.
It's payback time: Miami Herald looks at the Alligator Alley concentration camp and finds that DeSantis is using it to transfer money from the Florida treasury to the pockets of his political cronies and supporters. That's what it's all about. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
www.popehat.com/p/the-fourth...
This post is the end of a long thread worth traversing.
A college I work for sent out a message today w/ an offer for Buy One Get Four (4) tickets to Fluminese v Al Hilal in the #CWC Club World Cup Quarterfinal tomorrow. Game’s at 3pm in Orlando heat, Tstorm forecast, plus July 4th. Good local Brazilian audience but that will be a hard match to fill.
Excellence.
Much to say/not say about these times... will simply observe that as I ran errands after teaching, the energy on the road & in stores felt so pitched, people rushing to distraction & consumption. Had the thought it was like people were going to have a blow out July 4th as one of few escapes left.
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Of many thoughts, would this meet FL housing codes for storms?!
It would not be hard to make an entire July 4th menu of “classic American” foods eaten with one’s hands, from snacks/starters to mains and sides + desserts.
Back in 2022 I did a whole podcast about the origins of the immigration detention system called Detention By Design. As I detailed in the second episode, it started mere miles from "Alligator Alcatraz," in the Florida Everglades. They will once again be a symbol. www.wlrn.org/podcast/dete...
“Dynamic brackets”
Many wonderful details in this (and congrats to the author!) - particularly liked this observation: “in a nice moment of practical ordinary-language philosophy, that while the certificate was an important document, it was the moment of taking the oath that would make us citizens.”
Managed to get out a conference proposal this morning - 150 words has rarely felt so much like writing underwater.
One year I got “being in her class is like being stuck in an R.E.M. video”
"My students tell me that they don’t sleep..." @jenmercieca.bsky.social told her class to replace their own doomscrolling with some "hopescrolling" for at least part of the week. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens... Some students noticed that their social media algorithms began to change.
Florida news as metaphor- Florida Approves Plan to Help Billionaires Export Their Sewage www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...
Two points from these memories filling my morning: 1) young recruits and early emerging officers during the Iranian hostage crisis are likely at the height of their careers now, and 2) wherever there are military exercises and operations, nearby - sometimes very close - children are playing.
One day seemingly alone in the pines, a formation of low flying helicopters, speeding much faster than usual, came directly over us; it was terrifying, and the reality of what one “trained” for became all to real.
Across the street from the base at the time was a trailer park where a few school friends lived. Sometimes on the weekends I was allowed to visit and we’d play in the adjacent pine forest overrun by palmettos (btw, you've not seen insects until you lift palmetto leaves in such settings!).
My brother’s soccer coach would “disappear” for weeks at a time for missions in the Middle East and my dad would assume coaching duties. Major [redacted] became Lt. Colonel [redacted] over the course of a season.
Since we lived literally down the street from MacDill Air Force base, now the home of CENTCOM, perhaps there were more ribbons than in other areas. I remember trying to “read” the trunk patterns of trees from underneath the wide bands of ribbons and the ritual of watching the evening news.
A couple thoughts this morning if I may… I think it’s accurate to say my first awareness of the world beyond my girlhood home came from yellow ribbons up on many trees in my Old Port Tampa neighborhood during the Iranian hostage crisis (79-81).
The Riverwalk was in all its sunshine splendor - museum is across from the University of Tampa, whose main building is the historic Tampa Bay Hotel, once the end stop on the Henry B. Plant railway; famously a staging area for Teddy Roosevelt & the Rough Riders during Spanish-Am War.
Felt called to visit this exhibit in Tampa for Solstice weekend ☀️ A re-exhibition of works by Purvis Young, a Bahamian-American Miamian artist; paintings on scrap wood & found lumber, intended to be displayed with this mural effect and layering in places. At Tampa Museum of Art.
Sorry about the Florida weather - predictably unpredictable June thunderstorms. Hope Orlando is treating you well otherwise.
Don’t read the comments, but always read the footnotes.