Saw a magnet in Eason's that said broken Irish is better than clever English and felt better about my truly *awful* Irish
Cecilia Barnard
@ceciliajb.bsky.social
There is a nonzero chance I am thinking about nuns right now. Digital Historian. PhD student. Cursed by woho and the city of Philadelphia. Bama Alum.
Oh did a female academic with an extensive history of study and practice in a particular area of literature make a reasoned critique of a male filmmaker’s movie? I’m sure this will be handled with maximum normality.
The second photo I took in Dublin was of a large tuxedo cat through the window of the Luas red line. Behold.
Tonight's ceremonial first pitch was out of this world ☄️ Artemis II astronaut, and proud Phillies fan, Christina Koch is in the building!
I just tweaked my already-injured shoulder (that I've already had a surgery on). Gentle reader, I was just trying to push a pair of wet jeans off a hidden bra in the washer. #ehlersdanlossyndrome is an asshole.
My fatal flaw is having to correct people when they make black and white statements about European witchcraft on social media.
People will insist that the term "medieval" ONLY relates to Europe with such gusto.
There's a voice in my head telling me to go look at the chicks at Tractor Supply and given that I live in an apartment I can only surmise it's the devil.
Booked flights and accommodations and applied for both reader's tickets in Dublin today...two months to go!
Last week, I had the honor of presenting some preliminary research at American Society of Irish Medieval Studies' panel in honor of Dr. Kieran O'Connor at ICMS 61. Thank you to @clemsondh.bsky.social and @megsmith.bsky.social for both allowing me to attend and presiding over a great panel!
Someone cited @scmedievalist.bsky.social at a Marie De France panel yesterday and I was a little slow on the uptake, so I made a meme
I truly cannot wrap my head around people cheering for more than one team in the Stanley Cup run. Not sicko approved.
Other than cherry peppers (that met an untimely, sunbaked end as tiny seedlings because it has stopped raining in South Carolina) every seedling is in its proper pot on my back patio and hopefully ready to grow.
(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \
"Thomas Aquinas came up with this" and it's just things that Jerome and Augustine wrote nearly 1000 years earlier that Aquinas compiled/Things Catherine of Siena did more successfully.
Philly Sports Sweep last night* *this includes the Gamecocks because Coach Dawn is one of us
Looking between my books and my patio garden forlornly because I know what I should do and what I WANT to be doing
Now I know I did not just see someone compare Nick Saban's coaching style to Geno Auriemma's blatant disrespect of Dawn Staley with any degree of seriousness!
Cutting 1K words from a paper for a prize submission feels like puling teeth.
Wherfor ys the lake that you say was once so large and beautiful now todaye nothinge but a drye and bakinge expanse wyth a fewe small puddles left? Well, you see, my childe, a lot of people reallye needed their emayles summarized.
Alysa Liu broke Team USA's long Olympic medal drought in women's figure skating Thursday when she won gold in the singles competition Thursday in Milan.
Please stop comparing Hilary Knight to men. ESPECIALLY refrain from comparing her to fictional men from Heated Rivalry.
Laila Edwards has become the first Black woman to play for the United States at an Olympic women’s ice hockey tournament. Edwards has broken a barrier that had stood for nearly three decades since women’s hockey debuted at the Olympics in 1998. www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...
Doing a lot of #digitalhistory at @kzooicms.bsky.social this year! Come hear me speak about Voyant and medieval texts Friday, and monasticism in Scotland and Gaelic Ireland on Saturday, both with ASIMS. Thank you to @medievalmaryq.bsky.social and @megsmith.bsky.social for the opportunities.
My retired dancer Christmas confession is that the only part of Balanchine's Nutcracker I truly care for is the Adagio from the Sugar Plum Grand Pas. The rest ranges from fine to ugh.
STORYBOOK MOMENT 🤯 Sarah Wozniewicz was @pwhlcharge.bsky.social’s OT hero with her first career goal!