CulturalAnthro PhD, Lecturer, Bulgarian immigrant, FOOD/Feminism/Word Nerd/Humor/Classical Texts. Expert cruciverbalista. Views delightfully own. Lighten up.
Washington, DC
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I am genuinely thrilled (or positively chuffed, as some say) I will be one of the profs teaching The Examined Life this fall. american.edu/magazine/the-ex… #highered
freshfruitportal.com/news/20… The US is the world's second biggest producer of apples, after China. #apples
#crossword Singer who had us at "Hello?" Adele. International intelligence community? Mensa. Butter up? Aries. Key part of an exit strategy? Esc. "Yo!" de Cologne? Guten tag.
#crossword One who makes relocating even harder than it already is? moving villain. Task for a haunted house after Halloween? Ghost storing.
#crossword Bank investment? levee. Words said with reservation? Save the Date. Crafts seen around the world? UFOs. One who says "Hell if I know!"? Satan.
youtube.com/watch?v=TgDSX4M-… So, everyone should watch Nosferatu, the Eggers film from 2024.
wsj.com/lifestyle/harvard-cl… I am teaching two sections of The Examined Life this spring at @AmericanU, so AU students, here is your chance to experience this spoken of in hushed tones reverential "brutality." Don't worry--no brutality in my class. Only deep thinking and speaking.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0… There’s a lot going right at universities, if you’re only willing to see it. #academia @ACTC5
Lingo I picked up from the kids (my students): the term "crash out." So illustrative! #language
I remember my two #library system card numbers, and they are 14 digits each. Bracing myself against brain aging with small stuff like that :)
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I love the smell of #fire, smoke, BBQ (yes, this despite not eating meat), roasting meats, etc so much that I *LOVE* waiting for the bus at the stop near Rocklands BBQ. It's like free censing :) at the altar of the fire goddesses.
The U.S. imports 99% of the #coffee it consumes. Severe weather and climate change have affected harvests, and the price of coffee is still 44% higher than it was two years earlier.
