Notes
🔖📝 Read IF YOU LOVE WRITING, YOU SHOULD RELISH REJECTION.
This is a really helpful piece that reframes rejection as the water writers swim in.
🔖🎓 Read All my classes suddenly became AI classes.
I love the assignment here that asks students to work with ChatGPT as if it were a student and they were a teacher coaching it to get better writing out of it.
Yesterday I saw 3 people (I’d guess women) at Amsterdam Centraal 🚄 walking together wearing matching pairs of gorgeous plain black Docs and then felt super sad that I’d only had room for one pair of Docs in my suitcase and went with the floral ones.
I’m not saying I’m just saying, the introduction to GENDER AT SEA talks a lot about Moana and what the story can tell us about women in maritime pursuits and how Moana saves the environment and teaches Maui it’s okay to be vulnerable, so… I chose wisely. 📚🌊🎓
Who goes to the Dutch National Maritime Museum and buys an edited collection titled Gender at Sea as a souvenir? This academic. 📚🌊🎓
Hello, I require this shirt.
🔖📝 Read Why PhDs Need to Study Creative Writing by Anthony Ocampo, at the recommendation of Dr. Ravynn K. Stringfield.
This is one of the reasons I want to study creative nonfiction, to dig into public communication of the social sciences.
Today I’m grieving the closure of Catapult magazine and classes. 📝
The latest Dutch food: nasi saté ajam. This is an Indonesian dish. Because Indonesia was once a Dutch colony, there’s a lot of Indonesian influence in some of the most popular food here. I really loved this.
🔖📚📝 Read Mess Up Your Good, Premium, Luxury Notebooks.
Yes! Great advice from Anna Havron.
Finished reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 📚
This one took me a while to get into. Before giving up, I hunted down a review. The review indicated that there was more to this than vestibules, halls, statues, and tides, so I stuck with it. I’m glad I did.
🔖 📝 Joanna Penn discusses her use of AI to help her write a short story. This could be a valuable model for educators to use to teach students how to use these tools ethically and for effective writing.
🔖 Read Theater never recovered from COVID — and now change is no longer a choice.
…the people who live in the shadow of the refinery often don’t have the bandwidth to think about attending an experimental physical theater show on a bus.
“The problems in these communities – where am I going to live? Do I have enough food? – are so large, that it’s hard to even talk to people about any of the environmental injustices,” Cummings said.
Another Dutch meal. This is hutspot. It’s smoked sausage with gravy on a bed of potatoes, onions, and carrots. I liked it better than the one with kale but since I basically like all my foods separated as though I were a toddler, still not my fave.
🔖 Read THE JEDI ACADEMY WILL NO LONGER TEACH ANAKIN SKYWALKER’S MASSACRE OF THE YOUNGLINGS.
A+ geek satire.
📺 Watched Key & Peele - I Said….
This is a beautiful sketch that heightens literally as high as you can go. Strong one to have early in the show.
🍿 Watched Bert Williams - The Poker Game.
Stunningly good object work.
🍿Watched Mantan Moreland & Ben Carter - Indefinite Talk.
This bit is so fun. Ought to be mentioned in the same breath as Who’s On First?
🔖 Read The Sad Clown Joke That Became a Beloved Meme.
My favorite take on Pagliacci is Rhett Miller’s theme song for the podcast The Hilarious World of Depression.
📚💬📓 “… being transparent about one’s positionality, and choosing a granularity of analysis appropriate to your actual knowledge and experience, are key choices soneone must make as they enter fan studies.” Henry Jenkins, “Textual Poachers, Twenty Years Later”
🔖 A swirling soup of thoughts in my head about self-presentation after reading these posts:
- The personal brand paradox - Debbie Millman
- Build a reputation instead of a personal brand - Tracy Durnell
- The power of writing your story down - Jas Hothi
You know what’s really great for a migraine is the monthly test of public warning sirens in the Netherlands. OH WAIT NO THAT DOES NOT HELP WITH A MIGRAINE.