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Charlotte Heth

Hello SusunW, I hope you are doing well these days? I have been away for a month but now back and working on a draft page for a Cherokee ethno-musicologist. User:Balance person/Charlotte Heth. I am a bit short on references and wonder if you might have the time to see what you think? I will also contact ARoseWolf to see if I have made mistakes on the heritage side of things too. I appreciate that you might be extremely busy so no hurry of course from my side. Only if you can. Balance person (talk) 11:40, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Hey @Balance person, sorry but I too have been away for a month. Lots of real life stuff happening. Will probably be back to work around the 15th if our luck holds and will take a look then. SusunW (talk) 15:38, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Hey SusunW, I am so happy to see that you are still around though I am truly sorry that real life is evidently throwing things at you. Hope you get some calm soon. I had worried that you might have left. It seems that ARoseWolf may have taken indefinite leave. Anyway...I went ahead with Charlotte Heth but it would be still very good if you felt like checking the page and improving it at some point. But I am just really glad to see your name in my inbox. Great! Balance person (talk) 16:57, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

November music

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For a surprise, a Bach cantata is on the Main page today, where it was last year for the 300th anniversary, and they were too lazy to find something new ;) - Look at my story, and listen to the 3 whole-tone steps and the dialogues of Fear and Hope. - An open letter open to be signed (more info on the talk), - I haven't checked if you did, please ignore then. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:33, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Hey Gerda Arendt sorry to have dropped off the internet. Lots of real life stuff seems to have hit all at once: our consumer product failure case was called (30 days of court, but we won!), the construction crew next door took out our electric and internet in one fell accident (a whole week to get it back, but we got to stay in the hotelita up the street), the election happened (I am in mourning). I hope to be back regularly around the middle the month, if all goes well. SusunW (talk) 15:42, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Oh dear!! - I uploaded more pics, on a mountain in the sun above the fog. - Madeleine Riffaud - remember. - Riffaud disappeared from the Main page so quickly that all Main page versions are with the election result pictured ... - one hour more and it would at least not have been pictured any more. When you'll hopefully return, I'll be gone, without laptop, - we'll see how that goes. Don't be surprised ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:47, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

More pic of the same mountain, for your enjoyment! I just had to renew my passport, for tomorrow's trip, and it was easy, - I was really surprised and pleased. I will not take a laptop and may be simply away for 2 weeks, - don't worry. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:34, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

It used to be terrifically easy for us. We walked into the consulate with passport sized photos and asked to renew our passport. They filled out a form from our previous passport data, notarized our signature, we paid, and 10 days later our passport arrived. It took only about an hour. Since Covid, all passports in Mexico are processed in the north to improve efficiency. Yucatan is in Jalisco, why? No clue. The application and payment have to be done on-line but they aren't processed in the same system, so you have to keep inputting the exact same data in the payment processing system as you did in the application and it doesn't even carry over from my renewal application to my husband's. Copy-paste is not allowed. After getting the docs prepared, our brand new printer cartridge purchased for that purpose didn't work. Took it back to the store, who tried it, confirmed it didn't work and said we could file a claim with the manufacturer for a replacement or refund, which we might get in 30 days. Office Depot does not do exchanges or refunds in Mexico. *sigh* No time for that so off to DHL, where next-door a friend has a business and in exchange for a bottle of wine, he made the copies of stuff we needed copied and printed the applications and proof of payment we needed printed. (He didn't ask for the wine, but I insisted.) DHL people were very helpful and professional. Project started (not counting the previous day to take and pick up photos) 9 A.M., concluded 5:37 P.M. But hey, in 6 weeks I should get notified to go pick them up at DHL. Very efficient? SusunW (talk) 14:49, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for improving articles in November! - from Brazil --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:52, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Happy Thanksgiving! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:53, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

I uploaded pics of a trip that was a 10-day celebration of a 16 November event, but the day was also when a dear friend died. We sang Hevenu shalom aleichem at his funeral yesterday, and it was good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:23, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello!

Hey SusunW -- I haven't seen you around on WP recently, so I thought I'd drop you a quick note. How are things? I hope you're doing okay. Best, Alanna the Brave (talk) 21:39, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Hola Alanna the Brave thanks for checking in. As I said to Gerda above, real life has been insane lately. That said, I should be back to normal on WP around the 15th if all goes as planned. I am struggling to make a decision on Good Article participation, however, after years of focus on improving articles, there seems to be not much encouragement in the community for actual improvement, but instead a focus on reviewing, pushing articles through a process, and penalizing contributors who focus on quality. I am struggling to wrap my head around that and as is clear, have only nominated one article this whole year because of the negativity I feel has been generated in discussions. I promised myself that I would come to a resolution about whether to continue with Women in Green by the end of the year and I shall. I'll let you know. Hope all is well with you too. SusunW (talk) 15:47, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

It sounds like you've had a heck of a lot to deal with lately (and yes, the election results -- I'm in Canada, but I've been mourning too this past week). Definitely take whatever time you need. Even if you don't continue with Women in Green, I hope you'll let me know if I can help out with any future projects of yours -- you're a fabulous writer and researcher, and I've enjoyed collaborating in the past. Happy to do so again in future. I had gotten out of the habit of creating new articles in recent years, but I've started again this fall, so I may be popping up around WiR a bit more as well. Alanna the Brave (talk) 16:49, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

I've missed you too, Susun. I'm really sorry to see you have faced so much negativity in connection with "Good Articles". I for one would welcome the possibility of participating in future promotions. In any case, I look forward to your more active participation around the 15th. Just let me know if there's anything I can do to help.--Ipigott (talk) 16:51, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Dear S, I have missed you, too. Yes; election results. I'm not sure what to say regarding Good Articles nom/review, etc. except that your articles always seem like "good articles" even if they aren't "Good Articles". That is to say, your writing is stellar. Come back when you're ready. Know that I appreciate you and I love seeing your username in my watchlist. We've been together in this line of work for so long... --Rosiestep (talk) 17:02, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @Alanna the Brave, Ipigott, and Rosiestep: for checking on me. It truly has been a crazy few months. Today the goal is to finish our passport renewals so we get them a) before the holidays and b) they expire. Renewing from abroad is not for amateurs (a ton of steps required), but it is apparently much faster than if we were in the US--go figure. It's taken 4 hours just to fill out a simple renewal application, ugh. Now if we can just print, pay, and mail before DHL closes... that's one more thing off our to do list. Hope to be back in a few days, if I get my new glasses so I can see the screens. ;) SusunW (talk) 17:32, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you so much Ipigott. You know I truly enjoy our collaborations. Has taken longer than I thought for me to return. The construction crew next door is like some horrible comedy of errors. Their next blunder was to somehow burst a pipe to my front bathroom. Not as hard as it sounds, pipes are on the outside of houses here since nothing ever freezes, but nonetheless a major head ache for us. As the house is over 100 years old and the pipes are made of materials no longer sanctioned, they have to be replaced fully, i.e. walls torn out, new plaster, new tile, etc. The landlady is happy they have agreed to pay to fix their mistake, but really I am annoyed. They are in my house $)#^&%(@! for the foreseeable future. Ugh. But, I am hoping I will now be able to return to work, we'll see. SusunW (talk) 14:13, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

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December music

story · music · places

Today's story comes from a DYK about a concert that fascinated me, and you can listen! For my taste, the hook has too little music - I miss the unusual scoring and the specific dedication - but it comes instead with a name good for viewcount. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:29, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

On the Main page today Jean Sibelius on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's Fifth from the opening of Notre-Dame de Paris. We sang in choirs today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:11, 8 December 2024 (UTC)