Weeknotes: 03/23/25-03/29/25
This Week:
- Alanna and I (along with a ton of other people) watched the last episode of Season 2 of Severance. The last few episodes have left us a little cold, but despite the longer run-time, we were really gripped by the exciting and twisty finale.
- We went to see Paddington in Peru with Hazel (although Dominic was there too, just at a friend’s birthday party). It was kind of a bummer. I genuinely loved the first movie with its thoughtful meditation on immigration and chosen families. But this was a “lost city” story (which I hate for a bunch of reasons) and without any real emotional core to it. Olivia Coleman was clearly having a great time, but that’s par for the course.
- I finished working on my syllabus for MUST252: North American Material Culture. I’m changing it up a bit this year, inviting a bunch of Indigenous folks to be guest speakers, and link up the past and the present. I’m also giving my students paper notebooks and asking them to take notes and do a bunch of the work in their notebooks. We’ll see how this goes, but I’m excited about the possibilities.
- I did some installation work on the “Discovering Our Place” exhibit.
- I started doing advertising for our upcoming screening of “Lake of Betrayal”.
- In MUST204, we talked about metal objects and textiles, and we washed and waxed the bronze statue in front of the Yager Museum.
- True Things:
