2023-02-05: ๐ Read “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather." Took me a little while to get into the format of โฆ
2023-02-03: Today’s adventure: NEMO Science Museum. Very cool, but I’m spoiled by having an awesome โฆ
2023-02-02: Finished reading: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ๐ I’m extremely late to this one. It’s โฆ
2023-02-02: ๐ Read Interview with Kelly J. Baker: โI canโt push through when Iโm stuck.โ “My writing โฆ
2023-02-01: Another Dutch meal: stamppot boerenkool. This is smoked sausage with sauce on a bed of potatoes โฆ
2023-02-01: I made a menu of Dutch foods for us to try. They’re sort of home food staples, not anything โฆ
2023-02-01: I’m so excited to hang out with my friends for new stories.
2023-01-31: ๐ Read WEโVE LOST THE PLOT by Megan Garber (The Atlantic). “Our constant need for โฆ
2023-01-31: Finished reading: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo ๐ I love it so much. I left the hardcover at home but โฆ
2023-01-30: ๐๐บ๐ฎ Read Television Is Better Without Video Games and Video Games Are Better Without Gameplay (Ian โฆ
2023-01-30: My kid made a Kirby and the Forgotten Land fanzine, I am dead from cute.
2023-01-29: ๐บ๐๐ป When I watch TNG or Picard, Data is Data, but anyone else Brent Spiner plays is Brent Spiner โฆ
2023-01-27: ๐บ Watched Ares. Brilliant dark academia horror with all the hallmarks: secret society, dangerously โฆ
2023-01-27: Quiet Time in Aalsmeer Our second week in the Netherlands has been quiet so far. Exactly a week after we got here, I came โฆ
2023-01-26: Duolingo really emphasizes the importance of learning the Dutch word “krant,” which โฆ
2023-01-25: The video of the Pop Culture Dialogue I was part of on inherited fandoms is now on YouTube.
2023-01-24: In just a bit I’ll be contributing to the live-streamed Pop Culture Dialogue on Inherited โฆ
2023-01-23: I love your newsletter, whoever you are, but I’ve put it on web-only. Trying to get quiet in โฆ
2023-01-23: Well I guess the jet lag is over because instead of getting a brilliant solid stretch of sleep that โฆ
2023-01-21: We took a walk through the village down to the Westeindeplassen (a lake) today. Here are some photos โฆ
2023-01-21: The other day W pointed out that the way we communicate in memes is basically the same as Tamarians โฆ
2023-01-19: Our first 60 hours in Europe In case you missed it: my husband, W, received a Fulbright award to study European & โฆ
2023-01-19: ๐ Read The online free speech debate is raging in fan fiction, too by Elizabeth Minkel.
2023-01-19: ๐ Read The Fannish Potlatch: Creation of Status Within the Fan Community by Rachael Sabotini (Fanfic โฆ
2023-01-19: Me in the Netherlands on Day 3: UGH I can’t believe I haven’t been to ALL THE MUSEUMS, โฆ
2023-01-19: ๐ฎ Played the Dragon Quest Treasures demo. Cute with some fun mechanics and a cool world but not so โฆ
2023-01-18: ๐๐บ๐ฑโโ๏ธ Read Sarah Michelle Gellar Returns to Fighting Form: โIโve Earned the Right to Stand Where I โฆ
2023-01-18: Woont u in Nederland? Ik ben in Aalsmeer. Wil u afspreken? Ik spreek een beetje Nederlands, maar ik โฆ
2023-01-18: Me: wants to message all my friends and family My friends and family: are sleeping, I hope, as โฆ
2023-01-17: Well, a cat walked us home from the bus stop so I guess we and everyone we know are moving to โฆ
2023-01-14: ๐บ Finished watching Wednesday. Glad I stuck with it. I appreciate Wednesday refusing to be in the โฆ
2023-01-14: ๐บ๐ฌ Tyler: Come on, don’t you like a day that’s all about you? Wednesday: Every day is โฆ
2023-01-13: ๐บ๐ฌ “It’s not my fault I can’t interpret your emotional morse code.” ๐ค โฆ
2023-01-12: ๐ Back on my dark academia bullshit thanks to WEDNESDAY (the show is DA, the character is goth) and โฆ
2023-01-12: Real struggle to focus today which is probably a combo of getting to bed late because I wanted to โฆ
2023-01-10: Pro-tip: asking questions about why you’re doing the research in the way you’re doing it โฆ
2023-01-10: ๐บ Watching WEDNESDAY and every time Christina Ricci says, “Wednesday,” I’m all, โฆ
2023-01-10: How I Begin In Austin Kleonโs paid newsletter post today, he asked his readers, to share how we begin. I opened โฆ
2023-01-10: Tarot: My Year Ahead I’m taking Lindsay Mack’s tarot class called The Threshold. Here’s my reading for โฆ
2023-01-09: Make a note: 2023 is the year of unsubscribing.
2023-01-09: Hey librarians! Where do you get information to help you do your job?
2023-01-09: ๐๐ฌ “Be open to the possibility that you are bigger, more magical, more powerful than you dare โฆ
2023-01-08: ๐ Read How Wednesday Addams Birthed a Generation of Cynics by Emily Alford (Longreads). This is my โฆ
2023-01-07: It seems extra cruel that while my mom can’t actually carry herself around on her legs, she โฆ
2023-01-07: ๐ Read All in Good Fun: How Fanfiction Reignited My Passion for Writing by Briana Lawrence, linked โฆ
2023-01-06: Hello. LIS scholars, scholars of #LIS for those of you on hashtaggy places: are you familiar with โฆ
2023-01-06: Hey Internet. What’s fun with a kid in Amsterdam? Besides De Poezenboot, obviously. ๐โโฌ
2023-01-04: Me: gets Steam Deck for Christmas Me: proceeds to add tons of 90s PC adventure games to my Steam โฆ
2023-01-04: ๐ฎ Started playing The Secret of Monkey Island on the Steam Deck. Correcting a gap in my point & โฆ
2023-01-03: Loved my first day hike, hiked in spite of the sense of impending bursitis. Two days later, bursitis โฆ
2023-01-02: Q: Was there ever a series of books you were skeptical about, but ended up liking very much? A: I โฆ
2023-01-02: Q: who was your crush in middle school lmao A: Had a different one each year. Not naming names but โฆ
2023-01-02: Q: the longest time you’ve ever gone without showering? A: Don’t know but far too long, โฆ
2023-01-02: Dense fog advisory today until 10 AM. Big woodland goth vibes.
2023-01-02: Finished reading: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie ๐ Poirot’s first case. A โฆ
2023-01-02: Begin As You Mean to Go On, courtesy of Leigh Bardugo: Read for pleasure: Read The Mysterious โฆ
2023-01-02: Q: What’s one thing that typical town libraries should change to increase community โฆ
2023-01-01: Q: What are your plans this weekend? A: Nothing big - maybe going to the Farmer’s Market & โฆ
2023-01-01: Anon message: You’re still one of the first people I think of fondly when I’m โฆ
2023-01-01: Next anon q: Do you remember your Bronzer days with joy? Or with time (and events) does it feel like โฆ
2023-01-01: Next anonymous question: Favourite fandom/ship for fanfic? My answer: Oh my goodness this is way โฆ
2023-01-01: Next anonymous message: You are the best! My reply: Thanks! Backatcha!
2023-01-01: Fourth anonymous question: Favorite place you’ve ever visited? My answer: The Library of โฆ
2023-01-01: Third anonymous question: If you could choose any career would it be what you’re doing right โฆ
2023-01-01: Second anonymous question: Who’s the last person you texted? My answer: My sister
2023-01-01: First anonymous question: Hottest sport? My answer: I don’t really sport and I’m super โฆ
2023-01-01: Saw @heroicendeavour@glammr.us answering anonymous questions and thought it might be fun to do this โฆ
2023-01-01: Did the PBS Kids NYE countdown so… Here’s to some good stuff happening in 2023.
2022-12-31: A Dispatch from the Threshold of 2023 ๐ช๐ I don’t know if I’ll get to do all the year-end/new year transition things I’d โฆ
2022-12-31: On this day last year, I wrote: “…my word of the year for 2022 is MEND. My goal is to โฆ
2022-12-31: PS If you’re wondering why I’m still awake at 4 it’s because my mom keeps having โฆ
2022-12-31: My Child Woke Me Up at 1:30 and I’m Still Awake at 4: The Kimberly Hirsh Story
2022-12-31: 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 โฆ
2022-12-31: Finished reading: Hooky by Mรญriam Bonastre Tur ๐ Posting this so it automatically gets added to my โฆ
2022-12-31: Finished reading: Career Change: Stop hating your job, discover what you really want to do with your โฆ
2022-12-31: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career by Katie Rose โฆ
2022-12-31: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery - Aftermath by Kirsten Beyer ๐ Posting this so it โฆ
2022-12-31: Finished reading: Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Keith S. Wilson ๐ Posting this so it automatically โฆ
2022-12-31: Finished reading: Rose (New Poets of America) by Li-Young Lee ๐ Posting this so it automatically โฆ
2022-12-31: Finished reading: Hilda and the Troll: Hilda Book 1 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson ๐ Posting this so it โฆ
2022-12-31: Finished reading: Hilda and the Midnight Giant: Hilda Book 2 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson ๐ Posting โฆ
2022-12-31: Finished reading: Hilda and the Black Hound: Hilda Book 4 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson ๐ Posting this โฆ
2022-12-31: Finished reading: Hilda and the Stone Forest: Hilda Book 5 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson ๐ Posting โฆ
2022-12-31: Finished reading: Hilda and the Mountain King by Luke Pearson ๐ Posting this so it automatically โฆ
2022-12-31: Finished reading: Death on the Nile [Movie Tie-In 2022] by Agatha Christie ๐ Another fun one. Poirot โฆ
2022-12-30: Currently reading: Death on the Nile [Movie Tie-In 2022] by Agatha Christie ๐ Another pre-movie โฆ
2022-12-29: Cat help me, I’ve fallen into the rabbit hole that is Benoit Blanc/Phillip fluff and I’m โฆ
2022-12-28: Part of me wants to take all my favorite character tropes and rewrite them as mom. Mom detective. โฆ
2022-12-28: Finished reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie ๐ Wow, that went fast. Super fun.
2022-12-28: Currently reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie ๐ Reading in advance of watching โฆ
2022-12-27: Finished reading: Season of Love by Helena Greer ๐ I love it so much. Sweet, hot but closed doors, I โฆ
2022-12-25: ๐๐ Read …and a partridge in a pear tree (19913 words) by strangehunger. This is a beautiful โฆ
2022-12-24: Currently reading: Season of Love by Helena Greer ๐ I’ve read 141 pages in this book since I โฆ
2022-12-23: ๐ฟ Watched Glass Onion. Had fun. Still adore Benoit Blanc.
2022-12-23: ๐ I’m sure there are a lot of things I’ll want to tell you about Season of Love but the โฆ
2022-12-22: I feel like my new glasses give me a nebbishy vibe and I kind of love it. Who’s ready to cast โฆ
2022-12-22: Finally picked this beauty up from the library. I had it from NetGalley but didn’t get it read โฆ
2022-12-22: I drew the Ace of Swords as my anchor card for winter. I made it my phone background to help me โฆ
2022-12-22: ๐๐ Read Finding the Secret Door Into Your Novel. When a novel is wick, it has a life about it. (Have โฆ
2022-12-22: Said I was gonna disconnect cross-posting from Twitter, forgot to actually do it, gonna leave it on โฆ
2022-12-22: Finished reading: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko ๐ Finished this in 2 or 3 days. I was drawn to it โฆ
2022-12-21: Happy solstice!
2022-12-21: Kelly J. Baker’s latest newsletter is about a year of not writing & what that means when โฆ
2022-12-21: New glasses! Who knew I had a face under those cateyes?
2022-12-19: Currently reading: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko ๐
2022-12-18: Disconnecting cross-posting to Twitter after this post. Find my follow page at kimberlyhirsh.com if โฆ
2022-12-18: Finished reading: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo ๐ I loved it so much. I know Leigh Bardugo is done โฆ
2022-12-18: ๐ฌ๐ “None of this had been fated; none of it foretold… They were just the people who โฆ
2022-12-18: Woodland Goth: The Goblins of Labyrinth by Brian Froud ๐ Yep, I created a whole Woodland Goth โฆ
2022-12-17: 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 โฆ
2022-12-17: 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 โฆ
2022-12-17: Me, misquoting Lord of the Rings: “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring โฆ
2022-12-16: I use a smartphone AND I read novels.
2022-12-16: Revised 5 TV shows to introduce me, now in chronological order of release! ๐บ Star Trek: The Next โฆ
2022-12-16: Replacing Firefly in my 5 shows to introduce me and subbing in CXG.
2022-12-15: 'Wednesday' is full of "Whoa." ๐บ I just finished the first episode of Wednesday. I have so many thoughts and feelings. First, โฆ
2022-12-15: Introduce yourself with 5 TV shows ๐บ: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ๐ฑโโ๏ธ Firefly ๐ Star Trek: The Next โฆ
2022-12-15: ๐๐บ Read Wednesday Forgets Why We Fell in Love With the Addams Family. “The Addams Family โฆ
2022-12-15: Apparently tonight is a waking-after-every-sleep-cycle night. Not my favorite.
2022-12-14: I want my hair to look like Emily Axford’s hair.
2022-12-14: ๐ฟ Watched Santa Games (Hulu). Super cute. A sweet story about family & the power of second โฆ
2022-12-14: ๐ Read A year of new avenues robinsloan.com Robin Sloan https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/ โฆ
2022-12-14: 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 โฆ
2022-12-14: ๐ Read What Is a Strike? Reflections from the Virtual Front Lines of the UC Academic Worker Strike โฆ
2022-12-13: Currently reading: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo ๐ Kind of resent that I have to do anything โฆ
2022-12-13: ๐ Read Attention, trust and GPT3 “If your work isnโt more useful or insightful or urgent than โฆ
2022-12-13: ๐๐ฌ “I am most interested in confessional writing when it allows us to move into the personal โฆ
2022-12-13: ๐๐ฌ “I had been so well socialized by graduate school that I was torn between which writing โฆ
2022-12-12: ๐๐ Read If You Want to Give Something Back to Nature, Give Your Body by Caitlin Doughty (New York โฆ
2022-12-12: Lately I often find myself feeling alert but unable to focus. This is a new vibe for me. If โฆ
2022-12-11: Finished reading: 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl ๐ Read this because โฆ
2022-12-11: “Perhaps having children makes one increasingly distrust the symbolic world. Because suddenly โฆ
2022-12-11: This week’s Craft Talk from Jami Attenberg is another great one: “Donโt ever talk โฆ
2022-12-11: Y’all ever think about how the worst moments in your life personally align with some of the โฆ
2022-12-11: ๐ Read Creativity as Spiritual Practice by Rabbi Adina Allen (My Jewish Learning). “Each of โฆ
2022-12-10: ๐๐ญ๐จ๐งถ๐งต๐ต๐๐ฟ This is a reminder that I write Genetrix, a very occasional newsletter curating stories of โฆ
2022-12-10: ๐๐บ๐ Read TV Recaps Taught Me How to Write Criticism by Joelle Kidd. I love Kidd’s discussion โฆ
2022-12-10: ๐๐บ Read Wednesday Addams Is the Ultimate Outcast by Miyako Pleines (Catapult). ๐ค
2022-12-08: ๐ Read Haunted by the Ghost of 2019, Helena Fitzgerald “A return to 2019 is an attempt to โฆ
2022-12-08: Want to read: Screaming on the Inside by Jessica Grose ๐
2022-12-08: My personal Pokรฉmon avatar was behind today’s advent calendar door.
