Cindy Au

Obsessive Compulsive Traveler

Whenever I prepare for a trip, I spend insane amounts of time trying to find the right hotel/Airbnb/lodging. Maybe I’m a bit picky when it comes to where I sleep at night and don’t want to run into any surprises, especially when traveling abroad. After spending so many hours…

Silence

I’ve been quietly consuming internet noise on a daily basis, scanning headlines but not clicking out of anxiety that what comes next will be the sound of something I don’t want to hear.

I look at news but don’t read it. I catch glimpses of video clips being pushed at me, but I don’t…

Continuity

While going through and cleaning up some of my old computers, including the one I wrote my dissertation on, I found my now ancient teaching portfolio.

What is a teaching portfolio, you ask? It is part of the TOME you create when you’re preparing yourself to go onto the academic job…