What am I doing right now?

Modified

September 15, 2025


Teaching

  • 👨🏻‍🏫 Teaching Linguistics Tools and Varieties of English.

Research

  • 📋 Finalizing my tenure portfolio.

  • 📃 Working on what I guess I’d call a “desk R&R” that I got from a journal.

  • 📃 Awaiting reviewer comments for five(!) submitted manuscripts (I had a very productive summer)

  • 👨🏻‍🔬 Working with students on projects about perception of affricates in Utah English and categorizing meta-comments about language variation.

  • 📚 Reading recent issues of Language.

Personal

  • 📘 Reading Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn: The Hero of Ages and listening to R. F. Kuang’s Babel.

  • 🎶 Thinking about what new organ music to prepare now that I’ve played this piece in church.

  • 🧶 Knitting two different scarves (a white one with a basic rib and a brown one with mossy diamonds)

  • 🧩 Toying around with a 5x5 Rubik’s cube for the first time since high school and waiting for a new 7x7 to come in the mail!

  • 📺 Rewatching Series 5 of Taskmaster.