2022-12-08: ๐ Read How’d That Thing Go? by Kate McKean. “I donโt want a schedule, I want a sandbox. โฆ
2022-12-08: How to feel like myself My kid’s best friend’s mom got a new job and isn’t starting it until January, but โฆ
2022-12-08: Just listened to a super stressful strike townhall and I’m tempted to watch tonight’s โฆ
2022-12-07: ๐ฟ Watched Falling for Christmas. I’ve been an unironic Lindsay Lohan fan since I saw โฆ
2022-12-06: Q asks Baby Q Amanda Rogers if she’s ever caused the spontaneous combustion of someone she โฆ
2022-12-05: Trying to figure out if I can make a crow cane head work on my adjustable cane so I can walk the โฆ
2022-12-05: ๐ฎ Apparently my Dragon Age: Origins character isn’t in leather armor that looks like โฆ
2022-12-05: ๐ฎ I’m more than 10 yrs behind & have already played Inquisition but some quick thoughts โฆ
2022-12-05: Getting blood work done, it’s been 20 minutes since my appointment time and I still โฆ
2022-12-05: My whole family and I are moving to Tom Bombadil’s house. He and Goldberry are such gracious โฆ
2022-12-03: Y’all don’t even know how transformed this fireplace is from just a couple months ago. W โฆ
2022-12-03: The head teacher at my kid’s school for next year sent an email saying that the only school โฆ
2022-12-03: ๐๐ฎ Read Playing โTunicโ Reminds Me How to Approach Sickness and Recovery by Martin Cahill โฆ
2022-12-02: I have done all the things in Stardew Valley 1.4 and it took me ~245 hrs. That’s ~245 hrs when โฆ
2022-12-02: My Reading Year, 2022 ๐ Everybody is doing their year-end stuff, so I thought I’d do mine. I read 46 books this year โฆ
2022-12-01: True facts about my time on the early web: In many chats (like, html + server side scripting with โฆ
2022-12-01: Wonderful things ๐ฅณ: My kid fell asleep before 9:30 for the first time this week. ๐ด I โค๏ธ Tom โฆ
2022-11-30: Some notes on my Spotify Wrapped: Joe Hisaishi is the composer for My Neighbor Totoro, which is โฆ
2022-11-30: Friends! Are you on Mastodon? Are you seeing this on Mastodon? I’m about to stop using โฆ
2022-11-30: My son sings “Step by Step” at school sometimes. I always thought it sounded like a โฆ
2022-11-30: Hey Micro.blog friendos, I activated ActivityPub & can follow Mastodon peeps via M.b but how do โฆ
2022-11-30: I’m like a toddler over here with big feelings, might cry from relief because my parents got โฆ
2022-11-30: ๐ Read ‘Y’all,โ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream โ and itโs about โฆ
2022-11-29: Today has not been my favorite day, for reasons I may choose to detail more extensively in the โฆ
2022-11-29: ๐ฎ If you told me in 2015 that I would be really psyched about getting farming sims by 2022, I would โฆ
2022-11-29: ๐ Read 1 in 4 hiring managers say they are less likely to move forward with Jewish applicants โฆ
2022-11-28: ๐๐ป I’ve been falling asleep to the TNG episode “Relics,” and every time Captain โฆ
2022-11-28: ๐ Read Taking on the Feminine Labor of Creating Holiday Magic by Sarah Hunter Simanson (Catapult). โฆ
2022-11-28: ๐ Read PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet by Jamie Zawinski. (h/t @manton) At the โฆ
2022-11-28: Finished reading: The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo ๐ I love that Leigh Bardugo wrote this and โฆ
2022-11-28: ๐ฌ๐ “I don’t remember my own story… I remember only how I fell into books, never โฆ
2022-11-26: Thanksgiving 1: Plain black leggings, gray sweater. Thanksgiving 2: Floral dress. Thanksgiving 3: โฆ
2022-11-26: Today: Thanksgiving #3, Booster #2. Tomorrow: Rest, D&D.
2022-11-24: Locking myself in the bathroom at my parents' house to get a break from overstimulation, happy โฆ
2022-11-24: ๐๐ฒ Read On Mother Trees: What Old-Growth Trees Taught Me About Parenting by Kaitlyn Teer (Catapult). โฆ
2022-11-24: ๐๐ฟ Read The Mom in โHome Aloneโ Is a Messy and Magnificent Model of Motherhood. It’s easy to โฆ
2022-11-24: ๐๐โฟ Read As a Disabled Writer, I Am a Rich Innovator by [Sarah Fawn โฆ
2022-11-22: Currently attending Dr. Anuja Cabraal’s session on emoji coding. The analysis process and how โฆ
2022-11-22: The lyrics from Disney's Disenchanted that make me sob. ๐ต Spoilers for lyrics from Disenchanted follow. Without context they only mean a little but if โฆ
2022-11-22: Today is a day of widespread pain and miserable stomach cramps. Thanks a lot, chronic illness โฆ
2022-11-22: ๐ Read What is Jewish Spirituality? Mystics have their experiences, but what matters is what they โฆ
2022-11-22: ๐ Read The Eight Genders in the Talmud. Super interesting discussion of how halakhah handles things โฆ
2022-11-22: ๐ฟ I’m about 30 minutes into Disney’s Disenchanted and while it definitely doesn’t โฆ
2022-11-22: ๐ฟ Watched Eve’s Christmas. This & Back to Christmas have similar premises. If I woke up to โฆ
2022-11-22: Me: Ugh. Why am I so irritable? looks at Euki app calendar Me: Oh.
2022-11-21: Because I’m Extremely Online, I joined Hive with the username kimberlyhirsh. Because I’m โฆ
2022-11-21: Finished reading: Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ๐ I loved it so much. And I’m still pretty โฆ
2022-11-20: Okay, I have enough people still hanging out on Twitter to stick around, reactivated syndication. โฆ
2022-11-20: Turning off Twitter syndication from my blog. Still syndicating to Tumblr (@kimberlyhirsh) & โฆ
2022-11-19: I have spent the past 3 hours online shopping for Christmas presents. I have bought ONE gift. But โฆ
2022-11-19: It really makes me happy to introduce to you Maddie Priebe’s Rainbow Connection Tarot (major โฆ
2022-11-18: You are a creature of flesh. You have all the same bodily needs any wild mammal does.
2022-11-18: My first tweet, from December 2, 2008, is super on-brand for me: “QUESTION: What term(s) do โฆ
2022-11-18: Today’s @750words playlist: Music for Writing in a Haunted Mansion curated by Sarah Chavez. ๐ต
2022-11-18: The Muppets is (are? I’m sticking with is) my oldest fandom and I cycle away from them but I โฆ
2022-11-18: I have a newsletter! It emails you all my posts for the week on Fridays!
2022-11-18: Big last day of the WB Bronze nostalgia with all the farewell tweets tonight.
2022-11-18: Guess I better start cross-posting to Instagram more!
2022-11-18: A helicopter was just flying low and loud too close to my house and I’m very glad it seems to โฆ
2022-11-17: I just backed A Book About the Magic of Foraging Pigments & Making Art on Kickstarter.
2022-11-17: ๐ฌ๐ “We give the people we mother our bodies, and what they will recall is our presence and โฆ
2022-11-17: ๐ฌ๐ “I don’t believe care work has to wreck us. This labor can be shared, social, โฆ
2022-11-17: ๐ฌ๐ “Those who mother are the sanitation workers of bodiesโ handling the refuse, the filth and โฆ
2022-11-17: Want to read: Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin ๐ Thanks for the rec, โฆ
2022-11-16: So worn out and it’s almost time to start the second shift of my day job (parenting).
2022-11-16: Decided to do morning pages over at 750words. It’s not longhand, but it also doesn’t โฆ
2022-11-16: 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 โฆ
2022-11-15: ๐๐ Read As a Queer Author, I Thought I Had to Come Out Before My Books Did. Excellent piece about โฆ
2022-11-15: 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 โฆ
2022-11-15: ๐ How to Write a Novel (Or Anything, Really) with ADHD Lots of helpful ideas for people who, like โฆ
2022-11-15: ๐ Read Instagram Makes Parents Feel More Clueless Than We Really Are by Elisabeth Sherman โฆ
2022-11-15: Thanks to Ransom on Lower Decks, I now notice every time Riker has his foot up on furniture on TNG. โฆ
2022-11-14: ๐บ๐ฌ On MythicQuest… Ian: Poppy, lines are so Web1. You don’t wanna be in Web1, do you? โฆ
2022-11-13: It’s Sunday morning and I am back to being overwhelmed by meal planning, how’s your day? โฆ
2022-11-12: Maybe not 50K words of literally anything... It turns out giving yourself credit for everything you write is actually really challenging because โฆ
2022-11-12: ๐๐ฌ “Proximity to power, however real that feels, is a simpler choice than solidarity. True โฆ
2022-11-12: ๐ฌ๐ “The perspective mothers bring to their jobsโwhether it’s law making, coalition โฆ
2022-11-12: ๐ฌ๐ “We are entrusting that which we say is most preciousโour children, our futureโ to other โฆ
2022-11-12: ๐ฌ๐ “Childcare professionals, many of them mothers, are three times as likely to live in โฆ
2022-11-12: The number of people grieving the loss of Kevin Conroy in my various timelines has confirmed that โฆ
2022-11-11: Hello I require a meme where Lore is impersonating Data on Twitter, they’re both verified, โฆ
2022-11-09: Over at Mastodon, I have a lot of new infosec/cybersecurity followers. I assume y’all followed โฆ
2022-11-09: Moved Mastodon instances from mastodon.social to indieweb.social because the prior kept timing out. โฆ
2022-11-09: ๐ฌ๐ “Weekends aren’t time off for parents; they are two long days of caregiving.” โฆ
2022-11-09: ๐ฌ๐ “Early on in quarantine, I found myself thinking, ‘What is the most valuable thing I โฆ
2022-11-08: Just moved a publication on my CV from “In Progress” to “In Press.” An RA โฆ
2022-11-08: ๐๐ Read How to Finish. Should I force myself to Make New Work or should I let the blank pages stay โฆ
2022-11-08: ๐๐ Read This Machine Will Make You Write More: A Product Recommendation with a Twist. I covet the โฆ
2022-11-08: ๐๐ Read “You Make the Space, You Fight for the Space” “…every draft after โฆ
2022-11-08: 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 โฆ
2022-11-08: Logging out of socials until at least Wednesday. See kimberlyhirsh.com/hello if you want to get in โฆ
2022-11-08: ๐๐ Read The Art of Reading While Feeding (with a Newborn). I love articles about how other people โฆ
2022-11-07: ๐๐ณMarinated 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 โฆ
2022-11-07: ๐๐ Read Writing Advice Isnโt Made for Bodies In Pain. Too many things I want to quote here, so if โฆ
2022-11-07: “if youโre looking for a sign from the universe that itโs okay to stop trying to force your โฆ
2022-11-07: Over and over again I search for this comic by Sylvie Reuter that is the best depiction I’ve โฆ
2022-11-07: ๐๐บ Read โBad Sistersโ Captures the Intensity of Having and Being a Sister Ooh. When I’m ready โฆ
2022-11-07: ๐ Read Emma Thompsonโs Third Act. I’ve always loved Emma Thompson, envisioned her as a kindred โฆ
2022-11-06: ๐ฟ Watched Back to Christmas. Jennifer Elise Cox steals the show. I was hoping Michael Muhney โฆ
2022-11-06: ๐ฟ Watched Snowbound for Christmas (on Amazon Prime). Based on the book Snowbound with the CEO. A lot โฆ
2022-11-06: Seeing Scott Thompson as the French (Canadian?) hotel front of house manager in Snowbound for โฆ
2022-11-06: Finished reading: Snowbound with the CEO by Shannon Stacey ๐ Sweet, short. Stacey wastes no time in โฆ
2022-11-05: ๐ Went to the library to pick up my hold on I Dream of Dinner (so You Don’t Have To): โฆ
2022-11-04: ๐ Read #AcademicTwitter Will Endureโfor Now. If you’re at an institution that provides hosted โฆ
2022-11-04: As I eagerly await Linda Holmes’s inevitable holiday TV movie round up, I have used her โฆ
2022-11-02: Big Luisa Energy today and I don’t like it. Give it to your sister, it doesn’t hurt, โฆ
2022-11-02: I will remember 2022 as the year I wanted to do everything, actually did some things, and felt like โฆ
2022-11-01: Now that I’m trained in human subjects research I find myself siding with the Board of โฆ
2022-11-01: Still in the prep stages for this month’s writing projects. I created a reversible notebook to โฆ
2022-11-01: The world is full of writing challenges in November, and it’s rough because I want to do them โฆ
2022-11-01: Happy Halloween from Hilda and Twig!
2022-10-31: The Gothic novel to Broadway musical pipeline ๐ค
2022-10-31: Want to get your own website going but need some info on how? Check out getblogging.org.
2022-10-31: One last fic prompt from when M was 3: Spider-Man and Michelangelo team up to defeat Dormammu.
2022-10-31: Another fic prompt from when M was 3: In โThe Green Ribbon,โ Jenny tells Alfred that she just likes โฆ
2022-10-31: Fic prompt from when M was 3: in The Velveteen Rabbit but at the end, not only does the Velveteen โฆ
2022-10-31: I’m not going to spend a lot of time scrolling Mastodon, but I’m set up to cross-post โฆ
2022-10-29: If you’re in/near Glasgow and the mother of a child who’s under a year old, check out โฆ
2022-10-28: ๐ Read Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies | The New Yorker.
2022-10-28: Cooking when your energy bar is low: make some instant oatmeal using the microwave or a kettle. Dump โฆ
2022-10-28: ๐ Read Editorial policies, “public domain,” and acafandom. the importance of fans as โฆ
2022-10-28: ๐Read Attention Economy, Layered Publics, and Research Ethics Kristina Busse / University of South โฆ
2022-10-28: ๐ Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies โ transform We need to ask โฆ
2022-10-28: ๐ Read Post-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan โ transform I would argue that aca/fan is โฆ
2022-10-27: ๐ Read Against Aca-Fandom | Ian Bogost. Specialty humanities conferences are just fan conventions โฆ
2022-10-27: ๐ Read When is a Publication Not a Publication? | Just TV. The thing that โcountsโ as a line on a โฆ
2022-10-27: ๐ Read On Disliking Mad Men | Just TV. Itโs worth considering the role of fandom within media โฆ
2022-10-27: Me, watching the Lower Decks finale after finally finishing watching “Time’s Arrow, Part โฆ
2022-10-27: ๐ Finished reading An Introduction to Media Fan Studies by Lori Morimoto. A super accessible โฆ
2022-10-27: ๐ฌ๐ “‘Pure,’ ideologically unadulterated consumption/fandom may be a possibility, โฆ
2022-10-26: What’s that? Oh, just a quick pamphlet bind of Lori Morimoto’s An Introduction to Media โฆ
2022-10-26: Hey, Internet. I want to get Table of Contents alerts for the Journal of Fandom Studies. My โฆ
2022-10-25: ๐ฌ๐ “The acafan… is one who is able to occupy the spaces of both fandom and academia and โฆ
2022-10-25: I change NaNoWriMo plans a lot. Most recently, I’m planning to write YES, ANDROID, a Star โฆ
2022-10-25: Hello world. I’m weary. For reasons. Sometimes life is a lot. I’m really glad there are โฆ
2022-10-23: I love Baby Galadriel so much.
2022-10-23: Having a nightmare where your relative who’s dealing with infection-induced delirium in the โฆ
2022-10-22: Voting selfie!
2022-10-21: Finished reading: Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien ๐ Reading my โฆ
2022-10-21: Taking another run at limiting screen time, because I’m wondering if the increase in migraines โฆ
2022-10-20: My superpower is taking any Star Trek: The Next Generation B-story focused on Data and forgetting โฆ
2022-10-20: My kid goes to a Reggio Emilia school; his kindergarten class is a community of researchers. Today โฆ
2022-10-20: ๐ Everyone Wants to Be a Hot, Anxious Girl on Twitter I am both fascinated and terrified by the โฆ
2022-10-20: ๐ NC Mutual Will Cease Operations This Month This is heartbreaking and I’m ashamed I โฆ
2022-10-19: I get excited and ambitious and then I have a flare and then I forget all my passions and ambitions. โฆ
2022-10-17: This is an example of process art.
2022-10-17: I want to food, to cook fresh ingredients into beautiful and tasty things. But I like to experience โฆ
2022-10-17: How to Scholar(?) In my doctoral program, there was a class that we colloquially referred to as โbabydocs.โ As it was โฆ
2022-10-16: Finished up my time at #FSNNA22 with a dance by the pastries.
2022-10-16: Okay, getting dressed and then heading to the #FSNNA22 Gather lobby to try dancing and throwing โฆ
2022-10-16: Skipping the first sessions of #FSNNA22 today to have breakfast with my family. Back for the 11 am, โฆ
2022-10-15: Today, in Kimberly remembers that scholarly publishing is broken: lots of journals demand either โฆ
2022-10-15: #FSNNA 22 Roundtable: Materiality & Liveness Paul_Lucas: Welcoming everyone to the session "Materiality & Liveness" Talking about WWE and the โฆ
2022-10-15: I’m attending “Transcultural Fandom Experiences” at #FSNNA22 but not live-tweeting โฆ
2022-10-15: #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 โฆ
2022-10-14: Super headachey, so probably gonna lie down, may or may not do more #FSNNA22 today.
2022-10-14: Me to friend who is also a mom: Want me to drop the water bottle you left at M’s birthday โฆ
2022-10-14: W just reminded me we have a Parent-Teacher conference this morning so I actually will miss the โฆ
2022-10-14: Up too early and going to sleep a little more. I’m going to miss the first #FSNNA22 session of โฆ
2022-10-14: ๐ Tom Bombadil (๐) sings SO. MUCH.
2022-10-14: ๐ฌ๐ “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows โฆ
2022-10-13: Now is the part of #FSNNA22 where I retreat to my hotel room, order room service, and watch TV โฆ
2022-10-13: The Daily Mail: Don’t use these emojis! They make Gen Z people perceive you as old! Me: I mean โฆ
2022-10-13: Time for a liedown, hope to be back up in time for the #FSNNA22 publishing session.
2022-10-13: It’s super energizing to go to conferences like #FSNNA22, #CLS2022, and #FanLIS2022. I’m โฆ
2022-10-13: #FSNNA22 Live Blog: Fandom During/After Covid Olivia Johnston-Riley: Next session: Fandom During/After COVID Norbert Nyari: โReaching Fans โฆ
2022-10-13: Even in Gather, I’m that nerd sitting in the front row. #FSNNA22
2022-10-13: Taking kid to the dentist during the next #FSNNA22 session so I won’t be live-tweeting but โฆ
2022-10-13: M after watching me confer in Gather: “Can we play a little Stardew Valley?”
