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Jacquelyn Ardam
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Director of the Undergrad Research Center—Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences @ UCLA. Dog Lady. My book Avidly Reads Poetry is now out from NYU Press! She/her.
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for Valentine’s Day we had Mexican food and a top notch celebrity sighting, A+ no notes
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happy V day from my funny valentine
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is it normal to not know your significant other's phone number in 2023
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I was really hoping to get rich off of my book about poetry but alas
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It is 51 degrees in LA and I am getting into bed at 7:23pm with my dog so we can huddle together for warmth under blankets and with our heating pad
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scary movies are like "what if you were a daughter"
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letter of recommendation: cosplaying as student occasionally
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do we think my students want to discuss Love is Blind After the Alter with me or no
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it was 16 years ago OY
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tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, aka the day I found out I got into grad school, aka, and I say this completely unironically, one of the top five happiest days of my life
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my biggest piece of advice to academics applying to admin/staff jobs who are used to applying to faculty jobs:
write an entirely new cover letter that addresses the job description of the position you are actually applying for! A slightly altered fac job letter will not work!
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I have just had the realization while it was happening that my version of The Big Chill singing and dancing while cooking involves: Ace of Base and TLC
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the best song of the 20th century is No Diggity
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the best song of the 21st century is WAP
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cozy Sunday
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the thing about Millie is that she is always going to use as many pillows as are currently available
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The title it something my grandma once said to me and I thought it was perfectly dactylic
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In college I submitted a poem titled “The Chickens Were Gorgeous at Costco Today” to the English department poetry contest and I did not win
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a Costco chicken for my better half
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lots of good glasses at the Brecht show
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omg Zaynab is in therapy and all my dreams have come true
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imagine being this smol, the shame!!
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when the only person in your life who has seen Women Talking is... your therapist, that's the ticket right there
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You haven’t really lived until you’ve been in the room with science faculty reviewing your humanities research syllabus
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the prioress of garbage
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If I watched fewer murder shows would I have fewer murder dreams
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- no16.7%
- never give them up41.7%
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Love is Blind’s After the Altar drops tomorrow and yet I have tickets to see a Brecht play? what to do what to do
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they call her sunbeam Millie
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you think you know all the acronyms at your university and then you get a promotion and there are just more acronyms spooling out, forever and ever, until you have no brain cells left for anything but acronyms
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“You need a haircut,” I say to my dog, as if it is her responsibility
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to ensure chaos in the California classroom I recommended pulling up Transparent California. Your students will never recover
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I am going to see the Wooster Group's performance of Brecht's The Mother this weekend and I am so excited for the verfremdungseffekt and also presumably communist and freudian feelings!
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as an expert in listening to British audiobooks I would like to declare that the word that British people never get right when doing an American accent is: “anything”
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my division at UCLA (Undergraduate Education) is hiring an Academic Coordinator to manage many of our programs! salary range starts at $72k
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zoom in for tiniest sunny smile
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my dog has once again chosen sleeping with her snack (not a metaphor) over sleeping in my bed with me, her soulmate, and it hurts every time
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no you’re crying over a dog on Instagram who was literally found in the trash but who is now getting the love and care she needs!!
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have you read my book and if not, should you? yes
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