Mary Alcaro

Caffeinated, traveling medievalist. Studied plague before it was cool.😎 Sherlockian, cat parent, punster. I mostly just subtweet from coffee shops. (she/her)

[Mary Alcaro @m2alc]

As a society, we never should have abandoned nosegays.

[Mary Alcaro @m2alc]

To my writing students past and future, I can only repeat the advice of one of my great teachers: Do as I say, not as I do.

[Mary Alcaro @m2alc]

At the stage of dissertation editing where I am employing the "toddler in the carseat" method of paragraph transitions: I grab the reader and say COME ON WE ARE GOING HERE NOW GET IN THE CAR.

[Mary Alcaro @m2alc]

As a child, I really underestimated how many of my adult problems would be mitigated by lying on the floor.

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@tacopizzalvr DEVASTATED

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There's a special place in heaven for my advisor who works on poetics but has to deal with reading my work, resulting in actual emails like this from me:

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Not me accidentally singing under my breath "everything comes out teenage pestilence" while editing a dis chapter on plague, trauma, and Freud. I love you, it's running my life, indeed.

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@AngryBlackLady I am so happy for her and jealous that she gets to experience this album for the first time.

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New high/low: was just recognized by the owner of a coffee shop while working at a different coffee shop in the neighborhood.

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@MerriamWebster @FromPhDtoLife The App Formerly Known as Twitter (is how I’ve exclusively been referring to it, especially in spoken conversation)

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Me: I should be writing.
My brain: Andrew @Hozier-Byrne wrote “Moment’s Silence” in 2018, why has anyone written ANYTHING since then.

[Mary Alcaro @m2alc]

@memilies Don’t get nervous you’ll sweat! 😬 (Godspeed— I understand this struggle well)

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@aliciaandrz Did you think he meant c(o)untry matters?

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[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Thys ys awkwarde timinge for Taylor Swift because the outside consultinge firm employed by the universitye administration hath just recommendid cuttinge fundinge by half for the Tortured Poets Department.

[Mary Alcaro @m2alc]

Triple checking the science parts of my conference talk tomorrow so I don't embarrass myself in a room of experts and all I keep thinking is dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a-- wait no, I'm not even that. 😅

[Mary Alcaro @m2alc]

God bless the waiter who, when I asked for seltzer and bitters, nodded and said “oh— is it— okay.” And then softly set the glass on the table.

[Mary Alcaro @m2alc]

@baileyeliz I loved it! Emma Stone’s physical acting ALONE was phenomenal. Her entire performance was so impressive

[Happy Researchers @hapyresearchers]

Writing a paper is more about spending hours and hours to find a reference to support what you know is absolutely true but you just need someone to agree with you 😂😂

[Mary Alcaro @m2alc]

@stuffasdreams 😇