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Continue reading →: mid-march making and musingToday (and also next Monday) I’m working on campus, because I’m running workshops for grad students. This week’s is about designing and discussing research posters, and next week’s will be about giving research talks that are aimed at non-expert audiences; both are designed to support students in the lead-up to…
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Continue reading →: wardie whirlwindI’m recombobulating after a whirlwind trip (Thursday – Saturday) to Cleveland to present at CCCC 2026 — between post-conference/travel exhaustion (more on that later) and the time-change, I’m feeling rather scrambled and useless, but the good news is that it is Spring Break at my university, so while I do…
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Continue reading →: hello, march.Later this week, I’ll be taking a Greyhound Bus (for the first time!) to Cleveland for the CCCC ’26 conference, where I’ll be leading a standing group meeting (for the Linguistics, Language, and Writing group) and presenting as part of a panel tied to a different standing group (the Cognition…
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Continue reading →: looking for colorsMy projects recently have almost all been black, white, and/or red. An interesting color palette for me as a linguist/cognitive scientist, given what I know of research on color names: these are typically the “first three” named colors that we find, cross-linguistically. Since last week, I’ve knit another Melt The…
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Continue reading →: a little loony.Winter really started to break me last week…and, probably not coincidentally, we hit 100″ of snow last week, the 4th earliest date for that metric in recorded history (and never before during the 20 year period we’ve lived here). So yeah, maybe it’s not so strange that this winter has…
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Continue reading →: still cold. still silly.Why yes, I did knit a Melt the ICE hat for Sven Scandinavian…and it really does suit him! (And yes, Sven wants ICE OUT!) I cast on the same number of stitches as called for in the Sven pattern’s hat, and then basically did the Melt the ICE pattern, adjusting…
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Continue reading →: it’s groundhog day.Hello, February. For anyone using a Sunday-start calendar, this is an exquisitely square month; my preference is Monday-start, so I’ll just have to wait until next year to be delighted by February’s squareness. It’s groundhog day today, so how appropriate that I have a repeat project to document! That’s right,…
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Continue reading →: winter sure is winteringToday is a snow day, not just for my kid, but also for my University, which almost never cancels things due to snow; they’ll never live down the email they sent to employees about a similar storm probably a dozen years ago or so, advising us to “bring a shovel…
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Continue reading →: (almost) new semester, (almost) new sweater. Also, cats.Tomorrow will be my first day of teaching in Spring Semester, 2026. I have a much lighter schedule this semester (only two classes, literally half as many credits as I was teaching last semester!) and I’m feeling pretty good about what I’ve got planned. I always update readings, etc a…
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Continue reading →: on the 12th day of 2026We’re not even two full weeks into the year and already the federal government has taken actions that seem designed to instigate both a World War (the Maduro kidnapping, all of the posturing around Greenland) and a Civil War (the occupation of multiple US cities by ICE, and the murder…
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Continue reading →: on the 5th day of 2026Well, it’s been a heck of a year so far, hasn’t it? Not even a week into 2026 and it already feels like too much. I went to bed Friday night still feeling the joy after watching & reading everything from Mamdani’s mayoral inauguration in NYC (including a performance of…
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Continue reading →: new hat, new year(‘s eve).It’s the last day of 2025, and I have a new hat! I finished the grafted bind-off this morning. Pattern: Porty Hat, by Ysolda TeagueYarn: Schoppel Wolle Zauberball Crazy in “Cool Botanical Greens”Needles: Size 2 40″ Chiaogoo circularsTime to knit: A few weeks After knitting a Porty Hat for both…
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Continue reading →: zwischen den jahrenWell, it is in fact Monday (evening), though we’re in that strange part “between the years” (“Zwischen den Jahren”) where there’s really barely a reason to know what day of the week it is! But since I’ve been attempting to stick to the “Monday Musings” format, I figured I should…
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Continue reading →: Winter solstice 2025We’ve made it through our darkest night! At least, that’s true in the literal sense; thanks to axial tilt, the days really do get brighter and brighter from here. Whether that’s true in the more metaphorical sense remains to be seen…it’s been pretty grim, with mass shootings and a maliciously…
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Continue reading →: farewell, fall semester.As I write this, I have finished grading all that there is to grade from Fall ’25, which was quite a bit given that I had an extra class above what I’d planned on having. Which for anyone following along means that I was not finished grading when all of…
whit::knits
Hello,
I’m whitney
I’m a knitter and all-around crafty person, a maker to my core, a violinist who also dabbles in ukulele and piano, a linguist/cognitive scientist who teaches writing, a progressive Unitarian Universalist, a parent to an amazing kid, a lover of cats and of all things related to language and the mind.
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