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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

There will be horizontal window blinds in hell

I’m not usually one for school spirit, but damn it if Pudge the cat doesn’t make me a little proud of my alma mater

My campus building had a Halloween open house yesterday. You missed out! It was great

The best Webinar you’ll ever attend

I can’t imagine how scared and confused that poor deer was Downtown Bookstore closed after deer shatters window | WVU News | thedaonline.com www.thedaonline.com/news/univers...

I was giving my nibling some feedback on their college application essay tonight, when I suddenly remembered that I wrote an essay about a Christopher Pike book for the University of Maryland honors program. Surprisingly I got in.

I’m thinking about getting into shawls.

There’s a monster at the end of this post

Morgantown’s parade culture is confusing to me. It’s like the town is trying to hold on to its last gasp of wholesome Americana. No need to fix anything! Just have a parade!

Every research project I want to do has one of two fatal flaws: 1. An overwhelming and unwieldy abundance of sources (cannibalism, Gajdusek) 2. Almost no sources at all (Mary Kittamaquund, women in Pocahontas’ London retinue) How do I find a middle ground?

I AM THE UNDERBABY www.jezebel.com/dr-oz-adds-u...

I just recorded a 30 min lecture video for my online class with something stuck in my teeth

I am no longer very behind on grading!* *normal levels of backlog still apply

Wearing my most professional shoes today

Well well well

Happy #InternationalSlothDay! Fernández de Oviedo was the first European to publish a written description of a sloth, in 1526. There was also an unpublished sketch in his notes. Sadly, the original is now lost…but not before being faithfully copied in an 18th c. manuscript, so we have this:

Disciplinary gatekeeping is so lazy and annoying. I work in a women's and gender studies department now but I previously held tenure in a history department. Yet, somehow I am not a real historian because my PhD is in American Studies.

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

Great turn out in Morgantown. We were wearing our most ridiculous t-shirts. #NoKings

Just watched Santa Sangre (1989). Did not enjoy it. Misogynistic, rapey, and pretentious with a few genuinely interesting and beautiful moments.

I am also not doing anything illegal with soup.

Great workshop this morning about writing public facing scholarship with @lollardfish.bsky.social. Fingers crossed for the pitch that I just sent out to news outlets!

A really nice weekend getaway to NYC

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

FAFO asshole www.bbc.com/news/article...

Guess what my sister, my partner, and I are doing tomorrow? Seeing Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter perform Waiting for Godot on Broadway! Most Excellent!

@jasonzeh.bsky.social is a pretty avid Magic: the Gathering fan. Tonight while subjecting me to his favorite MTG YouTubers, we joked about whether or not a Real Housewives set would finally get me to play. I gazed deeply into my soul and determined that it might, in fact, work.

I can’t wait for my Illuminati application to arrive. It’s all happening!

A short list of terrible things: Open shelving in kitchens Cave crickets

My capstone research students just said that they are amazed about how helpful this peer review has been. And my heart grew in size.

You can always count on a hospital gift shop in Maryland

Trying to deal with the most stubborn man alive while he hallucinates is really really difficult. My dad is a terrible patient even on his best days

My dad had a bit of a set back today and isn’t doing great. Still optimistic in the long term but it’s really scary

I knew that UTIs in the elderly could cause delirium and altered mental states but I had no idea what that looked like until this week. My dad is doing better but it’s been a really difficult few days.

Is there a difference between a lunch and a luncheon?

No, I am the mother of potatoes

Happy birthday to me! I came home after driving 6 hours round trip to see my parents to find Dax with a bag handle stuck on her head.

Happy birthday to me!

Station puts up with a lot of bullshit

Introduced my grad students to The Man Show today. Including this “gem”: youtu.be/0MsnL15oCcY?...

WV: let’s take a terrible idea and make it even worse! “Monongalia County senator wants to create West Virginia DOGE” www.wboy.com/news/west-vi...

An important reminder that an overwhelming vote of no confidence from the faculty meant nothing www.chronicle.com/article/afte...

My perfect baby girl Dax

“At Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, President Donald Trump described Kirk as someone who wanted to reach people and “did not hate his opponents” and wished the best for them. Trump noted that this was the difference between them, saying, “I hate my opponents, and I don’t want the best for them.””

Those famous enemies Cambodia and Armenia . . .