Queueing up emails to auto send on Monday morning instead of right now because I'm not a villain.
Verna Kale
@vernakale.bsky.social
Associate Editor, the Hemingway Letters Project (Cambridge); editor, The Sun Also Rises (Norton Library); author, Ernest Hemingway (Reaktion). UNC ‘99; Fulbright, Germany ‘00-01; Penn State ‘05, ‘10. Llama. J!.
I love getting AI generated emails addressed to Ernest Hemingway. Why yes, I, the Nobel Prize winning (and quite dead) author would LOVE the opportunity to rep my book at your not-at-all a scam book fair. Also, let's use this technology to land airplanes full of people.
Was that Tom Hamilton’s Ring doorbell alert just now? My dogs went crazy. #Guardians
It would take more characters than Bluesky allows to say what Dolly Parton meant to me. Her music helped me through some hard times. 🦋
The Odyssey was great! But was…was Calypso wearing the burrito blanket? I could not unsee it. Anyone else think this or just me? 😆
Ha! I knew it!!! Trader Joe’s = Annie’s. The rumors are confirmed!
When she saw my inspo pic, my nail tech asked if I was going to a party. She was incredulous when I said it was for a conference. I'm looking forward to the 21st biennial Hemingway conference, kicking off officially next Monday in Toronto (and unofficially on Sunday at the Blue Jays game).
This still from Backrooms reminds me of the time I requested a desk and the asst dean of faculty walked me over to a campus building slated to be demolished and let me pick one from a pile exactly like this. The treatment of contingent faculty is so degrading they make horror movies about it.
Deadlines loom but this day was too pretty to be indoors. Took the dogs on Musser Gap trail, a moderate up and back just 4 miles total, but I think this might be the last long hike for Zelda, who, at 10, has trouble with her back legs some days. #pennsylvania #dogsofbluesky
Colyer Lake loop hike, spring ephemerals, first fish of the year, first lake swim of the year, and thisss guy. #pennsylvania #fishing #dogsofbluesky #goldenretriever #snek
Pippin played in the mud, so he got a bath. Now that he’s air dried he has hundreds of cowlicks. #dogsofbluesky #goldenretriever
Roses are red The ocean is wet I love you all-in Like my Jeopardy! bet
Tonight this guy had a breakthrough seizure lasting over 3 minutes. His regular vet moved to Mongolia (yes really) last week and the semester starts tomorrow so it’s really A++ timing there buddy.
Weeks of nothing to read followed by every hold I put coming in at once. I wish my public library would let you pause your holds when your turn comes up so you could keep your place in line and get the book when you're ready without having to check it back in and then become #24 again.
The OP was deleted but in a nutshell it suggested that in difficult times it’s a good thing to find a community with whom you share interests.
Verna Kale@vernakale.bsky.social · 9mo agoOn that note… join the Hemingway Society. Open to all writers and fans, not just academics.
On that note… join the Hemingway Society. Open to all writers and fans, not just academics.
His crimes are getting more audacious and it’s probably obvious why we don’t have a Christmas tree skirt. #dogsofbluesky #goldenretriever
Retrievers gonna retrieve. All the livelong day. Whether you want them to or not. #dogsofbluesky #goldenretriever
News from my hometown: Stubhub marketed a spiritual concert (Lamb of God) as heavy metal show (different, more famous Lamb of God). I'm disappointed that the error was caught early, honestly. Chaos almost ensues doesn't have the same ring.
Life Writers of BlueSky (biography, memoir, and spaces in between): If you would like to zoom into my graduate seminar this spring to discuss method, craft, ethics, business, or any other aspect of the work, please get in touch here or via my Penn State email.
December me would like to have a word with November me about her signup for the Holiday Concert cookie table.
Colleges: don't use AI in your application essay. Also Colleges: * uses AI to evaluate application essays * Professors: don't use AI in your work Also Professors: * use AI to write syllabi, slides, & grade * Students: * also using AI this whole time anyway * Am I already dead? Have I gone to hell?
I really am going into this horrible future kicking and screaming, but this isn't ravioli ya clankers.
I was elected president of the Hemingway Society, and celebrated with my favorite Creamery flavor. (OK so I ran unopposed, but any excuse to eat Peppermint Stick, a seasonal flavor available only 2-3 weeks of the year.) #pennstate