2022-10-13: #FSNNA2022 Live Blog: The New Bedroom Cultures Dr. Nicola Welsh-Burke: introducing the panel "The New Bedroom Cultures" Elise Sandbach: โThe โฆ
2022-10-13: Kid woke up, so break from live-posting but I’m introducing him to Gather. “What game is โฆ
2022-10-13: Side question for anyone at #FSNNA22 or anyone aware of fan studies at all - have folks looked at โฆ
2022-10-13: Good morning! It’s the first day of #FSNNA22, the Fan Studies Network North America โฆ
2022-10-09: Experimenting with limiting leisure screen time for a little bit. You’ll be able to tell how โฆ
2022-10-06: I am asking for COPING advice, not TREATMENT advice: I feel crappy always, with stress and/or โฆ
2022-10-06: Me, a postdoc and research lead at an R1 institution with a PhD from another institution: I’m โฆ
2022-10-05: Tape worked great on the part of the giant cat rip that wasn’t a seam, but not the part that โฆ
2022-10-05: ๐๏ธIt’s taken me more than 2.5 yrs, but I have finished listening to Keegan-Michael Key & โฆ
2022-10-04: Yesterday: Noodling on work stuff while swapping out winter clothes and putting away laundry. Today: โฆ
2022-10-03: ๐๐ฌ๐ “…the work of critical thinking and theorizing is itself an expression of political โฆ
2022-10-03: ๐๐ฌ๐ “Critical writing counts for very little when critics speak about ending โฆ
2022-10-03: ๐๐ฌ๐ “The point is not to render ideas less complexโthe point is to make the complex โฆ
2022-10-03: ๐๐ฌ๐ “I write with the intent to share ideas in a manner that makes them accessible to the โฆ
2022-10-03: ๐๐ฌ๐ “All academics write but not all see themselves as writers.” bell hooks, remembered โฆ
2022-10-02: The giant cat popped less than 24 hours after going up with probably less than 10 hours up time. โฆ
2022-10-01: ๐๐ฌ๐ “No woman is writing too much. Women need to write more. We need to know what it feels โฆ
2022-10-01: ๐๐ฌ๐ “…we must not let the commercial success of writing by women lead us to believe โฆ
2022-10-01: ๐๐ฌ๐ “Even in academic circles it has become much more fashionable to do work on gender than โฆ
2022-10-01: It’s spooky season, so I’m living my best life with a skeleton glow necklace.
2022-10-01: Giant cat!
2022-10-01: ๐๐ฌ๐ “…we all should feel utterly free to write as much as time, grace, and the โฆ
2022-10-01: ๐๐ฌ๐ “Since I have never tried to make a living as a writer, I have had the extreme good โฆ
2022-10-01: ๐๐ฌ๐ “No writer writes often or well if they despair of ever having an audience for their โฆ
2022-10-01: ๐๐ฌ๐ “Since my interests are broad and wide-ranging, I am not surprised that there is an โฆ
2022-10-01: ๐๐ฌ๐ “There is always someone who waits for words, eager to embrace them and hold them โฆ
2022-10-01: ๐๐ฌ๐ “Writing that keeps us away from death, from despair, does not necessarily help us to be โฆ
2022-10-01: ๐๐ฌ๐ “… the being we become in the very act of writing is only ever intimately present โฆ
2022-09-30: There have been 22 weekdays this September. My kid has been in school for only 14 of them. The 8 โฆ
2022-09-29: Finished reading: Up: A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure by Patricia Ellis Herr ๐ โฆ
2022-09-29: ๐ Read Howlโs Moving Castle should be the model for every book-to-film adaptation (Polygon) by โฆ
2022-09-29: Finished reading: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones ๐ Super fun! Highly recommend.
2022-09-29: I’m reading Howl’s Moving Castle. Bit of a spoiler & Miyazaki left it out of the โฆ
2022-09-27: I’m exhausted. My mom has gone to the ER once a week for the past 5 weeks. My kid has not been โฆ
2022-09-25: 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 โฆ
2022-09-23: Want to read: Ghosts of the Forbidden (Glazier’s Gap Book 1) by Leanna Renee Hieber ๐
2022-09-22: I just ordered a 20 ft inflatable black cat. It will dominate the culdesac. I’m kind of hoping โฆ
2022-09-21: My currently-planned NaNoWriMo novel is a YA supernatural rom-com set at musical theatre camp in the โฆ
2022-09-20: You can have all of the research that funding agencies can possibly provide us but if we โฆ
2022-09-19: I love today’s issue of Publish Not Perish in which Jenn McClearen draws a connection between โฆ
2022-09-18: I just played D&D for the first time in 3+ years and it was so great I almost cried.
2022-09-14: ๐ฎ Things from today’s Nintendo Direct that feel like gifts they’re making for me, โฆ
2022-09-13: I rarely watch actual play TTRPG shows because Life Circumstances have made a 3-hr viewing a real โฆ
2022-09-13: Day 3 of a garbage migraine. Hate it. Rarely get them this bad anymore.
2022-09-12: ๐บ Will I need to watch The Book of Boba Fett to follow what’s happening in the next season of โฆ
2022-09-11: ๐บ Excuse me, I am watching The Rings of Power and Disa is my new fave, thought you should know. (And โฆ
2022-09-11: ๐บ Watched The Sandman. It’s so great. I don’t think a better adaptation would be โฆ
2022-09-11: Dark academia is too emotionally bleak an aesthetic for me right now, but I enjoy the ability to โฆ
2022-09-11: We took a little walk on the trail behind our house this morning. Here are some pictures of what we โฆ
2022-09-09: When my brain won't read ๐ I hate when my brain won’t read, which it won’t today. Reading is my core way of โฆ
2022-09-09: Currently reading: Fabric by Victoria Finlay ๐
2022-09-08: Peace and long life, y’all. Happy Star Trek Day! ๐๐ป
2022-09-07: I don’t write a lot of lengthy blog posts lately, partly because there’s a lot going on โฆ
2022-09-06: I can suspend my disbelief enough to believe that entities like Dream, Death, Desire, & Despair โฆ
2022-09-06: John Cameron Mitchell doing Ethel Merman singing “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” is โฆ
2022-09-06: I’m very sorry for the colleague of my interviewee who was sick today and thus meant โฆ
2022-09-06: Just spent a minute staring at all the app icons on my phone trying to figure out why the Star Trek โฆ
2022-09-06: Kirby Howell-Baptiste is brilliant in The Sandman. I need all the Death spin-offs: High Cost of โฆ
2022-09-06: Every time I call myself “Miss Kimberly” in my head, I immediately correct myself with โฆ
2022-09-04: Finished reading: The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien ๐ Listened to the โฆ
2022-09-03: Me, listening to an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation with my eyes closed: “Is that โฆ
2022-09-03: There’s been some hard stuff this week, but I also went to the pool and had dinner outside on โฆ
2022-09-02: ๐ฟ Watched The Company of Wolves. Peak 80s gothic fantasy with a gorgeous score and the grossest โฆ
2022-09-02: What’s the most fun thing you’ve done in the past 2 years?
2022-09-02: ๐ฌ๐ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier โฆ
2022-08-31: Okay, Internet. What’s the best way to D&D remotely?
2022-08-31: I slept for 9 hours instead of 10 last night (what a luxury, I know, believe me that I give up a lot โฆ
2022-08-28: The Jiminy Cricket or Frog (of Frog and Toadl in my head: “If you do X, the whole week will go โฆ
2022-08-27: Did not finish: A Little Life: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara ๐ Beautifully written. After 400+ pgs of โฆ
2022-08-26: Picture of the view from my deck didn’t seem to actually end up attached to the post about โฆ
2022-08-26: Working on the deck in summer always feels like working in a treehouse.
2022-08-25: Went to apply for passports for myself & M today and the passport person just wasn’t โฆ
2022-08-25: My legs started getting medically-restless by 4 pm today. I didn’t have caffeine after 2 or โฆ
2022-08-24: Is there space for robust research-practice partnerships in the time of COVID, or are people too โฆ
2022-08-24: ๐ฌ๐ “It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn’t โฆ
2022-08-24: ๐ฌ๐ “This was not what he thought acting would be, but what had he known about what acting โฆ
2022-08-23: ๐ฌ๐ “…he was an optimist. Every month, every week, he chose to open his eyes, to live โฆ
2022-08-22: ๐ฌ๐ “He felt in those minutes his body’s treason… that he would be betrayed by it โฆ
2022-08-22: ๐ฌ๐ “He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other โฆ
2022-08-22: M. styled my jewelry for our morning playdate. The earrings are stylized bats. He was going for โฆ
2022-08-21: I ventured into the world of Duolingo fanfiction looking for Odile/Melissa stories because โฆ
2022-08-19: I cannot adequately convey how much I appreciate that Duolingo accepts “y’all” as โฆ
2022-08-18: ๐ Read The Big Bang Didn’t Happen. I know very little about cosmology, but this makes some โฆ
2022-08-17: Coburn, C. E., & Penuel, W. R. (2016). Research-practice partnerships in education: Outcomes, โฆ
2022-08-17: It was so overcast yesterday that the moonflowers stayed open all day.
2022-08-17: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Blippi asks. “A law doctor & a โฆ
2022-08-17: Postdocs are contingent/precarious, yeah?
2022-08-17: Finished reading: Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King ๐ This dude is so prolific and so โฆ
2022-08-13: ๐ Read A CRITIQUE OF DARK ACADEMIA: THE ROMANTICIZATION OF OVERWORK. Wearing tweed and wandering โฆ
2022-08-12: ๐ Read Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes. I would โฆ
2022-08-10: Themes have emerged.
2022-08-09: ๐ Read THE SCHOLARSHIP OF SEXY PRIVILEGE: WHY DO I LOVE DARK ACADEMIA BOOKS? This ownership over โฆ
2022-08-09: ๐ Read Whatโs Dark about Dark Academia I think the real power of dark academia is the way it โฆ
2022-08-07: Today in Pokemon Research Reflects Real Research: an early career researcher didn’t have โฆ
2022-08-05: Took the Buzzfeed Inner Aesthetic Stranger Things Character quiz & got Will Byers and โฆ
2022-08-05: Currently reading: Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King ๐
2022-08-05: ๐ฌ๐ “…a story’s as much a house or garden as song.” Jane Alison, _Meander, โฆ
2022-08-05: ๐ฌ๐ “The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.” โฆ
2022-08-05: ๐ฌ๐ “As blocked creatives, we focus not on our responsibilities to ourselves, but on our โฆ
2022-08-05: ๐ฌ๐ “Do not let your self-doubt turn into self-sabotage.” Julia Cameron, The โฆ
2022-08-05: I’m wearing an oversized Sailor Moon tee and black bike shorts with lace trim, so hello from โฆ
2022-08-04: Day 3, #TheSealeyChallenge, Rose, Li-Young Lee ๐ This is a gorgeous book, full of grief and beauty. Selected quotes: Water In water my sister is no โฆ
2022-08-03: I’ve got an ARC of The Nap Ministry’s book REST IS RESISTANCE ready for me to download โฆ
2022-08-03: ๐ฌ๐ “Perhaps people who experience the world in ways that are considered atypical have an โฆ
2022-08-03: ๐ฌ๐ “A scientist’s explanations about other animals are dictated by the data she โฆ
2022-08-03: ๐ฌ๐ “[The senses] pull relevance from randomness, and weave meaning from miscellany.” Ed โฆ
2022-08-02: Day 2 #TheSealeyChallenge, Leaves of Grass Book I: Inscriptions, Walt Whitman ๐ Selected quotes: Eidolons We seeming solid wealth, strength, beauty build, But really build โฆ
2022-08-02: ๐ ๐บ Celia Rose Gooding, who does an amazing job playing Cadet Nyota Uhura on Strange New Worlds, โฆ
2022-08-02: Day 1 #TheSealeyChallenge, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love, Keith S. Wilson ๐ Selected quotes: 6:45 pm …God, it’s pretty. But what does any of it mean? A Unified โฆ
2022-08-01: ๐ฟ Watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It was super refreshing to watch a movie that was โฆ
2022-08-01: ๐๐ฌ “Animals are not just stand-ins for humans or fodder for brainstorming sessions. They have โฆ
2022-08-01: I’m devoting the next few weeks to healing and rest, aside from my existing obligations. I โฆ
2022-08-01: ๐๐ฌ “It is all that we know, and so we easily mistake it for all there is to know.” Ed โฆ
2022-08-01: It’s August, so I’m going to do The Sealey Challenge and plan to read a book of poetry โฆ
2022-08-01: Finished reading: The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the โฆ
2022-07-29: Real talk, I skipped the end of #CLS2022 to hang out with my kid and nap and I have no regrets.
2022-07-29: ๐ Read Rapport or Respect? (Helen Kara). Dr. Kara makes excellent points about how research can seem โฆ
2022-07-29: I have a lot of hairs that are white at the bottom, black or brown in the middle, and white at the โฆ
2022-07-28: #CLS2022: Creating Equitable and Inclusive Library Spaces in the Face of Obstacles I didnโt get to liveblog/tweet this session because I was co-facilitating it, but Iโm jotting down a โฆ
2022-07-28: I’m taking the 10:30 - 11:30 PST hour off from #CLS2022 so that I can get some quiet time in โฆ
2022-07-28: 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 โฆ
2022-07-28: I can’t liveblog/tweet any of the 12p Pacific sessions at #CLS2022 today because I’m โฆ
2022-07-28: 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 โฆ
2022-07-28: Over the course of #CLS2022, I’ll be adding my liveblogtweets/notes to the Connected Learning โฆ
2022-07-27: 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 โฆ
2022-07-27: 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 โฆ
2022-07-27: 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 โฆ
2022-07-27: The next panel at #CLS2022 for Rising Scholars is Sharing Work Beyond Academic Publishing.
2022-07-27: For the next few days, I’ll be liveblogging/tweeting the Connected Learning Summit (#CLS2022) โฆ
2022-07-27: ๐ต๐ญ I’m listening to the Broadway cast of Moulin Rouge and I’m really impressed with how โฆ
2022-07-26: Want to read: The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses by Paul โฆ
2022-07-26: ๐ In 2008, 8 years before my kid was born, I replied to a Slate article that asked, “do you โฆ
2022-07-25: I was distracted around Summerween so I’m declaring July 31 Second Summerween.
2022-07-25: “When we are making our art we must bend all of the resources and possibilities to work for โฆ
2022-07-24: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery: Succession by Kirsten Beyer ๐ I honestly don’t know โฆ
2022-07-24: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery - The Light of Kahless by Mike Johnson ๐
2022-07-23: I speak Dutch with a Yiddish accent, I can’t help it, it’s in my blooooood. ๐ณ๐ฑ
2022-07-22: It’s my and Will’s 13th wedding anniversary today. The traditional gift for this โฆ
2022-07-22: Dealing with SDCC envy About 7 years ago, Geek and Sundry (RIP) published a post titled HOW TO HAVE A GREAT, GEEKY WEEKEND โฆ
2022-07-21: Finished reading: The Dead Zone by Stephen King ๐ I love the way King has characters reference his โฆ
2022-07-20: True facts about my dreams: when I was reading CARRIE and started having dreams related to it, it โฆ
2022-07-20: Pro-tip: Stuck in or overwhelmed by your research? Write a memo.
2022-07-19: Thinking about writing a blog post about the alignment of research, especially qualitative research, โฆ
2022-07-19: I was all, “My blog isn’t cross-posting to Twitter! Whyyyy?” but then I saw that I โฆ
2022-07-18: The Internet is all “Check out the Whimsigoth aesthetic!” and y’all, a better name โฆ
2022-07-17: Currently reading: The Dead Zone by Stephen King ๐
2022-07-15: ๐ Read โLostโ Fans Gave Me a Safe Place on the Internet. Is Such Fandom Possible Now? (Catapult) by โฆ
2022-07-15: ๐ Read Violence Made Me Feel Like Iโd Left My Body. Physical Theater Helped Me Return by Lindsey โฆ
2022-07-15: Birthday selfie from yesterday in my South Square Mall - oops I meant Starcourt Mall - hat.
2022-07-15: Finished reading: Carrie by Stephen King ๐ I don’t recall the last time I read a book inside โฆ
2022-07-14: Me: I don’t know what to do! Should I spend the next 45 minutes reading CARRIE or playing โฆ
2022-07-14: Posted on my birthday in 2018: Yesterday I found out that my thyroid is out of whack again. Iโm โฆ
2022-07-14: 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 โฆ
2022-07-13: ๐๐ Read On Writing with Chronic Migraines (Catapult) by Yuvi Zalkow. I really appreciate โฆ
2022-07-13: ๐ Read Black Women in Fantasy Saved Me Where Academia Failed (Catapult by Ravynn K. Stringfield. I โฆ
2022-07-13: ๐ Read Video Games Are for EveryoneโAnd That Should Include Disabled People (Catapult) by Allyssa โฆ
2022-07-12: I keep asking myself, “When will I not be too tired for x?” and it turns out my thyroid โฆ
2022-07-12: The past few years, I’ve written a blog post on my birthday about who I want to be that year. โฆ
2022-07-11: Most of the time the answer to not having enough storage is to get rid of stuff, but with books, I โฆ
2022-07-10: Y’all, check out this picture of Gene Roddenberry cosplaying as a Romulan commander from โฆ
2022-07-10: Me, pitching future research clients: So in this scenario, see, you’re Buffy, and you know โฆ
2022-07-09: I found a picture of myself on Tumblr. Dropping all other descriptors of myself in favor of โฆ
2022-07-08: I’m workshopping a new professional tagline because I want to emphasize that I’m a โฆ
2022-07-07: Finished Strange New Worlds Season 1. A+. Somebody give Ethan Peck’s eyebrow an Emmy. ๐๐ป๐บ
2022-07-07: “There’s surviving, and then there’s living.” - Star Trek: Strange New โฆ
2022-07-07: Sometimes I’ll have a run of bad dreams such that I then fear sleep for a bit.
