The stretch and fold schedules of my sourdough dough are my new pomodoro timer method

Wrapping up the 2025 @aseees.bsky.social virtual convention, after another great year we’ve even convinced my cat to be interested in the field! (Look for him to be presenting next year)

Imagine having the confidence of this author that Neolithic Lithuanians worshipped the female Moose of All Moose

Excited to share my short piece on Soviet Lithuanian priests studying at the Vatican and their role in religious and diplomatic policy of the early 1960s! Thank you to @peripheralhist.bsky.social as well for the platform to do so. t.co/OOUz7xtn6U

When am I writing my historiography section? Couldn’t tell you, but there might be signs…..

Cutting down block quotes feels like cutting out my favorite children

Brought a new stack of books home from the library and my partner innocently asked why I was “still reading things” since I’m writing my dis now….. how do I tell him the reading never ends?

Trying to convince myself that the amount of cat hair in my keyboard is actually somehow beneficial to dissertation writing (and not evidence of petting cats and not typing)

Dissertation editorial team hard at work

An important reward in the writing process is letting myself scroll up and down (and up and down and up and down and) through a completed chapter, as a treat.

Evolution of the perfect loaf

Realizing that having all these ideas means I have to concretely write all these ideas

Auditioning for the role of PhD supervisor (literal understanding)

New book review: Harry on Friesen, Leonard G.: _Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Through Much Tribulation_. University of Toronto Press, 2022. Published by H-Russia. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20034924...

Reading Russian in Cyrillic VS reading Russian transliterated to Latin

Academic brain rot: just told myself I was going to have a “chill conference weekend” bc I’m only bringing my laptop and not my portable second monitor This is fine . It’s all normal.