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May 30, 2023: Finished reading: Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š Gorgeous graphic version of the Darkling’s origin story.

May 30, 2023: Jami Attenberg’s #1000WordsOfSummer starts June 17 and the Slack is hopping right now, in case you want to join in on the fun. ๐Ÿ“

May 29, 2023: ๐ŸŒŠ Today is the first day of the 10th Annual 100 Days of Blue Mind challenge. As often as you can between now and Labor Day, “get near, in, on or โ€ฆ

May 29, 2023: It was hard finding time to write while traveling, so I didn’t do all the travel blogging I would have liked. But I have consistent childcare โ€ฆ

May 28, 2023: Where have I been? I like Manton’s Where have I been post and have had a pretty significant change in where I’ve visited since the start of the year, so I โ€ฆ

May 28, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read This Is Dedicated To Anyone Who Ever Left - Kelly McMaster interviewed by Lyz Lenz.

May 28, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read “I think, like marriage, home is a fantasy” - Kelly McMaster interviewed by Amanda Montei Here are all of my intellectual โ€ฆ

May 27, 2023: ๐Ÿ“บ Me, watching Bridgerton: How can anyone tell these Bridgerton brothers apart? They all have the same coloration. I guess two of them are a little โ€ฆ

May 27, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read Monkey House: Strange Reflections at the Singerie by Kate Zambreno (VQR).

May 27, 2023: ๐Ÿ“บ Watched Velma. The two primary criticisms - that it relies too heavily on meta-humor and that the characters are selfish & don’t grow - โ€ฆ

May 26, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Winter Zoo by Kate Zambreno (The Yale Review). For a few years when M. was a toddler, our family went to Knoxville - the place of my โ€ฆ

May 25, 2023: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Howard. It’s always striking when you realize the outsize influence an artist has had on you, and watching this it really hit home โ€ฆ

May 25, 2023: ๐Ÿ“š Here comes the BBC with a list of the 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time. Maybe when I’m recovered from jetlag I’ll see how โ€ฆ

May 25, 2023: Want to read: The Light Room by Kate Zambreno ๐Ÿ“š

May 25, 2023: Time for a needs assessment! Micro.blog community, what resources do you need in the Micro.blog Community Library?

May 25, 2023: ๐Ÿ“š Purchased 2 different books from museums to be shipped directly to my house rather than carrying them home myself: Sarah Bernhardt - Et la femme โ€ฆ

May 25, 2023: Just learned that it would cost ยฃ22 to have 100g of Tchai-Ovna’s Faeries Blood Tea shipped to me here in the US. Yikes.

May 25, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read How to Scale Back, Even When It Seems Impossible. Do you need to lose something else to find yourself? Katie Pryal writes about how she had to โ€ฆ

May 25, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Reading Revision can be fun. No, really. by Charlie Jane Anders. …revision can actually be kind of exhilarating at times. Because instead โ€ฆ

May 23, 2023: Home again and happy to be here.

May 23, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Healing Power of JavaScript. โค๏ธ

May 22, 2023: Happy World Goth Day! Tomorrow I will go home, where I will have access to all my goth perfumes and jewelry. Today, I give you this photo of Sarah โ€ฆ

May 22, 2023: I’ve created playlists on YouTube for all 3 Micro Camps, in case you, like me, have a long flight and might want to download and watch them all โ€ฆ

May 22, 2023: Last full day in Europe and I’m spending it alternating between packing and lying down. Don’t underestimate how much stuff you can acquire โ€ฆ

May 21, 2023: “Y’all” is the best contraction. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

May 21, 2023: ๐Ÿ“š Revisiting Time’s The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. N. K. Jemisin: Donโ€™t think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to โ€ฆ

May 21, 2023: ๐Ÿ“บ Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures is exactly the Star Wars show I would have written as a kid: Kai Brightstar Nash Durango The Crimson Firehawk โ€ฆ

May 21, 2023: Finished reading: Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale ๐Ÿ“š A sweet historical romance involving a Quaker and a rakish Duke.

May 20, 2023: Announcement time! Do you write a blog? Send it to me and I’ll read it!

May 20, 2023: Quand mรชme A while back I said I was going to get obsessed with Sarah Bernhardt (I seem to have said it somewhere other than my own website โ˜น๏ธ) but never โ€ฆ

May 18, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŒ Read Webring History. animated email gifs, web counters, scrolling and/or blinking text, midi background music that could not be turned off and โ€ฆ

May 18, 2023: I was feeling disconnected from the Micro.blog community, and I was pretty sure it wasn’t just because I wasn’t posting that much. So I โ€ฆ

May 17, 2023: O no two meetings left, not done for 3+ hrs, and yet so sleepy. Might be an afternoon caffeine day. I would love to just live in Paris forever but it โ€ฆ

May 17, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– How Does Motherhood Impact Your Creativity? Itโ€™s Complicated vogue.com Read: www.vogue.com Vogue: Fashion, Beauty, Celebrity, Fashion Shows โ€ฆ

May 17, 2023: I’m in Paris this week so I don’t know how much of Micro Camp I’ll catch live, but the schedule looks great.

May 14, 2023: Missing Moulin Rouge playing in my hometown but it’s okay because I got to see the actual Moulin Rouge.

May 12, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽต Read Patiently Holding the Sound: Gretchen Parlato on motherhood as a musical inspiration. What a great interview.

May 12, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŒ Read Bring Back Personal Blogging by Monique Judge (The Verge).

May 12, 2023: My blog host, Micro.blog, has declared it the Summer of Blogging and is offering 4 months of their standard hosting plan at a price of $1/month. I โ€ฆ

May 11, 2023: I’ve been obsessed with this chandelier for a long time and today I finally got to see it in person.

May 11, 2023: Reading the souvenir book they sell at Shakespeare and Company, Shakespeare and Company: A Brief History of a Parisian Bookstore. For George, it was โ€ฆ

May 11, 2023: Je suis ร  Paris. J’adore Paris. Yesterday I sat in the reading room of Shakespeare and Company, wrote in my notebook, and pretended to be A โ€ฆ

May 11, 2023: I’m grieving dooce by going through her archives and reading this post while I am in Paris is extra beautiful. I was cranky and tired and in โ€ฆ

May 10, 2023: Content Warning: Suicide There’s an AP news piece confirming what I suspected when I first saw Manton’s post about Heather Armstrong’s death. Heather โ€ฆ

May 9, 2023: Starting Season 7 in my rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, finding myself very glad there’s so much other Trek media including TNG โ€ฆ

May 8, 2023: Want to read: The Witch of Woodland by Laurel Snyder ๐Ÿ“š

May 6, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read My Commitment to Wellness as a Lifelong Writer by Yolande House โ€” Breathing Space Creative Iโ€™ve learned that honouring my needs each and โ€ฆ

May 6, 2023: Over the past week, I’ve worked through Esmรฉ Weijun Wang’s workshop, Building a Writing Habit While Living with Limitations. In the โ€ฆ

May 4, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read BookTok encourages reading as an aesthetic and no one is safe from its gaze by Elena Cavender (Mashable). Insightful piece about how limiting โ€ฆ

May 3, 2023: Finished reading: Mr. & Mrs. Witch by Gwenda Bond ๐Ÿ“š Loved it. Scorchingly hot, fun secret agent hijinks. Highly recommend.

May 1, 2023: I am reading Gwenda Bond’s Mr. & Mrs. Witch right now and one of the ๐Ÿ”ฅ scenes actually made me cry because it was so beautiful and made me โ€ฆ

Apr 28, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ““ Read Automated transcription and some risks of machine interpretation. Dr. Daniel Turner does a great job illuminating how large language models โ€ฆ

Apr 28, 2023: Want to read: How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information by Jillian M. Hess ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 27, 2023: Want to read: It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World by Mikaela Loach ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 27, 2023: Want to read: Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 22, 2023: Me: I put my hair up and brushed my teeth! I’m ready to face the day! flops onto bed

Apr 22, 2023: I’m trying to see myself as others see me. Would you please tell me: When have you seen me happiest? What do you come to me for? Where do I โ€ฆ

Apr 19, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read Roman Polanski, David Bowie, and a New Solution to the Problem of Art Made by Monstrous Men by Laura Miller (Slate). The magnitude of an โ€ฆ

Apr 18, 2023: Response to Charlie Jane Anders's "What the Universal Translator Tells Us About Exploring Other Cultures" ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿฟ Read What the Universal Translator Tells Us About Exploring Other Cultures by Charlie Jane Anders (Happy Dancing newsletter). Anders talks about โ€ฆ

Apr 16, 2023: It's over now, the music of the night. I first encountered music from The Phantom of the Opera when I was 9 years old. I had taken a lip syncing class, because the Leon County, FL gifted โ€ฆ

Apr 16, 2023: Went by the Oscar Wilde house yesterday and the plaque saying he lived there said: OSCAR WILDE POET, DRAMATIST, WIT and I liked it so well I’m โ€ฆ

Apr 15, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽจ Read On growing alongside your artistic practice (The Creative Independent). Mother-artist Bailey Elder talks about growing as an artist and being โ€ฆ

Apr 15, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read Durham Officials Push for Affordable Housing in Southpoint Redevelopment. Pleased with my city’s Planning Commission members.

Apr 14, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read When You Arenโ€™t Sure Whether Your Writing Is โ€˜Importantโ€™ by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic). You just need to find one person who understands and โ€ฆ

Apr 14, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read Kids Will Still Read Banned Books by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic). Chung doesn’t minimize the harm of book banning, but discusses how โ€ฆ

Apr 14, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read How Can You Write About Pain Without Retraumatizing Yourself? by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic).

Apr 14, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read On Pitching and Rejection by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic). pitching is not just about figuring out what editors or publications may be โ€ฆ

Apr 14, 2023: It’s my defense-aversary! I’ve been a PhD for two years. For me, getting the PhD was much bigger than having the PhD has been. Perhaps โ€ฆ

Apr 14, 2023: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ““๐Ÿ“ No dissertation is worth a lifetime of revision. William Germano, From Dissertation to Book

Apr 12, 2023: I haven’t been sharing a lot of travel adventures not because I haven’t been having them, but just because making the time to share is โ€ฆ

Apr 11, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read Lois Before Clark: In Defense of the Superhero Girlfriend. Dreamed I decided to get obsessed with Lois Lane, decided this meant I should โ€ฆ

Apr 10, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read “I Hate the Idea of Healing” A Conversation with Maggie Smith One thing that mothering has taught me is that I can’t be โ€ฆ

Apr 9, 2023: Finished reading: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett ๐Ÿ“š My first finished Discworld. Reading Piers Anthony feels like coming home (miss me with your โ€ฆ

Apr 8, 2023: ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ Data: *has a personal problem* *does extensive research* Captain Picard, I have done all the research but I do not have the answer to my problem. โ€ฆ

Apr 7, 2023: Full-on happy misty-eyed over this week’s Picard. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ

Apr 6, 2023: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ““ Learn how to revise and you will produce a better first book. Remember it and you will enjoy writing the books to follow. William Germano, From โ€ฆ

Apr 6, 2023: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ““ Revision is unromantic, time-consuming, tiring. It is also the only way to make one’s writing better. William Germano, From Dissertation โ€ฆ

Apr 6, 2023: ๐Ÿ““ Read Subjectivity and Reflexivity: An Introduction by Franz Breuer, Katja Mruck & Wolff-Michael Roth (Forum: Qualitative Social Research). A โ€ฆ

Apr 5, 2023: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ““ Writing isn’t a record of your thinking. It is your thinking. William Germano, From Dissertation to Book

Apr 5, 2023: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ““ Revision is a job for optimists. William Germano, From Dissertation to Book

Apr 5, 2023: The Barbie Selfie Generator is pretty fun.

Apr 5, 2023: Hey Internet! I’m interested in your perceptions. What are my superpowers? What are my areas of expertise?

Apr 4, 2023: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ““ …the operating instructions of scholarly publishing rarely form a part of graduate training… William Germano, From Dissertation โ€ฆ

Apr 3, 2023: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ““ Write everything you want published as if there are people who make decisions and work within limited budgetsโ€”their checkbooks, or their โ€ฆ

Apr 3, 2023: Turning My Dissertation into a Book in the Open It’s been almost two years since I defended my doctoral dissertation. Before it was written, an editor had expressed interest in it. After it โ€ฆ

Apr 3, 2023: Looking at my Scholarly Pipeline (Notion template I made, pay what you want) for the first time in a while & I’ve got an idea for a piece of โ€ฆ

Apr 3, 2023: Want to read: Malice House by Megan Shepherd ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 31, 2023: Teenagers at this park are listening to the Macarena. Do I feel old or 15?

Mar 31, 2023: It took a couple years, but I finally created a page on my website curating all my writing about dissertating in the open.

Mar 31, 2023: Blogging as letters to our future selves I blog for a lot of reasons. One of them is because blogging is a little like writing letters to your future self. My current research contract โ€ฆ

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques by Joyce H. Townsend ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature by Allen Staley ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists ; Publ.on the Occasion of the Exhibition at Manchester City Art Galleries, 22 November 1997-22 February โ€ฆ

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Flora Symbolica: Flowers in Pre-Raphaelite Art by Debra N. Mancoff ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites by Laurence Des Cars ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: English Pre-Raphaelite Painters: Their Associates and Successors by Percy H. Bate ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Haunted Texts by William Evan Fredeman ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Essential Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy by William Gaunt ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites in Love by Gay Daly ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde by Tim Barringer,T. J. Barringer ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites in Literature and Art by Dennis Sydney Reginald Welland ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: Reading the Pre-Raphaelites by Tim Barringer ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 31, 2023: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel by Sophia Andres ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: I love the Gothic Charm School book very much and am happy to have bought it as an ebook so I can re-read it as I travel, but I miss the special font โ€ฆ

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Haunted Greece by John L. Tomkinson ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Troublesome Things by Diane Purkiss ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fairy Tales, Now First Collected by Joseph Ritson ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-eastern and Central Europe by Eva Pocs ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Banshee by Patricia Lysaght ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Elf Queens and Holy Friars by Richard Firth Green ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Handbook of Fairies by Ronan Coghlan ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Fairies in Tradition and Literature by Katharine Mary Briggs ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Dictionary of Fairies by Katherine Briggs ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature by Nicola Bown ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fairy Lore by D. L. Ashliman ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Tolkien on Fairy-stories by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies by Anna Franklin ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Good People by Peter Narvย‡ez ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Northumberland Folk Tales by Rosalind Kerven ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols by Cassandra Eason ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Strange and Secret Peoples by Carole G. Silver ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Hello Internet! I’m having a vampire night due to migraine. I’m going to get up and take my morning medicine so I can wait an hour and โ€ฆ

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Classic Fairy Tales (Norton Critical Editions) by ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 30, 2023: Finished reading: A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow ๐Ÿ“š This one took me a little while to get into but once I was in, I was all in. Super fun โ€ฆ

Mar 29, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read Ladies of Leisure. This one bummed me out. I think it sells Dept. of Speculation short.

Mar 29, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“Read Is Parenthood the Enemy of Creative Work? by Kim Brooks (The Cut) Thatโ€™s one of the major things parenting is teaching me, the balance โ€ฆ

Mar 29, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read The books that help define motherhood โ€“ for mums everywhere to read Is it ever possible to reclaim yourself without endangering your child? โ€ฆ

Mar 29, 2023: ๐Ÿ“บ Want to watch: SMILF Catastrophe Motherland The Letdown Workin' Moms

Mar 29, 2023: ๐Ÿฟ Want to watch: Tully.

Mar 29, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read Art or Babies. you can make your art without being an art monster: You can do it as… an art mother.

Mar 29, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read Why are we only talking about โ€˜mom booksโ€™ by white women? by Angela Garbes (The Cut). I love Angela Garbes’s writing. This is another โ€ฆ

Mar 29, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read The Stranger Guest: The Literature of Pregnancy and New Motherhood by Lily Gurton-Wachter (Los Angeles Review of Books) Another old bookmark. โ€ฆ

Mar 29, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š In a Raft of New Books, Motherhood From (Almost) Every Angle by Parul Sehgal (The New York Times). Recent books on motherhood, however, frequently โ€ฆ

Mar 29, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read Maggie Nelson: Inflections Forever New by Ariel Lewiton (Guernica). Weโ€™re all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We donโ€™t โ€ฆ

Mar 29, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read Why All the Books About Motherhood? by Laura Elkin (The Paris Review). Another bookmark I’ve been sitting on for years. These new books โ€ฆ

Mar 29, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read We Need to Talk About Whiteness in Motherhood Memoirs by Nancy Reddy (Electric Literature). I bookmarked this 4 years ago & am only โ€ฆ

Mar 28, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ“š Read The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? by Lara Feigel (The Guardian) Feigel writes about motherly ambivalence.

Mar 28, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read Writer Moms: Can We Do Deep Work While the Kids are Home? by Sara Bates. Before we do… the practical things we need to do in order to โ€ฆ

Mar 28, 2023: Want to read: A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 28, 2023: Want to read: How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents) by Hettie Judah ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 28, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ“š Read I left my baby to write this. How do artists balance creativity and the ache for their child? by Rhiannon Lucy Coslett (The Guardian). โ€ฆ

Mar 28, 2023: Want to read: This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 28, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read How Writing and Motherhood Coexist for Author Taylor Harris by Ravynn K. Stringfield (Shondaland). Great interview! I need to go track down โ€ฆ

Mar 28, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read Rebecca Solnit on Womenโ€™s Work and the Myth of the Art Monster (Lithub). I want to be an art monster like Grover: lovable and loving and โ€ฆ

Mar 28, 2023: Want to read: Weird Girls by Caroline Hagood ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 28, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“ Read The Mother, the Artist, and Me by Caroline Hagood (Elle). This is a great essay about what can happen when we bring our kids into the work of โ€ฆ

Mar 28, 2023: Finished reading: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill ๐Ÿ“š I want to write a long response to this one but don’t have time today. It’s less โ€ฆ

Mar 27, 2023: Look, I’d love to play in an improv jam but I can no longer do things that START at 10 pm so I guess I need to organize an improv jam for sleepy โ€ฆ

Mar 26, 2023: I just want to fight censorship ๐Ÿ“š and make theatre ๐ŸŽญ.

Mar 26, 2023: Finished reading: Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders ๐Ÿ“š I love this so much! Charlie Jane Anders says to invent imaginary friends โ€ฆ

Mar 25, 2023: Finished reading: Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn ๐Ÿ“š I might love this even more than Legendborn, which I didn’t think was possible. Tracy Deonn goes โ€ฆ

Mar 25, 2023: I cannot recommend Book Riot’s censorship coverage highly enough. They’re doing great work, with Kelly Jensen leading it. If you’re โ€ฆ

Mar 25, 2023: Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I do weird things like buying a Krang cosplay t-shirt or getting all 3 The Librarians movies on Amazon Prime. โ€ฆ

Mar 23, 2023: ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป Brent Spiner is my hero.

Mar 23, 2023: ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป “I can’t say being equal parts irritating and endearing isn’t slightly familiar.” Picard 3x06, The Bounty. IT ME.

Mar 23, 2023: Yo Internet, why does the Voyager theme tug at my heartstrings so? I barely remember the show but it always gets me misty.

Mar 22, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read Should I learn coding as a second language? by Meghan O’Gieblyn (Wired). the most celebrated historical revolutions (those initiated, โ€ฆ

Mar 21, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read โ€ฆ

Mar 21, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read Why No One Clicked on the Great Hypertext Story wired.com Read: www.wired.com Wired.com https://www.wired.com/2013/04/hypertext/

Mar 21, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“ Read A Beginnerโ€™s Guide to Writing IP in Publishing โ€” ERIC SMITH ericsmithrocks.com Read: www.ericsmithrocks.com ericsmithrocks.com โ€ฆ

Mar 20, 2023: Want to read: A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 20, 2023: Want to read: Saving Time by Jenny Odell ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 19, 2023: Want to read: The Magician’s Daughter by H. G. Parry ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 15, 2023: Ah yes, that weird need-to-cry, don’t-know-why feeling… (I suspect this is about the fact that the amount of stuff you have when โ€ฆ

Mar 15, 2023: Scenes I want to explore more: TTRPGs, literary (incl but not limited to sff). What pubs, websites, podcasts, people, other stuff should I check out?

Mar 14, 2023: ๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ My response to Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and Iโ€™m Going to Write About It Happy anniversary, Jason! Is the font on that Notes entry Tahoma or โ€ฆ

Mar 12, 2023: ๐Ÿ“บ Shrinking is doing a great job dressing a teen in 90s throwback clothes and if y’all see me walking around in overalls with one side undone โ€ฆ

Mar 11, 2023: hey hey you know how that moral philosopher profiled in the New Yorker would solve the trolley problem? whichever way would give her the most material โ€ฆ

Mar 11, 2023: Had abbrevia.me describe me based on my tweets. Alt text contains the text of the description, which was too many characters to include here. I know โ€ฆ

Mar 10, 2023: High Pain Day: Oh yeah, I'm disabled! I had forgotten. I had my first high-pain day since we came to Europe yesterday (or today, if you’re in the US when I’m writing this). I think I must have โ€ฆ

Mar 7, 2023: Finished reading: Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto ๐Ÿ“š This has been a great read while wandering โ€ฆ

Mar 7, 2023: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ “Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that.” Frieda Menco, Holocaust survivor, quoted โ€ฆ

Mar 5, 2023: Anne Frank kept a commonplace book.

Mar 5, 2023: “She didn’t die. She was killed. Because she was a Jewish girl.” Hannah Pick-Goslar, a friend of Anne Frank’s ๐Ÿ’”

Mar 3, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read Understanding Blogs by Tracy Durnell. An excellent exploration of what makes blogging its own medium.

Mar 3, 2023: I guess I missed World Book Day & International Cat Rescue Day in Europe but it’s still March 2 back home, so happy both of those! As I like โ€ฆ

Mar 2, 2023: Haven’t listened to Worlds Beyond Number yet but Erika Ishii in this TechCrunch interview is making me cry so that’s cool: “When โ€ฆ

Mar 2, 2023: I’ve got a couple recent co-authored articles: Description framework of makerspaces: Examining the relationship between spatial arrangement and โ€ฆ

Mar 1, 2023: ๐ŸŽฎ Playing Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe with my kid. Super fun. Couch co-op Kirby seems to be his gateway to playing instead of just โ€ฆ

Feb 28, 2023: Hi friends! It’s time for an Amsterdam Photo Dump! There are 8 photos here so if you’re viewing this on a timeline, be sure to click โ€ฆ

Feb 27, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read Sci-Fi Publishers Are Bracing for an AI Battle by Elizabeth Minkel (Wired). I’m interested to see how this shakes out.

Feb 25, 2023: Finished reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers ๐Ÿ“š Happy to have read it. Turns out vibes are enough when you’ve got โ€ฆ

Feb 24, 2023: I'm a piler-filer. Who are you? Austin Kleon blogs about pilers and filers, a dichotomy/spectrum he learned about reading Temple Grandin’s book, _Visual Thinking _, in which โ€ฆ

Feb 24, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing by Vauhina Vara (Wired). This is an excellent long read. There are a lot of good questions here. How can โ€ฆ

Feb 23, 2023: Currently reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers ๐Ÿ“š Now that I’m reading for vibes & character instead of a โ€ฆ

Feb 22, 2023: My kid’s school is hiring a classroom teacher in his age range. So if you got the gig you might get to teach him, and I hear he’s pretty โ€ฆ

Feb 21, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read IF YOU LOVE WRITING, YOU SHOULD RELISH REJECTION. This is a really helpful piece that reframes rejection as the water writers swim in.

Feb 20, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽ“ Read All my classes suddenly became AI classes. I love the assignment here that asks students to work with ChatGPT as if it were a student and they โ€ฆ

Feb 19, 2023: How a post ends up on my blog Hi friends. I wanted to take a moment to share my blogging “process,” which I put in scare quotes because it’s not very refined. โ€ฆ

Feb 19, 2023: Yesterday I saw 3 people (I’d guess women) at Amsterdam Centraal ๐Ÿš„ walking together wearing matching pairs of gorgeous plain black Docs and then โ€ฆ

Feb 16, 2023: Status: in a parasocial relationship with the crew of the Enterprise D.

Feb 16, 2023: I’m not saying I’m just saying, the introduction to GENDER AT SEA talks a lot about Moana and what the story can tell us about women in โ€ฆ

Feb 16, 2023: Who goes to the Dutch National Maritime Museum and buys an edited collection titled Gender at Sea as a souvenir? This academic. ๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŒŠ๐ŸŽ“

Feb 16, 2023: Hello, I require this shirt.

Feb 16, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read Why PhDs Need to Study Creative Writing by Anthony Ocampo, at the recommendation of Dr. Ravynn K. Stringfield. This is one of the reasons I โ€ฆ

Feb 15, 2023: Today I’m grieving the closure of Catapult magazine and classes. ๐Ÿ“

Feb 14, 2023: The latest Dutch food: nasi satรฉ ajam. This is an Indonesian dish. Because Indonesia was once a Dutch colony, there’s a lot of Indonesian โ€ฆ

Feb 13, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“ Read Mess Up Your Good, Premium, Luxury Notebooks. Yes! Great advice from Anna Havron.

Feb 13, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read Antisemitic text was projected onto the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. ๐Ÿ’”

Feb 11, 2023: Finished reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke ๐Ÿ“š This one took me a while to get into. Before giving up, I hunted down a review. The review indicated โ€ฆ

Feb 10, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– ๐Ÿ“ Joanna Penn discusses her use of AI to help her write a short story. This could be a valuable model for educators to use to teach students how to โ€ฆ

Feb 9, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Summer-Camp Feeding Frenzy Has Already Begun.

Feb 9, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read Theater never recovered from COVID โ€” and now change is no longer a choice. …the people who live in the shadow of the refinery often โ€ฆ

Feb 8, 2023: Another Dutch meal. This is hutspot. It’s smoked sausage with gravy on a bed of potatoes, onions, and carrots. I liked it better than the one โ€ฆ

Feb 8, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read THE JEDI ACADEMY WILL NO LONGER TEACH ANAKIN SKYWALKERโ€™S MASSACRE OF THE YOUNGLINGS. A+ geek satire.

Feb 8, 2023: ๐Ÿ“บ Watched Key & Peele - I Said…. This is a beautiful sketch that heightens literally as high as you can go. Strong one to have early in the โ€ฆ

Feb 8, 2023: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Bert Williams - The Poker Game. Stunningly good object work.

Feb 8, 2023: ๐ŸฟWatched Mantan Moreland & Ben Carter - Indefinite Talk. This bit is so fun. Ought to be mentioned in the same breath as Who’s On First?

Feb 8, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Sad Clown Joke That Became a Beloved Meme. My favorite take on Pagliacci is Rhett Miller’s theme song for the podcast The Hilarious โ€ฆ

Feb 7, 2023: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ““ “… being transparent about one’s positionality, and choosing a granularity of analysis appropriate to your actual knowledge and โ€ฆ

Feb 7, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– A swirling soup of thoughts in my head about self-presentation after reading these posts: The personal brand paradox - Debbie Millman Build a โ€ฆ

Feb 6, 2023: You know what’s really great for a migraine is the monthly test of public warning sirens in the Netherlands. OH WAIT NO THAT DOES NOT HELP WITH โ€ฆ

Feb 6, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read Is My Child Eating Enough Pirate’s Booty? Parenting comedy is a microgenre that always lands with me.

Feb 5, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather." Took me a little while to get into the format of this short story but in the end I loved it. Big The โ€ฆ

Feb 3, 2023: Today’s adventure: NEMO Science Museum. Very cool, but I’m spoiled by having an awesome science museum in my hometown. I think it would โ€ฆ

Feb 2, 2023: Finished reading: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ๐Ÿ“š I’m extremely late to this one. It’s excellent, of course. I love the way Angie Thomas โ€ฆ

Feb 2, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read Interview with Kelly J. Baker: โ€œI canโ€™t push through when Iโ€™m stuck.โ€ “My writing routine became write frantically whenever I had a โ€ฆ

Feb 1, 2023: Another Dutch meal: stamppot boerenkool. This is smoked sausage with sauce on a bed of potatoes mixed with kale. I really liked the sausage but it โ€ฆ

Feb 1, 2023: I made a menu of Dutch foods for us to try. They’re sort of home food staples, not anything too elaborate or traditional. This is the first โ€ฆ

Feb 1, 2023: I’m so excited to hang out with my friends for new stories.

Jan 31, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read WEโ€™VE LOST THE PLOT by Megan Garber (The Atlantic). “Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and โ€ฆ

Jan 31, 2023: Finished reading: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š I love it so much. I left the hardcover at home but bought the ebook to read while I’m traveling, โ€ฆ

Jan 30, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ๐ŸŽฎ Read Television Is Better Without Video Games and Video Games Are Better Without Gameplay (Ian Bogost, The Atlantic). Maybe Ian Bogost should stop โ€ฆ

Jan 30, 2023: My kid made a Kirby and the Forgotten Land fanzine, I am dead from cute.

Jan 29, 2023: ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป When I watch TNG or Picard, Data is Data, but anyone else Brent Spiner plays is Brent Spiner doing an awesome job. But Data is, viscerally for me, โ€ฆ

Jan 27, 2023: ๐Ÿ“บ Watched Ares. Brilliant dark academia horror with all the hallmarks: secret society, dangerously powerful young people, gorgeous fashion, a lower โ€ฆ

Jan 27, 2023: Quiet Time in Aalsmeer Our second week in the Netherlands has been quiet so far. Exactly a week after we got here, I came down with a cough that has developed into a pretty โ€ฆ

Jan 26, 2023: Duolingo really emphasizes the importance of learning the Dutch word “krant,” which means newspaper. I was confused at first because it โ€ฆ

Jan 25, 2023: The video of the Pop Culture Dialogue I was part of on inherited fandoms is now on YouTube.

Jan 24, 2023: In just a bit I’ll be contributing to the live-streamed Pop Culture Dialogue on Inherited Fandoms, hosted by the Popular culture Studies โ€ฆ

Jan 23, 2023: I love your newsletter, whoever you are, but I’ve put it on web-only. Trying to get quiet in here ๐Ÿง . I’ll find you when I’m ready.

Jan 23, 2023: Well I guess the jet lag is over because instead of getting a brilliant solid stretch of sleep that didn’t start until 2 am, I was out by 11 but โ€ฆ

Jan 21, 2023: We took a walk through the village down to the Westeindeplassen (a lake) today. Here are some photos from that walk.

Jan 21, 2023: The other day W pointed out that the way we communicate in memes is basically the same as Tamarians in “Darmok” ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป. When I say, โ€ฆ

Jan 19, 2023: Our first 60 hours in Europe In case you missed it: my husband, W, received a Fulbright award to study European & transatlantic copyright harmonization, especially with โ€ฆ

Jan 19, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read The online free speech debate is raging in fan fiction, too by Elizabeth Minkel.

Jan 19, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Fannish Potlatch: Creation of Status Within the Fan Community by Rachael Sabotini (Fanfic Symposium) via Lori Morimoto’s Introduction โ€ฆ

Jan 19, 2023: Me in the Netherlands on Day 3: UGH I can’t believe I haven’t been to ALL THE MUSEUMS, what am I even doing

Jan 19, 2023: ๐ŸŽฎ Played the Dragon Quest Treasures demo. Cute with some fun mechanics and a cool world but not so compelling that I’d purchase without a steep โ€ฆ

Jan 18, 2023: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ‘ฑโ€โ™€๏ธ Read Sarah Michelle Gellar Returns to Fighting Form: โ€œIโ€™ve Earned the Right to Stand Where I Amโ€. “Was it an ideal working situation? โ€ฆ

Jan 18, 2023: Woont u in Nederland? Ik ben in Aalsmeer. Wil u afspreken? Ik spreek een beetje Nederlands, maar ik spreek veel Engels.

Jan 18, 2023: Me: wants to message all my friends and family My friends and family: are sleeping, I hope, as it’s 3:30 AM where most of them are

Jan 17, 2023: Well, a cat walked us home from the bus stop so I guess we and everyone we know are moving to Amsterdam.

Jan 14, 2023: ๐Ÿ“บ Finished watching Wednesday. Glad I stuck with it. I appreciate Wednesday refusing to be in the same teen drama show as everyone else. I was โ€ฆ

Jan 14, 2023: ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ’ฌ Tyler: Come on, don’t you like a day that’s all about you? Wednesday: Every day is all about me. This one just comes with cake and a โ€ฆ

Jan 13, 2023: ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ’ฌ “It’s not my fault I can’t interpret your emotional morse code.” ๐Ÿ–ค Wednesday ๐Ÿ–ค

Jan 12, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Back on my dark academia bullshit thanks to WEDNESDAY (the show is DA, the character is goth) and so I read this interview with Donna Tartt.

Jan 12, 2023: Real struggle to focus today which is probably a combo of getting to bed late because I wanted to keep tabs on how my mom was doing in the ER (poorly โ€ฆ

Jan 10, 2023: Pro-tip: asking questions about why you’re doing the research in the way you’re doing it and what you originally said you were going to do โ€ฆ

Jan 10, 2023: ๐Ÿ“บ Watching WEDNESDAY and every time Christina Ricci says, “Wednesday,” I’m all, “Are you talking to yourself?” in spite โ€ฆ

Jan 10, 2023: How I Begin In Austin Kleonโ€™s paid newsletter post today, he asked his readers, to share how we begin. I opened by saying, โ€œI donโ€™t know how I begin.โ€ Then I โ€ฆ

Jan 10, 2023: Tarot: My Year Ahead I’m taking Lindsay Mack’s tarot class called The Threshold. Here’s my reading for the year ahead. Four major arcana - huge! This โ€ฆ

Jan 9, 2023: Make a note: 2023 is the year of unsubscribing.

Jan 9, 2023: Hey librarians! Where do you get information to help you do your job?

Jan 9, 2023: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ “Be open to the possibility that you are bigger, more magical, more powerful than you dare imagine, that you are here to do something that is โ€ฆ

Jan 8, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read How Wednesday Addams Birthed a Generation of Cynics by Emily Alford (Longreads). This is my favorite Wednesday think piece so far. Ricciโ€™s โ€ฆ

Jan 7, 2023: It seems extra cruel that while my mom can’t actually carry herself around on her legs, she can feel lots of pain in them.

Jan 7, 2023: ๐Ÿ”– Read All in Good Fun: How Fanfiction Reignited My Passion for Writing by Briana Lawrence, linked in this week’s The Rec Center The first time โ€ฆ

Jan 6, 2023: Hello. LIS scholars, scholars of #LIS for those of you on hashtaggy places: are you familiar with LIS research that points to PEOPLE as the โ€ฆ

Jan 6, 2023: Hey Internet. What’s fun with a kid in Amsterdam? Besides De Poezenboot, obviously. ๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›

Jan 4, 2023: Me: gets Steam Deck for Christmas Me: proceeds to add tons of 90s PC adventure games to my Steam wishlist

Jan 4, 2023: ๐ŸŽฎ Started playing The Secret of Monkey Island on the Steam Deck. Correcting a gap in my point & click bona fides. So far Yakko & Wakko Warner โ€ฆ

Jan 3, 2023: Loved my first day hike, hiked in spite of the sense of impending bursitis. Two days later, bursitis is still here plus some other joint pain and โ€ฆ

Jan 2, 2023: Q: Was there ever a series of books you were skeptical about, but ended up liking very much? A: I can’t think of any right now but this is a โ€ฆ

Jan 2, 2023: Q: who was your crush in middle school lmao A: Had a different one each year. Not naming names but one of them performed surgery on my mom a few years โ€ฆ

Jan 2, 2023: Q: the longest time you’ve ever gone without showering? A: Don’t know but far too long, more than a week. I’m generally bad about it โ€ฆ

Jan 2, 2023: Dense fog advisory today until 10 AM. Big woodland goth vibes.

Jan 2, 2023: Finished reading: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie ๐Ÿ“š Poirot’s first case. A bit of homage to Doyle at the start, then on to โ€ฆ

Jan 2, 2023: Begin As You Mean to Go On, courtesy of Leigh Bardugo: Read for pleasure: Read The Mysterious Affair at Styles on my Kobo. Make things (courtesy of โ€ฆ

Jan 2, 2023: Q: What’s one thing that typical town libraries should change to increase community participation? A: Find ways to reach people who aren’t โ€ฆ

Jan 1, 2023: Q: What are your plans this weekend? A: Nothing big - maybe going to the Farmer’s Market & then prepping bc on 1/16 I leave for Amsterdam - โ€ฆ

Jan 1, 2023: Anon message: You’re still one of the first people I think of fondly when I’m reminiscing. ๐Ÿชต๐Ÿซ€ Reply: Aww thank you! That’s super โ€ฆ

Jan 1, 2023: Next anon q: Do you remember your Bronzer days with joy? Or with time (and events) does it feel like just an old phase you went through? Answer: So โ€ฆ

Jan 1, 2023: Next anonymous question: Favourite fandom/ship for fanfic? My answer: Oh my goodness this is way harder than the career question. My AO3 bookmarks say โ€ฆ

Jan 1, 2023: Next anonymous message: You are the best! My reply: Thanks! Backatcha!

Jan 1, 2023: Fourth anonymous question: Favorite place you’ve ever visited? My answer: The Library of Congress

Jan 1, 2023: Third anonymous question: If you could choose any career would it be what you’re doing right now or something else? My answer: This is such a โ€ฆ

Jan 1, 2023: Second anonymous question: Who’s the last person you texted? My answer: My sister

Jan 1, 2023: First anonymous question: Hottest sport? My answer: I don’t really sport and I’m super heat sensitive so… All of them that โ€ฆ

Jan 1, 2023: Saw @heroicendeavour@glammr.us answering anonymous questions and thought it might be fun to do this myself. I reserve the right to refuse to answer โ€ฆ

Jan 1, 2023: Did the PBS Kids NYE countdown so… Here’s to some good stuff happening in 2023.

Dec 31, 2022: A Dispatch from the Threshold of 2023 ๐Ÿšช๐ŸŽ‡ I don’t know if I’ll get to do all the year-end/new year transition things I’d hoped to do today: tarot stuff, bullet journal โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2022: On this day last year, I wrote: “…my word of the year for 2022 is MEND. My goal is to keep going.” Last night I quote tweeted โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2022: PS If you’re wondering why I’m still awake at 4 it’s because my mom keeps having miserable side effects from the TKIs for her โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2022: My Child Woke Me Up at 1:30 and I’m Still Awake at 4: The Kimberly Hirsh Story

Dec 31, 2022: My Reading Year 2022, Part Deux I’m calling it for the year. I’m not going to try to squeeze one more in before the end of the day tomorrow. When I wrote my year in โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2022: Finished reading: Hooky by Mรญriam Bonastre Tur ๐Ÿ“š Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.

Dec 31, 2022: Finished reading: Career Change: Stop hating your job, discover what you really want to do with your life, and start doing it! by Joanna Penn ๐Ÿ“š โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2022: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career by Katie Rose Guest Pryal ๐Ÿ“š Posting this so it automatically gets โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2022: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery - Aftermath by Kirsten Beyer ๐Ÿ“š Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.

Dec 31, 2022: Finished reading: Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Keith S. Wilson ๐Ÿ“š Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.

Dec 31, 2022: Finished reading: Rose (New Poets of America) by Li-Young Lee ๐Ÿ“š Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.

Dec 31, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Troll: Hilda Book 1 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson ๐Ÿ“š Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Midnight Giant: Hilda Book 2 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson ๐Ÿ“š Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Black Hound: Hilda Book 4 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson ๐Ÿ“š Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Stone Forest: Hilda Book 5 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson ๐Ÿ“š Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Mountain King by Luke Pearson ๐Ÿ“š Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.

Dec 31, 2022: Finished reading: Death on the Nile [Movie Tie-In 2022] by Agatha Christie ๐Ÿ“š Another fun one. Poirot has more heart here.

Dec 30, 2022: Currently reading: Death on the Nile [Movie Tie-In 2022] by Agatha Christie ๐Ÿ“š Another pre-movie watch read.

Dec 29, 2022: Cat help me, I’ve fallen into the rabbit hole that is Benoit Blanc/Phillip fluff and I’m very happy here.

Dec 28, 2022: Part of me wants to take all my favorite character tropes and rewrite them as mom. Mom detective. Mom swashbuckler. Mom grand dame. Just a bunch of โ€ฆ

Dec 28, 2022: Finished reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie ๐Ÿ“š Wow, that went fast. Super fun.

Dec 28, 2022: Currently reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie ๐Ÿ“š Reading in advance of watching the Branagh film.

Dec 27, 2022: Finished reading: Season of Love by Helena Greer ๐Ÿ“š I love it so much. Sweet, hot but closed doors, I really do wish Carrigan’s was a real place, โ€ฆ

Dec 25, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read …and a partridge in a pear tree (19913 words) by strangehunger. This is a beautiful and perfect Gideon the Ninth mall employee AU. โ€ฆ

Dec 24, 2022: Currently reading: Season of Love by Helena Greer ๐Ÿ“š I’ve read 141 pages in this book since I picked it up yesterday afternoon.

Dec 23, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Glass Onion. Had fun. Still adore Benoit Blanc.

Dec 23, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š I’m sure there are a lot of things I’ll want to tell you about Season of Love but the first is that there’s a Veronica Mars โ€ฆ

Dec 22, 2022: I feel like my new glasses give me a nebbishy vibe and I kind of love it. Who’s ready to cast me as Seymour?

Dec 22, 2022: Finally picked this beauty up from the library. I had it from NetGalley but didn’t get it read before it expired. (Don’t fret over the โ€ฆ

Dec 22, 2022: I drew the Ace of Swords as my anchor card for winter. I made it my phone background to help me remember that this season, I can use my sharp mind to โ€ฆ

Dec 22, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read Finding the Secret Door Into Your Novel. When a novel is wick, it has a life about it. (Have we talked about how I married Dickon, Internet? โ€ฆ

Dec 22, 2022: Said I was gonna disconnect cross-posting from Twitter, forgot to actually do it, gonna leave it on for now since they’ve walked back the โ€ฆ

Dec 22, 2022: Finished reading: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko ๐Ÿ“š Finished this in 2 or 3 days. I was drawn to it because of the cover & buzz. I stayed in it because โ€ฆ

Dec 21, 2022: Happy solstice!

Dec 21, 2022: Kelly J. Baker’s latest newsletter is about a year of not writing & what that means when being a writer is a key piece of your identity. It โ€ฆ

Dec 21, 2022: New glasses! Who knew I had a face under those cateyes?

Dec 19, 2022: Currently reading: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 18, 2022: Disconnecting cross-posting to Twitter after this post. Find my follow page at kimberlyhirsh.com if you want to keep up with me.

Dec 18, 2022: Finished reading: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š I loved it so much. I know Leigh Bardugo is done with the Grishaverse for a while but I hope not โ€ฆ

Dec 18, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “None of this had been fated; none of it foretold… They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive. But maybe that โ€ฆ

Dec 18, 2022: Woodland Goth: The Goblins of Labyrinth by Brian Froud ๐Ÿ“š Yep, I created a whole Woodland Goth bookshelf. Goblins of Labyrinth is a collectible. I โ€ฆ

Dec 17, 2022: Moderating my own smartphone use (but still not belonging in the Luddite club) I thought, given my heavy criticism of the potential perspective that we should all join the Luddite club, it might be useful to discuss my own โ€ฆ

Dec 17, 2022: Maybe we don't all need to join the Luddite club. I have some thoughts about the Luddite club. First, I don’t have a problem with people switching to flip phones. I do have a problem with the โ€ฆ

Dec 17, 2022: Me, misquoting Lord of the Rings: “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them โ€ฆ

Dec 16, 2022: I use a smartphone AND I read novels.

Dec 16, 2022: Revised 5 TV shows to introduce me, now in chronological order of release! ๐Ÿ“บ Star Trek: The Next Generation ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป Animaniacs๐Ÿ Buffy the Vampire Slayer โ€ฆ

Dec 16, 2022: Replacing Firefly in my 5 shows to introduce me and subbing in CXG.

Dec 15, 2022: 'Wednesday' is full of "Whoa." ๐Ÿ“บ I just finished the first episode of Wednesday. I have so many thoughts and feelings. First, I’ve seen criticism that the Addams Family works โ€ฆ

Dec 15, 2022: Introduce yourself with 5 TV shows ๐Ÿ“บ: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ๐Ÿ‘ฑโ€โ™€๏ธ Firefly ๐ŸŒŒ Star Trek: The Next Generation ๐Ÿ–– GLOW ๐Ÿคผโ€โ™€๏ธ The X-Files ๐Ÿ›ธ

Dec 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ Read Wednesday Forgets Why We Fell in Love With the Addams Family. “The Addams Family films were about family being a haven of pure โ€ฆ

Dec 15, 2022: Apparently tonight is a waking-after-every-sleep-cycle night. Not my favorite.

Dec 14, 2022: I want my hair to look like Emily Axford’s hair.

Dec 14, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Santa Games (Hulu). Super cute. A sweet story about family & the power of second chances mixed with a funny take on social media, โ€ฆ

Dec 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read A year of new avenues robinsloan.com Robin Sloan https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/ Iย want to insist on an amateur internet; a garage โ€ฆ

Dec 14, 2022: On being an escribitionist In November, when I realized there was no way I was going to be able to get 50,000 words of writing done, I decided to try writing 750 words a day โ€ฆ

Dec 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read What Is a Strike? Reflections from the Virtual Front Lines of the UC Academic Worker Strike by Mary Jirmanas Saba (LA Progressive).

Dec 13, 2022: Currently reading: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š Kind of resent that I have to do anything besides read this book, even though I love a lot of the โ€ฆ

Dec 13, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Attention, trust and GPT3 “If your work isnโ€™t more useful or insightful or urgent than GPT can create in 12 seconds, donโ€™t interrupt โ€ฆ

Dec 13, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ “I am most interested in confessional writing when it allows us to move into the personal as a way to go beyond it. In all my work I invoke โ€ฆ

Dec 13, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ “I had been so well socialized by graduate school that I was torn between which writing path to pursue, agonizing over whether I could write โ€ฆ

Dec 12, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ’€ Read If You Want to Give Something Back to Nature, Give Your Body by Caitlin Doughty (New York Times Gift Link). I hope we get human composting in โ€ฆ

Dec 12, 2022: Lately I often find myself feeling alert but unable to focus. This is a new vibe for me. If you’re a person who experiences this feeling โ€ฆ

Dec 11, 2022: Finished reading: 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl ๐Ÿ“š Read this because it’s on Austin Kleon’s list of books about โ€ฆ

Dec 11, 2022: “Perhaps having children makes one increasingly distrust the symbolic world. Because suddenly nothing is as important as the very real โ€ฆ

Dec 11, 2022: This week’s Craft Talk from Jami Attenberg is another great one: “Donโ€™t ever talk yourself out of writing something because you donโ€™t โ€ฆ

Dec 11, 2022: Y’all ever think about how the worst moments in your life personally align with some of the most personally important cultural moments? โ€ฆ

Dec 11, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Creativity as Spiritual Practice by Rabbi Adina Allen (My Jewish Learning). “Each of us is endowed with creative capacity simply by โ€ฆ

Dec 10, 2022: ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽญ๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿงถ๐Ÿงต๐ŸŽต๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿฟ This is a reminder that I write Genetrix, a very occasional newsletter curating stories of creative mothers. If those are the kind of stories โ€ฆ

Dec 10, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ“ Read TV Recaps Taught Me How to Write Criticism by Joelle Kidd. I love Kidd’s discussion of the role of pleasure in criticism.