2022-07-05: On Kimbertide Day 4, I enjoyed an ice cream sandwich. For day 5, I’m playing Metroid: Zero โฆ
2022-07-05: ๐ฑโโ๏ธI had a dream last night that Giles a) was real b) was still in his 40s and most importantly, c) โฆ
2022-07-04: Finished Stranger Things 4 and I love it so much and also will somebody just play D&D with Will โฆ
2022-07-04: Editor Jordan Pavlin says historical fiction “has a unique ability to elicit deep compassion โฆ
2022-07-04: ๐ Ben Werdmรผller has a different but related, equally valuable, set of insights on what we should be โฆ
2022-07-04: It’s a rough time for our democratic republic. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us what โฆ
2022-07-04: Kimbertide Day 3: Played a little of the new Capcom Fighting Collection ๐ฎ
2022-07-02: Today for Kimbertide, I made banana bread from a Simple Mills mix.
2022-07-02: Finished reading: Borderland edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold ๐ The beginnings of โฆ
2022-07-01: For Day 1 of Kimbertide, I celebrated with a special lunch: hardboiled eggs & sweet baby gherkin โฆ
2022-07-01: It’s the first day of my birthday month! I often extend the celebration beyond the day itself โฆ
2022-06-29: Finished reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from โฆ
2022-06-29: “…anger is counterproductive to puzzle solving. And to problem solving in โฆ
2022-06-28: Santigold’s Can’t Get Enough of Myself is mental health goals. ๐ต
2022-06-28: ๐ A solution to writerโs block: Transcribe yourself (Austin Kleon) This is a brilliant piece of โฆ
2022-06-27: Today I swam one pool-length, then water-walked for about 30 minutes. I also packed up 3 boxes of โฆ
2022-06-27: I’m extra psyched about July’s Atlas Obscura Finding Wonder book club pick, The โฆ
2022-06-24: Anti-Racism Daily offers actions to take in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
2022-06-24: W is reading M a Pokemon manga where a professor invited Ash & Goh to be her research fellows, โฆ
2022-06-22: Currently reading: Borderland 1 by Terri Windling ๐ Continuing my deep dive into woodland goth.
2022-06-22: Currently reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from โฆ
2022-06-22: Thinking through disability on Star Trek ๐๐ป๐บ I wrote this a week ago to sort through my thoughts on disability on Star Trek. It is essentially a โฆ
2022-06-21: I already spend very little time on Facebook but now their mobile web UI has little notification โฆ
2022-06-21: No YOU’RE looking up contact juggling tutorials on YouTube to send to your spouse.
2022-06-17: In our work team meeting today we spent a significant chunk of time discussing the history of Star โฆ
2022-06-17: A little less than 12 years ago, I attended my first American Library Association Annual Conference. โฆ
2022-06-17: Literati: Hey if you don’t want to read a super cool book about the deep ocean as part of the โฆ
2022-06-16: Want to read: Meet Me by the Fountain by Alexandra Lange ๐
2022-06-15: ๐ Nathanial White writes Disturbing the Comfortable: On Writing Disability in Science Fiction. I โฆ
2022-06-15: 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 โThis is โฆ
2022-06-15: ๐ The Bullet Journal blog has a great interview with Tiago Forte, author of Building a Second Brain, โฆ
2022-06-15: ๐ Today’s #1000WordsOfSummer letter is all about letting writing be fun and silly. I needed to โฆ
2022-06-15: Hello, Internet. Please recommend to me your favorite essay collections that combine TV or other pop โฆ
2022-06-14: What’s that thing where your brain is like “Even leisure is too much right now”? โฆ
2022-06-14: The TNG episode, “The Masterpiece Society,” is great. ๐๐ป๐บ๐ฌ “It was the wish of โฆ
2022-06-13: Hi! Do you struggle with activities of daily living due to executive dysfunction, cognitive โฆ
2022-06-12: Want to read: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan ๐
2022-06-12: Want to read: Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by โฆ
2022-06-12: ๐ Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) advice on being productive with long COVID is sound for โฆ
2022-06-11: Finished reading: The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics โฆ
2022-06-10: Austin Kleon urges us to embrace belwiderment.. He quotes Rumi: “Sell your cleverness and buy โฆ
2022-06-10: Goodnight, everybody.
2022-06-09: Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer was awesome, too. “I will de-intellectualize and โฆ
2022-06-09: Want to read: This Time Tomorrow: A Novel by Emma Straub ๐
2022-06-09: Today’s #1000wordsofsummer letter made me really happy. Diary writing! Noticing! And This Time โฆ
2022-06-09: I am very exhausted. Not sleepy. Not fatigued. Exhausted.
2022-06-08: I’m just grumping it out right now so if you’re going to be interacting with me, know โฆ
2022-06-07: Currently reading: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter ๐
2022-06-07: Time for a Gothic Charm School re-read. ๐
2022-06-07: On sweetweird and hopepunk ๐๏ธ ๐๐บ๐ฟ Transcript: Hello friends. I wanted to write a blog post about sweetweird and its relationship to โฆ
2022-06-06: How to Make a Star Wars Reference Hello, friends. I want to talk about something from Stranger Things 4 that is brilliantly done. And โฆ
2022-06-06: Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer reading: many stories in Angela Carter’s THE BLOODY โฆ
2022-06-05: Google Keep is my notetaking app of choice, which makes me a bit of a rarity, but if you use it and โฆ
2022-06-05: If you’re looking for a writing community, check out Jami Attenberg’s โฆ
2022-06-03: Finished reading: War for the Oaks: A Novel by Emma Bull ๐ Rock music + fey = delightful.
2022-06-03: Today’s outfit: LGBTQ Center of Durham Rainbow Bull Shirt, popsicle shorts from Torrid.
2022-06-03: If you enjoyed the Chapel/Ortegas dynamic in this week’s SNW, there are [21 works tagged with โฆ
2022-06-03: “It appears that hijinks are the most logical course of action.” Star Trek: Strange New โฆ
2022-06-02: It’s hot out. I’m tired. I had a call with my doctor this morning. She’s giving me โฆ
2022-06-02: Current phone screen. (Yesterday, W to me: “Look at all these old pictures of Jennifer โฆ
2022-06-02: Gonna start doing outfit of the day posts as often as I feel like it. The shirt says โฆ
2022-06-02: Woodland. Goth.
2022-06-01: I am all in on Woodland Goth, y’all.
2022-06-01: I feel like the captioners for Stranger Things (who are doing an awesome job describing the music) โฆ
2022-06-01: “You dwell in my mind like a household spirit. All that I think is followed with, ‘I โฆ
2022-05-31: I made a book! The fic is Mischief Managed by touchedglitter (who is me). This is pamphlet bound. โฆ
2022-05-31: Just followed some Trek fan Micro.bloggers from yesterday’s roll call. I’m current on โฆ
2022-05-30: In Star Trek: TNG, S5E11, “Hero Worship,” a kid asks Data what he thinks of a model the โฆ
2022-05-29: Your girl’s over here finding old Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfiction listed on Fanlore โฆ
2022-05-28: “…embodied writing is not in opposition to political writing. In fact, it is the kind โฆ
2022-05-28: 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 โฆ
2022-05-27: How do none of the early results in a Google Images search for Star Trek Bingo have something like โฆ
2022-05-27: Mood update: the leaden feeling in my heart has been joined by a similar feeling in my stomach.
2022-05-27: “As we honor the lives that have been given, let us also be grateful to be still on the โฆ
2022-05-26: The Michigan Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence has a really useful letter template for writing to โฆ
2022-05-26: I don’t have the oomph to discuss this at length but my dad wrote a good journal entry for โฆ
2022-05-25: I can’t neglect the world & focus on my child, because my child is in & of the world. โฆ
2022-05-25: Self-soothing by typesetting my 9 year old New Girl fanfic and it actually looks like a book.
2022-05-25: The world is very dismal and I am heartbroken, but my husband is on a meeting talking to people โฆ
2022-05-24: Me “well actually"ing last week’s Fansplaining in the car on the way to pick my kid โฆ
2022-05-24: I have extreme MCU fatigue so I’m only going to watch the stuff clearly and closely inspired โฆ
2022-05-23: Not me putting a Lizzie Bennet Diaries gif in a work presentation. Nope.
2022-05-22: I love a good slice-of-life story but the constant interruptions to Worf’s work once his son โฆ
2022-05-21: Apparently crows can do metacognition.
2022-05-20: Symposium’s over, it’s 90F outside. Time for a wardrobe change! [Image description: A โฆ
2022-05-20: Want to read: The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom by Jessa Lingel โฆ
2022-05-20: 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 โฆ
2022-05-20: So far my favorite outcome of #FanLIS2022 is another attendee asking me if I’m sure I’m โฆ
2022-05-20: 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 โฆ
2022-05-20: ๐ Read Durham GOPโs โBetter Board, Better Schoolsโ candidate slate is soundly defeated. What a โฆ
2022-05-20: Week 3 of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds and there are already 189 works on AO3. Looking forward to โฆ
2022-05-19: There are a lot of great things about attending a conference from home. Still, it’s a bit sad โฆ
2022-05-19: Definitely just brainstormed the paper title “Screw General Order One: Representing โฆ
2022-05-19: Missed a huge chunk of the current #FanLIS2022 paper due to Zoom crash & also lost my NoterLive โฆ
2022-05-19: A squirrel is trying to break into my house.
2022-05-19: Gonna be live-posting #FanLIS2022 today & tomorrow. Will transition to LiveNoter in an hour and โฆ
2022-05-18: ๐๐๐บ 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 โฆ
2022-05-18: I’m adding things to it slowly, but I’ve created a Connected Learning page curating my โฆ
2022-05-18: ๐ Read How I Build My Common Place Book ๐ Read How I Build My Common Place Book (Greg McVerry) McVerry generously summarizes his workflow: โฆ
2022-05-17: ๐ Read When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life (The Atlantic) by Cindy Lamothe โฆ
2022-05-17: Next time I take it into my head that words won’t come out of me in written form, I’m โฆ
2022-05-17: Stole a quote from the woodland goth page of Aesthetics wiki for my bio/tagline: “…a โฆ
2022-05-16: Pool’s open!
2022-05-15: ๐ Read Why I Blog Part 1 and Part 2 (Kyle Mathews).
2022-05-15: ๐๐ป Read You’re Not Blogging, My Friend. (Tom Critchlow).
2022-05-15: ๐๐ป Read Incrementally correct personal websites (Brian Lovin).
2022-05-14: ๐๐ป Read envisioning my homepage as an online therapeutic space (Winnie Lim).
2022-05-14: ๐๐ป Read revisiting architectural blogging (Alan Jacobs).
2022-05-14: ๐๐ป Read Building a Digital Homestead, Bit by Brick (Tom Critchlow). I like this homesteading โฆ
2022-05-14: Voting selfie!
2022-05-14: ๐๐ป Read Why blog? (Chuck Grimmett). Well said. These are my reasons, too.
2022-05-14: I love Discovery and I’ve enjoyed Picard and Prodigy, but Strange New Worlds feels like โฆ
2022-05-14: As always, The Trans Advice column is helpful. The latest: Should cis folks use gender neutral โฆ
2022-05-14: ๐Raising Us Wrecked Her Career But My Mom’s Thriving In Her Second Act romper.com Read: โฆ
2022-05-13: ๐๐ Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion? | The New Yorker newyorker.com Read: www.newyorker.com โฆ
2022-05-13: ๐๐ “This is the Book I’m Meant to Write Right Now” sarafredman.substack.com Read: โฆ
2022-05-13: ๐๐ Angela Garbes Is Reclaiming Realistic Motherhood thecut.com Read: www.thecut.com thecut.com โฆ
2022-05-12: 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 โฆ
2022-05-12: It’s a rough time right now so I’m trying to notice small joys and one of today’s โฆ
2022-05-12: I just wrote the beginning of a fiction story after being inspired by Amanda Cook’s โฆ
2022-05-12: ๐ I joined Austin Kleon’s Read Like an Artist book club today and am also going to read his โฆ
2022-05-11: ๐๏ธ I listened to the first episode of A Beautiful Anarchy on my way to pick up the kid. It was about โฆ
2022-05-11: ๐ 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 โฆ
2022-05-11: ๐๐ Kate McKean writes in today’s Agents and Books about professional jealousy. Her advice โฆ
2022-05-11: “…is that not what a Scholar does? Question the world, examine it from every angle, and โฆ
2022-05-10: If I took a day off every day that I felt sick I would almost never work. Chronic illness is not my โฆ
2022-05-09: It’s a work in progress, but I’m curating a woodland goth playlist. I recommend playing โฆ
2022-05-09: Oh hey, I should probably share that my husband Will is a 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar. Very proud of โฆ
2022-05-09: “Other people are… challenging for me.” La’an is the new Data, pass it on. โฆ
2022-05-09: Screw General Order 1? SCREW GENERAL ORDER 1?! ๐ #StarTrek #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW โฆ
2022-05-08: I hope everyone who had to mother their own mother is doing something fun today. 9-year-old Kimberly โฆ
2022-05-08: Today I wish you nurturing love and bodily self-determination, extra if you have a uterus.
2022-05-08: Finished reading: Redwall: A Tale from Redwall by Brian Jacques ๐ Cozy fantasy, just what I need โฆ
2022-05-08: Now I’m only halfway through the Strange New Worlds pilot but the Kilean makeup looks to me โฆ
2022-05-08: I just took the IPIP Big Five Factor Marker test. According to the results, I’m โฆ
2022-05-08: Anybody else assume based on TNG that Picard & Guinan had a friends with benefits situation? ๐๐ป
2022-05-07: I have a vague sense that I am Not Okay. I don’t know if it’s a medical thing, stress โฆ
2022-05-07: Who has two thumbs and is doing Reader’s Advisory for fun? ๐๐ป๐๐ป This Kimberly.
2022-05-06: Usually Spotify Autoplay makes me grouchy but it turns out when I listen to goth music it suggests โฆ
2022-05-06: ๐๐ Read Cozy Flash: The Cat and the Conerian. Adorable. Cozy fantasy is my current genre of choice.
2022-05-05: Traumatic previously aside, the Picard finale made me very happy.
2022-05-04: Here is a Google Document with links to abortion funds. It was created by @helmsinki on Twitter. I โฆ
2022-05-04: “Although I did extremely well scholastically, my lack of human understanding often created โฆ
2022-05-03: The theatre-major-to-youth-services-librarian pipeline.
2022-05-02: I’m supposed to be sleeping but I just learned about the Woodland goth aesthetic. Dark mori โฆ
2022-05-02: Currently reading: Redwall: A Tale from Redwall by Brian Jacques ๐
2022-05-02: Currently reading: Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper ๐
2022-05-02: Currently reading: How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (Cultural โฆ
2022-05-01: Breaking out Crystal Bar Soap’s Moonlit Harbor to support this Cancer Sun woman through some โฆ
2022-05-01: Dr. Crusher’s plans for a community theater production of Pirates of Penzance in TNG episode โฆ
2022-05-01: I’m going full 90s with my personal style and nothing can stop me. And I mean what I, now โฆ
2022-05-01: My spring/summer silhouette: oversized t-shirt + biker shorts. It gets hot in NC, y’all.
2022-04-30: I’m having the kind of day where you wish you could take your heart out of your chest and just โฆ
2022-04-30: I have no chance at Heardle but if someone made Broadweardle I might do well.
2022-04-29: Finished reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte ๐ Recommended. Full review coming in June.
2022-04-28: I’m having a really hard time processing this week’s episode of Picard, for personal โฆ
2022-04-28: I’m correcting a Zoom Live Transcription transcript and while it’s a lot faster than โฆ
2022-04-28: Today I’m wearing an oversized Sailor Moon tee and black leggings with a run in the left knee. โฆ
2022-04-26: In case anyone was curious as to whether my personal style has changed in the last 25 years, I was โฆ
2022-04-26: Now is as good a time as any to revisit Vicki Boykis’s essay, Fix the internet by writing good โฆ
2022-04-25: Currently reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte ๐
2022-04-25: Micro.blog is a free social network if you blog elsewhere and plug in a feed. It can also host your โฆ
2022-04-25: ๐ Micro.blog is one my favorite places on the Internet, and Jean MacDonald’s article A Guide โฆ
2022-04-25: Everybody on Twitter wants to know where to go now. The answer is your own website, syndicating out โฆ
2022-04-24: Finished reading: Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare ๐ Review soon. On the All About Romance โฆ
2022-04-23: Baby’s first fanfic. Image description: On the title page of a homemade book, “HAO TO โฆ
2022-04-23: W reading a scene to M about a girl doing the school play & it’s The Wizard of Oz: The โฆ
2022-04-22: You can take the librarian out of the library, but I’m wearing a cardigan over another โฆ
2022-04-22: Want to read: Heroines by Kate Zambreno ๐
2022-04-22: Want to read: Heroines by Kate Zambreno ๐
2022-04-21: ๐ Read Review: A riveting biographer โ and mother โ works to solve โthe mind-baby problemโ.
