Pandemic Pursuits

I haven't blogged for a while, because a lot has been going on. My school suspended face-to-face classes in March and required all teachers to pivot to distance learning, with little more than a week's notice, which made for a busy time.  Now the school year is over and I am transitioning to summer mode, a time in which I mostly stay home anyway and work on academic writing and other home projects.

One of my fun activities has been home-mare sourdough bread.  I haven't baked much for some time (and really surprised my wife when I started).  And, of course, yeast is almost impossible to find in the stores, so like many people I have established my own sourdough started.  It turns out to not be hard at all, and the resulting bread tastes much better than commercial bread from the stores.

In scholarly writing, colleagues and I have a manuscript we are about to submit that has to do with the experiences of college teachers in the pandemic transition.

And I am constantly amazed by the politicization of the pandemic.  We truly do live in "the dumbest timeline."