Dec 10, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ Read Wednesday Addams Is the Ultimate Outcast by Miyako Pleines (Catapult). ๐Ÿ–ค

Dec 8, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Haunted by the Ghost of 2019, Helena Fitzgerald “A return to 2019 is an attempt to erase all of the losses that happened between then โ€ฆ

Dec 8, 2022: Want to read: Screaming on the Inside by Jessica Grose ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 8, 2022: My personal Pokรฉmon avatar was behind today’s advent calendar door.

Dec 8, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read How’d That Thing Go? by Kate McKean. “I donโ€™t want a schedule, I want a sandbox. I want a list of things that need to be done and โ€ฆ

Dec 8, 2022: How to feel like myself My kid’s best friend’s mom got a new job and isn’t starting it until January, but has already left her old job. She has all of โ€ฆ

Dec 8, 2022: Just listened to a super stressful strike townhall and I’m tempted to watch tonight’s Neverafter but I think TNG is the smarter move right โ€ฆ

Dec 7, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Falling for Christmas. I’ve been an unironic Lindsay Lohan fan since I saw Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, so I was delighted to โ€ฆ

Dec 6, 2022: Q asks Baby Q Amanda Rogers if she’s ever caused the spontaneous combustion of someone she doesn’t like, then gives Picard a look as if to โ€ฆ

Dec 5, 2022: Trying to figure out if I can make a crow cane head work on my adjustable cane so I can walk the streets of Amsterdam pretending it’s Ketterdam โ€ฆ

Dec 5, 2022: ๐ŸŽฎ Apparently my Dragon Age: Origins character isn’t in leather armor that looks like underwear. She’s in her actual underwear because I โ€ฆ

Dec 5, 2022: ๐ŸŽฎ I’m more than 10 yrs behind & have already played Inquisition but some quick thoughts after 1 hr of DA: Origins: I appreciate that the โ€ฆ

Dec 5, 2022: Getting blood work done, it’s been 20 minutes since my appointment time and I still haven’t been seen, fasting and haven’t eaten in โ€ฆ

Dec 5, 2022: My whole family and I are moving to Tom Bombadil’s house. He and Goldberry are such gracious hosts and we will be relaxed there. (Please note: โ€ฆ

Dec 3, 2022: Y’all don’t even know how transformed this fireplace is from just a couple months ago. W painted it white & my brother-in-law MM and I โ€ฆ

Dec 3, 2022: The head teacher at my kid’s school for next year sent an email saying that the only school supplies he will need are a backpack and a lunchbox โ€ฆ

Dec 3, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Playing โ€˜Tunicโ€™ Reminds Me How to Approach Sickness and Recovery by Martin Cahill (Catapult).

Dec 2, 2022: I have done all the things in Stardew Valley 1.4 and it took me ~245 hrs. That’s ~245 hrs when I was playing Stardew Valley and not โ€ฆ

Dec 2, 2022: My Reading Year, 2022 ๐Ÿ“š Everybody is doing their year-end stuff, so I thought I’d do mine. I read 46 books this year including comics/graphic novels and poetry. About โ€ฆ

Dec 1, 2022: True facts about my time on the early web: In many chats (like, html + server side scripting with auto-refresh), my handle was Elora Danan and my โ€ฆ

Dec 1, 2022: Wonderful things ๐Ÿฅณ: My kid fell asleep before 9:30 for the first time this week. ๐Ÿ˜ด I โค๏ธ Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, & Andy Serkis singing as both of โ€ฆ

Nov 30, 2022: Some notes on my Spotify Wrapped: Joe Hisaishi is the composer for My Neighbor Totoro, which is what I wake M up with on the rare morning he’s โ€ฆ

Nov 30, 2022: Friends! Are you on Mastodon? Are you seeing this on Mastodon? I’m about to stop using indieweb.social to syndicate my posts to Mastodon but you โ€ฆ

Nov 30, 2022: My son sings “Step by Step” at school sometimes. I always thought it sounded like a union song and, indeed, the lyrics come from a โ€ฆ

Nov 30, 2022: Hey Micro.blog friendos, I activated ActivityPub & can follow Mastodon peeps via M.b but how do I tell people to find me at โ€ฆ

Nov 30, 2022: I’m like a toddler over here with big feelings, might cry from relief because my parents got my brother’s special needs trust and ABLE โ€ฆ

Nov 30, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read ‘Y’all,โ€™ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream โ€“ and itโ€™s about time by David B. Parker (The Conversation), h/t โ€ฆ

Nov 29, 2022: Today has not been my favorite day, for reasons I may choose to detail more extensively in the future. For now, I’ll just say that the day began โ€ฆ

Nov 29, 2022: ๐ŸŽฎ If you told me in 2015 that I would be really psyched about getting farming sims by 2022, I would have laughed at you. Yet here we are.

Nov 29, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read 1 in 4 hiring managers say they are less likely to move forward with Jewish applicants (ResumeBuilder), h/t @benwerd. The convenience sampling โ€ฆ

Nov 28, 2022: ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป I’ve been falling asleep to the TNG episode “Relics,” and every time Captain Picard says “Ensign Rager” it sounds โ€ฆ

Nov 28, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Taking on the Feminine Labor of Creating Holiday Magic by Sarah Hunter Simanson (Catapult). This year will be the first Christmas that my mom โ€ฆ

Nov 28, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet by Jamie Zawinski. (h/t @manton) At the moment, if I can’t do it in a browser, I’m โ€ฆ

Nov 28, 2022: Finished reading: The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š I love that Leigh Bardugo wrote this and The Language of Thorns to give us the immersion of โ€ฆ

Nov 28, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “I don’t remember my own story… I remember only how I fell into books, never to rise from their pages, how I was never truly โ€ฆ

Nov 26, 2022: Thanksgiving 1: Plain black leggings, gray sweater. Thanksgiving 2: Floral dress. Thanksgiving 3: PlayStation T-shirt, Star Wars leggings

Nov 26, 2022: Today: Thanksgiving #3, Booster #2. Tomorrow: Rest, D&D.

Nov 24, 2022: Locking myself in the bathroom at my parents' house to get a break from overstimulation, happy Thanksgiving 1996 everybody.

Nov 24, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŒฒ Read On Mother Trees: What Old-Growth Trees Taught Me About Parenting by Kaitlyn Teer (Catapult). A gorgeous essay in conversation with The Giving โ€ฆ

Nov 24, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿฟ Read The Mom in โ€˜Home Aloneโ€™ Is a Messy and Magnificent Model of Motherhood. It’s easy to forget how hard Kate McAllister works to make sure โ€ฆ

Nov 24, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“โ™ฟ Read As a Disabled Writer, I Am a Rich Innovator by [Sarah Fawn Montgomery](www.sarahfawnmontgomery.com/l (Catapult). This is my new favorite โ€ฆ

Nov 22, 2022: Currently attending Dr. Anuja Cabraal’s session on emoji coding. The analysis process and how we choose to analyze influences the results. โ€ฆ

Nov 22, 2022: The lyrics from Disney's Disenchanted that make me sob. ๐ŸŽต Spoilers for lyrics from Disenchanted follow. Without context they only mean a little but if you’re avoiding spoilers, just move along… . โ€ฆ

Nov 22, 2022: Today is a day of widespread pain and miserable stomach cramps. Thanks a lot, chronic illness exacerbated by shifting hormones…

Nov 22, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read What is Jewish Spirituality? Mystics have their experiences, but what matters is what they learn from them…

Nov 22, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Eight Genders in the Talmud. Super interesting discussion of how halakhah handles things that don’t fit a binary.

Nov 22, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ I’m about 30 minutes into Disney’s Disenchanted and while it definitely doesn’t have the magic of Enchanted, Amy Adams is still a โ€ฆ

Nov 22, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Eve’s Christmas. This & Back to Christmas have similar premises. If I woke up to discover I’d had a successful second chance โ€ฆ

Nov 22, 2022: Me: Ugh. Why am I so irritable? looks at Euki app calendar Me: Oh.

Nov 21, 2022: Because I’m Extremely Online, I joined Hive with the username kimberlyhirsh. Because I’m an IndieWeb person and they have no API at โ€ฆ

Nov 21, 2022: Finished reading: Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ๐Ÿ“š I loved it so much. And I’m still pretty confused but that’s okay. ๐Ÿ’€

Nov 20, 2022: Okay, I have enough people still hanging out on Twitter to stick around, reactivated syndication. Via @toddgrotenhuis on micro.blog - Introduce โ€ฆ

Nov 20, 2022: Turning off Twitter syndication from my blog. Still syndicating to Tumblr (@kimberlyhirsh) & Mastodon (@kimberlyhirsh@indieweb.social).

Nov 19, 2022: I have spent the past 3 hours online shopping for Christmas presents. I have bought ONE gift. But I’ve rejected hundreds, so… Yay?

Nov 19, 2022: It really makes me happy to introduce to you Maddie Priebe’s Rainbow Connection Tarot (major arcana only), the most perfect fan artist’s โ€ฆ

Nov 18, 2022: You are a creature of flesh. You have all the same bodily needs any wild mammal does.

Nov 18, 2022: My first tweet, from December 2, 2008, is super on-brand for me: “QUESTION: What term(s) do academia use to refer to video games?” โ€ฆ

Nov 18, 2022: Today’s @750words playlist: Music for Writing in a Haunted Mansion curated by Sarah Chavez. ๐ŸŽต

Nov 18, 2022: The Muppets is (are? I’m sticking with is) my oldest fandom and I cycle away from them but I always come back so hi, time for me to reinvigorate โ€ฆ

Nov 18, 2022: I have a newsletter! It emails you all my posts for the week on Fridays!

Nov 18, 2022: Big last day of the WB Bronze nostalgia with all the farewell tweets tonight.

Nov 18, 2022: Guess I better start cross-posting to Instagram more!

Nov 18, 2022: A helicopter was just flying low and loud too close to my house and I’m very glad it seems to be gone now.

Nov 17, 2022: I just backed A Book About the Magic of Foraging Pigments & Making Art on Kickstarter.

Nov 17, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “We give the people we mother our bodies, and what they will recall is our presence and heat, our animal closeness.” Angela Garbes, โ€ฆ

Nov 17, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “I don’t believe care work has to wreck us. This labor can be shared, social, collectiveโ€”and transformative.” Angela Garbes, โ€ฆ

Nov 17, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “Those who mother are the sanitation workers of bodiesโ€” handling the refuse, the filth and putrescence, living in the stink.” Angela โ€ฆ

Nov 17, 2022: Want to read: Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin ๐Ÿ“š Thanks for the rec, @agilelisa!

Nov 16, 2022: So worn out and it’s almost time to start the second shift of my day job (parenting).

Nov 16, 2022: Decided to do morning pages over at 750words. It’s not longhand, but it also doesn’t give me hand cramps, so. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

Nov 16, 2022: A letter to my past self circa 1997 Dear Kimberly, I’m just going to jump right in. Remember E’s cute boyfriend and how you noticed she seems to not be dating him anymore and โ€ฆ

Nov 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read As a Queer Author, I Thought I Had to Come Out Before My Books Did. Excellent piece about the dangers of outing anyone before they’re โ€ฆ

Nov 15, 2022: What feels like your people? I have a lot of friends, but the circle of friends I think of as my people is much smaller. If I make a list, it’s probably maybe 10 or so โ€ฆ

Nov 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– How to Write a Novel (Or Anything, Really) with ADHD Lots of helpful ideas for people who, like myself, struggle to finish writing long things.

Nov 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Instagram Makes Parents Feel More Clueless Than We Really Are by Elisabeth Sherman (Catapult). Great piece. Every time I think I’m โ€ฆ

Nov 15, 2022: Thanks to Ransom on Lower Decks, I now notice every time Riker has his foot up on furniture on TNG. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

Nov 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ’ฌ On MythicQuest… Ian: Poppy, lines are so Web1. You don’t wanna be in Web1, do you? Me: I do! I love Web1!

Nov 13, 2022: It’s Sunday morning and I am back to being overwhelmed by meal planning, how’s your day? I should say that M & I made banana bread and โ€ฆ

Nov 12, 2022: Maybe not 50K words of literally anything... It turns out giving yourself credit for everything you write is actually really challenging because you have to pull it all together somewhere, and โ€ฆ

Nov 12, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ “Proximity to power, however real that feels, is a simpler choice than solidarity. True allyship lives in relationships, true solidarity โ€ฆ

Nov 12, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “The perspective mothers bring to their jobsโ€”whether it’s law making, coalition building, project managementโ€”is that family and care โ€ฆ

Nov 12, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “We are entrusting that which we say is most preciousโ€”our children, our futureโ€” to other people, yet we are not willing to pay them a living โ€ฆ

Nov 12, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “Childcare professionals, many of them mothers, are three times as likely to live in poverty as workers in other professions.” Angela โ€ฆ

Nov 12, 2022: The number of people grieving the loss of Kevin Conroy in my various timelines has confirmed that I’m following the right people.

Nov 11, 2022: Hello I require a meme where Lore is impersonating Data on Twitter, they’re both verified, will pay in high praise kthx ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

Nov 9, 2022: Over at Mastodon, I have a lot of new infosec/cybersecurity followers. I assume y’all followed me because Kevin Beaumont follows me. Kev & I โ€ฆ

Nov 9, 2022: Moved Mastodon instances from mastodon.social to indieweb.social because the prior kept timing out. People who were following me shouldn’t need โ€ฆ

Nov 9, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “Weekends aren’t time off for parents; they are two long days of caregiving.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social โ€ฆ

Nov 9, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “Early on in quarantine, I found myself thinking, ‘What is the most valuable thing I could be doing with my time?’ The answer โ€ฆ

Nov 8, 2022: Just moved a publication on my CV from “In Progress” to “In Press.” An RA gathered data in 2018-19. A professor & myself โ€ฆ

Nov 8, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read How to Finish. Should I force myself to Make New Work or should I let the blank pages stay blank and sharpen pages Iโ€™ve already made? Should โ€ฆ

Nov 8, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read This Machine Will Make You Write More: A Product Recommendation with a Twist. I covet the Alphasmart/Freewrite, but I don’t think โ€ฆ

Nov 8, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read “You Make the Space, You Fight for the Space” “…every draft after the first draft for me is a kind of process of โ€ฆ

Nov 8, 2022: NaNoWriMo pivot: Back to 50,000 words of literally anything at all Hello friends! It’s been slow-going working on my TNG fanfic. Early in October, I toyed with the idea of being a NaNo Rebel with the goal of โ€ฆ

Nov 8, 2022: Logging out of socials until at least Wednesday. See kimberlyhirsh.com/hello if you want to get in touch.

Nov 8, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read The Art of Reading While Feeding (with a Newborn). I love articles about how other people enjoy things that aren’t necessarily โ€ฆ

Nov 7, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐ŸณMarinated Beans with Crunchy Veggies from I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To) Cooking is really hard with chronic illness, because both pain and fatigue reduce your options for homemade food that won’t eat up all your โ€ฆ

Nov 7, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read Writing Advice Isnโ€™t Made for Bodies In Pain. Too many things I want to quote here, so if the headline appeals you should just go read the โ€ฆ

Nov 7, 2022: “if youโ€™re looking for a sign from the universe that itโ€™s okay to stop trying to force your work, that itโ€™s not just okay but good to tend to โ€ฆ

Nov 7, 2022: Over and over again I search for this comic by Sylvie Reuter that is the best depiction I’ve ever seen of how I, personally, experience โ€ฆ

Nov 7, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ Read โ€˜Bad Sistersโ€™ Captures the Intensity of Having and Being a Sister Ooh. When I’m ready for intense TV I might try this. โ€ฆ

Nov 7, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Emma Thompsonโ€™s Third Act. I’ve always loved Emma Thompson, envisioned her as a kindred spirit, a screen aunt like Carrie Fisher is a โ€ฆ

Nov 6, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Back to Christmas. Jennifer Elise Cox steals the show. I was hoping Michael Muhney (Sheriff Lamb on Veronica Mars) would get to play someone โ€ฆ

Nov 6, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Snowbound for Christmas (on Amazon Prime). Based on the book Snowbound with the CEO. A lot of changes from the book. Cute enough, though.

Nov 6, 2022: Seeing Scott Thompson as the French (Canadian?) hotel front of house manager in Snowbound for Christmas is a fun surprise. ๐Ÿฟ

Nov 6, 2022: Finished reading: Snowbound with the CEO by Shannon Stacey ๐Ÿ“š Sweet, short. Stacey wastes no time in making things steamy, but leaves plenty to the โ€ฆ

Nov 5, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š Went to the library to pick up my hold on I Dream of Dinner (so You Don’t Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes and Nona the Ninth was โ€ฆ

Nov 4, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read #AcademicTwitter Will Endureโ€”for Now. If you’re at an institution that provides hosted blogging, you could microblog there, pipe the feed โ€ฆ

Nov 4, 2022: As I eagerly await Linda Holmes’s inevitable holiday TV movie round up, I have used her previous ones to curate a list of 33 new-to-me movies โ€ฆ

Nov 2, 2022: Big Luisa Energy today and I don’t like it. Give it to your sister, it doesn’t hurt, and See if she can handle every family burden Watch โ€ฆ

Nov 2, 2022: I will remember 2022 as the year I wanted to do everything, actually did some things, and felt like I did nothing.

Nov 1, 2022: Now that I’m trained in human subjects research I find myself siding with the Board of Governors in Jekyll & Hyde. ๐ŸŽญ๐ŸŽต

Nov 1, 2022: Still in the prep stages for this month’s writing projects. I created a reversible notebook to hold workbooks for both.

Nov 1, 2022: The world is full of writing challenges in November, and it’s rough because I want to do them all. Might try my usual method of attempting โ€ฆ

Nov 1, 2022: Happy Halloween from Hilda and Twig!

Oct 31, 2022: The Gothic novel to Broadway musical pipeline ๐Ÿ–ค

Oct 31, 2022: Want to get your own website going but need some info on how? Check out getblogging.org.

Oct 31, 2022: One last fic prompt from when M was 3: Spider-Man and Michelangelo team up to defeat Dormammu.

Oct 31, 2022: Another fic prompt from when M was 3: In โ€œThe Green Ribbon,โ€ Jenny tells Alfred that she just likes the green ribbon and thatโ€™s why she wears it all โ€ฆ

Oct 31, 2022: Fic prompt from when M was 3: in The Velveteen Rabbit but at the end, not only does the Velveteen rabbit become real, but also the boy and his parents โ€ฆ

Oct 31, 2022: I’m not going to spend a lot of time scrolling Mastodon, but I’m set up to cross-post from my blog there (just like I do with Twitter) so โ€ฆ

Oct 29, 2022: If you’re in/near Glasgow and the mother of a child who’s under a year old, check out the New Mothers Writing Circle.

Oct 28, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies | The New Yorker.

Oct 28, 2022: Cooking when your energy bar is low: make some instant oatmeal using the microwave or a kettle. Dump some trail mix on top. Stir. Eat.

Oct 28, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Editorial policies, “public domain,” and acafandom. the importance of fans as both human subjects and creators… can be a โ€ฆ

Oct 28, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–Read Attention Economy, Layered Publics, and Research Ethics Kristina Busse / University of South Alabama โ€“ Flow The dilemma that online researchers โ€ฆ

Oct 28, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies โ€“ transform We need to ask ourselves how identifying as an aca-fan impacts the โ€ฆ

Oct 28, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Post-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan โ€“ transform I would argue that aca/fan is most vitally understood as a contextual position โ€ฆ

Oct 27, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Against Aca-Fandom | Ian Bogost. Specialty humanities conferences are just fan conventions with more strangely-dressed attendees.

Oct 27, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read When is a Publication Not a Publication? | Just TV. The thing that โ€œcountsโ€ as a line on a CV is slow-moving and comparatively hard to access, โ€ฆ

Oct 27, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read On Disliking Mad Men | Just TV. Itโ€™s worth considering the role of fandom within media scholarship, not as a separate object of โ€ฆ

Oct 27, 2022: Me, watching the Lower Decks finale after finally finishing watching “Time’s Arrow, Part 2”: Is Buenamigo’s cigar hand-rolled โ€ฆ

Oct 27, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š Finished reading An Introduction to Media Fan Studies by Lori Morimoto. A super accessible introduction with helpful paraphrases of jargon-filled โ€ฆ

Oct 27, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “‘Pure,’ ideologically unadulterated consumption/fandom may be a possibility, but it’s not what most media fans experience โ€ฆ

Oct 26, 2022: What’s that? Oh, just a quick pamphlet bind of Lori Morimoto’s An Introduction to Media Fan Studies ๐Ÿ“š

Oct 26, 2022: Hey, Internet. I want to get Table of Contents alerts for the Journal of Fandom Studies. My institution doesn’t subscribe, so I can’t set โ€ฆ

Oct 25, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “The acafan… is one who is able to occupy the spaces of both fandom and academia and speak authoritatively on both.” A Fan โ€ฆ

Oct 25, 2022: I change NaNoWriMo plans a lot. Most recently, I’m planning to write YES, ANDROID, a Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfic where Data recruits โ€ฆ

Oct 25, 2022: Hello world. I’m weary. For reasons. Sometimes life is a lot. I’m really glad there are great bits when there are because it would be so โ€ฆ

Oct 23, 2022: I love Baby Galadriel so much.

Oct 23, 2022: Having a nightmare where your relative who’s dealing with infection-induced delirium in the waking world wanders off & is convinced by quack โ€ฆ

Oct 22, 2022: Voting selfie!

Oct 21, 2022: Finished reading: Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien ๐Ÿ“š Reading my way through Wyngraf’s Appendix C (for cozy!).

Oct 21, 2022: Taking another run at limiting screen time, because I’m wondering if the increase in migraines for me lately is correlated with an increase in โ€ฆ

Oct 20, 2022: My superpower is taking any Star Trek: The Next Generation B-story focused on Data and forgetting the A-story that goes with it “The Outrageous โ€ฆ

Oct 20, 2022: My kid goes to a Reggio Emilia school; his kindergarten class is a community of researchers. Today he & I talked about our epistemological โ€ฆ

Oct 20, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Everyone Wants to Be a Hot, Anxious Girl on Twitter I am both fascinated and terrified by the phrase “the girl in the machine.”

Oct 20, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– NC Mutual Will Cease Operations This Month This is heartbreaking and I’m ashamed I didn’t follow this story earlier.

Oct 19, 2022: I get excited and ambitious and then I have a flare and then I forget all my passions and ambitions. Listen, body: I am doing my best to build a life โ€ฆ

Oct 17, 2022: This is an example of process art.

Oct 17, 2022: I want to food, to cook fresh ingredients into beautiful and tasty things. But I like to experience this as meditative and do it when I have energy, โ€ฆ

Oct 17, 2022: How to Scholar(?) In my doctoral program, there was a class that we colloquially referred to as โ€œbabydocs.โ€ As it was taught the year I took it, the purpose of babydocs โ€ฆ

Oct 16, 2022: Finished up my time at #FSNNA22 with a dance by the pastries.

Oct 16, 2022: Okay, getting dressed and then heading to the #FSNNA22 Gather lobby to try dancing and throwing confetti.

Oct 16, 2022: Skipping the first sessions of #FSNNA22 today to have breakfast with my family. Back for the 11 am, then missing the closing session to play D&D.

Oct 15, 2022: Today, in Kimberly remembers that scholarly publishing is broken: lots of journals demand either full transfer of copyright or an exclusive license โ€ฆ

Oct 15, 2022: #FSNNA 22 Roundtable: Materiality & Liveness Paul_Lucas: Welcoming everyone to the session "Materiality & Liveness" Talking about WWE and the impact of it being termed an "essential business" โ€ฆ

Oct 15, 2022: I’m attending “Transcultural Fandom Experiences” at #FSNNA22 but not live-tweeting because I’m prepping for the #FanLIS โ€ฆ

Oct 15, 2022: #FSNNA22 Keynote: Turn On, Tune In, Get Out: Rethinking Escapism and Domestic Spectatorship Caetlin Benson-Allott: Beginning Turn On, Tune In, Get Out: Rethinking Escapism and Domestic Spectatorship articulates the need for a theory of โ€ฆ

Oct 14, 2022: Super headachey, so probably gonna lie down, may or may not do more #FSNNA22 today.

Oct 14, 2022: Me to friend who is also a mom: Want me to drop the water bottle you left at M’s birthday party off at your house? Her: Yes. Me: I’ll let โ€ฆ

Oct 14, 2022: W just reminded me we have a Parent-Teacher conference this morning so I actually will miss the first 2 #FSNNA22 sessions today but should be back in โ€ฆ

Oct 14, 2022: Up too early and going to sleep a little more. I’m going to miss the first #FSNNA22 session of the day because it’s right during โ€ฆ

Oct 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š Tom Bombadil (๐Ÿ˜) sings SO. MUCH.

Oct 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Oct 13, 2022: Now is the part of #FSNNA22 where I retreat to my hotel room, order room service, and watch TV except because it’s a virtual conference I โ€ฆ

Oct 13, 2022: The Daily Mail: Don’t use these emojis! They make Gen Z people perceive you as old! Me: I mean they’re going to perceive me like that โ€ฆ

Oct 13, 2022: Time for a liedown, hope to be back up in time for the #FSNNA22 publishing session.

Oct 13, 2022: It’s super energizing to go to conferences like #FSNNA22, #CLS2022, and #FanLIS2022. I’m reminded that I do enjoy research, I am part of a โ€ฆ

Oct 13, 2022: #FSNNA22 Live Blog: Fandom During/After Covid Olivia Johnston-Riley: Next session: Fandom During/After COVID Norbert Nyari: โ€œReaching Fans Through Deeper Interaction: The Case of Concerts Through โ€ฆ

Oct 13, 2022: Even in Gather, I’m that nerd sitting in the front row. #FSNNA22

Oct 13, 2022: Taking kid to the dentist during the next #FSNNA22 session so I won’t be live-tweeting but hope to keep up with others' tweets about it. The โ€ฆ

Oct 13, 2022: M after watching me confer in Gather: “Can we play a little Stardew Valley?”

Oct 13, 2022: #FSNNA2022 Live Blog: The New Bedroom Cultures Dr. Nicola Welsh-Burke: introducing the panel "The New Bedroom Cultures" Elise Sandbach: โ€œThe Growth of Fangirls and Fanfiction During the COVID-19 โ€ฆ

Oct 13, 2022: Kid woke up, so break from live-posting but I’m introducing him to Gather. “What game is that?”

Oct 13, 2022: Side question for anyone at #FSNNA22 or anyone aware of fan studies at all - have folks looked at parents/caregivers and what their fannish activity โ€ฆ

Oct 13, 2022: Good morning! It’s the first day of #FSNNA22, the Fan Studies Network North America conference, and I might be live tweeting and then posting โ€ฆ

Oct 9, 2022: Experimenting with limiting leisure screen time for a little bit. You’ll be able to tell how it goes by following whether I post or not.

Oct 6, 2022: I am asking for COPING advice, not TREATMENT advice: I feel crappy always, with stress and/or migraines and/or insomnia and/or joint pain and/or brain โ€ฆ

Oct 6, 2022: Me, a postdoc and research lead at an R1 institution with a PhD from another institution: I’m not really an academic, though!

Oct 5, 2022: Tape worked great on the part of the giant cat rip that wasn’t a seam, but not the part that was, so I’ll either sew it or try some seam โ€ฆ

Oct 5, 2022: ๐ŸŽ™๏ธIt’s taken me more than 2.5 yrs, but I have finished listening to Keegan-Michael Key & Elle Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy. It โ€ฆ

Oct 4, 2022: Yesterday: Noodling on work stuff while swapping out winter clothes and putting away laundry. Today: Getting. Things. Done. and marking them off my โ€ฆ

Oct 3, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “…the work of critical thinking and theorizing is itself an expression of political praxis that constructs a foundation wherein โ€ฆ

Oct 3, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “Critical writing counts for very little when critics speak about ending domination… in our work without changing individual habits โ€ฆ

Oct 3, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “The point is not to render ideas less complexโ€”the point is to make the complex clear.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at โ€ฆ

Oct 3, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “I write with the intent to share ideas in a manner that makes them accessible to the widest possible audience.” bell hooks, โ€ฆ

Oct 3, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “All academics write but not all see themselves as writers.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

Oct 2, 2022: The giant cat popped less than 24 hours after going up with probably less than 10 hours up time. Hubris? I’ve got special tape ordered to try โ€ฆ

Oct 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “No woman is writing too much. Women need to write more. We need to know what it feels like to be submerged in language, carried away by the โ€ฆ

Oct 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “…we must not let the commercial success of writing by women lead us to believe that the struggle to create and maintain a culture โ€ฆ

Oct 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “Even in academic circles it has become much more fashionable to do work on gender than work that is distinctly feminist in outlook.” โ€ฆ

Oct 1, 2022: It’s spooky season, so I’m living my best life with a skeleton glow necklace.

Oct 1, 2022: Giant cat!

Oct 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “…we all should feel utterly free to write as much as time, grace, and the imagination allow.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: โ€ฆ

Oct 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “Since I have never tried to make a living as a writer, I have had the extreme good fortune to be able to write only what I want to write โ€ฆ

Oct 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “No writer writes often or well if they despair of ever having an audience for their work.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer โ€ฆ

Oct 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “Since my interests are broad and wide-ranging, I am not surprised that there is an endless flow of ideas in my mind.” bell hooks, โ€ฆ

Oct 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “There is always someone who waits for words, eager to embrace them and hold them close.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer โ€ฆ

Oct 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “Writing that keeps us away from death, from despair, does not necessarily help us to be well.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the โ€ฆ

Oct 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“ “… the being we become in the very act of writing is only ever intimately present to the one who writes.” bell hooks, โ€ฆ

Sep 30, 2022: There have been 22 weekdays this September. My kid has been in school for only 14 of them. The 8 remaining days: 1 holiday, 1 school break, 3 home โ€ฆ

Sep 29, 2022: Finished reading: Up: A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure by Patricia Ellis Herr ๐Ÿ“š An uplifting and compelling read. Herr documents โ€ฆ

Sep 29, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Howlโ€™s Moving Castle should be the model for every book-to-film adaptation (Polygon) by Petrana Radulovic

Sep 29, 2022: Finished reading: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones ๐Ÿ“š Super fun! Highly recommend.

Sep 29, 2022: I’m reading Howl’s Moving Castle. Bit of a spoiler & Miyazaki left it out of the movie (rightly, I think) but Howl is actually a โ€ฆ

Sep 27, 2022: I’m exhausted. My mom has gone to the ER once a week for the past 5 weeks. My kid has not been in school for a full week since the beginning of โ€ฆ

Sep 25, 2022: A hike at Eno River State Park Yesterday, W, M, my sister ME, and I went for a little hike at the Eno River State Park. I’d planned a little flat loop, but we didn’t โ€ฆ

Sep 23, 2022: Want to read: Ghosts of the Forbidden (Glazier’s Gap Book 1) by Leanna Renee Hieber ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 22, 2022: I just ordered a 20 ft inflatable black cat. It will dominate the culdesac. I’m kind of hoping it becomes haunted. (RIP The Best Cat, 11/1999 - โ€ฆ

Sep 21, 2022: My currently-planned NaNoWriMo novel is a YA supernatural rom-com set at musical theatre camp in the late 90s. It miiiiiiight have some โ€ฆ

Sep 20, 2022: You can have all of the research that funding agencies can possibly provide us but if we can’t talk about what it means for our actual lived โ€ฆ

Sep 19, 2022: I love today’s issue of Publish Not Perish in which Jenn McClearen draws a connection between Joli Jensen’s idea of communal writing and โ€ฆ

Sep 18, 2022: I just played D&D for the first time in 3+ years and it was so great I almost cried.

Sep 14, 2022: ๐ŸŽฎ Things from today’s Nintendo Direct that feel like gifts they’re making for me, specifically: Theatrhythm Final Bar Line Harvestella โ€ฆ

Sep 13, 2022: I rarely watch actual play TTRPG shows because Life Circumstances have made a 3-hr viewing a real challenge. I backed DesiQuest at the Town Folk level โ€ฆ

Sep 13, 2022: Day 3 of a garbage migraine. Hate it. Rarely get them this bad anymore.

Sep 12, 2022: ๐Ÿ“บ Will I need to watch The Book of Boba Fett to follow what’s happening in the next season of The Mandalorian?

Sep 11, 2022: ๐Ÿ“บ Excuse me, I am watching The Rings of Power and Disa is my new fave, thought you should know. (And that’s a big deal because Galadriel, Nori, โ€ฆ

Sep 11, 2022: ๐Ÿ“บ Watched The Sandman. It’s so great. I don’t think a better adaptation would be possible. I missed the black speech bubbles but I know โ€ฆ

Sep 11, 2022: Dark academia is too emotionally bleak an aesthetic for me right now, but I enjoy the ability to admire pretty pictures and have a list of new hobbies โ€ฆ

Sep 11, 2022: We took a little walk on the trail behind our house this morning. Here are some pictures of what we saw: misty trees, a red leaf, an acorn cap, a โ€ฆ

Sep 9, 2022: When my brain won't read ๐Ÿ“š I hate when my brain won’t read, which it won’t today. Reading is my core way of interfacing with the world. The tools we use shape our โ€ฆ

Sep 9, 2022: Currently reading: Fabric by Victoria Finlay ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 8, 2022: Peace and long life, y’all. Happy Star Trek Day! ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

Sep 7, 2022: I don’t write a lot of lengthy blog posts lately, partly because there’s a lot going on with my mom’s health that wears me out. But โ€ฆ

Sep 6, 2022: I can suspend my disbelief enough to believe that entities like Dream, Death, Desire, & Despair exist, ravens can talk, nightmares can walk the โ€ฆ

Sep 6, 2022: John Cameron Mitchell doing Ethel Merman singing “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” is all I have ever wanted. A mid-90s musical theatre โ€ฆ

Sep 6, 2022: I’m very sorry for the colleague of my interviewee who was sick today and thus meant interviewee couldn’t get time off-desk and had to โ€ฆ

Sep 6, 2022: Just spent a minute staring at all the app icons on my phone trying to figure out why the Star Trek app wasn’t in alphabetical order in the S โ€ฆ

Sep 6, 2022: Kirby Howell-Baptiste is brilliant in The Sandman. I need all the Death spin-offs: High Cost of Living, At Death’s Door, all of it. She’s โ€ฆ

Sep 6, 2022: Every time I call myself “Miss Kimberly” in my head, I immediately correct myself with “Doctor Kimberly.”

Sep 4, 2022: Finished reading: The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien ๐Ÿ“š Listened to the audiobook narrated by Andy Serkis, which I think made it โ€ฆ

Sep 3, 2022: Me, listening to an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation with my eyes closed: “Is that Harry Groener? It sounds like Harry Groener. opens โ€ฆ

Sep 3, 2022: There’s been some hard stuff this week, but I also went to the pool and had dinner outside on my gorgeous deck with my gorgeous family and that โ€ฆ

Sep 2, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ Watched The Company of Wolves. Peak 80s gothic fantasy with a gorgeous score and the grossest werewolf transformations I’ve ever seen.

Sep 2, 2022: What’s the most fun thing you’ve done in the past 2 years?

Sep 2, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Aug 31, 2022: Okay, Internet. What’s the best way to D&D remotely?

Aug 31, 2022: I slept for 9 hours instead of 10 last night (what a luxury, I know, believe me that I give up a lot of leisure time to sleep this much and I โ€ฆ

Aug 28, 2022: The Jiminy Cricket or Frog (of Frog and Toadl in my head: “If you do X, the whole week will go more smoothly.” Me: “Nah, I’m โ€ฆ

Aug 27, 2022: Did not finish: A Little Life: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara ๐Ÿ“š Beautifully written. After 400+ pgs of almost non-stop trauma, this book was actively โ€ฆ

Aug 26, 2022: Picture of the view from my deck didn’t seem to actually end up attached to the post about working from the deck. Whoops!

Aug 26, 2022: Working on the deck in summer always feels like working in a treehouse.

Aug 25, 2022: Went to apply for passports for myself & M today and the passport person just wasn’t there, didn’t contact the people with โ€ฆ

Aug 25, 2022: My legs started getting medically-restless by 4 pm today. I didn’t have caffeine after 2 or so, took a warm bath with epsom salt & essential โ€ฆ

Aug 24, 2022: Is there space for robust research-practice partnerships in the time of COVID, or are people too tired for this kind of long-term collaboration?

Aug 24, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn’t have the energy to try.” - Hanya Yanagihara, A โ€ฆ

Aug 24, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “This was not what he thought acting would be, but what had he known about what acting would be?” - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

Aug 23, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “…he was an optimist. Every month, every week, he chose to open his eyes, to live another day in the world.” - Hanya Yanagihara, โ€ฆ

Aug 22, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “He felt in those minutes his body’s treason… that he would be betrayed by it again and again, that he could expect nothing from โ€ฆ

Aug 22, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved. - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life โ€ฆ

Aug 22, 2022: M. styled my jewelry for our morning playdate. The earrings are stylized bats. He was going for “spooky and pretty,” which, as W pointed โ€ฆ

Aug 21, 2022: I ventured into the world of Duolingo fanfiction looking for Odile/Melissa stories because they’re a very cute couple, but what I found โ€ฆ

Aug 19, 2022: I cannot adequately convey how much I appreciate that Duolingo accepts “y’all” as the correct translation of the second person โ€ฆ

Aug 18, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Big Bang Didn’t Happen. I know very little about cosmology, but this makes some good points about the limits of academic funding and โ€ฆ

Aug 17, 2022: Coburn, C. E., & Penuel, W. R. (2016). Research-practice partnerships in education: Outcomes, dynamics, and open questions. Educational โ€ฆ

Aug 17, 2022: It was so overcast yesterday that the moonflowers stayed open all day.

Aug 17, 2022: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Blippi asks. “A law doctor & a father,” M says. “Why do you want to be a โ€ฆ

Aug 17, 2022: Postdocs are contingent/precarious, yeah?

Aug 17, 2022: Finished reading: Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King ๐Ÿ“š This dude is so prolific and so fun to read. I would like to write things that โ€ฆ

Aug 13, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read A CRITIQUE OF DARK ACADEMIA: THE ROMANTICIZATION OF OVERWORK. Wearing tweed and wandering old bookshops is fine. Denying yourself sleep over โ€ฆ

Aug 12, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes. I would venture that slipping on a tailored button-up and โ€ฆ

Aug 10, 2022: Themes have emerged.

Aug 9, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read THE SCHOLARSHIP OF SEXY PRIVILEGE: WHY DO I LOVE DARK ACADEMIA BOOKS? This ownership over dark academia gives me the courage to keep going โ€ฆ

Aug 9, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Whatโ€™s Dark about Dark Academia I think the real power of dark academia is the way it compressesโ€”and thus preservesโ€”humanistic study at a time โ€ฆ

Aug 7, 2022: Today in Pokemon Research Reflects Real Research: an early career researcher didn’t have access to a journal article she wanted to read, she โ€ฆ

Aug 5, 2022: Took the Buzzfeed Inner Aesthetic Stranger Things Character quiz & got Will Byers and Cottagecore: “If you haven’t already, you should โ€ฆ

Aug 5, 2022: Currently reading: Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 5, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “…a story’s as much a house or garden as song.” Jane Alison, _Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative _

Aug 5, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.” Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

Aug 5, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “As blocked creatives, we focus not on our responsibilities to ourselves, but on our responsibilities to others. We tend to think such โ€ฆ

Aug 5, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “Do not let your self-doubt turn into self-sabotage.” Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

Aug 5, 2022: I’m wearing an oversized Sailor Moon tee and black bike shorts with lace trim, so hello from 1995, I guess.

Aug 4, 2022: Day 3, #TheSealeyChallenge, Rose, Li-Young Lee ๐Ÿ“š This is a gorgeous book, full of grief and beauty. Selected quotes: Water In water my sister is no longer lonely. Her right leg is crooked and โ€ฆ

Aug 3, 2022: I’ve got an ARC of The Nap Ministry’s book REST IS RESISTANCE ready for me to download from NetGalley, and will probably take it to the โ€ฆ

Aug 3, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “Perhaps people who experience the world in ways that are considered atypical have an intuitive feeling for the limits of typicality.” โ€ฆ

Aug 3, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “A scientist’s explanations about other animals are dictated by the data she collects, which are influenced by the questions she asks, โ€ฆ

Aug 3, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “[The senses] pull relevance from randomness, and weave meaning from miscellany.” Ed Yong, An Immense World

Aug 2, 2022: Day 2 #TheSealeyChallenge, Leaves of Grass Book I: Inscriptions, Walt Whitman ๐Ÿ“š Selected quotes: Eidolons We seeming solid wealth, strength, beauty build, But really build eidolons. To the States …Resist much, obey โ€ฆ

Aug 2, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– ๐Ÿ“บ Celia Rose Gooding, who does an amazing job playing Cadet Nyota Uhura on Strange New Worlds, wrote a beautiful guest column for The Hollywood โ€ฆ

Aug 2, 2022: Day 1 #TheSealeyChallenge, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love, Keith S. Wilson ๐Ÿ“š Selected quotes: 6:45 pm …God, it’s pretty. But what does any of it mean? A Unified Theory You think, what if I am stuck like this? โ€ฆ

Aug 1, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It was super refreshing to watch a movie that was deliberately, though not ploddingly, paced. This โ€ฆ

Aug 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ “Animals are not just stand-ins for humans or fodder for brainstorming sessions. They have worth in themselves.” - Ed Yong, An Immense โ€ฆ

Aug 1, 2022: I’m devoting the next few weeks to healing and rest, aside from my existing obligations. I release myself from worry about the future, pressure โ€ฆ

Aug 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ “It is all that we know, and so we easily mistake it for all there is to know.” Ed Yong, An Immense World

Aug 1, 2022: It’s August, so I’m going to do The Sealey Challenge and plan to read a book of poetry every day this month.

Aug 1, 2022: Finished reading: The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It by Helen Scales ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 29, 2022: Real talk, I skipped the end of #CLS2022 to hang out with my kid and nap and I have no regrets.

Jul 29, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Rapport or Respect? (Helen Kara). Dr. Kara makes excellent points about how research can seem friendly but be extractive. This is why I prefer โ€ฆ

Jul 29, 2022: I have a lot of hairs that are white at the bottom, black or brown in the middle, and white at the top. These are a useful indicator of changes in my โ€ฆ

Jul 28, 2022: #CLS2022: Creating Equitable and Inclusive Library Spaces in the Face of Obstacles I didnโ€™t get to liveblog/tweet this session because I was co-facilitating it, but Iโ€™m jotting down a few takeaways and a list of resources/links in โ€ฆ

Jul 28, 2022: I’m taking the 10:30 - 11:30 PST hour off from #CLS2022 so that I can get some quiet time in before facilitating at 12. See y’all soon!

Jul 28, 2022: My Notes from #CLS2022: OPENING PLENARY - Staying Connected, Fueling Innovation, Affirming Core Values: Three Learning Organizations Carrying Lessons Forward from the Twin Pandemics Scot Osterweil: Getting today's plenary started - Staying Connected, Fueling Innovation, Affirming Core Values: Three Learning Organizations Carrying โ€ฆ

Jul 28, 2022: I can’t liveblog/tweet any of the 12p Pacific sessions at #CLS2022 today because I’m co-facilitating one. If you want to livetweet or โ€ฆ

Jul 28, 2022: Deciding when to drop a paper: Rethinking my lit review about tabletop RPGs and identity development I’ve been sitting on a paper that was “accepted with revisions” for more than 3 years. I have poked at it sometimes and worked hard โ€ฆ

Jul 28, 2022: Over the course of #CLS2022, I’ll be adding my liveblogtweets/notes to the Connected Learning page on my website.

Jul 27, 2022: My Notes from #CLS2022: Rising Scholars - Post-Pandemic Life: Recovering From Burnout and Finding Motivation Khalia Braswell: Introducing the next Rising Scholars session: Post-Pandemic Life: Recovering From Burnout and Finding Motivation Naomi Thompson: โ€ฆ

Jul 27, 2022: My Notes from #CLS2022: Rising Scholars - Exploring Pathways: Finding Your Place of Impact Wendy Roldan: introducing the panel Exploring Pathways: Finding Your Place of Impact is a UX researcher at Google, place of impact with users in โ€ฆ

Jul 27, 2022: My Notes from #CLS2022: Rising Scholars - Sharing Work Beyond Academic Publishing Alexis Hope: Alexis worked on hackathons including the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon (love it!) and others to bring people together to hack โ€ฆ

Jul 27, 2022: The next panel at #CLS2022 for Rising Scholars is Sharing Work Beyond Academic Publishing.

Jul 27, 2022: For the next few days, I’ll be liveblogging/tweeting the Connected Learning Summit (#CLS2022) on Twitter and kimberlyhirsh.com via NoterLive. If โ€ฆ

Jul 27, 2022: ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽญ I’m listening to the Broadway cast of Moulin Rouge and I’m really impressed with how well it uses the 20 years' worth of music between โ€ฆ

Jul 26, 2022: Want to read: The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses by Paul Koudounaris ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 26, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š In 2008, 8 years before my kid was born, I replied to a Slate article that asked, “do you really want the Hulk teaching your kid to โ€ฆ

Jul 25, 2022: I was distracted around Summerween so I’m declaring July 31 Second Summerween.

Jul 25, 2022: “When we are making our art we must bend all of the resources and possibilities to work for us, not the other way around.” -Jami โ€ฆ

Jul 24, 2022: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery: Succession by Kirsten Beyer ๐Ÿ“š I honestly don’t know how anyone is left living in the Terran Empire. โ€ฆ

Jul 24, 2022: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery - The Light of Kahless by Mike Johnson ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 23, 2022: I speak Dutch with a Yiddish accent, I can’t help it, it’s in my blooooood. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ

Jul 22, 2022: It’s my and Will’s 13th wedding anniversary today. The traditional gift for this anniversary is lace. The modern gift is fur or textiles. โ€ฆ

Jul 22, 2022: Dealing with SDCC envy About 7 years ago, Geek and Sundry (RIP) published a post titled HOW TO HAVE A GREAT, GEEKY WEEKEND WHEN YOUโ€™RE NOT GOING TO SDCC. As a chronically โ€ฆ

Jul 21, 2022: Finished reading: The Dead Zone by Stephen King ๐Ÿ“š I love the way King has characters reference his own other work. “Like in that book, โ€ฆ

Jul 20, 2022: True facts about my dreams: when I was reading CARRIE and started having dreams related to it, it felt like a relief, a respite from my stress dreams โ€ฆ

Jul 20, 2022: Pro-tip: Stuck in or overwhelmed by your research? Write a memo.

Jul 19, 2022: Thinking about writing a blog post about the alignment of research, especially qualitative research, over the life of a project. We live in a world โ€ฆ

Jul 19, 2022: I was all, “My blog isn’t cross-posting to Twitter! Whyyyy?” but then I saw that I had disabled it cross-posting anywhere. This post โ€ฆ

Jul 18, 2022: The Internet is all “Check out the Whimsigoth aesthetic!” and y’all, a better name for it would be dELiA*s-core.

Jul 17, 2022: Currently reading: The Dead Zone by Stephen King ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read โ€˜Lostโ€™ Fans Gave Me a Safe Place on the Internet. Is Such Fandom Possible Now? (Catapult) by Anna Myers

Jul 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Violence Made Me Feel Like Iโ€™d Left My Body. Physical Theater Helped Me Return by Lindsey Trout Hughes ๐ŸŽญ

Jul 15, 2022: Birthday selfie from yesterday in my South Square Mall - oops I meant Starcourt Mall - hat.