2022-04-21: It’s out! The latest issue of Genetrix, a very occasional newsletter curating stories of โฆ
2022-04-21: ๐ Read Cranking.
2022-04-21: ๐ Read The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done. I’ve been thinking a lot about personal โฆ
2022-04-21: ๐ Read Who Is Steven Hotdog? Or, Untangling the โBraided Essayโ |. Whatโs Steven Hotdog to me, or I โฆ
2022-04-21: Me, to myself: I can’t be everyone at once. Me: OR CAN I?
2022-04-21: 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, โฆ
2022-04-21: Today I’m reviving my newsletter Genetrix, curating stories of creative mothers. The upcoming โฆ
2022-04-21: I didn’t even notice the one year anniversary of my dissertation defense (4/14) but I realized โฆ
2022-04-21: Okay whose idea was it to only have turbolifts on starships because people would be less likely to โฆ
2022-04-21: Why Is My Child Still Awake? The Kimberly Hirsh Story
2022-04-21: ๐ Read 11 Bookish Accessories to Make Reading More Accessible. I love pieces like this. Getting a โฆ
2022-04-20: So I’m delighted by the premise of Is It Cake? but it really feels like a parody reality show โฆ
2022-04-20: ๐ Read Should you ever NOT listen to user feedback?. I’m exploring the possibility of a career โฆ
2022-04-20: I know you’re not supposed to share your morning pages but in mine today I wrote โฆ
2022-04-20: Want to read: Overdue by Amanda Oliver ๐
2022-04-20: ๐Read Being a Public Librarian Can Be Dangerous Work, Why Donโt We Acknowledge That? - Electric โฆ
2022-04-20: It’s really weird to have been the precocious teen on the Internet 25 years ago and be the old โฆ
2022-04-19: In other news, Season 5 of TNG is stacked with memorable episodes. Darmok. Silicon Avatar. The Game. โฆ
2022-04-19: Yesterday I helped my parents sort out the logistics of making the house more accessible for my mom โฆ
2022-04-19: Anybody interested in becoming a Sesame Street librarian?
2022-04-18: Me, thinking about the logistics of attending my sister’s Master’s hooding: I mean, how โฆ
2022-04-17: I would like to thank the fine people at Nintendo of America for making the Easter Bunny’s job โฆ
2022-04-17: My kid, raised in a mostly secular witchy agnostic home but with a vague understanding of holiday โฆ
2022-04-16: My closest friends are now the crow who hangs out in my yard and the moon. Also, I received a โฆ
2022-04-15: ๐๐ต๐ญ๐ฟ Read Judas Christ Superstar: Easter thoughts on being just (Reader) by Katie Prout. This piece โฆ
2022-04-15: Spouse: So, how do I write up a plan for this research project? Me: Step 1. Get a PhD. Just kidding! โฆ
2022-04-15: ๐๐ป๐บ This /Film review of #StarTrekPicard 2x07 verbalizes something that’s bothered me all โฆ
2022-04-14: ๐บ Blippi is like if someone fed Mr. Rogers several thousand Pixy Stix.
2022-04-14: ๐๐ป๐บ I’m not trying to spoil anybody for #StarTrekPicard but I would squee if we saw Mulder โฆ
2022-04-14: Me: I don’t remember how to do a remote research interview! It’s been almost two years! โฆ
2022-04-14: ๐ 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 โฆ
2022-04-14: Finished reading: The Date from Hell by Gwenda Bond ๐ Review coming soon!
2022-04-14: ๐ Read Projects: The Alastair Method. Alastair Johnston has created a Kanban-like tracking system โฆ
2022-04-13: Ethnographers, what are some of your favorite ways to ease a participant into an interview?
2022-04-13: First iced chai of the season.
2022-04-13: Brent Spiner is killing it on Picard. ๐๐ป๐บ
2022-04-13: My mom went to the hospital Saturday due to muscle weakness. (Previous surprise visits involved โฆ
2022-04-12: ๐ Read ecosystem theory: how to reframe the “i do this or i do that” binary (Thrive PhD) โฆ
2022-04-12: ๐ฟ Watched Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis. ๐ This shows some awesome innovations โฆ
2022-04-12: Want to read: The Wastewater Gardener: Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time by Mark Nelson PhD โฆ
2022-04-12: Want to read: Water 4.0 by David Sedlak ๐
2022-04-11: Another super informal poll! If you are a scholar, regardless of your relationship ship to academia โฆ
2022-04-11: Hi there! This morning the outdoor temperature is 44F. When I pick my kid up at 3 pm it will be 80F. โฆ
2022-04-10: I’m curious: if you are currently or have ever been in a graduate program, are you familiar โฆ
2022-04-10: ๐ Read Plan to rewrite NC teacher licensing could also raise pay, but it’s too early to say โฆ
2022-04-10: According to this blog post, some of the core concepts of Learning Experience Design include: โฆ
2022-04-10: Notes from the LX2017 magazine As you may have noticed, I’m reading up on Learning Experience Design. LXCON 2017 resulted in โฆ
2022-04-09: Feeling this.
2022-04-09: ๐ Read Dirty hands do all the thinking in LXD (LXD.org) by Patrick van der Bogt.
2022-04-09: ๐ Read The incredible power of paper prototyping (LXD.org) by Niels Floor.
2022-04-09: ๐ Read Learning Experience Design vs Instructional Design (LXD.org) by Niels Floor.
2022-04-09: ๐ Read Four Ingredients for a Memorable Learning Experience (LXD.org) by Rodrigo J. Gallego Studying โฆ
2022-04-09: Eventually I will get so annoyed with websites that are not responsive that I’ll start โฆ
2022-04-09: Took the Be Bright Studios Brand Quiz & it says mine is a “Generous Knowledge” brand โฆ
2022-04-08: Super informal survey but hey library workers, what would a professional organization that worked โฆ
2022-04-08: Chatting with Casey about D&D this morning and I’m thinking about constructivist pedagogy โฆ
2022-04-07: I’ve been feeling a need for increased witch vibes, so I slipped this pink agate in my pocket โฆ
2022-04-06: Having big feelings because my favorite witch store’s owner moved away, even though the store โฆ
2022-04-06: Sat on my foot and now it’s numb, really missing AIMs circa 2002 from Kelly O’Shea โฆ
2022-04-06: Bless the people who create prefilled Easter baskets because this mom who usually loves filling her โฆ
2022-04-06: Gonna write a romance where one love interest has Hashimoto’s and has to bail on a date due to โฆ
2022-04-05: If high-risk people have to be individually responsible for mitigating their risk, employers should โฆ
2022-04-05: I really am amazed that as an autoimmune Kimberly I used to just let people breathe all over me.
2022-04-05: 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 โฆ
2022-04-05: I’m Kimberly and today I just don’t feel like doing it, where it = anything.
2022-04-04: One last merch design for today: I PhDID IT!
2022-04-04: I made a new t-shirt/merch design: Stick a Fork in Me - I’m PhDone.
2022-04-04: 7 Things to Do Before You Start Your PhD Itโs the time of year when people are announcing their PhD acceptances. If you are psyched to be โฆ
2022-04-03: New oversized graphic tee!
2022-04-03: Me, watching #StarTrek: Picard ๐๐ป: Whoa, do they think 3D printers will be that fast in 2024?
2022-04-02: Two true things about my brother @MicahHirsh: he’s an animator and he’s autistic. For โฆ
2022-04-02: Yesterday, I told Dr. Katie Rose Guest Pryal that she should take the good idea she couldn’t โฆ
2022-04-02: Registration for #FanLIS2022 is open! If you’re interested in fan studies in library and โฆ
2022-04-01: Hello world. Please mark the wonderfulness of my spouse who, when my kid wanted to go find the โฆ
2022-04-01: Today’s the day it’s best to ignore the internet, so byeeee.
2022-03-30: I have brain fog today. I do not know why I have brain fog today. I’m going to blame hormones. โฆ
2022-03-30: ๐ญ๐ต Spending my Tues night building an audition repertoire, as one does. The Party’s Over A โฆ
2022-03-29: ๐ Read How to Use Evernote for Your Creative Workflow. A couple key quotes: Start acting like every โฆ
2022-03-29: ๐ Read The Secret Power of โRead It Laterโ Apps.
2022-03-29: ๐ Read One-Touch to Inbox Zero: How I Spend 17 Minutes Per Day on Email.
2022-03-28: ๐ฟ๐ญ๐ต Watched Anything Goes. Sutton Foster is my hero. Wish I could get to NYC to see her in The Music โฆ
2022-03-27: I appreciate the implication from Star Trek: Picard that our timeline is the horrible timeline Q โฆ
2022-03-26: Finished reading: “So What Are You Going to Do with That?" by Susan Basalla ๐
2022-03-26: This pandemy has not lessened my misanthropy. Today I got very annoyed that another family was in โฆ
2022-03-25: ๐๐ญ Read Having a Child Meant Imagining a New Way to Make Theater (Catapult) by Lindsey Trout Hughes. โฆ
2022-03-25: ๐๐ต Read โThe Queerest of the Queerโ: Listening to Garbage in the Nineties (Catapult) by Niko โฆ
2022-03-24: ๐ Read I Gained 70 Pounds During COVID. Here’s What Happened On My First Day Back In The โฆ
2022-03-24: ๐โฟ Read Disability Status Shouldnโt Have a Hierarchy (Catapult) by s. e. smith. Excellent column โฆ
2022-03-24: ๐ The programme for #FanLIS 2022 is live! I’ll be sharing my dissertation research on Friday, โฆ
2022-03-24: ๐๐ Read After the Green Ribbon (Catapult) by A. E. Osworth The Green Ribbon is a favorite of mine. I โฆ
2022-03-24: ๐ Read My Mother Has Terminal Cancer, and I Canโt Seem to Stop Buying Sweaters (Catapult) by Rachel โฆ
2022-03-23: ๐ Read What Tarot Taught Me About the Stories We Tell (Catapult) by Mishka Hoosen CW: Racism, rape A โฆ
2022-03-23: I have renewed and revitalized respect for sociologists after trying to quickly understand the โฆ
2022-03-23: ๐ Read Teachers Are Told to Ignore Their Bodies, But Chronic Pain Made Me Listen to Mine (Catapult) โฆ
2022-03-23: ๐ Read The World Doesnโt Bend for Disabled Kids (or Disabled Parents) (Catapult) by Katie Rose Pryal โฆ
2022-03-23: ๐ Read twisty little passages (Catapult) by Jess Zimmerman. A beautiful, heartbreaking short story โฆ
2022-03-23: ๐ Read The Coronavirusโs Next Move (The Atlantic) by Katherine J. Wu.
2022-03-23: ๐ Read The Girlboss Has Left the Building.
2022-03-23: ๐๐บ Read The Comedies That Understand What Peak Scammer TV Does Not.
2022-03-22: Hi scholars. Can you point me to a scholarly definition of “space” that would encompass โฆ
2022-03-22: ๐Read The Ukraine Crisis Briefly Put Americaโs Culture War in Perspective.
2022-03-22: 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 โฆ
2022-03-22: ๐๐ฎ Read Inside the fight to save video game history. Great intro to the copyright issues at play in โฆ
2022-03-22: Finished reading: Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore ๐ Cashore’s GRACELING was the book that fixed โฆ
2022-03-21: ๐ Read COVID Wonโt End Up Like the Flu. It Will Be Like Smoking.
2022-03-21: ๐๐ Read โThe Invisible Kingdomโ Shines a Light on Womenโs Chronic Pain. Another great interview with โฆ
2022-03-21: ๐ Read Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?. Another great piece with an argument centered on โฆ
2022-03-21: ๐ Read How Gullibility Became Our New Normal. I love when information literacy pops up in popular โฆ
2022-03-21: ๐๐ Read Back Draft: Meghan OโRourke. O’Rourke’s making the rounds to promote her new โฆ
2022-03-18: It’s good to have a statement that sums up what you do, writ large, that isn’t just a โฆ
2022-03-18: ๐ Read How to Be A Successful Multipassionate Entrepreneur.
2022-03-18: ๐ Read 5 Ways to Thrive as a Multipassionate Entrepreneur “Clarity comes from engagement, not โฆ
2022-03-18: ๐ I’m always looking for Leonie Dawson’s post about heroic self-gentleness and โฆ
2022-03-18: Reading the schedule for GIFCon and my breath caught and I teared up a little at Kat โฆ
2022-03-18: ๐ Read Academic Waste. ๐
2022-03-18: 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 โฆ
2022-03-17: I added a Shop page to my website! Right now all that’s there are my Notion templates (all pay โฆ
2022-03-17: I’m thinking about adding an Ask Me Anything’s page to my blog. But I also might just โฆ
2022-03-17: Colored a page from Dover Coloring Book Fairy Fashion by Scott Altmann. I’m using jumbo โฆ
2022-03-16: Shang-Chi is all “1996โ and later is all “PRESENT DAY” and it’s confusing โฆ
2022-03-16: Finished reading: Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang Vol. 1: Brothers and Sisters by Gene Yang ๐
2022-03-16: I haven’t watched it yet but I’ve decided The Adam Project is a sequel to 13 Going on 30 โฆ
2022-03-15: ๐ฟ Watched Turning Red. Highly recommend. Perfectly captures being 13, navigating our own growth and โฆ
2022-03-15: Added “A very enterprising, mildly annoying young lady” to my bio. Thanks, #TurningRed!
2022-03-15: Wordle Walkthrough - 03/14/2022 As promised, here’s a walkthrough of my thought process for playing Wordle. This is the game โฆ
2022-03-15: ๐ Read Storytelling and the Craft of Quiltmaking. ๐งต
2022-03-14: I like to ask from time to time and I haven’t in a while: what’s my brand?
2022-03-14: Whoever wrote that thing about how 13 yos don’t write fanfic has everybody on Twitter talking โฆ
2022-03-14: Want to read: Information Hunters by Kathy Peiss ๐
2022-03-14: The Klein Librarian for Science Fiction at UC Riverside sounds like a pretty cool job.
2022-03-13: ๐ฟ Watched Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga because it was nominated for a Hugo. I had โฆ
2022-03-13: Finished reading: How to Make a Living with Your Writing Third Edition by Joanna Penn ๐ Great advice โฆ
2022-03-11: 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 โฆ
2022-03-11: We are at DEFCON Falling Asleep to Mr. Rogers.
2022-03-10: Will the giant invasive ballooning spiders eat the mosquitos in my yard? If so, I don’t โฆ
2022-03-10: In case you’re wondering where my head is at, I spilled the PCR testing solution while trying โฆ
2022-03-10: I changed my goal for April’s Camp NaNoWriMo. My goal now is to publish 22,500 words on my โฆ
2022-03-09: Finished reading: Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore ๐ So great. Cashore gets five genres in this โฆ
2022-03-09: Pro-tip: brains work better when you feed them.
2022-03-07: Finished reading: The Immune System Recovery Plan by Susan Blum ๐
2022-03-07: My kid’s school is going mask-optional indoors in April and now I don’t know if โฆ
2022-03-06: Hello, world. Got any cool qualitative UX researcher friends you can connect me with? I’d love โฆ
2022-03-06: Me: Let’s see who among my LinkedIn connections has qualitative research in their profile. โฆ
2022-03-05: I ran the introductory adventure for Hero Kids for M & W. It was a lot of fun and now I’m โฆ
2022-03-04: I’m at that point in a documentation/literature review where you have to just let stuff roll โฆ
2022-03-04: I can’t tell if the locus of origin of my current inability to focus is in my body, in The โฆ
2022-03-04: What?! Kristin Cashore just had a character in Jane, Unlimited share my one strong Doctor Who โฆ
2022-03-04: ๐ฌ๐ “A storm can be a cozy thing when one isn’t in it.” - Kristin Cashore in Jane, โฆ
2022-03-04: ๐ฌ๐บ๐๐ป “Exhilaration enhances the absorption of knowledge.” Picard, 2x01, โThe Stargazerโ โฆ
2022-03-04: ๐ฌ๐บ๐๐ป “The part of me that really wants is the part that has to wait in line.” Picard, โฆ
2022-03-03: I played a LOT of the Pokemon TCG in my freshman year of college, burned a lot of scholarship money โฆ
2022-03-02: If you must get a flat tire, I recommend doing it on a beautiful day when you have snacks packed in โฆ
2022-03-02: Me, reading Jane, Unlimited: Wait, wait, wait. Her aunt/guardian was an adjunct at this fancy โฆ
2022-03-02: I let a tiny bit of crying come out at 3 am Monday morning and now all the crying I haven’t โฆ
2022-03-01: Oof. Doing a second round of coding and I am R-U-S-T-Y rusty.
