Kitty Calash is still wearing a mask
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Literally one woman talking about cataloging discrepancies in museums. Also history, dress, material culture, and my cat. she/her/hers
BAL via ALX/PVD
BAL via ALX/PVD
Sweet zombie Jesus I’m grateful to have been given (along with my colleagues) tomorrow off as a little treat. There aren’t a lot of those lately.
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Sweet zombie Jesus I’m grateful to have been given (along with my colleagues) tomorrow off as a little treat. There aren’t a lot of those lately.
Awake for 16 minutes and the cat throws up.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a barf.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a barf.
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Awake for 16 minutes and the cat throws up.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a barf.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a barf.
TFW the sole microfilm reader on campus is down, the paper is due next week, the Library is closed Wednesday and IT is out on vacation.
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
TFW the sole microfilm reader on campus is down, the paper is due next week, the Library is closed Wednesday and IT is out on vacation.
So helpful.
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
So helpful.
I am now the person who gets microfilm via ILL. God help me with those 18th century documents.
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I am now the person who gets microfilm via ILL. God help me with those 18th century documents.
Have just written a sentence that has me telling myself, “badly done, Emma.” It’s not mean, it’s murky.
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Have just written a sentence that has me telling myself, “badly done, Emma.” It’s not mean, it’s murky.
Cars +1 under the Anxiety billboard in Baltimore. (North Ave & Howard.) But the art supply store is still open!
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Cars +1 under the Anxiety billboard in Baltimore. (North Ave & Howard.) But the art supply store is still open!
Okay that WAS someone in a retriever costume, not just a schlubby undergrad. It’s dark at my bus stop.
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Okay that WAS someone in a retriever costume, not just a schlubby undergrad. It’s dark at my bus stop.
Noplace private to have an existential crisis? Try the bus! All you need is one KN95 and a pair of sunglasses. Save time and multi-task on your commute!
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November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Noplace private to have an existential crisis? Try the bus! All you need is one KN95 and a pair of sunglasses. Save time and multi-task on your commute!
This offer not available in locations without public transit.
This offer not available in locations without public transit.
She watches the history lady with me. @hcrichardson.bsky.social is how we start our day.
October 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM
She watches the history lady with me. @hcrichardson.bsky.social is how we start our day.
These are wonderful. So glad Roger Taney isn’t here in B’more anymore and very glad he’s part of this show. And a co-curator is from here, too! A lot to love.
"Over the last five years, as Walker has worked on the show, activists and artists have reached out to him to voice their concerns about how the monuments will be shown. Each time, he sent them the same reply: 'There will be no further veneration, at all.'" 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/m...
How to Make Art Out of Confederate Monuments
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October 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
These are wonderful. So glad Roger Taney isn’t here in B’more anymore and very glad he’s part of this show. And a co-curator is from here, too! A lot to love.
I know I’m pedantic but … wearing 1770s clothes in a 1786 house to talk about an 1803 death makes me crazy.
1770s in a 1786 house is just oh well. Accessories make things work.
But I sure as heck wonder what goes through some folks’ heads. And my own, for sure.
1770s in a 1786 house is just oh well. Accessories make things work.
But I sure as heck wonder what goes through some folks’ heads. And my own, for sure.
October 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I know I’m pedantic but … wearing 1770s clothes in a 1786 house to talk about an 1803 death makes me crazy.
1770s in a 1786 house is just oh well. Accessories make things work.
But I sure as heck wonder what goes through some folks’ heads. And my own, for sure.
1770s in a 1786 house is just oh well. Accessories make things work.
But I sure as heck wonder what goes through some folks’ heads. And my own, for sure.
At the MVA and they’re playing Band on the Run. “If I ever get out here” feels mighty on the nose.
October 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
At the MVA and they’re playing Band on the Run. “If I ever get out here” feels mighty on the nose.
Schroedinger’s bus.
October 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Schroedinger’s bus.
It’s shutdown day, so RIP my focus and look out paper due tomorrow.
Hateful. We survived the 35 day shutdown. Today I brought up “indefinite.” Tomorrow we might talk “repercussions.” (Hubs is a federal contractor so we’ve had a year.)
Anyway, PHEW let’s see what French POWs read in 1812 Scotland.
Hateful. We survived the 35 day shutdown. Today I brought up “indefinite.” Tomorrow we might talk “repercussions.” (Hubs is a federal contractor so we’ve had a year.)
Anyway, PHEW let’s see what French POWs read in 1812 Scotland.
September 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It’s shutdown day, so RIP my focus and look out paper due tomorrow.
Hateful. We survived the 35 day shutdown. Today I brought up “indefinite.” Tomorrow we might talk “repercussions.” (Hubs is a federal contractor so we’ve had a year.)
Anyway, PHEW let’s see what French POWs read in 1812 Scotland.
Hateful. We survived the 35 day shutdown. Today I brought up “indefinite.” Tomorrow we might talk “repercussions.” (Hubs is a federal contractor so we’ve had a year.)
Anyway, PHEW let’s see what French POWs read in 1812 Scotland.
Maybe the rapture was just for Baltimore city buses.
September 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Maybe the rapture was just for Baltimore city buses.
The free bus that goes by Camden Yards smells like beer. The Yankees are playing the O’s— my take on this as a New Englander is mixed.
September 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The free bus that goes by Camden Yards smells like beer. The Yankees are playing the O’s— my take on this as a New Englander is mixed.
I had to work yesterday, but managed a hand-written paper draft. Herself was mad I had to work. And now she is lying on the draft.
September 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I had to work yesterday, but managed a hand-written paper draft. Herself was mad I had to work. And now she is lying on the draft.
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I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited
September 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited
Killed a spotted lantern fly on the free bus.
September 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Killed a spotted lantern fly on the free bus.
Have now lost count of how many light cycles the bus has bee trapped at the stop ahead of this one. Thanks for blocking the box, jerks.
September 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Have now lost count of how many light cycles the bus has bee trapped at the stop ahead of this one. Thanks for blocking the box, jerks.
Wake up babe, new writing avoidance behavior just dropped: anxiety baking. More complicated makes it more attractive.
September 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Wake up babe, new writing avoidance behavior just dropped: anxiety baking. More complicated makes it more attractive.
When I finally finish the thesis, I am dedicating to my cat, without whom this would have been much easier.
September 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
When I finally finish the thesis, I am dedicating to my cat, without whom this would have been much easier.
Every time Acrobat offers up "That looks like a long document, would you like me to summarize it for you?" I think of this meme.
I expect the results would be about the same.
I expect the results would be about the same.
September 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Every time Acrobat offers up "That looks like a long document, would you like me to summarize it for you?" I think of this meme.
I expect the results would be about the same.
I expect the results would be about the same.
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Still time to apply for the 2026 WMQ-EMSI workshop at the Huntington Library. Proposals due Sept. 15:🗃️
oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...
oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...
WMQ-EMSI 2026 Workshop - OIEAHC
Apply by September 15, 2025, for the WMQ-EMSI Workshop—"Global Early America before 1700"—convened by Alison Games. Workshop convenes January 30-31, 2026.
oieahc.wm.edu
September 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Still time to apply for the 2026 WMQ-EMSI workshop at the Huntington Library. Proposals due Sept. 15:🗃️
oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...
oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...