Jul 15, 2022: Finished reading: Carrie by Stephen King ๐Ÿ“š I don’t recall the last time I read a book inside of 24 hours.

Jul 14, 2022: Me: I don’t know what to do! Should I spend the next 45 minutes reading CARRIE or playing METROID? W: I like the 80s, too.

Jul 14, 2022: Posted on my birthday in 2018: Yesterday I found out that my thyroid is out of whack again. Iโ€™m trying to remember everything I learned before, not โ€ฆ

Jul 14, 2022: It's my birthday! Here's who I want to be and how we should celebrate. I’m 41 today and it’s a big deal because every day that I live is a day I chose to be in the world and a whole year of sticking around is โ€ฆ

Jul 13, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read On Writing with Chronic Migraines (Catapult) by Yuvi Zalkow. I really appreciate Zalkow’s metaphors for pain and tiered system for โ€ฆ

Jul 13, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Black Women in Fantasy Saved Me Where Academia Failed (Catapult by Ravynn K. Stringfield. I always love reading what Dr. Stringfield has to โ€ฆ

Jul 13, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Video Games Are for Everyoneโ€”And That Should Include Disabled People (Catapult) by Allyssa Capri. Great discussion of where the gaming โ€ฆ

Jul 12, 2022: I keep asking myself, “When will I not be too tired for x?” and it turns out my thyroid hormone levels are suboptimal so now that โ€ฆ

Jul 12, 2022: The past few years, I’ve written a blog post on my birthday about who I want to be that year. My birthday’s in 2 days & as I look back โ€ฆ

Jul 11, 2022: Most of the time the answer to not having enough storage is to get rid of stuff, but with books, I tend to feel the answer is more bookshelves.

Jul 10, 2022: Y’all, check out this picture of Gene Roddenberry cosplaying as a Romulan commander from Balance of Terror from Cinefantastique #20 that I found โ€ฆ

Jul 10, 2022: Me, pitching future research clients: So in this scenario, see, you’re Buffy, and you know there’s fork guy and he’s scared of the โ€ฆ

Jul 9, 2022: I found a picture of myself on Tumblr. Dropping all other descriptors of myself in favor of “Data in an oversized cardigan.” ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

Jul 8, 2022: I’m workshopping a new professional tagline because I want to emphasize that I’m a qualitative researcher. First draft: “I use โ€ฆ

Jul 7, 2022: Finished Strange New Worlds Season 1. A+. Somebody give Ethan Peck’s eyebrow an Emmy. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ

Jul 7, 2022: “There’s surviving, and then there’s living.” - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ’ฌ

Jul 7, 2022: Sometimes I’ll have a run of bad dreams such that I then fear sleep for a bit.

Jul 5, 2022: On Kimbertide Day 4, I enjoyed an ice cream sandwich. For day 5, I’m playing Metroid: Zero Mission. ๐ŸŽฎ

Jul 5, 2022: ๐Ÿ‘ฑโ€โ™€๏ธI had a dream last night that Giles a) was real b) was still in his 40s and most importantly, c) owned a really beautiful indie bookstore. I โ€ฆ

Jul 4, 2022: Finished Stranger Things 4 and I love it so much and also will somebody just play D&D with Will already, yeesh. ๐Ÿ“บ

Jul 4, 2022: Editor Jordan Pavlin says historical fiction “has a unique ability to elicit deep compassion and empathy,” and I can’t help but โ€ฆ

Jul 4, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Ben Werdmรผller has a different but related, equally valuable, set of insights on what we should be thinking about this Independence Day. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

Jul 4, 2022: It’s a rough time for our democratic republic. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us what it’s supposed to be about. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

Jul 4, 2022: Kimbertide Day 3: Played a little of the new Capcom Fighting Collection ๐ŸŽฎ

Jul 2, 2022: Today for Kimbertide, I made banana bread from a Simple Mills mix.

Jul 2, 2022: Finished reading: Borderland edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold ๐Ÿ“š The beginnings of woodland goth. I love it, of course.

Jul 1, 2022: For Day 1 of Kimbertide, I celebrated with a special lunch: hardboiled eggs & sweet baby gherkin pickles. I didn’t know this when I made โ€ฆ

Jul 1, 2022: It’s the first day of my birthday month! I often extend the celebration beyond the day itself (July 14) and this year I’ve decided to do โ€ฆ

Jun 29, 2022: Finished reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by โ€ฆ

Jun 29, 2022: “…anger is counterproductive to puzzle solving. And to problem solving in general.” A. J. Jacobs in The Puzzler: One Man’s โ€ฆ

Jun 28, 2022: Santigold’s Can’t Get Enough of Myself is mental health goals. ๐ŸŽต

Jun 28, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– A solution to writerโ€™s block: Transcribe yourself (Austin Kleon) This is a brilliant piece of advice. The 1000+ words of my post about sweetweird โ€ฆ

Jun 27, 2022: Today I swam one pool-length, then water-walked for about 30 minutes. I also packed up 3 boxes of storage stuff to clear out the room we’re โ€ฆ

Jun 27, 2022: I’m extra psyched about July’s Atlas Obscura Finding Wonder book club pick, The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales. It’s got that โ€ฆ

Jun 24, 2022: Anti-Racism Daily offers actions to take in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Jun 24, 2022: W is reading M a Pokemon manga where a professor invited Ash & Goh to be her research fellows, which they see as great for their careers, and I โ€ฆ

Jun 22, 2022: Currently reading: Borderland 1 by Terri Windling ๐Ÿ“š Continuing my deep dive into woodland goth.

Jun 22, 2022: Currently reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by โ€ฆ

Jun 22, 2022: Thinking through disability on Star Trek ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ I wrote this a week ago to sort through my thoughts on disability on Star Trek. It is essentially a freewrite, not a carefully structured essay. Some โ€ฆ

Jun 21, 2022: I already spend very little time on Facebook but now their mobile web UI has little notification badges on each icon even when there are 0 โ€ฆ

Jun 21, 2022: No YOU’RE looking up contact juggling tutorials on YouTube to send to your spouse.

Jun 17, 2022: In our work team meeting today we spent a significant chunk of time discussing the history of Star Trek fanfic and its trajectory from zines to web to โ€ฆ

Jun 17, 2022: A little less than 12 years ago, I attended my first American Library Association Annual Conference. I’ve been to 3 more since then. My advice: โ€ฆ

Jun 17, 2022: Literati: Hey if you don’t want to read a super cool book about the deep ocean as part of the Atlas Obscura book club, log in and change โ€ฆ

Jun 16, 2022: Want to read: Meet Me by the Fountain by Alexandra Lange ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Nathanial White writes Disturbing the Comfortable: On Writing Disability in Science Fiction. I freewrote 1100 words today on reading disability in โ€ฆ

Jun 15, 2022: This Is How I Do It (TL;DR: Piecemeal and Flexibly) Katy Peplin has a great Twitter thread on the difference between sharing your process with โ€œThis is how I do itโ€ and โ€œThis is how you should do it.โ€ โ€ฆ

Jun 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– The Bullet Journal blog has a great interview with Tiago Forte, author of Building a Second Brain, which comes out today. I hope to get a full โ€ฆ

Jun 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Today’s #1000WordsOfSummer letter is all about letting writing be fun and silly. I needed to read this today. Maybe you do, too. ๐Ÿ“

Jun 15, 2022: Hello, Internet. Please recommend to me your favorite essay collections that combine TV or other pop culture analysis with personal writing. Thank โ€ฆ

Jun 14, 2022: What’s that thing where your brain is like “Even leisure is too much right now”? Whatever it is, it’s happening to me. The โ€ฆ

Jun 14, 2022: The TNG episode, “The Masterpiece Society,” is great. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ’ฌ “It was the wish of our founders that no one have to suffer a life of โ€ฆ

Jun 13, 2022: Hi! Do you struggle with activities of daily living due to executive dysfunction, cognitive overload, or brain fog? I do. Autism Grown Up, a โ€ฆ

Jun 12, 2022: Want to read: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 12, 2022: Want to read: Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 12, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) advice on being productive with long COVID is sound for anyone with chronic illness or many other โ€ฆ

Jun 11, 2022: Finished reading: The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Angela Carter ๐Ÿ“š New (well, ~40 โ€ฆ

Jun 10, 2022: Austin Kleon urges us to embrace belwiderment.. He quotes Rumi: “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” This is now my overarching โ€ฆ

Jun 10, 2022: Goodnight, everybody.

Jun 9, 2022: Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer was awesome, too. “I will de-intellectualize and re-sensualize my writing practice.” Morgan Parker

Jun 9, 2022: Want to read: This Time Tomorrow: A Novel by Emma Straub ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 9, 2022: Today’s #1000wordsofsummer letter made me really happy. Diary writing! Noticing! And This Time Tomorrow is going on my TBR because I could use a โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2022: I am very exhausted. Not sleepy. Not fatigued. Exhausted.

Jun 8, 2022: I’m just grumping it out right now so if you’re going to be interacting with me, know that. It’s not you, it’s that I’m โ€ฆ

Jun 7, 2022: Currently reading: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 7, 2022: Time for a Gothic Charm School re-read. ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 7, 2022: On sweetweird and hopepunk ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿฟ Transcript: Hello friends. I wanted to write a blog post about sweetweird and its relationship to hopepunk and other narrative aesthetics, we’ll โ€ฆ

Jun 6, 2022: How to Make a Star Wars Reference Hello, friends. I want to talk about something from Stranger Things 4 that is brilliantly done. And thatโ€™s a Star Wars reference. There are a lot of โ€ฆ

Jun 6, 2022: Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer reading: many stories in Angela Carter’s THE BLOODY CHAMBER. So good. ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 5, 2022: Google Keep is my notetaking app of choice, which makes me a bit of a rarity, but if you use it and would like it to be more helpful or if โ€ฆ

Jun 5, 2022: If you’re looking for a writing community, check out Jami Attenberg’s #1000WordsOfSummer. I’m prioritizing reading. Today: Kelly โ€ฆ

Jun 3, 2022: Finished reading: War for the Oaks: A Novel by Emma Bull ๐Ÿ“š Rock music + fey = delightful.

Jun 3, 2022: Today’s outfit: LGBTQ Center of Durham Rainbow Bull Shirt, popsicle shorts from Torrid.

Jun 3, 2022: If you enjoyed the Chapel/Ortegas dynamic in this week’s SNW, there are [21 works tagged with their relationship] โ€ฆ

Jun 3, 2022: “It appears that hijinks are the most logical course of action.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, 1x05, “Spock Amok” ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ’ฌ

Jun 2, 2022: It’s hot out. I’m tired. I had a call with my doctor this morning. She’s giving me gabapentin for pain. I’m so glad because โ€ฆ

Jun 2, 2022: Current phone screen. (Yesterday, W to me: “Look at all these old pictures of Jennifer Connelly.” Me: “Oh yeah, I had those saved on โ€ฆ

Jun 2, 2022: Gonna start doing outfit of the day posts as often as I feel like it. The shirt says “What’s more punk than the public library?” You โ€ฆ

Jun 2, 2022: Woodland. Goth.

Jun 1, 2022: I am all in on Woodland Goth, y’all.

Jun 1, 2022: I feel like the captioners for Stranger Things (who are doing an awesome job describing the music) should Google any place name on the show followed โ€ฆ

Jun 1, 2022: “You dwell in my mind like a household spirit. All that I think is followed with, ‘I shall tell that thought to Eddi.’ Whatever I โ€ฆ

May 31, 2022: I made a book! The fic is Mischief Managed by touchedglitter (who is me). This is pamphlet bound. The big thing I learned was that I need a better โ€ฆ

May 31, 2022: Just followed some Trek fan Micro.bloggers from yesterday’s roll call. I’m current on new shows & doing a rewatch of TNG. Happy to โ€ฆ

May 30, 2022: In Star Trek: TNG, S5E11, “Hero Worship,” a kid asks Data what he thinks of a model the kid built. When Data expresses his aesthetic โ€ฆ

May 29, 2022: Your girl’s over here finding old Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfiction listed on Fanlore but not linked anywhere and digging it up in the โ€ฆ

May 28, 2022: “…embodied writing is not in opposition to political writing. In fact, it is the kind of political writing that I am most interested in โ€ฆ

May 28, 2022: Reply to Meg Pillow's This Is Not the Essay I Meant to Write I have a craft essay about writing into uncertainty, contradiction, and grief in the new issue of @PhoebeJournal today. This one means a lot to me - โ€ฆ

May 27, 2022: How do none of the early results in a Google Images search for Star Trek Bingo have something like “mysterious pathogen takes down whole โ€ฆ

May 27, 2022: Mood update: the leaden feeling in my heart has been joined by a similar feeling in my stomach.

May 27, 2022: “As we honor the lives that have been given, let us also be grateful to be still on the journey.” “The enemy doesn’t care โ€ฆ

May 26, 2022: The Michigan Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence has a really useful letter template for writing to congresspeople.

May 26, 2022: I don’t have the oomph to discuss this at length but my dad wrote a good journal entry for CaringBridge about the most recent impact of chemo on โ€ฆ

May 25, 2022: I can’t neglect the world & focus on my child, because my child is in & of the world. I’m overwhelmed by the sheer number of โ€ฆ

May 25, 2022: Self-soothing by typesetting my 9 year old New Girl fanfic and it actually looks like a book.

May 25, 2022: The world is very dismal and I am heartbroken, but my husband is on a meeting talking to people about how he was in A Midsummer Night’s Dream โ€ฆ

May 24, 2022: Me “well actually"ing last week’s Fansplaining in the car on the way to pick my kid up: “But Elizabeth the ‘In sleep he โ€ฆ

May 24, 2022: I have extreme MCU fatigue so I’m only going to watch the stuff clearly and closely inspired by comics I’ve actually read and enjoyed. โ€ฆ

May 23, 2022: Not me putting a Lizzie Bennet Diaries gif in a work presentation. Nope.

May 22, 2022: I love a good slice-of-life story but the constant interruptions to Worf’s work once his son Alexander boards the Enterprise in the episode โ€ฆ

May 21, 2022: Apparently crows can do metacognition.

May 20, 2022: Symposium’s over, it’s 90F outside. Time for a wardrobe change! [Image description: A white woman with dark hair wears a black tank top โ€ฆ

May 20, 2022: Want to read: The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom by Jessa Lingel ๐Ÿ“š

May 20, 2022: Responses to the chat during my #FanLIS2022 presentation The chat runs by much too quickly to scroll with it while presenting but I love the vibrance of #FanLIS2022 chat so I wanted to go through and respond โ€ฆ

May 20, 2022: So far my favorite outcome of #FanLIS2022 is another attendee asking me if I’m sure I’m not Caitlin Doughty.

May 20, 2022: Some of my tweets from #FanLIS2022 Day 1 I was able to recover my Noter Live log, yay! I’ll go back and collect the tweets from after my reboot later. Dr Suzanne Black: has been joined โ€ฆ

May 20, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Durham GOPโ€™s โ€œBetter Board, Better Schoolsโ€ candidate slate is soundly defeated. What a relief.

May 20, 2022: Week 3 of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds and there are already 189 works on AO3. Looking forward to discovering new favorite creators. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

May 19, 2022: There are a lot of great things about attending a conference from home. Still, it’s a bit sad not to be able to go hide in a hotel room and let โ€ฆ

May 19, 2022: Definitely just brainstormed the paper title “Screw General Order One: Representing Positionality as an Insider When Doing Fan Studies โ€ฆ

May 19, 2022: Missed a huge chunk of the current #FanLIS2022 paper due to Zoom crash & also lost my NoterLive log because I didn’t think to post it before โ€ฆ

May 19, 2022: A squirrel is trying to break into my house.

May 19, 2022: Gonna be live-posting #FanLIS2022 today & tomorrow. Will transition to LiveNoter in an hour and a half but posting through Micro.blog until โ€ฆ

May 18, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ––๐Ÿ“บ In reply to Star Trek: Discovery Has Problems (& How They Can Be Fixed)(Trek News) by Bill Smith In reply to Star Trek: Discovery Has Problems (& How They Can Be Fixed) (Trek News) by Bill Smith: I agree with Smith’s assessment of โ€ฆ

May 18, 2022: I’m adding things to it slowly, but I’ve created a Connected Learning page curating my notes, memos, and blog posts on this topic. I have โ€ฆ

May 18, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read How I Build My Common Place Book ๐Ÿ”– Read How I Build My Common Place Book (Greg McVerry) McVerry generously summarizes his workflow: Document impetus of thought (often after the โ€ฆ

May 17, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life (The Atlantic) by Cindy Lamothe “she said she often distrusts that other โ€ฆ

May 17, 2022: Next time I take it into my head that words won’t come out of me in written form, I’m going to re-read this 2018 blog post in which I โ€ฆ

May 17, 2022: Stole a quote from the woodland goth page of Aesthetics wiki for my bio/tagline: “…a hybrid of fey imagery, Glam Rock glitter, and the โ€ฆ

May 16, 2022: Pool’s open!

May 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Why I Blog Part 1 and Part 2 (Kyle Mathews).

May 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ’ป Read You’re Not Blogging, My Friend. (Tom Critchlow).

May 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ’ป Read Incrementally correct personal websites (Brian Lovin).

May 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ’ป Read envisioning my homepage as an online therapeutic space (Winnie Lim).

May 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ’ป Read revisiting architectural blogging (Alan Jacobs).

May 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ’ป Read Building a Digital Homestead, Bit by Brick (Tom Critchlow). I like this homesteading metaphor. Neither gardens nor streams quite work for what โ€ฆ

May 14, 2022: Voting selfie!

May 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ’ป Read Why blog? (Chuck Grimmett). Well said. These are my reasons, too.

May 14, 2022: I love Discovery and I’ve enjoyed Picard and Prodigy, but Strange New Worlds feels like nostalgic Trek in a way that of the new shows, only โ€ฆ

May 14, 2022: As always, The Trans Advice column is helpful. The latest: Should cis folks use gender neutral pronouns? Your pronouns shouldn’t be some sort โ€ฆ

May 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–Raising Us Wrecked Her Career But My Mom’s Thriving In Her Second Act romper.com Read: www.romper.com romper.com โ€ฆ

May 13, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion? | The New Yorker newyorker.com Read: www.newyorker.com newyorker.com โ€ฆ

May 13, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š “This is the Book I’m Meant to Write Right Now” sarafredman.substack.com Read: sarafredman.substack.com sarafredman.substack.com โ€ฆ

May 13, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Angela Garbes Is Reclaiming Realistic Motherhood thecut.com Read: www.thecut.com thecut.com โ€ฆ

May 12, 2022: How to remove timestamps and extra lines from a Zoom transcript using Notepad++ or BBEdit In case it would help other people, here’s how I did it. I would have something that looked like this: 9 00:00:36.900 –> 00:00:40.560 โ€ฆ

May 12, 2022: It’s a rough time right now so I’m trying to notice small joys and one of today’s is that I learned how to use regular expressions โ€ฆ

May 12, 2022: I just wrote the beginning of a fiction story after being inspired by Amanda Cook’s “Weaving Serenity” in issue 1 of @wyngraf. I โ€ฆ

May 12, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š I joined Austin Kleon’s Read Like an Artist book club today and am also going to read his past choices. I’m starting with a re-read of โ€ฆ

May 11, 2022: ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ I listened to the first episode of A Beautiful Anarchy on my way to pick up the kid. It was about imposter syndrome. There were some really โ€ฆ

May 11, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– You should read Josh Radnor's Museletter. Josh Radnor writes a beautiful newsletter. It always feels like a gift. Here are some gems from the latest issue - italics are emphasis from the โ€ฆ

May 11, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Kate McKean writes in today’s Agents and Books about professional jealousy. Her advice applies to academics, too, and probably any field. โ€ฆ

May 11, 2022: “…is that not what a Scholar does? Question the world, examine it from every angle, and marvel at the wonder of it all?” Natasha โ€ฆ

May 10, 2022: If I took a day off every day that I felt sick I would almost never work. Chronic illness is not my fave.

May 9, 2022: It’s a work in progress, but I’m curating a woodland goth playlist. I recommend playing on shuffle. ๐ŸŽต

May 9, 2022: Oh hey, I should probably share that my husband Will is a 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar. Very proud of him & super psyched to take this opportunity โ€ฆ

May 9, 2022: “Other people are… challenging for me.” La’an is the new Data, pass it on. #StarTrek #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW โ€ฆ

May 9, 2022: Screw General Order 1? SCREW GENERAL ORDER 1?! ๐Ÿ˜ #StarTrek #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ

May 8, 2022: I hope everyone who had to mother their own mother is doing something fun today. 9-year-old Kimberly salutes you.

May 8, 2022: Today I wish you nurturing love and bodily self-determination, extra if you have a uterus.

May 8, 2022: Finished reading: Redwall: A Tale from Redwall by Brian Jacques ๐Ÿ“š Cozy fantasy, just what I need right now. Two quotes that stood out for me: โ€ฆ

May 8, 2022: Now I’m only halfway through the Strange New Worlds pilot but the Kilean makeup looks to me nearly identical to vampires on BtVS. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ

May 8, 2022: I just took the IPIP Big Five Factor Marker test. According to the results, I’m intellectual/imaginative af, pretty outgoing, friendly, and โ€ฆ

May 8, 2022: Anybody else assume based on TNG that Picard & Guinan had a friends with benefits situation? ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

May 7, 2022: I have a vague sense that I am Not Okay. I don’t know if it’s a medical thing, stress from my mom’s illness, or the world. I โ€ฆ

May 7, 2022: Who has two thumbs and is doing Reader’s Advisory for fun? ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป This Kimberly.

May 6, 2022: Usually Spotify Autoplay makes me grouchy but it turns out when I listen to goth music it suggests more goth music so I’m very happy with its โ€ฆ

May 6, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read Cozy Flash: The Cat and the Conerian. Adorable. Cozy fantasy is my current genre of choice.

May 5, 2022: Traumatic previously aside, the Picard finale made me very happy. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ

May 4, 2022: Here is a Google Document with links to abortion funds. It was created by @helmsinki on Twitter. I donated in my home state, NC, as well as in TN, โ€ฆ

May 4, 2022: “Although I did extremely well scholastically, my lack of human understanding often created social obstacles.” Data on his first year at โ€ฆ

May 3, 2022: The theatre-major-to-youth-services-librarian pipeline.

May 2, 2022: I’m supposed to be sleeping but I just learned about the Woodland goth aesthetic. Dark mori style + goth music = the Frouds? Yes please.

May 2, 2022: Currently reading: Redwall: A Tale from Redwall by Brian Jacques ๐Ÿ“š

May 2, 2022: Currently reading: Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper ๐Ÿ“š

May 2, 2022: Currently reading: How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (Cultural Front Book 3) by Marc Bousquet ๐Ÿ“š

May 1, 2022: Breaking out Crystal Bar Soap’s Moonlit Harbor to support this Cancer Sun woman through some intense eldest daughtering.

May 1, 2022: Dr. Crusher’s plans for a community theater production of Pirates of Penzance in TNG episode 5x05 delight me. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

May 1, 2022: I’m going full 90s with my personal style and nothing can stop me. And I mean what I, now middle-aged, actually wore in the 90s, not the modern โ€ฆ

May 1, 2022: My spring/summer silhouette: oversized t-shirt + biker shorts. It gets hot in NC, y’all.

Apr 30, 2022: I’m having the kind of day where you wish you could take your heart out of your chest and just set it in a little box for a while, because the โ€ฆ

Apr 30, 2022: I have no chance at Heardle but if someone made Broadweardle I might do well.

Apr 29, 2022: Finished reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte ๐Ÿ“š Recommended. Full review coming in June.

Apr 28, 2022: I’m having a really hard time processing this week’s episode of Picard, for personal reasons. One thing I will say, though, is they could โ€ฆ

Apr 28, 2022: I’m correcting a Zoom Live Transcription transcript and while it’s a lot faster than transcribing it myself, it’s still a lot slower โ€ฆ

Apr 28, 2022: Today I’m wearing an oversized Sailor Moon tee and black leggings with a run in the left knee. I think 1996 Kimberly would be really happy with โ€ฆ

Apr 26, 2022: In case anyone was curious as to whether my personal style has changed in the last 25 years, I was devastated that this green lace dress at the thrift โ€ฆ

Apr 26, 2022: Now is as good a time as any to revisit Vicki Boykis’s essay, Fix the internet by writing good stuff and being nice to people.

Apr 25, 2022: Currently reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 25, 2022: Micro.blog is a free social network if you blog elsewhere and plug in a feed. It can also host your blog/website for $5/mo. For $10/mo, it will host โ€ฆ

Apr 25, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Micro.blog is one my favorite places on the Internet, and Jean MacDonald’s article A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate โ€ฆ

Apr 25, 2022: Everybody on Twitter wants to know where to go now. The answer is your own website, syndicating out to wherever else people end up. This is the โ€ฆ

Apr 24, 2022: Finished reading: Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare ๐Ÿ“š Review soon. On the All About Romance sensuality levels scale, this is Hot approaching Burning. โ€ฆ

Apr 23, 2022: Baby’s first fanfic. Image description: On the title page of a homemade book, “HAO TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGIN BOOK OF DAGINS” is scrawled โ€ฆ

Apr 23, 2022: W reading a scene to M about a girl doing the school play & it’s The Wizard of Oz: The teacher held up the script. Me: No no, Wizard of Oz โ€ฆ

Apr 22, 2022: You can take the librarian out of the library, but I’m wearing a cardigan over another cardigan.

Apr 22, 2022: Want to read: Heroines by Kate Zambreno ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 22, 2022: Want to read: Heroines by Kate Zambreno ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 21, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Review: A riveting biographer โ€” and mother โ€” works to solve โ€˜the mind-baby problemโ€™.

Apr 21, 2022: It’s out! The latest issue of Genetrix, a very occasional newsletter curating stories of creative mothers!

Apr 21, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Cranking.

Apr 21, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done. I’ve been thinking a lot about personal productivity, what it’s good for and what it โ€ฆ

Apr 21, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Who Is Steven Hotdog? Or, Untangling the โ€œBraided Essayโ€ |. Whatโ€™s Steven Hotdog to me, or I to Steven Hotdog, that I should weep for him? โ€ฆ

Apr 21, 2022: Me, to myself: I can’t be everyone at once. Me: OR CAN I?

Apr 21, 2022: On my first year as a doctor (of philosophy) As I mentioned earlier, I defended my dissertation a year and a week ago. It was a joyous defense, with my committee cosplaying and my friends and โ€ฆ

Apr 21, 2022: Today I’m reviving my newsletter Genetrix, curating stories of creative mothers. The upcoming issue includes links to 15 articles & 1 artist โ€ฆ

Apr 21, 2022: I didn’t even notice the one year anniversary of my dissertation defense (4/14) but I realized today that I’ve been a doctor (of โ€ฆ

Apr 21, 2022: Okay whose idea was it to only have turbolifts on starships because people would be less likely to be trapped if there were also ramps or something.

Apr 21, 2022: Why Is My Child Still Awake? The Kimberly Hirsh Story

Apr 21, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read 11 Bookish Accessories to Make Reading More Accessible. I love pieces like this. Getting a book holder changed my reading life.

Apr 20, 2022: So I’m delighted by the premise of Is It Cake? but it really feels like a parody reality show from 30 Rock.

Apr 20, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Should you ever NOT listen to user feedback?. I’m exploring the possibility of a career in UX research & reading this article showed โ€ฆ

Apr 20, 2022: I know you’re not supposed to share your morning pages but in mine today I wrote “It’s time to develop a writing practice that fits โ€ฆ

Apr 20, 2022: Want to read: Overdue by Amanda Oliver ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 20, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–Read Being a Public Librarian Can Be Dangerous Work, Why Donโ€™t We Acknowledge That? - Electric Literature Libraries are resolutely radical โ€ฆ

Apr 20, 2022: It’s really weird to have been the precocious teen on the Internet 25 years ago and be the old person in the writer academia Discord server now.

Apr 19, 2022: In other news, Season 5 of TNG is stacked with memorable episodes. Darmok. Silicon Avatar. The Game. Ethics. The Innermost Light. Time’s Arrow. โ€ฆ

Apr 19, 2022: Yesterday I helped my parents sort out the logistics of making the house more accessible for my mom when she’s using mobility aids. A few hours โ€ฆ

Apr 19, 2022: Anybody interested in becoming a Sesame Street librarian?

Apr 18, 2022: Me, thinking about the logistics of attending my sister’s Master’s hooding: I mean, how many times does your sister finish graduate โ€ฆ

Apr 17, 2022: I would like to thank the fine people at Nintendo of America for making the Easter Bunny’s job much easier this year. M: Did you get me the toys โ€ฆ

Apr 17, 2022: My kid, raised in a mostly secular witchy agnostic home but with a vague understanding of holiday stories, after I explain that the Pharisees in Jesus โ€ฆ

Apr 16, 2022: My closest friends are now the crow who hangs out in my yard and the moon. Also, I received a shipment of crystal-infused bath products today โ€ฆ

Apr 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽญ๐Ÿฟ Read Judas Christ Superstar: Easter thoughts on being just (Reader) by Katie Prout. This piece is excellent. JCS is an extremely important show โ€ฆ

Apr 15, 2022: Spouse: So, how do I write up a plan for this research project? Me: Step 1. Get a PhD. Just kidding! Read this one chapter - whoops, all of part II - โ€ฆ

Apr 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ This /Film review of #StarTrekPicard 2x07 verbalizes something that’s bothered me all season: “Picard” has invented trauma for โ€ฆ

Apr 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ“บ Blippi is like if someone fed Mr. Rogers several thousand Pixy Stix.

Apr 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ I’m not trying to spoil anybody for #StarTrekPicard but I would squee if we saw Mulder & Scully in the next episode. It won’t โ€ฆ

Apr 14, 2022: Me: I don’t remember how to do a remote research interview! It’s been almost two years! Also me: I wrote a blog post to help people โ€ฆ

Apr 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ“š Book Review: NOT YOUR AVERAGE HOT GUY and THE DATE FROM HELL by Gwenda Bond If you make a purchase through a link in this post, I may earn a commission. Do you wish Dan Brown books were sexy and full of pop culture โ€ฆ

Apr 14, 2022: Finished reading: The Date from Hell by Gwenda Bond ๐Ÿ“š Review coming soon!

Apr 14, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Projects: The Alastair Method. Alastair Johnston has created a Kanban-like tracking system for the Bullet Journal that I may modify for use as โ€ฆ

Apr 13, 2022: Ethnographers, what are some of your favorite ways to ease a participant into an interview?

Apr 13, 2022: First iced chai of the season.

Apr 13, 2022: Brent Spiner is killing it on Picard. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ

Apr 13, 2022: My mom went to the hospital Saturday due to muscle weakness. (Previous surprise visits involved myocardial infarction & colitis, plus a bonus โ€ฆ

Apr 12, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read ecosystem theory: how to reframe the “i do this or i do that” binary (Thrive PhD) by Katy Peplin Such a helpful perspective.

Apr 12, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis. ๐ŸŒŠ This shows some awesome innovations in water conservation from people all over the โ€ฆ

Apr 12, 2022: Want to read: The Wastewater Gardener: Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time by Mark Nelson PhD ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 12, 2022: Want to read: Water 4.0 by David Sedlak ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 11, 2022: Another super informal poll! If you are a scholar, regardless of your relationship ship to academia (student/university employee/working outside โ€ฆ

Apr 11, 2022: Hi there! This morning the outdoor temperature is 44F. When I pick my kid up at 3 pm it will be 80F. Welcome to central North Carolina!

Apr 10, 2022: I’m curious: if you are currently or have ever been in a graduate program, are you familiar with the concept of “personal knowledge โ€ฆ

Apr 10, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Plan to rewrite NC teacher licensing could also raise pay, but it’s too early to say Educators, what do you think? I’m not sure โ€ฆ

Apr 10, 2022: According to this blog post, some of the core concepts of Learning Experience Design include: human-centered design constructive alignment learning โ€ฆ

Apr 10, 2022: Notes from the LX2017 magazine As you may have noticed, I’m reading up on Learning Experience Design. LXCON 2017 resulted in a beautiful magazine. I highlighted this bit: To โ€ฆ

Apr 9, 2022: Feeling this.

Apr 9, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Dirty hands do all the thinking in LXD (LXD.org) by Patrick van der Bogt.

Apr 9, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read The incredible power of paper prototyping (LXD.org) by Niels Floor.

Apr 9, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Learning Experience Design vs Instructional Design (LXD.org) by Niels Floor.

Apr 9, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Four Ingredients for a Memorable Learning Experience (LXD.org) by Rodrigo J. Gallego Studying up on Learning Experience Design & Research. โ€ฆ

Apr 9, 2022: Eventually I will get so annoyed with websites that are not responsive that I’ll start cold-quoting companies offering to fix that for them.

Apr 9, 2022: Took the Be Bright Studios Brand Quiz & it says mine is a “Generous Knowledge” brand which, yes.

Apr 8, 2022: Super informal survey but hey library workers, what would a professional organization that worked for YOU look like?

Apr 8, 2022: Chatting with Casey about D&D this morning and I’m thinking about constructivist pedagogy and how the DM can create a gradual release of โ€ฆ

Apr 7, 2022: I’ve been feeling a need for increased witch vibes, so I slipped this pink agate in my pocket and drew a card from Visions in the Liminal Space โ€ฆ

Apr 6, 2022: Having big feelings because my favorite witch store’s owner moved away, even though the store has been online-only for a couple of years & I โ€ฆ

Apr 6, 2022: Sat on my foot and now it’s numb, really missing AIMs circa 2002 from Kelly O’Shea reminding me not to do this.

Apr 6, 2022: Bless the people who create prefilled Easter baskets because this mom who usually loves filling her kid’s basket does NOT have the bandwidth โ€ฆ

Apr 6, 2022: Gonna write a romance where one love interest has Hashimoto’s and has to bail on a date due to low spoons & the other love interest is like, โ€ฆ

Apr 5, 2022: If high-risk people have to be individually responsible for mitigating their risk, employers should be expected to treat risk mitigation as a โ€ฆ

Apr 5, 2022: I really am amazed that as an autoimmune Kimberly I used to just let people breathe all over me.

Apr 5, 2022: My Current Productivity Stack (including scholarly tools) I am a productivity hobbyist and have a bad habit of chucking my whole system every once in a while to try and adopt somebody elseโ€™s from scratch. โ€ฆ

Apr 5, 2022: I’m Kimberly and today I just don’t feel like doing it, where it = anything.

Apr 4, 2022: One last merch design for today: I PhDID IT!

Apr 4, 2022: I made a new t-shirt/merch design: Stick a Fork in Me - I’m PhDone.

Apr 4, 2022: 7 Things to Do Before You Start Your PhD Itโ€™s the time of year when people are announcing their PhD acceptances. If you are psyched to be doing a PhD, yay you! I have some advice for things โ€ฆ

Apr 3, 2022: New oversized graphic tee!

Apr 3, 2022: Me, watching #StarTrek: Picard ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป: Whoa, do they think 3D printers will be that fast in 2024?

Apr 2, 2022: Two true things about my brother @MicahHirsh: he’s an animator and he’s autistic. For Autism Acceptance Month, I’m going to share โ€ฆ

Apr 2, 2022: Yesterday, I told Dr. Katie Rose Guest Pryal that she should take the good idea she couldn’t do now and do it later. Today, I made DO IT LATER โ€ฆ

Apr 2, 2022: Registration for #FanLIS2022 is open! If you’re interested in fan studies in library and information science (#FanLIS), be sure to check out โ€ฆ

Apr 1, 2022: Hello world. Please mark the wonderfulness of my spouse who, when my kid wanted to go find the neighbors & play after we’d been out all day โ€ฆ

Apr 1, 2022: Today’s the day it’s best to ignore the internet, so byeeee.

Mar 30, 2022: I have brain fog today. I do not know why I have brain fog today. I’m going to blame hormones. ๐Ÿง ๐ŸŒซ

Mar 30, 2022: ๐ŸŽญ๐ŸŽต Spending my Tues night building an audition repertoire, as one does. The Party’s Over A Trip to the Library Another Hundred People โ€ฆ

Mar 29, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read How to Use Evernote for Your Creative Workflow. A couple key quotes: Start acting like every idea you come across or come up with has the โ€ฆ

Mar 29, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Secret Power of โ€˜Read It Laterโ€™ Apps.

Mar 29, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read One-Touch to Inbox Zero: How I Spend 17 Minutes Per Day on Email.

Mar 28, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ๐ŸŽญ๐ŸŽต Watched Anything Goes. Sutton Foster is my hero. Wish I could get to NYC to see her in The Music Man. Everybody in this production was great. I โ€ฆ

Mar 27, 2022: I appreciate the implication from Star Trek: Picard that our timeline is the horrible timeline Q created. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ

Mar 26, 2022: Finished reading: “So What Are You Going to Do with That?" by Susan Basalla ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 26, 2022: This pandemy has not lessened my misanthropy. Today I got very annoyed that another family was in the Museum of Life and Science bathroom (a large โ€ฆ

Mar 25, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽญ Read Having a Child Meant Imagining a New Way to Make Theater (Catapult) by Lindsey Trout Hughes. This resonated with me more than anything else โ€ฆ

Mar 25, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽต Read โ€œThe Queerest of the Queerโ€: Listening to Garbage in the Nineties (Catapult) by Niko Stratis. I enjoy Garbage so much and I appreciate this โ€ฆ

Mar 24, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read I Gained 70 Pounds During COVID. Here’s What Happened On My First Day Back In The Office. (HuffPost) by Emily McCombs A good read; not โ€ฆ

Mar 24, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–โ™ฟ Read Disability Status Shouldnโ€™t Have a Hierarchy (Catapult) by s. e. smith. Excellent column illuminating the challenges in and importance of โ€ฆ

Mar 24, 2022: ๐Ÿ“ The programme for #FanLIS 2022 is live! I’ll be sharing my dissertation research on Friday, May 20. I’ll let you know when registration โ€ฆ

Mar 24, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read After the Green Ribbon (Catapult) by A. E. Osworth The Green Ribbon is a favorite of mine. I love Osworth’s discussion of how it marks โ€ฆ

Mar 24, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read My Mother Has Terminal Cancer, and I Canโ€™t Seem to Stop Buying Sweaters (Catapult) by Rachel Vorona Cote

Mar 23, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read What Tarot Taught Me About the Stories We Tell (Catapult) by Mishka Hoosen CW: Racism, rape A beautiful meditation on one person’s โ€ฆ

Mar 23, 2022: I have renewed and revitalized respect for sociologists after trying to quickly understand the sociology of space. Your theories seem impenetrable and โ€ฆ

Mar 23, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Teachers Are Told to Ignore Their Bodies, But Chronic Pain Made Me Listen to Mine (Catapult) by Chiara di Lello

Mar 23, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read The World Doesnโ€™t Bend for Disabled Kids (or Disabled Parents) (Catapult) by Katie Rose Pryal It breaks my heart when adults won’t figure โ€ฆ

Mar 23, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read twisty little passages (Catapult) by Jess Zimmerman. A beautiful, heartbreaking short story told in the form of a text adventure.

Mar 23, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Coronavirusโ€™s Next Move (The Atlantic) by Katherine J. Wu.

Mar 23, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Girlboss Has Left the Building.

Mar 23, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ Read The Comedies That Understand What Peak Scammer TV Does Not.

Mar 22, 2022: Hi scholars. Can you point me to a scholarly definition of “space” that would encompass space broadly constituted, including physical โ€ฆ

Mar 22, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–Read The Ukraine Crisis Briefly Put Americaโ€™s Culture War in Perspective.

Mar 22, 2022: Fostering Information Literacy Through Autonomy and Guidance in the Inquiry and Maker Learning Environments - Koh et al, 2020 Koh, K., Ge, X., Lee, L., Lewis, K. R., Simmons, S., & Nelson, L. (2020). Fostering Information Literacy Through Autonomy and Guidance in the โ€ฆ

Mar 22, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Inside the fight to save video game history. Great intro to the copyright issues at play in the conflict between game companies and museums โ€ฆ

Mar 22, 2022: Finished reading: Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore ๐Ÿ“š Cashore’s GRACELING was the book that fixed me after THE NAME OF THE WIND broke me (because I โ€ฆ

Mar 21, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read COVID Wonโ€™t End Up Like the Flu. It Will Be Like Smoking.

Mar 21, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read โ€œThe Invisible Kingdomโ€ Shines a Light on Womenโ€™s Chronic Pain. Another great interview with Meghan O’Rourke. Here are some quotes that โ€ฆ

Mar 21, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?. Another great piece with an argument centered on the importance of information literacy.

Mar 21, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read How Gullibility Became Our New Normal. I love when information literacy pops up in popular publications like this. These pieces can be models โ€ฆ

Mar 21, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read Back Draft: Meghan Oโ€™Rourke. O’Rourke’s making the rounds to promote her new book, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic โ€ฆ

Mar 18, 2022: It’s good to have a statement that sums up what you do, writ large, that isn’t just a job title. And thanks to influences including Star โ€ฆ

Mar 18, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read How to Be A Successful Multipassionate Entrepreneur.

Mar 18, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read 5 Ways to Thrive as a Multipassionate Entrepreneur “Clarity comes from engagement, not thought.” Whoa, I needed to read that.

Mar 18, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– I’m always looking for Leonie Dawson’s post about heroic self-gentleness and struggling to track it down in searches so now that โ€ฆ

Mar 18, 2022: Reading the schedule for GIFCon and my breath caught and I teared up a little at Kat Humphries’s paper title, โ€œWhatโ€™s this cheery singing all โ€ฆ

Mar 18, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Academic Waste. ๐ŸŽ“

Mar 18, 2022: Why I like St. Patrick's Day โ˜˜๏ธ I originally posted this on Facebook on March 17, 2016. I’m only 9% Irish, but I sure love Saint Patrick’s Day. I think most of my โ€ฆ

Mar 17, 2022: I added a Shop page to my website! Right now all that’s there are my Notion templates (all pay what you can, $0+). In the future I hope to add a โ€ฆ

Mar 17, 2022: I’m thinking about adding an Ask Me Anything’s page to my blog. But I also might just sometimes make a post soliciting questions. What โ€ฆ

Mar 17, 2022: Colored a page from Dover Coloring Book Fairy Fashion by Scott Altmann. I’m using jumbo crayons so I don’t get hand cramps. Coloreds this โ€ฆ

Mar 16, 2022: Shang-Chi is all “1996โ€ and later is all “PRESENT DAY” and it’s confusing how those aren’t synonyms.

Mar 16, 2022: Finished reading: Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang Vol. 1: Brothers and Sisters by Gene Yang ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 16, 2022: I haven’t watched it yet but I’ve decided The Adam Project is a sequel to 13 Going on 30 and nothing will convince me otherwise.

Mar 15, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Turning Red. Highly recommend. Perfectly captures being 13, navigating our own growth and our parents' expectations, and the way these โ€ฆ

Mar 15, 2022: Added “A very enterprising, mildly annoying young lady” to my bio. Thanks, #TurningRed!

Mar 15, 2022: Wordle Walkthrough - 03/14/2022 As promised, here’s a walkthrough of my thought process for playing Wordle. This is the game for 03/14/2022. I begin most games with the word โ€ฆ

Mar 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Storytelling and the Craft of Quiltmaking. ๐Ÿงต

Mar 14, 2022: I like to ask from time to time and I haven’t in a while: what’s my brand?

Mar 14, 2022: Whoever wrote that thing about how 13 yos don’t write fanfic has everybody on Twitter talking about their Sailor Moon fanfic. I wrote mine (the โ€ฆ

Mar 14, 2022: Want to read: Information Hunters by Kathy Peiss ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 14, 2022: The Klein Librarian for Science Fiction at UC Riverside sounds like a pretty cool job.

Mar 13, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga because it was nominated for a Hugo. I had a lot of fun with it. I like this kind of gentle โ€ฆ

Mar 13, 2022: Finished reading: How to Make a Living with Your Writing Third Edition by Joanna Penn ๐Ÿ“š Great advice on creating multiple income streams as a writer. โ€ฆ

Mar 11, 2022: How I win at Wordle (when I win at Wordle) I don’t share my daily Wordle result, but I do play it most days. I get it in 5 or fewer tries 94% of the time, 3 or fewer 32% of the time. I โ€ฆ

Mar 11, 2022: We are at DEFCON Falling Asleep to Mr. Rogers.

Mar 10, 2022: Will the giant invasive ballooning spiders eat the mosquitos in my yard? If so, I don’t welcome like ALL of them but you know, a couple would be โ€ฆ

Mar 10, 2022: In case you’re wondering where my head is at, I spilled the PCR testing solution while trying to test my kid, had to ask the pharmacy tech for a โ€ฆ

Mar 10, 2022: I changed my goal for April’s Camp NaNoWriMo. My goal now is to publish 22,500 words on my blog over the course of the month. I’ve changed โ€ฆ

Mar 9, 2022: Finished reading: Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore ๐Ÿ“š So great. Cashore gets five genres in this book and each one is a delight.

Mar 9, 2022: Pro-tip: brains work better when you feed them.

Mar 7, 2022: Finished reading: The Immune System Recovery Plan by Susan Blum ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 7, 2022: My kid’s school is going mask-optional indoors in April and now I don’t know if I’m going to sleep any time soon because I’m โ€ฆ

Mar 6, 2022: Hello, world. Got any cool qualitative UX researcher friends you can connect me with? I’d love to learn more about this career (especially in ed โ€ฆ

Mar 6, 2022: Me: Let’s see who among my LinkedIn connections has qualitative research in their profile. Maybe I can eyeball their jobs and see what might be โ€ฆ

Mar 5, 2022: I ran the introductory adventure for Hero Kids for M & W. It was a lot of fun and now I’m very tired. ๐ŸŽฒ

Mar 4, 2022: I’m at that point in a documentation/literature review where you have to just let stuff roll around in your brain and while it IS productive, it โ€ฆ

Mar 4, 2022: I can’t tell if the locus of origin of my current inability to focus is in my body, in The World, or shared between them.

Mar 4, 2022: What?! Kristin Cashore just had a character in Jane, Unlimited share my one strong Doctor Who opinion! “Nobody likes Martha Jones but I like โ€ฆ

Mar 4, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “A storm can be a cozy thing when one isn’t in it.” - Kristin Cashore in Jane, Unlimited

Mar 4, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป “Exhilaration enhances the absorption of knowledge.” Picard, 2x01, โ€œThe Stargazerโ€ [Cool how this sums up my whole deal.]

Mar 4, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป “The part of me that really wants is the part that has to wait in line.” Picard, 2x01, “The Stargazer”

Mar 3, 2022: I played a LOT of the Pokemon TCG in my freshman year of college, burned a lot of scholarship money on it. When I stored it away I wasn’t โ€ฆ

Mar 2, 2022: If you must get a flat tire, I recommend doing it on a beautiful day when you have snacks packed in the car and plenty of data on your mobile plan so โ€ฆ

Mar 2, 2022: Me, reading Jane, Unlimited: Wait, wait, wait. Her aunt/guardian was an adjunct at this fancy private university and she got the child-of-faculty โ€ฆ

Mar 2, 2022: I let a tiny bit of crying come out at 3 am Monday morning and now all the crying I haven’t done in the past 2 years is trying to push its way โ€ฆ

Mar 1, 2022: Oof. Doing a second round of coding and I am R-U-S-T-Y rusty.

