michelle sulaiman 🐴🐴🐴

our household’s friday the thirteenth began with a car accident courtesy of college kids’ dead week brain

Please enjoy this video I have been obsessed with for the past few days

Gave in and got myself penguin classics abridged edition of 三国 bc it’s so hard to keep track of the characters and navigating their in-game bios takes way too long

I mean, I posted secondo as power bottom, but at least it’s not on the premier academic journal of my field ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

gooning music theorists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i taught 3 different classes back-to-back last term and i always went to the bathroom--luckily just across the classroom--in between for some sweet dissociating time.

are my intrusive thoughts/inner monologues diegetic or non-diegetic? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

dead week brain be like:

is it diegetic or non-diegetic: the flute-ish sound (idk, E going to F or something), whenever a character in the naruto verse mixes their chakra in the process of processing a jutsu

ngl, this is a great hook and i feel super compelled to know the rest of their writing

carrie, which headphones did you get?

i got myself a pair of loop earplugs (quiet 2 series, reduces up to 24 dB) a while back. they're comfy and come with a nice carrying case, but i'm curious if yours reduce even higher dB.

when I agreed to this 8 am video call, I didn’t consider how the call would happen the week after spring forward sunday

me being on campus before sunrise? should be illegal

yes, I got lots of missed calls and concerned texts but I was literally vacuuming and mopping so I didn’t check my phone (RIP)

*thankfully I gave someone my spouse’s phone number so they called my spouse…
now I have a very upset wife 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

missed the recital’s call time not bc I didn’t keep track of time—i was watching the clock like a hawk—but bc I didn’t adjust the analog clock to the new time

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ luckily managed to lock in for the ravel mother goose

honestly idk how 20-something parents make medical decisions for their kids

i’m in my 30s and making this decision was challenging to me (and it’s not even life-threatening)

the prince has been very grumpy bc of the problem toe (and limping)

we’re counting the remaining days of his full toe beans
spouse and I agreed that the vet rec of removing the problem toe would be the best move for his quality of life

(thankful we have pet insurance bc the estimate is $$$)

i'm so done with the term, which on the positive side, makes sending "you're failing" emails much easier. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

imo, fleshy also makes changing weight (the so called weight transfer) easier as we control the weight through arm.

fingertip makes the overall gesture more vertical.
beginner students for ex really go up and down with the entire arm, which doesn’t allow constant shift of weight, ie no nuance

(ur on the money w pianists having that tendency lol)

isaac’s point made me reflect what differences fleshy vs fingertip surface area makes. def more control of dynamic nuances with fleshy while fingertip creates “articulated” sound

TFW the light motion sensor detector in ur office just detected u as not present/moving as ur super locked-in while grading

mr jack has been going for multiple vet visits in the past couple months and his doc said that we may have to do digit/toe amputation bc he hasn't responded favorably to the the conservative treatments

this is not even through the wall...this is from the practice room on a different wing of the building. the sound travels thru the air and lands in my office thru the window (cries)

they're holding hands aaaaaaaa

lol no.

i also may be feeling jealous of folks being able to practice for hours while im sitting at my desk catching up on overdue grading...

dont get me wrong--i love wolfie mozart the scatology boi, but i truly cant stand folks playing mozart with no dynamic nuances (or as my adviser called it, "the dynamic nuance is as flat as a pancake").

someone has been going ham on mozart k.333 and i may need to hunt them in the practice room/hall to tell them to pls do slow practice & pay closer attention to dynamic nuance just so that i can stop this aural torture

i recently learned that my bluetooth mouse can travel seamlessly from my laptop/monitor to my iPad and it somehow makes my life easier

while i was grocery shopping at TJ's, i used bananas to do bicep curls and now my arms are sore.

(my piano coach recently told me to learn how to deliberately isolate the upper arm mvt from lower arm mvt and i realized i could use curls to reinforce the idea.)

PAYPHONE - You're not a revolutionary, Harry... You're drunk.