Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD

Type 1🧐ENTJ👩‍🏫PhD in History📚Memphian🐖Reader📖Doggo Enthusiast🐶Wife to Sloan💍Mom to Aiya👩She/Her👋Tweets Are My Own🙋‍♀️

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

@su_ssu_sudio @MoniseLSeward No - and I spent hours on the phone on hold with both my loan services only to be hung up on by both. Almost ready to just forget it at this point.

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

@MoniseLSeward Three guesses, but you’ll only need one - my loan company.

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

@MoniseLSeward I was told if I consolidate now, ALL my previous loan payments don’t count. I’d start back at 0. 6 years after they told me that consolidating would mean no more IDR. So…I guess I’m screwed either way.

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

I wrote 5 pages of my dissertation chapter (the last one, and the one I loathe most) today so I’m spending the rest of the day watching tv in the recliner eating grapes, channeling my inner hedonism bot. #Dissertation #PhD

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Sitting down to write my thesis like

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

@MaiaGeorgeCoach @swatiatrest My original advisor passed away is part of the problem. Who wouldn’t let the rest of my committee see things. And no one in my department is a British historian like me. So it’s more complicated than my short tweet - plus I’m on year 12 of standing up for myself and I’m so tired.

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

@AcademicChatter

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

@BraxtonB_Farms The accidental inclusion is both my favorite and least favorite thing about twitter. Sorry about that!

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

@holilield @TheMariaStarr @BraxtonB_Farms Wow. I don’t know that I’d say memphis is full of savage predators. Good people live here too - and we’re heartbroken and disgusted and shocked. Women everywhere should be able to run when they want and be safe.

[Academic Chatter™ @AcademicChatter]

Spending 4 hours reading 8 papers to write 1 sentence.

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

Guess who just wrote a 2 page footnote about heraldic statues in the middle of their George II chapter, despite desperately trying to have this chapter done in 10 days? #phdlife #Dissertation #twitterstorians

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

At the Toulouse airport, just watched a woman try to order oat milk in English for her coffee. Barista kept hearing “hot milk.” Emotions escalated to the point where I had to intervene and explain what oat milk was, and this French man was absolutely pissed to learn it exists

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

Aiya: “don’t do any work today. If you get your life together it’ll make the rest of us look bad.”

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

Easy to say thanks when you walk away with $480k and an unblemished record, so no repercussions for your actions.

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

@MissJLomax We don’t have a bedtime (because a lot of reasons) but no phone except a flip phone she takes to games/visits to friends. Letting her be a kid - especially when I wasn’t allowed to be - trumps any annoyance.

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

I’ve got a 9th grader. Officially an elderly person. 🤣 #firstdayofschool

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

Today, Aiya is mixing dirt in a bucket (making soil blocks for seeds for the garden) in the kitchen sink. But she’s doing it while singing “Take Me Home, Country Roads” punctuated by goose honks. Cool.

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

“Too” but “to” be fair, both seem awful.

[Amber Anna Colvin-Simmons, PhD @AmberAnnaColvin]

Tonight’s Aiya quote: “I’m to afraid to become a mermaid and to afraid of space to leave. I’m trapped, dude.” 🧜‍♀️👩‍🚀 #makessense