Feb 28, 2022: How do you handle a day when your brain isn’t doing a great job but you also don’t really want to nap because you will feel logie โ€ฆ

Feb 28, 2022: Hey, Kimberly. You actually are not in a good position right now to do an in-depth analysis of every mention or example of social science in the Star โ€ฆ

Feb 28, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Itโ€™s Called Acting: Learning to Fight for the Stage. ๐ŸŽญ

Feb 28, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Network sitcoms are actually good again. ๐Ÿ“บ

Feb 27, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe and I definitely cried twice because I’m a big sister and there were some โ€ฆ

Feb 26, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Is it time to live with COVID-19? Some scientists warn of โ€˜endemic delusionโ€™ โ€œI donโ€™t particularly want to be in a future where I get COVID โ€ฆ

Feb 25, 2022: It can feel like Social Science Communication isn’t a thing, but here are some people doing it: Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Dr. Zeynep Tufecki โ€ฆ

Feb 25, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Loved reading what Kathy Tabbutt had to say about Social Science Communication in the January 23 Fancy Comma newsletter. I’ve been thinking โ€ฆ

Feb 25, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Curing Coronavirus Isnโ€™t a Job for Social Scientists. (This article is from May 2020, which is probably why it has the word โ€ฆ

Feb 25, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself?.

Feb 25, 2022: It IS great news that’s my mom’s leukemia is in remission. It’s important to me to remember that there is a long road ahead, with โ€ฆ

Feb 25, 2022: My mom’s leukemia is in remission.

Feb 25, 2022: Please listen to Gaslit Nation, where Sarah Kendzior & Andrea Chalupa “take a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, โ€ฆ

Feb 24, 2022: I am scared and overwhelmed. Here’s what I’m doing about it: Making sure I take my meds and supplements Reading and following the Gaslit โ€ฆ

Feb 23, 2022: Working through Project READY and I wrote an “I am” poem [PDF]. I don’t want to share the whole thing but in case you’re โ€ฆ

Feb 23, 2022: That feeling when your new job pays you to work through the professional development curriculum you created as part of your old job.

Feb 23, 2022: Life stuff, health stuff, and the Wheel of Fortune (tarot card, not game show) My sense of routine and timing and goal-setting has been completely exploded over the past month or so. The routines I put in place to help me cope in โ€ฆ

Feb 22, 2022: Not sure what my dream casting for most of the roles in Ninth House would be, but @may_wise Mary Wiseman for Pamela Dawes please, okay bye.

Feb 22, 2022: I did the seven stories exercise & put everything into a word cloud, combining related words & eliminating irrelevant words & ended up โ€ฆ

Feb 21, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries. This. The lifting of mask mandates. The expansion of what counts as โ€ฆ

Feb 21, 2022: Finished reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š So good. It puts the academia in dark academia.

Feb 21, 2022: No YOU just ordered a Mini Tarot de Marseille.

Feb 20, 2022: I was going to ask what the best career path was for an insufferable know-it-all and then realized I should qualify the question with aside from โ€ฆ

Feb 20, 2022: Scene: Today’s Micro.blog Meetup Them: I have writer’s block and was hoping to get ideas for how to bust through it. Me: Let me tell you โ€ฆ

Feb 20, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Not their first rodeo: How Black riders are reclaiming their place in cowboy culture This is so cool and the pictures are phenomenal.

Feb 20, 2022: Me: I was so psyched about the topic and methods of my dissertation when I defended my proposal in February 2020, but I find it hard to get psyched โ€ฆ

Feb 19, 2022: I’m RSVPing to IndieWeb Create Day on March 5, 2022. This might show up as a yes but it’s actually a maybe.

Feb 19, 2022: Me to W: I need to go be in the dark and quiet for a little while now because I’m overstimulated. There were so many people outside when M was โ€ฆ

Feb 18, 2022: I am thisclose to posting a vibe shift reading list.

Feb 17, 2022: I have too many chronic conditions and I don’t like it.

Feb 17, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Millions of People Stuck in Pandemic Limbo …people are still dying, and immunocompromised people disproportionately so. Ignoring โ€ฆ

Feb 16, 2022: The middle-school-Kimberly-to-grown-up-Kimberly pipeline I’ve been reading the Future Ready with the Library posts at the YALSA blog and it’s got me thinking about the skills I was building in โ€ฆ

Feb 16, 2022: I just heard my neck crack. I am really over everything. Everything except crafting and my job. And loving my kid. I guess I’m over stuff that โ€ฆ

Feb 16, 2022: Today’s vibe: driving home from my fasting bloodwork appointment listening to “Surface Pressure” on repeat-1 while basically โ€ฆ

Feb 16, 2022: I get annoyed at the voice in my head that, when I’m stressed, offers an oh-so-helpful list of all the stress-relieving things I’m not โ€ฆ

Feb 16, 2022: I will never not be a caregiver. I realized as I was helping my family in the face of my mom’s return to the hospital that there will never be a time when I’m not a โ€ฆ

Feb 15, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ป Watching We Are NOT Okay: Library Worker Trauma Before and During COVID-19 and What Happens After #LibraryTrauma #WeAreNotOkay #LibraryLove

Feb 15, 2022: I’m intrigued by the pedagogy of uncertainty concept that Ronnie Videla-Reyes and Claudio Aguayo will introduce at this week’s SoTEL โ€ฆ

Feb 15, 2022: As we approach the spring of deception, it feels rude to me that the earth is moving forward with the seasons with my mom in and out of the hospital. โ€ฆ

Feb 15, 2022: Changing my profile pic to Luisa Madrigal for a while.

Feb 14, 2022: I was feeling sad about my mom being readmitted to the hospital so I took a break from work and made a pillow cover. Blog post with details โ€ฆ

Feb 14, 2022: I’m a great lover of Valentine’s Day as a time to express special affection for friends & family as well as romantic partners. Today โ€ฆ

Feb 12, 2022: My mom was discharged from the hospital tonight and will be doing the rest of her induction therapy outpatient. Thought you might like some good news โ€ฆ

Feb 12, 2022: Started Octopath Traveler again tonight and it made me very happy. Last time I played was almost 2 years ago. ๐ŸŽฎ

Feb 12, 2022: I think the union rep at this postdoc orientation is doing this presentation outside during the Santa Ana winds, which is a choice.

Feb 11, 2022: I am having a grumping it out day.

Feb 11, 2022: #StarTrek:The Next Generation Season 4 Episode 20 “Qpid” aired 04/22/91. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป Q: You would have me stand idly by as she leads you to your โ€ฆ

Feb 11, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read How to Reclaim Normal Life Without Being โ€˜Doneโ€™. I appreciate the acknowledgement here that inputs for risk calculation vary widely.

Feb 10, 2022: Got an email about my kid’s school moving to endemic risk management instead of pandemic and I get it but I do worry about those of us who are โ€ฆ

Feb 10, 2022: Write Source 2000: The book that started my obsession with writing craft books ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“ I own a lot of writing craft books. Thereโ€™s the obvious, like Stephen Kingโ€™s On Writing and Anne Lamottโ€™s Bird by Bird, but I also have more obscure โ€ฆ

Feb 10, 2022: The Teens Leading Change initiative at the LA Public Library is awesome. A great reminder that there are people committed to doing good work in the โ€ฆ

Feb 10, 2022: Theory to practice: Donโ€™t let the perfect be the enemy of the good As we work on the Transforming Teen Services for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion project, one thing I have to be reminded frequently is that creating โ€ฆ

Feb 10, 2022: Words cannot convey how psyched I am for Chrono Cross Radical Dreamers Edition. I’ve wanted a Chrono Cross remaster for a long time. PSX-era โ€ฆ

Feb 10, 2022: Realized today as I was listening to the John de Lancie episode of Gates McFadden Investigates that I would 100% sign up for a Star Trek acting โ€ฆ

Feb 9, 2022: Today’s 28 Days of Black History post about Jerry Lawson, who led the division that made the first console where players could change out game โ€ฆ

Feb 9, 2022: I just did a search on Google Scholar for the exact phrases “serious leisure” and “pedagogy of play” together and only found โ€ฆ

Feb 9, 2022: Finished reading: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon ๐Ÿ“š Again!

Feb 9, 2022: Essays on essays on essays Iโ€™m still thinking about essays after reading Jackson Arnโ€™s โ€œDot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dotโ€‹ | Against the Contemporary American Essay. Arn references other โ€ฆ

Feb 8, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read My Platonic Life Partnership Went Viral On TikTok, & People Have A Lot Of Questions I’m a person who’s been squarely โ€ฆ

Feb 8, 2022: Peak on-brand middle aged Kimberly: Cutting out doll clothes sewing patterns while watching the Ask a Mortician video about books bound in human skin.

Feb 8, 2022: That feeling when you step away from your desk and the good ideas rush in.

Feb 8, 2022: What even is my writing voice, anyway? That critique of the essay piece I read and linked yesterday has sent me down a rabbit hole of other writing about essays. Iโ€™ll put together a list of โ€ฆ

Feb 7, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dotโ€‹ | Against the Contemporary American Essay by Jackson Arn. Timely, given my own musings on essays. There’s a lot โ€ฆ

Feb 7, 2022: How to write an essay (buyer beware, I donโ€™t have the answer) How does a person write an essay? Iโ€™ve been trying to figure out. The thing is, itโ€™s a versatile form. So versatile, I canโ€™t pin it down. There are โ€ฆ

Feb 7, 2022: I haven’t felt like writing a long blog post for the post couple of weeks. Maybe tomorrow. I’m reading a lot though & that has made me โ€ฆ

Feb 7, 2022: Currently reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š

Feb 7, 2022: Currently reading: Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 (CultureAmerica) by Kelly J. Baker ๐Ÿ“š

Feb 5, 2022: Finished reading: King Of Scars by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š I love it so much. Nikolai, Zoya, and Nina have always been my faves so it felt a little like Leigh โ€ฆ

Feb 5, 2022: Finished reading: Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia by Kelly J. Baker ๐Ÿ“š Highly recommend. Baker’s writing is always incisive and โ€ฆ

Feb 4, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Holes We Live With by Katie Rose Guest Pryal. I think my hole is named in the Encanto song “Surface Pressure”: I’m โ€ฆ

Feb 4, 2022: Dana has a lightsaber now. [Image description: An 18 inch doll holds an appropriately scaled lightsaber.]

Feb 4, 2022: Want to read: The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University (Reforming Higher Education: Innovation and the Public Good) by Adrianna โ€ฆ

Feb 4, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š The life of the mind tends to ignore the body, but our bodies aren’t so easily avoided. - Kelly J. Baker in Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and โ€ฆ

Feb 4, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š Explaining away the plight of adjuncts as brainwashed dupes ignores the structural realities of the disastrous academic job market. - Kelly J. โ€ฆ

Feb 4, 2022: I thought the Internet should know: Nikolai Lantsov is now my book boyfriend. Sorry, Kvothe. (Links definitely contain spoilers.) ๐Ÿ“š

Feb 4, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š One of [the] things about the “love professions,” which includes academia, it is really easy to forget that you are a worker. But when โ€ฆ

Feb 4, 2022: Finished reading: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty ๐Ÿ“š

Feb 4, 2022: Accepting death doesn’t mean that you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, โ€ฆ

Feb 4, 2022: The great achievements of humanity were born out of the deadlines imposed by death. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from โ€ฆ

Feb 3, 2022: The doll is named Dana. She is here now and I think she’s actually 200% haunted. The mid-life crisis continues.

Feb 3, 2022: I’m psyched to present my dissertation research at FanLIS 2022: Fan Futures Beyond the Archive. I’ll talk about how cosplayers find, โ€ฆ

Feb 3, 2022: I Kimberly Hirsh am RSVPing yes to Micro Camp 2022 .

Feb 3, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Women of a Certain Age. Great piece about how the Golden Age of TV creates space for roles beyond somebody’s mom, somebody’s wife, โ€ฆ

Feb 2, 2022: The Kimberly urge to write Picard/Gomez fic. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

Feb 2, 2022: My kid definitely just said “Thwip” in his sleep. ๐Ÿ•ธ๏ธ

Feb 1, 2022: “People as everyday theorists of their experiences” - great insight from Bill Penuel at the Crown Institute Participatory Toolkit โ€ฆ

Feb 1, 2022: Welcome to my mid-life crisis. [Image description: An eBay item page for an 18 inch fashion doll. The page says “You purchased this item on Feb โ€ฆ

Feb 1, 2022: It’s February. Black history is important all year long but February is extra awesome because Black cosplayers show off their stuff daily all โ€ฆ

Feb 1, 2022: Me, thinking about my mom’s experience with leukemia: The medicine will be what it will be, but what about her feeeeeeelings? (Never has it been โ€ฆ

Feb 1, 2022: Me, gathering up all my old dolls that I gave my kid so I can brush their hair: “I know - dolls.” (Oh, Clyde Bruckman. You ask such good โ€ฆ

Jan 31, 2022: Hello, I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just bought and set up creativityforscholars.com. If the domain name intrigues you, why not pop over and sign up โ€ฆ

Jan 31, 2022: We must be brave enough to look at our own academic systems, if we plan to make them just and equitable. - Kelly J. Baker, Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender โ€ฆ

Jan 31, 2022: Feeling cute today. [A pale white woman with dark hair & blue eyes wears black cat eye glasses, a black cable knit sweater over a white dress with โ€ฆ

Jan 31, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read A Counterintuitive Nighttime Routine For The Type A Insomniac. I love this. I’m constantly trying to Type-A-away symptoms of chronic โ€ฆ

Jan 31, 2022: The concept of the body as canvas becomes more powerful if the canvas is dead. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the โ€ฆ

Jan 31, 2022: We are all just future corpses. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 31, 2022: Encountering a corpse forced the man who would be Buddha to see life as a process of unpredictable and constant change. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets โ€ฆ

Jan 30, 2022: I just bought the Kindle edition of both volumes of Briana Lawrence’s mixed media magical girl series, Magnifique NOIR, and I am psyched about โ€ฆ

Jan 30, 2022: Burnham’s “Let’s fly” is probably the best captain catchphrase but Dal’s “Go fast” might be a close second. โ€ฆ

Jan 29, 2022: I have a vague feeling I’m at risk of becoming the first victim in the X-Files episode “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose”: Why โ€ฆ

Jan 28, 2022: Reading misuthewitch’s thesis for my Artist Date today. [Image Description: A tablet in a purple case displays a paper titled, “Make-Up!: โ€ฆ

Jan 26, 2022: I’m RSVPing yes to IndieWebCamp Personal Libraries Pop Up Session. Excited to chat about how we track and share book stuff! ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 26, 2022: Six month check-in: Who am I at 40? It was my half birthday almost 2 weeks ago, so it seems like a good time to check in on whether I’m being the person I want to be at 40. Here โ€ฆ

Jan 25, 2022: When is a gap not a gap? Doing research that hasn't already been done An undergrad sent me a message thanking me for my post A Start-to-Finish Literature Review Workflow and asked the question: Is there an exhaustive โ€ฆ

Jan 25, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Only Work Ethic I Care About is the One on Star Trek Yes! When a 20th c guy ends up on the Enterprise and is all “What am I supposed โ€ฆ

Jan 25, 2022: More than a little psyched about Emily Vardell & Sarah Beth Nelson’s paper Teaching Reference Interview Skills with Improv.

Jan 25, 2022: Okay, world. I’m going to try turning it off and then turning it on again, “it” being this day.

Jan 25, 2022: In the spirit of cosmic effery that embracing radical uncertainty requires, I turned my ankle this morning. Probably a super mild sprain, given the โ€ฆ

Jan 25, 2022: Sent my mom the Six of Crows duology for her Kindle. Pretty pleased with myself. ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 24, 2022: Tag yourself. I’m Arcade Fire Dad (sub in improv troupe for band). โ€ฆ

Jan 24, 2022: I love my job and some yammering about writing How are you doing, Internet? Iโ€™m obviously Not Okay, with my mom having leukemia and all, but Iโ€™m trying to do things besides worry about her anyway. โ€ฆ

Jan 24, 2022: I’m back to cross-posting from my site automatically to Twitter. Everywhere else I’m going to stick with manusl cross-posting.

Jan 24, 2022: The Empath’s Dilemma: You won’t cry for yourself, but you cry really hard when you start to think how scared and alone the rest of your โ€ฆ

Jan 23, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–Read What is โ€œDark Academia,โ€ and why is it trending on social media in 2022?

Jan 23, 2022: My bedhead is feeling extra goth and channeling Tim Burton a little bit this morning.

Jan 23, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Julia Cameron Says You Can Get Creative Indoors.

Jan 22, 2022: My mom was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia this week and started chemo yesterday. If you want details, email me and I’ll send you โ€ฆ

Jan 21, 2022: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Encanto. Lovely.

Jan 21, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Homebound Symphony by @ayjay Iโ€™m trying to be the Homebound Symphony. Just one person sitting in my study with a computer on my lap, โ€ฆ

Jan 21, 2022: Key lines from “Surface Pressure": Give it to your sister, your sister’s older Give her all the heavy things we can’t โ€ฆ

Jan 21, 2022: I haven’t seen ENCANTO but I gather Luisa is the middle sister and yet her song is the anthem of eldest daughters the world over. ๐Ÿฟ๐ŸŽต

Jan 21, 2022: Peak IndieWeb Eldest Daughter Kimberly: considering for a few minutes trying to do a self-hosted version of CaringBridge before deciding it’s โ€ฆ

Jan 20, 2022: W’s aunt gave M an amaryllis and it’s blooming. Big Alice in Wonderland vibes. [Image description: a large red amaryllis flower blooms.]

Jan 20, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– I highly recommend Everything Is Awful and Iโ€™m Not Okay: questions to ask before giving up as a tool for managing daily living when things feel โ€ฆ

Jan 20, 2022: I am immensely pleased to be getting so much new Star Trek in the next few months. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

Jan 20, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Tamsyn Muir Understood the Assignment: The Locked Tomb Seriesโ€™ Expansive Exploration of Death and Grieving by Emma Leff ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 19, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read As We May Think by Vannevar Bush This 1945 essay by Vannebar Bush is one of the first texts they had us read when I got my MS in Library โ€ฆ

Jan 19, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Why PhDs Need to Study Creative Writing. Awesome piece with an excellent argument. I’ve been tacking this direction for a while and โ€ฆ

Jan 19, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read We Are All Hostages to Anti-Semitism by Yair Rosenberg Excellent piece about how anti-Semitism is not individual prejudice, but part of a vast, โ€ฆ

Jan 19, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Hypertext Gardens. Efficient traversal provides the information readers think they want, but may hide information readers need. I love the โ€ฆ

Jan 18, 2022: I’m experimenting with building a digital garden via a personal wiki so of course my first page is about Digital Gardens and Streams. I โ€ฆ

Jan 18, 2022: Life just ran more smoothly when she got her way. Leigh Bardugo, KING OF SCARS ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 18, 2022: On indefinite hiatus from most social media Iโ€™m taking an indefinite hiatus from checking or cross-posting to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and most other social media services, with the โ€ฆ

Jan 18, 2022: Just a little pro tip, muting words on Twitter will not prevent them from appearing in the “What’s happening” sidebar. A little โ€ฆ

Jan 18, 2022: New bio/tagline: “mothering, researching, reading, writing, playing, making, always learning”

Jan 17, 2022: Testing my commitment to embracing radical uncertainty This week is really asking me to live my commitment to embracing radical uncertainty. I’ve had a hypothyroidism flare due to the cold weather, โ€ฆ

Jan 17, 2022: Finished reading: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š I definitely want to write a longer review of this โ€ฆ

Jan 17, 2022: What gave her strength then? We cannot know for sure. That contrary thing inside her? The hard stone of rage that all lonely girls possess? - Leigh โ€ฆ

Jan 17, 2022: Okay, I’ll do the 10 year challenge.

Jan 17, 2022: Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new.Leigh Bardugo, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 16, 2022: Yesterday I interrupted my kid’s marathon viewing of BLIPPI and transformed it into a marathon viewing of PHINEAS AND FERB, I am the best at โ€ฆ

Jan 15, 2022: My reading life ๐Ÿ“š Since the Micro.blog community is starting a reading group in the near future, I thought it would be a good time to talk about my reading habits and โ€ฆ

Jan 15, 2022: Currently reading: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š I have so much respect for how dark Bardugo is โ€ฆ

Jan 14, 2022: My workplace harassment training is promoting person-first language, but ends with “Ultimately, it is important to treat everyone as an โ€ฆ

Jan 14, 2022: Wisdom from my blog archives: What if everything I am - everything Iโ€™ve tried to improve in this particular, optimizing, tool-utilizing way - is just โ€ฆ

Jan 13, 2022: No YOU’RE thinking about writing a fanfic that’s just an IRB application for a xenoanthropology dissertation at Starfleet Academy.

Jan 13, 2022: Now that I’m gainfully employed, mosts of my discretionary spending is going to creators in little $5/mo increments.

Jan 13, 2022: How Iโ€™m Getting Through a Brain Fog Day In October, I learned that for the first time since my diagnosis in 2011, I had actually gotten my thyroid hormone levels to what I consider optimal. โ€ฆ

Jan 13, 2022: Future Directions for Connected Learning in Libraries This is the fourth post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected learning. Here are all the posts published so far: What โ€ฆ

Jan 13, 2022: Me: If I were going to write fiction, what genre should I write? Brain: YA high fantasy. Me: does analysis by genre & market of the last 20 books โ€ฆ

Jan 12, 2022: W: Do you know the first documented time “Google” was used as a verb? Me: Yes, it was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿผ, Willow said it, it โ€ฆ

Jan 12, 2022: I started reading A Court of Thorns and Roses because it’s, um, overdue & 9 people have it on hold (sorry people, thanks library for โ€ฆ

Jan 11, 2022: ๐Ÿ”–Read What happens when we die. Beautiful notes from Maria Popova on the novel Mr g.

Jan 10, 2022: Putting together references and resources for making myself a Tidemaker kefta, no big deal.

Jan 7, 2022: Connected Learning in Libraries: Changes and Challenges This is the third post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected learning. Here are all the posts published so far: What โ€ฆ

Jan 7, 2022: Want to read: The Comedy of Survival: Literary Ecology and a Play Ethic by Joseph W. Meeker ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 7, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read The comedy of survival.

Jan 7, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read “I Feel Very Uncomfortable When People Call Me A Writer”. Great conversation between Sara Fredman & Dr. Merve Emre. WRITE LIKE โ€ฆ

Jan 6, 2022: This is a note to myself to write about how connected learning has existential value, not just $/academic/civic. For more, see Jermaine’s story โ€ฆ

Jan 6, 2022: Want to read: Dead Collections: A Novel by Isaac Fellman ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 6, 2022: ๐ŸŽต Had to skip “Moonlight Sonata” on the Spotify Dark Academia Classical playlist because belting “Schroeder” at the top of my โ€ฆ

Jan 6, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Lost Time in COVID. Overall, we have, of necessity, learned to value the quality of our time over the quantity of it, and to work with the โ€ฆ

Jan 5, 2022: I just got finished with my onboarding meeting for the Connected Learning Lab and I can’t adequately express how psyched I am to get to do the โ€ฆ

Jan 5, 2022: Google Scholar: Hi Dr. Kimberly, would you like some journal articles about families playing Pokemon Go together and teaching and learning in Pokemon โ€ฆ

Jan 5, 2022: How Connected Learning Happens in Libraries This is the second post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected learning. Here are all the posts published so far: What โ€ฆ

Jan 5, 2022: Pretty psyched that this is my new institution.

Jan 5, 2022: My time is vampire time: The critical disability studies concept of "crip time" ๐Ÿ“šโ™ฟ I’ve seen and heard a lot of people in the Micro.blog community discuss the book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. The hold list โ€ฆ

Jan 5, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Everyone should blog.

Jan 5, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read Celebrate by Writing.

Jan 5, 2022: Somebody wrote a post on Micro.blog with the title “Everybody should blog” in the past couple days and I can’t find it now. If you โ€ฆ

Jan 4, 2022: What is Connected Learning? I start working remotely for the Connected Learning Lab tomorrow and while a lot of people are excited for me, most of them donโ€™t actually understand โ€ฆ

Jan 4, 2022: Fighting with the VPN so I can have off-campus library access. Academia, how I’ve missed you. :) (I’m re-instituting emoticons instead of โ€ฆ

Jan 4, 2022: ๐ŸŽต I’m listening to the full album of Lady Gaga’s BORN THIS WAY for the first time, and I’m a little embarrassed by coming to her โ€ฆ

Jan 3, 2022: 1/3/22 plan: Wake up at normal time, hang out with kid, eat wholesome food, clean bedroom, prep for week ahead 1/3/22 reality: Wake up 1 hr late & โ€ฆ

Jan 3, 2022: New bio! “Big sister, little mother, perpetual learner. I love books AND computers.”

Jan 3, 2022: New rule: Especially on days when my kid is home from school, it’s okay if my routines don’t go as planned. Extra okay if it’s also โ€ฆ

Jan 3, 2022: 10 Video Games to Know Me ๐ŸŽฎ Final Fantasy Final Fantasy VII Street Fighter Alpha 3 Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure Chrono Cross Golden Sun Final โ€ฆ

Jan 3, 2022: 10 TV Shows to Know Me ๐Ÿ“บ The Muppet Show Punky Brewster Star Trek: The Next Generation The Kids In the Hall Buffy the Vampire Slayer Firefly 30 Rock โ€ฆ

Jan 3, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read True gender-neutral clothing must go beyond fancy sweatpants. I love the idea of a shop where clothing is arranged by type (shirts here, โ€ฆ

Jan 2, 2022: Welp, my corkboard is now mostly a collage of tarot and oracle cards. The mermaids are very concerned about research ethics.

Jan 2, 2022: Quick Thoughts on TRULY DEVIOUS ๐Ÿ“š I don’t want to write a full review of <a href=โ€https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2022/01/02/finished-reading-truly.html" class=โ€u-in-reply-to โ€ฆ

Jan 2, 2022: Finished reading: Truly Devious: A Mystery by Maureen Johnson ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 2, 2022: New (Year) hair before and after brushing. (Better-lit photos coming soon.)

Jan 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ’ฌ “We are being asked to no longer abandon ourselves, to embrace and make space for all parts of ourselves to come alive and be honored.” โ€ฆ

Jan 1, 2022: Happy New Year from the hair I just cut off in a literal and symbolic act of lightening my load. Selfies to come after a shower and hair air drying.

Jan 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read 6 ways to deal with anxiety and uncertainty this winter. One way to embrace radical uncertainty is to develop coping mechanisms. This NPR piece โ€ฆ

Jan 1, 2022: Closing out the year with a couple of runs in Hades ๐ŸŽฎ followed by some Star Trek: The Next Generation ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป. Here’s to staying on-brand in 2022.

Jan 1, 2022: ๐Ÿ”– Read What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good life. This is an excellent way to think about how to live.

Dec 31, 2021: My only resolution for 2022: Embrace [radical uncertainty] (https://www.johnkay.com/2020/02/12/radical-uncertainty/).

Dec 31, 2021: The Extreme Unknown: 2021 Year-in-Review & Thoughts for 2022 Here are a couple of earlier year-in-review posts: 2020 2019 2018 This one’s going to be a little different. I will write up my catalogue of โ€ฆ

Dec 30, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read There Is No โ€œBest ofโ€ List From Me This Year. ๐Ÿ“š Beautiful writing from Kelly Jensen: how books impacted her this year; where she is in her โ€ฆ

Dec 30, 2021: I just finished the midseason finale of #StarTrekDiscovery and I thought it was beautifully done. Space family talking through problems is my fave. โ€ฆ

Dec 30, 2021: Me, watching STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION and seeing a newborn in a glass bassinet in sickbay with the birthing parent nowhere in sight: โ€ฆ

Dec 28, 2021: I just watched the SHORT TREKS episode “Q & A” and it has me really excited for STRANGE NEW WORLDS. ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

Dec 28, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read All Your Followers Will Not Buy Your Book - by Kate McKean katemckean.substack.comkatemckean.substack.com โ€ฆ

Dec 28, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read Yes, Social Media Can Sell Books. But Not If Publishers Sit on Their Hands | Jane Friedman janefriedman.comjanefriedman.com โ€ฆ

Dec 28, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read Millions of Followers? For Book Sales, โ€˜Itโ€™s Unreliable.โ€™ - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com Www.nytimes.com โ€ฆ

Dec 27, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read How your brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal. This time last year, my grandmother was in the hospital. She’d been โ€ฆ

Dec 25, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read if weโ€™re all about to get Omicron, here are 5 tips from a long-hauler (via @agilelisa on Micro.blog). This is sound advice for living with any โ€ฆ

Dec 25, 2021: I don’t know how your December 25 is going, but my spouse gave me a Roy Kent Christmas card so mine is going very well.

Dec 25, 2021: I’m that annoying friend who loves Christmas way too much but, like, the exhausted goth version of her. I hope you have a good December 25, โ€ฆ

Dec 24, 2021: It’s unseasonably warm here in central NC and will be even warmer tomorrow. Many people have complained that this doesn’t feel like โ€ฆ

Dec 24, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ “North Americans practice embalming, but we do not believe in embalming.” Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory โ€ฆ

Dec 24, 2021: Bodies donated to Western Carolina University’s forensic anthropology program end up in the John A. Williams Human Skeletal Collection and โ€ฆ

Dec 23, 2021: Until now, you’ve had to have a Micro.blog account to reply to my blog posts or sometimes, when I’ve had it active, use Disqus to reply. โ€ฆ

Dec 23, 2021: My Reading Year 2021 ๐Ÿ“š I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. This was a slow reading year for me. I read a lot more fiction than last โ€ฆ

Dec 20, 2021: I had assumed that since I, a 40-year-old mother of a young child, have been very into Dark Academia for more than a year, it must be over. But it โ€ฆ

Dec 20, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Scholarship of Sexy Privilege: Why Do I Love Dark Academia Books? …there will always be fringe groups who parade their complete โ€ฆ

Dec 19, 2021: Listen Vanessa Hudgens is winning regardless of the quality of the script or her accent.

Dec 19, 2021: Watched A California Christmas & A California Christmas: City Lights. They’re… Fine. There’s the use of a trope in the City โ€ฆ

Dec 19, 2021: I had a dream where there was a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer motion comic where the writers had made a new character say “I’m going to โ€ฆ

Dec 19, 2021: A core question that must eventually be answered about every space, physical or digital, is “Who is this for?” and if your answer is โ€ฆ

Dec 18, 2021: Excuse me, there is a Netflix Rom-Com starring Damon Wayans Jr and Rachel Leigh Cook? Be still my geriatric millennial heart.

Dec 18, 2021: I have something else to say about Single All the Way. Not only is it lovely to see Michael Urie be a lead, but it’s also lovely to see him โ€ฆ

Dec 17, 2021: As a person who made some of my dearest friends online before video chat was a thing, I’m strugglign with the protagonist of Love Hard being โ€ฆ

Dec 17, 2021: Io, Saturnalia!

Dec 17, 2021: It dinnae matter to this wee American lassie that Cary Elwes has a naff Scottish accent.

Dec 16, 2021: Some how I did not realize Cary Elwes would have a Scottish accent in A Castle for Christmas and I. Will be. In. My. Bunk.

Dec 16, 2021: I just watched Single All the Way while making part of W’s Christmas present. It is the anti-Happiest Season and I love it extra for that. More โ€ฆ

Dec 16, 2021: Today, I completed my hiring paperwork for UC Irvine & tried to figure out public service loan forgiveness. M & I stopped by Freeman’s โ€ฆ

Dec 15, 2021: Book Riot published a reading pathway for the work of bell hooks a while back, if you are overwhelmed by her prolific work.

Dec 15, 2021: Upon the death of bell hooks ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Transcript: Hello internet friends. I’m experimenting today with doing a micro cast. I have this capability on my website and I thought I would โ€ฆ

Dec 15, 2021: “I am Google make testing Lens g fusing to blog post. a” That’s regular print. It looks like for now, the limits of OCR mean โ€ฆ

Dec 15, 2021: Cursive paper blog post Google Lens attempt: “I am using. a blog mas Leng post.” Less successful, but that’s to be expected. Next, โ€ฆ

Dec 15, 2021: I AM TESTING USING GOOGLE LENS TO MAKE A BLOG POST. It works with my block print. I’m going to try cursive next.

Dec 15, 2021: O no I am up too late pondering cool possibilities for the web.

Dec 14, 2021: Peak Kimberly struggle: There’s 54 minutes of childcare left. Do I spend it tweaking my website or playing FF7R?

Dec 14, 2021: In case you’re on micro.blog and missed it, @JohnPhilpin is asking people interested in joining a Micro.blog Reader’s Club to complete โ€ฆ

Dec 14, 2021: Target app: Okay so listen we know you’ve bought your kid like 5 sets of pajamas this quarter but look at this one IT’S SO CUTE

Dec 14, 2021: Want to read: Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage by Heather Havrilesky ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 14, 2021: ๐ŸŽจ M & I are doing Craftsy’s Jump Into Drawing class together. The first activity was shading a unicorn picture. I learned that I prefer line โ€ฆ

Dec 14, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read and highly recommend Neurodiversity in Academia: The Autistic advantage in qualitative research.

Dec 14, 2021: Hoping to make it to this week’s Homebrew Website Club if I can do it without waking my kid.

Dec 13, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read The New Outliers: How Creative Nonfiction Became a Legitimate, Serious Genre.

Dec 12, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Queer and Jewish Identity Are the Heart of โ€œWhere the Wild Things Areโ€. ๐Ÿ“š I love this. I want to look at In The Night Kitchen and Outside Over โ€ฆ

Dec 12, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read On the Fleeting Wonder of Youth and the Surreal Permanence of Motherhood .

Dec 12, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Will Self: How Should We Read? In Praise of Literary Promiscuity in the Digital Age.

Dec 12, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Two Musicals on the Perils of Aging. ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽญ

Dec 11, 2021: The one finished task to two new tasks pipeline.

Dec 11, 2021: I’m taking a break from most feeds and timelines, disconnecting auto-posting from my blog to curb the desire to check for notifications. If you โ€ฆ

Dec 10, 2021: I am a grown human (a woman, specifically) and so I am having cookies as part of my breakfast today. I had a rough night.

Dec 10, 2021: I thought you should know that this Jean-Luc Picard cover of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (feat. Q) is my new โ€ฆ

Dec 10, 2021: What WOULD Christmas be without historically low mountain snow causing staggering drought?

Dec 9, 2021: How much do we know about the instructors at Starfleet Academy and their pedagogy? ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ

Dec 9, 2021: I’m excited to share that I’ve accepted an offer to start in January as a (remote) Postdoctoral Scholar with the Connected Learning Lab at โ€ฆ

Dec 8, 2021: I spent about an hour tonight playing the 1980 Commodore 64 port of Super Star Trek and I have no regrets. ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ’ป

Dec 7, 2021: Want to read: The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 6, 2021: Me: *finds one footnote in article I’m revising, figures out what needs to change about the part that references it, stars those readings in โ€ฆ

Dec 6, 2021: Want to read: The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People by Rachel Miller ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 6, 2021: All. In. On. Trek. [Image Description: A white woman with dark hair and blue eyes wears a black mask. On the mask is a depiction of Captain Picard โ€ฆ

Dec 5, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read So Youโ€™ve Just Found Out Youโ€™re Jewish. Whatโ€™s Next? By DNA, I’m almost half Jewish. I’ve known this my whole life. By religious โ€ฆ

Dec 5, 2021: These are the sufganiyot I didn’t char. (The ones I did char are still pretty delicious.) Gluten-free, dairy-free, corn-free.

Dec 5, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read The 100 Most Jewish Foods.

Dec 5, 2021: Made latkes from a mix this year.

Dec 3, 2021: My first Artist Date! I don’t think I’m going to write up my annotations for the first chapter/week of The Artist’s Way, “Recovering a Sense of โ€ฆ

Dec 3, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Really Ugly.

Dec 2, 2021: The luxury of time and space to grieve (CW: Suicide) CW: Suicide Sherrie was my friend. Sherrie and I never met in person. We talked on the phone once ever for a few seconds. But we interacted a lot via โ€ฆ

Dec 2, 2021: About to metaphorically bleed my heart onto my keyboard, nbd, I’ll see you soon.

Dec 2, 2021: I keep messing around on my phone instead of actually doing anything bc on top of the world being like it is & a raging instance of PMS that has โ€ฆ

Dec 2, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read How Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak text-adventures | Ars Technica arstechnica.comRead: arstechnica.com โ€ฆ

Dec 2, 2021: This week’s issue of 50 Years of Text Games is about the game The Freshman and its parent app, Choices. I have played the heck out of Choices. โ€ฆ

Dec 2, 2021: Grieving something weird and frivolous today. Last night UNC deactivated my user id, because it’s been more than 6 months since I graduated. I โ€ฆ

Dec 1, 2021: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Safety ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 1, 2021: Moleskine’s green velvet notebook makes my little 90s heart sing. $70 is way too much since I go through 2 or 3 of these a year but SO PRETTY I โ€ฆ

Dec 1, 2021: As has happened for the past 5 years, my kid’s taste and needs have heavily influenced my Spotify year-end wrap-up. Proud that together he and I โ€ฆ

Dec 1, 2021: Morning pages palindrome!

Dec 1, 2021: Starting December right with eggnog flavored coffee in a seasonal mug and yogurt seasoned with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice.

Dec 1, 2021: Today I send solidarity and support to my colleagues in the UK participating in the UCU strike.

Nov 30, 2021: I’m back on Pokemon Go and looking for friends, so here’s my friend code: 7480 5774 3887

Nov 30, 2021: Finished reading: The Artist’s Way - The Basic Tools by Julia Cameron. ๐Ÿ“š In this chapter, Cameron introduces the morning pages and the artist โ€ฆ

Nov 29, 2021: Want to read: The Tarot of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington ๐Ÿ“š

Nov 29, 2021: Also in his first appearance, Tommy the Green Ranger wears this amazing green & white plaid with black short sleeves and a black hood. It’s โ€ฆ

Nov 29, 2021: Every time we’re watching Power Rangers and Kimberly says “I’m Kimberly” I say “I’M Kimberly!” and I โ€ฆ

Nov 29, 2021: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - The Basic Tools by Julia Cameron ๐Ÿ“š

Nov 29, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Marked In Remembrance: How Tattoos Help Us Grieve.

Nov 29, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Death Positive Movement.

Nov 29, 2021: โ–ถ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป Watched What is the Death Positive movement?

Nov 29, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–Read Death Is Having a Moment.

Nov 29, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Death Positive Movement Encourages Us to Face Death Directly.

Nov 28, 2021: โ–ถ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป Watched What remains.

Nov 28, 2021: Finished reading: The Artist’s Way - Spirtual Electricity: The Basic Principles by Julia Cameron. ๐Ÿ“š I don’t have a lot to say overall โ€ฆ

Nov 28, 2021: โ–ถ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป Watched A burial practice that nourishes the planet.

Nov 28, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Feminist Death Work: A History.

Nov 28, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Funerals are expensive, broken and exploitative. They have to change I love what Sarah Chavez says: Your death matters. You can choose โ€ฆ

Nov 27, 2021: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Spiritual Electricity: The Basic Principles by Julia Cameron ๐Ÿ“š

Nov 27, 2021: Big Kimberly Energy, according to W., is writing a full parody libretto for a musical.

Nov 27, 2021: Anybody else get a little Billy-Crystal-as-Miracle-Max vibe from Brent Spiner’s performance as very-old Dr. Noonian Soong? ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ

Nov 27, 2021: ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ Depression doesn't need a reason. (Star Trek Discovery 4x02 spoilers) This post contains minor spoilers for Star Trek Discovery Season 4 Episode 2, “Anomaly." Near the end of the latest episode of Discovery, โ€ฆ

Nov 27, 2021: Information is my love language.

Nov 27, 2021: I want to mark Stephen Sondheim’s passing with a story about his influence in my life but there are too many little moments to sum it all up. โ€ฆ

Nov 26, 2021: Bless Linda Holmes and her holiday movie guides.

Nov 24, 2021: Some international fans will be getting new episodes of Star Trek: Discovery starting Friday, Yay!

Nov 24, 2021: Hello world. Imagine I’m interested in fountain pens but am a complete beginner. Where would you tell me to go to learn more? What would your โ€ฆ

Nov 23, 2021: Reading STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST again and when Austin Kleon described Patti Smith pretending to be an artist I thought “Cool, I’ll pretend to โ€ฆ

Nov 23, 2021: Finished: The Artist’s Way - Introduction by Julia Cameron. ๐Ÿ“š Cameron’s introduction is very introducey, setting a foundation for โ€ฆ

Nov 23, 2021: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Introduction by Julia Cameron ๐Ÿ“š

Nov 23, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Catapult | Minor Arcana | Marissa Levien catapult.coRead: catapult.co catapult.co โ€ฆ

Nov 23, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–Will Real Estate Ever Be Normal Again? - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com Www.nytimes.com โ€ฆ

Nov 22, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–Every King Arthur Retelling Is Fanfic About Who Gets to Be Legendary tor.comRead: www.tor.com tor.com โ€ฆ

Nov 22, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ “Never send a scholar who studies dystopias to a conference with futuristic themes.” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED

Nov 22, 2021: Join me for a super low-key Artistโ€™s Way Creative Cluster. I mentioned in September that I was going through the Artistโ€™s Way. I got about three weeks in when I realized I was only doing morning pages and โ€ฆ

Nov 22, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–Read “How the Real Estate Boom Left Black Neighborhoods Behind”. This is a long & valuable read. I’m researching how I can โ€ฆ

Nov 20, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š Started reading OUTLANDER and if my spouse finds my interest in my scholarship as tiresome as Claire finds Frank’s, I wish he and his kilted โ€ฆ

Nov 19, 2021: Beautiful Eclipse medicine spread from Lindsay Mack with The Moonchild Tarot. Time to trust my mind, let go of worries about love, move forward in โ€ฆ

Nov 19, 2021: I watched Star Trek Discovery 4x01 “Kobayashi Maru” last night and I have a lot of feelings. I’m happy to chat if you’d like โ€ฆ

Nov 19, 2021: Okay I watched the Season 4 premiere of Star Trek: Discovery and now I need ALL the Detmer & Owo friendfic.

Nov 18, 2021: How to Transform from Mom Kimberly to Professional Kimberly: Replace t-shirt with dress. Add cardigan. Extra hair brushing. Tada!

Nov 18, 2021: From now on whenever you meet a couple, you are required to ask: Which of you is the Stamets & which of you is the Culbert? (I’m the Stamets โ€ฆ

Nov 17, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Who Writes the Books in Video Games? . This is relevant to my interests. ๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŽฎ

Nov 17, 2021: I just finished the Season 3 finale of #StarTrekDiscovery and wow. What a beautiful close to a season. I’m heartbroken for all the people who โ€ฆ

Nov 17, 2021: โ€œPeak Performance,โ€ Impostor Syndrome, and PhD Life, brought to you by Star Trek: The Next Generation ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป Iโ€™ve been in the middle of a Star Trek: The Next Generation rewatch for months, maybe even more than a year. Maybe since before the pandemic started, โ€ฆ

Nov 17, 2021: I just learned about this Disney-approved line of romance novel reimaginings of the princess stories and I am INTERESTED.

Nov 16, 2021: Welcome to my workspace! These are pictures of my desk, corkboard, and shelves. Mermaid painting by me via Wine & Design. Slay quilt by Casey โ€ฆ

Nov 16, 2021: Hi there. I’m drafting a Star Trek/Ted Lasso crossover in my head. It’s called “Starfleet Til We Die.” I can’t wait to โ€ฆ

Nov 15, 2021: Y’all, I love my kid and helping him manage his emotions is hard work.

Nov 15, 2021: Here is a non-exhaustive list of things that make me cry: “Some Things Are Meant to Be,” Little Women: The Musical “Forever and โ€ฆ

Nov 14, 2021: I Don’t Have Time to Watch the Next Whole Episode of Star Trek Before Resuming My Caregiving Duties: The Kimberly Hirsh Story

Nov 14, 2021: It took ibuprofen, me singing a lot of songs, and Rock-A-Bye Baby’s Lullaby Renditions of Queen, but I finally got my freshly vaxxed kid to โ€ฆ

Nov 13, 2021: The song “Forever and Ever” from POOH’S GRAND ADVENTURE: THE SEARCH FOR CHRISTOPHER ROBIN has been making me cry for two days and I โ€ฆ

Nov 12, 2021: My kid is getting his first COVID shot tomorrow and I definitely used that as an excuse to buy him a bunch of snacks, a new coloring book, a new book, โ€ฆ

Nov 12, 2021: I have been boosted and will now avoid productivity until Monday. Byeeee.

Nov 11, 2021: Finished reading: Not Your Average Hot Guy by Gwenda Bond ๐Ÿ“š

Nov 10, 2021: Darren Rowse in his Ultimate Guide to Starting a Blog Course: Are you a high energy person or a low energy person? Me: Yes! (Yes I have been blogging โ€ฆ

Nov 10, 2021: Great news, bad attitude Hi web friends. I’m having a weird day, with some great news but also me not feeling like doing anything, where I can swing from ecstatic about โ€ฆ

Nov 9, 2021: It feels really good to talk about my work and be able to remind myself that I’ve done a lot of really cool things and that I am and for 17 โ€ฆ

Nov 9, 2021: I’m more than 16 minutes into S3E1 of Star Trek Discovery and I haven’t seen Saru, Tilly, Stamets, Culber, Detmer, Owo, or Reno yet, so โ€ฆ

Nov 8, 2021: My kid has discovered Power Rangers and I have a feeling there’s a lot of deja vu in my future except it’ll be my kid asking me to play โ€ฆ

Nov 8, 2021: Good morning. I had fasting bloodwork at 9:30am today, so I’m just eating for the first time today now, and I’m thinking about giving my โ€ฆ

Nov 8, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–Quotes from Lorraine Boissoneault's "Drafting a Personal Essay Is Like Stumbling Through a Dance" I really needed to read “Drafting a Personal Essay Is Like Stumbling Through a Dance” today. Here are some bits that hit me hard: Itโ€™s โ€ฆ

Nov 8, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–"Nobody cares if you're a writer except you." Kate Baer on being a writer who mothers. ๐Ÿ“ I highly recommend Sara Fredman’s Write Like A Mother newsletter, in which Sara interviews writers who are also mothers. Some bits from the โ€ฆ

Nov 8, 2021: Want to read: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder ๐Ÿ“š

Nov 7, 2021: Like the Bloggess, I too look like I have it together when I’m depressed but really think I’m failing at everything and everyone is mad at โ€ฆ

Nov 6, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š I’m on page 78 of Gwenda Bond’s NOT YOUR AVERAGE HOT GUY and y’all, I’m so glad she’s expanded her repertoire to โ€ฆ

Nov 4, 2021: M, as we sort Magnatiles: Wow, you’re really good at sorting! Me: Yeah, thanks, I have two graduate degrees in it.

Nov 1, 2021: I can’t move to California but being a science fiction librarian sounds like a pretty sweet gig.

Nov 1, 2021: It’s the month with all the writing events! Hi! I’ll probably be focused on #AcWriMo - I’ve got a journal article to finish โ€ฆ

Nov 1, 2021: Finished reading: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston ๐Ÿ“š

Oct 31, 2021: ๐ŸŽฏ: Hey don’t you want to buy your kid some cute PJs? They’re on saaaaale… Me: Bro I just bought him 4 sets FROM YOU a few weeks โ€ฆ

Oct 30, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read ‘They start calling you Hitler’: Why Disneyland has some of the most toxic fans on the internet.

