Want to read: Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope 📚
Want to read: Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope 📚
Want to read: Anya of Ark by Kristian Joseph 📚
Post-graduation reception.
Tassel turned! (The gown and hood were too itchy to keep on with only a sundress underneath.)
Let’s get this virtual graduation show on the road. [My son and I smiling. I am wearing doctoral regalia, including a dark blue PhD hood and velvet tam. A lightsaber blur is in the bottom right corner.]
Want to read: Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller 📚
My kid and I are building NYC for the Ninja Turtles & Marvel Superheroes to adventure in, so of course I had to build the @nypl Schwarzman bldg on 5th Ave complete with Patience and Fortitude.
I had to do one more round of formatting this morning but at long last my dissertation has been accepted by my university!
I started a bookstagram account. You can find it at kimberlyhirsh.reads if you want to follow along. Right now this almost 20 year old picture of me kissing books is the only post over there.
I started a bookstagram account. You can find it at [kimberlyhirsh.reads]((https://instagram.com/kimberlyhirsh.reads) if you want to follow along. Right now this almost 20 year old picture of me kissing books is the only post over there.
I love when I talk to my doctor and we agree on the best course of action.
Me, watching STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS: Battle, battle, battle. When are we going to get another DIPLOMACY episode? (Padme is my prequel era fave, OF COURSE.) 📺
I fixed the formatting problem which was in fact my fault. When I tried to fix one thing it did another thing and I didn’t realize it and was too tired to check over and through 245 pages last time. But I think it’s fixed for real this time PLEASELETITBEFIXEDOHMYGOODNESS.
I’ve been attending to my mind almost exclusively for 6 years (and arguably for almost 40). Time to give some attention to her neglected sisters, my body and spirit.
Was playing Ninja Turtles with my kid & his action figures & kid made Leo tell Donnie he’s just a toy & I made Donnie have a full-on existential crisis over this. My kid handled my projection with great grace.
I am filled with rage over the number of formatting revisions I am having to make to my dissertation, especially as the most recent one they requested is something I thought I already did. I am so tired and so angry and just want to be done.
Finished reading: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May 📚
🔖 I’ve started calling my kid Little One & after reading Meg Elison’s How Lwaxana Troi Became Our Space Aunt I couldn’t be happier to be aging into my natural camp grand dame-ness. 🖖🏻📺
I was thinking last night about why characters who look a mess but are competent when it counts are some of my favorites and I realized that’s how I perceive myself. (That’s why I need this sticker from Anxiety Productions.)
Hello again, internet. I just finished writing the last thing I had to write for my assistantship. I’m taking a break and not hustling hustling for the next month or so. But I am planning to launch as an independent researcher and consultant in mid-June, and in case anyone else is interested in what that life is like, I thought I’d share some of my prospective work.
I really appreciate transparency such as when Dr. Katie Linder and Dr. Sara Langworthy talk about their income streams on the Make Your Way podcast, Dr. Katie Rose Guest Pryal talks about hers in her book The Freelance Academic, and Dr. Kelly J. Baker talks about hers on her blog. Because I haven’t launched yet, I can’t tell you how much money I’m making. But I can tell you what kind of clients I’m courting.
Here are some possibilities I have in the works:
In addition to whatever paid work I get, I have a dream of also continuing to do my own research and maybe doing some creative writing (either creative non-fiction or YA fantasy), but we’ll see how much time and energy I have.
Want to read: THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live by Danielle Dreilinger 📚
Added “serious Belle vibes 📚” to my bio.
You should probably look at Laz Marquez’s #StarTrekGala art project because it’s AWESOME. 🖖🏻🎨📺
🔖📚 Austin Kleon writes today about wintering and dormancy, quoting Katherine May’s book Wintering. I’m reading the book right now. What I didn’t know before reading but appreciate is that May is writing about leaving academia.
🔖📺🖖 Read The Measure of a Man Demonstrates the Many Forms of Love by Anna E. Gant