Really appreciate @jamellebouie.net standing on business on the last episode of On the Media P.S. That fan-made "miserable little pigman" remix almost made me lose control of my car from laughing

I was at a gathering and a guest fact-checked a Shakespearean fact I shared using Chat GPT even though they knew I was a literary scholar Man, we are COOKED

I finally got around to reading the heartwarming tributes to Suvir Kaul in ECS and I hope that, one day, I could be anywhere near as influential and beloved. A true gift to the profession and to the world.

It's too hot for soup season but logic has no place in the world so who cares anymore Anyway, I made this bomb ass bowl of pho

Last night, I was chatting with my kid's AP US history teacher and we were laughing over Life of Brian lines--the next group of parents walked in as I was quoting "Biggus Dickus" 🥲

Just watched the new Demon Slayer movie with my kid. Highly recommend, for many reasons, one of which is that I didn't think about this hellscape for a few hours

Today's bit of good news: I pet a great Dane named Dino who is the best boy

I haven't stopped laughing at this character's name, "Mrs. Bitchington" in Genuine Memoirs of the Late Celebrated Jane D****s (1761, Anon)

Students laughing at my jokes?! On the first day?! Absolutely drunk with power

Before kids, I used to sit in cafes to get work done. Now, I'm working on ASECS abstracts in the "Fuel Zone" at the local trampoline park.

Crowdsourcing Q: Are there any other mixed race women in 18C fiction other than Olivia in The Woman of Colour or Georgiana Lambe in Sanditon?

This is devastating news. Bucknell UP's team has been incredibly kind, patient, and supportive with my first book. I'm forever grateful. This is so sad. Support the GD humanities, including the presses!!!

Me: Are you familiar with Eddie Murphy? 18 yo cousin: Um... he voiced Donkey in Shrek? 🥲

I really, really hate that I'm hearing the r slur used so casually now. From adults!!! Kids know better (I hope)

My sweet baby boy Jackson crossed the rainbow bridge last Thursday. We are still struggling, but it's a comfort to think that my Lola Ningning welcomed him and will take good care of him until we see each other again someday.

Hot toad summer

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

My sister is at a music festival and I

Have you ever seen a groundhog sunning on a rock? Now you have

My mom is currently on a campaign to harass all her contacts on fb to pre-order my book. I love her so much 💕

Filipinos:

Peonies for pride 💕

If you are inclined to read about funny novels in the 18th century, periods, labor and birth, hysteria etc you can pre-order the book! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/delaware/bod...

Still feels incredibly surreal. Page proofs day!

Final grades submitted. No more long ass commute, no more makeup, no more pants with buttons. If you need me, I'll be in my garden yelling at the deer (on top of general yelling at everything else, but I'll be in sweatpants)

AI-generated papers + AI-generated apology emails season

Call me Nostradamus because I knew Gwendolyn Christie was going to beat some man's ass at some point this season #severance

My 15 yo came home upset. I asked him why and he said his classmates couldn't ID FDR in a picture. One of them said it was Mussolini lmao

Ok--but that big ass book has to be a collection of stories right? Ivan Ilyich is a novella!! #severance

I thought I broke my animal film weeping cycle with "Flow" until the last 5 minutes. Incredible film. Bonus for capybara.

OTD 1779 indigenous Hawaiians killed imperialist and colonizer Captain Cook for trying to kidnap their chief Happy Captain Got Cooked Day

Let me inform or remind yall that Kendrick said his HS English class was transformative for his art

I've gotten so cynical that my first response was "There'll be history books?" FWIW still fighting, but damn it's hard

I said what I said

I'm still scrolling through the other hellsite and a poster who is applauding the proposed disabling of the federal income tax used Grok as a source. Clown shit, top to bottom

Pls enjoy this majestic Carolina wren in the snowfall

This is such a stupid, trivial thing in the grand scope of things but I am drunk with power after a zoomer cashier at Marshall's picked up my 3$ powder compact and said, "I hear good things about this one"

Seriously considering the epigraph "fuck being rational/give 'em what they asked for" for my book on 18C medicine and women's excess Kendrick's bars are transhistorical

I made this glam cake for my momma

As a short (5"0) I've learned how to scale shelves and counters on my own like a lemur, but every tall I've ever asked for help has been sweet and gracious. Idk who this person is

Walter Shandy:

Saw a woman walking on the street in a snuggie and why the fuck not happy new year etc etc

Spent the evening with a friend who told me that Kill Bill sirens went on after she spoke with a longtime friend who called himself a 'high value male' the manosphere is a helluva drug yall

Here's Jax to add some holiday joy on the TL

Me: They're adapting The Odyssey. How much of it do you think will be bastardized? My 15 YO, not looking up from his book: All of it

You know what? Nothing's worked. Bring back Krampus

Me, watching The Family Stone for the 1st time: how tf did this movie get made?!?

I'm so mad that I didn't try this windowpane bake earlier!! So easy and so pretty

Me, every time I start a Yorgos Lanthimos film

Nothingburger snowfall and Jax