Oct 29, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read From Princes to Pigeons: A Beginnerโ€™s Guide to Otome Games ๐ŸŽฎ

Oct 29, 2021: I’m starting to actually enjoy revising my own writing. This is a huge development and it’s going to make a big difference in my capacity โ€ฆ

Oct 29, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read โ€œThe Girl With The Green Ribbonโ€: A Tale of Many Lives. ๐Ÿ“š

Oct 29, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Dear Congress: Paid leave is not a perk. Itโ€™s a requirement..

Oct 29, 2021: It seems to me that institutions don’t/can’t care. People do & can. Am I missing out on knowing about caring institutions?

Oct 29, 2021: Current priorities: Take care of my health. Take care of my kid. Take care of my home. Figure out how I can help primary caregivers on a grand scale. โ€ฆ

Oct 29, 2021: In past crises, our leaders have been quick to bail out the banks. They made sure the airlines got rescued. But moms, in the middle of an โ€ฆ

Oct 29, 2021: I’m about to log off for the night but I want to talk about #StarTrekProdigy so tell me about your favorite bits and I’ll reply tomorrow! โ€ฆ

Oct 29, 2021: Want to read: They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe ๐Ÿ“š

Oct 28, 2021: I have a cool idea. What if, in addition to having a mental health summit, the university committed time and money to improving mental health services โ€ฆ

Oct 28, 2021: M and I decorated some sugar cookies this evening.

Oct 28, 2021: If you’re a person who would be interested in a virtual co-working space for parents, could you kindly let me know? Thanks! (I’m thinking โ€ฆ

Oct 27, 2021: Thanks to Jennifer Polk’s co-working session, I made big progress on a paper revision today. ๐Ÿ“

Oct 27, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Lee Skallerup Bessette’s You Can Ask for Mental-Health Help, but Can You Find Any? is crucial reading. It hits extra hard in the wake of a โ€ฆ

Oct 27, 2021: M: Can we keep playing Breath of the Wild [pretend, not the video game]? Me: Wait, we’re playing Breath of the Wild? Oops! I was playing Ocarina โ€ฆ

Oct 26, 2021: Hello I am 40 will a local community theater please cast me as Mama Rose now kthx

Oct 26, 2021: This is a reminder that Brent Spiner’s book Fan Fiction, which I reviewed back in September, came out a few weeks ago & you can purchase it โ€ฆ

Oct 26, 2021: I’ve got to remember to search parenting groups, not scroll. I just about had an anxiety attack reading about something that happened to โ€ฆ

Oct 25, 2021: Also making a note to myself to write a full blog post about going to see my first community theater production in ages & how it made me feel.

Oct 25, 2021: Making a note to myself here to write a full blog post about Star Trek: The Next Generation 3x21, “Hollow Pursuits,” and the connection to โ€ฆ

Oct 23, 2021: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: Dr. Lesley Willard: Introducing topic. How do scholars in fan & media studies articulate their discipline? How do these disciplines interact? When โ€ฆ

Oct 23, 2021: Next #FSNNA21 live-tweet: “Fans, Players and/or Users? Bridging Fan and Media Studies” Will post log to kimberlyhirsh.com.

Oct 23, 2021: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: Adriana Amaral: First, the state of fan studies in Brazil: research focused on digital settings but still working on integrating digital methods with โ€ฆ

Oct 23, 2021: I’ll be live-tweeting the #FSNNA21 panel “Digital Methods and Digital Fan Practices” in a few minutes and share the log at โ€ฆ

Oct 23, 2021: I set foot in a bookstore for the first time since the start of the pandemic today. I stood there, looking at everything, almost having a panic attack โ€ฆ

Oct 23, 2021: Introducing my five-year-old to Sweeney Todd (original cast), as you do. ๐ŸŽญ๐ŸŽต

Oct 23, 2021: I’m watching the season 1 finale of Star Trek Discovery and having L’Rell do the previously in Klingon is a nice touch. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

Oct 22, 2021: Extemely chuffed to announce that my first blog post written for @QuirkosSoftware, “A priori coding is A-OK!", has gone live!

Oct 22, 2021: I don’t like how clear it is that we are living in the mirror universe and the primary Star Trek universe is not ours. At least, this is what โ€ฆ

Oct 21, 2021: I may have been excessively affectively engaged in the conversation about Buffy fic writers' responses to “Seeing Red.” I really โ€ฆ

Oct 21, 2021: Help I Read a Lower Decks Fanfic and Now I Resent All Other Activities: The Kimberly Hirsh Story ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

Oct 21, 2021: Taking a break from livetweeting to just listen to the Participatory Culture Wars session at #FSNNA21.

Oct 21, 2021: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: This doesn’t include the discussion/Q&A because things started to go so fast I couldn’t keep up. Stacy Lantagne: introducing other โ€ฆ

Oct 21, 2021: Planning to use Noter Live to livetweet “The Money Question” at #FSNNA21. Will post all tweets to kimberlyhirsh.com after the session.

Oct 21, 2021: Well mirror universe stuff is very upsetting. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

Oct 20, 2021: I myself am strange and unusual. (Earrings by Witching Hour Baby.)

Oct 19, 2021: I built a Book Event Calendar! It’s only got one event in it right now, as proof of concept, but I plan to add more soon.

Oct 19, 2021: Today I: found contact info for new handyman filled meds cases made cinnamon sugar pumpkin seeds put away a little laundry drove kid around to look โ€ฆ

Oct 18, 2021: Hey book friends. Is there any sort of centralized calendar for virtual author events? My searches are turning up Eventbrite, specific publisher โ€ฆ

Oct 17, 2021: Part of me wants to swim in a vault filled with books like some sort of literary Scrooge McDuck, but the other part of me knows I would get So. Many. โ€ฆ

Oct 16, 2021: This thing where I need to sleep instead of staying up all night watching Star Trek: Discovery is really bumming me out. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

Oct 16, 2021: On my Starfleet ship, we would have Sirenian ops.

Oct 16, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ปโ–ถ๏ธ Watched The Doctor, The Mortician, and the Murder.

Oct 15, 2021: Don’t want to spoil the Lower Decks finale much but I was so distracted by my delight at encountering Captain Sonya Gomez I actually missed โ€ฆ

Oct 14, 2021: The other day while doing some Artist’s Way exercises my subconscious bubbled up and told me I wanted a typewriter. Now I’m stuck on this โ€ฆ

Oct 14, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“ Read Catapult | I Found My Literary Community by Writing Book Reviews | catapult.coRead: catapult.co catapult.co โ€ฆ

Oct 12, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ “… fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting around time.” Maria Bamford, THE BURNING BRIDGES TOUR

Oct 12, 2021: Finished reading: Writing the New Ethnography by H. L. Goodall, Jr. ๐Ÿ“š

Oct 12, 2021: Academia sure loves bricolage.

Oct 12, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Catapult | Why Full-Time Freelancing Isnโ€™t For Me | Gabrielle Drolet catapult.coRead: catapult.co catapult.co โ€ฆ

Oct 12, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Quiet Crisis of Parents on the Tenure Track.

Oct 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “Anger is not the action itself. It is action’s invitation.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

Oct 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŽญ “Ideas don’t get opening nights. Finished plays do.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

Oct 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “…anger is a map… Anger points the way, not just the finger.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

Oct 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes โ€“ The Daily Free Press dailyfreepress.comRead: โ€ฆ

Oct 10, 2021: Want to read: The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling ๐Ÿ“š

Oct 10, 2021: The #FanLIS panel I’m co-moderating with Ludi Price is the first session of Fan Studies Network North America! You should come. It’s a โ€ฆ

Oct 9, 2021: Want to read: Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster ๐Ÿ“š

Oct 8, 2021: As in the actual Haunted Mansion ride, the best part of Muppets Haunted Mansion is the ballroom/party scene. In this case, less for the Pepper’s โ€ฆ

Oct 8, 2021: M (who turned 5 yesterday!) & I are watching Muppets Haunted Mansion and I’m very happy.

Oct 8, 2021: Hey LIS scholars. What is the most elegant, arresting, or fascinating writing you’ve seen in our field?

Oct 8, 2021: Did I just send an email to all the parents at my kid’s school in which I used the phrase “totally buggin'”? Yes, yes I did.

Oct 7, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ “we are conditioned as academics (and also just people in 2021!) to sacrifice long term stability for short term productivity.” From โ€ฆ

Oct 7, 2021: I’ve been without wifi for over 18 hours & while I’m old enough to remember a time before home dialup, it’s a real pain to deal โ€ฆ

Oct 5, 2021: My brand is: person who spends far too much time thinking about the absence of social science research ethics and the reflexive turn in Star Trek. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

Oct 5, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ–– Watched Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 1 Episode 1 & oh my goodness how fun is this show? So fun! Mariner is my fave. “Do you know Deanna โ€ฆ

Oct 5, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š Me continuing to read Black Sun: Uhhuh uhhuh Sun Priestess is cool, nice chill use of non-binary gender without making it A Thing but WHEN DO I GET โ€ฆ

Oct 5, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š Me, reading Black Sun: Ch. 1 - This parent-child dynamic is upsetting, i don’t know if I can keep going… Ch. 2 - Magical singing bi sea โ€ฆ

Oct 4, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Invisible Burden That Leaves Moms Drained. Especially timely since I just hosted my kid’s (outdoor masked) birthday party last โ€ฆ

Oct 4, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read On Pandering. This piece made me think about how lucky I’ve been to always be writing for my past or future self or for a body of โ€ฆ

Oct 4, 2021: The extent to which my handwriting is a perfect mix of my parents' handwriting is remarkable.

Oct 4, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š This week’s takeaway from The Artist’s Way is that I’m already really good at making time for the things I love to do and keeping โ€ฆ

Oct 4, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “If I’m expected to be a kin keeper, no one can judge my coffee consumption.” Kelly J. Baker, Sexism Ed โ˜•

Oct 4, 2021: Added “Memento mori girl” to my bio and I am far too pleased with myself. ๐Ÿ’€

Oct 4, 2021: I have one weird set of emotions when I begin writing in a new notebook and another when I get close to the end of a new notebook, but I can’t โ€ฆ

Oct 4, 2021: ๐ŸŽฎ Played Dragon Quest III. Each game in the series gets more expansive. I love that.

Oct 4, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“บ Watched Salt Fat Acid Heat episode 1, “Fat.”

Oct 3, 2021: I had a dream that Gates McFadden became a real doctor. My kid was having breathing trouble & she helped. Then when I needed to send her a message โ€ฆ

Oct 3, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Why Everyone Is Always Giving Unsolicited Advice (Tressie McMillan Cottom for the New York Times).

Oct 3, 2021: Excuse me I will be over here flailing because I just learned there is a licensed Star Trek TNG/X-Men crossover novel. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ UPDATED TO ADD: Literally โ€ฆ

Oct 2, 2021: Finished reading: The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinka ๐Ÿ“š

Oct 2, 2021: Why are my neighbors so loud don’t they know it’s after 10 pm and their neighbors have children: the Kimberly Hirsh story

Oct 2, 2021: My son found this toad at school a week ago. He said his friend touched it and it jumped.

Oct 2, 2021: Now that I have Paramount+, my current viewing strategy is: Want something familiar? TNG/DS9/VOY Want something new? Discovery. Want something funny? โ€ฆ

Oct 1, 2021: It’s been a busy day of prepping for my kid’s birthday party (outdoor masked at a park we’re careful) and I think tomorrow when โ€ฆ

Oct 1, 2021: My kid’s school is having fall break today so um we have Paramount Plus now. Because it has All the Ninja Turtles.

Oct 1, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–Read “So Coke-yโ€ฆSo Entitled!โ€: This Is What It Was Like Going to Bennington College With Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt, and Jonathan Lethem. โ€ฆ

Sep 30, 2021: Response to "Whereโ€™s the โ€˜Video Offโ€™ Button in Face-to-Face Instruction?" Dr. Maggie Melo writes for Inside Higher Ed today about the value of video-off time in a virtual classroom and how we might learn from the ease โ€ฆ

Sep 30, 2021: I did a thing! I wrote a blog post for a client! Yay me! Time for a dance party! via GIPHY

Sep 30, 2021: Here’s the deal with being employed by someone besides myself right now: they have to pay me enough that I can pay other people to do all the โ€ฆ

Sep 30, 2021: One of the frustrating things about chronic illness is that sometimes you have a good brain day but a bad body day.

Sep 30, 2021: Weather report from my kid: the air temperature is warm Luke.

Sep 30, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ Read Nathan Lane on Only Murders in the Buildingโ€™s Big Twist.

Sep 30, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ Read Why Only Murders in the Building Is the Most Romantic Show on TV.

Sep 29, 2021: I’m planning a historical witchy YA fantasy, it’s historical because it’s set in the 90s, the soundtrack is all Garbage & โ€ฆ

Sep 29, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Star Trekโ€™s food replicators may be on their way to your kitchen. ๐Ÿ––

Sep 29, 2021: Want to read: Several Short Sentences about Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 29, 2021: Want to read: The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 29, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Amia Srinivasan: โ€œFeminism is a political practice, not just a set of ideasโ€.

Sep 28, 2021: Witch influencer or Indiana Jones villain? You decide. (Image: A white woman with dark hair wears a black wool Panama hat.)

Sep 28, 2021: Attempted a Hashimoto’s/PCOS friendly version of my great-grandmother’s goldenrod eggs: gluten-free bread, ghee, tapioca flour, almond โ€ฆ

Sep 28, 2021: Replaced “Extremely online since 1995โ€ in my bio with “Human cabinet of curiosities,” perhaps the most accurate way I’ve ever โ€ฆ

Sep 28, 2021: Want to read: Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender by Casey Kayser ๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŽญ

Sep 28, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽญ Read On and Off Stage: The Deep-Seated Bias in the Culture of American Theatre. In addition to thinking about whose plays get produced, promoted, โ€ฆ

Sep 27, 2021: Mindy Thomas & Guy Raz have some great advice for writers of all ages in their National Book Festival video. ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“

Sep 27, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read What Reading Looks Like When Youโ€™re a Full-Time Author (Book Riot).

Sep 27, 2021: Asking for a friend: what do you think Kaz Brekker’s D&D class would be? Rogue? I feel like rogue. (The friend is me.) ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“บ๐ŸŽฒ

Sep 27, 2021: I realized reading Week 1 of THE ARTIST’S WAY that most of my negative self-talk isn’t modeled on how other people talked to me (I was โ€ฆ

Sep 27, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “…if we can become one-tenth as good at positive self-talk as we are at negative self-talk, we will notice an enormous change.” โ€ฆ

Sep 27, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Please Keep Doing Virtual Book Stuff After The Pandemic. Jessica Pryde makes a great argument for maintaining virtual and/or adding hybrid book โ€ฆ

Sep 27, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

Sep 27, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

Sep 27, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “Creativity is play, but for shadow artists, learning to allow themselves to play is hard work.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

Sep 27, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–Read The Caregiving Economy - The Atlantic theatlantic.comRead: www.theatlantic.com theatlantic.com โ€ฆ

Sep 26, 2021: A lot is bad but my kid is dancing to Tank! by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts and that’s pretty great.

Sep 26, 2021: Me today: Ooh what an interesting journal article! I wonder if I could pitch a research brief on it to my client for the company blog.looks closer โ€ฆ

Sep 26, 2021: Want to read: Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies by Shailoo Bedi and Jenaya Webb, Eds. ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 26, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿฟ Some good things I’ve read so far today: Revisiting The Flight of Dragons, a Forgotten Gem of โ€™80s Fantasy (Tor.com) How Harrow the Ninth โ€ฆ

Sep 24, 2021: Kid reading your book on a bench at the playground while your sibling plays: I see you. You are not alone.

Sep 24, 2021: That feeling when your own article is at the top of the “Recommended article” list on your Google Scholar homepage.

Sep 24, 2021: What was going on in my life when I got sick It’s hard to figure out exactly which of the many symptoms I have should determine when I got sick but based on the impact of treatment, โ€ฆ

Sep 23, 2021: “The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” C. G. Jung, quoted by Julia Cameron in the Artist’s Way. ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 23, 2021: How Hashimoto's makes me feel Hashimoto’s makes me feel like the opposite of myself. At various points in my life, if you asked friends about me they’d tell you that I โ€ฆ

Sep 22, 2021: My health goals I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. One of the things I’m focusing on right now is feeling better. Today, โ€ฆ

Sep 21, 2021: My aesthetic is Mermaid Academia.

Sep 21, 2021: In case you wonder what kind of parent I am: yesterday, my kid was recounting a Halloween episode of Muppet Babies and said that Miss Piggy was in โ€ฆ

Sep 21, 2021: I have input days and output days. Today is an input day: learning about UX and user research.

Sep 20, 2021: I just moved my next follow up doctor’s appointment up two months to the week after next because I’m still so tired all the time and not โ€ฆ

Sep 20, 2021: On preferring learning to doing I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. I love to read about writing. I’m the kind of person who finds Strunk โ€ฆ

Sep 20, 2021: Amy Gentry’s second guest post for The Professor Is In, about transitioning from academic to novelist, is one of the most helpful post-ac pieces โ€ฆ

Sep 20, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Portrait of the Mother as an Artist โ€“ Guernica guernicamag.comRead: www.guernicamag.com Diane Benjamin (Litman โ€˜64) โ€ฆ

Sep 20, 2021: Watching the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Offspring” as a parent adds a whole new perspective to the experience.

Sep 20, 2021: Have y’all read THE DARK TIDE by Alicia Jasinka? because I started it tonight and it is gorgeous. ๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™€๏ธ

Sep 19, 2021: Whoopi Goldberg has done a lot of great work in her career, but I think I’ll always feel that Guinan has been her greatest role. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿ“บ

Sep 19, 2021: Finished reading: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 18, 2021: So far in my rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode 3x13, “Deja Q,” is my favorite. Having Data be Q’s tutor in humanity โ€ฆ

Sep 17, 2021: Me, watching Super Monsters with my kid: I can suspend my disbelief to allow that Universal monsters send their kids to night preschool, but putting โ€ฆ

Sep 16, 2021: Brainfog day ๐Ÿ˜ž

Sep 15, 2021: ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป That feeling when it takes all day to maintain your (6-year-old budget) laptop…

Sep 15, 2021: There is a medium-small spider hanging out on my corkboard and I’ve decided to adopt it as a pet. I will lure mosquitoes to it and call it cute โ€ฆ

Sep 15, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ “If this is your first draft, stop worrying.” - Leigh Bardugo in her latest newsletter

Sep 14, 2021: What I mean when I say I have variable disabilities: today, I am using a cane because I have mild vertigo and need the stability. Yesterday I did not โ€ฆ

Sep 13, 2021: Book Review: FAN FICTION by Brent Spiner ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ––โ€โ€ If you make a purchase through a link in this post, I may earn a commission. Quick head’s up: In this review, I use “Brent” to refer โ€ฆ

Sep 13, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ “When academic women, experts in their fields, are seen as not credible, then can women ever be?” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED, โ€œAcademic โ€ฆ

Sep 13, 2021: Want to read: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 13, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ “My Ph.D. cannot trump my gender.” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED, “Academic Men Explain Things to Me,” p. 52.

Sep 13, 2021: ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Listened to Gates McFadden Investigates 101: Jonathan Frakes. Love it. McFadden is a great host & it feels like being with friends.

Sep 12, 2021: “Life just ran more smoothly when she got her way.” Leigh Bardugo, KING OF SCARS. Oh, Zoya, I love you so. ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 12, 2021: I finished reading SIX OF CROWS almost 4 months ago. It’s time for me to get back to the Grishaverse with KING OF SCARS. ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 12, 2021: Finished reading: Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 11, 2021: Went to Internet Archive to find my blog post from 20 years ago. More interesting than anything I had to say was this comment from my grandmother, who โ€ฆ

Sep 10, 2021: Wearing my 90s pop culture goth uniform today: Buffy the Vampire Slayer tee, Nightmare Before Christmas leggings.

Sep 10, 2021: I’ve been thinking a lot about how I want to spend my time and one of the things I want to do is make higher ed better for caregivers. It only โ€ฆ

Sep 10, 2021: New bio: Extremely online since 1995. Mom. Household COO. Consulting scholar-librarian. Book person. Geek-of-all-trades. PhD in Information & โ€ฆ

Sep 10, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ’ป Read Why bad technology dominates our lives, according to Ron Norman. If you didn’t already believe we were living in the Matrix, this โ€ฆ

Sep 10, 2021: ๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ Watched In a Lonely Place. I watched this because it’s on the movie list on the aesthetics wiki page for dark academia. I’m not sure โ€ฆ

Sep 9, 2021: My 20th Domainiversary Today is the 20th anniversary of the first time the Internet Archive captured my first personal domain. The 20th anniversary of my first blog post was โ€ฆ

Sep 9, 2021: Me: yesterday for #StarTrekDay: AHHHH Star Trek, everything Star Trek! this morning when it was all gray and rainy: AHHHH Dark Academia, everything โ€ฆ

Sep 9, 2021: This Picard/Riker 2024 merch is all well and good but what I want is reprints of the Picard/Riker 1992 merch.

Sep 9, 2021: The Voyager theme is over here tugging at my heart strings. This is unexpected. #StarTrekDay

Sep 9, 2021: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I will never not have a crush on Wil Wheaton. #StarTrekDay

Sep 9, 2021: It’s taken me a while but I think I have a stable connection for watching #StarTrekDay and I’m so psyched for Prodigy. I’ve watched โ€ฆ

Sep 9, 2021: If you read through today’s Done List, you’ll notice I put basic self-care tasks like showering and dental hygiene on it. This is because โ€ฆ

Sep 8, 2021: I know enough about Brent Spiner and his history with fans to know that this does not make us BFFs but I’m still psyched he liked my tweet.

Sep 8, 2021: Loading my advanced readers’s copy of Brent Spiner’s mem-noir Fan Fiction to my ereader in honor of Star Trek Day. ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ––โ€

Sep 8, 2021: Repping TNG Operations in my Lauren Christians Handmade dress for Star Trek Day. My kid told his teachers, “I’m being Spot because my mom โ€ฆ

Sep 7, 2021: My Done List for 9/7/21: It’s easy for me to feel like a day went by where I didn’t do anything, so I’m making a list of what I did. โ€ฆ

Sep 7, 2021: ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ–– In Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, episode 11, “The Hunted,” there is a whole society of intellectual bros wearing blazers โ€ฆ

Sep 7, 2021: In defense of not living up to your potential I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. Betsy Greer shared some pages from Carol Dweck’s book Mindset on โ€ฆ

Sep 7, 2021: Putting Gardens and Streams II on my calendar. I’m only a maybe because, as always, parenting.

Sep 6, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer โ€น Literary Hub if youโ€™ve read a book penned by a woman with young children recently, thereโ€™s a โ€ฆ

Sep 6, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–Read The Public Writing Life: How to Lose an Editor in Five Days katieroseguestpryal.comkatieroseguestpryal.com โ€ฆ

Sep 6, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–Read Ravynn K. Stringfield’s essay, Bullet Journaling to Save a Life. Beautiful.

Sep 4, 2021: “She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ

Sep 3, 2021: I had a client meeting this morning where we made plans for me to do some blogging and podcasting for the client. But it’s also about research. โ€ฆ

Sep 3, 2021: “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them…” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ

Sep 2, 2021: Beginning my third read of Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC. ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 2, 2021: Sleep Deprivation, Sugar Crash, or Both? The Kimberly Hirsh Story

Sep 2, 2021: Gonna create a literary subgenre/internet aesthetic and call it “snark academia.”

Sep 1, 2021: I just published another free/pay-what-you-can Notion template. This time it’s a permissions tracker to help you keep track of copyrighted โ€ฆ

Sep 1, 2021: Welcome to September, or as I like to call it, October Part 1. The world is full of terrors. Today I’m going to deal with my to-do list and then โ€ฆ

Aug 31, 2021: My post-PhD identity crisis, #motherscholar edition I am making a few notes here now that I hope to turn into a longer post later. As I scrolled Twitter and read there what some colleagues have been โ€ฆ

Aug 31, 2021: Did not realize I was on the Motherscholar Project website so that’s cool!

Aug 31, 2021: Dr. Kimberly's Comedy School: Pairing the absurd with the mundane If you have access to it, watch The Simpsons, Season 1, episode 3, “Homer’s Odyssey.” This bit happens at around 12:50: Depressed โ€ฆ

Aug 30, 2021: Just recorded a conference session. I’m really happy about the accessibility remote conferences provide but everything feels so formal. โ€ฆ

Aug 28, 2021: Watched @patrickrhone’s Micro Camp talk Want to write a book? You probably already have this am & it shifted a lot for me in terms of my own โ€ฆ

Aug 28, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ’ฌ Parents Are Not Okay: Through these grinding 18 months, weโ€™ve managed our kidsโ€™ lives as best we could while abandoning our own.

Aug 28, 2021: Shout-out to Kelly J. Baker for naming archivists and librarians first in the acknowledgements of her book, Gospel According to the Klan: The โ€ฆ

Aug 27, 2021: there is no separation between mother and writer, nor can I tease apart the time I spend tending to my child from the time I spend thinking about my โ€ฆ

Aug 26, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Sara Fredman’s How Motherhood Helped Me Reject the โ€˜Father Tongueโ€™ of Academia is both about writing the kind of thing I want to write and is โ€ฆ

Aug 26, 2021: Want to read: How to Write Qualitative Research by Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 26, 2021: Want to read: Thinking Inside the Box Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 25, 2021: Finished reading: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 25, 2021: My taste in fantasy art is less Lisa Frank and more Frank Frazetta.

Aug 25, 2021: Whoops, I didn’t mean unicorn and waterfall, I meant swan and rainbow. We also had the tiger one.

Aug 25, 2021: Trapper Keeper is back but I’m holding out for the re-release of the unicorn in front of a waterfall.

Aug 25, 2021: How come every time Rachel Cohn & David Levithan collaborate the result is adorable? What’s up with that? ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 24, 2021: Casey Fiesler asked for tips for creating equal participation in breakout rooms. One strategy to try is providing distinct roles for each individual. โ€ฆ

Aug 24, 2021: Younger S7E5 is delighting me with Janeane Garofalo as an art college dean and Sutton Foster as Liza Miller dancing to a recording of Sutton Foster in โ€ฆ

Aug 24, 2021: ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Listening to Keegan-Michael Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy on Audible & in ep 5 he mentions the Carol Burnett Show. Comedian guests โ€ฆ

Aug 24, 2021: One of the many straws on the proverbial camel’s back that led me to stop watching THE CHAIR after only 8 minutes was when the dean said โ€ฆ

Aug 24, 2021: About to go pick kid up from first day of preschool. (1/2 day today, full day Thurs). Achieved: made coffee made breakfast drank coffee ate breakfast โ€ฆ

Aug 24, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š Just finished the introduction of Data Feminism & am jotting down some thoughts. I hope to expand on these later. To what extent and how do โ€ฆ

Aug 24, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š Data Feminism has the best (and perhaps only) definition of positionality I’ve ever seen: “Positionality is a term that describes how โ€ฆ

Aug 23, 2021: Colleagues are all “I forgot how exhausting teaching in person is!” & I’m all “I forgot how exhausting getting your kid โ€ฆ

Aug 23, 2021: Want to read: Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 23, 2021: Me, prepping for my kid’s very masked return to preschool: IMAGE: Liz Lemon (from the TV show 30 Rock), a white woman with brown hair wearing โ€ฆ

Aug 22, 2021: Want to read: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 22, 2021: Advice for new parents and parents-to-be I have a friend who is due to have a baby in January. I offered to write up a bunch of notes for her and realized it would make a pretty good blog โ€ฆ

Aug 22, 2021: ๐Ÿ“บ It’s been interesting seeing other (current or former) academians' responses to THE CHAIR. I made it 8 minutes but once the notion of just โ€ฆ

Aug 22, 2021: Setting aside my TIME 100 list plan to play in the land of YA rom-coms. Just started NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST. ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 22, 2021: ย– Read Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling รขย€ย“ Scalawag scalawagmagazine.orgRead: scalawagmagazine.org โ€ฆ

Aug 20, 2021: I clocked a solid chunk of time on my current consulting contract today and I really enjoyed the work. That’s such a good feeling.

Aug 20, 2021: “Being a mom is my calling, and being a writer is also my calling, so they have to both exist simultaneously.” Well said, A’Ziah โ€ฆ

Aug 20, 2021: The questions driving me right now I read Ravynn K. Stringfieldโ€™s How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy and felt energized. I felt energized specifically by how she found role โ€ฆ

Aug 17, 2021: Today, in Sesame Street Is the Best Comedy School, Grover and Campers Learn About Trees. Excellent use of the rule of three and a beautiful button.

Aug 17, 2021: Who’s your favorite fictional character with an extreme love of school supplies? Mine is Amy Santiago. (I’m super behind on B99 โ€ฆ

Aug 16, 2021: We might need to have a talk about how I don’t want to eat any actual meals, just leftovers of the Fran’s Torte L’Orange that my โ€ฆ

Aug 16, 2021: I just processed all the action items from the beginning of the year email the head teacher at my kid’s preschool sent out, capturing them in my โ€ฆ

Aug 16, 2021: Read Chicago Improv Was Dead. Can New Leaders Revive It? - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com Www.nytimes.com โ€ฆ

Aug 15, 2021: I use Old Spice Krakengard mostly because the name and graphic amuse me. I always thought it was protecting me from the Kraken but I read the โ€ฆ

Aug 15, 2021: I can’t get a good picture of it but right now there is a lone piece of green glitter sitting on top of my biggest, most obvious gall bladder โ€ฆ

Aug 15, 2021: I hardly ever cried about my dissertation and I’m really proud of that.

Aug 15, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer โ€น Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com lithub.com โ€ฆ

Aug 15, 2021: Woke up to a house with no light at all and my first thought was not “The power must be out” but instead “I’ve lost my โ€ฆ

Aug 15, 2021: What I Learned from Recording My Micro Camp Talk I learned a lot from recording my Micro Camp 2021 talk. If you watch it, you’ll notice a pretty big sync problem starting a bit before the โ€ฆ

Aug 15, 2021: Who is Kimberly Hirsh?

Aug 15, 2021: My talk from Micro Camp, “Learning in Public on Your Blog,” is now available on my website!

Aug 14, 2021: What are your top 3 movies you turn to when you are sick and/or anxious? Mine are Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Princess Bride, and Who Framed โ€ฆ

Aug 13, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Ravynn K. Stringfield’s How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy is an energizing read. Psyched to be in her workshop on creative โ€ฆ

Aug 13, 2021: Some notes on my Time's 100 Best ๐Ÿ“š Plan Because fantasy is the genre I read the most and YA is the market segment I read the most, I’ve already read a lot of the books on these lists. โ€ฆ

Aug 12, 2021: So far today I have taken my kid to the pool for swim lessons & stayed for an extra 3 hrs, scheduled a bathroom floor repair, and emailed a client โ€ฆ

Aug 12, 2021: Donโ€™t think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to train for reality. It always has been, after all. N.K. Jemisin on the Timeless โ€ฆ

Aug 12, 2021: Until I get tired of doing it, I’m going to read my way through Time’s The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time & then when I finish or โ€ฆ

Aug 12, 2021: New bio: “A good little mommy and always very curious.”

Aug 12, 2021: Solidarity to everyone who was awake earlier than they needed to be this morning.

Aug 12, 2021: In case you were wondering which website has the best favicon, it’s Jennifer Laughranโ€™s.

Aug 12, 2021: My kid is asleep well before 9 pm, what do I do with all this freeeeeedom? (The smart thing would be to go to sleep myself.)

Aug 11, 2021: I cannot convey the extent to which the statement “be part of one of the largest events on campus” would put me off an event. Even in the โ€ฆ

Aug 11, 2021: That feeling when someone you only kind of knew from church as a kid over 20 years ago invites you to her Facebook MLM group. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

Aug 10, 2021: Hey hey! I’ll be giving a talk at Micro Camp Friday @ 3:30 pm EST about Learning in Public on Your Blog. Want to learn more about the micro.blog โ€ฆ

Aug 9, 2021: ๐ŸŽฌ watched Beverly Hills Cop. Eddie Murphy is brilliant here. I can’t believe he was only 22 or 23 when he made this.

Aug 8, 2021: My brain, on August 8, 2021: LetterMo is just around the corner! It’s January now, so February will be here soon! Narrator: It is not January โ€ฆ

Aug 7, 2021: It’s fine if you’ve been sleeping on SCHMIGADOON so far but this week they gave both Kristin Chenoweth and Jane Krakowski amazing songs so โ€ฆ

Aug 6, 2021: What I Learned from Sewing Napkins And some stuff I already knew but needed the reminder sewing napkins gave me. 1. If you want things to be the same size, cut them at the same time. โ€ฆ

Aug 6, 2021: I can’t recall if I’d ever seen Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on First” before tonight but I just watched it, โ€ฆ

Aug 5, 2021: Hello and welcome to my current existential crisis.

Aug 4, 2021: The CHIP ‘N’ DALE: RESCUE RANGERS theme is a masterpiece of musical maximalism. ๐ŸŽต

Aug 4, 2021: I love physicist Carlo Rovelli’s phrase, “radical lack of certainty,” quoted in Austin Kleon’s blog post about uncertainty in โ€ฆ

Aug 4, 2021: ๐Ÿ“บ I’m not remotely close to caught up on The Owl House but I just want to say that Luz’s tailcoat and tutu combo is the dream. Via โ€ฆ

Aug 3, 2021: Want to read: A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 1, 2021: Finished reading: The Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 1, 2021: ๐ŸŽฎ Played Dragon Quest on Android. Gorgeous pixel remake of the foundational JRPG. Super fun! ๐Ÿฒ

Aug 1, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ Read Once & Future Vol. 1: The King Is Undead by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora. Arthuriana and a story about the nature of stories, plus a โ€ฆ

Jul 31, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ”– “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot more than writing. Catapult | On Writing (with a โ€ฆ

Jul 31, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š A surprise The Locked Tomb book! Yay! ๐Ÿ’€

Jul 30, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“บ At Electric Literature, Meera Vijayan writes about the value of seeing Alina Starkov build her strength a little at a time in the face of โ€ฆ

Jul 29, 2021: I feel both seen and attacked by this Lit Hub piece that says the literary character who shares my Enneagram type (4) is Dorian Gray.

Jul 28, 2021: I’m available for work starting September 7. Ideal employed situation is part-time, remote, at least $1500/mo. Also open to contract work. My โ€ฆ

Jul 27, 2021: Putting yourself back together I’ve written before about how matrescence is like kintsugi: having a baby shatters you and the living you do after you have the baby puts you โ€ฆ

Jul 27, 2021: Today my (medical) doctor called me and when I answered, she said, “Hello, Dr. Hirsh?”

Jul 27, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š This interview with Tamsyn Muir is great.

Jul 27, 2021: Finished reading: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 23, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š In HARROW THE NINTH Harrowhark uses the phrase “A fatal longing for the picturesque” and I’m all “AHHHHH is that a THE โ€ฆ

Jul 22, 2021: What a beautiful day! We're not scared. ๐Ÿป Are you familiar with the poem/book/animated short film WE’RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT? I highly recommend it. Kids wander through all types of โ€ฆ

Jul 21, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ๐ŸฟThis piece identifies what made LOKI less than ideal for me: Loki himself is constrained, not as grand or mischievous as we’re used to. Great โ€ฆ

Jul 21, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ“š It’s nice timing to read this after recently starting my Dorian Gray re-read: Manic Pixie Dream Portrait: On 500 Days of Summer and Dorian โ€ฆ

Jul 21, 2021: The article Meet the typical 40-year-old millennial, who has $128,000 in debt, is not nearly as wealthy as their parents were, and is known as โ€ฆ

Jul 21, 2021: Me, after two nights of terrible sleep: Welp, I worked for 48 billable minutes. Time to pack it in and watch TV!

Jul 20, 2021: My personal history with sewing ๐Ÿงต I promise I’m going to write about what I learned from sewing napkins soon. But first: my personal history with sewing! I’ve known how to โ€ฆ

Jul 20, 2021: Other people’s midi dress is my maxi dress.

Jul 20, 2021: You know what would be an interesting pair of books to read together? The 4-Hour Work Week and How to Do Nothing. ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 19, 2021: Random stream-of-consciousness life updates I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. Hello, everyone! How are you doing? Over here, I’m on Day 6 of being In โ€ฆ

Jul 18, 2021: Austin Kleon's pirate-gardener Austin Kleon writes about his desire to be a pirate-gardener, Iโ€™d like to stay happily at home, in the studio, planting my seeds and cultivating my โ€ฆ

Jul 18, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “Harrow would be tripping over herself for her whole existence, a frictionless hoop of totally f-cking up.” - Tamsyn Muir, HARROW THE โ€ฆ

Jul 17, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š O no I have HARROW THE NINTH on my eReader and want to hermit up and just read it until I’m doooooonnnnneee.

Jul 17, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š I’m re-reading THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and I want to write down all of Lord Henry Wotton’s bon mots but there are too many and all of โ€ฆ

Jul 17, 2021: Just watched the first episode of Schmigadoon and Aaron Tveit channeling John Raitt/Gordon McRae/Robert Goulet is ๐Ÿ’ฏ.

Jul 17, 2021: I’m working on developing a new academia aesthetic, it’s kind of a sff academia. Inspired by the Mythic Quest episode โ€ฆ

Jul 16, 2021: I love when I have a call with my doctor and I say “I think I should do this” and she says “I agree.”

Jul 16, 2021: ๐Ÿงต I made napkins today and I learned a lot! I’ll write about it soon.

Jul 15, 2021: I’m about to start using Noter Live to live-tweet #MIRAULV2021. Conferring on the couch next to my kid who is binge-watching Number Blocks on โ€ฆ

Jul 15, 2021: Wait wait wait bootcut jeans are on-trend again? Gen Z, you’re turning exhausted parents into fashion-forward geniuses, and we thank you.

Jul 14, 2021: My kid is watching Doc McStuffins and I’m over here swooning over the knight toy Sir Kirby because his voice sounds like @yakkopinky is doing an โ€ฆ

Jul 14, 2021: I tried Voila AI artist & this is what it says I’d look like as a 3D cartoon princess.

Jul 14, 2021: Happy birthday to me! W & M got me a sewing machine that has a manual! I asked for one I knew was affordable and simple. I can upgrade later.

Jul 14, 2021: Who will I be at 40? Three makes a pattern, so this is the year that blogging about who I want to be in this year of my life becomes a tradition. Shout out to my friend โ€ฆ

Jul 14, 2021: Want to read: The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 14, 2021: Finished reading: Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 13, 2021: Stream-of-Consciousness Quick Review: Kristen Arnett's MOSTLY DEAD THINGS ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿฆฉ (or, Kristen Arnett Please Be My New Best Friend) I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this post. Kristen Arnett is Florida’s and the Internet’s Lesbian dad. Her โ€ฆ

Jul 13, 2021: Tomorrow is my birthday (40th). If you want to celebrate, here are some options: have donuts read a book go swimming watch something from or about โ€ฆ

Jul 13, 2021: I just signed up for 1-Day Online Nonfiction Seminar: The Scholar’s Guide to Writing & Publishing Creative Nonfiction, which I would not โ€ฆ

Jul 12, 2021: I didn’t see Katy Peplin’s blog post about grumping it out until just now but now is when I needed it, so that worked out well.

Jul 12, 2021: The thing about being a bard is that performance is more than just singing.

Jul 11, 2021: I need everyone to understand that in Marvel comics, there is the version of Thor that is a frog, and there is also a frog who is not Thor but has โ€ฆ

Jul 9, 2021: The Quiet Space has a website. This evolving project offers tools to help scholars & other knowledge creators manage the organizational aspects of โ€ฆ

Jul 9, 2021: The water and the moon are my teachers. ๐ŸŒŠ๐ŸŒ• Tonight is the New Moon in Cancer. Next Wednesday is my birthday. My Sun, Ascendant, and Mercury are all in Cancer. I don’t believe the stars โ€ฆ

Jul 9, 2021: W: Would you say the town of Brigadoon is changed by the events of the musical? Me: What? No! Visitors to Brigadoon can’t change Brigadoon. It โ€ฆ

Jul 9, 2021: Introducing The Quiet Space: A set of offerings for scholars and knowledge creators Good morning, friends. I have a new-ish morning ritual. I creep downstairs so as not to wake my kid. I get out a glass. I go to the fridge. I get out โ€ฆ

Jul 9, 2021: Hulu has both Beetlejuice and Season 7 of Younger, see y’all next week. ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿฟ

Jul 9, 2021: I'm having a tantrum about how hard it is to live with chronic illness. Back in May, I had some bloodwork done. I discovered that my thyroid hormone levels were in the normal reference range but were, in my opinion, โ€ฆ

Jul 7, 2021: Habits from UNF*CK YOUR HABITAT I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. I’m re-reading Unf*ck Your Habitat and wanted to keep some notes in a โ€ฆ

Jul 7, 2021: Nightstand before & after courtesy the first couple of mini-challenges in the original UfYH book. (I’ll get a commission if you purchase the โ€ฆ

Jul 7, 2021: I take 20 medications/supplements, some of them more than once a day.

Jul 3, 2021: I’m brewing 2 essays about Star Trek: The Next Generation: about Data, perfectionism, & imposter syndrome in “Peak Performance” โ€ฆ

Jul 2, 2021: My kid asked me if he was a camper & I told him we could call our home a camp if he wanted and he named it LD Camp. It stands for Librarian Doctor โ€ฆ

Jul 2, 2021: Years ago now, my sister gave M. a 3D printed Jiji from Kiki’s Delivery Service. Today I painted it as we watched Kiki.

Jul 2, 2021: I don’t believe being a librarian is A Calling but I do believe it is a disposition; it is one of my most prominent dispositions & as such โ€ฆ

Jul 1, 2021: Welcome to Camp NaNoWriMo with me! I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. It’s July 1 which means it’s the start of Camp NaNoWriMo! โ€ฆ

Jun 29, 2021: Response to "Knittingโ€™s resurgence reflects womenโ€™s desire to confront inequality": things that have been things for a while, affinity space research, and punk rock new domesticity I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. I’m writing up a response to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s โ€ฆ

Jun 29, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Putting a pin in this article to remind me to write later about the perils of outsiders researching affinity spaces, the overlooked punk rockness of โ€ฆ

Jun 29, 2021: Returning to Dissertating in the Open Back when I started the dissertation process, I had this whole plan to dissertate in the open. I did this successfully up through the proposal โ€ฆ

Jun 28, 2021: Want to read: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 28, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–โ–ถ๏ธ Watching Meet Courtney: An American Girl Movie & trying not to lose it every time they mention the Challenger or Christa McAuliffe. 35 years โ€ฆ

Jun 28, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ Listen, as a 90s babybat I welcome the new Anne Rice television universe. ๐Ÿฆ‡

Jun 28, 2021: I don’t have a plan beyond keeping my kid alive, resting a lot, trying to be more chill. I’ve never not had a plan before. I’m lucky โ€ฆ

Jun 27, 2021: Want to read: Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by Marc Goulden, Mary Ann Mason, and Nicholas H. Wolfinger ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 27, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š I read only the Introduction to Kelly J. Baker’s SEXISM ED and I’m already seething with rage.

Jun 27, 2021: I don’t like to drink rosรฉ but I love the rosรฉwave vibe. I’m trying to figure out what faux-luxe looks like for parents of young children. โ€ฆ

Jun 27, 2021: Finished reading: Succeeding Outside the Academy ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 26, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “Why have I surrendered so much of my present self to an abstract future self that may never exist? Why have I made my present happiness โ€ฆ

Jun 26, 2021: Every time I work on this article revision I end up getting mad at Reviewer 2 all over again, mostly for treating me like a baby, even though โ€ฆ

Jun 26, 2021: My Kid (4.5 yo): Donatello is playing a video game. Me: Fun! What’s it called? Kid: “Science Nerd.” ๐Ÿข๐Ÿ•น๏ธ

Jun 26, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–โ–ถ๏ธ Watched Create Your Unicorn Career from Scratch. Engaging talk from a science communicator/comedian! Don’t throw any part of yourself away! โ€ฆ

Jun 25, 2021: Low-key day today: chilling with my kid in the morning, an adventure with a locked but unoccupied bathroom that resulted in me taking the handle off โ€ฆ

Jun 24, 2021: JK, today is a rest-in-bed kind of day now that I’ve done my most important work, registering my kid for the next round of swim lessons. Also โ€ฆ

Jun 24, 2021: Today is a work-in-bed kind of day. (I have chronic illness and a 4 year old; kindly keep your sleep hygiene tips to yourself.)

Jun 24, 2021: As a younger person I thought people in their 40s had their acts together. ~3 wks away from turning 40 I realize people in their 40s have simply โ€ฆ

Jun 24, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ I love Austin Kleon’s advice to relocate your darlings. I have a file for every project with the word “Cut” in the filename and โ€ฆ

Jun 24, 2021: Want to read: Annotation by Remi H. Kalir and Antero Garcia ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 23, 2021: Is my hair still wet or is it like this because I tried the Curly Girl method and used gel? The Kimberly Hirsh story [Caption: a woman with hair that โ€ฆ

Jun 23, 2021: Want to read: Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 23, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š I know I’m very late to this party but GIDEON THE NINTH is so good.

Jun 22, 2021: What is less helpful than it might be is when a reviewer suggests that people have already written a bunch about the thing you’re writing about โ€ฆ

Jun 21, 2021: 9 am Kimberly: I’m totally going to work this afternoon! 1 pm Kimberly: I’m totally going to read GIDEON THE NINTH this afternoon! ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 20, 2021: In the bathroom at the children’s museum yesterday, I looked in the mirror. I saw a sweaty mess who was clearly somebody’s mom. I thought, โ€ฆ

Jun 20, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š (Please don’t spoil me) Me reading Gideon the Ninth: KISS! KISS! KISS!

Jun 19, 2021: Welp. Sitting on hold with the grocery store because they accidentally charged me $78.89 for 1 lb of turkey is not how I expected to spend my Saturday โ€ฆ

Jun 19, 2021: The layers of references in this poster are delightful: cats as Data and Geordi as Holmes and Watson chef kiss ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ

Jun 18, 2021: Finished reading: Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 18, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “If you cannot bear our pain, you are not fit to carry our strength.” WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER, Leigh Bardugo

Jun 18, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š I’m reading Leigh Bardugo’s WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER & while it took a little while to grab me, here at about 2/3 of the way through โ€ฆ

Jun 16, 2021: I’m announcing it to make it real: I’m going to write a sweet romance novella for Camp NaNoWriMo in July & I’m going to write it โ€ฆ

Jun 16, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read What We Canโ€”and Can’tโ€”Learn About Louisa May Alcott from Her Teenage Fiction - Electric Literature electricliterature.com Read: โ€ฆ

Jun 15, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“บ “No one likes having a curse, but if you take the right steps, it’s manageable.” - Eda the Owl Lady, The Owl House Season 1 โ€ฆ

Jun 15, 2021: Anybody else feel like a lot of qualitative methodology writeups in studies are basically “I did a qual! I analyzed a thing! DATA! CODES!” โ€ฆ

Jun 14, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Toll from political push at UNC continues to mount | NC Policy Watch ncpolicywatch.com Read: www.ncpolicywatch.com ncpolicywatch.com โ€ฆ

Jun 14, 2021: Me: What am I going to do with my kid all summer? The pool: Hi. Me: ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿงœ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ

Jun 14, 2021: Someone in my neighborhood is doing yardwork at 9 pm and I’m not okay with it.

Jun 12, 2021: Do I pretend I’m Kaz Brekker when I use my new cane? Only with every step I take.

