hvincent @hvincent@scholar.social

hi!

i have a computer science and creative writing background, and i've worked in lab/studio management at a photo program for a while. i've also been doing history and anthropology coursework in an unofficial postbac/predoc kinda way, and considering real grad school in the next few years.

my interests are identity construction/boundary making, knowledge systems, land/environment usage; i enjoy being a generalist, though, so i'm stoked to hear about what y'all do!

#introduction

honestly right now the only thing i'm feeling is 'well, if i take a class it's one more thing on my transcript that i can show when i'm applying to grad school', but i have so much post-bacc stuff that one more class isn't going to make or break anything, and i don't like putting this kind of pressure on myself anyway, i want this to be at least more for the sake of learning and growing than for buffing any potential application because i don't actually care about paperwork

i've been leaning towards not taking a class in the fall bc it's been a few years since i've taken a break from coursework. towards the end of last semester i was definitely overwhelmed with All Things that pushed me beyond my reasonable self.

i don't really have to make a decision until classes start, since i'm non-degree and can pretty much beg my way onto any roster (once i joined a class during the 2nd week and it still worked out), so i think i'll just give myself space to feel it out.

anyway i wonder if i want to take a class next semester or if i'm enjoying my break too much (it's halfway through summer break and that's like six weeks without homework).

look all i have to say is that one time, one of my students wanted help with editing an image for class; she lowered her voice and said, in a very embarrassed tone, 'i, uh, don't use photoshop. i use this other free program, it's called....th...e.... ...g....im....p......'.

i dislike having to tell my students it's okay if they can't afford a photoshop license and it's not their fault the next most viable alternative has a name that is not polite to say out loud in class.

we made an offer on a house that we really like and it's been accepted!! shit's moving fast. gonna move in next month if all goes well :)

@Galdrakinn here's a good baby birb

satisfying: someone coming into my office with an external hard drive where the usb port sheared off; i pried open the enclosure and retrieved the intact drive and sent the student to the computer store to source a new enclosure.

it's finals crunch season, everyone!

do i...have the nerve to use comic sans, though

look pals i'm in the grad section of a predominantly undergraduate class and i'm not even a real grad student, i don't have much at stake here, i'm going to have some fun.

(also the work is actually legit, dogs are real and we have a real co-history with them and they know things we don't we should listen to them and also they're good.

putting together slides for a little presentation i'm giving to the class this
week and i sure did just title a slide 'practical ethdography' and included two
pictures of me at age 7 gently grasping the skull of a great dane, which is
easily larger than my torso.

i fan't believe it took me like three months to think of

"anthropawlogy"

there's a chill acoustic croony version of dirty vegas's "days go by" and it's really charming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONCY0xnefAE

the only good use of infinite scroll:

endless.horse

most notably for me, it points out a frequent issue in cosmopolitan activism that assumes an end goal which includes a global/universal adoption of cosmopolitan values, which is something that has quietly bothered me for a long time and hasn't quite started crystalizing until now.

i've often had a hard time thinking about how to align rural/conservative community views with more (i guess) "cosmopolitan" ones and this article was really helpful for me!

Rice, Jennifer L., and Brian J. Burke. 2018. "Building More Inclusive Solidarities for Socio-Environmental Change: Lessons in Resistance from Southern Appalachia: Lessons in Resistance from Southern Appalachia." https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12336.

#environmentalism #activism

new prof in my department asks me if professors asked for pronouns as part of first day of class introductions when i was a student here, and i said, 'no, because it was like, 2005'.

i feel like i'm witnessing something secret when i'm the only person listening to hackers.town:2600