I'm so glad you received an offer after so long. I hope it goes splendidly well : )

Thank you :)

I got a bunch of emails from my soon to be department welcoming me 🥺

It sucks that flights and trains and hotels cost so much money because in an ideal life I'd love to fly somewhere like NYC or even as far south as Washington/Baltimore and road trip up to Massachusetts before the term starts

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I know I'm part of a whole deluge of congrats, but congratulations on your PhD acceptance! It's so nice seeing you finally get an offer after this whole saga. Preemptive "Welcome to America," too!

Thank you!! Yeah the wait was honestly more stressful than the application phase and honestly more stressful than my thesis.

I'm currently dicovering the town through Google Street View and realising again how different American towns look. Everything is so far apart.

I've been awake for like five minutes and I already have to deal with Deutsche Bahn bullshit

My train to Hamburg on Sunday got cancelled but I need to go to Hamburg because of my flight so now I'm just scrambling to find an alternative route.

I just used Facebook for the first time in years. Every third post is some AI generated picture and that one guy my mum used to be friends with whom I worked for that one time is a racist antivaxxer now who doesn't believe in climate change.

Finding accommodation is soooo stressful

Like Bardcore is a thing and nobody was going to tell me about it?

I misclicked on that damn ancient language poll before I got to read the whole thing 😤

Rip

Update: by now, 45 percent of the people who voted in this poll said people who snore should not be allowed in hostels. I don't know how many people voted though. According to a quick Google search around 45 percent of adults snore occasionally and 25 percent snore regularly.

Does travel Instagram know that people who snore don't do it on purpose?? That it's a medical thing??

Okay but 1) some people don't know they snore 2) snoring isn't anyone's fault 3) shouldn't people who snore, a very mundane thing lots of people do to no fault of their own, also be allowed to use the same accommodations as everyone else? Especially considering that private accommodation is usually several times as expensive as hostels???

Does travel Instagram know that people who snore don't do it on purpose?? That it's a medical thing??

A film ending with a bris and a speech about yiddishkeit. Based.

The plot of the Yiddish disco musical so far: Mendel is a yeshiva student. His brother Mottel is a disco singer. A rich, beautiful woman from New York has fallen in love with Mottel through his songs and is supposed to be introduced to him through a matchmaker. Mottel decides to send his brother to the first meeting to see if she's actually a rich, beautiful woman. The matchmaker tells her that Mottel will be disguised as a yeshiva student, unaware he is actually sending his brother.

The Yana Culture was ancestral to the population from which both early Paleo-Indians and the Ancient North Siberians arose.

By “the builders of Stonehenge,” I mean the earliest builders, ca. 3100 BCE.

Note that the last language spoken by a Denisovan/Neanderthal or by a community of Denisovans/Neanderthals may not necessarily be a Denisovan/Neanderthal language—it may be a language of anatomically modern humans they adopted. (It will at any rate be about 40-50,000 years old).

Adela deserves better

The plot of the Yiddish disco musical so far: Mendel is a yeshiva student. His brother Mottel is a disco singer. A rich, beautiful woman from New York has fallen in love with Mottel through his songs and is supposed to be introduced to him through a matchmaker. Mottel decides to send his brother to the first meeting to see if she's actually a rich, beautiful woman. The matchmaker tells her that Mottel will be disguised as a yeshiva student, unaware he is actually sending his brother.

Adela has changed her mind on Mendel and begins to like him now

The plot of the Yiddish disco musical so far: Mendel is a yeshiva student. His brother Mottel is a disco singer. A rich, beautiful woman from New York has fallen in love with Mottel through his songs and is supposed to be introduced to him through a matchmaker. Mottel decides to send his brother to the first meeting to see if she's actually a rich, beautiful woman. The matchmaker tells her that Mottel will be disguised as a yeshiva student, unaware he is actually sending his brother.