2022-02-28: How do you handle a day when your brain isn’t doing a great job but you also don’t โฆ
2022-02-28: Hey, Kimberly. You actually are not in a good position right now to do an in-depth analysis of every โฆ
2022-02-28: ๐ Read Itโs Called Acting: Learning to Fight for the Stage. ๐ญ
2022-02-28: ๐ Read Network sitcoms are actually good again. ๐บ
2022-02-27: ๐ฟ Watched Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe and I definitely cried twice โฆ
2022-02-26: ๐ Read Is it time to live with COVID-19? Some scientists warn of โendemic delusionโ โI donโt โฆ
2022-02-25: It can feel like Social Science Communication isn’t a thing, but here are some people doing โฆ
2022-02-25: ๐ Loved reading what Kathy Tabbutt had to say about Social Science Communication in the January 23 โฆ
2022-02-25: ๐ Read Curing Coronavirus Isnโt a Job for Social Scientists. (This article is from May 2020, which โฆ
2022-02-25: ๐ Read Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself?.
2022-02-25: It IS great news that’s my mom’s leukemia is in remission. It’s important to me to โฆ
2022-02-25: My mom’s leukemia is in remission.
2022-02-25: Please listen to Gaslit Nation, where Sarah Kendzior & Andrea Chalupa “take a deep dive on โฆ
2022-02-24: I am scared and overwhelmed. Here’s what I’m doing about it: Making sure I take my meds โฆ
2022-02-23: Working through Project READY and I wrote an “I am” poem [PDF]. I don’t want to โฆ
2022-02-23: That feeling when your new job pays you to work through the professional development curriculum you โฆ
2022-02-23: 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 โฆ
2022-02-22: Not sure what my dream casting for most of the roles in Ninth House would be, but @may_wise Mary โฆ
2022-02-22: I did the seven stories exercise & put everything into a word cloud, combining related words โฆ
2022-02-21: ๐ Read More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries. This. The lifting of โฆ
2022-02-21: Finished reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo ๐ So good. It puts the academia โฆ
2022-02-21: No YOU just ordered a Mini Tarot de Marseille.
2022-02-20: I was going to ask what the best career path was for an insufferable know-it-all and then realized I โฆ
2022-02-20: Scene: Today’s Micro.blog Meetup Them: I have writer’s block and was hoping to get ideas โฆ
2022-02-20: ๐ Not their first rodeo: How Black riders are reclaiming their place in cowboy culture This is so โฆ
2022-02-20: Me: I was so psyched about the topic and methods of my dissertation when I defended my proposal in โฆ
2022-02-19: I’m RSVPing to IndieWeb Create Day on March 5, 2022. This might show up as a yes but โฆ
2022-02-19: Me to W: I need to go be in the dark and quiet for a little while now because I’m โฆ
2022-02-18: I am thisclose to posting a vibe shift reading list.
2022-02-17: I have too many chronic conditions and I don’t like it.
2022-02-17: ๐ Read The Millions of People Stuck in Pandemic Limbo …people are still dying, and โฆ
2022-02-16: 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 โฆ
2022-02-16: I just heard my neck crack. I am really over everything. Everything except crafting and my job. And โฆ
2022-02-16: Today’s vibe: driving home from my fasting bloodwork appointment listening to “Surface โฆ
2022-02-16: I get annoyed at the voice in my head that, when I’m stressed, offers an oh-so-helpful list of โฆ
2022-02-16: 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 โฆ
2022-02-15: ๐ป Watching We Are NOT Okay: Library Worker Trauma Before and During COVID-19 and What Happens After โฆ
2022-02-15: I’m intrigued by the pedagogy of uncertainty concept that Ronnie Videla-Reyes and Claudio โฆ
2022-02-15: As we approach the spring of deception, it feels rude to me that the earth is moving forward with โฆ
2022-02-15: Changing my profile pic to Luisa Madrigal for a while.
2022-02-14: I was feeling sad about my mom being readmitted to the hospital so I took a break from work and made โฆ
2022-02-14: I’m a great lover of Valentine’s Day as a time to express special affection for friends โฆ
2022-02-12: My mom was discharged from the hospital tonight and will be doing the rest of her induction therapy โฆ
2022-02-12: Started Octopath Traveler again tonight and it made me very happy. Last time I played was almost 2 โฆ
2022-02-12: I think the union rep at this postdoc orientation is doing this presentation outside during the โฆ
2022-02-11: I am having a grumping it out day.
2022-02-11: #StarTrek:The Next Generation Season 4 Episode 20 “Qpid” aired 04/22/91. ๐๐ป Q: You โฆ
2022-02-11: ๐ Read How to Reclaim Normal Life Without Being โDoneโ. I appreciate the acknowledgement here that โฆ
2022-02-10: Got an email about my kid’s school moving to endemic risk management instead of pandemic and I โฆ
2022-02-10: Write Source 2000: The book that started my obsession with writing craft books ๐๐ I own a lot of writing craft books. Thereโs the obvious, like Stephen Kingโs On Writing and Anne โฆ
2022-02-10: The Teens Leading Change initiative at the LA Public Library is awesome. A great reminder that there โฆ
2022-02-10: Theory to practice: Donโt 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 โฆ
2022-02-10: Words cannot convey how psyched I am for Chrono Cross Radical Dreamers Edition. I’ve wanted a โฆ
2022-02-10: Realized today as I was listening to the John de Lancie episode of Gates McFadden Investigates that โฆ
2022-02-09: Today’s 28 Days of Black History post about Jerry Lawson, who led the division that made the โฆ
2022-02-09: I just did a search on Google Scholar for the exact phrases “serious leisure” and โฆ
2022-02-09: Finished reading: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin โฆ
2022-02-09: Essays on essays on essays Iโm still thinking about essays after reading Jackson Arnโs โDot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dotโ | Against the โฆ
2022-02-08: ๐ Read My Platonic Life Partnership Went Viral On TikTok, & People Have A Lot Of Questions โฆ
2022-02-08: Peak on-brand middle aged Kimberly: Cutting out doll clothes sewing patterns while watching the Ask โฆ
2022-02-08: That feeling when you step away from your desk and the good ideas rush in.
2022-02-08: 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 โฆ
2022-02-07: ๐ Read Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dotโ | Against the Contemporary American Essay by Jackson Arn. Timely, โฆ
2022-02-07: How to write an essay (buyer beware, I donโt have the answer) How does a person write an essay? Iโve been trying to figure out. The thing is, itโs a versatile โฆ
2022-02-07: I haven’t felt like writing a long blog post for the post couple of weeks. Maybe tomorrow. โฆ
2022-02-07: Currently reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo ๐
2022-02-07: Currently reading: Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, โฆ
2022-02-05: Finished reading: King Of Scars by Leigh Bardugo ๐ I love it so much. Nikolai, Zoya, and Nina have โฆ
2022-02-05: Finished reading: Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia by Kelly J. Baker ๐ Highly โฆ
2022-02-04: ๐ Read The Holes We Live With by Katie Rose Guest Pryal. I think my hole is named in the Encanto โฆ
2022-02-04: Dana has a lightsaber now. [Image description: An 18 inch doll holds an appropriately scaled โฆ
2022-02-04: Want to read: The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University (Reforming Higher โฆ
2022-02-04: ๐ฌ๐ The life of the mind tends to ignore the body, but our bodies aren’t so easily avoided. - โฆ
2022-02-04: ๐ฌ๐ Explaining away the plight of adjuncts as brainwashed dupes ignores the structural realities of โฆ
2022-02-04: I thought the Internet should know: Nikolai Lantsov is now my book boyfriend. Sorry, Kvothe. (Links โฆ
2022-02-04: ๐ฌ๐ One of [the] things about the “love professions,” which includes academia, it is โฆ
2022-02-04: Finished reading: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty ๐
2022-02-04: Accepting death doesn’t mean that you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It โฆ
2022-02-04: The great achievements of humanity were born out of the deadlines imposed by death. - Caitlin โฆ
2022-02-03: The doll is named Dana. She is here now and I think she’s actually 200% haunted. The mid-life โฆ
2022-02-03: I’m psyched to present my dissertation research at FanLIS 2022: Fan Futures Beyond the โฆ
2022-02-03: I Kimberly Hirsh am RSVPing yes to Micro Camp 2022 .
2022-02-03: ๐ Read Women of a Certain Age. Great piece about how the Golden Age of TV creates space for roles โฆ
2022-02-02: The Kimberly urge to write Picard/Gomez fic. ๐๐ป
2022-02-02: My kid definitely just said “Thwip” in his sleep. ๐ธ๏ธ
2022-02-01: “People as everyday theorists of their experiences” - great insight from Bill Penuel at โฆ
2022-02-01: Welcome to my mid-life crisis. [Image description: An eBay item page for an 18 inch fashion doll. โฆ
2022-02-01: It’s February. Black history is important all year long but February is extra awesome because โฆ
2022-02-01: Me, thinking about my mom’s experience with leukemia: The medicine will be what it will be, โฆ
2022-02-01: Me, gathering up all my old dolls that I gave my kid so I can brush their hair: “I know - โฆ
2022-01-31: Hello, I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just bought and set up creativityforscholars.com. If the โฆ
2022-01-31: We must be brave enough to look at our own academic systems, if we plan to make them just and โฆ
2022-01-31: Feeling cute today. [A pale white woman with dark hair & blue eyes wears black cat eye glasses, โฆ
2022-01-31: ๐ Read A Counterintuitive Nighttime Routine For The Type A Insomniac. I love this. I’m โฆ
2022-01-31: The concept of the body as canvas becomes more powerful if the canvas is dead. - Caitlin Doughty, โฆ
2022-01-31: We are all just future corpses. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from โฆ
2022-01-31: Encountering a corpse forced the man who would be Buddha to see life as a process of unpredictable โฆ
2022-01-30: I just bought the Kindle edition of both volumes of Briana Lawrence’s mixed media magical girl โฆ
2022-01-30: Burnham’s “Let’s fly” is probably the best captain catchphrase but โฆ
2022-01-29: I have a vague feeling I’m at risk of becoming the first victim in the X-Files episode โฆ
2022-01-28: Reading misuthewitch’s thesis for my Artist Date today. [Image Description: A tablet in a โฆ
2022-01-26: I’m RSVPing yes to IndieWebCamp Personal Libraries Pop Up Session. Excited to chat about how โฆ
2022-01-26: 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 โฆ
2022-01-25: 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 โฆ
2022-01-25: ๐ Read The Only Work Ethic I Care About is the One on Star Trek Yes! When a 20th c guy ends up on โฆ
2022-01-25: More than a little psyched about Emily Vardell & Sarah Beth Nelson’s paper Teaching โฆ
2022-01-25: Okay, world. I’m going to try turning it off and then turning it on again, “it” โฆ
2022-01-25: In the spirit of cosmic effery that embracing radical uncertainty requires, I turned my ankle this โฆ
2022-01-25: Sent my mom the Six of Crows duology for her Kindle. Pretty pleased with myself. ๐
2022-01-24: Tag yourself. I’m Arcade Fire Dad (sub in improv troupe for band). โฆ
2022-01-24: I love my job and some yammering about writing How are you doing, Internet? Iโm obviously Not Okay, with my mom having leukemia and all, but Iโm โฆ
2022-01-24: I’m back to cross-posting from my site automatically to Twitter. Everywhere else I’m โฆ
2022-01-24: The Empath’s Dilemma: You won’t cry for yourself, but you cry really hard when you start โฆ
2022-01-23: ๐Read What is โDark Academia,โ and why is it trending on social media in 2022?
2022-01-23: My bedhead is feeling extra goth and channeling Tim Burton a little bit this morning.
2022-01-23: ๐ Read Julia Cameron Says You Can Get Creative Indoors.
2022-01-22: My mom was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia this week and started chemo yesterday. If you โฆ
2022-01-21: ๐ฟ Watched Encanto. Lovely.
2022-01-21: ๐ Read The Homebound Symphony by @ayjay Iโm trying to be the Homebound Symphony. Just one person โฆ
2022-01-21: Key lines from “Surface Pressure": Give it to your sister, your sister’s older โฆ
2022-01-21: I haven’t seen ENCANTO but I gather Luisa is the middle sister and yet her song is the anthem โฆ
2022-01-21: Peak IndieWeb Eldest Daughter Kimberly: considering for a few minutes trying to do a self-hosted โฆ
2022-01-20: W’s aunt gave M an amaryllis and it’s blooming. Big Alice in Wonderland vibes. [Image โฆ
2022-01-20: ๐ I highly recommend Everything Is Awful and Iโm Not Okay: questions to ask before giving up as a โฆ
2022-01-20: I am immensely pleased to be getting so much new Star Trek in the next few months. ๐๐ป
2022-01-20: ๐ Read Tamsyn Muir Understood the Assignment: The Locked Tomb Seriesโ Expansive Exploration of Death โฆ
2022-01-19: ๐ Read As We May Think by Vannevar Bush This 1945 essay by Vannebar Bush is one of the first texts โฆ
2022-01-19: ๐ Read Why PhDs Need to Study Creative Writing. Awesome piece with an excellent argument. I’ve โฆ
2022-01-19: ๐ Read We Are All Hostages to Anti-Semitism by Yair Rosenberg Excellent piece about how โฆ
2022-01-19: ๐ Read Hypertext Gardens. Efficient traversal provides the information readers think they want, but โฆ
2022-01-18: I’m experimenting with building a digital garden via a personal wiki so of course my first โฆ
2022-01-18: Life just ran more smoothly when she got her way. Leigh Bardugo, KING OF SCARS ๐ฌ๐
2022-01-18: On indefinite hiatus from most social media Iโm taking an indefinite hiatus from checking or cross-posting to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and โฆ
2022-01-18: Just a little pro tip, muting words on Twitter will not prevent them from appearing in the โฆ
2022-01-18: New bio/tagline: “mothering, researching, reading, writing, playing, making, always โฆ
2022-01-17: Testing my commitment to embracing radical uncertainty This week is really asking me to live my commitment to embracing radical uncertainty. I’ve had โฆ
2022-01-17: Finished reading: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo ๐ I โฆ
2022-01-17: What gave her strength then? We cannot know for sure. That contrary thing inside her? The hard โฆ
2022-01-17: Okay, I’ll do the 10 year challenge.
2022-01-17: Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, โฆ
2022-01-16: Yesterday I interrupted my kid’s marathon viewing of BLIPPI and transformed it into a marathon โฆ
2022-01-15: My reading life ๐ Since the Micro.blog community is starting a reading group in the near future, I thought it would be โฆ
2022-01-15: Currently reading: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo ๐ I โฆ
2022-01-14: My workplace harassment training is promoting person-first language, but ends with โฆ
2022-01-14: Wisdom from my blog archives: What if everything I am - everything Iโve tried to improve in this โฆ
2022-01-13: No YOU’RE thinking about writing a fanfic that’s just an IRB application for a โฆ
2022-01-13: Now that I’m gainfully employed, mosts of my discretionary spending is going to creators in โฆ
2022-01-13: How Iโm 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 โฆ
2022-01-13: Future Directions for Connected Learning in Libraries This is the fourth post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected โฆ
2022-01-13: Me: If I were going to write fiction, what genre should I write? Brain: YA high fantasy. Me: does โฆ
2022-01-12: W: Do you know the first documented time “Google” was used as a verb? Me: Yes, it was on โฆ
2022-01-12: I started reading A Court of Thorns and Roses because it’s, um, overdue & 9 people have it โฆ
2022-01-11: ๐Read What happens when we die. Beautiful notes from Maria Popova on the novel Mr g.
2022-01-10: Putting together references and resources for making myself a Tidemaker kefta, no big deal.
2022-01-07: Connected Learning in Libraries: Changes and Challenges This is the third post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected โฆ
2022-01-07: Want to read: The Comedy of Survival: Literary Ecology and a Play Ethic by Joseph W. Meeker ๐
2022-01-07: ๐ Read The comedy of survival.
2022-01-07: ๐ Read “I Feel Very Uncomfortable When People Call Me A Writer”. Great conversation โฆ
2022-01-06: This is a note to myself to write about how connected learning has existential value, not just โฆ
2022-01-06: Want to read: Dead Collections: A Novel by Isaac Fellman ๐
2022-01-06: ๐ต Had to skip “Moonlight Sonata” on the Spotify Dark Academia Classical playlist because โฆ
2022-01-06: ๐ Read Lost Time in COVID. Overall, we have, of necessity, learned to value the quality of our time โฆ
2022-01-05: I just got finished with my onboarding meeting for the Connected Learning Lab and I can’t โฆ
2022-01-05: Google Scholar: Hi Dr. Kimberly, would you like some journal articles about families playing Pokemon โฆ
2022-01-05: How Connected Learning Happens in Libraries This is the second post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected โฆ
2022-01-05: Pretty psyched that this is my new institution.
2022-01-05: My time is vampire time: The critical disability studies concept of "crip time" ๐โฟ I’ve seen and heard a lot of people in the Micro.blog community discuss the book Four Thousand โฆ
2022-01-05: ๐ Read Everyone should blog.
2022-01-05: ๐ Read Celebrate by Writing.
2022-01-05: Somebody wrote a post on Micro.blog with the title “Everybody should blog” in the past โฆ
2022-01-04: What is Connected Learning? I start working remotely for the Connected Learning Lab tomorrow and while a lot of people are โฆ
2022-01-04: Fighting with the VPN so I can have off-campus library access. Academia, how I’ve missed you. โฆ
2022-01-04: ๐ต I’m listening to the full album of Lady Gaga’s BORN THIS WAY for the first time, and โฆ
2022-01-03: 1/3/22 plan: Wake up at normal time, hang out with kid, eat wholesome food, clean bedroom, prep for โฆ
2022-01-03: New bio! “Big sister, little mother, perpetual learner. I love books AND computers.”
