She didn’t take down Tesla but Freya Dog did give a bunch of stink eye to birds from the front window. I like to think she was telepathically telling them to aim their poop towards the swasticars.

The dog takes a better looking academic headshot than I do.

Maybe my university can replace my photo with his.

The college students I work with are smart and kind, I love every interaction I have with them. But I’m starting to think they operate under the belief that I live in the library.

From a student: “I stopped by your office today and you weren’t there which is fine. Think you must’ve been at lunch.”

I’m co-presenting a lightning talk next week and the organizer of the event asked for a headshot. I cannot stand photos of myself and will avoid them at all costs.

I sent her this. Now we wait.

Meet Honey Boo Boo the Dollar Plant. A gift from a kind stranger who walked by my office and introduced herself by saying “Hey, so, do you want another plant?”

Is this the new way for millennials to make friends? I like it.

He judges my millennial need for a snow selfie.

The fact that libraries are left off this academic org chart makes it all the more accurate. #academiclibraries

When the world is a mess so my desk has to have 90 degree angles and straight lines before I can go scream into the void. Coping just fine, thanks.

Quick, look nonchalant so they don’t see the firewood you stole from the wood pile.

Everything everywhere sucks. Except the student employees at the #library research desk that keep all my handwritten and incredibly dumb library jokes taped to the back of the patron facing help desk monitor.

I need more jokes for the new semester so share your best groaners.

I have students doing a due diligence analysis of commercial fishing and processing and I'm delighted to see that @statista.bsky.social seems to understand that there are many fish in the sea.

Parental love is when your dad promises to give you the HGTV dream house when he wins.

A morning snow delay haiku.

Never figured I’d
replace Wapo with Teen Vogue
and THR but…

We lost a good person today and it is up to us to continue to make trouble.

Last Wednesday’s morning choir practice. I am everyone’s favorite neighbor.

First day back to work after 3 weeks felt like a good time to work on the information literacy component of a colleague’s Vampiric Folklore class.

Over the snow but it is kinda pretty.