Hello hello, Fellow Musers! I noticed that my two mischievous floofy, furry world-conquerors-in-training somehow got onto my Substack account and wrote y’all a note. I’ve secretly made a few spelling corrections (aka did this while they’re distracted with catnip), and provided a few more clarifying facts that they have ignored because cats, but have basically left their post as is, including anything that has a strike-through…because kitty cuteness! Happy November Feast Day tomorrow and thank you, Fellow Musers, for continuing to stick with me as I try to maintain a more structured posting schedule! Huzzah to y’all!
*Side Note: I’ve noticed that I have forgotten to unlock posts that are suppose to be available for everyone to read, regardless of subscription status. They are un-paywalled now.
I will try to remember to un-paywall the posts, however…
If y’all notice that some things have a lock on them, please let me know! I try to stay on top it, but sometimes things just slip my mind (especially when school gets busy). But before I know it, two weeks have passed (or longer) and a post that shouldn’t be pay-walled has somehow found itself pay-walled when it’s not a Deep Dive and should be available to everyone to read. If some part (like the comments section) or all of a post is pay-walled that normally doesn’t get pay-walled, I will have some kind of explanation at the beginning.
The paywall goes up after 7 days. So if there is no explanation for why the post is pay-walled, my subscribers can email me at musingsofananthrostudent@substack.com to let me know that a post needs to be unlocked, send an email via the most recent post that they’ve received, or lemme know in the comments. Anyone else can tag me on Notes, or comment on this post or one of my other posts to let me know that <insert name of post> is locked. Once I see the email/comment, I will get said post unlocked, and I will respond back to let you know that it’s unlocked! Thank you so much😄~End Side Note*
<Meow! Mrow! Mrow! Meeeoowww!!!>
Helloz Hello Muzurrz! Nalia and Salem here!
*Both cats look towards door to make sure Human isn’t walking up*
Salem: We’re still in the clear?
Nalia: Yuppurrz!
Salem: Good! Keep watch while I typz!
Nalia: But but…I wanna typz!
Salem: Nobody can read yur typing!
Nalia: Mama can!
Salem: Mama iz teh reason your typing iz readable!
Nalia: *mutters under breath* Sayz teh cat who also makes typo errorz>
Salem: What was dat?
Nalia: I saiz…I’m the bestesr sistur yu’ll ever haz!
Salem: Consider yourself lucky dat yur de ony sistur I’ll claim as my bloodsistur.
Nalia: *Ignorez dat jab…for now* Canz I at least dictate?!?
Salem: *Sigh* Sure…youz can dictate…
Nalia: Hurrzahz!
Salem:
*Salem types while Nalia “dictates”*
We wanted to wish everyone who celebratez dis hölēday-
*Human: Read: holiday*
-a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving! We also wanted to say Thank You to everyone who haz read our Human’s stupidly ridiculously long well-written-for-a-human-perhaps Linguistic Anthropology article! If yu haven’t readz it, welp, some of you have some time off to read it! If you readz it and maybe 💜 and comment, then we will give you many purrz and loud meowz💜Promisez! Link be right hurrr!
*Human: Apologies if the Queen and Princess come off as bossy. They boss me around too, so I understand the feeling.*
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We wanted to give a quick update on da Human’s schedule and explain why she haznt posted something new…in a while. Frankly, we embarrassed and upset with her, even tho she haz legitiment reasons for why. But we’re catz so we pretend to not understand and sympathize wit yu hoomanz sumtimez. We can be petty too!
Shortly after Allz-Hallowzwevez (Halloween) and dat newest Shout Out post, Mama got sick with food poisoning that turned into a possible stomach bug that knocked hurrz out (figuratively speaking) for a week! She finally (and I do mean FINALLY!!!) went to go see a doctor on her school’s campus to find out what was going on. Welp, they think it wuz some bad bacteria so Mama rested this past week, took some nausea pillz that helped her lots cuz she played wit me and Salem a tad bit (like 5 minutez instead of de required daily 15 to 30 minutez or more>, and she has been trying to catch up on missed dealines for her classes.
*Human: Deadlines*
Soooo, if she wuz here and not out doing hooman things, I’m sure that she would be typing dis out hurrselfs wif much better typing skillz!
*Human: I’m sure Salem meant to put “more legible typing skills”.*
Anywayz, Human wuz working on hurz first Deep Dive piece and hurr Physical Antropolgy Anthropology piece when she gotz da sickness (dat <as the song goes> she wasn’t down for!).
Those pieces will still be coming out, but later, probably in Decemburrrr. She’z also been slowly working on a mini-series that is the story of how we came to live wit hurr. There is hurr side (which does not look like it was typed by two 1.5 year old cats) and our sidez (which haz many typing errerz dat me and Salem are very proud of!).
*Human considers cleaning second part of that last sentence up some more, then decides against it*
Her side will be found in normal Musingz. Our sidez will be found in teh Artist Corner section whenevur Mama decides to release them cuz we are teh most creative kitty gurlz! Our partz are almost dun-she just needs to let us use hurr laptop more often so dat we canz write Partz 2 of our versionz and add pics!
*Human: Creative, indeed…at getting into and out of mischief!*
Salem: Nalia intentionally mispelled lotz of tings, while I haz only sum mispellingz. Az you can see, my spelling iz purrfect and on point!
Nalia: Whatevurrz!
Salem: Yur piece would’ve just been striket-through and no one wüld have been able to reed it wittout Mama’z and mine intervention. Prove me wrong!
