As of October 12, 2026

Still at the pizzeria instead of the spreadsheets job I was born for; still suffering various ba'alei lashon hara. But my conference experience has given me new hope. This June at SWPACA I presented on precarity as theodicy in Minecraft Parkour Civilization. Then, in October, I was at the RMMLA talking about metonymy, dehumanization, and the poetry book Anarcha Speaks. Next on the docket is PAMLA, for which I'm hype as hell.

I'd love to say I feel alive again; but then, I'm currently reading Mel Y. Chen's Animacies, on the recommendation of my conference bestie, and relate (for different reasons) to their observation:

I found myself deeply suspicious of my own reassuring statements to my anxious friends that I was feeling more alive again. Surely I had been no less alive when I was more sick, except under the accountings of an intuitive and immediately problematic notion of “liveliness” and other kinds of “freedom” and “agency.”

I have a lot of reading to do before PAMLA, but how I'd love to just bask in this book for a while. But my docket is similarly stacked: Christina Sharpe, Rae Armantrout, Jasbir Puar. My kingdom to have an earnings report on the second monitor and a book on the first.

If you have literally any advice about grad school in the humanities (particularly on submitting to journals), from "I went to this school and it sucked" to "I got this tip for writing SOPs and have never forgotten it", literally just cold email me.