research – Robin Writes

Hey, have you heard of this thing called cancel culture?

I started this week off with a visit to a class on plague. Most of my work time was spent compiling manuscripts into an appendix that no one will ever read. And I’m taking out my mounting anxiety by sewing a coat.

Like just about everyone else stuck inside during this lockdown, I’ve fallen into a sort of cabin fever malaise that’s made work pretty difficult. In that vein, I also haven’t felt much like writing blog essays, and I haven’t been inspired enough in the kitchen to post recipes. I do have some thoughts: the performance of struggle and poverty that I see from a lot of people who are doing just fine, all while delivery workers are carrying the rest of us on their backs; experiments in scarcity cooking in an effort to keep things interesting while seemingly arbitrary ingredients disappear from stores (goodbye, flour!); and, of course, my dissertation.

Like procrastibaking, but you shouldn’t eat the results. Read More

Things are really moving along. This week I finally escaped the moths in my apartment to hang out in Oxford and see some really interesting manuscripts. Read More

Did you know it’s hard to do research and also take care of two babies? Read More

Insert joke about Jewish mothers here. Read More

Last week I stayed home and did some editing. This week I read more medieval writings about urine. So, pretty mundane stuff. Read More