Author: Tiffany Gilliam
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Habitual regret maintenance Sad jobs and small lives Still Facebook friends in a normalized comparative social voyeurism kind of way. What a loud lonely. Tune in to your favorite ideation station. We consume and call it rest. We leave no space and say we have no time, when we have decided both the value and…
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One part of the PhD process at Duquesne College is to read and summarize an extensive reading list, in addition to in-class readings, before we sit for comprehensive exams. The intention behind this is wildly worthy, as the importance of acknowledging what came before you is crucial to contributing to a conversation that has started…
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Have you seen this human? The one sitting in a boring box for hours on end for pay that is almost exactly enough to get the human to come back the next day. So human agrees to a forced arrangement. Human listens to podcasts about what human would rather be doing but sits in the…
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So I went to Mexico City to join my Media Ecology pals for our annual conference. A couple days before we left my husband and I were at an Allison Krauss / Union Station concert and he was noticing my distraction as a started typing into my phone. I blame live music in the best…
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What’s your favorite thing about yourself? The odds of my existence at all.
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ITS HAPPENING I have, for some reason, committed and agreed to a years-long trajectory of PhD study that, in the end, just adds some more paperwork that somehow proves my legitimacy. I’ve decided it’s best to give these incessant half-baked thoughts a place to land. This blog is where they land. This is a little…