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Megan Lavengood

@meganlavengood.com
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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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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Uncharacteristically perplexing infobox on Wikipedia about the alphabet song
"ABC Song"

Song by Traditional [??]

from the album 535 Favorite Kids Songs [??]
B-side: "Loch Lomond" [??]
Released: 1835 [okay]
Recorded: 1834 [??]
Genre: Folk [okay]
Length: 1:25 [??]
Label: Decca Records [??]
Songwriter: anonymous [okay]

Traditional singles chronology [??]
"Turkey in the Straw” (1834)
“ABC Song" (1835)
"Can You Count The Stars" (1837)
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 01/10/2026
lmao Garrett
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gravewalker @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 28/09/2026
I bought the loom 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 27/09/2026
Took my daughter to the fiber festival and now she wants a rigid heddle loom for Christmas
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 20/09/2026
You know how watermelon sucks because it's boring to eat? guess what it's way better with balsamic vinegar on it
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mammon @derekhill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this website isn't nor has it ever been about conversation of any kind. this website is about conditioning your friends with praise to utter increasingly demented sentences while they do the same to you
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 09/09/2026
this is great and ultimately pretty discipline-agnostic. his example is mathematics but I think this can apply to all scholarship
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 06/09/2026
lolol
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 01/09/2026
House styles are evil
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 31/08/2026
having now used AI pretty extensively for programming, my take on AI in a nutshell is: AI is for making it easier for humans to talk to computers. it is NOT to make it easier to talk to other humans. My expert opinion is that AI is not, in fact, coming for my job as a music theory professor.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I guess it’s good for the world that I went into the arts rather than trying to make money? I mean, I’m still a monster, but with rather limited reach.
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 28/08/2026
sorry I can't get past the choice
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 28/08/2026
who in their right mind picks F♯ over D♭
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 27/08/2026
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 26/08/2026
AMS really needs a better PR rep
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 26/08/2026
NUH-UH
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 26/08/2026
My husband tried asking Claude AI to make a presentation about his latest work project, and—I am not making this up—Claude titled the presentation "Two Pipelines, One Cache"
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 26/08/2026
yeah I never thought string cheese was a bad idea! My kid is kind of sick of them though x_x
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 22/08/2026
I just tonight realized that Mumford and Sons is not the same as Of Monsters and Men
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 20/08/2026
I think GMU is the same thankfully—it's just "parental leave"
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 20/08/2026
you're 100% correct, and I'd add on paternity leave here too. Evan had a job in DC at the time my kid was born and DC is one of very few places with 12 weeks mandated paternity leave; that also felt like the bare minimum.
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 19/08/2026
man we've only had squirrels and raccoons in our classroom
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/08/2026
I read "cutting your pants off" and thought this was about jorts
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/08/2026
Survive and advance is our motto here
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/08/2026
Although lol
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/08/2026
I'm willing to make some concessions on healthiness lol. Just *relatively* healthy
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/08/2026
Are they like Larabars?
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/08/2026
Alright parents what snacks do you give your kids that are at least relatively healthy so that you don't feel too guilty about it
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 14/08/2026
this is amazing
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 09/08/2026
Please report back
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 08/08/2026
All the trees are falling apart around here too it feels like??
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 31/07/2026
Right!? We live in a society goddamnit!!
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 31/07/2026
Thong Song
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 28/07/2026
I did not think The Odyssey was very good
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 23/07/2026
me every time I text my brother
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/07/2026
OOOOOF
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/07/2026
ohhhh these are super pervasive aren't they, and I have never thought about that before
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/07/2026
but I also hate auto-replies
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/07/2026
I'm sorry, people whose messages are languishing in my inbox, I'll do it today
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 15/07/2026
in case anyone was wondering why I am This Way, I just received this email
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 13/07/2026
this post is kind of inspired by me being on sabbatical in the fall
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 13/07/2026
I'm only kind of joking, like I basically like my job and I get satisfaction from working, but sometimes I don't want to work on certain things (e.g., things people emailed me to ask me to do)
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 13/07/2026
look, I'm willing to work for my salary, but I just ask that I my job just be to do whatever I want all the time, is that so much to ask
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 04/07/2026
what if: chairs, but for people with short legs
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 02/07/2026
If you’re gonna work on your slides during someone else’s talk, at least sit in the back of the room???
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 02/07/2026
or sometimes linguists!
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 16/06/2026
Lmao Apple Music, censoring out Pussycat makes it look so much more vulgar
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 12/06/2026
Yeah there'd be a nice sporting aspect here
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 12/06/2026
Yes because I'm a snobby foodie type
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