colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 01/09/2026Y'all I got a 5th place ribbon at the Minnesota State Fair for my savory scones!! Finally got to wander through the Creative Activities building today to see all the the amazing things Minnesotans have made this year 1120 12
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 24/08/2026me picking up the copy of the power broker i abandoned this summer bc of the bqe video 060 6
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 14/07/2026yum town!!!! i think i might go for more frosting (or a thicker frosting? probably need to go to a special grocery store to get Smetana Smetana instead of sour cream) and am tempted to play with spices but pleased with the first effort 120 2
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 13/07/2026it was 93 degrees today, we don't have AC, but for some reason i was inspired to practice one of my state fair bakes: medovik. absolutely melted for hours, but hoping it's tasty (it has to sit in the fridge over night so the filling can soak into the eight [8] layers!) 040 4
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 30/05/2026love the plug for local fish markets and Soviet history 010 1
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 30/05/2026alright time to draft syllabus language instructing students not to use google for coursework 110 1
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 17/05/2026It's not a new term, Levitsky and Way's 2010 book is named after an article they wrote in 2002. Competitive like "authoritarians hold elections and face opposition," just the rules of the game are stacked in the regime's favor 150 5
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 10/05/2026Real footage of me trying to explain this exact thing to a bar trivia host - the question was something about "what foreign food word means 'to spin'" and they didn't give points for döner. That man did not want an etymology lesson but boy did he get one (and I got $20) 100 1
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 27/01/2026double digit above-0 temps after days of double digit below-0 temps there was no sun, a real monday of a monday, the horrors are heavy, but dang: warm 030 3
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 03/01/2026There's a guy named STEVE G who does hints for Spelling Bee every day, I'm obsessed with him (well, moreso the rest of the Spelling Bee community commenters' obsession with him - Jan 1 was just people wishing Steve G a happy 2026). Steve G who are you??? Magazine profile of Steve G when??? 130 3
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 10/11/2025a friend from college works on AI for education at google and every time i see stuff like this, i'm so bummed, because she had such a thoughtful, passionate approach to her education and has sold out for fancy clothes to hollow out young peoples' minds 030 3
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 12/08/2025Timeline cleanse: my dearest dearest friend got married this weekend and I helped make her bouquet from flowers her housemate grew in their garden 0100 10
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 30/03/2025Me reading this essay about feeling haunted by paranoia that student writing is AI + giving shape to the spidey sense of knowing when I'm reading genAI text 141 4