Wrapping Things Up

It just feels so good. This past Thursday was the annual Hagey Lecture, a lecture jointly sponsored by the University of Waterloo and the UW Faculty Association. I’ve been up to my ears promoting  it for the past few weeks and organizing it for the past few months. And it all paid off. With a crowd of nearly 500 people, we welcomed Oxford historian Margaret MacMillan, who lectured on the root causes of World War I and whether they were choices or accidents. Short answer, yes. The whole thing should be up on Youtube soon, and I’ll do a video and put a link up when it is.

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Dragons! And Being Nice

Well, Dragon. My D&D game fought one today, and that and the fact that it’s about a million degrees hyperbole in my space have got me pretty much exhausted. I love running dragon fights, there’s something really special about them. Everybody gets a kick out of it, they don’t happen too often, and most of the group nearly dies. This dragon was a medium blue named Gerald. Because reasons. But I don’t want to talk about dragons all night (Though I could. This one time a party fought a Chaos dragon. They have this killer confusion breath that left everyone shooting arrows into the wizard except for the warrior, who soloed it like a bos–I’m done). I keep thinking about my job, a big part of which is being nice to people on the internet.  (more…)

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Habit

Above all else, I’m a creature of habit. I think we all are to some extent. We enjoy a good routine. Getting my wisdom teeth out put me out for two weeks and shook up that routine quite a bit. I’ve decided to get a new one. Getting up earlier, doing more things, exercising better and finding more time to do the things I really like, like cook, make music, and shoot videos. here are some of the habits I’m trying to get into.

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Back in Black

It’s the song I keep humming every morning on the bus. The new site is white of course, but you get the idea. It’s been a long time. I stopped writing these when things got crazy during Headshots, and never quite managed to get back to them. Between Vidcon, getting my wisdom teeth out, starting a Youtube channel…I won’t say there hasn’t been time to write, but I took it pretty easy over the summer. But I’m back in the saddle and I’m here to stay, every Sunday until whenever. Partly because after spending a few weeks curled up in a tiny ball from pain, I’m out of the habit of leaving my house. Writing here changed that before, and I’m hoping it does again. I also like having a space where I can just write about things that are going on. Speaking of that, I declared a moratorium on crazy schemes for the summer, but now that it’s fall, things are back on.

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Kalamazoo 2013

I’ve been slipping on these Sunday posts as Headshots from the Heart gets closer and closer (there won’t be one next week because I’ll be raising money for children’s hospitals). As I write this, I’m editing my final video from the International Congress for Medieval Studies and fixing to pack my bags to head home from Kalamazoo, Michigan. As always, the conference leaves me feeling changed, the question is how long it’s going to stick and what I really want to stick with.

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