Notices by Violinknitter (violinknitter@wandering.shop)

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Fully stealing from Stravinsky’s Firebird for part of this #Monsterdon

Evil-Lyn came straight from her aerobics class and just threw her to-go armor on over her leotard #Monsterdon

Libro.fm — the indie-bookstore-supporting alternative to Audible— is offering a free audiobook credit to anyone who completes 10 hours of audiobook listening between Feb 5-14 ❤️

It’s the honors system, and listening to any audiobook on any platform counts, it doesn’t have to be Libro.fm!

https://blog.libro.fm/love/

The companies advertising on the official Severance podcast really do *not* get what makes Severance such a corporate dystopia of a show, because to a company their ads sound horrifically Lumon-like on the podcast. Like “oh no! I am never doing business with that company again!” bad.

Just finished Fevered Star, and I love these characters so much but I think I need to breathe for a bit before diving into the third book!

#bookstodon #books #AmReading

There is a certain level of professional and/or academic musicianship where the gatekeeping is performed by referring to pieces solely by their opus, Köchel, or BWV numbers.

And heaven forbid you forget what Beethoven 133 or Bach 1005 is!!!

Out of context QOD:

“Life is simply periods of compliance or resistance to Merriam-Webster.”

@jeffowski #ALT4you Racism Scale: Where do you fall? Chart has labels for each part of the scale, with examples underneath each label

Terrorism:
I would/have killed a black person simply for being black

Violent Black Face (Depict Hangings, etc)

I inflict fear upon black people on purpose

l inflict fear upon black people
"as a joke"

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One of the weird things about being a violin teacher is having parents who are pushing their kids to audition for All State orchestra, not realizing that 4+ years of orchestra and a few years of lessons doesn’t automatically mean their student is playing on par with the top students in the state. So they eagerly ask me about it, not realizing their kids are 2 to 4 years behind the level to be competitive.

Why it’s fun teaching teens: you’re so often there for their “lucky 10,000!” moments. Example from yesterday:

Me: And that system of tuning is called Pythagorean tuning

Student: Wait, like the Pythagorean thing from math?

Me: Yeah, Pythagoras was interested in music as well as math!

S: Wait, there was a guy?!? I thought it was just a name for a math formula!

And in case you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000 who isn’t familiar with XKCD’s famous “Ten Thousand” comic, here you go: https://xkcd.com/1053/

One of the things I find mildly frustrating about teaching neurodivergent kiddos is when their parents give instructions (“Focus! Don’t wiggle! Look at the teacher!”) that assume their child’s brain is not going at 200 miles an hour ALL THE TIME.

Your child is awesome. It’s my job as a teacher to give that 200 mph brain something to DO to keep it engaged. Your child does not have an “Idle” button in their brain that they can press at will to become a passive child. And that’s a GOOD thing.

It’s that kind of day

October

@talkwordy Correct! (Also, when you have the energy, @feditips is super helpful for getting acclimated here.)

Why did none of you tell me that the new teaser trailer for the 2023 #Barbie movie is a 2001: A Space Odyssey spoof??? This is CRUCIAL information you’re withholding!!

https://youtu.be/8zIf0XvoL9Y

(I canNOT believe I am unironically sharing a Barbie movie teaser trailer. Help, I think I’ve been body-snatched!)