Liz McCausland

Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 01:39 UTC

Well to be fair, dragons aren’t going to complain about what a shit job he did.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:12 UTC

Today = reading —> beer & footie —> reading (possibly napping because lunchtime beer). Good way to pass a scorching day.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:52 UTC

I thought it all rang true and maybe I am not that interested in something that just shows the messiness of how minds work and how we repeat patterns. My own journals show me that! Sometimes these things felt revealing, sometimes not.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:35 UTC

I get mad every time I go to a presentation that demonstrates how it works. We all know by now! Knock it off, academics. Like, we need to talk about how to respond, but we don’t need to show it to do that.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:29 UTC

I couldn’t either, but I was once halfway through a Mary Balogh before I realized the couple had the same names as my in-laws, so you never know.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:27 UTC

Perhaps it just reminded me of a younger self I don’t want to revisit.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:26 UTC

It’s personal to me. I got bored by the stuff on relationships. A preoccupation that struck me as normal for the age she was when she wrote these diaries (which seems to be more or less the post-university decade).

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:55 UTC

I forgot the girl’s name is Kellyanne, LOL. Lands a little differently now.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:55 UTC

I also love Possession, and just re-read it, so the juxtaposition is interesting.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:49 UTC

Eek! I hope you like. I remember reading it all in one gulp, just totally absorbed.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:45 UTC

Just thought I’d put out some non-political content. 😘

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:45 UTC

And I just finished Sheila Heti’s Alphabetical Diaries; such an interesting experiment. I liked it but it sometimes made me feel like a grumpy old spinster, if you can be that after a 30-year relationship and 2 kids (I think you can, I’m reclaiming my spinsterhood).

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:43 UTC

Cringe-laughing at my colleague Shashi Bhat’s stories in Death By a Thousand Cuts, and thinking about how they would work in a Gender Studies class. Also enjoying my current book group read, The Weight of Ink (not keeping up with 25pp./day, oops!).

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:37 UTC

I accidentally let go of my hardcover in my separation move, but recently found a paperback at my local used bookstore, so now it’s on my recent acquisitions TBR shelf to re-read.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:36 UTC

Bonnie Garmus’s ballot for that NYT 21st century best books feature includes Ben Rice’s Pobby and Dingan. I LOVED this novella. He doesn’t seem to have published anything else except one New Yorker short story; so sad about that. If you find P & D, read it.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 23:14 UTC

Listen, the really bad thing about that Parkinson’s story is that it refers to “the day before Good Friday.” There’s a name for that day, NYT! 😂

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:26 UTC

I completely understand. It bugged me when I had it, I just had to live with it.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:42 UTC

OK but I had that because I couldn’t afford to replace a perfectly good dryer when my washer died. (I didn’t try to style my laundry room either).

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:22 UTC

I know we hate the NY Times, but this is fun and fodder for lots of debate (you can also see lots of people’s top 10 ballots). Also—I couldn’t believe some of these books are 21st century and we are so far into it already. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:40 UTC

Absolutely.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 16:29 UTC

Maybe the justices would like to take my first-year writing class, where I teach students to notice the signals that an author is introducing and refuting an opposing view. Although if you’re making these “mistakes” on purpose, that won’t help.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 16:22 UTC

There is just so much research on post-secondary success and persistence that tells us this is a bad idea. In big lecture classes, your TA is the person who knows you and engages with you. That matters.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:58 UTC

I really don’t know how they all fit in there.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:58 UTC

Jinx was born on their birthday eve.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:46 UTC

That means it’s also happy 22nd to my younger child, but let’s face it, they aren’t as cute as a box of kittens and anyway they are not awake or willing to let me post their photo on social media.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:05 UTC

Happy 13th Birthday (actually last night) to Jinx!

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:30 UTC

There’s definitely no magic, risk-free path forward.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:03 UTC

WHY do people address Attorneys General as “General”? General is an adjective here!

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 05:05 UTC

Could not happen to a more deserving guy.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:48 UTC

This is very funny.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:44 UTC

@qjurecic.bsky.social I appreciated your presence on RatSec today. Your tone was commensurate with the terribleness of the immunity decision.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:37 UTC

I am super bad at treating myself to small things that make a real difference in my well-being.

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:35 UTC

It’s so weird (it’s not) how none of these “Biden naps” stories seem to feel the need to bothsides how disengaged the previous president was and how little work he did. Like, “projecting energy at rallies” isn’t the important part of the job, is it?

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Liz McCausland @lizmc2.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:16 UTC

Ada Limòn, “A New National Anthem” www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147506...

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