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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

That's right - I AM excited about Enola Holmes #3 being released tomorrow!

professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Watching various clips of the Tony Awards 2026 on YouTube. Why do musical theater performances make me cry? Like, tears are popping out of my eyes during the opening number. I am always so moved by the passion and committment of these artists.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

There are reasons I don't live in my ancestral home of Louisiana...

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I *love* people who are like 'just buy a used EV' as if affordable used cars are in surplus and electric prices are not also sky high in your area. (not to mention that I can service my 20 year-old car myself but cannot service an EV car myself, so even more money out the pocket).

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I woke this morning with a sore throat and a slight fever. I've been feeling very sad all day and can't decide if it's because I'm a bit unwell or the fact that there is the dumbest f**ing war going on and the POTUS threated genocide.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Not me sending daily emails to the department chair to see if he has talked to the Dean about getting us AMOS software. (and yes, I have included Smeagol's pleas.)

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

22 more inches of snow to muffle my screaming into the void at the state of things in the US.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I like how the weather forecast isn't even currently trying to guess at how many inches we will get on Sunday. "Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 11. Chance of precipitation is 100%."

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 28/12/2025

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains I can also sing this one all the way through by heart pretty much

Album cover for FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY by Sarah McLachlan (1993)

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My sister passed away. I emailed my department chair yesterday if he could help me with an extension to submit grades as I need to drive 25 hours to be with my family. The answer was 'no'. So, ya' know, I'm expected to have compassion for students and extend grace for late submissions but...

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

HATE proctoring online exams with Honorlock. Now have to watch 50 hours of exams. Common issues - People of color - 'face not detected' (Honorlock adjust your technology!!!) 'Conversation detected' - people talking to themselves 'Multiple people detected' - pictures on the wall And so on....

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I might be the only one - but I think summary/conclusions are pointless. I never read them in PRJs and I don't really read them in my students essays (I actually tell them not to bother writing them for my classes...😬😅)

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I don't know how younger people aren't just raging against everything. Look at this house for sale in my area. $189K for 928 sq ft house. Last sold for $92K in 2002. I can't tell by the pics if the roof needs replacing but the interior shots say the house needs a LOT of renovation. This is older...

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

From local to national elections, I am feeling hopeful for the first time in over a year.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Watched a few episodes of season 1 Doc on Netflix last night. This medical drama is so soapy I wouldn't be able to rinse that much lather off in the shower. I think the cast are all well acted but I just can't with writing.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

It is sad when a tree dies from insect infestation but from an artistic view point, this tree trunk is amazing.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Have a long list of things to do today. Done items 1 & 2. Moving on to item 3 which involves leaving the house to go to a store. Luckily checked their Saturday hours and they close at 12:00. Welp, bad news I can't do that task today, but good news it freed up some space today. 😅

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It's a slather-your-face-with-coconut-oil-before-going-outside kind of winter day.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This kind of stuff should be illegal. Someone bought this home for $65K in January 2024, gutted it, and now wants to sell it for $139K; less than a year later. For a gutted house. I'm guessing the flipper couldn't afford to fully flip? www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

zillow.com

60 Old New Hartford Rd, Barkhamsted, CT 06063 | MLS #24061817 | Zillow

This 882 square feet Single Family home has 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. It is located at 60 Old New Hartford Rd, Barkhamsted, CT.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Joined one of the local library's book club. They said they have the books for us to borrow. Yeah, I'm an annotator. If I'm going to be discussing a book with others it will be better for me to buy my own copy that I can desecrate with ink and highlighters.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Found treasure! Mel Torme is one of my favs and The Christmas Song is one of my Christmas songs. Oh the harmony. youtu.be/XXmrvDq3vKQ?...

youtu.be

Judy Garland & Mel Torme - The Christmas Song - The Judy Garland show

YouTube video by TheJudyRoomVideos

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Staring at an email I wrote an hour ago (and my dinner is now cold) trying to decide if I should hit 'send'. Sometimes you just have to be direct and you know it's going to hurt someone's feelings but also work needs to progress and it's not going to progress if no one says anything. 😬

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Thankful for 4 wheel drive this morning. The farm road is a bit snowy.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Regarding the murder of the UnitedHealth CEO this morning: healthcare in the United States is soooo very broken. Murdering people is not the way to change it (if that was the motive). It really is reverting back to the wild, wild, west out here.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A cloud rolled right over me on the farm Wed evening.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

One of my favorite things about being an academic - If I am sad or lonely or angry, esp during the holidays, I turn my focus to learning something and then I forget that I am sad/lonely/angry. Works 97% of the time.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Welp. I've procrastinated the day as much as possible and I need to either go hang some gutters or work on the stats on a research paper. Don't want to do either...

