▪ After months of waiting and speculating and standing in line to get a promotional cup of Luke’s coffee, it’s finally here! All four 90-minute episodes of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life were waiting for me on Netflix when I woke up on Friday morning, begging to be binge-watched. And binge-watch I did. … Continue reading Weekly Wanderings: Gilmore Girls Edition
U.S.-China Relations under Trump: A Reading Round-Up
We’re now in Day 3 of reaction pieces to Donald Trump’s election to the presidency (a sentence I never thought I’d write; it’s certainly no secret that I was a strong Clinton supporter), and I don’t expect the spilling of ink to slow anytime soon. My Twitter feed has been full of posts about what … Continue reading U.S.-China Relations under Trump: A Reading Round-Up
Weekly Wanderings: Leftover Halloween Candy Edition
▪ I think Halloween is a fun holiday. I haven’t dressed up in a long time, but I like seeing the costumes that people devise, and who doesn’t enjoy handing out candy to (mostly appreciative) children? As an adult, though, I haven’t lived anywhere with active trick-or-treating: I was either in grad student housing (Yale … Continue reading Weekly Wanderings: Leftover Halloween Candy Edition
#GTDNovember
If you’re a writer, there might be a hashtag guiding your work in November. Quite a lot of people participate in #NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, an exercise that pushes writers to hunker down and produce a draft of their novel in just 30 days. I know many participants in #AcWriMo, or Academic Writing … Continue reading #GTDNovember
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 