The Fate of Ophelia is an absolute bop and I cannot stop moving when it comes back on (yes it's been on repeat basically since I woke up and I did listen to it three times last night)

TLOAS countdown is giving me big Christmas Eve vibes right now

Managed to get my kid a COVID shot at the Harmons in Midvale 🥳

In case this helps someone else: I have a very very simple task management method. At the beginning of the week, I create a task/event/note list. Every day, I create a "Tada list" where I write down what I got done (even if it wasn't on the weekly list)

It turns out that it's basically impossible to get my kid a COVID shot here in UT. I'm used to casually scheduling my family's flu/COVID shots all for a Saturday morning, but the wrench thrown in by the current admin has meant so much more work

also, as an organist, I'm not a fan of releasing songs in quarterly small batches and I do think it's doing people in music callings a disservice.

Me seeing the new hymn drop like:

Starting a podcast with some friends and every time @lizbusby.bsky.social drops the rough cut I'm like "ooh a new episode to listen to! 🤓" as if I'm not literally one of the hosts

Submitted my thesis this morning just after 4 am

After all this I now finally have a working title for my thesis: "The Personal is Feminine: Gendered Quotations in LDS Sunday School Manuals" #mormonstudies

"The personal is feminine" feels like a statement I've heard multiple times before so why does it only bring up a single blog post in google search results

*sighs* *fixes the sign*

Now That's What I Call Maintenance Phase found in my HelloFresh box this week 🙃 @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

I was a DDR kid but Beat Saber seems to be scratching the same itch... especially with some very decent modded maps of KPDH songs

Anyways just have to finish writing this paper and then I can start haunting archives in full force to write the book myself.

some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly

Writing my thesis and again strongly feeling the lack of a history of the Sunday School organization. Would really love to cite a single book but nooooo I have to cite eight different news articles and five different interviews I've done. #mormonstudies

Tien, handing a rock to Kaladin:

I'm sorry but this is one of the funniest things ever

okay i'm very distracted by TS stuff right now but also I just wrote the first draft of my conclusion to my thesis and I did not expect to end it by saying "actually maybe we need to get rid of the four year rotation entirely"

I'm working on a thing for church and I'm talking about the infamous "blueberry" prompt for GPT-5. Figured I'd test to see how fast I could make a Python script that would accurately get me the number of a given letter in a given word. It took me less than two minutes.

Unsurprisingly still upset about this (they responded to our google review) and here is what is currently frustrating. I did review the papers which does have "Important Notice" about inspecting the shipment. HOWEVER. There are over two hundred items in our house from the move. The driver is done.

Have been having the worst experience filing a claim with Allied Van Lines and I genuinely wish I could complain to them on Twitter about it. But, I'm here, so let me tell you about how our PS5 went missing during our move and how Allied claims they aren't liable.

I saw this still in the behind-the-scenes for last week's Game Changer and immediately went "oh that's a missionary name tag" and then managed to find that the still is from a short film www.imdb.com/title/tt2034...

Anyone want a NYT games subscription? I got a family plan and have two slots--$2.50/4 weeks

Gonna be honest I did not realize there were still hotels with smoking-allowed rooms

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

I have reached the point in writing a presentation where I have lost the thesis entirely and I must find my way back out of this cave please send snacks

really struggling to write this paper, so obviously what will fix me is a new digital tool

Hank is right and I want this to be implemented immediately

Me: "I'm so overwhelmed and burned out, how am I supposed to do all of this work???" Also me: "what I need is a Brand New Labour Intensive Project. That'll fix me."

Today's absurdity was learning of a property management company that deincentivises > 1 year leases with a $15/month "long term lease fee" because "some owners don't raise the rent or don't raise it much if they do"

Time for my hourly Zillow/KSL Homes check

It was a grilled cheese BLT with pickles from the Nauvoo Cafe in the Joseph Smith Memorial building in downtown SLC circa 2010. I tried to recreate it for years.

my toxic trait is thinking “once this week is over it’ll calm down” every week forever

so happy to have @restingdinoface.bsky.social's take on the "dire wolves" in Slate slate.com/technology/2...

It is wild how much just adding lettuce elevates a homemade sandwich

Hey #MormonStudies folks! There's now a Discord server! The goal was to have a place outside conventional social media where anyone under the Mormon Studies umbrella could network and collaborate. We also share job postings, calls for papers, and other opportunities. Can't wait to see you there!

Sophie's taking charge of the central fireplace in Howl's Moving Castle is representative of the feminization of the social order envisioned by Hawthorne. In this essay, I will

Hey #MormonStudies folks! There's now a Discord server! The goal was to have a place outside conventional social media where anyone under the Mormon Studies umbrella could network and collaborate. We also share job postings, calls for papers, and other opportunities. Can't wait to see you there!

*waxing poetic about Fortran 77* me: it’s the mushroom of computer languages. It’s not math, it’s not language, it hovers in a netherspace that is somehow, ineffably both my computer major child: please, Mom, just learn Python already JFC

I've got a purple copy!

Perfect thread for the day. Read it and log off. See you tomorrow

I love and adore research like this

Today's #mormonstudies tidbit comes from a letter written by T. Y. Booth to George T. Boyd!

The most consistent thing about my personality is that I feel most fulfilled when I'm working on twenty different projects

Can you think of any Mormon-specific ways of reading a sacred text? Many times when we're told to study the scriptures, it's just vague and general, without a specific description of a practice. #MormonStudies