Jun 12, 2021: Part of me is always working on a taxonomy and ontology of #StarTrekTNG episodes. (Currently: only Data can safely go down to the planet. A girl or โ€ฆ

Jun 11, 2021: I have no special insight into the MCU but this song might be a bit instructive (and if you’re familiar with Marvel Comics is pretty hilarious): โ€ฆ

Jun 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Loki episode 1 finds a startling way to rest the antihero for Marvel TV - Polygon polygon.comRead: www.polygon.com polygon.com โ€ฆ

Jun 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Loki episode 1 recap and Easter eggs: Thor’s naughty brother gets busted for time crimes - CNET cnet.comRead: www.cnet.com cnet.com โ€ฆ

Jun 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ“บ watched Loki Season 1, Episode 1, “Glorious Purpose.” Took me a little while to get into but I’m looking forward to seeing where โ€ฆ

Jun 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Star Trek | Games of Fame gamesoffame.wordpress.comRead: gamesoffame.wordpress.com gamesoffame.wordpress.com โ€ฆ

Jun 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read 1974: Super Star Trek - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.comRead: if50.substack.com if50.substack.com โ€ฆ

Jun 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Before Adventure, Addendums | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blogRead: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer โ€ฆ

Jun 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Before Adventure, Part 5: Wumpus 2 and 3 | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blogRead: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer โ€ฆ

Jun 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read ยป Hunt the Wumpus, Part 2 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net โ€ฆ

Jun 11, 2021: Watching “new” She-Ra with my kid & forgot who my She-Ra avatar was but then we got to episode 5…

Jun 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read ยป Hunt the Wumpus, Part 1 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net โ€ฆ

Jun 10, 2021: What does after even mean? Lately some of the things that have been lifelines for me during the pandemic have started to feel less lifeliney. The crafting group I meet with on โ€ฆ

Jun 10, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Before Adventure, Part 4: Hunt the Wumpus (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer โ€ฆ

Jun 10, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Before Adventure, Part 2: Mugwump, Hurkle, Snark (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer โ€ฆ

Jun 10, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Before Adventure, Part 1: Hide and Seek (1972) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer โ€ฆ

Jun 10, 2021: ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ I just watched the two pre-Loki episodes of Marvel Studios LEGENDS and y’all the MCU gets more obtuse all the time. In comics they do โ€ฆ

Jun 10, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ ReadBefore Adventure, Part 3: Caves (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer โ€ฆ

Jun 10, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read 1973: Hunt the Wumpus - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.com Read: if50.substack.com if50.substack.com โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: Text adventure nostalgia I hope your Wednesday’s going well! (Or Thursday if you’re farther east enough than me that that’s what day it is!) I’ve been โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: Today, in letting go of my internalized ableism: using a cane during a hip pain flare.

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Forty Years of Lunar Lander technologizer.com Read: www.technologizer.com technologizer.com โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Lunar Lander: The Full Story of the Legendary Game and Genre fictionphile.com Read: fictionphile.com fictionphile.com โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read 1972: ROCKET - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.com Read: if50.substack.com if50.substack.com https://if50.substack.com/p/1972-rocket

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Something Found In The Oregon Trail - Code Dive codedive.substack.com Read: codedive.substack.com codedive.substack.com โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 5 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: www.filfre.net filfre.net โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 4 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: www.filfre.net filfre.net โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Oregon Trail Ver. 3 (BASIC 3.1, 1978) | Desert Hat deserthat.wordpress.com Read: deserthat.wordpress.com deserthat.wordpress.com โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 3 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: www.filfre.net filfre.net โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 2 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: www.filfre.net filfre.net โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Rafting Down the Columbia River died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Matt’s Store & Starting the Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Crossing Rivers died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read The Earliest Versions of the Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read A Brief History of the Oregon Trail Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read The Oregon Trail Memes died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com โ€ฆ

Jun 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Designing the Travel Screen for โ€œThe Oregon Trailโ€ | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium | Medium medium.comRead: medium.com medium.com โ€ฆ

Jun 8, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ The FEMICOM museum is my new favorite thing.

Jun 8, 2021: Things that can bring on trochanteric (hip) bursitis: sitting, lying down, physical activity. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

Jun 8, 2021: On pain Hello again! My right hip has been hurting the past couple of days. Or almost a week, I guess - it started last Wednesday and has been off-and-on โ€ฆ

Jun 8, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ Read The Power of Pride - Arc Digital arcdigital.mediaRead: www.arcdigital.media arcdigital.media โ€ฆ

Jun 8, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read Designing the Hunting Game for โ€œThe Oregon Trailโ€ | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium | Medium medium.comRead: medium.com medium.com โ€ฆ

Jun 8, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read How I Managed to Design the Most Successful Educational Computer Game of All Time | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium | Medium โ€ฆ

Jun 8, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 1 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net โ€ฆ

Jun 8, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read The Forgotten History of ‘The Oregon Trail,’ As Told By Its Creators vice.comRead: www.vice.com vice.com โ€ฆ

Jun 8, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽฎ Read 1971: The Oregon Trail - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.comRead: if50.substack.com if50.substack.com โ€ฆ

Jun 7, 2021: Welcome to a week of daily blogging: stream-of-consciousness flavor! I’m working to get into the flow of daily blogging, so this post will be rather stream of consciousness. I work best in two-hour chunks. Today, โ€ฆ

Jun 7, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Martha Bautells’s On Writing Through a Residency That Never Happened (But Did?) resonates with me, as I still grieve the dissertation I โ€ฆ

Jun 7, 2021: โ†ช๏ธ in reply to Bridgy stats update I wonder if the drop-off in publishing after August 2020 might be due to pandemic fatigue.

Jun 6, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “The graduate program… hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and dedication to one’s intellectual โ€ฆ

Jun 5, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿงต๐Ÿงถ Read What We Learned From a Year of Crafting - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com Www.nytimes.com โ€ฆ

Jun 5, 2021: There are worse things than sitting outside at a children’s museum on a beautiful day with little fans pointed at your face while your spouse โ€ฆ

Jun 5, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read Kristen Arnett Gets Her Best Ideas at the Bar - Interview Magazine interviewmagazine.comRead: www.interviewmagazine.com interviewmagazine.com โ€ฆ

Jun 5, 2021: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Kate Zambreno on her new book "To Write as if Already Dead" - Los Angeles Times The postpartum experience isnโ€™t just expensive; it can also be one of psychic trauma and creative crisis. Someone who was a person becomes a mother. โ€ฆ

Jun 5, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Elizabeth and Gav promised in this week’s The Rec Center that 1992: Silverwolf would be the most engrossing post I’d read all week and โ€ฆ

Jun 3, 2021: Career Advice for PhDs Websites and Professionals: You should use ImaginePhD! It will help you identify a good post/alt/non-ac career for your โ€ฆ

Jun 3, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read Together As We Burn: On a Complicated Maternal Bond and Intergenerational Love. A heartbreaking excerpt from Ashley C. Ford’s memoir, โ€ฆ

Jun 3, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Read Stories and Hormones Shape Our Lives by Elanor Broker. Beautiful essay weaving together personal experiences of trans matrescence and the โ€ฆ

Jun 3, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read Finding Time to Write About Motherhoodโ€ฆ While Parenting During a Pandemic . The usual fragmented life of a mother is intensified by the โ€ฆ

Jun 2, 2021: Quick Review: The City We Became ๐Ÿ“š I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. I love the way N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became captures the spirit โ€ฆ

Jun 1, 2021: Finished reading: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 1, 2021: I’ve also made my Scholarly Writing Project Audit and Pipeline Notion template available via Gumroad. Itโ€™s pay-what-you-can/want. It is based on โ€ฆ

Jun 1, 2021: For #TrekTuesday, I’ll share that I spend a LOT of time wondering why we don’t see social scientists as key crew members on the โ€ฆ

May 31, 2021: I’ve made my Conceptual Synthesis Spreadsheet Notion template available via Gumroad. It’s pay-what-you-can/want. This spreadsheet is based โ€ฆ

May 30, 2021: Thanks to a generous person I met in the Mermaids of NC group on Facebook, I am now Dr. Mer-Mom. Apparently having a mermaid tail makes me extra โ€ฆ

May 28, 2021: Build networks & ask for what you need & give what you can. Swimming in a mermaid tail is a hobby with a community. I’ve wanted to get โ€ฆ

May 28, 2021: I got a Rakuten Libra H2O and I am so excited about its OverDrive integration. So many public library books at my fingertips on a screen that’s โ€ฆ

May 28, 2021: Finished reading: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š

May 27, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ “We learn to wring magic from the ordinary… When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.” Crooked โ€ฆ

May 25, 2021: Want to read: The Lightmaker’s Manifesto: How to Work for Change Without Losing Your Joy by Karen Walrond ๐Ÿ“š

May 24, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š Kaz Brekker is the best. Why do we have obligations besides reading books?

May 24, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ I’ve heard a lot about the excellent disability representation in the Six of Crows duology. Obviously Kaz is phenomenal; Wylan is awesome, โ€ฆ

May 23, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š In Crooked Kingdom, Inej thinks about her hope that she and Kaz could be “more than two wary creatures united by their distrust of the โ€ฆ

May 21, 2021: Hey guess what? You can download the Creative Commons-licensed version of my dissertation on my dissertation page!

May 20, 2021: Added “consulting scholar-librarian ๐Ÿ”” to my bio.

May 20, 2021: Getting a lot of targeted ads for EdDs like “Heeeey noticed you just finished a doctorate, want another?” [GIF: Seth Meyer laughing and โ€ฆ

May 20, 2021: Personal reflections after (but not really on) #FanLIS My head is swimming after attending the #FanLIS symposium today. At this moment when I’m taking a few weeks off before launching consulting, โ€ฆ

May 20, 2021: Most of my tweets from #FanLIS I’m planning to return and clean up formatting and add links to videos once they’re online, but for now, here’s a collection of โ€ฆ

May 19, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š Faridah ร€bรญkรฉ-รyรญmรญdรฉ's ACE OF SPADES: Gossip Girl meets Get Out in a gripping debut thriller ACE OF SPADES by Faridah ร€bรญkรฉ-รyรญmรญdรฉ Chiamaka and Devon are both students at the prestigious Niveus Academy and total opposites. Devon is a nobody, โ€ฆ

May 19, 2021: Just deleted “expected” before “May 2021” in my CV.

May 19, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š How do you keep track of quotes that resonate with you? I usually write them in my Bullet Journal or post them to my blog, but sometimes I snap a โ€ฆ

May 19, 2021: Finished reading: Ace of Spades by Faridah ร€bรญkรฉ-รyรญmรญdรฉ ๐Ÿ“š

May 18, 2021: ๐Ÿ“บ I’ve got 2 episodes left of SHRILL. It’s so weird being right in the middle of Annie and Gabe’s ages, too old to be an โ€ฆ

May 18, 2021: Want to read: Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews by Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel ๐Ÿ“š

May 18, 2021: ๐Ÿ“บ Fran is always my favorite on SHRILL. Today it’s because she says, “I just don’t think I can work somewhere where I’m not โ€ฆ

May 18, 2021: Today in “But they’re worth it": my kid showed me a tiny grape as though he had found an amazing treasure. If you like kids but โ€ฆ

May 17, 2021: Yesterday I did 3 things so today my body wants me to do no things. I hope the plan I made with my Dr gets my thyroid levels back to optimal. These โ€ฆ

May 17, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š Sometimes I have to start a book several times before it holds my interest. A GAME OF THRONES was like that, but eventually I caught it in the right โ€ฆ

May 16, 2021: I carry a tote bag around my house as I move through my day. I never know what I’ll be in the mood to read if I have the time to, so I usually โ€ฆ

May 16, 2021: Want to read: How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams ๐Ÿ“š

May 15, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š Right before I started my Grishaverse catch up, I went on a dark academia spree. These were three of the books I read as part of that. They’re โ€ฆ

May 14, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š Remember how I said my hammock was my favorite reading spot? Here’s a flashback to me reading SIX OF CROWS in my hammock a few weeks ago. The โ€ฆ

May 14, 2021: Want to read: Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope ๐Ÿ“š

May 14, 2021: Want to read: Anya of Ark by Kristian Joseph ๐Ÿ“š

May 14, 2021: Post-graduation reception.

May 14, 2021: Tassel turned! (The gown and hood were too itchy to keep on with only a sundress underneath.)

May 13, 2021: 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 โ€ฆ

May 13, 2021: Want to read: Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller ๐Ÿ“š

May 13, 2021: 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 โ€ฆ

May 13, 2021: ๐Ÿ“š I first read SHADOW AND BONE 5 years ago, on a hammock at the beach, when I was 7 months pregnant. I was too impatient to do a re-read before the โ€ฆ

May 13, 2021: I had to do one more round of formatting this morning but at long last my dissertation has been accepted by my university!

May 12, 2021: 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 โ€ฆ

May 11, 2021: I love when I talk to my doctor and we agree on the best course of action.

May 11, 2021: 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 โ€ฆ

May 11, 2021: 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 โ€ฆ

May 11, 2021: 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 โ€ฆ

May 11, 2021: 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 โ€ฆ

May 11, 2021: 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 โ€ฆ

May 11, 2021: Finished reading: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May ๐Ÿ“š

May 9, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– I’ve started calling my kid Little One & after reading Meg Elison’s How Lwaxana Troi Became Our Space Aunt I couldn’t be โ€ฆ

May 8, 2021: 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 โ€ฆ

May 7, 2021: Prepping to launch my consulting career ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€โ€๐Ÿ’ผ 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 โ€ฆ

May 6, 2021: 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 โ€ฆ

May 6, 2021: Added “serious Belle vibes ๐Ÿ“š” to my bio.

May 4, 2021: You should probably look at Laz Marquez’s #StarTrekGala art project because it’s AWESOME. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ“บ

May 4, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š Austin Kleon writes today about [wintering and dormancy] (https://austinkleon.com/2021/05/04/wintering-and-dormancy/), quoting Katherine โ€ฆ

May 3, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ–– Read The Measure of a Man Demonstrates the Many Forms of Love by Anna E. Gant

May 3, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ–– Hrisoula Gatzogiannis’s The Only Work Ethic I Care About Is the One on Star Trek details what Picard explains in the TNG episode “The โ€ฆ

May 3, 2021: I think at some point in the past 6 years I became an information scientist. Yay?

May 3, 2021: I’m thinking about metaphors for how people consume information. Infodemic. Infobesity. I think there are more thoughts to be had here, โ€ฆ

May 3, 2021: Went really minimal with my latest bio: motherscholar ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป she/her โ™ฟ โค๏ธ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’™ Durham, NC, USA ๐ŸŒŽ

May 3, 2021: I want to share that if you have panic attacks fueled by imposter syndrome more than 2 weeks after your dissertation defense, you are not alone, โ€ฆ

May 2, 2021: Want to read: Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins ๐Ÿ“š

May 2, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–ReadPost-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan louisaellenstein.comRead: louisaellenstein.com louisaellenstein.com โ€ฆ

May 2, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Against Aca-Fandom bogost.comRead: bogost.com bogost.com http://bogost.com/blog/against_aca-fandom/

May 2, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies louisaellenstein.comRead: louisaellenstein.com louisaellenstein.com โ€ฆ

May 2, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ Read On Disliking Mad Men justtv.wordpress.comRead: justtv.wordpress.com adornofangirl โ€ฆ

Apr 30, 2021: Frank Oz, on Miss Piggy: She has a lot of vulnerability, which she has to hide, because of her need to be a superstar. Quoted in Of Muppets and Men โ€ฆ

Apr 30, 2021: Kermit, while he is no saint, has achieved a wonderful equilibrium in which a common sense and a hunger for the absurd are nicely balanced. Were he to โ€ฆ

Apr 30, 2021: Want to read: Digital Black Feminism by Catherine Knight Steele ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 30, 2021: Played Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego? via the Internet Archive with M. this morning & explained that Moscow is no longer the capital of โ€ฆ

Apr 29, 2021: What we do is chatacter comedy. Jerry Juhl, head writer of The Muppet Show, quoted in Of Muppets and Men: The Making of the Muppet Show by โ€ฆ

Apr 29, 2021: CS101: Week One I’m auditing Stanford’s CS101 on EdX because while I love Harvard’s CS50x I think I need some back to basics stuff. (All of this โ€ฆ

Apr 29, 2021: Woohoo, I think I wrote the introduction of this article, yay me. Back to chipping away at the lit review…

Apr 29, 2021: Here’s me in 2018 unknowingly arguing the key finding of my dissertation: information literacy models should include creation.

Apr 29, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read No One Makes a Living on Patreon.

Apr 29, 2021: Oh hey I got so excited about becoming Dr. Hirsh that I forgot to share photos of my Data make-up test on my non-cosplay accounts. Here you go! โ€ฆ

Apr 28, 2021: Y’all is Kevin Feige okay? Has he ever, you know, been outside? Somebody should probably take him to a park.

Apr 27, 2021: Spoiler font on my website I’m playing with CSS to get spoiler-text hidden unless selected on my website. Let’s see if it works! I’m putting double pipes โ€ฆ

Apr 27, 2021: On languishing, being dormant, and lying in wait. Adam Grant’s article Thereโ€™s a Name for the Blah Youโ€™re Feeling: Itโ€™s Called Languishing has been floating around different places I spend time โ€ฆ

Apr 27, 2021: Notes and highlights from Katie Rose Guest Pryal's THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC ๐Ÿ“š I’ve read Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s The Freelance Academic twice now. It’s a great book. I’ve taken notes on it and highlighted โ€ฆ

Apr 27, 2021: Am I always tired because I’m: A) a newly minted PhD recovering from dissertating B) the parent of a young child C) a person living with chronic โ€ฆ

Apr 26, 2021: My Dissertation Acknowledgments It’s probably going to be a little while before I get my full dissertation up online, so I thought I’d go ahead and post my โ€ฆ

Apr 26, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read โ€˜Buy Nothingโ€™ groups: A place to share goods, services โ€” and gratitude.

Apr 26, 2021: Biggest takeaway from the first 5 episodes of SHADOW & BONE is that I want to get really good at embroidery & goldwork and make all the โ€ฆ

Apr 26, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read Rebuilding the Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com anildash.com https://anildash.com/2012/12/18/rebuilding_the_web_we_lost/

Apr 26, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read The Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com anildash.com http://anildash.com/2012/12/13/the_web_we_lost/

Apr 25, 2021: O hai. the early blogosphere was full of people who obsessed over โ€œcorrectlyโ€ labeling and organizing content. Anil Dash, The Lost Infrastructure of โ€ฆ

Apr 25, 2021: Finished reading: Come Back, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish and Wallace Tripp ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 25, 2021: Finished reading: Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower by Peggy Parish and Barbara Siegel Thomas ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 24, 2021: I have been so focused on writing my dissertation for so long that it’s a challenge to write a lit review short enough for a journal article. ๐Ÿ“

Apr 24, 2021: Finished reading: Thank You, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish, Barbara Siebel Thomas ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 24, 2021: Finished reading: Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish and Fitz Siebel ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 23, 2021: Stocking the flow of my garden in the stream ๐Ÿ’ป I’ve been wanting to clean up my blog at least since I migrated from WordPress to Micro.blog, maybe longer. But at over 1000 entries and more โ€ฆ

Apr 23, 2021: Hello I have watched the first episode of SHADOW & BONE and Jesper has now replaced Kaz as my Ketterdam favorite. (I don’t think my Ravka โ€ฆ

Apr 23, 2021: You can now watch my dissertation defense presentation! I’ve stopped the video before the Q&A to protect my committee and guests' privacy, โ€ฆ

Apr 23, 2021: Finished reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 23, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ“บ Read Marvel movies have a weird relationship with kissing and romance - Polygon polygon.comRead: www.polygon.com polygon.com โ€ฆ

Apr 22, 2021: Today’s weather is the best kind of NC spring weather. It’s 57F and there are fluffy clouds. The trees are all green. I’m in a โ€ฆ

Apr 22, 2021: Want to read: Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir by Callum Roberts ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 22, 2021: Want to read: The Brilliant Abyss, Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It by Helen Scales ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 22, 2021: I’m so happy that I’m now qualified to wear this Delicious PhD Darling “regalia.” ๐Ÿคฃ (If you’ve never seen this before, โ€ฆ

Apr 21, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read How Bookishness Affects the Book Biz publishersweekly.comRead: www.publishersweekly.com publishersweekly.com โ€ฆ

Apr 21, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read How to Read When You Have a Baby | Book Riot bookriot.combookriot.com https://bookriot.com/how-to-read-when-you-have-a-baby/ Sound advice here.

Apr 21, 2021: I resent the fact that Book Riot’s Find Out Your SHADOW AND BONE Character quiz made me choose between Nikolai & Kaz. (I chose Nikolai but โ€ฆ

Apr 21, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Read On the Relationship Between Motherhood and Madness in Victorian Literature โ€น Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com lithub.com โ€ฆ

Apr 21, 2021: I know somebody on micro.blog has put together an On This Day type page that shows you posts on today’s date in previous years. I can’t โ€ฆ

Apr 20, 2021: My favorite thing about Labyrinth is that the ending suggests that you can grow up while retaining your attachment to fantasy. ๐Ÿฟ

Apr 19, 2021: Told y’all I was going all-in on Trek. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“š

Apr 19, 2021: Submitted my dissertation to the university. Ordered Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’s The Dark Fantastic from Rofhiwa Bookcafรฉ to celebrate. ๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ‰

Apr 18, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Reagan Ray has collected a bunch of hand-lettered logos from Marvel comics pre-2000. My favorite series from this era is the 6 issue miniseries โ€ฆ

Apr 15, 2021: Exhausted from defense & migrainey because PCOS, so it’s time to settle in with some #StarTrekTNG. I’m doing a very slow rewatch. โ€ฆ

Apr 15, 2021: Advisor: So make these revisions because those were good questions and you had answers to them. Me: Please send the defense video, I will not remember โ€ฆ

Apr 15, 2021: Katherine Taylor’s essay, I Am Not a Robot, explores Data’s value as a stand-in for autistic people. It also gets at how all kinds of โ€ฆ

Apr 15, 2021: I have a lot of thank yous to catch up on, and I will. But in the meantime, I highly recommend having most of your best friends at your dissertation โ€ฆ

Apr 14, 2021: Lt. Cmdr. DOCTOR Kimberly Hirsh here… I mean Data, whoops… I passed my dissertation defense! Yay me! And immense thanks to the people โ€ฆ

Apr 14, 2021: This really does feel like waiting to go to the hospital to be induced. I hope the dissertation defense involves less back labor.

Apr 14, 2021: Really wish I felt like I could sweeten my defense with a laugh track.

Apr 14, 2021: Me, when Wesley Crusher tells Guinan he always gets As: Really? We’re still grading things in the 24th century? ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ

Apr 14, 2021: Last call for anyone who wants to attend my dissertation defense on Zoom, 4/14/21 1pm Eastern! The title is “Where’d You Get Those โ€ฆ

Apr 14, 2021: O no my defense adrenaline has arrived 18 hours early

Apr 13, 2021: THE NEVERS as Disability Metaphor โ™ฟ ๐Ÿ“บ This post contains slight spoilers for The Nevers. I just watched the first episode of The Nevers. Yes, it was created, written, and directed by Joss โ€ฆ

Apr 13, 2021: Weeks ago now my kid told me, “You don’t need to be a doctor. You’re already somebody special.” Carrying that energy in my โ€ฆ

Apr 13, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–Also, the Sesame Street Tiny Desk Concert made me tear up. ๐Ÿ“บ๐ŸŽต

Apr 13, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– I highly recommend this video of the Yip Yip Invasion at Phoenix Comicon 2017, in which a group of cosplayers dress as The Martians from Sesame โ€ฆ

Apr 13, 2021: Can I be in the book fandom? Like, I’m a fan of books as a medium and as aesthetic objects?

Apr 13, 2021: Finished reading: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 11, 2021: Exhausted from reviewing my dissertation slides with W (and applying for a job and doing a makeup test and parenting). Off to Ravka for the next 45 โ€ฆ

Apr 11, 2021: Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing by John Scalzi ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 9, 2021: Finished my defense slides and I’m so tired. ๐Ÿ“

Apr 9, 2021: Me: Why am I so obsessed with identity construction? The little Chani Nicholas my head: Because your Sun & Ascendant are both in Cancer in the 1st โ€ฆ

Apr 9, 2021: Fellow academics, do you have a writerly identity? I told my artist BFF my 1st diss draft was garbage & she said “Lol so writing like art โ€ฆ

Apr 7, 2021: I have decided to go all-in on Star Trek. Especially TNG of course, but for the time being, I’m making Trek writ large my primary fandom.

Apr 7, 2021: I’m not saying I’m just saying I kind of wish the Season 2 finale of Picard would be Picard and Q’s wedding is all. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ

Apr 7, 2021: Which Muppet do I most identify with? Well… ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿฟ

Apr 7, 2021: Don’t mind me, I’m just over here flailing in response to the Picard Season 2 Teaser Trailer. ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ”–

Apr 7, 2021: Reddit user JaytheChou is photoshopping Paddington into a different movie every day and it is a source of joy. ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ”–

Apr 7, 2021: I’ve always been resentful of the trope where girls have to pretend to be boys to get stuff done, but Natalie Zutter’s piece about Leia โ€ฆ

Apr 7, 2021: Improv as community/business/cult has a lot of problems that would require a radical new model to fix but improv as playful art form taught me a lot โ€ฆ

Apr 6, 2021: I’m in a hammock and I don’t want to get up.

Apr 6, 2021: I just finished Leigh Bardugo’s Siege and Storm and I’m so glad I’ve got the next one ready to go tonight. I’m not saying โ€ฆ

Apr 6, 2021: Finished reading: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 6, 2021: Teared up watching @levarburton’s cameos for other people. “It’s over. It’s done. You defended the damn thing…” โ€ฆ

Apr 6, 2021: So I’m reading my dissertation and I think it’s… Good? Like it was written by somebody who knows what they’re talking about? โ€ฆ

Apr 6, 2021: About to start reading and marking up this thing in preparation for next week’s defense, at which I will boldly go where (to my knowledge) no โ€ฆ

Apr 5, 2021: Honored today to deliver a pre-recorded guest lecture on Reader’s Advisory for Dr. Megan Threats’s Reference Sources & Services class. โ€ฆ

Apr 5, 2021: I really miss the internet of 2004 - 2007, specifically the DIY/New Domesticity craft punk blog & forum corner of it. I think my soul is a little โ€ฆ

Apr 4, 2021: I have now met all my pre-defense scholarly obligations (paper draft & guest lecture) so I guess it’s time to prepare for my defense. โ€ฆ

Apr 4, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– I somehow missed Linda Holmes’s beautiful piece about The Muppet Movie soundtrack. She pulls out the very lines that always makes me cry. ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿธ๐ŸŽต

Apr 3, 2021: True story, my dissertation includes the statement, “I was wrong.” ๐Ÿ“

Apr 2, 2021: 18 hrs post-vaccine woke up a little achey, a little lymph node-y. Not too bad but still planning to rest most of the day.

Apr 2, 2021: 5 hrs post-vaccine, feeling fuzzy-headed and mildly achey, chills receded but I bet they’ll be back.

Apr 1, 2021: J&J vaccine, side effects (or psychosomatic effects?) settling in after 3 hours: vague malaise, mild infrequent chill.

Apr 1, 2021: This windblown lady is vaccinated and waiting outside the Cookout Walk Up Window for a celebratory Cookout tray. (It’s me. This vaccinated and โ€ฆ

Mar 30, 2021: Thinking of launching an academic editing service explicitly targeted to scholars who are also caregivers. Interested to hear thoughts on this from โ€ฆ

Mar 29, 2021: I did the My Next Move interests profile and it says I should be an information research scientist. Yay?

Mar 29, 2021: Being in a “life happens” moment myself (finishing my dissertation), I originally missed Tantek ร‡elik’s chat conversations & โ€ฆ

Mar 25, 2021: Watching My Neighbor Totoro & my kid is saying that I’m like Mama Kusakabe because we both have dark hair and fair skin. I said, “And โ€ฆ

Mar 23, 2021: My kid’s over here telling his dad a Magic Treehouse/Wild Kratts crossover story. ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’“๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“บ

Mar 23, 2021: Want to read: The Writer’s Practice by John Warner ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 22, 2021: I’m finishing up my PhD this May! I have a lot of possibilities for what’s next; I would welcome even more! I’m open to hearing โ€ฆ

Mar 22, 2021: It's spring and my dissertation is submitted! Let's do all the things! It feels like submitting my dissertation has freed up an immense amount of space in my head and heart to start thinking about other things. Iโ€™m so โ€ฆ

Mar 21, 2021: Want to read: When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 18, 2021: 4yo: What are you defending? Me: My dissertation. 4yo: Why do you have to defend it? Me:

Mar 18, 2021: Friend: I was thinking like I needed to get in my 10,000 hours and be an expert. Me: The 10,000 hours rule is not entirely evidence-based and we โ€ฆ

Mar 17, 2021: Here’s a proposed title for my memoir, inspired by me being aggressively helped at a friend via text: TELLING FRIENDS THINGS I NEED TO HEAR: THE โ€ฆ

Mar 17, 2021: You know that thing where you’ve pursued something long enough that now you’ve pretty much been exposed to all the fundamentals of it, and โ€ฆ

Mar 17, 2021: Debating with myself about regalia since I’m not going to an in-person ceremony. Definitely not trying to get the fancy stuff I dreamed of 10 โ€ฆ

Mar 17, 2021: “The academy is not designed to accommodate women, families, or the demands of modern life… Settling for mediocrity in everything but โ€ฆ

Mar 17, 2021: “[The graduate program] hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and dedication to one’s intellectual โ€ฆ

Mar 16, 2021: “Lives matter more than careers. Focus on building the life you want rather than pursuing the career that people think you should have.” - โ€ฆ

Mar 16, 2021: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic by Katie Rose Guest Pryal ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 16, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– What are we folding when we are folding laundry in quarantine is a beautiful poem by Sarah Ruhl. Probably time for me to pick up my copy of 100 โ€ฆ

Mar 16, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– I love this take. I’d love to see it even more fleshed out: WandaVision Is Basically a Retelling of the Scarlet Letter (LitHub) ๐Ÿ“บ

Mar 16, 2021: Apparently it’s going to be an up-every-two-hours kind of night.

Mar 15, 2021: SAVE THE DATE! My dissertation defense is set for April 14th from 1 - 3 pm. It will be held via Zoom. SILS dissertation defenses are open. Please get โ€ฆ

Mar 13, 2021: Sewing is not going great because my machine is old and unhelpful and difficult to find a manual for. (I’ve tried all the places but if you find โ€ฆ

Mar 12, 2021: I threaded a needle and pulled up the bobbin thread! ๐Ÿงต

Mar 12, 2021: I wound a bobbin! ๐Ÿงต

Mar 11, 2021: Taking a mini-spring break over UNC’s Wellness Days & the weekend, including bailing on Social Media. See y’all Monday!

Mar 10, 2021: No YOU meant to go to bed an hour ago but got distracted by online window-shopping for sewing supplies. ๐Ÿงต

Mar 9, 2021: I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent my finished, formatted dissertation to my advisor, who will send it to my committee. All that remains is for โ€ฆ

Mar 8, 2021: We are now at the “Watch Studio Ghibli instead of PBS Kids” stage of the pandemic. ๐Ÿฟ

Mar 8, 2021: In the process of scheduling and thought to myself I should be sure to invite my Grandmomma. ๐Ÿ˜ข

Mar 7, 2021: Catching up on MCU. My favorite parts of Daredevil S2 are when Matt Murdock & Frank Castle have quiet conversations about vigilante ethics & โ€ฆ

Mar 6, 2021: Me, justifying my discussion chapter to the committee in my head: It’s only 1/3 of a dissertation so that’s why there’s only 1/3 of โ€ฆ

Mar 6, 2021: I may have finished my discussion chapter. I definitely sent it off to my advisor.

Mar 5, 2021: Discussion section: behind the scenes [Alt text: A piece of paper showing a black and white diagram with several shapes on it and text overlaid on the โ€ฆ

Mar 5, 2021: Wrote ~1200 words. Time for a cake break! ๐Ÿฐ Oh no, there’s no cake! Time for a donut break! ๐Ÿฉ

Mar 5, 2021: Today’s writing music: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Original Soundtrack SQUARE ENIX MUSIC

Mar 5, 2021: Me, this morning: Sure buddy, I’ll find those missing toys for you! Me, after taking everything out and spreading out because I might as well โ€ฆ

Mar 5, 2021: I’m thisclose to requesting submissions for a WandaVision digital zine. To be edited AFTER I finish my dissertation, of course.

Mar 4, 2021: As long as I defend before the semester is over I’m good. On the off chance my post-defense revisions are so substantial I can’t make the โ€ฆ

Mar 4, 2021: Today: Day 3 of garbage sleep. Empathetically worried about funding for the PhD cohorts coming up behind me. In so much pain that I actually whimper โ€ฆ

Mar 4, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– This piece about WandaVision & fan theories has me musing on the difference between trying to figure out who will make a cameo and, say, โ€ฆ

Mar 4, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– This piece about WandaVision and fan theories has me thinking about fannish meta and where it lives now, if anywhere.

Mar 4, 2021: Finishing my PhD & launching information consulting has me basically pretending I’m Dr. Liara T’soni (huge Mass Effect spoilers โ€ฆ

Mar 3, 2021: You know how sometimes you serendipitously learn about a theoretical framework that’s going to tie the end of your dissertation together? That โ€ฆ

Mar 3, 2021: My kid woke me up an hour early and I added ~1500 words to my discussion chapter today, plus pulled over another 9 pages from an earlier draft. I โ€ฆ

Mar 3, 2021: Want to read: How Humans Learn by Joshua R. Eyler ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 3, 2021: Want to read: The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 3, 2021: Today in the Hundred Acre Wood: Piglet might have the coronavirus but he’s asymptomatic; Pooh, Rabbit, and Eeyore have all been vaccinated. โ€ฆ

Mar 3, 2021: I’ll say this (among other things) for being a part-time stay-at-home mom/part-time scholar: the mom part gives you lots of staring into space โ€ฆ

Mar 3, 2021: I remember when MCU fans were clamoring for WandaVision to reveal its big bad already & Ashley Esqueda said “maybe grief is enough” โ€ฆ

Mar 2, 2021: Is there anything more attractive than an attractive person writing a grant application & looking in the household copy of Creswell & Creswell โ€ฆ

Mar 2, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– These images of comic book heroes redrawn to have average body types are fascinating from a cosplayer’s perspective. The “real” โ€ฆ

Mar 2, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Check out Riana Mckeith’s period-appropriate cartoon homages to WandaVision. So great! It will surprise no one that the 80s one is my fave. โ€ฆ

Mar 1, 2021: I just reviewed my advisor’s notes on the first 6 chapters of my dissertation (Intro, 2 Lit Review, 2 Theory, Methods). When I started I was in โ€ฆ

Mar 1, 2021: What I’m learning from the MCU (caught up on WandaVision & currently watching Agents of SHIELD 3x15) is that everyone with a PhD in the โ€ฆ

Mar 1, 2021: There are a lot of hard moments as a parent. I tend to share moments like this: M. quietly building with Magnatiles while leaning on my leg. We share โ€ฆ

Mar 1, 2021: Want to read: Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science by Anna Reser and Leila McNeill ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 1, 2021: Trusting my (book blogging) intuition Fourteen years ago, I started a book blog - or, as I called it at the time, a reading journal. I jumped in and started writing without any worries โ€ฆ

Feb 28, 2021: Just finished the introduction to SUCCEEDING OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY. Excited to read the rest. It seems like having 14 informational interviews in a โ€ฆ

Feb 27, 2021: I woke up with a migraine today. I’ve had enough caffeine that it’s significantly receded but now I’m SO AWAKE. I would normally โ€ฆ

Feb 26, 2021: Do I know anybody who works in youth services in the Wake County Public Libraries? If you do, will you let me know? Mind if I message/email you with โ€ฆ

Feb 26, 2021: I may have added, um, 40 pages (mostly quotes and tables) to my findings chapter in revision…

Feb 25, 2021: Okay. I finished pulling quotes from the last interview. I was like, “Cool! Time to move on to the justification writing!” and my body โ€ฆ

Feb 25, 2021: Only one interview left to pull quotes from for my findings chapter and then I can move on to the part where I justify my data analysis decisions. โ€ฆ

Feb 24, 2021: Just updated my Fan Studies in LIS page to include some scholars I met at FSNNA20!

Feb 24, 2021: OKAY. I finished pulling quotes from that giant and awesome interview. Three more interviews left to pull quotes from, then some writing up of my data โ€ฆ

Feb 24, 2021: It’s a good day for lying on a hammock and listening to an audiobook. ๐Ÿ“ท

Feb 23, 2021: Hello today I think my ideal job would be to read books and then write essays (not straight up reviews) about those books. Sometimes a group of books โ€ฆ

Feb 23, 2021: I’m writing through a migraine right now. I have this one participant interview that’s really detailed and part of me wants to just copy โ€ฆ

Feb 23, 2021: I finished reading Mona Awad’s BUNNY last night. I can’t even write a review of it because I don’t have enough words to convey all โ€ฆ

Feb 23, 2021: Finished reading: Bunny by Mona Awad ๐Ÿ“š

Feb 22, 2021: My current writing process: mine one interview for quotes. Read a chapter of BUNNY by Mona Awad. Repeat. ๐Ÿ“ #amwriting ๐Ÿฐ

Feb 22, 2021: Finished reading: Keep Going by Austin Kleon ๐Ÿ“š

Feb 22, 2021: I should hang this Austin Kleon drawing from p. 165 of KEEP GOING up in my home office. [Description: a human skeleton wearing a black hat & โ€ฆ

Feb 21, 2021: “Art Monsters are not necessary or glamorous and they are not to be condoned, pardoned, or emulated.” - Austin Kleon, Keep Going, p. 124 ๐Ÿ“š

Feb 20, 2021: Just gonna give up all other pursuits and devote my life to writing Muppet Show friendfic from now on, byeeeee.

Feb 20, 2021: I have so many happy Muppet Show feelings. Every time Fozzie is on screen my brain almost literally superimposes my dad’s image over him. This โ€ฆ

Feb 19, 2021: The latest episode of WandaVision has given me a new cosplay goal… ๐Ÿ“บ

Feb 19, 2021: Give Kathryn Hahn an Emmy. ๐Ÿ“บ

Feb 19, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– This is a library that is also a theater. I want to go to there.

Feb 18, 2021: Want to read: Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South by Regina Bradley ๐Ÿ“š

Feb 17, 2021: Sent off my methodology chapter today. It only needed a little revision, mostly moving stuff from it to findings. Started working on findings & โ€ฆ

Feb 17, 2021: Renee Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler) sings the theme song for the new Muppet Babies. This makes me very happy.

Feb 16, 2021: I’m actually enjoying messing around on the Internet for a while and some water started leaking out of my eyes. Are these tears of joy?

Feb 16, 2021: Hello! I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent a theory chapter off to my advisor. You should be proud of me. I am.

Feb 16, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– If you love beautiful writing with a wistful vibe, you should be reading Jess Zimmerman’s Dead Channel. The latest issue talks about the โ€ฆ

Feb 16, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Y’all, Sir Ian McKellen has been blogging about his work since he started working on “X-Men” in 1999 & I love his writing.

Feb 16, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Go read what Tim Carmody has to say about two songs from “The Muppet Movie”. I’m hoping to be able to write a detailed response โ€ฆ

Feb 15, 2021: “Wellness” day #1: Wrote ~1700 words for my dissertation, outlined the methods section for an article. Maybe time to get a breath of fresh โ€ฆ

Feb 15, 2021: Here are some things I’m not interested in: content marketing lead magnets analytics clickthrough SEO branded partnerships the hustle Here are โ€ฆ

Feb 15, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– The spellbinding history of cheese and witchcraft is the witchy content I didn’t know I needed. ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿง€

Feb 14, 2021: I’m so psyched to read all the articles fan studies scholars are going to write about #DeanCasWedding.

Feb 14, 2021: Doing more lurking/replying than posting rn. I’ve blocked Twitter on my phone. It redirects me to Austin Kleon’s How to Read More post. I โ€ฆ

Feb 14, 2021: Want to read: Bookish Broads by Lauren Marino ๐Ÿ“š

Feb 13, 2021: Want to read: We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman ๐Ÿ“š

Feb 12, 2021: I added >1000 words to the theory chapter of my dissertation today. I’ve still a ways to go, but it’s nice to see such progress.

Feb 11, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– One option the New York Times didn’t mention in their piece about keeping a digital commonplace book: doing it on your own website.

Feb 11, 2021: It was kind of fun to see one of my drama professors from undergrad in M. L. Rio’s acknowledgements for If We Were Villains. Plus two actors I โ€ฆ

Feb 10, 2021: Finished reading: If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio ๐Ÿ“š

Feb 10, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– This deep-dive into fans reverse-engineering knitwear like Bernie’s mittens & the fourth Doctor’s scarf sits at the center of a Venn โ€ฆ

Feb 10, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Jess Zimmerman’s latest Dead Channel compares the old Internet to Faerie & tackles what it means to know someone’s handle. It โ€ฆ

Feb 10, 2021: Got about 500 words written today. Hoping to go faster moving forward. I slept poorly last night and woke up about every 2 hours. I had a pretty good โ€ฆ

Feb 9, 2021: I’ve been low-key reading all the tie-in comics for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in release order. Most are skippable, but Zombies Assemble is โ€ฆ

Feb 9, 2021: Want to read: Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee ๐Ÿ“š

Feb 8, 2021: Making progress on both dissertation & assistantship today. Beginning to feel like I might get this dissertation revised in time after all.

Feb 8, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– My granddaddy got his Ed. D. in 1972 and I just found the record for his dissertation in the UF catalog.

Feb 8, 2021: Writing that theory chapter…

Feb 8, 2021: We went to the NC Museum of Art Park as a family Saturday. It was a really nice change of pace from our usual neighborhood trails & city parks. โ€ฆ

Feb 7, 2021: In case you’re following along, this morning the impostor syndrome was so bad I could feel it in my chest, but after doing like my advisor & โ€ฆ

Feb 5, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Highly recommended: Library Ambience Sounds for Studying / Relaxing White Noise.

Feb 5, 2021: Okay. Reorganized my work and my thinking and feeling better about my ability to be the kind of scholar I want to be. Phew.

Feb 5, 2021: New plans for this afternoon: Eat. Cry. Get back to work.

Feb 5, 2021: I feel like Charlie in Flowers for Algernon, knowing he used to be smart. I think, “Remember when I was a good scholar and knew how to do โ€ฆ

Feb 5, 2021: Every once in a while early Sesame Street drops in a random Carol Burnett segment and it brings me such joy. ๐Ÿ“บ

Feb 5, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– In Back-Talking The Tone Police: Book People Are Not Your Enemy, Tika Vateri says all the things I couldn’t articulate in response to Joanna โ€ฆ

Feb 4, 2021: Y’all RiffTrax is doing a Star Trek: Generations watch along tonight and if my kid is asleep in time, I may try to hop on! ๐Ÿ––

Feb 4, 2021: The pandemic is making my brain not. Dissertating during a pandemic is not easy. Maintaining concentration is a real challenge. Before the pandemic, my chronic illness allowed me about 2 โ€ฆ

Feb 4, 2021: Hello! Today I’m (not) enjoying some musculoskeletal pain. How are things with you?

Feb 3, 2021: Me: reviews dissertation feedback and writes down 5 questions for meeting tomorrow w/advisor & methodologist Still Me: Welp, time for a nap. โ€ฆ

Feb 3, 2021: Great question from Jen Polk (@FromPhDtoLife) that it’d help me if you answer: What do I do that others don’t?

Feb 3, 2021: I have so many thoughts about information literacy and they’re so timely. It would be brilliant to write them up as public scholarship but โ€ฆ

Feb 3, 2021: I’m reading IF WE WERE VILLAINS by M. L. Rio & it does this interesting thing where you know it’s not THE SECRET HISTORY but it a โ€ฆ

Feb 2, 2021: I’m doing a daily tarot pull starting today. Four cards popped out of the deck at me today. The tarot always knows what we need to hear. โ€ฆ

Feb 2, 2021: Me: Why is my neck hurting? Child: climbs on my neck Me: Oh.

Feb 2, 2021: Every night I lie in my kid’s bed until he falls asleep and every night I wish someone would pick me up and carry me to my own bed.

Jan 31, 2021: I’ve got that sweet, sweet book hangover where you finish reading and then look around and think, “Where am I? What is this strange โ€ฆ

Jan 31, 2021: Finished reading: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 31, 2021: I’m having to remind myself that the reason a 2 yr ethnographic dissertation I’m reading is more expansive than mine is bc I wrote mine on โ€ฆ

Jan 29, 2021: GENTLE WRITING ADVICE: You could write some words sometime if you feel like it, but if you’re in more of a taking-a-nap or โ€ฆ

Jan 29, 2021: The model for a dissertation defense in my head is still f2f. When I try to envision my inevitable remote defense my brain just shuts down. Will I โ€ฆ

Jan 29, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– I am a Book Person. I don’t love the shots this piece takes at Book People, but I appreciate its conclusion: it would be good to calm down โ€ฆ

Jan 29, 2021: Just got “Wait, you’re KIBA?” for the first time in several years and it still feels kinda good… I’m not a classy fan.

Jan 28, 2021: Anything that restores you isn’t a waste of time.

Jan 27, 2021: If I have any friends/followers diagnosed with hEDS or HSD who would be willing to talk with me about the diagnostic process & benefits of having โ€ฆ

Jan 27, 2021: How are you holding up? Here's what's up with me. How are you holding up? Are you holding up? I have a headache today. I really want to write about ideas: craft as healing, being a parent and being โ€ฆ

Jan 27, 2021: Hi. I’m Kimberly, and everything you need to know about me can be summed up by the fact that I’m currently bullet journaling while rocking โ€ฆ

Jan 26, 2021: Just over here having an anxiety attack about taking my car to the mechanic for some routine work and state inspection, NBD.

Jan 25, 2021: If somebody could get on replacing Larry in “Pinky & the Brain & Larry” with Bernie, that’d be great.

Jan 25, 2021: It’s here! Yay! #AcademicTarot @CoyoteAndBones

Jan 25, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– The Power of German Playwright Bertholt Brechtโ€™s V-Effekt: Oliver Mayer discusses the connection between the January 6 insurrection and โ€ฆ

Jan 25, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Whatโ€™s Behind the Label โ€˜Domestic Fictionโ€˜?: Soledad Fox Maura writes about why we need to reconsider genre.

Jan 24, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– An old piece that the Rec Center brought to my attention: How Writing Fanfic Introduced Me To Myself. I’ve been feeling the need to do some โ€ฆ

Jan 24, 2021: Finished reading: Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 24, 2021: ๐Ÿ“บ Ugh, Dr. Pulaski is the worst. ๐Ÿ––

Jan 24, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– I continue to be proud of my city: Durham Moves to Protect Residents Against Natural Hair Discrimination

Jan 24, 2021: Want to read: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 23, 2021: Finished reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 22, 2021: Putting the person back in my personal website I kind of want to put the person back in my personal website. Not that it isn’t personal - especially my short little notes. But I’ve been โ€ฆ

Jan 22, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–I went into reading this expecting a fluff piece. I came out of it with a reminder of the spiritual and psychological depth of tabletop RPGs: How One โ€ฆ

Jan 22, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–This interview is extremely validating! Just Move: Scientist Author Debunks Myths About Exercise And Sleep

Jan 21, 2021: Who has two thumbs and just applied to be a Star Wars librarian for the summer? This Kimberly!

