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scholar_farmer

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Musicologist interested in #nuntastic literacies; also teaches about #PandemicMusic and #Shakespeare. Prone to sunrise rhapsodies and fulminations against rural internet. Blogs at https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/ She/her.

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Former me put a March 1 deadline on my calendar. Present-day me just discovered that the real deadline is March 15th.

I love former me…

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Not clear on the motivation behind the rope cut but, hey: it adds a plot twist?

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Flishy flashy lights. Cool

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The funeral-march cliff climb is a choice

Did I say it was a good choice? No, but it was a choice

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Green light. So weird

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Fire!

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My cat was jealous and shit down tubi by stepping on the result

What a little monster!
<just kidding>

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Food fight? Oh Dr Who, you have lost your way

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How do THEY know we wanted to help the Thalls?

Ian actually noticed something

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Mutations: the Thall eyeshadow: just what is it concealing???!!!

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Let them die…
Just like all the hallway colors

Tie-dye colors everywhere

Including Susan’s face?

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Bum BEEEEEEEE

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If I screamed every time a door closed I’d have laryngitis

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Oh golly the opening door trick

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The Chihuli flower prop is delightful

Glass flowers in an ash forest. Hmmmm

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The falling, so much falling

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Who needs bug-eyed monsters when you have big-eyed companions?

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Great entry!

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Aaaaaaand the entire university library proxy server system has gone down and IT doesn't work on Sunday mornings.

Yeah, I thought so too.

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(It's not that I don't believe in "weekends," it's just that I like to group my weekends in ways that fit MY calendar, not my institution's calendar. Wednesday hikes, and Friday fly-aways, rather than Saturday and Sunday framings -- uninterrupted time is valuable for what I want to do with it. Sooooo frustrated today.)

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The northern flicker is just hanging out for a while. Scoping the space. Considering life’s options.
sometimes means just looking out your window…

Polka dotted Brest in brown and black, notable red mark on the nape of the neck. Standing on a fence post
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Blog post on an early modern deathbed meditation from a Bregenz convent prayerbook, with context, analysis, and a provisional transcription/translation of the Seventh Word.

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

Blog post title: Practicing Death: The “Seven Last Words” at Thalbach; Image: a manuscript image of a crucifixion, with a bit of prayer text to its left: "I must leave behind everything that is temporal and return to you..." Image from ÖNB Cod. 11750, fol. 8r; text from ÖNB 11750 fol. 56v-60r
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The grapes of annoyance


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Lord of the watch swatches


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Another witticism from the depths of the archives, found in my notes (translated here):

  1. Thalbach Monastery, The outstanding debt of 800 florins at the district bailiff's office in Swabia, 1611-1714. NOTHING OF INTEREST. GO AHEAD AND LAUGH; THAT WAS FUNNY.

I appreciate former me and her sense of humor...

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The obvious:
It’s five bananas


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The

It’s as long as 3 Ave Marias and a Pater Noster

(No, literally, this is a thing)


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The

It’s as cold as my freezer. No, colder


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The of

It’s every bit as bad as reviewer two thinks it is


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The measuring stick:

Diplodocus was four car-lengths long


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The measure:

It took as long as a temporary cap fitting


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contentment scale

0 am at large in the household
1 you’ve noticed me
2 you’re petting me
3 you’re feeding me
4 I have hijacked your computer, books, and papers, and you are my puppet
5 treats


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Ice ice ice so much ice

Glistening 1/4” ice on trees and vines, plus a cardinal standing on the snow piled on the handrail
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I was going to play the cheese game but my evening has been a—brie—viated


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Next in line for shelter pickup. At 13 degrees, no-one should have to sleep outside.

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  1. Coffee: I usually drink it straight, but today am having it white and sweet. Such a treat!

  2. The cats are contentedly snuggled in bed, giving me elbow room for my morning work cycle (I was a sneak and left the bed-heater on)

  3. Today is KAZOO DAY at Harpeth Hall, so I get to share my collection and my collected wisdom with the high-school crowd!

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“indigenous peoples have never forgotten that nonhumans are agential beings engaged in social relations that profoundly shape human lives."

Kim TallBear (2015), “An Indigenous Reflection on Working Beyond the Human/Not Human.”

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Trenches, back into the...

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Peekaboo!

Grey and white cat, paws up and front paws covering her face but with space for her to peek out at my end of the bed…
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Guess who’s next research step is to get a paper out of the box?

Tortoiseshell firmly settled on a paper on top of a plastic box, with quilt and bed underneath Comfort? Who needs comfort when I can sleep on RESEARCH materials???
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Dear 15th century Margaret:

I love that you are ensuring prayers for both your first dead husband and your second dead husband, but I worry for your reputation. Perhaps choose a younger spouse next time?

Love, your distracted transcriber

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Hey, Margaret: thanks for paying for those massbooks; you’ve made a future musicologist very happy!

Love, your distracted transcriber

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Have done the academic work; now for some serious napping!

Bless my “I’d rather drive” hubby. This works out GREAT (for me!)

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Our core curriculum proposal made it out of committee and is headed to the Full Faculty for discussion

And there was much rejoicing!

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“Hot Turkey” at the shore…

Image of a turkey made with painted clam shells, the label hot in red and turkey in brown shells. In the back the sand dunes are visible
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And, another blog post, this one about end-of-life ceremonies at Nepal’s Pashupatinath Temple, with a more extended and slightly scholarly positioning

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

Riverside view of the Nepal Ghats, wtih blog title: Asian Sojourn 7: Life and Its Endings (Nepal's Pashupatinath Temple)
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I completed several blog posts about our travels in Nepal last summer; have a look!

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

A colorful statue on the hillside overlooking the spread-out city of Kathmandu
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The person who identified the crisis as urgent and in need of immediate all-hands-on-deck attention…

Is the same person who voted against the group’s solution

This feels weirdly “2025 in a nutshell”