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Catherine Nygren
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PhD in dh, c18; Teaching English lit, esp sff, at Champlain College-Saint Lambert; she/her
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Quinn, this is late, but I've been thinking of you all week and I finally drew you a possum made of mist (inspired by playing Wanderhome with my students today!) Happy birthday!
A doodle of a possum made of mist.
April 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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#somethingbeautiful
The sun setting over the St Lawrence River. The reddish light reflects off of the rippling water. A few clouds in the sky and the dark horizon line are a contrast.
November 5, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Do we still cleanse the timeline? Here is a peaceful photo from an early morning bike across the St Lawrence River.
A photo of a bike bridge across a wide river. The sky is the pale blue of dawn, with a few distant orange and pink clouds. The horizon is a silhouette of houses and trees.
November 1, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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I successfully defended my dissertation on Monday! It was a long road, filled with detours and pauses, generous mentors and supportive friends, and I'm grateful to finally reach this journey's end.
A photo of Catherine as she presents her thesis at her defence. The slide has her dissertation title, "Coded Voyages: Modelling Genre and Travel Writing in the Eighteenth Century". She is wearing a black dress covered in celestial bodies, especially planets, and she is gesturing animatedly.
July 31, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Vibes as I do my final preparation for my defence tomorrow:
A screenshot from Zelda: Majora's Mask that says "Dawn of the final day: 24 hours remain"
July 28, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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Being away is hard! Here are two Icelandic horses (all the horses we saw there were very fluffy, especially mane and tail! Nonstop hair commercial with the wind!)
Two brown Icelandic horses stand on a slight hill in Iceland. One is eating the fresh green grass, the other is looking at the camera.
June 9, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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Since I first saw this poem by Frank Bidart, I think of it a couple times a month.
(h/t richiehof on twitter)
A poem by Frank Bidart. Iv. Light I am asleep, dreaming a terrible dream, so I awake, And want to call my father to ask if, just For a short time, the dog can come to stay with me. But the light next to my bed won't light: I press and press the switch. Touching the phone, I can't see to dial the numbers. Can I learn to keep The dog in my apartment? In the dark, trying A second light, I remember I always knew these machines would fail me. Then I awake, Remember my father and the dog are dead, The lights in that room do not go on.
October 22, 2023 at 11:39 PM
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We adopted Pepita a year ago! Here's to another year of naps in the sunshine.
A white dog with faded black spots and a purple collar naps in the sunshine on patio, surrounded by planters.
September 9, 2023 at 10:40 PM
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A couple weeks of visiting family and friends on the prairies, and now less than a couple weeks until courses start! The night is dark and full of terrors, so I hold to these tiny lights even more fiercely.
A photograph at my parents' farm, at sunset. Grasses, wildflowers, and trees on the land, and pink and gold sunset peeks through the clouds in the sky, as sunset fades to dusk.
August 11, 2023 at 4:55 PM
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In @tedunderwood.bsky.social 's code notes: "Some of the modeling code took me an afternoon to run on a 12-core desktop. If you're running those elements of the workflow on a laptop, it could take a day, and you'll have a warm laptop."
My hand-me-down 2-core Surface from Stéfan:
The "This is fine" meme, except it is a Surface laptop surrounded by the flames.
July 24, 2023 at 3:24 PM