Jan 21, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Gaby has curated an amazing collection of Bernie memes. The Beetlejuice and Clerks ones are my favorites.

Jan 21, 2021: Last “What’s next?” question! If you’d like to help, please complete this sentence: “The world would be a better place โ€ฆ

Jan 20, 2021: I’ve just finished creating my dissertation revisions matrix. Only 41 comments! Granted, one of those is “Write a new chapter” but โ€ฆ

Jan 20, 2021: What’s next? Part 2! If you’d like to help, please complete this sentence: “I could see Kimberly…”

Jan 20, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–Paging Through Broadway While the Stages Are Dark: 2020 was supposed to be the year I got back into theater. ๐ŸŽญ

Jan 20, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– The Deep Sadness of Marvelโ€™s WandaVision: This is the kind of WandaVision thinkpiece I want. ๐Ÿ“บ

Jan 19, 2021: We are now at the stage of the pandemic/coup/grief process where I decide that I attended a single solitary virtual work meeting, so I deserve a cake.

Jan 19, 2021: I only just realized that to understand how information literacy has been conceptualized over time, we need to leverage our own information literacy. โ€ฆ

Jan 19, 2021: Getting real vulnerable! Want to help me plan for what’s next? Complete this statement: “Kimberly’s greatest gifts โ€ฆ

Jan 19, 2021: Why yes, I am prioritizing #MuppetTwitter today.

Jan 19, 2021: If Buffy Summers were real she’d be 40 years old today.

Jan 19, 2021: Here’s my personal affirmation for the foreseeable future: DO WHAT I CAN, WHEN I CAN.

Jan 19, 2021: Okay TNG friends. I made it through “Skin of Evil.” It’s all uphill from here (except that I really like Tasha Yar). ๐Ÿ––

Jan 18, 2021: HEY I DID A THING! It was for my assistantship and not my dissertation but still. YAY ME!

Jan 18, 2021: I put in a grocery order so now it’s time to crochet and watch TNG, yeah? I woke up this morning full of the belief that I was ready to do a โ€ฆ

Jan 18, 2021: Novel I’m reading: includes chapter that is just the text of an imaginary academic journal article Me: puts novel down and backs away

Jan 17, 2021: Well my grandmother must have really crossed over, in my own estimation anyway, because I just woke from a nap in which I had my first dream with her โ€ฆ

Jan 17, 2021: I'm still grieving my grandmother and I don't feel like doing anything. It’s been two weeks and a day since my grandmother died, and I don’t feel like doing anything. When I posted about her death, I โ€ฆ

Jan 17, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– In “The Black Casting Choices in BRIDGERTON Wereโ€ฆA Choice”, Jessica Pryde explains the ways this was very much NOT colorblind casting. I โ€ฆ

Jan 15, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– This is really cool. I hope that in addition to making it possible for scholarship recipients to show up, they make it so scholarship recipients โ€ฆ

Jan 15, 2021: I wonder how much of my lingering 90s cyberutopianism is because I forget the internet is not primarily text-based anymore.

Jan 15, 2021: ๐Ÿ“บ I know the consensus is that Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation is Not Good, but I find a lot in it to love. Q! The beginning of โ€ฆ

Jan 14, 2021: I crack up every time M. & I watch the Emotions episode of Storybots Super Songs because a kid says, “I love my cat Blue because she’s โ€ฆ

Jan 13, 2021: I’m pretty sure Kermit the Frog is my oldest friend.

Jan 11, 2021: This morning M. told me, “I’m not an architologyist,” and when I asked what an architologyist does, he said, “Science.”

Jan 10, 2021: ๐Ÿ“บ Me, a former educator, watching the new Saved by the Bell: This is really good, but I feel like with a doctorate, it makes more sense for Jessie to โ€ฆ

Jan 8, 2021: ๐Ÿ“บ I’ve been watching Bridgerton & aside from the obvious fact that Lady Danbury & Eloise are the best, my biggest takeaway is that I โ€ฆ

Jan 7, 2021: My kid is pulling toys out of bins and saying what they are… “Spider-Man’s car, a truck, a balloon” but also “whatever โ€ฆ

Jan 5, 2021: I look like I’m dicking around on my phone but really I’m despairing about the future.

Jan 5, 2021: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿฟ The Wonder Woman Movies Have a Women Problem A great analysis with ideas for how Wonder Woman movies could better reflect all the best stuff about โ€ฆ

Jan 5, 2021: I’m officially Not Okay: I just created a new WordPress install for a new website I’ve been planning to build…

Jan 5, 2021: How am I only just now realizing that the Holodeck is a very high tech LARP environment?

Jan 5, 2021: Apparently this week I’m going to be awake at night and sleep in the afternoon. Cool cool cool.

Jan 5, 2021: I might also read more Dawn of X and play Two Dots.

Jan 5, 2021: Hello. I want to want to do things but I do not want to do things, so I will be alternating between watching The Crown and Derry Girls until I do want โ€ฆ

Jan 4, 2021: I really did not spend this holiday “break” how I expected to, and now all I can do is scroll Twitter and think about how I don’t โ€ฆ

Jan 4, 2021: Which stage of grief is the not-sleeping-because-you-are-contemplating-your-own-denial one? My grandmother always seemed immortal to me in a way no โ€ฆ

Jan 4, 2021: Probably gonna cry thanks to the crushing weight of (gesturing at the world) all this, and I’m playing on easy mode.

Jan 4, 2021: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Wonder Woman 1984. Was it flawless? No. Did the fact that it was a Wonder Woman movie and had a cute kid in it gain it enormous good will โ€ฆ

Jan 2, 2021: My grandmother Nita died this morning. She loved us all so much and always welcomed us to her home, which is the closest thing to a childhood home โ€ฆ

Jan 2, 2021: ๐Ÿ”– Tips for Starting a Bookstagram: Getting started in the bookish corner of Instagram can be overwhelming. This blog post offers some helpful advice.

Jan 1, 2021: Currently reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 1, 2021: Want to read: The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century by Adam Kirsch ๐Ÿ“š

Jan 1, 2021: Want to read: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 31, 2020: Me at 5 am: It’s fine, I’ll take a nap this afternoon. Me at 5 pm: Why would I nap when there’s Bring It On fanfic I could be โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2020: 2020 Year-in-Review & 2021 Word of the First Quarter I just re-read my 2019 Year-in-Review & 2020 Word of the Year blog post, published a little over a year ago. When I look at all the stuff I got โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Yes to Masks. No to Parties. 2021 Will Be a Lot Like 2020: disheartening, but not surprising.

Dec 31, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Run, Die, Repeat: How Roguelike Games Helped Us Get Through 2020 - Roguelikes reflect not only the cycle of the pandemic year, but also the cycle of โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2020: Here are my goals for 2021: Learn about pain management & find pain management that works for me. Read for pleasure & talk about what โ€ฆ

Dec 31, 2020: Want to read: Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 30, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š Friends, there are at least two modern retellings of Jane Eyre coming out this year: The Wife Upstairs and Mrs. Rochester’s Ghost.

Dec 29, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us I will never not appreciate Ed Yong.

Dec 29, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– The Vaccine Rollout’s Known Knowns and More In Zeynep Tufecki’s Insight newsletter, Whitney R. Robinson explains the intersection of โ€ฆ

Dec 29, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable I don’t have a word for how this article hit me, but it hit me hard.

Dec 29, 2020: Time to crowdsource a tagline! I’m going to start calling myself a Consulting Scholar-Librarian, with the tagline “Like Sherlock Holmes โ€ฆ

Dec 29, 2020: More dark academia books! The Lessons, Naomi Alderman The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis Possession, A. S. Byatt The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides The โ€ฆ

Dec 28, 2020: Me to W: You know how you sometimes for fun you give people advice on research design in a Fan Studies Discord server? W: I have not had that โ€ฆ

Dec 28, 2020: Want to read: Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 28, 2020: Want to read: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 28, 2020: I bought myself a Theracane and it’s not arriving until Thursday. I’m really looking forward to having it and also sad that I might still โ€ฆ

Dec 28, 2020: Currently reading: The Iliad by Homer; Caroline Alexander (translator) ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 28, 2020: ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ Read Lore Olympus episodes 1 - 10. Gorgeous art, fun characterization, planning to keep going.

Dec 28, 2020: ๐ŸŽฎ Currently playing Hades on Nintendo Switch. Been coveting this for a while, so when W. suggested getting it today, I squeed. Love the art & vibe โ€ฆ

Dec 27, 2020: I’m still obsessed with Dark Academia. Here are some books I’ve read or will read that have dark academia vibes. Currently Reading The โ€ฆ

Dec 27, 2020: Currently reading: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 27, 2020: Living with chronic illness is really hard and I don’t like it.

Dec 27, 2020: ๐Ÿ”–Humans Used to Sleep in Two Shifts, And Maybe We Should Start It Again via @Miraz Humans Used to Sleep in Two Shifts, And Maybe We Should Start It Again sciencealert.comArchiving... sciencealert.com โ€ฆ

Dec 26, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– How Literary Female Friendships Shaped the Fiction Market This piece by Sarah Lonsdale describes the kind of literary friendship I fantasize about having. Who wants to be my literary bff? How Literary Female โ€ฆ

Dec 25, 2020: Also, I don’t know who in the SNL writers' room is a mom, but solidarity, friend.

Dec 25, 2020: To those of you who celebrate Christmas and have children, I hope your kids' joy offsets your exhaustion today. To everyone else, I hope your Friday โ€ฆ

Dec 24, 2020: I have so many thoughts on Jingle Jangle! This article about how the movie centers Black Girl Magic addresses the aspects of representation in โ€ฆ

Dec 24, 2020: Netflix: 22 minutes left in Jingle Jangle! Me: ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿฅบ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’ž๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿฅบ๐Ÿ˜ญ

Dec 24, 2020: Jingle Jangle: has huge climactic sequence with positive resolution Netflix time bar: shows 36 minutes and 16 seconds left Me (understanding story โ€ฆ

Dec 24, 2020: Today has been the kind of day where you lie down on the floor after wrapping the Christmas presents and hope someone will come pick you up.

Dec 23, 2020: One song into Jingle Jangle and I’m aching for more R&B musicals - originals, not juke box shows. ๐Ÿฟ

Dec 23, 2020: The results of this Spotify-evaluating AI are hilarious. Enya + The Lonely Island are peak Kimberly music. We DO stan Daniel Tiger in this house. And โ€ฆ

Dec 23, 2020: My child: “I learned a valuable lesson today.” W: “What’s that, buddy?” M: “I learned that the guy I thought was โ€ฆ

Dec 22, 2020: Rachel Reichenbach’s Why your Instagram Engagement Kinda Sucks Right Now explains so much. I mostly use Ig to connect with friends & โ€ฆ

Dec 21, 2020: Finished reading: Dawn of X, Volume 2 ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 21, 2020: My Reading Year 2020 It’s the most wonderful time of the year, which has nothing to do with any gift-giving related holidays and everything to do with end-of-year โ€ฆ

Dec 21, 2020: Finished reading: Dawn of X, Volume 1 ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 20, 2020: Finished reading: Powers of X # 1 - 6 ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 20, 2020: Finished reading: House of X # 1 - 6 ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 20, 2020: Current status: https://partlynn.tumblr.com/post/186963632813/artpigeons-tragicallybeautifultiger

Dec 19, 2020: Elizabeth Minkel’s The Year of Loving Things Again, published in December 2017, resonates still. I myself have been reconnecting with Star Wars โ€ฆ

Dec 18, 2020: I don’t want to spoil The Mandalorian finale much, so I’ll just say that technology used in its production seemed to be used more โ€ฆ

Dec 18, 2020: My Most Memorable Christmas Presents from Childhood I’m really on a break now - had my last business-ish meeting yesterday, no Zoom calls scheduled through the new year. So I’m going to โ€ฆ

Dec 17, 2020: Sufganiyot! Easy jelly donut recipe from The Nosher.

Dec 17, 2020: I have been having this problem all week where I sit down and then I need to eat but eating would require getting back up and I just don’t want โ€ฆ

Dec 16, 2020: At Literary Mama, Victoria Livingstone writes about how the tasks of motherhood that “cannot be commodified or marketed” help us learn how โ€ฆ

Dec 16, 2020: Crocheting while watching Clone Wars is very pleasant.

Dec 16, 2020: I’m experimenting with using Notion for weekly and daily planning. I put my most important tasks for the week at the top of my weekly planning โ€ฆ

Dec 15, 2020: Got myself a Hanukkah present from Everyday Magic & it arrived today. Rededication body butter & sweet sufganiyot bath bomb by Crystal Bar โ€ฆ

Dec 14, 2020: Okay but what if a manatee had a narwhal tusk.

Dec 13, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Laurie Pennyโ€™s WIRED piece about falling in love over Zoom is one of the most hopeful things I’ve read in a long time. It makes me really โ€ฆ

Dec 13, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– This NPR piece about keeping warm and embracing wintry outdoor adventures is exactly the kind of thing a Florida baby like me needs. I want to enjoy โ€ฆ

Dec 12, 2020: Just a little light reading from sister.is on the first day of my break from my dissertation.

Dec 12, 2020: Baby’s first latkes. (I am the baby in question, and it’s my first time making them, not eating them.) It turns out potatoes fried in oil โ€ฆ

Dec 11, 2020: The dissertation revision nightmares have started, so, that’s cool.

Dec 11, 2020: So what I learned from Disney Investors Day is that Muppets Now is probably the last Muppets content we’ll be getting for a while.

Dec 10, 2020: Dissertation Draft Finished + Pandemic Parenting and My Body I sent off the introduction chapter for my dissertation to my advisor a few minutes ago. I also decided to do a total page and word count for the โ€ฆ

Dec 10, 2020: That feeling when you decide to cut a big chunk of your outline out of your dissertation intro chapter because it’s unnecessary, you’re โ€ฆ

Dec 9, 2020: Want to read: The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 9, 2020: I really enjoyed reading this piece about Star Wars stormtrooper strategy & tactics, which is super unlike me. ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿฟ ๐Ÿ”–In ‘The โ€ฆ

Dec 8, 2020: This is just to say I have eaten the kisses that looked like Santa hats and which I said I was saving for our child Forgive me they were chocolate and โ€ฆ

Dec 8, 2020: Instead of the usual fullscreen symbol, the PBS Kids website video player has a circle with the word “BIG” inside it, and if I’ve โ€ฆ

Dec 7, 2020: Household division of labor: W - cooks, cleans, does yardwork, generates 80% of household income, parents hardcore Me - installs software, snuggles M โ€ฆ

Dec 7, 2020: I’m really hung up on how nothing is neutral and every decision, intentionally or not, is value-laden and communicates values. Thanks, academia!

Dec 7, 2020: If you’re into it, Star Wars is pretty much the ultimate in comfort media, so I’m going to overlook all your hot takes about lines being โ€ฆ

Dec 7, 2020: The Imagined Academia and How I Still Love It I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. I’ve spent my whole life on campus. Before I even entered elementary โ€ฆ

Dec 6, 2020: You know when you are writing and then ideas start flowing and words come out of you expressing those ideas and it isn’t like pulling teeth or โ€ฆ

Dec 6, 2020: I am so close to done with my discussion chapter with almost 3 hours of childcare left to go! Time to grab some food and then finish this chapter up.

Dec 6, 2020: Finished reading: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ๐Ÿ“š

Dec 4, 2020: When you’re pretty much secular, but descended from 2 faith traditions and mostly just really like fire. And don’t have your act together โ€ฆ

Dec 4, 2020: I'm Jew-ish, but not Jewish. I know Hanukkah is not a major religious holiday. But my connection with Jewish heritage and culture has never really been religiously driven. I am, โ€ฆ

Dec 3, 2020: Making stuff is a vulnerable act. The end of a PhD is a weird time, especially if you don’t have your eyes set on the tenure-track. (I recently decided that I probably โ€ฆ

Dec 3, 2020: I’m just gonna buy 8 matching purple sweatsuits and say I’m cosplaying as Kate Bishop every day.

Dec 3, 2020: Pretending that signing up for texts from Zooey Deschanel’s community.com number is the same as being friends with her.

Dec 2, 2020: Updated my now page!

Dec 2, 2020: I am not a piece of ๐Ÿ’ฉ and neither are you. Austin Kleon says to write the book you want to read. If I were to write a book in this moment - more that I need, than I want - I would title it, โ€ฆ

Dec 2, 2020: Check me out with my #wipwednesday. This is the beginning of the Habitat Cardigan. Lion Brand Heartland in Great Smoky Mountains. ๐Ÿž๏ธ โ™ฅ๏ธ๐Ÿงถ

Dec 2, 2020: This is how my year sounded on @Spotify. Get your 2020 Wrapped now #2020Wrapped open.spotify.com/wrapped/s…

Dec 1, 2020: I'm pressing publish every day with Leonie. I woke up this morning to an email in my inbox from Leonie Dawson’s newsletter, sharing that Leonie is going to be pressing publish every day in โ€ฆ

Dec 1, 2020: Reading Chani Nicholas’s *You Were Born for This" and only tearing up a little at the intense accuracy of her description & reflection โ€ฆ

Nov 30, 2020: You, a reasonable person: Don’t you have a dissertation to finish? Me, a Kimberly: Okay but I’m SO FAR BEHIND on Star Wars lore.

Nov 30, 2020: Okay okay but hear me out: what if you ALSO watched the OLD Animaniacs on Hulu?

Nov 30, 2020: What’s a weird skill you have that you will possibly never use again? I’m REALLY good at knowing exactly when to black out the lights for โ€ฆ

Nov 30, 2020: I wrote a page in my Discussion/Conclusions chapter! YAY ME! (Turns out trying to move discussions into findings just led to me trying to write more โ€ฆ

Nov 30, 2020: Present Kimberly is over here agonizing about the discussion piece of her dissertation. Meanwhile, Past Kimberly (from September) already figured out โ€ฆ

Nov 29, 2020: Holidays are lovely but I have to give myself time to recover after them. (The thing about having all your family local and beautiful weather means โ€ฆ

Nov 28, 2020: My kid just explained to me an imaginary informational text he has that explains why Grinches don’t like Christmas. Thanks, Magic Treehouse!

Nov 27, 2020: I’m 20 minutes into Happiest Season and it is every bit as cute as I thought it would be, though I’m distracted sometimes by the โ€ฆ

Nov 27, 2020: Oh right. Knitting stresses me out. Better for re-learning when I have the bandwidth for something newish and am looking to grow than for when โ€ฆ

Nov 27, 2020: I think it’s time for me to re-learn to knit. I find myself craving the kinds of textures that are easier to achieve with knitting than with โ€ฆ

Nov 26, 2020: I have only dabbled in Horse Girlery, but I’m delighted by Polygon’s Horse Girl Canon. It’s missing Piers Anthony’s Mode โ€ฆ

Nov 25, 2020: It’s happening.

Nov 25, 2020: I’m super thankful for my fellow doc students, who today have dropped off a laser printer and Candy Cane Joe Joe’s. There are some really โ€ฆ

Nov 25, 2020: I’ve been enjoying the Animaniacs reboot, while not finding it as rapturous as the Animaniacs of my youth. But let me tell you, there’s a โ€ฆ

Nov 25, 2020: I’ve been enjoying the Animaniacs reboot, while not finding it as rapturous as the Animaniacs of my youth. But let me tell you, there’s a โ€ฆ

Nov 25, 2020: My advisor just said “Let’s enjoy our time off!” which is code for “Stop working and go eat pie,” right?

Nov 24, 2020: Worn down to a nub from moming. Retreating to bed. Definitely going to sleep, NOT to watch The Mandalorian.

Nov 24, 2020: My kid just told me I’m “very proper” because I want him to “put on all the clothes.”

Nov 24, 2020: Me: Okay, I’m going to finish reading Frankenstein. W: Didn’t you finish reading that last night? Me: Did I? Oh I did!

Nov 23, 2020: I'm having trouble with my dissertation discussion. My goal for November’s #AcWriMo was to write the discussion chapter for my dissertation. After finishing that chapter, all that would be left โ€ฆ

Nov 23, 2020: Finished reading: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ๐Ÿ“š

Nov 23, 2020: My household will be celebrating the Yule Book Flood this year. I can’t afford to buy everyone in the world books, but if you ask me between now โ€ฆ

Nov 21, 2020: Bare tree branches against a clear blue sky remind me of lace.

Nov 21, 2020: On some level, THE MANDALORIAN really is just about parenting a young child. “Don’t eat that.” “I told you not to eat โ€ฆ

Nov 20, 2020: Want to read: Ruinsong by Julia Ember ๐Ÿ“š

Nov 20, 2020: Just got an email inviting me to join a network of patient influencers because I’m active in the healthcare space and it feels really weird.

Nov 20, 2020: I’m happy to have new Animaniacs and I’m also happy to have old Animaniacs.

Nov 20, 2020: My kid woke me up at the wrong moment in my sleep cycle and I’m pretty sure I’m going to be groggy and cranky all day because of it.

Nov 20, 2020: When writing is both scholarly and beautiful, that’s a sweet spot.

Nov 18, 2020: WHERE DID NOVEMBER GO?

Nov 18, 2020: Just cleaned the 15+ yrs of storage gunk (not too bad really) off my sewing machine. EXCITEMENT!

Nov 18, 2020: Say what you will about screen time, when my kid and I binge-watch remote library storytimes he gets exposed to new books and I get extra snuggles.

Nov 17, 2020: No YOU’RE spending too much time looking at vintage tartan and/or velvet blazers on Etsy.

Nov 17, 2020: But before I go I’m just going to say that listening to my genius husband present about pedagogy is… um… pleasant.

Nov 17, 2020: Today, because we’re on migraine day 3, I’m looking for scientific evidence that when I have a migraine my cognition is, in fact, โ€ฆ

Nov 17, 2020: Welcome to Kimberly’s Migraine Day 3, brought to you by Lowered Estrogen and Serotonin!

Nov 17, 2020: You ever watch a rom-com & forget the characters don’t know they’re in a rom-com? Things are looking their darkest and I’m like, โ€ฆ

Nov 17, 2020: Y’all I am so scared about this current COVID surge. I haven’t had a real strong COVID anxiety spiral in a few weeks but I feel one โ€ฆ

Nov 17, 2020: Tonight my kid requested a bedtime story about @emilyvgordon & @kumailn’s cat, Bagel, and asked me to sing the Kim Possible theme for his โ€ฆ

Nov 16, 2020: Y’all, the Rockapella Holiday album is… different than I expected.

Nov 16, 2020: I coded an interview with a migraine. Aren’t you impressed?

Nov 16, 2020: This thread terrifies me. It's looking like we've turned the corner at my house, so I'm going to tell you a story about love and a pandemic. It starts โ€ฆ

Nov 15, 2020: Okay spoiler for Dash & Lily I guess but I have so much empathy for all the worried adults in her life and watching the end I was just like โ€ฆ

Nov 15, 2020: I just finished episode 2 of Dash & Lily (which, just like the book, I love) and spent WAY too much of it focused on figuring out how to recreate โ€ฆ

Nov 15, 2020: Our family has been exploring our playgroundless city parks. Today we went to Sandy Creek Park, which has a couple of trails and gorgeous wetlands.

Nov 14, 2020: Want to read: a tumblr book by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch, editors, doi:10.3998/mpub.11537055 ๐Ÿ“š

Nov 14, 2020: Put Bert & Ernie Sing-Along on while my kid was in the bath this morning and we’re listening again now. It’s brought me joy all day.

Nov 13, 2020: Added details to my discussion chapter outline, input new code system into data analysis software, time to eat trail mix and watch a 2020 holiday โ€ฆ

Nov 13, 2020: It’s possible I am putting way too much thought into this discussion chapter.

Nov 13, 2020: I did what I wanted during my PhD and I regret nothing. Six months ago today, Inger Mewburn published the post, Where I call bullshit on the way we do the PhD. From where I sit, things are not better or โ€ฆ

Nov 13, 2020: Listen. If you want to get a jump on the winter holidays now with decorations and baking, I say go ahead. Cheer is sorely lacking and I see no reason โ€ฆ

Nov 12, 2020: Brain fog has returned but I got the kid to sit next to me instead of on me and squeezed in 5+ pages of Abigail DeKosnik’s ROGUE ARCHIVES. Yay โ€ฆ

Nov 12, 2020: Kimberly problems: when your brain fog lifts enough for you to read scholarship but you can’t go get your book stand because your kid is sitting โ€ฆ

Nov 12, 2020: What do you think are my areas of expertise?

Nov 11, 2020: The burnout is real. From September 8 to October 2, I attended a virtual dissertation writing boot camp. I have childcare each day from 1 pm to 6 pm. I have standing โ€ฆ

Nov 11, 2020: The more I go nowhere and do nothing, the more money I spend on books… Which is why I’ll probably be taking advantage of the Duke โ€ฆ

Nov 11, 2020: All 3 Roger Rabbit shorts are on Disney+, this is not a drill.

Nov 11, 2020: Everything hurts but it’s too hot to wear my “everything hurts” sweatshirt: the Kimberly Hirsh story

Nov 10, 2020: Current status: counting “figuring out which book will tell me how to write my discussion chapter” as my dissertation activity for the โ€ฆ

Nov 10, 2020: Bunnies and fishes at For Garden’s Sake.

Nov 10, 2020: Put on my podcast for M, who likes to listen to “the Mommy Podcast” and he said, “We should do a podcast with me and my guests, you โ€ฆ

Nov 10, 2020: Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze Episode 3 - Teacher's Pet It’s here! The long-awaited all-librarian episode of my Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast! Transcript & show notes forthcoming.

Nov 9, 2020: I’m reasonably well-rested today and yet my brain still just… won’t.

Nov 9, 2020: W & M were drawing boats so I drew mine but 1. I had to make it a shape I could sit in and 2. I’m so out of practice I couldn’t โ€ฆ

Nov 8, 2020: I just took a minute to call my dad to see how he’s doing in the wake of Alex Trebek’s death. He’s okay. (My dad does not like me to โ€ฆ

Nov 7, 2020: Let’s keep working to make the unpocalypse happen.

Nov 7, 2020: W. is reading The Magic Treehouse to M. Morgan le Fay: Most people call me an enchantress, but I’m also a librarian. Me: SAME!

Nov 6, 2020: I’ve updated my bullet journal & I think that’s my work for today. I’m giving myself the weekend to restore myself & then โ€ฆ

Nov 6, 2020: What if moving forward we took the energy people say we should spend on courting voters in whatever category they say is making it hard and instead โ€ฆ

Nov 5, 2020: Y’all getting any work done today, or no? I did one thing for my assistantship and made the barest bones outline for my discussion chapter and โ€ฆ

Nov 5, 2020: The comedic possibilities are inherent.

Nov 4, 2020: I feel great affinity for the Mandalorian, because, like him, I am usually accompanied on my adventures by an adorable child with giant eyes.

Nov 4, 2020: My plan for coping for… oh, the rest of my life… is to read books and make stuff. Want to join me? Right now I’m reading โ€ฆ

Nov 3, 2020: Finished reading: Show Your Work by Austin Kleon ๐Ÿ“š

Nov 3, 2020: Finished reading: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior ๐Ÿ“š

Nov 2, 2020: You know what isn’t great for my mental well-being as a student? Taking a required 45 minute online training course about student mental โ€ฆ

Nov 2, 2020: Logging off Twitter tonight and don’t expect to be back for a while… Will still autopost from my website, though.

Oct 30, 2020: Blown away by Flow’s ability to get a piece on Cottagecore out while it’s still a thing. Looking forward to reading it!

Oct 30, 2020: Hey guess what, just submitted a THIRD chapter to my advisor! Worth noting that all of these have been close to finished for a while so it’s not โ€ฆ

Oct 29, 2020: Do you feel like you need a nap even after the most energizing of video calls? How do y’all who have 9-Zoom days or whatever deal? Do you just โ€ฆ

Oct 28, 2020: Hello I am Kimberly and I have now sent 2 completed chapter drafts to my advisor and expect to send the 3rd by the end of the week so I should โ€ฆ

Oct 28, 2020: I joined some Discord servers related to my research interests and now my phone feels like the spring of 2000 in the best way, there are smart and โ€ฆ

Oct 28, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฌ “I’m a 21st-century American woman; I don’t have enough faith to covet anything but freedom… My career has been a series โ€ฆ

Oct 28, 2020: Feeling cute on a high-pain day. Not going to take it for granted.

Oct 27, 2020: I just uploaded my #FSNNA20 poster, “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? The Information Literacy Practices of Cosplayers” โ€ฆ

Oct 27, 2020: One challenge with my research interests related to academic publishing is that a lot of them are focused on futuring. I’m interested in how โ€ฆ

Oct 27, 2020: Co-star gets me. [Image reads “Your heart is a book."]

Oct 26, 2020: I’m very cranky today. I don’t like it. I don’t like who I feel like I am when I feel this way. So I am not letting cranky me do โ€ฆ

Oct 26, 2020: Been trying to figure out who to cosplay for my dissertation defense. Needs to be professional, comfortable, light makeup, no wig, preferably works โ€ฆ

Oct 25, 2020: I finished drafting a dissertation chapter (I’ve had 4 almost finished chapters for a couple weeks) and I’m hungry so please come feed me โ€ฆ

Oct 25, 2020: See this is why we read in the original language if we can: Caesar says the Rhine bends toward Ursa Major, while the translation says “this land โ€ฆ

Oct 25, 2020: If you’ve been away from Latin for 10+ years but want to return to reading it as a hobby, Caesar’s De Bello Gallico is as gentle a โ€ฆ

Oct 25, 2020: Things my kid said tonight: “Mommy, you’ll never be a doctor.” ๐Ÿ’” “I’m going to imagine having a moth for a โ€ฆ

Oct 24, 2020: Finished reading: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving ๐Ÿ“š

Oct 24, 2020: I think… I think I just don’t enjoy consuming Actual Play content and maybe that’s okay?

Oct 22, 2020: Okay seriously is anyone keeping any of their shit together right now?

Oct 22, 2020: ๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ I just finished watching REBECCA on Netflix and it’s… fine. But it’s not gothic. Glen Weldon’s review sums it up pretty โ€ฆ

Oct 21, 2020: Heeeey, just over here psyching myself up to revisit Chapter 11 - Trustworthiness - in Lincoln & Guba’s (1985) Naturalistic Inquiry. โ€ฆ

Oct 21, 2020: Conversation with friends: Tweens - Who’s cute Teen - Who’s dating 20s - Good food 30s - Home repairs

Oct 21, 2020: I read this piece & I need a cold shower. Gonna be intense when I finally read CARMILLA. Carmilla Is Better Than Dracula, And Here’s Why - โ€ฆ

Oct 19, 2020: Over at University of Venus, Mary Churchill asks about The Day After: What will you do on November 4? I am planning absolutely nothing for that day. I โ€ฆ

Oct 19, 2020: I went to #FSNNA20 and it was awesome. I “went” to the Fan Studies Network North America conference last week. It was awesome. It was invigorating. I feel energized coming out โ€ฆ

Oct 17, 2020: Want to read: Maximizing the Impacts of Academic Research by Jane Tinkler and Patrick Dunleavy ๐Ÿ“š

Oct 17, 2020: Want to read: Raising the Resistance A Mother’s Guide to Practical Activism by Farrah Alexander ๐Ÿ“š

Oct 16, 2020: Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze - Witch Iโ€™m experimenting with podcasting about whatever I want. Here’s episode 2 of my Buffy podcast, Things of Bronze. This is episode 2, โ€ฆ

Oct 16, 2020: M & I have been watching Netflix’s Bookmarks today. Grace Byers’s I AM ENOUGH is so beautiful and joyful. He asked to watch Lupita โ€ฆ

Oct 13, 2020: If #FSNNA20 were a meatspace conference and I was there, I would not be berating myself for not dissertating right now. But here we are…

Oct 13, 2020: Just added a note to include as a limitation in my dissertation that my methods don’t capture things like fans learning which fan spaces are โ€ฆ

Oct 13, 2020: Dreamed this morning I was at my co-working space w/Glen Weldon (@ghweldon) & he would not stop talking about Batman. I was like “This is โ€ฆ

Oct 13, 2020: Portrait of an awesome life partnership: you get the kid down to sleep and then chat in the #FSNNA20 Discord while your partner watches Annotated โ€ฆ

Oct 12, 2020: Pleased as can be to be hanging out @ #FSNNA20 this week. You can find me in Discord primarily hanging out in #15-hirsh where you’ll find my โ€ฆ

Oct 12, 2020: Is anybody out there managing to be even mediocre at both parenting & working right now? Because I seem to have to choose to be okay at one and โ€ฆ

Oct 11, 2020: Current dissertation status: 4 chapters begun but with holes to fill, 116 pages. 1 chapter completely unwritten.

Oct 11, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š Reading Sarah Kendzior’s (@sarahkendzior) book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT & had to take a crying break after the intro bc “I have โ€ฆ

Oct 10, 2020: I definitely just handed The Teacher from the Black Lagoon to my kid thinking it was Miss Nelson Is Missing, which is how you know my teen librarian โ€ฆ

Oct 7, 2020: My kid is 4 and I might almost be ready to share my birthing story but not yet. It’s my kid’s birthday today, and thus my birthing day. It’s interesting that the author of the linked post wrote it as her kid was โ€ฆ

Oct 5, 2020: I did a dissertation bootcamp last week and honestly I feel like I need a break. We spent some time Friday talking about how to maintain momentum but โ€ฆ

Oct 3, 2020: Today I learned that my kid’s teacher plays tabletop RPGs. โ™ฅ๏ธ (I did not ask her if I could get in on her game.)

Oct 2, 2020: Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze - Welcome to the Hellmouth and The Harvest I’m experimenting with podcasting about whatever I want. I’ve got 3 finished episodes of a planned Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast called โ€ฆ

Oct 2, 2020: My not-quite-4yo just told me that the famous quote from The New Colossus begins “Give me all your money.” I said, “Oh buddy, it โ€ฆ

Oct 2, 2020: Listening to M. & W. play that they are the kids from The Magic Treehouse and have wished their way into the Hundred Acre Wood. ๐Ÿ˜

Oct 1, 2020: Welcome to October, y’all.

Oct 1, 2020: In recent weeks I have watched all of Sherlock, finished tonight. It was fun, then it wasn’t fun, and then it was really upsetting and made me โ€ฆ

Sep 30, 2020: I’m presenting my virtual poster, “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? The Information Literacy Practices of โ€ฆ

Sep 29, 2020: Hello. I am tired and sweaty. Dissertation boot camp is pretty serious. โ™ฅ๏ธ

Sep 29, 2020: Today is a screaming 3yo day. I love my child and I find his screaming stressful.

Sep 28, 2020: Hello, it’s coffee and chocolate o’clock.

Sep 28, 2020: Dissertation boot camp week: conserving spoons in the morning so I can write hard in the afternoon. Allowing my kid to binge-watch Number blocks but โ€ฆ

Sep 28, 2020: Finished reading: Dracula by Bram Stoker ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 26, 2020: Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored. -Bram Stoker, Dracula

Sep 26, 2020: Fascinating: Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait via Dan Cohen I’ve been fascinated by self-portraits ever since I saw โ€ฆ

Sep 25, 2020: I’m kind of loving my messy, curly, 38% Ashkenazi hair today. (Image heavily filtered, of course.)

Sep 25, 2020: I’m worried about Kimberly. Kimberly is tired & overwhelmed. Kimberly has lots of tools to help her but she’s kind of tired of people โ€ฆ

Sep 24, 2020: Me: Meh, I guess I should dress professionally for this remote group career coaching session. throws cardigan over video game t-shirt Eh. Close โ€ฆ

Sep 24, 2020: My kid is watching @JimTheLibrarian’s Dinosaur Storytime. Kid said, “Maybe I’ll meet him sometime!” I said, “Maybe. That โ€ฆ

Sep 23, 2020: HELLO I DON’T WANT TO STAY MOTIVATED AND ON TRACK. I WANT TO WALLOW AND READ GOTHIC NOVELS.

Sep 22, 2020: Want to read: Can’t Even by Anne Helen Petersen ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 21, 2020: I ordered a used copy of a paperback that was published in 1969. It was listed as being in good condition, with no specific defects noted. It arrived โ€ฆ

Sep 21, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š A morbid longing for the picturesque: Donna Tartt's THE SECRET HISTORY Has a book ever broken you? By that I mean, all books after it suffered in comparison for some indefinite period of time, regardless of their quality. โ€ฆ

Sep 19, 2020: If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested. -Austin Kleon, SHOW YOUR WORK, p. 131

Sep 19, 2020: Finished reading: The Secret History by Donna Tartt ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 19, 2020: I saw the news about Justice Ginsburg while my husband was reading bedtime stories to my son. I felt hollow. The characters in the book ate peanut โ€ฆ

Sep 17, 2020: Want to read: She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 17, 2020: Want to read: Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 17, 2020: I don’t feel like writing an informative blog post today. It feels like a day for writing something more personal. You’re exhausted, โ€ฆ

Sep 16, 2020: W: I would encourage you to have lunch. Me: I will, but right now I’m writing. (Y’ALL. I wrote NEW words for my dissertation today, words โ€ฆ

Sep 16, 2020: Please do not ask me how many times my son and I have watched the Courtney 1986 music video from American Girl because I have lost count.

Sep 15, 2020: Me to M & W: These days, besides you guys, books are my best friends. W: These days?

Sep 14, 2020: Visualization to help us choose our next steps I was reading some of Jen Polk’s blog archives a while back and came across a post about a career coach giving her this visualization exercise: โ€ฆ

Sep 12, 2020: I have named my aesthetic and it is witchy sparkle romantigothabilly academia.

Sep 11, 2020: Three flavors of learning I’ve flirted on and off with #100DaysOfCode over the past few years, and always quit when I get to Javascript (which may never change, really), โ€ฆ

Sep 11, 2020: Jen Polk (@FromPhDtoLife) has created an amazing reading list for grad students and PhDs exploring careers or job hunting. #altac #postac #WithAPhD

Sep 10, 2020: 15 years of blogging (and 3 reasons I keep going) - Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) writes about why he blogs. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about โ€ฆ

Sep 10, 2020: New profile pic. I think we all knew that a headshot where I look like I dgaf would give way to one where I’m clearly a marshmallow before too โ€ฆ

Sep 10, 2020: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic by Katie Rose Guest Pryal ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 10, 2020: ๐Ÿ”–Lee Skallerup Bessette sums up so much: Just because its hard, doesnโ€™t mean itโ€™s good and when everything is hard and you have issues with executive โ€ฆ

Sep 9, 2020: A quick note on MEXICAN GOTHIC ๐Ÿ“š This book is SO GOOD, but I don’t feel I can write a review that does it justice. It is a pitch-perfect gothic novel and also super gross. After โ€ฆ

Sep 9, 2020: My first PSL of the season. I waited until Bean Traders had them.

Sep 8, 2020: I was already clued in to post-ac/alt-ac possibilities before beginning my PhD. For some reason, seeing the rapid proliferation of post-ac advice this โ€ฆ

Sep 8, 2020: I need to re-write my dissertation proposal, for myself. I’ve been a bit stuck with my dissertation, and only partly due to parenting and chronic illness. I wasn’t quite sure what had me stuck โ€ฆ

Sep 8, 2020: Me, browsing Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) website after reading about her in Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s (@krgpryal) book, THE โ€ฆ

Sep 8, 2020: I’m out on timelines and feeds for a while, folks. Taking some time to be really intentional about my input.

Sep 7, 2020: In which I have a mid-life crisis and freak out about schooling as a societal... thing. Woo Dead Poets Society! ๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ I’ve been pulled deep into Dark Academia’s orbit, because it is the aesthetic I’ve been unknowingly building my whole life, and โ€ฆ

Sep 7, 2020: Finished reading: MEXICAN GOTHIC by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ๐Ÿ“š

Sep 6, 2020: ๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ Just finished watching DEAD POETS SOCIETY for the first time in years and now I’m having an existential crisis because I don’t want my โ€ฆ

Sep 6, 2020: My three-almost-four-year-old just said, “When I’m lonesome, my fear grows.”

Sep 4, 2020: World, we had a Pandemic Parenting morning and even though the sources of stress were resolved by 9:30 am, I’m still worn down by it here at โ€ฆ

Sep 2, 2020: Got a ring light, tripod, and bluetooth shutter so of course I had to have a little photo booth fun.

Sep 2, 2020: ๐Ÿ““ Redefining my professional identity: From research assistant to doctoral researcher For the first few years of my doctoral program, I defined myself as a “doctoral student” and “research assistant.” This seemed โ€ฆ

Sep 2, 2020: Sometimes you and a friend come up with a hilarious idea and then a year later your friend executes it. #shiptember2020

Sep 2, 2020: Had to use the Wayhome Tarot for Lindsay Mack’s Coming Home to Ourselves spread, if course. I, um, had to draw a few extra cards for โ€ฆ

Sep 1, 2020: I’m still/again grieving the dissertation I planned and will not get to carry out. Maybe I will do the missing pieces later. Maybe not. For now, โ€ฆ

Aug 31, 2020: Becky Albertalli wrote this moving essay about her shifting understanding of her sexuality. The longer I live, the more I think we all gain a more โ€ฆ

Aug 31, 2020: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š From Petra Mayer at NPR: Welcome To Story Hour: 100 Favorite Books For Young Readers Well, that’s a help in choosing which books to share โ€ฆ

Aug 31, 2020: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“š From Megan Mabee at Book Riot: How The Hunger Games Prequel Helped Me Realize Iโ€™ve Changed I can relate to Mabee’s realization that being a โ€ฆ

Aug 30, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š I’m reading MEXICAN GOTHIC and it’s wonderful but every description of the house gets me sidetracked thinking about all the Gothic โ€ฆ

Aug 30, 2020: ๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ I am watching BLACK PANTHER for the first time. The fact that every single Wakandan is awesome is not a surprise, but it is a delight. I was like, โ€ฆ

Aug 29, 2020: I could use less productivity advice or inspiration and more permission to just be.

Aug 28, 2020: I fell on the basement stairs yesterday and mildly sprained my right ankle. I sprained the left one falling on different stairs in January. I’m โ€ฆ

Aug 28, 2020: Pocketed to read later: People of color who craft are done being overlooked as customers and designers. โ€œThatโ€™s the thing about navigating a white โ€ฆ

Aug 28, 2020: ๐ŸŽต Do you think if I listen to Bauhaus for the rest of the day, that will magically make it be October?

Aug 28, 2020: My new glasses are the glasses of a woman who has no patience with BS.

Aug 27, 2020: Welp. My whole household hates my new glasses.

Aug 27, 2020: ๐Ÿ’ป If you’re wondering what the heck this IndieWeb thing is that I’ve been going on about for 3+ years, Ana Rodrigues has written a great โ€ฆ

Aug 27, 2020: My new glasses are a little over-the-top, but then, so am I.

Aug 27, 2020: Was just reading the Carolina Friends School Lower School page and saw they use “Ago!” “Ame!" as their attention signal and got โ€ฆ

Aug 27, 2020: ๐Ÿ““ Semi-structured interviews: Stick to only a few big questions, but leave room for follow-ups One of my responsibilities in the Equity in the Making lab is to create an interview guide that will help us learn what makerspace leaders in the UNC โ€ฆ

Aug 27, 2020: ๐Ÿ“บ M. and I are watching MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC and I am reminded of the extent to which I am Twilight Sparkle, who owns a reference book โ€ฆ

Aug 27, 2020: I just read “sheltering in place” as “shattering in peace” so now you know how I’m doing today.

Aug 26, 2020: Still planning to post at kimberlyhirsh.com and auto-crosspost to Twitter and Tumblr, but not scrolling or checking notifications for a few days. See โ€ฆ

Aug 26, 2020: Tracy Deonn's LEGENDBORN: Black Girl Magic, Dark Academia, and Arthuriana ON MY CAMPUS! ๐Ÿ“š Publisher’s Summary: After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or โ€ฆ

Aug 24, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š I’ve got about 100 pages left in #LEGENDBORN & won’t write a full review til I’ve finished but I think the headline will be โ€ฆ

Aug 24, 2020: Reply to Another day in Hellsville: It is a lot. Having caregiving responsibilities adds another level of difficulty to dealing with the pandemic. โ€ฆ

Aug 24, 2020: Current professional goals: 1. Be a qualitative researcher. (I am now, but I think I would like to continue after I graduate.) 2. Talk with people โ€ฆ

Aug 23, 2020: How did it take me until just now to consciously verbalize the fact that THE SECRET GARDEN is a Gothic novel? In my heart I always knew, and it was a โ€ฆ

Aug 21, 2020: The internet has been full of productivity-in-a-pandemic advice for months and I’m over it. I tell myself: Do what you can, when you can, and โ€ฆ

Aug 20, 2020: I have become super enamored of the #darkacademia aesthetic, but being in actual academia, this is what I thought it meant at first. (Thanks โ€ฆ

Aug 20, 2020: Teen, new adult, and undergrad librarians, let me introduce you to your new best friend: the Aesthetics Wiki. This thing is a goldmine for programming โ€ฆ

Aug 20, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 17/31 THE ONE WHERE I RUIN YOUR CHILDHOOD by Daniel Crocker. Excerpt from โ€œC is for Cookieโ€: โ€œYou don’t have to talk when you’ve got/a โ€ฆ

Aug 19, 2020: Hi. I don’t feel like it today, and it’s okay if you don’t feel like it either. Whatever it is.

Aug 18, 2020: I'm done with exfoliants and goals. #TeamLowBar Recently, I squeezed some of my Shea Moisture African Black Soap Soothing Body Wash on a washcloth while I was in the shower, and then rubbed it โ€ฆ

Aug 18, 2020: We share our hot takes in order that we may refine them: Makerspaces should consider sewing equipment equally valid when compared with digital โ€ฆ

Aug 18, 2020: I did more #motherscholar-ing this morning, saying things like “I would do a visual analysis of photos of the makerspaces” and also โ€ฆ

Aug 18, 2020: A refinement of my earlier hot take: a sewing machine with a zigzag stitch should be considered basic equipment for a makerspace; if you have the โ€ฆ

Aug 18, 2020: Hot take: A serger should be assumed basic equipment in every makerspace. ๐Ÿงต

Aug 18, 2020: Switching all my wallpapers to this “Keep going. You’re doing great.” wallpaper by Esmรฉ Weijun Wang. Thought other people might need โ€ฆ

Aug 18, 2020: In case you need some very trivial but good news today: After a LOT of work, it seems like maybe finally I’ve got my ARC of Tracy Deonn’s โ€ฆ

Aug 17, 2020: Anybody know of somebody doing research on makerspaces specifically located in schools of education? NCSU, UNCG & UNCP each have one and I’m โ€ฆ

Aug 17, 2020: Hear me out: A first-year experience librarian [PDF], but for grad students.

Aug 17, 2020: Help me #TeamLowBar, I set my low bar too high!

