The author has moved on to b. Avodah Zara 4b, in which the rabbis discuss why God might be snippy at the start of the day, as all the gentiles are waking up and committing idolatry with the sun.

I love #rabbinics.

#AmIndexing #Talmud

JUNE CARTOON: https://ivacheung.com/2025/06/camaraderie/ #AmIndexing

MAY CARTOON: https://ivacheung.com/2025/05/passing-through/ #AmIndexing

#AmIndexing a commentary on Thucydides. I've gotten to index a couple of commentaries from University of Michigan Press now. I enjoy the challenge and the opportunity to learn about great works I hadn't been exposed to before.

Indexing an amazing memoir while serenaded by a hermit thrush.

This is the life.

#Birds #AmIndexing

#AmIndexing "Womanism Rising," an edited volume by Layli Maparyan.

It's done! The Albertus Magnus index is done!

:Kermit waving his arms GIF:

#AmIndexing #AmAlsoGoingToBed

Recently finished indexing Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The political economy of queer activism in Ghana, by Ellie Gore with University of Michigan Press.
Now working on Dilemmas: Beyond binaries and double binds, by Michael D. Jackson with University of Pennsylvania Press.
#Indexing #AmIndexing

Trying to motivate myself by working an hour and then playing one (1) online word game. Ad infinitum.

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I'm starving. Very intense day in the index mines!

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Just learned a new word: "propaedeutic," adj.: "(of an area of study) serving as a preliminary instruction or as an introduction to further study."

#AmIndexing #Philosophy

This index is my most top-heavy ever:

agent intellect
Albert the Great
Alexander of Aphrodisias
Alfarabi
Algazel
Alkindi
Anaxagoras
Ancient Scholiast
Aquinas, Thomas
Aristotle
Ashʿarites
Augustine
Avempace
Averroes
and let's not forget Avicenna

#AmIndexing #MedievalStudies #Scholastics #Peripatetics #Philosophy

Trying to teach #Dayenu to sit next to me rather than *trying* to sit on my chest, where I have to support him with one arm. He's less cognizant of my needs than #Pip is, but we're starting to see progress! Which makes my workday even cozier, with a cat on each side.

#AmIndexing #Cats

It is extremely cozy to index with a #cat's back pressing against your arm. #AmIndexing

The 4 A's of my current project: Albert, Aristotle, Avicenna, Averroes.

I wonder how many times I've typed them.

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Today we're reading about Ibn Rushd and the human intellect.

#AmIndexing #MedievalStudies #Philosophy

One of the funny things about indexing books about Albert the Great is that you have all these entries and subentries like "Arabic sources, Albert's use of," whereas usually you use someone's surname. It sounds so informal.

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Ughhh, the PDF for the proofs I'm indexing on Albert the Great's Arabic sources is locked, so I can't copy and paste names and titles from it.

Do you know how long it takes to put in diacritics by hand?

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Index editing. My least favorite activity outside of cleaning the litter box (but it takes so much longer!).

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Halfway done with this shift, and only 7 pages left of indexing to do.

Luckily I have a Rivers of London book to read when I finish.

#AmIndexing #LibraryWorker