I've been working out in the gym at Lesley University lately. It's been very convenient, as I can go after I teach my classes, and it has very nice facilities. Mostly I just want to run indoors while it's cold outside, as I tend toward weird asthma-like symptoms when I breath cold air for too long ( Read more... )

At the end of this week, all my enormous commitments for the last several months will be fulfilled. I am going to have a very light summer, which I am incredibly glad and excited for, that even begins with basically a three-week break even from my day job in the gap between spring and summer trimesters. So I practically have a summer vacation, like ( Read more... )

The shows are over for now, and that means I’ve reached a bit of a lull. Though I have more to say about them, I think I will save it for the Mrs. Hawking blog. For now, I will reflect on the state of other things in my life now that I don’t have quite so much on my plate ( Read more... )

( Cut for diet, exercise, and body talk. )

It's officially been twelve weeks of my current diet-exercise-skincare plan. I've been very happy with the results, as my skin and abs look the best they ever have in my life ( Read more... )

I’ve been investing a lot of effort lately into working up the old mortal shell through which God would have me experience His creation. I am probably a little too wrapped up in my own vanity, but I also care about keeping myself healthy and in shape. It makes me feel really good to look pretty and feel strong, so though it adds a fair number of ( Read more... )

I am two days into my two-week break, and taking good care of myself. When I get very busy, certain personal care stuff tends to go out the window. Other than sleep, which everything else tends to get pitched out the window in favor of, I find myself sacrificing things like eating right, getting enough exercise, and taking care of my skin. But ( Read more... )

My dad recently has taken an interest in ancestry and genealogy. I think it has something to do with my mother’s death and a desire to preserve family history. He has made an elaborate chart of our family, both his side and my mother’s side, on Ancestry.com, partially thanks to other people who have listed our family members and allowed us to ( Read more... )

Lately, as I've gotten more into feminism and related forms of social justice, I've come up with what I've found to be a way of addressing a lot of the criticisms people have to certain techniques used in SJ theory. I'm sure someone else has thought of this in some form or other, but I've never seen it quantified, and I find it really effective ( Read more... )

There's a concept in literary analysis known as "Death of the Author," which states that once the written work is finished, it is an entity completely independent of the person who made it and outside the influence of their intentions for it. This is meant to account for input made unconsciously, and for the interaction between the work and how it ( Read more... )