The thing is…if you leave a job with an annual conference for another job with an annual conference, you sometimes end up planning 2 conferences in a three month span. AKA I’m really tired right now lol

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Come work with me at Wisconsin Public Radio! We're looking for a new, full-time classical radio host: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/classic...

Me squinting at any Zillow listing below 750 in Seattle: “Ok, is this off Aurora or Lake City…”

Great journalism here by Nathalie Graham.

This also goes for Survivor

This, a s’more, and early 2000s pop blaring.

ACLS announces the 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships, supporting 50 early-career graduate students transcending the boundaries of doctoral research: bit.ly/3OV2PVF

I’ve lived in the PNW my whole life and sometimes I’m still like, “Dang, it’s so beautiful”

Sorry moments like this (and many others involving religion of late) are just supremely frustrating for scholars of religion in the US who have been begging to be taken seriously by the public--and their own colleagues--for years.

do any of my followers happen to be experienced with biology/medical research? my musicological brain is drowning and i need a life raft

I don't know y’all, I don't think today is a good day for April Fool’s jokes.

Today is your last chance to nominate your favorite book, article, or public-facing scholarship for an SMT publication award! Don't be shy -- nominate work that you enjoyed and don't hesitate to self-nominate. societymusictheory.org/grants/publi...

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

Once upon a time, you'd go to give a talk at another university and a nice administrator would hand you a W-9 to sign and they'd send you a check in the mail for the honorarium. Now you have to spend a half hour entering data on a Special Contractor Website that was designed in a lab by sadists.

After having my flight cancelled due to weather, I am FINALLY leaving Richmond!!!

Musicology friends: I'll be at SAM this week (arriving Wednesday night, leaving Saturday afternoon), so if you'll be there and want to talk to me about editing or indexing, let me know!

They have been selling this exact night gown in the SeaTac airport since at least 2004.

I tried to get back off of a down escalator after I realized my friend was coming up the opposite direction. I fell, needed stitches, and had to take the most intense antibiotics.

Bring back statement necklaces. Relics of a better time. Dainty little minimalist stuff looks terrible on me.

When I don’t feel like I’m doing a good job, but people keep telling me I’m doing a good job, why do I feel worse?

Just a few more days to submit proposals for the Music & Labor Symposium (May 15­–17 at the Friday Harbor Laboratories at the University of Washington)! Details at the link -- please share widely. I'd love to review lots of proposals! (Yes, really!) careers.amsmusicology.org/opportunity/...

Megan is my middle name, my first name is Christina. It’s extremely common in my family to go by your middle name—I do, my brother does, both grandparents, quite a few cousins. But I’ll tell you, it’s a pain in the butt. No way I was doing it to my kids.

My son is OBSESSED with Little Golden Books. So, instead of autograph books I bought Disneyland-themed LGBs for my kids to have characters sign. I thought I was being sooooo creative. No joke, the first thing we went to was a character meal and the table next to us did the same thing!! Humbled.

I once listened to a woman argue that she wanted to wear her computer glasses to drive. The optician tried to tell her numerous times how unsafe it was. “How will you read the signs on I5?” “I don’t need to read them—I already know what they say!”

I used to work at an optical and the amount of people that would leave insisting they didn’t need glasses to drive and go get immediately behind the wheel was baffling.

The inability of kids to sleep in on the weekend (even when sick!) should be studied!

You never hear about anyone else of Bingen.

Hey just a philosopher noting that the original academic meaning of “performative” is that words aren’t just symbols but DO things in the world.

A very "lets stone Cassandra" kind of day. Whew.

Alligator Bites Never Heal still really hits for me. Any albums you’re going back to lately?

Five jobs I’ve had: -EBay auction store receptionist/researcher (this one really dates me) -Housecleaner -Walmart checker -Church singer -Optician

Found out an old friend died today. I hadn’t seen her in a few years but I am still so sad. Grad school friends are different—you see each other at your worst and your best, your most vulnerable and your most brilliant. Rest well, friend.

I can't do anything about so many problems. But my neighbors are elderly. And I can clear the snow off of their sidewalk while it's still mostly powder.

Once you get past a certain age getting carded really hits and I got carded twice at different establishments tonight. Going really good about that for a while 🤣

It’s true

Bluesky is owned by musicology now, I don’t make the rules

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Things are rough but Samantha wants you to have a good day

I'm 75% coffee right now

NFC West is bananas

Self care is doing your hair so that your own image isn’t completely distracting in the background of your zoom therapy session.

While everyone is ready and excited to go back to school today, waking up my kindergarteners at 6:15 after a break of sleeping in was tough 🥺

Just looked at a camp that is $970 per child per week 😫 I hate summer camp season

Jokes on me…one kid woke up at 11 pm with an ear infection so now we’re spending new year’s morning going to urgent care 🙃

lol at this dense fog firework show in Seattle

Protecting my peace* *putting my kids to bed at their normal bedtime

Sometimes you just need to roast a chicken. Toss it in the dutch oven, salt and pepper, lemon in the cavity and and a few herbs on top. Make a simple gravy with the drippings. It’s the best.