Aug 17, 2020: Want to read: Craftfulness by Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿงต๐Ÿงถ

Aug 17, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 16/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL, THERE WERE MOUNTAINS by Blake Hackler. Excerpt from โ€œOn The Other Sideโ€: โ€œCan you carry danger/in a backpack? Smoke/the โ€ฆ

Aug 16, 2020: I’ve got all the pieces of my sewing machine, my sewing basket, 2 sewing books, and 2 sewing classes on Blueprint/Once-and-Future-Craftsy, so โ€ฆ

Aug 16, 2020: I think my aesthetic is that I’m the librarian at the boarding school all the dark academia kids wish they went to. Replace the blazers with โ€ฆ

Aug 16, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 15/31 PORTAGE by Sarah Ann Winn. Excerpt from โ€œAlmaโ€: โ€œGorge of girl, shaped by erosion, gorgeous, engorged by trees..โ€ โ™ฅ๏ธ Another beautiful โ€ฆ

Aug 15, 2020: Here’s the truth about life, kids: not one of us has it figured out. Every person who looks like they have it together actually is a mess in at โ€ฆ

Aug 15, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 14/31 SEED, STAR, SONG by May Chong. Excerpt from “Tembeling”: “The new rubies/of wild cinnamon leaves, and/the jewelbox of jungle โ€ฆ

Aug 15, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 13/31 MOTHER IS THE NAME FOR GOD by Judith Kingston. Excerpt from “III. Pentheus, My Son: โ€œI never knew love until I became a mother./I was โ€ฆ

Aug 14, 2020: My glasses broke. No advice needed: there’s no easy fix. I ordered 2 pair so that when this happens again, I don’t have to wait for a โ€ฆ

Aug 14, 2020: Did some very strong #motherscholar-ing this morning, simultaneously joining a meeting on branding for the Equity in the Making project & helping โ€ฆ

Aug 13, 2020: I used to keep this circlet in my office for days when I needed a boost. It might become my dissertating circlet. (Also: #yesfilter, so many filters.)

Aug 13, 2020: I have all my best ideas around 3 AM.

Aug 13, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 12/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL by Jennifer Jackson Berry. Excerpt: โ€œthe boy will be stiff if & only stiff/if the girl is light as a feather & not โ€ฆ

Aug 12, 2020: Because I am both a qualitative researcher and a web developer, when I see people talk about “coding,” I’m never sure at first if โ€ฆ

Aug 12, 2020: Time to take Count Rugen’s advice. via GIPHY

Aug 12, 2020: How Daddy types vs how Mommy types, according to my very observant child.

Aug 12, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Here’s a study that combines my loves for qualitative coding, comedy, and tween media: More than Just a Laughing Matter: A Coding Framework of โ€ฆ

Aug 12, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 11/31 NEGOTIATING WITH OBJECTS by Lisa M Cole. Excerpt from “After the Ever-Glow”: “The hearse. The hearsay./The hypothesis of โ€ฆ

Aug 11, 2020: Help I took a Zoom meeting in bed and now I don’t want to get up.

Aug 11, 2020: What I'm excited about today: public scholarship and #SocSciComm ๐Ÿ““ Today, I’m excited about: The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship the first meeting of our Equity in the Making team. The scope โ€ฆ

Aug 11, 2020: My kid is really getting into hygge.

Aug 11, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 10/31 BOTTOMLAND by Erin Elkins Radcliffe. #TheSealeyChallenge

Aug 10, 2020: ๐Ÿ”–2015 Kimberly would be SO EXCITED about this article: โ€˜Whose Line Is It Anyway?โ€™ Using Improvisation to Hone Library Employeesโ€™ Customer Service โ€ฆ

Aug 10, 2020: ๐Ÿ““ It’s the first day of class! I’ve been done with coursework since the end of 2017, but I still feel that school year rhythm. My goals โ€ฆ

Aug 10, 2020: ๐Ÿ”–From Pat Thomson, the ‘later on’ PhD …what the professional usually wants from their PhD are systematic ways into core scholarly โ€ฆ

Aug 10, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 9/31 MEND by Kristin LaTour & Angel E. Perez. #TheSealeyChallenge

Aug 9, 2020: Me: So I was watching “Big Business.” W: What’s “Big Business”? Me: ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

Aug 9, 2020: My favorite thing about live-tweeting The Emperor’s New Groove today was researching Peruvian textiles. Might be time to dig into textiles โ€ฆ

Aug 9, 2020: Want to read: Bad Habits by Amy Gentry ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 9, 2020: ๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ Late to the party but here I go. #20YearsOfGroove https://twitter.com/MicahHirsh/status/1292182003308273665 Oh man this Riverdance reference is โ€ฆ

Aug 9, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 8/31 CHICKENHAWKS & GOLDILOCKS by Grey Vild. Excerpt from โ€œA prayer no one wants toโ€: โ€œBut you smiled when you traced my name in your inventory โ€ฆ

Aug 8, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Katie Yee’s Very Good Writing Advice from New Girl’s Nick Miller is the most delightful thing I’ve read this week, and makes me โ€ฆ

Aug 8, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 7/31 SPACE BABY: EPISODES I - III by Nicole Oquendo. Excerpt from โ€œI.vi.โ€: โ€œYou have read about the cats of a far planet, how the tamers/will poke โ€ฆ

Aug 7, 2020: Here’s how I cope with dissertation-related anxiety: make a plan. Send advisor doomy email about plan & schedule meeting. Get work done. โ€ฆ

Aug 7, 2020: A bookcase that converts to a coffin feels very on-brand for me.

Aug 6, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 6/31 WOLF DAUGHTER by Amy Watkins. Excerpt from โ€œsixteenโ€: “It was my voice she wanted,/as I wanted her hair under my chin,/her changing self โ€ฆ

Aug 6, 2020: Feeling bad, feeling better, and making it work with illness “Have you ever felt pain in literally all of your joints at once?” I asked W. last night. “No,” he said. “No, I never โ€ฆ

Aug 5, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 5/31 [RE]CONSTRUCTION OF THE NECROMANCER by Hannah V. Warren. Excerpt from โ€œForgetting More Than I Thought I Didโ€: โ€œI want to be flesh & warm โ€ฆ

Aug 5, 2020: Just over here with my kid binge-watching Mr. Jim’s Story Time (@JimTheLibrarian on Twitter). How’s your day going? If it’s not โ€ฆ

Aug 5, 2020: Got it down to 15 categories! #SocSciComm #InfoLit #FanLIS

Aug 5, 2020: Me, today: Drinking coffee and getting work done. LIKE A BADASS.

Aug 5, 2020: Got it down to 17 categories. I don’t think I can do much better than that. When you’re stuck, go analog. #SocSciComm #InfoLit #FanLIS

Aug 5, 2020: I interviewed 10 cosplayers; together they used over 60 different terms to describe the resources they go to when they need cosplay-related โ€ฆ

Aug 5, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 4/31 TO THE BONE by Angela Narciso Torres. Excerpt from โ€œSelf-portrait as Waterโ€: โ€œmost forgiving of/substances, I resolve/to live like youโ€”to โ€ฆ

Aug 4, 2020: No YOU’RE considering pivoting after graduation to a career that focuses on supporting mothers in academia.

Aug 4, 2020: From Parul Sehgal: In a Raft of New Books, Motherhood From (Almost) Every Angle In this piece that is mostly a review of Jacqueline Rose’s book Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty, Parul Sehgal offers more titles to add to โ€ฆ

Aug 4, 2020: Currently reading: ‘Making It’ as a Contract Researcher: A Pragmatic Look at Precarious Work by Nerida Spina, Jess Harris, Simon Bailey, โ€ฆ

Aug 4, 2020: Finished reading: Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 3, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 3/31 ELECTRIC ARCHES by Eve L. Ewing. Excerpt from “to the notebook kid”: “it’s that flows and flows and flows/and lines โ€ฆ

Aug 3, 2020: Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working โ€ฆ

Aug 3, 2020: Pocketing this Book Riot post on rad poetry from the Women’s Suffrage Movement for later in #TheSealeyChallenge.

Aug 3, 2020: Are you in academia or alt-ac? Talk to me about your current productivity or lack thereof, the grace you’re giving yourself right now, whether โ€ฆ

Aug 3, 2020: From Lauren Elkin: "Why All the Books About Motherhood?" I’ve been sitting on Lauren Elkin’s article asking “Why all the books about motherhood? for a year and a half and only read it fully โ€ฆ

Aug 3, 2020: Feeling bummed because I know the savviest angle on my research is misinformation and disinformation but for my mental health I have to make them โ€ฆ

Aug 3, 2020: Finished reading: Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 3, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 2/31 NOT HERE by Hieu Minh Nguyen. Excerpt from โ€œHeavyโ€: “There are days when I give up on my body/but not the world.โ€ #TheSealeyChallenge

Aug 3, 2020: From Hillary Frank: The Special Misogyny Reserved for Mothers Despite receiving multiple rejections from radio station editors, journalist and author Hillary Frank kept her podcast about parenting, “The โ€ฆ

Aug 3, 2020: Me: Napster is clearly the best P2P file sharing app. W: Mmmm… Me: What? What’s better than Napster? W: Having money as an adult.

Aug 2, 2020: Finished reading: Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora ๐Ÿ“š

Aug 1, 2020: From Austin Kleon: Books on art and motherhood During my sonโ€™s first few weeks, I spent most of his naps reading about matrescence (the process of becoming a mother) and identity crises. What did I โ€ฆ

Aug 1, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š 1/31 UNACCOMPANIED by Javier Zamora. Excerpt from “Then, It Was So”: “…Cariรฑo,/it was so quiet when I started/counting the โ€ฆ

Aug 1, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– From The Oatmeal: Marvelous & Melancholy Things I’ve Learned about Creativity This is so good. If he makes it into a book, I’ll โ€ฆ

Aug 1, 2020: #TheSealeyChallenge Link Roundup ๐Ÿ“š I’ve been looking for ways to read more books and talk to more people about them, so when the Book Riot piece, Will You Join The Sealey โ€ฆ

Jul 31, 2020: Welcome to Genetrix: Curating Stories of Creative Mothers Yesterday, I talked about my project, Genetrix: Curating Stories of Creative Mothers and how I would be incorporating it here into my personal site โ€ฆ

Jul 31, 2020: Me: Whoa, Muppets Now crashed Disney+! Internet: No, Kimberly. Beyoncรฉ did it. Me: squinting Or was it The Muppets? Internet: No. It was not.

Jul 30, 2020: Curating stories of motherhood and creativity, esp. writing Exactly a year and a half ago, I started a newsletter called Genetrix after reading Grace Elliott’s article, “Why Do I Have to Choose โ€ฆ

Jul 30, 2020: Given that my estrogen & progesterone are at their lowest & that today is today, this was an extra bad day to look at my social media feeds. I โ€ฆ

Jul 29, 2020: Want to read: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 29, 2020: Want to read: The Blue Jayโ€™s Dance by Louise Erdrich ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 29, 2020: Just added new content to my reading page ๐Ÿ“š: updated 2020 reading goals, a 2-books-read:1-book-bought ratio plan, plans for a “My Week in โ€ฆ

Jul 28, 2020: ๐Ÿ“บ I recently binged Disney+’s Diary of a Future President, about an ambitious Latina middle schooler who one day becomes president. You should โ€ฆ

Jul 27, 2020: Made myself a half-caf with Fast Forward and Slow Motion from Counter Culture and oh my goodness it is so good. (With liquid stevia and oat-almond-pea โ€ฆ

Jul 26, 2020: Finished reading: Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 24, 2020: TFW you’re coding an interview transcript & say to your past self, “PLEASE have asked this follow up question” and you keep โ€ฆ

Jul 24, 2020: First Med Deli gluten free chocolate cake in about 4 years. NOM NOM NOM.

Jul 23, 2020: How do people do things? Do I seem to do things? I feel like I do no things. I feel like my life is just sitting with my kid & eking out a tiny โ€ฆ

Jul 23, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– 5 Productivity Practices That Helped Me Finish My Dissertation Thought I would feel attacked by this post, then I read it and it said “If I โ€ฆ

Jul 22, 2020: W. and I have now been married longer than we were together before we were married. He continues to make me laugh. He is a delightful spouse and โ€ฆ

Jul 22, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– The Allure of the Nap Dress, the Look of Gussied-Up Oblivion I don’t have a clothing budget these days, but if I did, you can bet I’d be โ€ฆ

Jul 21, 2020: A post-ac/alt-ac reading list Posting this list of books here in case others might find it useful. It will probably grow with time. ‘Making it’ as a contract โ€ฆ

Jul 21, 2020: Advanced Literature Review Tips By far, my most visited blog post ever is my Start-to-Finish Literature Review Workflow and honestly, I return to it myself fairly often. I sent it to โ€ฆ

Jul 21, 2020: Creative Time as Meditation Time What if we considered our creative time to be meditation time? Repetitive crafts like knitting, crochet, and cross-stitch can have that effect. (The โ€ฆ

Jul 20, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Kelly J. Baker’s essay, “You Were Ambitious,” struck me to the core. Cross-posted to: Twitter

Jul 20, 2020: Lithub takes a fun dive into all the books people read or reference in Clueless. ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 20, 2020: Sometimes, one little thing can take a lot out of me. Today, the plumber came to my house around 8:30 and was here until almost 10. He did a great โ€ฆ

Jul 20, 2020: If you ever wonder how my brain works, simply recall that I’ve been writing with hypertext since 1995, and read this kottke.org post from 1998 โ€ฆ

Jul 19, 2020: My new dream: To write and share helpful things I think a lot about dreams. Following them. Achieving them. Making new ones. The first dream I remember - one that felt aligned with my life purpose - โ€ฆ

Jul 17, 2020: ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ“š “The Spy Girls are what happens when you record an episode of Charlie’s Angels over a VHS copy of Clueless while reading a โ€ฆ

Jul 17, 2020: ๐Ÿ“บ Netflix's Babysitters Club: Response and Link Roundup ๐Ÿ“š I binged the Netflix Babysitters Club series last weekend. Growing up, I was not a Babysitters Club obsessive like many of my peers. They were one of โ€ฆ

Jul 16, 2020: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“บ Alex Brannan’s article, โ€œIt Could Be About Anythingโ€: Middleditch & Schwartz and the Viability of Televised Improv Comedy is an โ€ฆ

Jul 15, 2020: So happy to have this Silvia Moreno-Garcia reading pathway from Book Riot, because I’ve been coveting Mexican Gothic something fierce and all of โ€ฆ

Jul 15, 2020: I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be working as a research assistant with Dr. Maggie Melo on her NSF Career Award project, “โ€œEquity โ€ฆ

Jul 14, 2020: Who will I be? 2020-2021 edition On my last birthday, I set out a list of things that described who I wanted to be in the coming year. I’m pretty satisfied that those describe โ€ฆ

Jul 13, 2020: Want to read: We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 13, 2020: RSVP yes to A Domain of Oneโ€™s Own Meetup | July 23, 2020

Jul 13, 2020: How to Celebrate Kimbertide (AKA my birthday, AKA Bastille Day) About 10 years ago, when I shared that I usually take at least a week to celebrate my birthday and consider it a season, my friend Dr. Alison Buck โ€ฆ

Jul 12, 2020: Want to read: Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 12, 2020: Pretty proud of my first Scratch project. It looks like a little thing, but if you click “See inside,” you’ll see that it’s โ€ฆ

Jul 12, 2020: ๐Ÿ“บ “Parents are just older weirdos, doing the best they can. Just like the rest of us.” Netflix’s Babysitters Club series makes me โ€ฆ

Jul 10, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Adrienne So’s Wired piece, โ€โ€˜Crisis Schoolingโ€™ and the New Rhythms of Pandemic Parenting," makes me feel okay about how extremely โ€ฆ

Jul 10, 2020: Just received the Call for Proposals for the Fan Studies Network North America virtual conference & now working on an idea for a poster (probably โ€ฆ

Jul 10, 2020: Page of Cups and Knight of Cups: the two sides of my soul. (Cards are from the Moonchild Tarot by Danielle Noel.)

Jul 10, 2020: Want to read: BIG FRIENDSHIP How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 10, 2020: Want to read: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 9, 2020: TFW you have to go back to the literature and carefully review it to figure out the next step for your data analysis.

Jul 9, 2020: My Favorite People with Weird Internet Careers I started reading Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch, this morning. I first became familiar with her work when I listened to her on an episode of โ€ฆ

Jul 8, 2020: I just added a Reading page to my site. It lists every book I’ve read since March 2007. Over time, I’m planning to add links to posts โ€ฆ

Jul 8, 2020: Want to read: Want by Lynn Steger Strong ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 8, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– ๐Ÿ“š I found myself wanting to read so many of the books on Book Riot’s Best Books of 2020 So Far list that I decided it makes more sense to โ€ฆ

Jul 7, 2020: ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ÿ“š “…we have little hope of producing excellent writing unless we write a great deal… If we want lots of practice and โ€ฆ

Jul 7, 2020: ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ“š I’ve started doing The Artist’s Way. Yesterday I read the chapter for Week 1 (which, now that I’m doing CS50x, I really want to โ€ฆ

Jul 6, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š Reflecting on Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility" Please note: Robin DiAngelo says she’s writing for a white audience, and I’m white, so my perspective on this book will likewise be more โ€ฆ

Jul 6, 2020: I’ll be 39 in a little over a week, so I decided it was time to just lean into becoming my mother. ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 5, 2020: Finished reading: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 5, 2020: From NPR: A Competition To Finish Louisa May Alcott’s Story - I mean why have a competition when you could just hire Mary Robinette Kowal? ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 4, 2020: What to an American Is the Fourth of July? Power comes before freedom, not the other way around. - Awesome piece by Ibram X. Kendi about how โ€ฆ

Jul 3, 2020: Oh yeah THAT’S why I always stop listening after “Cabinet Battle #2.” ๐Ÿ˜ญ

Jul 3, 2020: I’m watching Hamilton & of course it’s amazing but I’m especially blown away by how much more nuanced Daveed Diggs’s โ€ฆ

Jul 3, 2020: Started CS50x and programming with Scratch last night and definitely decided to build a robot to be my best friend.

Jul 3, 2020: Want to read: The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuil ๐Ÿ“š

Jul 2, 2020: I just realized that part of watching Hamilton will involve watching “It’s Quiet Uptown” and now I’m thinking maybe my first โ€ฆ

Jul 1, 2020: School and Life goals for 2020 Q3 Here are my goals for 2020 Q3: School goals Complete my dissertation data collection. Write two chapters of my dissertation: Ch. 2 Information โ€ฆ

Jul 1, 2020: I drew The Tower for my daily tarot pull. There’s a person on the left falling off the tower. There’s a person on the right diving off the โ€ฆ

Jul 1, 2020: Getting back into 100 Days of #bluemind with a Blue Mind Company sticker on my second notebook for 2020.

Jun 30, 2020: Want to read: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 30, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š Dr. Kelly J. Baker's "Grace Period" resonated strongly with me. A couple of weeks ago, I finished reading Dr. Kelly J. Baker’s book, Grace Period: A Memoir in Pieces. I read it very quickly, over the course โ€ฆ

Jun 30, 2020: Want to read: A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 30, 2020: Want to read: The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall ๐Ÿ“š

Jun 29, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š Naomi Alderman's "The Power" and the end of the #girlboss era I read Naomi Alderman’s The Power very quickly (well, what passes for quickly now that I’m a mom) over the past week or so. I found it โ€ฆ

Jun 29, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š Finished reading The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs (@ayjay) Another one I enjoyed and hope to write more about soon.

Jun 29, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š Just finished reading The Power by Naomi Alderman. It’s so good and I want to write about it in light of some articles I read recently about โ€ฆ

Jun 28, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š Want to read: Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books By Lynne Sharon Schwartz Data Science in Education Using R By Ryan A. Estrellado, Emily A. Freer, โ€ฆ

Jun 26, 2020: Looking back at the first half of 2020 Weโ€™re coming up on Q3 of 2020 and I donโ€™t know how the year is going for you (except to the extent that I totally do), but 2020 has gone differently โ€ฆ

Jun 25, 2020: Hi friend. I’m taking a break from most social media right now. It can be valuable for a lot of reasons, but I need a little time away. Usually โ€ฆ

Jun 23, 2020: Oh oh oh, so THIS is what it feels like to care about something besides keeping your child and yourself alive. ๐Ÿ’“๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’– (I’m referring here to my โ€ฆ

Jun 22, 2020: I’m excited to read this IFLA special issue on information literacy, and also keenly aware that I will probably need to work some of these โ€ฆ

Jun 19, 2020: Move Slowly and Mend Things ๐Ÿ“š Iโ€™m re-reading Jeff Goinsโ€™s book, You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One) and I came upon a bit that I highlighted and made a note on. Goins, โ€ฆ

Jun 19, 2020: When I express frustration about squeezing work in around childcare, I am NOT complaining about beautiful moments like this.

Jun 18, 2020: Why won’t my brain? It just won’t.

Jun 18, 2020: Hands can blog today, but brain won't, so have some stuff from other people that's great. ๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ–– Kelly J. Baker’s book Grace Period, which I devoured over the course of 2 days. I want to say so much about it, but my brain just won’t โ€ฆ

Jun 17, 2020: Which characters feel like friends to you? A little over a year ago, M. and I were in Atlanta to accompany W., who was attending an organizational meeting there. On our second full day in the โ€ฆ

Jun 17, 2020: High pain day. Hard to do any of my favorite things - just trying to get groceries ordered and then will probably read about post-ac life or the โ€ฆ

Jun 16, 2020: I'm done being hard on myself (for today). I saw this tweet today: Want to succeed #withaphd? Don't disappear into an academic bubble while you study: -work #altac jobs -do placements โ€ฆ

Jun 15, 2020: My (Remote) Interview Workflow, from Recruitment to Member Checking (Dissertating in the Open) Last Friday, I finished correcting the AI-provided transcripts for my dissertation interviews. This process didnโ€™t go as Iโ€™d originally imagined it โ€ฆ

Jun 15, 2020: Sharp & sparkly. I’m very happy to channel Mother of Swords @ this stage in the dissertation process. Drew her alongside 4 of Swords today โ€ฆ

Jun 12, 2020: Just finished correcting my interview transcripts and loading them into my data analysis software. Data Collection for Phase 1 of my dissertation is โ€ฆ

Jun 11, 2020: Me, in an interview w/ a cosplayer who, like myself, is a cosplayer d’un certain รขge: I never figured out Snapchat. I was like, I guess โ€ฆ

Jun 11, 2020: Third time The Chariot has come up in the past two weeks. From the Wayhome Tarot by Bakara Wintner and Autumn Whitehurst.

Jun 11, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š I just finished reading Alexandra Rowland’s (@_alexrowland on Twitter) A Choir of Lies and I’m not a little weepy, feeling seen & โ€ฆ

Jun 8, 2020: More AI transcription fun: Ways my software transcribes Nightcrawler. nightbot. Nicole. Nikon. micro. an Ico. microwave. my cooler.

Jun 8, 2020: Since last Monday, I’ve been beginning my work day with a Tarot pull. Today brought me the Daughter of Cups alongside the chariot. This is the โ€ฆ

Jun 5, 2020: ๐Ÿ–คโ™ฅ๏ธ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’œ She-Ra ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿงกโ™ฅ๏ธ๐Ÿ–ค

Jun 4, 2020: Taking some time to share stories of and resources about Black joy. This CNN story about Black Birders Week explains all those awesome Black birder โ€ฆ

Jun 3, 2020: Every day is a good day to listen to a bunch of songs focused on Black joy, curated by Sidney Madden (@Sid_Madden on Twitter) for NPR.

Jun 2, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest? And other commonly asked questions by white and/or privileged people, answered โ€ฆ

Jun 2, 2020: Project READY is a series of free, online professional development modules for youth-serving library professionals & others interested in โ€ฆ

Jun 2, 2020: More anti-racism resources.

Jun 2, 2020: Another valuable resource: Anti-Racism Resources: Books, Conversations and People Leading The Charge

Jun 1, 2020: Bit of levity to break up the awfulness: the way my transcription software tries to transcribe “Mjolnir” (Thor’s hammer): meal near. โ€ฆ

Jun 1, 2020: Been quiet for the past couple of days because anything I have to say feels inane right now. This will probably continue for a bit longer.

May 29, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice is immensely valuable, because it gives you concrete actions to take in the face of our โ€ฆ

May 29, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Read recently: The Three Equations for a Happy Life, Even During a Pandemic Cosplay Is a Business and It Is Suffering Why itโ€™s so hard to read a โ€ฆ

May 28, 2020: 100 Days of #bluemind, Day 4: Aquarium Playlist In November 2018, I had respiratory inflammation that was on its way to becoming pneumonia when I traveled to Charleston with my husband and then โ€ฆ

May 28, 2020: Pretty proud of my new About page. You should probably go read it.

May 28, 2020: New bio: “space mermaid sparkle goth” and new profile photo: (If you, too, are obsessed with manatees and need to dress like one, a quick โ€ฆ

May 28, 2020: 100 Days of #bluemind Day 3: Sat on the front porch and watched and listened to the rain. Tried to capture the rain sound on video but it didn’t โ€ฆ

May 27, 2020: This is not a polished blog. I’m still in a mostly flow, very little stock place. I’m coming up with ideas for blog posts all the time, and keeping a list of them in โ€ฆ

May 27, 2020: ๐Ÿ‘ฆ My child has decreed that henceforth this character shall be known as R2 Bleep Bloop. You’re welcome.

May 26, 2020: 100 Days of #bluemind, Day 2: Took a drive along the North Durham Country Byway, crossing over Lake Michie and the Flat River.

May 26, 2020: ๐ŸงถGot bored making a sweater that just uses the same stitches over and over, so added Sophie’s Universe to the mix. Very happy with this โ€ฆ

May 26, 2020: Had a great call with my school’s career services coordinator where she urged me not to let worrying about jobs become a distraction from โ€ฆ

May 26, 2020: Today is the first day of the 100 Days of Blue Mind challenge. I got my #bluemind on today by gazing up at the clouds from my hammock.

May 24, 2020: Deep cleaning 3 essential oil diffusers at once, as you do.

May 24, 2020: I just realized that to figure out what professional options I want to consider in the future, I essentially need to do an informational interview โ€ฆ

May 24, 2020: I don’t think of librarianship as a CALLING, but I do consider it a disposition. For example, I just texted 2 friends to tell them about an โ€ฆ

May 22, 2020: Finished reading: The Addams Family: An Evilution by Charles Addams and Kevin Miserocchi ๐Ÿ“š

May 22, 2020: Happy World Goth Day! I’m GothEnough and if you want to be, so are you! If you are Not-a-Goth or not goth, you can still celebrate. ๐Ÿ“š

May 22, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Read ‘A joyful thing’: the man who wrote his wife a poem every day for 25 years. I have a bad habit of idealizing other people’s โ€ฆ

May 21, 2020: North Carolina is moving from Stay-at-Home to Safer-at-Home & I’m anxious about it. My swim club is opening on 6/1 & I want to go โ€ฆ

May 20, 2020: I just can’t brain this week, so I’m going to liveblog some career assessment results! First up, the Holland Code. I took the assessment โ€ฆ

May 20, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Stuff I read yesterday: One of Oscar Wildeโ€™s last stops in England before exile was a bookstore. Growing Without Schooling Science confirms it: โ€ฆ

May 19, 2020: Want to read: Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright ๐Ÿ“š

May 19, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Read today: 6 Ways to Maximize Your Reading Time During the Pandemic - I can’t tell whether some of these suggestions are jokes, but they all โ€ฆ

May 18, 2020: ๐ŸŽฎ I finished playing Final Fantasy VII Remake yesterday. I had fun with the game and I adore Tifa, Aerith, and Jessie, more than I did when I โ€ฆ

May 18, 2020: Lest I think I’m doing nothing during this social isolation time, in addition to raising my kid & dissertating, I’m also planning a โ€ฆ

May 18, 2020: I’m struggling to dissertate today. My main task for the next little bit is just to correct AI transcriptions of my interviews. It’s not โ€ฆ

May 18, 2020: Thinking of changing my website’s title (but not my domain) from “Kimberly Hirsh” to “Kimberly Hirsh is a lot.”

May 18, 2020: ๐Ÿ”–๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽญ๐Ÿ“š Read 8 Musicals that You Might Not Know Were Based on Books by Emily Neuberger. I’ve been grieving the fact that public performances likely โ€ฆ

May 18, 2020: ๐Ÿ”–๐Ÿ“ Read How to Write 1000 Poems in a 1000 Days by Nick Asbury. More why to than how to, this is a moving read and a great argument for making art in โ€ฆ

May 16, 2020: ๐Ÿ‘ฆ My kid just told me that Iron Lychee is a whole bunch of Iron Mans [sic] inside one giant Iron Man.

May 16, 2020: The best part of conducting my dissertation interviews via Zoom is I get to see my participants' cats.

May 15, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š Reading Notes, Having Trouble Reading, and a Read What You Own Challenge I added a page to the index section of my Bullet Journal that tracks Reading Notes. I don’t like to use collections; I inevitably end up โ€ฆ

May 15, 2020: ๐Ÿ‘ฆ Me: One of the things a librarian can do is suggest a book you might like to read next. M: But we don’t have a librarian! Me: I’m a โ€ฆ

May 15, 2020: The neighbors closest to the back of my property seem to be partying late into the night every weeknight, talking loudly and playing music at an โ€ฆ

May 13, 2020: Feels like I’m really closing in on an accurate self-representation with my latest bio addition: Badass Library Scientist.

May 13, 2020: Bonus bio addition: “Let’s talk about Buffy. ๐Ÿ‘ฑโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿง›โ€โ™‚๏ธ”

May 12, 2020: Low energy + high pain = reading about ghosts while lying on a hammock. ๐Ÿ‘ป๐Ÿ“š

May 12, 2020: Today’s bio addition: Gothic mermaid scholar-librarian net girl ๐Ÿ’€

May 12, 2020: I just don’t feel like blogging today. I’m not miserable or anything, just every time I start to write or think about writing, I know that โ€ฆ

May 11, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š finished reading The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White This is a re-read; I read The Elements of Style when I was Managing โ€ฆ

May 11, 2020: I spent the me-time my family generously gave me today mostly on brushing up my web development skills. It’s really beautiful coming back to โ€ฆ

May 10, 2020: We got a new hammock with stand for our deck, big enough for our whole household to fit in at once (for now), and it is truly the finest thing to lie โ€ฆ

May 8, 2020: Settling In My son is registered to start at a Quaker school in August. I donโ€™t know what that will end up looking like, but one practice that they (and Quaker โ€ฆ

May 8, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š Just found my copies of Making Sense of Qualitative Data (Coffey & Atkinson) and Writing the New Ethnography (Goodall). I’ve been looking โ€ฆ

May 7, 2020: If I get one more listserv email advising me to use this time productively, I will be even more annoyed than I have been by all such emails thus far.

May 6, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– From Austin Kleon: Not Everything Will Be Okay But Some Things Will I share Kleon’s frustration with platitudes like “We’ve gotten โ€ฆ

May 6, 2020: Life update: How things are going for me How’s your day going? Aside from the continuing world situation + its impact on higher ed (and thus my possibility of being funded for next โ€ฆ

May 6, 2020: Taking a break from scrolling micro.blog and Twitter for a while. Still checking mentions occasionally. โ™ฅ๏ธ

May 5, 2020: I know how to do stuff. Impostor syndrome is nonsense. Are you at loose ends? Iโ€™m at loose ends. I have a number of projects on the go but I am not doing a good job of organizing them. I am steeped deep in โ€ฆ

May 4, 2020: ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽญ๐Ÿ“š You know that feeling when you’re irritated that you have to feed your family instead of just reading Stephen Sondheim’s annotation of โ€ฆ

May 4, 2020: Lately, my blogging has been all flow, no stock. That’s certainly not what I hoped for when I set out to blog more often. I do think this is a โ€ฆ

May 2, 2020: Oh hey, just over here pondering what LIS even means and whether information practice should be treated as its own subfield distinct from (inclusive โ€ฆ

May 1, 2020: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: completed CSS Flexbox at freeCodeCamp. Previously on #100DaysOfCode: 4/26, Completed applied accessibility at โ€ฆ

May 1, 2020: I have bangs for the first time in 30 years and it’s Tifa’s fault. ๐ŸŽฎ

Apr 28, 2020: Dusk is bunny time in my yard and it is THE BEST.

Apr 28, 2020: I have this problem where I want to buy all the Hot Topic shortalls because I’m pretty sure it’s still 1997.

Apr 28, 2020: My AI transcription software knows the names of Pokemon and it’s going to make my research so much easier. (Seriously, world, go looking for โ€ฆ

Apr 27, 2020: I was a good mom this morning, so I’m going to be an okay academic this afternoon.

Apr 26, 2020: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: continued the Applied Accessibility challenges at freeCodeCamp.

Apr 25, 2020: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: finished freeCodeCamp’s Applied Visual Design, started Applied Accessibility.

Apr 24, 2020: Just spent almost 2 hours correcting an AI transcript of a 47 minute interview. This is about 1/3 of the time it would have taken me to transcribe it โ€ฆ

Apr 24, 2020: Today’s bio update: replaced “Mom & Scholar-Librarian” with “Mom. Learner. Infomancer. Editrix. Webhead.”

Apr 24, 2020: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: started freeCodeCamp’s Applied Visual Design challenges. Too headachey/tired to reflect much now, but โ€ฆ

Apr 23, 2020: Today’s #100DaysOfCode Progress: I completed all of the Basic CSS challenges at freeCodeCamp. I’ve started compiling a list of โ€ฆ

Apr 23, 2020: A (self)diagnosis For the past couple of years, I’ve felt like I was having a Hashimoto’s thyroiditis flare. But aside from a small dip in my thyroid โ€ฆ

Apr 22, 2020: #100DaysOfCode Round 1, 1/100 Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: I completed all of the “Basic HTML and HTML5” challenges at freeCodeCamp. I also read/watched the โ€ฆ

Apr 21, 2020: Having another go at #100DaysofCode, because nobody ever said, “I sure wish my employee didn’t know how to code.”

Apr 21, 2020: Took my kid for a drive this morning, just to do something different and because we were cleaning out my car and he asked. There was this one stretch โ€ฆ

Apr 21, 2020: “We want the human relationship with nature to be based on abundance, a relationship that encourages us to participate in the resilience, the โ€ฆ

Apr 20, 2020: My kid insists that Darkwing Duck’s sidekick is named Lunchpack, and it’s adorable.

Apr 20, 2020: Today we went for a family walk and from a distance we saw a neighbor family walking their pig, and it was the best thing that has happened in a โ€ฆ

Apr 19, 2020: Me: Hm, this is a lot of pain from this flare, whatever its origin. I think I’ll just watch Star Trek: The Next Generation until I feel better.

Apr 18, 2020: It’s a high pain day but my brain is less foggy than it has been in a while. Mens sana in corpore morbido. Looking for advice on how to cope โ€ฆ

Apr 18, 2020: Thank you, Reviewer 2! (No sarcasm!) As I mentioned earlier, I’ve been sitting on an accepted-with-revisions paper for well over a year. (I know. I know. Okay?) The paper needs โ€ฆ

Apr 17, 2020: This is an… interesting… time to be researching cosplay.

Apr 17, 2020: Kim Werker, one of my favorite people I’ve never met, is offering her course Crochet for Challenging Times for $10. Crochet is the most soothing โ€ฆ

Apr 17, 2020: Going to re-learn knitting so that I can make all the things from Doomsday Knits, including the pattern that is a Dollhouse reference.

Apr 17, 2020: Information and Learning Sciences: Situating my work at the intersection Since the beginning of my doctoral program, I’ve struggled to situate my work and research interests. The role of libraries in learning. โ€ฆ

Apr 17, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š Finished reading: Freelancing 101: Launching Your Editorial Business by Ruth E. Thaler-Carter You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One) by Jeff โ€ฆ

Apr 17, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š Abandoning Blue Mind for now, but I definitely want to come back to it.

Apr 15, 2020: I’m struggling to write a blog post today or even a short note. My mood is low due to extreme uncertainty in both the wider world and my own โ€ฆ

Apr 15, 2020: Today in My Son, the 3 Year Old Fic Author: a crossover in which Spider-Man and the Ninja Turtle Michelangelo team up to defeat Dormammu.

Apr 14, 2020: Doing a 15 minute #AcWri challenge Iโ€™m reading Dr. Katie Linderโ€™s blog archive. One of her earliest posts is titled 51 Tips to Help Academic Writers Be More Productive. Itโ€™s a very โ€ฆ

Apr 14, 2020: Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. I’m a learner who writes.

Apr 13, 2020: ๐Ÿ“บ So is Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist a jukebox-musical version of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend?

Apr 13, 2020: I’m sure there are grad students for whom a list of ways to stay productive right now might be useful, but I am not one of them.

Apr 13, 2020: I just DMed 6 cosplayers on Instagram to invite them to participate in my study. 5 were in person acquaintances, 1 was recommended by a friend. Feels โ€ฆ

Apr 12, 2020: Sometimes, as an exercise to give me insight into what I should be focusing on, where I should put my attention, whenever Iโ€™m choosing an activity โ€ฆ

Apr 12, 2020: ๐ŸŽฎ I think Tifa is my fave now? I always liked her, but now I like her best?

Apr 12, 2020: ๐ŸŽฎ It’s happening.

Apr 11, 2020: Weekly Update: 04/11/20 We just finished up week 4 of staying at home. In one sense, I didnโ€™t have much going on before this; grad school and parenting a young child donโ€™t โ€ฆ

Apr 10, 2020: Sesame Street is a great comedy school. My preferred comedy format, though I’ve not really performed it, is sketch. Yes, I did improv for years, but basically because a sketch teacher โ€ฆ

Apr 10, 2020: Facebook Live museum tours on my calendar today, The Dark Crystal exhibit at the Center for Puppetry Arts and Tim Burton at the Neon Museum.

Apr 10, 2020: Because it’s seasonally appropriate, today we’re listening to Christo Graham’s Muppet Christ Superstar.

Apr 10, 2020: Guess I have to not Internet until after our copy of FF7R gets here… See y’all later, probably with lots of thoughts on books I’m โ€ฆ

Apr 9, 2020: ๐Ÿ“บ My wishlist for Picard Season 2: Geordi More Spot II

Apr 8, 2020: Feeling like hiding today, but I worked on recruiting for my dissertation and put my CV on kimberlyhirsh.com. Also tried avocado-based chocolate โ€ฆ

Apr 7, 2020: I definitely have some sensory processing problems & they’ve gotten worse since isolating. I have to hide when my kid gets loud & chatty โ€ฆ

Apr 6, 2020: Changing my research design I submitted proposed changes to my research design to my committee today. I had to make these changes in light of COVID-19 eliminating the possibility โ€ฆ

Apr 6, 2020: I’m reading Lori Morimoto’s (@acafanmom on Twitter) book, An Introduction to Media Fan Studies and it’s so good. Highly recommend, โ€ฆ

Apr 4, 2020: Something about watching Picard gives me the same feeling as reading a novel and I love it. ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ––

Apr 4, 2020: Want to read: Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 3, 2020: Weekly Update: 04/03/20 First, some cute things my kid said. He was talking about flushing the toilet and said that the contents go to the โ€œwater landfill.โ€ Also, I donโ€™t โ€ฆ

Apr 3, 2020: Wisdom from the Co-Star app All you have to do this month is allow for things to feel uncertain. Now is a good time to construct a solid home inside yourself so that you stop โ€ฆ

Apr 3, 2020: Everybody get the Marco Polo app and let’s have asynchronous video chats.

Apr 2, 2020: My three-year-old is over here writing fix-it fic for The Velveteen Rabbit. ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 2, 2020: I know this isn’t what actually happened, but I like to imagine that I summoned into being the latest issue of Josh Radnor’s Museletter. I โ€ฆ

Apr 2, 2020: I fell into a new COVID-19 spiral today. This went beyond anxiety and felt closer to depression. The world started to take on that bell jar feeling. โ€ฆ

Apr 1, 2020: ๐Ÿ“š The library is closed, limiting my book borrowing options, but the gym is also closed, freeing up some book buying funds, so…

Apr 1, 2020: It’s nice to see that Alexandra Rowland has written a book for/about me. ๐Ÿ“š

Apr 1, 2020: I’m having a down day. Not helping is this (extremely informative but also depressing) piece from The Atlantic, The Four Possible Timelines for โ€ฆ

Apr 1, 2020: More gold from McSweeney’s: Self-Isolation or Graduate School?

Apr 1, 2020: McSweeney’s Frog and Toad are self-quarantined friends by Jennie Egerdie is my favorite art to come out of COVID-19 so far.

Apr 1, 2020: The Punky Brewster episode “The Perils of Punky” aired in 1985. In it, Punky’s dog is turned into a skeleton. It gave me nightmares โ€ฆ

Mar 31, 2020: Don't wait until you know who you are to get started, scholars. This is part two of a series in which I’m writing up how Austin Kleon’s work particularly relevant for scholars, researchers, and โ€ฆ

Mar 30, 2020: Steal Like an Artist for Scholars Austin Kleon is one of the creative people who have had the greatest influence on my thinking about art, life, and parenthood. I actually had a bit of โ€ฆ

Mar 29, 2020: I feel like when you’re young & you realize you’re weird you can choose one of two protective mechanisms. You can be too cool for โ€ฆ

Mar 29, 2020: You can comment on kimberlyhirsh.com now! I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about what I consider the golden age of blogging - probably 2001 - 2004. Some people might consider this โ€ฆ

Mar 28, 2020: I’m obsessed with the 1997.chat app and sad about my empty buddy list. You can find me at Kiba Rika.

Mar 27, 2020: Weekly Update: 03/27/20 I’m trying a new thing with a weekly round-up on Friday. This has been the second week of social distancing for us. We order our groceries via โ€ฆ

Mar 27, 2020: My son and I have been listening to the Frog and Toad audiobook collection, read by the author, Arnold Lobel, a lot in the past several weeks. โ€ฆ

Mar 27, 2020: I put on the Labyrinth soundtrack & said to W, “This music is so good.” He said, “I’m not sure if it’s good because โ€ฆ

Mar 26, 2020: Long before the coronavirus moved from animals to humans, I had set myself a goal of recognizing the abundance that is already in my life, and taking โ€ฆ

Mar 26, 2020: I ordered my sister from a catalog. The other day I mentioned how I named my sister after a preschool friend. When I was 3, I was looking at a catalog - maybe a toy catalog or a catalog โ€ฆ

Mar 26, 2020: My city’s mayor issued a Stay-at-Home order today. I’m grateful that the two people I’m staying at home with are so lovely.

Mar 25, 2020: Do stuff your three-year-old self liked. After realizing that 1. The Muppets (specifically those of The Muppet Show) is pretty much my first fandom and 2. I got into them when I was the same โ€ฆ

Mar 25, 2020: Spread the word: my blog host, micro.blog, is offering teachers free hosting for the next six months.

Mar 24, 2020: ๐ŸŽต Introducing: #showtunesisters (i.e., me challenging my sister to sing showtune duets with me) View this post on Instagram Challenging @ailuruscosmos to join me for a #showtunesisters duet. An anecdote: one time after one of my improv โ€ฆ

Mar 23, 2020: Baby Piggy is me: “Everyone knows the most important thing about being a rock star is LOOKING like a rock star!”

Mar 23, 2020: My sister’s friend Connor shared this hilarious Les Mis parody dedicated to teachers with us.

Mar 23, 2020: I like The Muppets (2015) TV show more than I thought I would. ๐Ÿ“บ _My brother gave me [this Muppet version of The Phantom of the Opera โ€ฆ

Mar 22, 2020: Our family's social distancing schedule I wanted to share our family’s current weekday schedule, mostly to help other people feel okay about theirs. This isn’t what every day โ€ฆ

Mar 20, 2020: From my last note, which said only “It me,” you may be wondering “What she?” I was trying to include this image. It. It me.

Mar 19, 2020: It me.

Mar 19, 2020: Life has been extra intense from March 6 until now. I missed a dissertation fellowship application that was due 3/15 (only $3K but that would fund โ€ฆ

Mar 19, 2020: What I'm doing about my pandemic anxiety Something in me has broken, and now I am cracked, open and vulnerable. For the first time yesterday, I set my armor of humor aside and sat with the โ€ฆ

Mar 17, 2020: When my kid’s preschool announced that they would be closing, I had plans to blog daily about my experiences in the middle of this widespread โ€ฆ

Mar 17, 2020: M. asked “How old is Darth Vader?” I calculated using this timeline & told M., “41, the same age as your daddy.” M. said, โ€ฆ

Mar 17, 2020: Social distancing day 4, no preschool day 2: M is enjoying these miniature water beads from FunatHomewithKids.com.

Mar 16, 2020: My kid just showed me his Winnie the Pooh in a Santa outfit stuffy and said, “So this is Santa… OR IS IT?” and I’m so proud.

Mar 14, 2020: Whitney (@whitneyellenb) & I are going to post about the video games we play while stuck at home using #quarantinegaming. She’s playing โ€ฆ

Mar 13, 2020: Let’s all give ourselves permission to be thoroughly mediocre parents for the next few weeks.

Mar 13, 2020: I’m totally accepting keypals/epals to help stave off social isolation during social distancing. Drop me a line at hello [at] kimberlyhirsh โ€ฆ

Mar 13, 2020: ๐Ÿ”– Keeping kids busy at home Storing links here so they’re easy for me to find when I need them during the next two weeks. Maybe they’ll help you, too? 13 things to โ€ฆ

Mar 13, 2020: Local schools are closing, including my Montessori/co-working space, so I’m now a stay-at-home mom until March 30. Cool, cool, cool. (I begrudge โ€ฆ

Mar 13, 2020: No YOU want to buy every Leia item in the new Jen Bartels collection, twice, so you can keep one of each and give one to your mom.

Mar 11, 2020: Also, I love being on podcasts, so if you need a guest for yours, hit me up.

Mar 11, 2020: I guested on a podcast for the first time in almost 5 years! And I only talked about BtVS a little! Check it out: Micro Monday, Episode 80

Mar 11, 2020: Current wishlist: Everything BtVS on Hot Topic

Mar 11, 2020: Changing my research plans in light of COVID-19 All friends & students who are in the midst of dissertation data collection - I know recent events have made the process even more stressful. I โ€ฆ

Mar 11, 2020: Hi, I’m Kimberly, and today I’m wearing yoga pants with combat boots.

Mar 9, 2020: Rather than an elbow bump, I’m planning to replace handshakes and high fives with a forearm bash. www.youtube.com/watch

Mar 9, 2020: Reintroducing Genetrix, curating stories about creative mothers Last January, I launched Genetrix, a newsletter to curate stories of creative mothers. After sending two issues, I started to get overwhelmed by the โ€ฆ

Mar 8, 2020: ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Listened to Mighty Creative, episodes: Prologue: The Podcast Is Back 101 - Prerequisite Procrastination 102 - Derivative Crafts & Remixing

Mar 8, 2020: ๐Ÿ“บ Watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 23, “Skin of Evil.”

Mar 8, 2020: ๐Ÿงถ Finally finished crocheting these dragon scale fingerless gloves. They’re a birthday gift for my sister. Her birthday is January 18… ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

Mar 7, 2020: ๐Ÿ“บ Watched Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 episodes 1 & 2, “Encounter at Farpoint.โ€ As a kid, family viewing of TNG was one of my โ€ฆ

Mar 6, 2020: Y’all, my brother’s latest cartoon is hilarious. Lots of fun visual gags. Watch at least twice. youtu.be/PViDjXlpj…

Mar 5, 2020: ๐ŸŽต Another Dragonforce recommendation: “Symphony of the Night”. (If you think you know what it is, you’re 100% correct.)

Mar 5, 2020: ๐ŸŽต Decided to listen to Power Metal while working today. There’s a lot wrong with the world, but Dragonforce’s cover of “My Heart โ€ฆ

Mar 5, 2020: Want to read: Fibershed : growing a movement of farmers, fashion activists, and makers for a new textile economy ๐Ÿ“š

Mar 4, 2020: Here’s your (somewhat) regularly scheduled voting selfie!