Rachel Gain

I recommend sleeping in the Concourse A rest area on the mezzanine. I did it on the way to MSP and it made the experience very bearable

Right after I posted this, I saw a l truck trailer carrying nothing but a strapped-down toy dump truck, is this the kind of energy I’m attracting nowadays?

Yesterday me and my friend took a trolley tour of Atlanta, and among all the planned sightseeing, the tour guide pointed out a man in the park who was powerlifting his cat 🐱

Very happy to have received an SMT acceptance… and tickled to have received the news while editing that exact paper for a conference this weekend

(Or keep their investments invested)

I would LOVE someone to go to archives for me! (So long as I am only paying their wages/expenses, not for the connection)

(Replacing AMS announce)

careers.amsmusicology.org/pricing/

The pricing page…

((Quietly waiting for people to start posting about the AMS career center))

They say you have to anonymize your proposal, but nowhere does it say that you can’t use the Yale font…

Do AMS and SEM have resources for writing good proposals for the annual meeting? E.g. an equivalent to this SMT resource societymusictheory.org/administrati...

Just graded my students’ (excellent) finals and submitted grades… Almost done with my year’s worth of instructor of record duties.
Which means… time for… dissertation???????

Grading at the Parlor Piano

Me: Do a creative project as part of your final, here are some suggestions.

Several of my students: ok we covered sonata form in the last class so I’m gonna compose a 4–6-minute sonata-form movement that would probably get me accepted to grad school even though I’m only a freshman.

Packing for a conference is so much easier when you didn’t have a chance to unpack anything except your meds and toothbrush after the previous conference 🙃

Finally home at 3:57am… as someone who walks everywhere that >1h uber felt so self indulgent

I did not miss the irony of ending up in Columbus OH while travelling back from the first in-person solo SMT since Columbus 2019

Very long Uber ride from NYC to new haven, arriving at 3:38am

Good news: SMT felt like a warm hug
Bad news: plane was delayed then had a midair mechanical error then diverted to Ohio then LaGuardia wasn’t accepting flights so I landed 5h late at JFK (1:45am) and missed the last train then we weren’t allowed to order Ubers until 2am but now I am headed to CT 💸

Me too, clearly!!!!! I’ve been busy with busywork but also enjoying doing Proper Teaching again! How about you?

My tap group does long finales made of multiple short songs. I’m cutting the music, and by complete coincidence, this year it goes BbM-BbM-AbM-F#M-F#M-EM. No one coordinated this.

Reading a lot of dissertations. None of you are safe…

Turbo says he’s sorry about your tooth

Submitted my last qualifying exam today!!!! How I just need to survive the oral exam 🥲

q u a l s 🥵

Except the German course was also five back-to-back 100-meter sprints

This is all terrible as the only running I was ever not-horrendous at was the 800 meters

Doing a 5-week summer course during quals was like finishing a half marathon then remembering that you’re somehow also doing a full marathon and you still have 10 miles to go

I want to like bluesky, but I HATE that I cannot make my account private. I want to curate who can read what I post. There’s too many bad actors out there.

The local donut store just put a sign up saying “NO DONUTS ON MONDAYS.”

…???

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