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Micaela Baranello
@micaelab.bsky.social
musicologist (asst prof, Temple University), Philadelphia’s 36th leading SEPTA Route 2 busfluencer. she/her.
The Wegman’s beer section
February 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I clicked on this with a foolish expectation that the piece in question would be older than the late nineteenth century
February 13, 2026 at 8:52 PM
highly recommend Elissa Harbert’s scholarship on this show!!!
February 13, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Princeton used to have an email list for scavenging catering leftovers. Nutritionally questionable but very economical grad student diet
February 12, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I also have a rug thing, though this one is from eBay and of unknown provenance (I think it’s probably actually Kurdish??). I’m going to take it to Zakian once I get my car out of this giant block of ice.
February 9, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Yeah I would ask the same!!!
February 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Are they STEM majors? I’ve encountered a lot of math/science faculty whose attitude seems to be “if you can do the problems on the test it doesn’t matter whether you came to class”
February 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
“Yeah there’s a lot of wooder under there” -facilities guy
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I told my associate dean that I wanted to try to save the rug because it really tied the room together and he didn’t even chuckle, what is the world coming to
February 9, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Yeah I put a (very small) antique Persian rug in my 1950s public university office, you need to get the academia vibes somehow
February 9, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Most of my stuff OK but my antique rug maybe isn’t
February 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
I have pivoted to text expanders; I feel like a tech dunce but to be fair one doesn't have time to learn about tech when one is typing "this paragraph would benefit from a stronger topic sentence" over and over
February 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
I created a whole library of comments in Blackboard when I used that! The current Canvas tool exists but only works in the summary comment box and I'm looking for something for inline comments and quizzes
February 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Thanks!! Blackboard is better than Canvas for this particular feature
February 8, 2026 at 2:14 PM
OK, maybe I actually want something that does custom keyboard shortcuts?
February 8, 2026 at 2:10 PM
the idea is that I can have a small library of standard comments that I can insert with a keyboard shortcut or two. you'd think that Canvas would have a tool for this but think again, it is very limited

ideally something I can install on two Macs
February 8, 2026 at 2:02 PM