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Andrea Leap

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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This. THIS!!
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hm, interestingly I *just* saw a sleep specialist who recommended that I shift my exercising from first thing in the am to about 4:30 pm - this is next to impossible with my work schedule but he claims even a few times a week will help shift rhythms to better sleep.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can you share the group you foster thru? A friend is looking for a temporary foster as she recovers from childbirth and needing to acclimate her dog to the new baby.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My ENT recommended sinus rinse, evening showers and antihistamine “through the most gorgeous parts of autumn” 🍂 drier years = less misery, but nothing really works.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
brilliant idea will try!
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Maldon is what made me gasp
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes, I have found this particularly galling in women’s health, where one of the things we are scolded about is getting adequate sleep. One of the suggestions for how to accomplish this is to “manage stress,” which, you guessed it, we are told to do by…getting adequate sleep.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This. Gorgeous graphics and all the points I’ve wanted to articulate. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Most of mine have come from an employer.
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Eric Moran @deveric.net · 16/09/2026
As I see carless/car-light folks gloating about rapidly rising fuel prices, just a reminder that not everyone can ride a bike/take the bus to their jobs in a reasonable time, and we are rapidly approaching winter, which makes that harder. Plus fuel prices impact other goods pricing. Come on y'all.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would take an invite pls
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Years ago they made a Theraflu that knocked you out BEYOND dreams, no matter how stuffy, achy, miserable you were. You’d wake up thinking you weren’t sick anymore. They stopped making that formulation because the primary ingredient was pulled by the FDA. I hoarded a stash for years it was so good
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Exactly. My department head offered me hers upon hiring me.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A Thing that is real from the admin side is that syllabi are how colleges get accreditation. So we are asked to turn them in or publish them even if we are teaching…something not academic like individual lessons.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
which meant he had to navigate the stage without any aid. Improbably, they also decided to rake the stage, slanting it at a steep angle AND ALSO opted to have him make his first entrance on horseback. No idea who had these brilliant ideas but they did Bocelli’s singing no favors. /fin
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I was in a production at Michigan Opera Theater that starred Andrea Bocelli, blind pop star singer. It was his first attempt at performing a staged opera, and while it would have been plausible to change the character he played to a blind character, they opted to make him play a sighted character /1
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yes! I love a raw zucchini salad in a lemon vinaigrette with basil. It’s a bonus this year since I’m not eating lettuce I didn’t grow myself.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I have been wondering *for years* what on earth was for sale at Nautical Bowls, a place I seem to pass by once every few months when I have no chance to stop and investigate.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Thank you 🙏
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I am so sorry for you loss. And I think it is human and caring to grieve for people, even if we’ve never met them.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Rescue dogs
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I’m sorry for your loss. And also grateful for your child’s empathetic instinct.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Handwriting thank you notes.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
SING IT LOUDER
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
There was some new info reported out of Pakistan - that due to inexpensive Chinese solar panels and high energy prices, a quarter of households in Pakistan are generating their own power and bypassing the energy company. There is a breaking point it seems…
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Got married yesterday! So that’s new.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas…
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Yeah, I think most of us would fare okay! My exes - even those I really don’t want to see ever again - I’d still recommend them for positions of leadership. And their musical tastes were the least worst things about them.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Careless People
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
As someone who has sat on review panels for these things, a straightforward “how to write a clear, simple statement that speaks to the stated criteria” would help a lot of folks. Don’t get in there with extra stuff. Stick to the criteria bc that’s all reviewers are allowed to consider.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
You’re totally right; that whole department leaned Teutonic. Klara Barlow was my teacher.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Well, maybe a brief excerpt. 🙄
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I do really wish I could have heard it.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This was even before my time at IU; my voice teacher there (along with others), were in part recruited to come teach bc they were Wagnerians who could sing it.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This!! I teach music history and the unprompted AI summaries that appear are full of errors. I wouldn’t trust it, because I don’t trust the data being scraped.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
They had another variety too that gets EVEN BIGGER (I too love a massive indeterminate tomato plant.)
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Wagners on Penn has them
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 06/05/2026
ICE creeping around in South Minneapolis. Keep your eyes out and your whistles ready, neighbors
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🪦👻Lady Cryptsty👻🪦 @ladychristyk.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
YESSSSSSS ❤️
A trucker hat with a cool, colorful Aztec fabric overlay and the words ‘MAKE AMERICA MINNEAPOLIS’ with the state of Minnesota printed across the front. The hat rests atop brown paper packaging
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Minneapolis. iykyk
A large rabbit sculpture with an add-on whistle sculpture around its neck.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I had musical form education drilled into me in music history, theory, coachings, song rep classes and private lessons (to fully answer your question.)
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Ok I am barely a composer (started 3 years ago after decades as a singer) and I will say I had form a-go-go at both IU (in the 90s) and UMich. But where I REALLY learned form was in all the new music reading workshops I did as a hired singer, and the text/music relationship was stressed a lot.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Amen. I actually think conducting an affair is proof of shitty judgement, poor ability to communicate AND questionable ethics. Like, you’re not gonna be good at public office.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Really more than one, but “Madame Yvonne” landed hard. I was also so struck by how much easier censorship was to pull off pre-internet. I’m rarely thankful for the internet, but that stuck with me.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Went earlier today and had a big yikes moment. Really well curated.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
. @ziibiing.com created the Stand With Minnesota page that literally kept thousands of people in their homes during Occupation Metro Surge in Minnesota. It’s the kind of thing that should be rewarded, so help spread the word.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Not surprised this is how a fateful decision is made by this administration, but still a big yikes to read (gift article): www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
And yet mission critical
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
You know it really is a hard thing to teach - I have had more success getting people who seemed tone deaf to match pitch than I have had getting folks with no internal pulse to…find one.
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Andrea Leap @lookbeforeyou.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Pay attention to her friend group and their ambitions as they move toward college. Also - I know it’s hard not to feel “behind,” but I do believe students get there when they get there.
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