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I use social media as a break from my work. And am on more than I should be. But obviously not enough because half the time I don't understand the beef different personalities are having with one another...

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Just put out a call on my town's local FB page for any local folks who want to start a crap jazz/blues combo with me. 😅😅 Oh Lordy Lord. The dumb things I let my brain get me to do.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Went from working in shorts in shorts on Wednesday, drought, the state on fire, to snow this morning.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Also, speaking of Grey's Anatomy. I don't know why everyone was always McDreamy and McSteamy and all the other 'hot' doctors they have thrown at us. I never hear anyone talk about how hot Ben Warren is?! Like, he is HANDSOM(!!!!) AND he is the best boyfriend/husband! Warren > Shepherd.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I've been re-watching Grey's Anatomy while knitting baby blankets for a cousin. I'm in the Covid/George Floyd season. it has caused me more anger and anxiety than living through the actual time. I think we as a society are in a worst place than 4 years ago. We have gone back instead of forward.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My housemate doesn't understand why I am so tired when I get up in the morning because I've 'slept in'. I wasn't sleeping. When the alarm goes off I lay in bed for an hour using my mind to write, practice a presentation, think about theory, etc. My brain has been working super hard already! 😅

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

When I relocated back to the States I looked at weather and natural disasters. decided which areas I could live with. A perk of New England is it's wet and I wouldn't have to worry about forest fires. Hello drought of 2024. Half of CT is on fire. Parts of RI and MA. We need better forest management.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is how much Twitter has failed me the past year - was at the grocery store. One of the celebrity magazines had a cover of Hugh Jackman and lady friend talking about Hugh Jackman's divorce. WHAT?!?! In the oldie days Twitter would have been a fire with news about Hughs indiscretions and divorce.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

What a morning! Finally caught our neighborhood bald eagle on camera!!

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I always feel like I'm living on a different planet when the moon is up bright when the sun is also out. Morning moon.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Stardew 1.6 released to the PS4/5/Switch just in time to bury my hand in the sand regarding the whole state of...everything. But boy, inflation has hit the valley hard! Haven't even upgraded my house fully because it took all my gold! I play to avoid reality of life! not live the same! 😅😅

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Currently reading Book One of two different trilogies. I will call them red and black. Red Trilogy Book One is so perfectly written. Every word, sentence and paragraph is so good. But I am not engaged in the story or characters. At All. Black Trilogy Book One is a HOT MESS but yet it IS engaging.🤷

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This paper, that I have written, rewritten, polished so many times is getting desk rejected faster now. That's a good sign right? Like, I know longer have to wait several weeks for a reject - it's less than 24 hours. Positive thoughts. 😑

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Someone is selling this on marketplace. The first line of the description is... 'this cute, lovely baby..' CUTE? I'm gonna have nightmares tonight.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

In my dream last night I was trying on two different dresses to teach in. The dresses were simple but with vibrant colours (and pockets) and when I woke up I was sad I don't have the these dresses. If I was a decent seamstress I'd try to make them.

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Got the uni-wide email asking us to send out the Excellence in Teaching nomination form to all of our students. Yeah, I think I will wait a bit as they just had their mid-term exam and I had them used the oldie Blue Books...

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

In class last night I found out that I am now older than most of my (adult) student's parents...😱😬

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professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Excessive rain Friday and Saturday. I don't think we are getting a new rabbit pen until Spring a this rate. 😬Neighbor who is lending us his tractor said we should consider raising crawfish instead. This girl originally from Louisiana wouldn't mind! Don't think they would like New England though.

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