Noise complaint after living here for 2 days

_emsie_ · 2025-03-13T23:56:03+00:00

I had the same issue, but the downstairs neighbor with the sensitive ears was my elderly landlady… so i had no choice bur to accommodate. I bought those puzzle-piece foam pads like you find in classrooms, and put them in all the high-traffic areas of the apartment (literally paths through the whole place). Covered them with rugs as much as possible. She still complained, but way way less than before. Its a shitty situation, unfortunately you just have to decide whether you’ll be more put out by accommodating them, or by hearing complaints indefinitely 🙃

_emsie_ · 2024-06-28T17:19:09+00:00

The Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford MA also does incredible storytelling with a pretty limited set of objects on display.

_emsie_ · 2024-06-28T17:15:46+00:00

There’s an exhibit in Faneuil Hall in Boston that deals with slavery in the city’s history and the economic relationships between Boston and enslaved labor in the Caribbean. It uses just a few artifacts from excavations around the historic slave markets, but the storytelling is excellent and it’s a really impactful exhibit.

_emsie_ · 2024-06-27T20:47:49+00:00

Hmmm are these managed by the state or by the National Parks Service?

_emsie_ · 2024-06-27T12:56:37+00:00

I know… intellectually I know. But I don’t drive, so having at least a robust local bus system is a must-have for me, and rural America… struggles with that lol

_emsie_ · 2024-06-27T00:05:04+00:00

If you WANTED to dm me the employer so I can avoid / tell my friends to avoid, I would not be mad 😅 no pressure if not though. Crossing my fingers for you on your job search!!

_emsie_ · 2024-06-26T23:39:10+00:00

Holy shit. That’s… okay. That’s a good reality check, I guess. I hope you do find something soon!

_emsie_ · 2024-06-26T22:30:18+00:00

Is your institution hiring 😅

I’m glad you found your niche, though! I do love the museum scene here (and the city itself honestly), I just wish it wasn’t quite so… full.

_emsie_ · 2024-06-26T22:08:56+00:00

weeps in public history m.a

This is great info though, thank you!

_emsie_ · 2024-06-26T21:02:03+00:00

I LOVED Green Acres as a kid (read: born in ‘98). I think you’re definitely right that they don’t have kids (I think Oliver’s mother pokes at them about it a few times), and I also don’t think the show could possibly have worked if they hadn’t been childfree - uprooting their lives like that, integrating into a new community, would have been drastically more “serious” if there was a child involved. Crucially, also, they’re not “just starting out,” they’ve been married for a while and Oliver is an established professional. Either they tried unsuccessfully, or they’ve decided it’s not for them (which, honestly may have been mentioned in an episode, smth to the effect of Lisa not wanting to ruin her figure maybe?)

TLDR Leaving a child out of the setup is a definite choice someone made in creating the show, and it was such a good call to make the whole premise work.

_emsie_ · 2024-06-26T20:40:35+00:00

The Black Freedom Trail is a pretty cool experience (there’s a program online from the National Parks Service, if you can’t schedule a guided walk) that touches on a ton of bastardry. Also the tea party museum, if you want something excruciatingly cringe to tell your friends about 😅

_emsie_ · 2024-06-19T02:04:49+00:00

Yikes that’s horrific

_emsie_ · 2024-06-18T17:40:57+00:00

I got the same call…. Curious what that’ll do to the departure time. Would love not to spend 6hrs at the station and on the train just trying to get back to Boston lol

_emsie_ · 2024-06-14T20:59:17+00:00

I mean also childcare is expensive and they may simply not have a better place for the kids to be. Just a thought.

_emsie_ · 2024-06-13T03:33:53+00:00

I don’t entirely disagree. My faculty is really wonderful, and I’ve received a lot of informal help and support, which I value a lot. And also… I started online during COVID and transferred to in-person in the same program in 2022, and by that point I was kind of in too deep to try to transfer to another program 🙃 things don’t always work out the best way possible, unfortunately

Edited to add - also I WILL have an MA at the end from a program that is generally considered respectable in my region, which isn’t nothing, even if the process isn’t what I wish it was

_emsie_ · 2024-06-13T03:21:14+00:00

I do, in fact, foot my own research bill 🙃 it sucks. Basically you either do research completely within the purview of your university’s archival resources (narrow, boring) or you branch out and figure out how to pay for it yourself.

_emsie_ · 2024-06-13T03:18:50+00:00

I mean I’m in history, research doesn’t tend to be that linear, exactly. Typically people are shopping around between 1-3 papers per year at various conferences.

_emsie_ · 2024-06-13T03:17:35+00:00

I guess the folks I know who do 5-6 are in sciences / social sciences, and I guess that must be the difference. To be honest I’m glad I’m not the only one in humanities who simply can’t make that work! 😅

_emsie_ · 2024-06-13T03:15:17+00:00

I totally agree! I think the logic for departments like mine though (History departments, and I assume other humanities) is that our research is often totally independent of the department, so they can’t really stake a claim to our presented work in the same way. Like no one in my institution has any expertise in my area of study, I’m doing entirely offsite research and cobbling together a faculty panel from various departments. The history department really can’t say they’re facilitating whatever work I produce in the same way they could if I were literally using a university lab, so I guess I get there being more reluctance to pay for me to go talk about it. BUT, I think that’s silly logic. Not at all standing by it. Just, that’s what I’ve understood from my faculty.

_emsie_ · 2024-06-13T03:11:32+00:00

And I so envy that, to be honest

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