2022-01-03: New rule: Especially on days when my kid is home from school, it’s okay if my routines โฆ
2022-01-03: 10 Video Games to Know Me ๐ฎ Final Fantasy Final Fantasy VII Street Fighter Alpha 3 Rhapsody: A โฆ
2022-01-03: 10 TV Shows to Know Me ๐บ The Muppet Show Punky Brewster Star Trek: The Next Generation The Kids In โฆ
2022-01-03: ๐ Read True gender-neutral clothing must go beyond fancy sweatpants. I love the idea of a shop where โฆ
2022-01-02: Welp, my corkboard is now mostly a collage of tarot and oracle cards. The mermaids are very โฆ
2022-01-02: Quick Thoughts on TRULY DEVIOUS ๐ I don’t want to write a full review of <a โฆ
2022-01-02: Finished reading: Truly Devious: A Mystery by Maureen Johnson ๐
2022-01-02: New (Year) hair before and after brushing. (Better-lit photos coming soon.)
2022-01-01: ๐ฌ “We are being asked to no longer abandon ourselves, to embrace and make space for all parts โฆ
2022-01-01: Happy New Year from the hair I just cut off in a literal and symbolic act of lightening my load. โฆ
2022-01-01: ๐ Read 6 ways to deal with anxiety and uncertainty this winter. One way to embrace radical โฆ
2022-01-01: Closing out the year with a couple of runs in Hades ๐ฎ followed by some Star Trek: The Next โฆ
2022-01-01: ๐ Read What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good life. This is an excellent way to โฆ
2021-12-31: My only resolution for 2022: Embrace [radical uncertainty] โฆ
2021-12-31: 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 โฆ
2021-12-30: ๐ Read There Is No โBest ofโ List From Me This Year. ๐ Beautiful writing from Kelly Jensen: how โฆ
2021-12-30: I just finished the midseason finale of #StarTrekDiscovery and I thought it was beautifully done. โฆ
2021-12-30: Me, watching STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION and seeing a newborn in a glass bassinet in sickbay with โฆ
2021-12-28: I just watched the SHORT TREKS episode “Q & A” and it has me really excited for โฆ
2021-12-28: ๐๐ Read All Your Followers Will Not Buy Your Book - by Kate McKean โฆ
2021-12-28: ๐๐ Read Yes, Social Media Can Sell Books. But Not If Publishers Sit on Their Hands | Jane Friedman โฆ
2021-12-28: ๐๐ Read Millions of Followers? For Book Sales, โItโs Unreliable.โ - The New York Times โฆ
2021-12-27: ๐ Read How your brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal. This time last year, my โฆ
2021-12-25: ๐ Read if weโre all about to get Omicron, here are 5 tips from a long-hauler (via @agilelisa on โฆ
2021-12-25: I don’t know how your December 25 is going, but my spouse gave me a Roy Kent Christmas card so โฆ
2021-12-25: I’m that annoying friend who loves Christmas way too much but, like, the exhausted goth โฆ
2021-12-24: It’s unseasonably warm here in central NC and will be even warmer tomorrow. Many people have โฆ
2021-12-24: ๐ฌ “North Americans practice embalming, but we do not believe in embalming.” Smoke Gets โฆ
2021-12-24: Bodies donated to Western Carolina University’s forensic anthropology program end up in the โฆ
2021-12-23: Until now, you’ve had to have a Micro.blog account to reply to my blog posts or sometimes, โฆ
2021-12-23: My Reading Year 2021 ๐ I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. This was a slow reading โฆ
2021-12-20: I had assumed that since I, a 40-year-old mother of a young child, have been very into Dark Academia โฆ
2021-12-20: ๐ Read The Scholarship of Sexy Privilege: Why Do I Love Dark Academia Books? …there will โฆ
2021-12-19: Listen Vanessa Hudgens is winning regardless of the quality of the script or her accent.
2021-12-19: Watched A California Christmas & A California Christmas: City Lights. They’re… โฆ
2021-12-19: I had a dream where there was a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer motion comic where the writers had made โฆ
2021-12-19: A core question that must eventually be answered about every space, physical or digital, is โฆ
2021-12-18: Excuse me, there is a Netflix Rom-Com starring Damon Wayans Jr and Rachel Leigh Cook? Be still my โฆ
2021-12-18: I have something else to say about Single All the Way. Not only is it lovely to see Michael Urie be โฆ
2021-12-17: As a person who made some of my dearest friends online before video chat was a thing, I’m โฆ
2021-12-17: Io, Saturnalia!
2021-12-17: It dinnae matter to this wee American lassie that Cary Elwes has a naff Scottish accent.
2021-12-16: Some how I did not realize Cary Elwes would have a Scottish accent in A Castle for Christmas and I. โฆ
2021-12-16: I just watched Single All the Way while making part of W’s Christmas present. It is the โฆ
2021-12-16: Today, I completed my hiring paperwork for UC Irvine & tried to figure out public service loan โฆ
2021-12-15: Book Riot published a reading pathway for the work of bell hooks a while back, if you are โฆ
2021-12-15: Upon the death of bell hooks ๐๏ธ Transcript: Hello internet friends. I’m experimenting today with doing a micro cast. I have โฆ
2021-12-15: “I am Google make testing Lens g fusing to blog post. a” That’s regular print. It โฆ
2021-12-15: Cursive paper blog post Google Lens attempt: “I am using. a blog mas Leng post.” Less โฆ
2021-12-15: I AM TESTING USING GOOGLE LENS TO MAKE A BLOG POST. It works with my block print. I’m going to โฆ
2021-12-15: O no I am up too late pondering cool possibilities for the web.
2021-12-14: Peak Kimberly struggle: There’s 54 minutes of childcare left. Do I spend it tweaking my โฆ
2021-12-14: In case you’re on micro.blog and missed it, @JohnPhilpin is asking people interested in โฆ
2021-12-14: Target app: Okay so listen we know you’ve bought your kid like 5 sets of pajamas this quarter โฆ
2021-12-14: Want to read: Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage by Heather Havrilesky ๐
2021-12-14: ๐จ M & I are doing Craftsy’s Jump Into Drawing class together. The first activity was โฆ
2021-12-14: ๐ Read and highly recommend Neurodiversity in Academia: The Autistic advantage in qualitative โฆ
2021-12-14: Hoping to make it to this week’s Homebrew Website Club if I can do it without waking my kid.
2021-12-13: ๐ Read The New Outliers: How Creative Nonfiction Became a Legitimate, Serious Genre.
2021-12-12: ๐ Read Queer and Jewish Identity Are the Heart of โWhere the Wild Things Areโ. ๐ I love this. I want โฆ
2021-12-12: ๐ Read On the Fleeting Wonder of Youth and the Surreal Permanence of Motherhood .
2021-12-12: ๐ Read Will Self: How Should We Read? In Praise of Literary Promiscuity in the Digital Age.
2021-12-12: ๐ Read Two Musicals on the Perils of Aging. ๐ต๐ญ
2021-12-11: The one finished task to two new tasks pipeline.
2021-12-11: I’m taking a break from most feeds and timelines, disconnecting auto-posting from my blog to โฆ
2021-12-10: I am a grown human (a woman, specifically) and so I am having cookies as part of my breakfast today. โฆ
2021-12-10: I thought you should know that this Jean-Luc Picard cover of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want โฆ
2021-12-10: What WOULD Christmas be without historically low mountain snow causing staggering drought?
2021-12-09: How much do we know about the instructors at Starfleet Academy and their pedagogy? ๐๐ป๐บ
2021-12-09: I’m excited to share that I’ve accepted an offer to start in January as a (remote) โฆ
2021-12-08: I spent about an hour tonight playing the 1980 Commodore 64 port of Super Star Trek and I have no โฆ
2021-12-07: Want to read: The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling ๐
2021-12-06: Me: *finds one footnote in article I’m revising, figures out what needs to change about the โฆ
2021-12-06: Want to read: The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People by Rachel Miller ๐
2021-12-06: All. In. On. Trek. [Image Description: A white woman with dark hair and blue eyes wears a black โฆ
2021-12-05: ๐ Read So Youโve Just Found Out Youโre Jewish. Whatโs Next? By DNA, I’m almost half Jewish. โฆ
2021-12-05: These are the sufganiyot I didn’t char. (The ones I did char are still pretty delicious.) โฆ
2021-12-05: ๐ Read The 100 Most Jewish Foods.
2021-12-05: Made latkes from a mix this year.
2021-12-03: My first Artist Date! I don’t think I’m going to write up my annotations for the first chapter/week of The โฆ
2021-12-03: ๐ Read A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Really Ugly.
2021-12-02: 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 โฆ
2021-12-02: About to metaphorically bleed my heart onto my keyboard, nbd, I’ll see you soon.
2021-12-02: I keep messing around on my phone instead of actually doing anything bc on top of the world being โฆ
2021-12-02: ๐๐ฎ Read How Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak text-adventures | Ars โฆ
2021-12-02: This week’s issue of 50 Years of Text Games is about the game The Freshman and its parent app, โฆ
2021-12-02: Grieving something weird and frivolous today. Last night UNC deactivated my user id, because โฆ
2021-12-01: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Safety ๐
2021-12-01: Moleskine’s green velvet notebook makes my little 90s heart sing. $70 is way too much since I โฆ
2021-12-01: As has happened for the past 5 years, my kid’s taste and needs have heavily influenced my โฆ
2021-12-01: Morning pages palindrome!
2021-12-01: Starting December right with eggnog flavored coffee in a seasonal mug and yogurt seasoned with โฆ
2021-12-01: Today I send solidarity and support to my colleagues in the UK participating in the UCU strike.
2021-11-30: I’m back on Pokemon Go and looking for friends, so here’s my friend code: 7480 5774 3887
2021-11-30: Finished reading: The Artist’s Way - The Basic Tools by Julia Cameron. ๐ In this chapter, โฆ
2021-11-29: Want to read: The Tarot of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington ๐
2021-11-29: Also in his first appearance, Tommy the Green Ranger wears this amazing green & white plaid with โฆ
2021-11-29: Every time we’re watching Power Rangers and Kimberly says “I’m Kimberly” I โฆ
2021-11-29: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - The Basic Tools by Julia Cameron ๐
2021-11-29: ๐ Read Marked In Remembrance: How Tattoos Help Us Grieve.
2021-11-29: ๐ Read The Death Positive Movement.
2021-11-29: โถ๏ธ๐ป Watched What is the Death Positive movement?
2021-11-29: ๐Read Death Is Having a Moment.
2021-11-29: ๐ Read The Death Positive Movement Encourages Us to Face Death Directly.
2021-11-28: โถ๏ธ๐ป Watched What remains.
2021-11-28: Finished reading: The Artist’s Way - Spirtual Electricity: The Basic Principles by Julia โฆ
2021-11-28: โถ๏ธ๐ป Watched A burial practice that nourishes the planet.
2021-11-28: ๐ Read Feminist Death Work: A History.
2021-11-28: ๐ Read Funerals are expensive, broken and exploitative. They have to change I love what Sarah Chavez โฆ
2021-11-27: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Spiritual Electricity: The Basic Principles by Julia โฆ
2021-11-27: Big Kimberly Energy, according to W., is writing a full parody libretto for a musical.
2021-11-27: Anybody else get a little Billy-Crystal-as-Miracle-Max vibe from Brent Spiner’s performance as โฆ
2021-11-27: ๐๐ป๐บ 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." โฆ
2021-11-27: Information is my love language.
2021-11-27: I want to mark Stephen Sondheim’s passing with a story about his influence in my life but โฆ
2021-11-26: Bless Linda Holmes and her holiday movie guides.
2021-11-24: Some international fans will be getting new episodes of Star Trek: Discovery starting Friday, Yay!
2021-11-24: Hello world. Imagine I’m interested in fountain pens but am a complete beginner. Where would โฆ
2021-11-23: Reading STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST again and when Austin Kleon described Patti Smith pretending to be an โฆ
2021-11-23: Finished: The Artist’s Way - Introduction by Julia Cameron. ๐ Cameron’s introduction is โฆ
2021-11-23: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Introduction by Julia Cameron ๐
2021-11-23: ๐ Read Catapult | Minor Arcana | Marissa Levien catapult.coRead: catapult.co catapult.co โฆ
2021-11-23: ๐Will Real Estate Ever Be Normal Again? - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com โฆ
2021-11-22: ๐Every King Arthur Retelling Is Fanfic About Who Gets to Be Legendary tor.comRead: www.tor.com โฆ
2021-11-22: ๐๐ฌ “Never send a scholar who studies dystopias to a conference with futuristic themes.” โฆ
2021-11-22: Join me for a super low-key Artistโs Way Creative Cluster. I mentioned in September that I was going through the Artistโs Way. I got about three weeks in when โฆ
2021-11-22: ๐Read “How the Real Estate Boom Left Black Neighborhoods Behind”. This is a long & โฆ
2021-11-20: ๐ Started reading OUTLANDER and if my spouse finds my interest in my scholarship as tiresome as โฆ
2021-11-19: Beautiful Eclipse medicine spread from Lindsay Mack with The Moonchild Tarot. Time to trust my mind, โฆ
2021-11-19: I watched Star Trek Discovery 4x01 “Kobayashi Maru” last night and I have a lot of โฆ
2021-11-19: Okay I watched the Season 4 premiere of Star Trek: Discovery and now I need ALL the Detmer & Owo โฆ
2021-11-18: How to Transform from Mom Kimberly to Professional Kimberly: Replace t-shirt with dress. Add โฆ
2021-11-18: From now on whenever you meet a couple, you are required to ask: Which of you is the Stamets & โฆ
2021-11-17: ๐ Read Who Writes the Books in Video Games? . This is relevant to my interests. ๐๐ฎ
2021-11-17: I just finished the Season 3 finale of #StarTrekDiscovery and wow. What a beautiful close to a โฆ
2021-11-17: โPeak Performance,โ Impostor Syndrome, and PhD Life, brought to you by Star Trek: The Next Generation ๐บ๐๐ป Iโve been in the middle of a Star Trek: The Next Generation rewatch for months, maybe even more than โฆ
2021-11-17: I just learned about this Disney-approved line of romance novel reimaginings of the princess stories โฆ
2021-11-16: Welcome to my workspace! These are pictures of my desk, corkboard, and shelves. Mermaid painting by โฆ
2021-11-16: Hi there. I’m drafting a Star Trek/Ted Lasso crossover in my head. It’s called โฆ
2021-11-15: Y’all, I love my kid and helping him manage his emotions is hard work.
2021-11-15: Here is a non-exhaustive list of things that make me cry: “Some Things Are Meant to โฆ
2021-11-14: I Don’t Have Time to Watch the Next Whole Episode of Star Trek Before Resuming My Caregiving โฆ
2021-11-14: It took ibuprofen, me singing a lot of songs, and Rock-A-Bye Baby’s Lullaby Renditions of โฆ
2021-11-13: The song “Forever and Ever” from POOH’S GRAND ADVENTURE: THE SEARCH FOR โฆ
2021-11-12: My kid is getting his first COVID shot tomorrow and I definitely used that as an excuse to buy him a โฆ
2021-11-12: I have been boosted and will now avoid productivity until Monday. Byeeee.
2021-11-11: Finished reading: Not Your Average Hot Guy by Gwenda Bond ๐
2021-11-10: Darren Rowse in his Ultimate Guide to Starting a Blog Course: Are you a high energy person or a low โฆ
2021-11-10: Great news, bad attitude Hi web friends. I’m having a weird day, with some great news but also me not feeling like โฆ
2021-11-09: It feels really good to talk about my work and be able to remind myself that I’ve done a lot โฆ
2021-11-09: I’m more than 16 minutes into S3E1 of Star Trek Discovery and I haven’t seen Saru, โฆ
2021-11-08: My kid has discovered Power Rangers and I have a feeling there’s a lot of deja vu in my future โฆ
2021-11-08: Good morning. I had fasting bloodwork at 9:30am today, so I’m just eating for the first time โฆ
2021-11-08: ๐Quotes 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” โฆ
2021-11-08: ๐"Nobody cares if you're a writer except you." Kate Baer on being a writer who mothers. ๐ I highly recommend Sara Fredman’s Write Like A Mother newsletter, in which Sara interviews โฆ
2021-11-08: Want to read: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder ๐
2021-11-07: Like the Bloggess, I too look like I have it together when I’m depressed but really think โฆ
2021-11-06: ๐ I’m on page 78 of Gwenda Bond’s NOT YOUR AVERAGE HOT GUY and y’all, I’m so โฆ
2021-11-04: M, as we sort Magnatiles: Wow, you’re really good at sorting! Me: Yeah, thanks, I have two โฆ
2021-11-01: I can’t move to California but being a science fiction librarian sounds like a pretty sweet โฆ
2021-11-01: It’s the month with all the writing events! Hi! I’ll probably be focused on #AcWriMo - โฆ
2021-11-01: Finished reading: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston ๐
2021-10-31: ๐ฏ: Hey don’t you want to buy your kid some cute PJs? They’re on saaaaale… Me: Bro โฆ
2021-10-30: ๐ Read ‘They start calling you Hitler’: Why Disneyland has some of the most toxic fans โฆ
2021-10-29: ๐ Read From Princes to Pigeons: A Beginnerโs Guide to Otome Games ๐ฎ
2021-10-29: I’m starting to actually enjoy revising my own writing. This is a huge development and โฆ
2021-10-29: ๐ Read โThe Girl With The Green Ribbonโ: A Tale of Many Lives. ๐
2021-10-29: ๐ Read Dear Congress: Paid leave is not a perk. Itโs a requirement..
