Instead of an April update, I’m going to write this post, because I’ve been wanting to do it for a while now (as something of a follow-up to my post about Shakespeare and punk rock). The latest Taylor Swift (double) album just dropped a couple of days ago, and she’s known for her penchant for […]
Despite having an extra day this year, February went by so quickly that I didn’t have a chance to write an update. So I’m here early in March to remedy the updatelessness of my blog! Approaching mid-term, I’m happy to say that my classes seem to be going well. I don’t remember if I mentioned […]
Hello, world! (as the programmers like to say) Today, I’m at the end of the second week of the spring semester, a semester that begun with below freezing temperatures and a delay of campus opening on the first day of class. The “spring” just seems to get earlier and earlier for some reason! But anyway, […]
Yay! I made it this whole semester doing monthly updates! I’m happy to say that I survived my first full semester while having a child, so it is possible! My wife and daughter also survived, so that’s good, too! 🙂 Anyway, I’m closing out this month by doing some final revisions and edits to an […]
Well, the month is nearly over, but I made it in time for a November update. Yay!!! As all teachers and professors know, this is the point in the semester when things are just nuts, no matter what’s going on or how much planning and time management you’ve done to avoid it. And I have […]
Hey! I made it to my second update for the semester! Not bad. Okay, I’ll stop congratulating myself and get on with it. But yeah, it is mid-semester now, and I am definitely busy, but it apparently is not so incredibly hectic that I can’t squeeze in a little blogging. When last I updated the […]
This is just going to be a short post on something I wanted to make note of, about how one of my favorite bands that I used to listen to a lot in high school, MxPx, has touches of Shakespeare in their latest album release, Find a Way Home (2023). For those of you who […]
This may not happen, of course, as the semester continues and as my three-month-old daughter continues growing exponentially, but I’ve decided that I’d like to try to do a monthly update on this blog, at the very least, to keep it active. And who knows, maybe I’ll end up posting more than once a month, […]
Wow! It has been a good minute since I lasted updated my blog, and I would say it’s for a pretty good reason: I now have a daughter! Indigo was born on June 13, 2023, just before the waves of Texas summer heat began rolling in (it’s supposed to be 111 in Arlington today!!!). So […]
As I continue to work through what this blog is and what it’s becoming, I’ve been thinking lately that I might want to focus more on my teaching, particularly my experiences teaching British literature. The past few semesters, I’ve typically taught mostly first-year writing courses for college freshmen, but I’m also usually assigned at least […]
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