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A few different things out lately to celebrate Jane’s bit 2-5-0, so I wrote a newsletter to gather the links.
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Stephanie Insley Hershinow
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Stephanie Insley Hershinow
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Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. RTs are jokes I wish I'd made first.
- Listening to a dad in this coffee shop explain to a ~4yo that Darth Vader was “a man with a lot of big feelings who didn’t have anyone to help him express them the right way.”
- Love the thing where Outlook deletes emails about meetings if I rsvp to them. Very helpful. Zero chance I'll need to look at that email again to see the agenda, find the Zoom link, etc. A million stars.
- My students are writing Austen adaptations (in the broadest possible sense), and one is writing in the form of Reddit "Am I the Asshole?" posts, and I'm just beside myself with joy.
- Dr. Biden looking awfully calm for someone with four syllabi to finalize this week.
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- 5yo: What’s Romeo and Juliet? Me: Well, it’s a story about two people who fell in love, and… [2 parents, both English professors, one a Shakespearean, give a long and age-inappropriate synopsis] 5yo: Wow. Me: Yeah. It’s sad. 5yo: Yeah. I can’t believe they FELL in LAVA!
- 6yo is home today because camp hasn’t started yet. 6yo: “Wanna do some phoning together?” Me: “What’s that?” 6yo: “When you, like, look at phones next to each other on couch and show each other stuff.”
- 5yo; “Mommy, I think when I grow up, I might change my name to a grownup name because my name is a little kid’s name. Maybe I’ll use my middle name. My name is such a baby name! I want a grown up name when I’m a grown up.” Reader, his name is HARVEY.
- Little Women (1868)
- 4yo: Girls can have short hair and boys can have long hair. Me: Sure. 4yo: How do I know if I have short or long? Me: You get to decide. 4yo, 🤔: When I decide, does my hair *know*? Me: …? 4yo: Does my hair know or do I have to go to the hair cut store. Me: Hair cut store.
- Best sharpened pencil of my life. Starting the year off right.
- Doing some public humanities (telling strangers where to stand when looking at Holbein’s Ambassadors).
