I received the following email recently: Aren’t you the smart darling with whom we had the most thrilling picnic a couple of time ago? Remember, I was scared of swimming in the river and you assured me I’d be OK and we ended up chatting the night away? You alone then and I had an …
The shape of my summer days shall be: morning get up by 7 am (shift over time to 6:30 am) do NOT check email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. as the very first thing I do some kind of movement – at the very least stretching and a few yoga poses, but more often alternate between my …
One of my mantras that I offer to myself and my friends and colleagues at school is “a bear is not going to eat you.” Taken from Merlin Mann, it’s the notion that we respond with fight/flight reactions to many things in our lives that are not, in fact, actual threats that match such a …
Wherein I share a few thoughts and a few pictures of my new home in Pittsburgh.
As I mentioned recently, I am starting a new blog that will focus on my time and work as a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh. I am pleased to announced that it is up and running at ThisThus.com. Over the next few weeks I will probably make adjustments to the look of the …
I have accepted the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Theatre Arts offer and will be starting their PhD program this fall. I plan to write more about my decision, as well as writing more consistently and diligently about the process of getting my PhD over the next several years. In fact, I will be setting …
(Link to Part 1) Today is grey and rainy. I’m up early and listening to Pandora.com’s David Sylvian radio station (thanks to John for the recommendation of Sylvian’s work) and wondering where I should start this next entry regarding my romance with academia and grad schools. Throughout the week, I’ve started and discarded a number …
This weekend: A room full of academics who study and love a marginalized art form. The ivory tower that I have often railed against and that I have fled, not once but three times.1 This weekend: the American Drama Conference at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY and I feel like I’m home. Even though …
I wrote the following several years ago while in the midst of an ill-suited MFA program in Theatre Pedagogy. Looking at it now I feel slightly sad that I am no longer on an academic track because there are so many things that needed to be changed in so many theatre departments. I still believe …
I just came across this great YouTube video by Iconoclashing that illustrates some of Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto.” I wonder if it’s the only music video for an academic essay? Check it out: