With new fic in the ever-more-sprawling Lord Chamberlain's / King's Men-verse: Counsel. (John Webster PoV, set in the aftermath of the 1606 Act to Restrain Abuses of Players. Why no, this is totally not about anti-DEI legislation, why do you ask?)
I didn't really do any extended travel this summer, but I went to Ontario for eight days and saw lots of good theater (and got to meet![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
moon_custafer in the flesh, which was lovely), and to Ecuador for just under two weeks. Ecuador is stunning and I want to go back so much. It is also blessedly cool, apart from the two days we spent in the Amazon on the tour I did. (Which were also good, we saw lots and lots of monkeys and some interesting frogs and also a big tarantula, although I think if I were super-into birding I might have been disappointed with it.) Otherwise, I saw many mountains and lakes and Baroque churches, and it was all ridiculously beautiful. I think I want to go to Peru next, although both of my experiences with uphill-hiking-at-altitude on this trip have convinced me that I need to get in some serious training before attempting the Inca Trail.
So, I am back now and I officially take over as temporary department chair on August 1, and I also need to revise this article that I really don't want to revise (basically: two of the peer reviewers really liked it and the third one hated it, and it's clear from Third Reader's comments that they want me to have written a different, more theory-inflected article altogether, and I'm trying to brush up on some of the theory but also find a polite, editor-satisfying way to explain why I'm blowing off most of the rest of what they said. And, despite the fact that I'm tenured, at a school where teaching and service are the only things that really count and research is gravy, it still kind of stings.)
I didn't really do any extended travel this summer, but I went to Ontario for eight days and saw lots of good theater (and got to meet
moon_custafer in the flesh, which was lovely), and to Ecuador for just under two weeks. Ecuador is stunning and I want to go back so much. It is also blessedly cool, apart from the two days we spent in the Amazon on the tour I did. (Which were also good, we saw lots and lots of monkeys and some interesting frogs and also a big tarantula, although I think if I were super-into birding I might have been disappointed with it.) Otherwise, I saw many mountains and lakes and Baroque churches, and it was all ridiculously beautiful. I think I want to go to Peru next, although both of my experiences with uphill-hiking-at-altitude on this trip have convinced me that I need to get in some serious training before attempting the Inca Trail.So, I am back now and I officially take over as temporary department chair on August 1, and I also need to revise this article that I really don't want to revise (basically: two of the peer reviewers really liked it and the third one hated it, and it's clear from Third Reader's comments that they want me to have written a different, more theory-inflected article altogether, and I'm trying to brush up on some of the theory but also find a polite, editor-satisfying way to explain why I'm blowing off most of the rest of what they said. And, despite the fact that I'm tenured, at a school where teaching and service are the only things that really count and research is gravy, it still kind of stings.)
