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Music theory prof, timbre, the Yamaha DX7, 80s, pop music, teaching, cats, food, crosswords, complaining about NYT Spelling Bee, knitting. DC area. she/her
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🚨 AN 'S' IN THE NYT SPELLING BEE GAME 🚨

Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

Mariah Carey and Vulfpeck would be my dream collab. how can we make it happen

trojans: what a beautiful horse ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ —— [updated review] ok what the fuck ⭐️ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

my hobby: making Northern Virginians angry by saying that we live in the South

folks this is why it's important to pay attention in your musicology classes

think I need to take a break from here

genuinely baffling to me that you can talk to any “anti-woke” person and not understand their goals. how can you be tricked by them! genuinely mind boggling, average american brain

marriage teaches you so much about yourself

my kid is 4 years old and I often think about how I have no idea how I will teach her to navigate the internet, specifically how to ignore the copious ads and scams and look for the actual information

If you're trying to keep your heart focused on the work that you're best-placed to do, it is, unfortunately, a great day to use this procedure @kateschapira.bsky.social and I worked on. I'm going to add a few ideas and songs that I find helpful in this process. Thanks to all who contributed ideas!

the fact that none of these ai dorks seem to realize that humans are capable of thought or introspection—perhaps implying they cannot do this themselves—does kind of explain a lot www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...

Would like to suggest a slight tweak to the settings on here

The em dash—the em dash? The beautiful son of my good friend Emily Dickinson???

lmao

you have always been here. you have never left

Omg are they gonna have Jeff Goldblum sing "Wonderful"

My feed is getting very angry and I don't want it

Whoever decided the schools need to be closed for a third day after the snowstorm: come here, I just wanna talk

Trying out an FAQ-style syllabus this year