Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦

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PhD student in English at UCalgary, adult ed teacher, reader, spec fic writer, and all-around nerd and horsegirl, heatherclitheroe.com

Taking off from Changi airport; view of the waters around Singapore filled with cargo ships.
Picture of a desk with a laptop case, glasses case, and black mug that says 'Work,' by a window with very green outdoors in Singapore.
Herbarium sample sheet of bamboo.
Ports of call from an app, showing the vessel's stops
Picture of an open air veranda facing the ocean with a box of delicious dim sum on the table.
Changi Jewel waterfall feature. A concave roof has a simulated rainfall pouring down into a pool below as a train passes.
Airline flight map showing route from Vancouver to Singapore, only just begun.
View of a probably not haunted hallway.
Powerpoint slide that says 'Teaching Romance and Erotica' Designing a consent-based, trauma-informed online classroom by Heather Clitheroe, PhD student, UCalgary
Door with a 'just married' sign on it.
Flowers, champagne, and candy bars and haribos on a counter top.
Candidacy reading countdown chart showing 'items remaining 38, items completed 101, days remaining 151.'
like...my notes and translations isn't perfect, but I definitely get something different from reading that than, say, she would. “The arcologies solar panels fluttered, tracking the sun, shading its walls, controlling temperature as they soaked up heat and light. Beyond Cypress 3, sister arcologies 1 and 2 were also visible, and to their west, the borehole of Cypress 4 was marked by the rising latticed towers of construction cranes, flamboyantly draped with 远大集团 banners dangling down the sides in red and gold” (ch 4) (yuan da - adjective - long-range, broad, ambitious, jituan - group, circle, bloc) - translated by the character, Angel, as “The Broad Group, a badass construction firm out of Changsha.” (ch 4) - note that 急湍 would refer to switf/rushing current or gurgling rapids (homonym to 集团.
Picture of the Bow River with a large ice shelf.
Form that reads 'What do you consider strenuous activity? (Answer should not exceed 250 words * required question). The answer box reads simply, in the baddest toughest late 40s woman matter of fact voice, 'I have completed 8 marathons.' The sound of a microphone dropping to the floor, rolling off the edge of the stage, and clattering to concrete echoes in the background.
Touring handlebar grips on a very nice bike with a lot of stickers on it.
Snow. Uggggh.
Two cats watching the Artemis mission landing.
Spotify daylist titled slow jazz pizzazz Saturday evening
Photo of two books: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and How To Writrba Thesis by Umberto Eco.
Candidacy reading countdown bar chart: items remaining 60, items completed: 79, days remaining 192.
Picture of our magnificent little planet in gibbous, as seen from Artemis.
Bar graph reading Candidacy Reading Countdown: Items remaining 78, Items completed 61, days remaining 205.
An optimistic looking bar graph that reads Candidacy Reading Countdown, items remaining: 84, items completed: 55, days remaining: 207 god will i ever be done with this
Picture of a delicious falfel wrap that hasn't been wrapped yet.
My never-ending candidacy reading list bar graph, now with 'days remaining' added. Items remaining: 96. Items completed: 43. Days remaining: 216.
Bar graph reads 'Candidacy Reading Countdown,' with 41 items completed, 98 remaining. My eyes are soo tired.
Bar graph reading 'candidacy reading countdown' showing 126 items remaining, 22 completed.
Bar graph reading Candidacy Reading Countdown. 127 items remaining, 21 completed.
Bar Graph that reads 'candidacy reading countdown.' Items remaining: 133. Items completed: 15.
Photo of the cover of Lynda Barry's 'Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor.' a pair of reading glasses just next to it.
Screenshot from the entry form for Dept National Defence 'IDEaS Fictional Intelligence Writing Contest: Polar Paradigms 2045'
Orange and white cat peering down from atop a red bookcase.
Orange at with his mouth open, peering down from a red bookcase.
Orange and cat cat peering down from atop a red bookcase.
Screenshot of Berlin Philharmonic's digital concert hall app, showing a quartet playing Robert Schumann.
Sloppy snow on center Street.
Image of news banner. Left side headline reads 'Criminal cases against ex-fbi director Comey, Leitita James dismissed in blow to Trump administratrion.' In the centre is an image of a red square with white text that says Breaking News. On the right side, headline reads 'This N.B. observatory has monitored more than a million migratory birds.'
Highlighted text that says 'write like the future depends on it'
Photo of a leaf on rocks with a river behind it.
Short clip of oak leaves that are turning yellow and gold, rustling in the breeze.
Screenshot of the US Treasury dept website with the banner referring to 'radical left' shutting down the government.
An image of an ad with multiple spelling errors. Reads: "Our mission: Make Publishing accessable by helping authos bring their stories to life through professioanl editing, illustraiton and self publishing servces."
A black cat has climbed halfway up a screen door.
A bar graph labeled 'candidacy reading countdown.' Values are 4 for completed, and 144 for remaining.
An orange and white cat sitting on an orange armchair stretches both front legs over the edge.
Screenshot of Google drive showing: Folder: fields - source articles Spreadsheet: fields reading list Documents: Gloria Abzaldua - Borderlands and Jacques Derrida - Where a Teaching Body Begins and How it Ends
vinyl album cover of Malcolm Forsyth's Atayoskewin.
Picture of Ferde Grofé Grand Canyon Suite vinyl album cover. Two black cat paws rest on the right side.
LP cover: Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E flat major op. 82 Finlandia.
Oregon Trail wagon and ox with caption 'you have died of dysentery.'
Orange and white tabby cat curled up in a ball.
A pile of garter snakes on a stone and wire fence, river in background.
Picture of roadway and very blue sky above, but with a band of brown smoke in the distance.
Ad for aspiring Continuing Education instructors information session that includes image of woman and slogan 'Teach part-time. Change lives full-time.'
View from horseback, with horse's head and neck. In a large field with trees to the left and mountains off in the distance.