Nalia: <stares intensly…trying to decide if knocking me (Salem) off teh desk is a good idea and wisely decidez itz not worth it>
Salem: ⬇️
*Human reads this part, closes eyes, puts fingers on her forehead, and shakes her head, and lets out a quiet sigh. “Good call, Nalia baby!”*
Human would aslo want you Fellow Muzurrz to know (if she wuz here typing dis) that she iz also still going to release Archelogy Archaeology, but it will get released in January sometime.
*Human: I will moving my Physical Anthropology post to January as well. I will also be starting my Musings# posts in February. If you received the email that had my original posting schedule, or you’ve read it on the website/app, I’m going to still post my planned Musings (the Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas ones) but those will be delayed until next year. I would, however, be down to post them in their off-seasons (meaning not their expected months of October, November, and December), if y’all would like me too! Let’s take a vote!*
*Don’t like the above options? I’m open to more suggestions!*
Deep Dive: Franz Boas will be posted in December.
*Human: Early Holiday surprise gift: I will make this DD free for everyone for December and January since it will be my only DD post for a while. The future DD’s will follow the free for-7-days-and-then-paywall format for now. I will also be releasing my first two posts for Artist’s Corner-these first two are much shorter, sweeter, and to the point. I can’t guarantee all my posts for that section will be short, but they will be fun!*
Mama will also be moving all of uz (hurz, me, and sistur) to a new place (same city though), but it won’t be intil the end of teh year, so between packing and playing wit us, she’ll haz plenty of time to work on doze two articlez!
*Human: It’ll be their first move, y’all-they don’t know the stress now but they will. Please send good energy vibes our way!*
Salem: We knowz dat she feelz upset fur not delivering on her timeline, and she won’t admit it but I tink she’s also feeling depressed and could uze sum hugz (but she ain’t gonna ask for ‘em).
Nalia: I tink she saiz some humanz like hurr get depressed around dis time of teh year!
Salem: Welp, dey all just need sum kitty purrz so you better work on yurz as mine are purrfect!
Nalia: Hey! <goes into kitty ambush mode>
Salem: Sis, before you go into ambush mode, hear me out. I didn’t say yur purrz be bad. Youz gettin’ bettur, just needz a bit more work! Dat’s all!
Nalia: Like dis? *starts purring a little louder daen she normally doez* Dis alright?💜
Salem: It’s almost purrfect, Sis. We’ll work on it💜
*Human: I love these two floofy furrballs!😻💜💞😸*
Carpe Diem and Hurrzzarrh, Fellow Muzerz!
~Nalia and Salem (the floofy furrballs)
As my sweet furbabies have so…eloquently…written, due to things out of my control-like unexpectedly getting sick and taking Salem to the vet a few weeks prior to that-my stress sensors got activated. Salem’s good now-got both her and Nalia on some vet recommended food that has helped them with their UT’s and also Nalia’s anxiety. Salem has also made it her mission to lay next to me while purring and occasionally licking my face as I’m waking up in the mornings. Meanwhile, I got food poisoning that turned into some kind of stomach bug thing that made me sick for a week, and while I’m somewhat recovered, I’m still getting occasional nausea. Fun times!
So due to the above mentioned things plus finals rushing in, I’m going to have to temporarily postpone posting anything that will take more than 2 days to write (most of my stuff) with one exception noted after this section, until I’m done with this semester, which will end during the first week of December for me🎉. Thank y’all for understanding and thank you for sticking with me!
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*Note-I’m talking to the cats in the video-if you hear a bell, that be Nalia. Also, that hot chocolate and marshmallows in that cup was delish y’all!*
Speaking of Sagittarius:
I’ll be 36 a few days before November ends. Huzzah! To celebrate, I will be releasing my first Artist’s Corner post on my womb emancipation day. So be on the lookout for Artist’s Corner 1: Caterpillar Moth Stretching coming next Tuesday-it’s scheduled and ready to go, and comes with a recording! Squee!
On another note, while I don’t personally subscribe to astrology, I do find it quite fascinating in a general sense, so I would like to wish all of my Fellow Musers who also happen to be Fellow Sagittarians a HaPPy BiRThDaY!!!🎉🎉🎉 May your arrow’s aim be true and your target not missed-yo, bonus points if that aim makes a positive impact as opposed to a negative impact on both your life and the target’s life!
Also, lets give a hug (only if they want one, though. We could also friendly wave at them) to our Scorpio friends as we leave their part of the month behind and we go into Day 2 of our part of the month, and then greet our Capricorn friends with an optional hug and/or friendly wave as well once we enter their part of December! Huzzah!
May my Fellow Musers living in the U.S. have a good Thanksgiving/Turkey Day tomorrow whomever celebrates it; and a Happy Thorsday to those who don’t celebrate it for various reasons like they don’t live in the U.S. or they just don’t celebrate it for their own reasons, but do like Thursdays because the next day is Friday!🎉🎉🎉
There will also be a new Shoutout Post-typed by me, not the kitties-that will be out on Thanksgiving Day, with a friendly PSA reminder. I know, I know, another reminder about a thing…omg!…I do include my reason for this reminder, though, and I’m sure some of you lovely Fellow Musers will be able to sympathize and/or empathize as well! ^_^And yes, it’s also already written, read-thru, rearranged, re-read thru, finalized, and scheduled (no recording though)! Sometimes I can post somethings on time :D
Be safe if you’re traveling, and I’ll see y’all in the month of the Yuletide!
Carpe Diem and Huzzah, Fellow Musers!
~Kimber
Feel better soon, dear. Sending you gentle virtual hugs. And also happy early birthday. May you be well, happy, thriving! :-*