Numerous faculty asked if I wanted them write a post for my departure as Program Coordinator and I felt bad about asking them to do more work, but what they also didn’t know is that they have already given me too much power and all I sow is chaos carefully crafted as normalcy. I might as well wield this power one last time on our website (newly updated and designed by current LIS student, Michelle Carino!)<\/p>\n
My experience as PC in the last several years? 10\/10, would recommend. Thank you for letting me be your cheerleader, chocolate-supplier, unqualified tech support, anxious instructor, and that annoying presence in your inboxes, you know, the one with all the frogs.<\/p>\n
If my only legacy is an actual LIS frog mascot, I would be so honored. Don’t let the dream die in my absence. Do not let the LIS frog go gentle into that good night.<\/p>\n
My Work Dad, Rich Gazan, has always encouraged me to post updates on some cool stuff I’ve been doing outside of LIS, but I screeched like a panicked pterodactyl every time, and though that has not deterred him thus far, he has suggested it one last time. And who am I to deny my overlord, on this, my last day?<\/p>\n
So, anyway, I published a short story with Tor.Com last year, entitled “Blood in the Thread.”<\/a> That was pretty nuts and lots of nice people read it! It is now in two Best Of 2021 anthologies, one with Tor.Com<\/a> and another with Neon Hemlock<\/a>. Radical.<\/p>\n