Here's the second part of my write-up for the year, which gets into some bigger-picture reflection on "hey, huh, some stuff I did over the last few years really actually worked" and relatedly, "what do I do now, since I can't work in the same way I used to?"
It's been a rough academic year, so my quarterly updates have turned into an end-of-year omnibus. Here's what I was up to this year at work, featuring #DHmakes, corpus-building, and a major milestone for the Global Medieval Sourcebook.
Here's the second part of my write-up for the year, which gets into some bigger-picture reflection on "hey, huh, some stuff I did over the last few years really actually worked" and relatedly, "what do I do now, since I can't work in the same way I used to?"
I wrote this at the end of my 2025-2026 round-up of what I did at work, before splitting it off into its own blog post. In some sense, it's the earnest, honest performance evaluation that the HR form ...
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I wrote this at the end of my 2025-2026 round-up of what I did at work, before splitting it off into its own blog post. In some sense, it's the earnest, honest performance evaluation that the HR form ...
I guess that's an upside of university staff life. On one hand, it's got a touch of Groundhog Day. On the other, you do it enough times and it gets you thinking. 🤷🏼
You know, it's funny, I don't have a section in my usual work write-up template for that kind of thing! For my boring bullet points for she HR form I mentioned helping 6 students get things accepted to ACH, but generally the sort of review and feedback work is invisible even with me!
Today the local 10-year-old has learned the hard way that one sprays sunscreen at a distance for even coverage, not up close and directly into the eyes like a cop with pepper spray.
Their 8-year-old sister victim is taking it with remarkable grace.
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🌈Craft supplies🌈 🥰 #DHmakes
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Waka waka!
My girlfriend really wanted me to show her kid how to use ChatGPT to do line art and cartoon versions of photos, over my objections.
So I showed him, and he hated the result even with edits. Instead he Photoshopped a photo of his head on Luffy's body and loved it. Just like the old ways.
Not even primarily the citational practices themselves, but the method by which one implements them!
