All I have done today is yell “wow are they okay? Are they trying to hurt themself?” while watching Ski Jumping.

Just submitted an article to a journal, so I'll be having cake for breakfast.

I get that libraries are moving to eBooks. But when the eBook doesn't include what page in the physical book I am "looking" at, or the page numbers don't match at all, I get very concerned. 🤬

Nope

Wichita State is hosting Model UN and I just have to hold myself back from sneaking in to ensure Moon representation.

So my neighbor had an outdoor cat who looks nearly identical to my very much indoor cat. And I had my workout for the day just now sprinting though my yard

My partner’s things arrived the day before the semester starts. I’m so glad he’s here but…everything is fine 🙃🙃

When does the Heated Rivalry reenactment begin?

There is no better investment than professional movers.

First day back from break and I can't log into Blackboard. Guess I can ignore the impending semester some more!

Can he work on this instead?

I hate moving but after two years of long distance, my partner and I are moving into this adorable house here in Wichita.

Since Bake Off is the only thing that my family can watch without fighting, here’s to all of our favorite chaos agent on GBBO www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrvSGyXA/

Seems like it's worth posting this one again.

Instead of watching the speech, I’m at DFW waiting on a mechanical delay. Not sure which is worse.

As I sit at DFW, hoping that flights don’t continue to get delayed, I can only try to Tap Into My (Fort) Worth youtu.be/MLTlvc9soHU?...

Okay so had some flight changes before I even left Kansas. Now “should” be in NC by 10:30 pm (rather than the planned 4:30 pm)

Let’s play will American Airlines get me to North Carolina today. So far, chances don’t look so hot.

So, not everyone can apply everywhere. As a white cis gay male, I felt okay about applying to a job in Kansas, but only in a large city. But why do I get the sense these guys were “Coastal R1 or bust”?

While I wish @joycedidonato.bsky.social could have been here in person, I’m still so glad I got to hear her commencement address. Value process, value humility, value service, value joy.

This is also why I *always* tell my students to double check the math on all grades. I will make mistakes and I am always happy to make them right!

I was worried that all of my students were doing poorly on their exam, but then I rechecked my math and the points total only added up to 90. Guess everyone is getting 10 points for writing their name!

The copier is broken the first day of juries and finals? Good thing I'm so type-A that I had my final written and printed last week.

Twice today I have received emails with eye-roll-worthy uses of the word polyphony. Please just stop.

I'm ignoring my anger at the AMS email and instead celebrating the amazing work of my Camp and Queer Aesthetics students, who wrote amazing final essays on everything from Religious Camp in Poulenc to Queer Failure in the Muppets. You can check out their amazing work here: musicandcamp.wordpress.com

Every landlord: we need 18 references from previous landlords. Also every landlord: here are 27 forms that need to filled out, notarized, and physically mailed back to us for us to give a rental reference.

I had a bad experience in conducting class, and then my musicology prof asked if I wanted to be her research assistant that summer. Spend the summer reading about 1950s Parisian lesbians? Yes please.

Is there a term for someone who is constantly rearranging their office furniture in an attempt to find the perfect layout? Because I need a way to describe myself.

At AMS/SMT and need something to do this afternoon? Come to the Race, Nation, and Identity panel to hear me speak on some usual ceremonies celebrating colonial independence at Westminster Abbey in the 1960s. 4 pm in Lake Superior A!

I’m a musicologist, of course I’m not playing any music during my AMS paper…

Angel hair is trash

Okay I have at least *started* my AMS paper and designed the title slide...just some more frantic writing to go...

So excited to be in Montréal for this wonderful workshop/conference on Music, Diplomacy, and Propaganda.

Using Fall Break to catch up on a few things, including a "Research Security Training" which features this slide...Ohhhhh boyyyyy

I’m watching 10 Things I Hate About You to celebrate fall break and all I have to say is Heath Ledger, be still my heart.

Because I like to stir the pot in the School of Music, today's lesson in Camp and Queer Aesthetics is totally relevant to our current holiday season...

Today in my Camp and Queer Aesthetics class we read Smart's "The Silencing of Lucia" so of course I had to use this gif as a discussion prompt and no. one. laughed. Crawling into a hole now.

Me: Teaching a Camp and Queer Aesthetics class will be fun! How hard can it be. Also me, now: *trying to decipher Kant* whyyyyyyy did I do this to myself

Really hoping this rapture begins soon so I don’t have to finish planning my Vivaldi lecture…

There was an item on today’s faculty senate agenda that just said “Rumors” and I was very excited for our Fleetwood Mac listening party. Unfortunately it was just some mediocre gossip that wasn’t even true. Lameeee.

Glad I went and got mine this morning

When I moved to Kansas, the first PCP I saw gave me some weird vibes. Come to find out his practice is a hub for anti-vaxers. Saw a new PCP today who insisted on me getting my flu and COVID shots ASAP in case insurance policies change and they are no longer covered...

I was planning on doing an Opera Studies musicology seminar in the spring but feeling more and more drawn to making it Music and Authoritarian Politics…

Just canceled my subscription.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Well this has been an interesting week 🙃🙃

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

A perfect afternoon in Astoria.

Amanda!!!!

Our elevator went out in the spring, so students were having to constantly carry large instruments up and down stairs, to say nothing of those with mobility issues. Meanwhile they are building literal rockets across campus.