Good news: the bee colonies are flourishing...
Bad news: ...in our downstairs bathroom
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mastodon 4.7.3Musicologist interested in #nuntastic literacies; also teaches about #PandemicMusic and #Shakespeare. Prone to sunrise rhapsodies and fulminations against rural internet. Blogs at https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/ She/her.
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#3GoodThings
1) Pretty walk this morning, though too dark for pictures
2) Blog post done and out
3) There's still a FOUR HOUR stretch of uninterrupted time on my calendar today; time to CELEBRATE!
Nice little monster-faced beaker approx 2 centuries b.c #pavia #MuseiCivici
The butterfly bush in its spring glory #bloomscrolling
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@mediaevalfishsandwich my students had a conversation about flu and ongoing headaches. As one of them said: masks matter, I don't ever want to get sick like that again
And there was general agreement
📣 Call for Papers: “Pedagogies of Sound: Medieval Music Education in Slavic and European Contexts”
This hybrid session at #ICMS2027 welcomes papers on chant pedagogy, music theory, performance, devotion, manuscript culture, and the transmission of musical knowledge across Western European and Slavic traditions.
📍 Kalamazoo, May 13–15, 2027
📅 Proposals due September 15
🔎 Confex session #8258
https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Home/0#medieval #MedievalStudies #SlavicStudies #musicology #CFP #ICMS2027
Query:
What do you recommend for PDF reading that allows highlighting and annotation -- for a PC? Yes, I'm an old fogey and have relied on pen-and-ink until now. And yes, it's probably time to move digital. But no, the Adobe world is NOT an answer. And cloud-services are a no-go; I'm on rural internet
Suggestions?
#AcademicChatter #AmWriting #Research #Tools #PDFAnnotation
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@mediaevalfishsandwich they were at the mask at concerts / public transit stage -- crowd conscious :-)
Note to self: coffee belongs on the *inside*
And how's your day going??!!!
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@likesoldmacs@bitbang.social gosh, that's my dad's stomping grounds. Some pretty awesome birding in that area too!
I have graded the grading which was in the queue. I shall now go enjoy this fabulously wonderful spring day!
my cat is tired of my spending more time on grading than grooming her, so she deleted the file I was assessing.
Good thing I had a backup, bwahaha
Kitty was VERY excited to spend the whole night in the garage! ( Her choice, really; I had left the door cracked for her). But she did wake up obviously confused this morning!
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@jackeric@beige.party I once dropped a 2 liter bottle of soda while getting it out of the fridge, and it made it down the hallway from the kitchen and sprayed the ceiling of the laundry room before its fizz finally gave out
We laughed and laughed and laughed, because what else are you going to do?
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@rk my scout unit made those on campouts several times (with a side of cactus), so this made me laugh and also, got me in the nostalgia space!
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@davidnjoku@mastodon.world I remember that coming on as we watched the news during dinner. Such a tragedy
Hospice care is a blessing. (My brother in law's mom has entered care for late-stage cancer.) Gisela's room has a view of the lake, I'm told. And pain management is a gift for sure.
Klaus is able to be there with her for a time, but given the state of international travel, neither grandkid can go. Hard to say goodbye over the telephone.
So these are the things that happen in life: some good, some bad, all part of who we are. Today I'm a little bit sad. That too is part of who we are
The world is my oyster? No, the world is full of carrion!
sunrise raccoons! The Bobbettes are back!
(Bob had four babies; these are of a size to be from that litter)
Musicologists love antiphons. But a 16th-century prayerbook suggests the real center of gravity in the Divine Office was the psalms. The evidence? Counting drop caps.
https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com
#codicology #manuscripts #DivineOffice #chant #musicology #nuntastic #blog #research
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@lauramc@mstdn.ca what a sweetie!
Socials: do them when they are right for you. It’s all about the personal pacing
Dear helicopter pilot(s): this is a rural civilian household; floodlight scans at 1:30a are disruptive and annoying. Please stop.
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@jackeric@beige.party yeah, that too. That it was already past bedtime added to the charm of the experience
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@moewe@troet.cafe Okay, #Firefox handles PDF annotation? That's news to me! I'll have to poke around with it!
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@pablo_armur@mastodon.world isn't zotero in the cloud? I tried it back in the day (a very very long time ago) and it was spending too much time writing back across my too-narrow bandwidth. But yes, zotero would be useful at work, thanks for the suggestion