October 2019 Monthly Review

disclaimer: these reviews are for my own personal accountability and aren’t really meant to be articulate blog posts. if you are curious about anything I write here, feel free to email me at nichole.lynn.bennett <at> gmail.com

highlights from the past month

• trip to Athens and Crete to teach machine learning in python for biologists
• 2 year anniversary with Marc
• invited to teach Python in the Czech Republic
• invited as a panelist to ComSciCon

lessons learned from last month

• slowing down and enjoying being present at drawn-out Grecian meals
• pleasure activism plays an important role for me personally and in my work

theme or emotion that sums up the month

• remembering to love myself

outcome of last month’s goal, projects completed

• turned in science communication fellowships report to Rita Allen Foundation
• revised and refined logic model for climate change dramaturgy project for Planet Texas 2050
• finished reading every single one of Lovecraft’s prose stories
• Growing Gills reading and activities for refocusing creative work
• revised Machine Learning for Biologists course
• Interpersonal Communication class trends in research presentation

goals for the month ahead

grad school

• finish class projects
• quality of science communication measure and study
• science communication fellowships paper
• social psychology project

creative

• finish blogging class and create PR plan for STEMprov
• site published for STEMprov

personal

• organize and inventory clothes to streamline mornings

media enjoyed in the last month

films

• Jenny Slate: Stage Fright
• Call Me By Your Name

TV

• The Dragon Prince (Season 1 and 2)
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

books

• The King in Yellow
• The Yellow Wallpaper
• Worms of the Earth
• Atomic Habits
• Lovecraft Country
• The Shadow Out of Time
• The Thing on the Doorstep
• Stealing Cthulhu

podcasts

• HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast
• How to Survive the End of the World