Weeknotes: 08/23/25-08/29/25
This Week:
- Hartwick’s semester started. I had to get the Museum employment schedule sorted out, hiring and training new workers and organizing the returning folks. I am also teaching a new-to-me class entitled exhibit prep and design. And I’m trying to finish the installation of “Memorializing the Underground Railroad” and put finishing touches on “The Study of One Thing”. Whew!
- My folks are in town this week, which has been both a personal delight for me, and also great to have some extra childcare while I navigate the whirlwind of the first week of the semester.
- I both started and finished reading Harlan Ellison’s famous novella “A Boy and His Dog”, a violent, rough story about a mostly amoral and selfish protagonist in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. And his dog. It hasn’t aged well, but Ellison’s brilliance for energetic and propulsive plots and prose elevates it from its worst characteristics. (Also, the great Joanna Russ’s review essay on the film adaptation is monstrously good and insightful about both the movie and the story.)
- I finished watching Monolith, which I felt like didn’t cash the checks it wrote.
- True Things:
