Reposted by Megan LavengoodChris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Uncharacteristically perplexing infobox on Wikipedia about the alphabet song 5346
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 27/09/2026Took my daughter to the fiber festival and now she wants a rigid heddle loom for Christmas 180
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 20/09/2026You know how watermelon sucks because it's boring to eat? guess what it's way better with balsamic vinegar on it 020
Reposted by Megan Lavengoodmammon @derekhill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026this 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 9502102
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 09/09/2026this is great and ultimately pretty discipline-agnostic. his example is mathematics but I think this can apply to all scholarship 040
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 31/08/2026having 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. 0213
Reposted by Megan LavengoodPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I 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. 31483
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 26/08/2026My 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" 3120
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 26/08/2026yeah I never thought string cheese was a bad idea! My kid is kind of sick of them though x_x 100
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 22/08/2026I just tonight realized that Mumford and Sons is not the same as Of Monsters and Men 1111
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 20/08/2026I think GMU is the same thankfully—it's just "parental leave" 010
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 20/08/2026you'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. 110
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 19/08/2026man we've only had squirrels and raccoons in our classroom 020
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/08/2026I read "cutting your pants off" and thought this was about jorts 010
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/08/2026I'm willing to make some concessions on healthiness lol. Just *relatively* healthy 110
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/08/2026Alright parents what snacks do you give your kids that are at least relatively healthy so that you don't feel too guilty about it 410
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 08/08/2026All the trees are falling apart around here too it feels like?? 010
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/07/2026ohhhh these are super pervasive aren't they, and I have never thought about that before 120
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 17/07/2026I'm sorry, people whose messages are languishing in my inbox, I'll do it today 120
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 15/07/2026in case anyone was wondering why I am This Way, I just received this email 0160
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 13/07/2026this post is kind of inspired by me being on sabbatical in the fall 120
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 13/07/2026I'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) 2100
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 13/07/2026look, 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 1160
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 02/07/2026If you’re gonna work on your slides during someone else’s talk, at least sit in the back of the room??? 170
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 16/06/2026Lmao Apple Music, censoring out Pussycat makes it look so much more vulgar 2130