Kristin Scott

It’s been months since I’ve had the chance to write. The move to Virginia was exhausting and stressful, and not one piece of furniture arrived unscathed, thanks to the shitty job the movers did on the Chicago end. The drive (in a huge truck) was also much longer than I had anticipated, but in the [...]

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Well, it’s the start of summer classes, with late fall-like weather! And who knew that summer would be crazier than a regular semester? Got back from Virginia — had a successful week (minus backing into a wooden sign and busting my rear window). I’ll be teaching in the English Dept and at NCC (New Century [...]

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I got into the Cultural Studies PhD program at George Mason University! Yipppee!

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Ok — I’ve spent a little over one year now in Second Life, and I’m not terribly convinced of its educational potential for college students in the humanities. Yes, I’ve been to a variety of educational events, have seen some pretty interesting simulated literary/historical environments, have even brought my own students into this virtual environment [...]

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Ok, so I plugged it as a cool concept a few months ago, but only just recently tried Bookmooch myself, so want to plug it again. On Thursday, I joined (free), uploaded 26 books into my inventory that I want to give away (easy to do — just put in the ISBN and all the [...]

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We just got our first big snow storm of the season. Since I’m not teaching today, it works for me (at least until it gets all slushy and dirty). Tribeca is loving it; she bounces around in it like a crazy puppy, grabbing big mouth fulls of it with every bounce. Greylock, on the other [...]

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This is indeed the longest hiatus from my own blog, but I’m currently teaching three classes, maintaining three class blogs and a new reviewing blog (In Review), and am thick in the PhD application process. I suspect I won’t have much time to blog here between now and when these applications are due. I’ve been [...]

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I woke up this morning feeling a little scratch in my throat and by afternoon was struck with a full-blown cold. You know the deal — stuffy head, sore throat, sneezin’ mi head off — the whole nine-yards. I was going to write something brilliant today <ah hem>, but seems like that will just have [...]

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Many people often complain about getting older, but I am loving it! I just celebrated a birthday yesterday, so my mind naturally drifts towards reflections on years past. I am excited that each day I simultaneously become just a tiny bit wiser and yet realize just how little I know. And for a scholar, [...]

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I’ve been horribly neglectful of this blog recently, but these last two chapters I’ve been asked to write for this textbook are ridiculously redundant and therefore difficult to make into two supposedly different chapters. In addition, I was recently asked, not by my wonderful editor (she’s been fabulous), but by the client, to use only [...]

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