Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
@miriameburstein.bsky.social
English professor, Victorianist, inveterate book-buyer
Academic substitute for walking with wrist or ankle weights: walking with 500+ page hardbound monographs. For best results, switch arms periodically, or carry two.
November 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Academic substitute for walking with wrist or ankle weights: walking with 500+ page hardbound monographs. For best results, switch arms periodically, or carry two.
Distracting myself by working on some 1:12 books for the dollhouse (3d printed core, heavy cardstock covers, then sealed).
October 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Distracting myself by working on some 1:12 books for the dollhouse (3d printed core, heavy cardstock covers, then sealed).
This tiny kitchen is somehow more cluttered than my real one. (Lower cabinets are a kit build; upper cabinets were purchased bare & then stained; I 3d printed the mat and the colander.)
September 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This tiny kitchen is somehow more cluttered than my real one. (Lower cabinets are a kit build; upper cabinets were purchased bare & then stained; I 3d printed the mat and the colander.)
Campus deer enjoying the summer quiet
August 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Campus deer enjoying the summer quiet
Recent antiquarian purchase: 1817 edition of Elizabeth Sandham’s THE TWIN SISTERS.
July 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Recent antiquarian purchase: 1817 edition of Elizabeth Sandham’s THE TWIN SISTERS.
RIP Allan Armadale.
July 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
RIP Allan Armadale.
Please think some good thoughts for this floof, who was diagnosed with a massive tumor today. Ultrasound on Monday will determine next steps 😞
July 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Please think some good thoughts for this floof, who was diagnosed with a massive tumor today. Ultrasound on Monday will determine next steps 😞
Antiquarian acquisition of the day: religious tract edition
July 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Antiquarian acquisition of the day: religious tract edition
When the campus goes quiet over the summer, we get visitors of another sort
July 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
When the campus goes quiet over the summer, we get visitors of another sort
The bridge is up (albeit non-working).
May 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The bridge is up (albeit non-working).
Our local infrastructural boondoggle, currently scheduled to be completed at the end of June…nine months late. Apparently, they are somehow raising the bridge by Friday, when the canal reopens.
May 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Our local infrastructural boondoggle, currently scheduled to be completed at the end of June…nine months late. Apparently, they are somehow raising the bridge by Friday, when the canal reopens.
3 generations represented in this book’s movements: Hanna Grushon Deweese (d. 1884) to daughter Florence Deweese (d. 1884) in 1856 to Florence’s son Sherley Moore (n.d.) to Sherley’s sister-in-law Maude Grayson Moore (d. 1968) in 1931
May 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
3 generations represented in this book’s movements: Hanna Grushon Deweese (d. 1884) to daughter Florence Deweese (d. 1884) in 1856 to Florence’s son Sherley Moore (n.d.) to Sherley’s sister-in-law Maude Grayson Moore (d. 1968) in 1931
Antiquarian acquisition of the day: Rebecca Wilkinson’s SERMONS TO CHILDREN
April 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Antiquarian acquisition of the day: Rebecca Wilkinson’s SERMONS TO CHILDREN
Worked off a bit of ire by printing some IKEA furniture (ironically, this took almost as much time as assembling the real deal).
February 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Worked off a bit of ire by printing some IKEA furniture (ironically, this took almost as much time as assembling the real deal).
“I have to do something about the servant’s staircase,” I mutter each winter, as cold air blasts through the holes.
December 27, 2024 at 12:30 AM
“I have to do something about the servant’s staircase,” I mutter each winter, as cold air blasts through the holes.
Modern doorknobs vs. original doors = door 1, doorknob 0
December 27, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Modern doorknobs vs. original doors = door 1, doorknob 0
1. US: Finally, done with bats
2. ROY BATTY: I beg your pardon
2. ROY BATTY: I beg your pardon
December 27, 2024 at 12:24 AM
1. US: Finally, done with bats
2. ROY BATTY: I beg your pardon
2. ROY BATTY: I beg your pardon
Was going through some drawers and found a phonics workbook from when I was five.
December 18, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Was going through some drawers and found a phonics workbook from when I was five.
Finished shelving the modern fiction, and now on to the biographies. This may be an excessive number of biographies of Pitt the Younger for a Victorianist…
December 17, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Finished shelving the modern fiction, and now on to the biographies. This may be an excessive number of biographies of Pitt the Younger for a Victorianist…
Literary criticism shelfie (about 2/3 of the way through this section). #AcademicLifeWithPeriodicMassBookShelving
November 29, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Literary criticism shelfie (about 2/3 of the way through this section). #AcademicLifeWithPeriodicMassBookShelving
Hadn’t done any 3D printing in a while (this will probably wind up in a project I have planned for my department office and not in the dollhouse in process). #AcademicCraftingLife
November 27, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Hadn’t done any 3D printing in a while (this will probably wind up in a project I have planned for my department office and not in the dollhouse in process). #AcademicCraftingLife
Eye-level shelfie from my current bout of shelving (religious studies books edition). My attempts to get rid of books in the process is not, alas, flourishing.
October 26, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Eye-level shelfie from my current bout of shelving (religious studies books edition). My attempts to get rid of books in the process is not, alas, flourishing.
Allan Armadale and Ozias Midwinter engaging in competitive relaxation #AcademicLifeWithCats
September 21, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Allan Armadale and Ozias Midwinter engaging in competitive relaxation #AcademicLifeWithCats
Finally managed to acquire a copy of the Victorian Novel Most Likely to Cause Serious Misunderstandings
September 4, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Finally managed to acquire a copy of the Victorian Novel Most Likely to Cause Serious Misunderstandings