I may or may not fully remember how to teach but I have already mocked Walter Isaacson multiple times, so the first week back in the classroom is at least a small success.

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We (faculty at USC) took on an institutional behemoth with all the money and clout on earth, and we WON. We won our union. We're the biggest private-university faculty union in US history. Trying to make people care about this, challenge level IMPOSSIBLE

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Strawberry cherry blossom mochi donut from Isabella's.

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In other news, I have completed the revisions for THE FLOWER COURT (January 2027) in which a clever young scribe infiltrates the imperial consort quarters to search for a missing noblewoman, only to find herself forced to work with the dowager empress' loveliest and most condescending servant.

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For International Women's Day, I present Maya Lin. Born in Ohio to Chinese immigrant parents, she was 21 and a student at Yale when her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial topped over a thousand others. www.pbs.org/pov/films/ma...

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