#ooc

And drink water, lord.

hail hydrate!

So true.

Also, is bed time....but no bed.

alas!

see, this would be a GOOD night to work

no distractions

well, snugglecat

Omg

I found Vince in the wild

ha!

So true.

Aw, Vince. Ever the gent.

he is!

Hmm, indeed.

how are you?

Well...okay. Better than yesterday. But could be making better use of my time. Summer is running out. How was first week for you?

I survived?

Good start.

Tenure narrative is stressing me out

Objectively, I am fine

Mmph, yeah. I don't envy you there.

I did decide to stick in 5 years of chair's evaluations which ALL say "strong/very strong" and "satisfactory progress" towards tenure

like, denial might in fact be grievable with those evals

Good point! Yeah, I think that was a wise choice.

I pulled some nice quotes

I don't have to say I'm awesome, I'll let the Chair and Dean say it

Hey, evidence-based awesomeness. 😉

Also: my mentor from grad school is on my rendering panel!

woo!

Rendering...as in, how you draw your costume concepts?

yup

i am on a panel at the USITT national conference

will be talking about markers

marker work

chuckle Oh, I don't think you have any idea what you're doing, there.... 😉

they are a relatively unusual medium for costume designers

...also, sluagh proportions are WEIRD

Well, they're kinda high fashion?

But yeah, the bones sort of bend in the middle.

yeah

and toooooeeeeessss

she has the merit

Opposable toes?

yup