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Dr. Jacqueline E. Whitt
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Purple-haired civil servant. Public Diplomacy person. Historian. Author. Educator. Leader. Tar Heel. COVID Long-hauler. Doodler. Procedural-drama obsessed smart lady. Cat servant. 2x speed audiobook aficionado. Occasional trouble maker. All views my own.
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It’s a fair position to take. My gray beast would also object to pro-dog language.
A gray beast who would prefer you pet only cats
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Sherman is very content to be snoozing today
A gray cat snoozing soundly on a mint green fleece blanket
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Who remembered to pack a lunch AND her meds (which, admittedly, she forgot to take this morning) for post-gym errand running this afternoon? ME!!! Please clap.👏
A pink “snackle box” 🤣 with pistachios, mozzarella cheese, dates, corn nuts, apples, crackers, fake starbursts, gummy vitamins, and medicine - plus a coconut LaCroix
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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If you’ve had a shit day, I highly recommend joining a book club organized by a precocious 10 year old.
A zoom screen shot with four boxes and six people: child, aunt, parents, grandmother, cousin.
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Tasty fall chopped salad: roast chicken, apple, radish, mozzarella, pistachios, crispy potatoes (ie french fries), and herb dressing
Tasty fall chopped salad in a white bowl: roast chicken, apple, radish, mozzarella, pistachios, crispy potatoes (ie french fries), and herb dressing
November 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I have voted
A selfie with bedhead and an “I voted” sticker
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Marriott in [undisclosed location] stepping up its Bonvoy welcome bag game. TWO bottles of water!? Be still my beating heart.
A brown paper bag, with two bottles of water, a bag of potato chips, a granola bar, a small bag of trail mix, and four peppermints
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Y’all. Boots, on Netflix, is so damn good. Go watch it. The Pentagon hates it and dismisses it as “ woke garbage.” That should tell you what you need to know.
Netflix promo for Boots
October 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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I’ve read very, very few books that get academia quite as *right* (and are as funny and light hearted and as delightful) as the murder mystery, History Lessons, by Zoe B. Wallbrook.
The cover of the book History Lessons, it is an orange background with a keyhole image that has a black woman in a green dress peering out from behind a bookcase An image of page 249 in the book: the first page of Chapter 24. Text reads: “But we must de-scribe in order to reinscribe the position realities of the actors themselves to study the materialist effect that our metaphysical post realities produce or even reproduce if we are ever to interrogate the post social heterogenous constructs that manifest in what Habermas bravely called the “Alltag. “ Olaf, the postdoc was speaking to a crowd of concerned, academics, and Daphne once again questioned her life choices. it was the monthly history department wide faculty meeting where 50 professors with absolutely no training and running meetings, came together to, well, run a meeting. that was tough enough task under normal circumstances, but it was made worse whenever the critical theory contingent decided to weigh in on matters. “for how else are we encounter the androcentric gaze if not by attacking the biopolitics under which and for which, and by which it assumes and even resumes that which cannot be, nor must be understood as a resistance to…” Daphne willed her eyes stay open, a challenge made excruciatingly more complicated by whoever in the department had decided to dim the lights to a faint glow. at least she no longer yearned to pop up a dating app on her phone. not like she knew what exactly her relationship with Rowan was. but that was her future dinner with Rowan was for,
October 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I’ve been doodling on pumpkins for the gym, so we can turn them into kettlebells for the downtown Carlisle Halloween Spooky Season celebration 🎃

I’m pleased with them!

Today I have to figure out the handle situation.
A bright orange pumpkin with doodles on each vertical section, done in black acrylic paint A pumpkin, which has been spray painted black, with doodles on each vertical section, done in orange acrylic paint The two doodled pumpkins, side-by-side, on a rug and hardwood floor
October 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Go read this book!!!
The cover of the book, Belonging, by Gloria McCahon Whiting
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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This
A graphic of John Oliver’s picture, surrounded by a stylized text in Res, White, and Blue, that says “Fuck You, Make Me.”
October 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Today’s deadlift bar
An open trap bar on a gym floor, loaded with 260# of weight, a 75# bar with 45#, 25#, 10#, 10#, and 2.5# plates
October 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Bedtime kitty photo shoot
A gray cat portrait in stage lighting, looking thoughtfully into the foreground A gray cat portrait, he is looking thoughtfully into middle distance contemplating his next move to take over the world An orange cat portrait in stage lighting, staring blankly into middle distance An orange cat with no thoughts on his head. It is not his turn with the brain cell. Also he has no pointy teeth, so he looks like a doofus. Poor baby.
October 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Back on my oatmeal bullshit because it’s fall, and oatmeal is delicious.

Here’s my InstaPot steel cut oak recipe. Perfect every time. I use half milk, half water and add a hefty pinch of salt. They freezer beautifully.
Recipe for steel cut oats in the instapot 1 c oats, 2 1/2 c water HP 10 minutes, Natural release
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I had it with tacos tonight. 12 minutes in a pre-heated air fryer.
Tacos and roasted squash on a white plate
October 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Sherm decided he’d had enough tonight.
A beautiful gray cat curled up on a mint green fleece blanket on a brown leather chair, with a purple throw pillow. He has an expression that says, “please go away” on his face
October 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Pirate baby cat had all of his fangs stolen at the vet yesterday. He was high as a kite and had no idea how to use his mouth when we got home. He is assured he can still be a great pirate. 🏴‍☠️
an orange cat with a white bib with huge pupils and missing canine teeth and a droopy derpy mouth and a bandage on his paw, looking stoned as all get out
October 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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It’s definitely hoodie weather, and I’m NOT mad about that. I am not -*super* thrilled to be waiting for roofers at 0630 on the first full day of the shutdown/shitshow/furlough when, by all rights, I should be sleeping.
A selfie in a rust-colored hoodie
October 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Vaccine time! 💉
Flu and COVID-19
Do it if you’re eligible!
Covid rates are SKY HIGH right now, and Long Covid is a risk with *every* infection. Believe me, you DO NOT want to deal with that.
Selfie with a sign about the COVID-19 vaccine in the background
September 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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1989 is a Swift album title 🤣
Cover art for TSwift album, 1989 (original)
August 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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The Joint Chiefs of Cats demonstrate their Sunday Roast Chicken seeking strategies
A dumb dumb orange tabby desperately seeking chicken. He is so badly wanting it, he is panting A very clever evil genius gray beast cat staring and waiting for the chicken to be left unattended
August 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Still at it minute 11
The kneading continues
August 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Very serious biscuit-making this morning. (Please note: it is still going on)
August 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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New (to me) chair! And motivation to straighten up my living room. (Pay no attention to the chaos in the dining room behind.)
A cozy living room in a 1934 craftsman house.
August 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM