Somehow, EVERY package my (formerly estranged) mom sends us gets lost/delayed in some way. It's been years since I've had a birthday or holiday that wasn't fraught with package tracking + delivery drama with her. Why is it only her packages? She's not, like, doing this on purpose, is she?
Saw a bunch of prison/trench/camp art from the Civil War the other weekend and now I have a million thoughts about (military) men and craft. Stupid Emily wants another degree. Smart Emily should just go on a special art Wargasm and write an article.
We have the honor to present to you, this year’s SPX 2026 poster done by none other than the recipient of the 2025 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series, Sanika Phawde! 🥳🥳🥳 To say that we are proud to have this as our poster is an understatement.
Well hey! This is a special museum to me and I'm glad they're finishing up this project.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d agoAfter being fenced off and closed to the public, a reflecting pool will soon reopen after a major renovation. No, not that one. This reflecting pool is in the center of the Hirshhorn Museum’s sculpture garden, which will reopen Oct. 31.
I think about this image every single day and how I'm also every person and object in it
It is my birthday and Turnip slept next to me. I’m so hashtag blessed. And, as usual, my first birthday wish arrived before dawn, on Facebook, from… my undergrad dean? Today’s gonna be so great.
The nearest park is asking for volunteers to contribute their professional skills. What if I offered to create and interpret a historic program for the 1909 home on the property?
My 3rd geat grandfather, Josiah Thompson, served with the 5th Maine on the right side of history: suvcw.org/sites/defaul...
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I have been GRUELING away at medication adjustments just to make other people happy. You don’t even want to know the gnarly GI side effects I’ve been tolerating simply so other people can be comfortable with my behavior. FUCK YOU if you have any sort of opinion.
The journal for my trip keeps getting fatter and fatter. Hoping to use this as the Official Guide for planning future Gasms. Already thinking about a Northern Shenandoah Valley + Harpers Ferry version for the fall.
I've been feeling a lot of guilt for my grief and anger lately, but I just realized that in the last 3 years, I've lost my uncle, grandmother, two childhood friends, and Lucky. I'm now preparing to lose my grandfather. That's a lot of loss for only a couple years.
I think I have found a new secret hiding spot for going to get all my crying out on my lunch breaks. You may be asking: Emily, is it a weird Civil War cemetery? And I'll never tell!
So long as a man’s eyes are open in the light, the act of seeing is involuntary
I'm going to do a little online Civil War certificate because I have zero hope in life and I needed to do SOMETHING. Last time I had a summer this truly terrible, 10 years ago, I changed careers and decided to go to grad school. So I think I owe myself a little school now, as a treat.
Just surrendered my old car's plates to the DMV and with that on top of the apartment situation, honestly feel like such a failure today. Sometimes I feel like I successfully take a step forward at last, but then I immediately have to sprint backwards 50 yards.
the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.
So, we aren't transferring apartments because our leasing office ignored our communications for 2 months and gave us incorrect information to begin with about apartment options. I'm basically trapped into signing this lease which means I'm prob trapped into having a baby in this dumb apartment too.
A perfect quiet moment. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Waking up in the Virginia woods of my youth in a summertime drizzle, with all its familiar birdsong and sounds and smells… I do think I found something here.
Just packed up most of my things for the Inaugural Civil Wargasm. I’ve honestly been so depressed lately, I haven’t been thinking much about this trip. I can’t possibly be more unprepared than Tony and Rob though, so I think I’ll be ok.
Found some wise advice my library copy of The Silmarillion.
My favorite drugstore brand CC cream “”””went viral”””” and now it’s impossible to find! Why does TikTok ruin EVERYTHING
