Andrew Heiss

Big personal/professional news—we've been hoping/trying to get back to the Middle East since we left in 2010 and we're finally headed back! In August, I'll be leaving GSU and heading to Georgetown University in Qatar as an assistant professor in international politics and quantitative methods.

The *Empire Strikes Back* soundtrack is John Williams’s best Star Wars work

wooooooof

watching a cybersecurity training video for the fourth time in a row bc the system doesn’t fully work with firefox

3.75 of 5 stars to Psalms for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Relentlessly Theological Book in the Bible by Joshua T. James

Made it to the base of the portal!

man, this place

lol literally just taught this today

5 of 5 stars to Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Finally unpacked and settled enough for teens to have friends over for game night and it rules

Academic time management is postponing five small tasks so you can fail to complete one large task

Some puddles remain

Rain! In Doha

we’re just cloudposting now

More!

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

‘Tis the season

This is exactly the principle that has fucked up everything from deli flyers to UX in billion-dollar products Once upon a time, even if you were doing something on your own, it took long enough to do that it made you think about what you were doing! You had time to think "hang on, this sucks."

Thunder! In Doha

Dehydrated starter made it over on the boat—reanimation begins once I track down some rye flour #breadsky

Macron is apparently coming to town in the next day or two and north Doha is all lit up in blue, white, and red

4 months and 1 day (123 days!!!) later, delayed by Trump and Iran and the Houthis, our stuff has finally arrived and we are officially done with living out of suitcases! 🎉🎉

4 months and 1 day (123 days!!!) later, delayed by Trump and Iran and the Houthis, our stuff has finally arrived and we are officially done with living out of suitcases! 🎉🎉

Nothing broke and we have dishes again!

the absolute suspense of this box

hey it’s Eliza Dushku on *Buffy*! (daughter of Judy Dushku, LDS political scientist and feminist and cofounder of *Exponent II*) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Du...

Sat next to a guy on the metro who wasn’t watching random TikToks and Reels on his phone, but the full *Attack of the Clones*

*Finally* got to the beach

Probably the kindest, most helpful store in Doha?!

Saturday trip to the hardware store, just like back in the US 😂

"All boxes are the wrong but some are useful" (George Model)

Pedals and keyboard stand and bench finally arrived!

Good morning

h*ckin heck yeah to this

oh no

man, what an album

Clouds!

any statistician born after 1983 can't hand-calculate sums of squares... all they know is be Bayesian, eat hot chip & calculate marginal effects