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Latest from the Blog
Weekly Check-In #1 – Hit The Ground Stumbling
It’s been a bit of a tricky week, which you might have guessed if you noticed this post went up on Saturday and not Friday. Being unemployed should mean I have plenty of time, but the constant hunt for the next-most-productive thing to do can result in a lot of hiccups. For instance, I completely…
Weekly Check-In #0 – Initial Planning
Now that I’ve got the website up and running and I’ve spent a few days coming up with things to do, I figured now’s a good time to put down my ideas. My first idea is to have a weekly check-in blog post, where I summarize what I did and what I’ll do next. Back…
Re-Launch Day
Losing your job is a good opportunity to stop and reassess, if nothing else. When the summer was winding down, I’d started to think about how I needed a new project. A new direction, even. Sessional instruction at SFU was (barely) paying the bills, and the stability was welcome in the uncertainty of the pandemic,…
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