Keeping an eye on news about Pride displays coming down in my local library and getting ready to show up at whatever meetings I need to. I have limited physical capacity for in-person activism but I will Show Up for Libraries.
More grief today learning of the loss of Anthony Stewart Head. I met him at a con once. It was probably the summer of 2003. He was so generous with his time, chatting with a couple of us from the official Buffy posting board until his handler shooed us because a line had formed. He hugged me before I left and he smelled exactly as good as you would have expected. [GraceAnn A. DeCandido wrote a wonderful piece about the importance of Giles to the library profession back in 1999.](web.archive.org/web/20230… May his memory be a blessing. I met Tony Head at a con once. It was probably the summer of 2003. He was so generous with his time, chatting with a couple of us from the official Buffy posting board until his handler shooed us because a line has formed. He hugged me before I left and he smelled exactly as good as you would have expected.)
💬📚 “I love the days when my body cooperates.” Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing
The Wayback Machine has a robust archive of Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega’s website. One of my first thoughts was how important it was to preserve the writing he did about doing research. I’m glad the Internet Archive has it.
I am devastated by the death of Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega, an incredibly generous scholar who impacted my research process for years. If, like me, you always want details in the midst of your grief, Periódico Correo has them but be warned that it involves violence.
🎮 I’ve been thinking about why Celeste feels better to me (as in, more pleasant to play) than Animal Well does, and the reason is simple: in Celeste, when you die, you go back to your starting point on the same screen where you died. In Animal Well, you go back to a save point.
Angry/frustrated over the insurance situation with the school library. I don’t often get very angry. I am at present so angry that none of the things that would normally make me feel better even sound worthwhile.
Finished reading: The Lost World A Novel by Michael Crichton 📚
It’s fascinating to me that Crichton wrote this at Spielberg’s behest, but the movie is so very different from this. Only a few scenes and characters from this are in it.
My romanticized nostalgic childhood summer replay
In her article, How To Balance Being Online With Mindfully Logging Off, Stephanie Fallon says,
It can be so tempting to start over in some romanticized revamp of a 90’s childhood summer.
She’s talking here about the temptation of a radical digital detox but I read this and immediately thought, that sounds super fun! I want a 90s (or 80s!) childhood summer!
So I’m asking myself, what does that look like?
Here’s what I’ve got so far:
- Participating in the library’s summer reading program
- And thus maxing out my borrowing privileges (50 books at a time)
- And spending hours and hours reading
- Hanging out at the pool as much as possible
If I want to go mid-to-late-90s, I’d add in participating in one or more theatrical productions and doing some hobbyist web development.
As an educator who only works 10 months out of the year, I think I can get pretty close to this. I’m thinking about how I want to meld it with having my kid at home with me for many weeks, too, as he’s only doing a few camps this year.
What would your nostalgic romanticized childhood summer look like?
Finished reading: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 📚
A great time and at its most interesting in the places where the movie departed from it.