2021-10-29: It seems to me that institutions don’t/can’t care. People do & can. Am I missing out โฆ
2021-10-29: Current priorities: Take care of my health. Take care of my kid. Take care of my home. Figure out โฆ
2021-10-29: In past crises, our leaders have been quick to bail out the banks. They made sure the airlines got โฆ
2021-10-29: I’m about to log off for the night but I want to talk about #StarTrekProdigy so tell me about โฆ
2021-10-29: Want to read: They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe ๐
2021-10-28: I have a cool idea. What if, in addition to having a mental health summit, the university committed โฆ
2021-10-28: M and I decorated some sugar cookies this evening.
2021-10-28: If you’re a person who would be interested in a virtual co-working space for parents, could โฆ
2021-10-27: Thanks to Jennifer Polk’s co-working session, I made big progress on a paper revision today. ๐
2021-10-27: ๐ Lee Skallerup Bessette’s You Can Ask for Mental-Health Help, but Can You Find Any? is โฆ
2021-10-27: M: Can we keep playing Breath of the Wild [pretend, not the video game]? Me: Wait, we’re โฆ
2021-10-26: Hello I am 40 will a local community theater please cast me as Mama Rose now kthx
2021-10-26: This is a reminder that Brent Spiner’s book Fan Fiction, which I reviewed back in September, โฆ
2021-10-26: I’ve got to remember to search parenting groups, not scroll. I just about had an anxiety โฆ
2021-10-25: Also making a note to myself to write a full blog post about going to see my first community theater โฆ
2021-10-25: Making a note to myself here to write a full blog post about Star Trek: The Next Generation 3x21, โฆ
2021-10-23: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: Dr. Lesley Willard: Introducing topic. How do scholars in fan & media studies articulate their โฆ
2021-10-23: Next #FSNNA21 live-tweet: “Fans, Players and/or Users? Bridging Fan and Media Studies” โฆ
2021-10-23: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: Adriana Amaral: First, the state of fan studies in Brazil: research focused on digital settings but โฆ
2021-10-23: I’ll be live-tweeting the #FSNNA21 panel “Digital Methods and Digital Fan โฆ
2021-10-23: I set foot in a bookstore for the first time since the start of the pandemic today. I stood there, โฆ
2021-10-23: Introducing my five-year-old to Sweeney Todd (original cast), as you do. ๐ญ๐ต
2021-10-23: I’m watching the season 1 finale of Star Trek Discovery and having L’Rell do the โฆ
2021-10-22: Extemely chuffed to announce that my first blog post written for @QuirkosSoftware, “A priori โฆ
2021-10-22: I don’t like how clear it is that we are living in the mirror universe and the primary Star โฆ
2021-10-21: I may have been excessively affectively engaged in the conversation about Buffy fic writers' โฆ
2021-10-21: Help I Read a Lower Decks Fanfic and Now I Resent All Other Activities: The Kimberly Hirsh Story ๐๐ป
2021-10-21: Taking a break from livetweeting to just listen to the Participatory Culture Wars session at โฆ
2021-10-21: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: This doesn’t include the discussion/Q&A because things started to go so fast I โฆ
2021-10-21: Planning to use Noter Live to livetweet “The Money Question” at #FSNNA21. Will post all โฆ
2021-10-21: Well mirror universe stuff is very upsetting. ๐๐ป
2021-10-20: I myself am strange and unusual. (Earrings by Witching Hour Baby.)
2021-10-19: I built a Book Event Calendar! It’s only got one event in it right now, as proof of concept, โฆ
2021-10-19: Today I: found contact info for new handyman filled meds cases made cinnamon sugar pumpkin seeds โฆ
2021-10-18: Hey book friends. Is there any sort of centralized calendar for virtual author events? My searches โฆ
2021-10-17: Part of me wants to swim in a vault filled with books like some sort of literary Scrooge McDuck, but โฆ
2021-10-16: This thing where I need to sleep instead of staying up all night watching Star Trek: Discovery is โฆ
2021-10-16: On my Starfleet ship, we would have Sirenian ops.
2021-10-16: ๐ปโถ๏ธ Watched The Doctor, The Mortician, and the Murder.
2021-10-15: Don’t want to spoil the Lower Decks finale much but I was so distracted by my delight at โฆ
2021-10-14: The other day while doing some Artist’s Way exercises my subconscious bubbled up and told me I โฆ
2021-10-14: ๐๐๐ Read Catapult | I Found My Literary Community by Writing Book Reviews | catapult.coRead: โฆ
2021-10-12: ๐ฌ “… fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting around time.” Maria โฆ
2021-10-12: Finished reading: Writing the New Ethnography by H. L. Goodall, Jr. ๐
2021-10-12: Academia sure loves bricolage.
2021-10-12: ๐ Read Catapult | Why Full-Time Freelancing Isnโt For Me | Gabrielle Drolet catapult.coRead: โฆ
2021-10-12: ๐ Read The Quiet Crisis of Parents on the Tenure Track.
2021-10-11: ๐ฌ๐ “Anger is not the action itself. It is action’s invitation.” Julia Cameron, THE โฆ
2021-10-11: ๐ฌ๐๐ญ “Ideas don’t get opening nights. Finished plays do.” Julia Cameron, THE โฆ
2021-10-11: ๐ฌ๐ “…anger is a map… Anger points the way, not just the finger.” Julia โฆ
2021-10-11: ๐ Read Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes โ The โฆ
2021-10-10: Want to read: The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling ๐
2021-10-10: The #FanLIS panel I’m co-moderating with Ludi Price is the first session of Fan Studies โฆ
2021-10-09: Want to read: Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster ๐
2021-10-08: As in the actual Haunted Mansion ride, the best part of Muppets Haunted Mansion is the โฆ
2021-10-08: M (who turned 5 yesterday!) & I are watching Muppets Haunted Mansion and I’m very happy.
2021-10-08: Hey LIS scholars. What is the most elegant, arresting, or fascinating writing you’ve seen in โฆ
2021-10-08: Did I just send an email to all the parents at my kid’s school in which I used the phrase โฆ
2021-10-07: ๐ฌ “we are conditioned as academics (and also just people in 2021!) to sacrifice long term โฆ
2021-10-07: I’ve been without wifi for over 18 hours & while I’m old enough to remember a time โฆ
2021-10-05: My brand is: person who spends far too much time thinking about the absence of social science โฆ
2021-10-05: ๐ป๐บ๐ Watched Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 1 Episode 1 & oh my goodness how fun is this show? So โฆ
2021-10-05: ๐ Me continuing to read Black Sun: Uhhuh uhhuh Sun Priestess is cool, nice chill use of non-binary โฆ
2021-10-05: ๐ Me, reading Black Sun: Ch. 1 - This parent-child dynamic is upsetting, i don’t know if I can โฆ
2021-10-04: ๐ Read The Invisible Burden That Leaves Moms Drained. Especially timely since I just hosted my โฆ
2021-10-04: ๐ Read On Pandering. This piece made me think about how lucky I’ve been to always be writing โฆ
2021-10-04: The extent to which my handwriting is a perfect mix of my parents' handwriting is remarkable.
2021-10-04: ๐ This week’s takeaway from The Artist’s Way is that I’m already really good at โฆ
2021-10-04: ๐ฌ๐ “If I’m expected to be a kin keeper, no one can judge my coffee consumption.” โฆ
2021-10-04: Added “Memento mori girl” to my bio and I am far too pleased with myself. ๐
2021-10-04: I have one weird set of emotions when I begin writing in a new notebook and another when I get close โฆ
2021-10-04: ๐ฎ Played Dragon Quest III. Each game in the series gets more expansive. I love that.
2021-10-04: ๐ป๐บ Watched Salt Fat Acid Heat episode 1, “Fat.”
2021-10-03: I had a dream that Gates McFadden became a real doctor. My kid was having breathing trouble & โฆ
2021-10-03: ๐ Read Why Everyone Is Always Giving Unsolicited Advice (Tressie McMillan Cottom for the New York โฆ
2021-10-03: Excuse me I will be over here flailing because I just learned there is a licensed Star Trek โฆ
2021-10-02: Finished reading: The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinka ๐
2021-10-02: Why are my neighbors so loud don’t they know it’s after 10 pm and their neighbors have โฆ
2021-10-02: My son found this toad at school a week ago. He said his friend touched it and it jumped.
2021-10-02: Now that I have Paramount+, my current viewing strategy is: Want something familiar? TNG/DS9/VOY โฆ
2021-10-01: It’s been a busy day of prepping for my kid’s birthday party (outdoor masked at a park โฆ
2021-10-01: My kid’s school is having fall break today so um we have Paramount Plus now. Because it has โฆ
2021-10-01: ๐Read “So Coke-yโฆSo Entitled!โ: This Is What It Was Like Going to Bennington College With Bret โฆ
2021-09-30: Response to "Whereโs the โVideo 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 โฆ
2021-09-30: I did a thing! I wrote a blog post for a client! Yay me! Time for a dance party! via GIPHY
2021-09-30: Here’s the deal with being employed by someone besides myself right now: they have to pay me โฆ
2021-09-30: One of the frustrating things about chronic illness is that sometimes you have a good brain day but โฆ
2021-09-30: Weather report from my kid: the air temperature is warm Luke.
2021-09-30: ๐๐บ Read Nathan Lane on Only Murders in the Buildingโs Big Twist.
2021-09-30: ๐๐บ Read Why Only Murders in the Building Is the Most Romantic Show on TV.
2021-09-29: I’m planning a historical witchy YA fantasy, it’s historical because it’s set in โฆ
2021-09-29: ๐ Read Star Trekโs food replicators may be on their way to your kitchen. ๐
2021-09-29: Want to read: Several Short Sentences about Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg ๐
2021-09-29: Want to read: The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan ๐
2021-09-29: ๐ Read Amia Srinivasan: โFeminism is a political practice, not just a set of ideasโ.
2021-09-28: Witch influencer or Indiana Jones villain? You decide. (Image: A white woman with dark hair wears a โฆ
2021-09-28: Attempted a Hashimoto’s/PCOS friendly version of my great-grandmother’s goldenrod eggs: โฆ
2021-09-28: Replaced “Extremely online since 1995โ in my bio with “Human cabinet of โฆ
2021-09-28: Want to read: Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender by Casey โฆ
2021-09-28: ๐๐ญ Read On and Off Stage: The Deep-Seated Bias in the Culture of American Theatre. In addition to โฆ
2021-09-27: Mindy Thomas & Guy Raz have some great advice for writers of all ages in their National Book โฆ
2021-09-27: ๐ Read What Reading Looks Like When Youโre a Full-Time Author (Book Riot).
2021-09-27: Asking for a friend: what do you think Kaz Brekker’s D&D class would be? Rogue? I feel โฆ
2021-09-27: I realized reading Week 1 of THE ARTIST’S WAY that most of my negative self-talk isn’t โฆ
2021-09-27: ๐ฌ๐ “…if we can become one-tenth as good at positive self-talk as we are at negative โฆ
2021-09-27: ๐ Read Please Keep Doing Virtual Book Stuff After The Pandemic. Jessica Pryde makes a great argument โฆ
2021-09-27: ๐ฌ๐ “It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.” Julia Cameron, THE โฆ
2021-09-27: ๐ฌ๐ “Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.” Julia Cameron, THE โฆ
2021-09-27: ๐ฌ๐ “Creativity is play, but for shadow artists, learning to allow themselves to play is hard โฆ
2021-09-27: ๐Read The Caregiving Economy - The Atlantic theatlantic.comRead: www.theatlantic.com theatlantic.com โฆ
2021-09-26: A lot is bad but my kid is dancing to Tank! by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts and that’s pretty โฆ
2021-09-26: Me today: Ooh what an interesting journal article! I wonder if I could pitch a research brief on it โฆ
2021-09-26: Want to read: Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies by โฆ
2021-09-26: ๐๐ ๐ฟ Some good things I’ve read so far today: Revisiting The Flight of Dragons, a Forgotten โฆ
2021-09-24: Kid reading your book on a bench at the playground while your sibling plays: I see you. You are not โฆ
2021-09-24: That feeling when your own article is at the top of the “Recommended article” list on โฆ
2021-09-24: 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 โฆ
2021-09-23: “The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” C. G. Jung, quoted by Julia Cameron โฆ
2021-09-23: How Hashimoto's makes me feel Hashimoto’s makes me feel like the opposite of myself. At various points in my life, if you โฆ
2021-09-22: My health goals I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. One of the things I’m โฆ
2021-09-21: My aesthetic is Mermaid Academia.
2021-09-21: In case you wonder what kind of parent I am: yesterday, my kid was recounting a Halloween episode of โฆ
2021-09-21: I have input days and output days. Today is an input day: learning about UX and user research.
2021-09-20: I just moved my next follow up doctor’s appointment up two months to the week after next โฆ
2021-09-20: On preferring learning to doing I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. I love to read about โฆ
2021-09-20: Amy Gentry’s second guest post for The Professor Is In, about transitioning from academic to โฆ
2021-09-20: ๐ Portrait of the Mother as an Artist โ Guernica guernicamag.comRead: www.guernicamag.com Diane โฆ
2021-09-20: Watching the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Offspring” as a parent adds a โฆ
2021-09-20: Have y’all read THE DARK TIDE by Alicia Jasinka? because I started it tonight and it is โฆ
2021-09-19: Whoopi Goldberg has done a lot of great work in her career, but I think I’ll always feel that โฆ
2021-09-19: Finished reading: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski ๐
2021-09-18: So far in my rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode 3x13, “Deja Q,” is my โฆ
2021-09-17: Me, watching Super Monsters with my kid: I can suspend my disbelief to allow that Universal monsters โฆ
2021-09-16: Brainfog day ๐
2021-09-15: ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป That feeling when it takes all day to maintain your (6-year-old budget) laptop…
2021-09-15: There is a medium-small spider hanging out on my corkboard and I’ve decided to adopt it as a โฆ
2021-09-15: ๐๐ฌ “If this is your first draft, stop worrying.” - Leigh Bardugo in her latest โฆ
2021-09-14: What I mean when I say I have variable disabilities: today, I am using a cane because I have mild โฆ
2021-09-13: Book Review: FAN FICTION by Brent Spiner ๐๐บ๐โโ If you make a purchase through a link in this post, I may earn a commission. Quick head’s up: โฆ
2021-09-13: ๐๐ฌ “When academic women, experts in their fields, are seen as not credible, then can women โฆ
2021-09-13: Want to read: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit ๐
2021-09-13: ๐๐ฌ “My Ph.D. cannot trump my gender.” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED, “Academic Men โฆ
2021-09-13: ๐๏ธ Listened to Gates McFadden Investigates 101: Jonathan Frakes. Love it. McFadden is a great host โฆ
2021-09-12: “Life just ran more smoothly when she got her way.” Leigh Bardugo, KING OF SCARS. Oh, โฆ
2021-09-12: I finished reading SIX OF CROWS almost 4 months ago. It’s time for me to get back to the โฆ
2021-09-12: Finished reading: Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner ๐
2021-09-11: Went to Internet Archive to find my blog post from 20 years ago. More interesting than anything I โฆ
2021-09-10: Wearing my 90s pop culture goth uniform today: Buffy the Vampire Slayer tee, Nightmare Before โฆ
2021-09-10: I’ve been thinking a lot about how I want to spend my time and one of the things I want to do โฆ
2021-09-10: New bio: Extremely online since 1995. Mom. Household COO. Consulting scholar-librarian. Book person. โฆ
2021-09-10: ๐๐ป Read Why bad technology dominates our lives, according to Ron Norman. If you didn’t already โฆ
2021-09-10: ๐ฝ๏ธ Watched In a Lonely Place. I watched this because it’s on the movie list on the aesthetics โฆ
2021-09-09: My 20th Domainiversary Today is the 20th anniversary of the first time the Internet Archive captured my first personal โฆ
2021-09-09: Me: yesterday for #StarTrekDay: AHHHH Star Trek, everything Star Trek! this morning when it was all โฆ
2021-09-09: This Picard/Riker 2024 merch is all well and good but what I want is reprints of the Picard/Riker โฆ
2021-09-09: The Voyager theme is over here tugging at my heart strings. This is unexpected. #StarTrekDay
2021-09-09: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I will never not have a crush on Wil Wheaton. โฆ
2021-09-09: It’s taken me a while but I think I have a stable connection for watching #StarTrekDay and โฆ
2021-09-09: If you read through today’s Done List, you’ll notice I put basic self-care tasks like โฆ
2021-09-08: I know enough about Brent Spiner and his history with fans to know that this does not make us BFFs โฆ
2021-09-08: Loading my advanced readers’s copy of Brent Spiner’s mem-noir Fan Fiction to my ereader โฆ
2021-09-08: Repping TNG Operations in my Lauren Christians Handmade dress for Star Trek Day. My kid told his โฆ
2021-09-07: My Done List for 9/7/21: It’s easy for me to feel like a day went by where I didn’t do โฆ
2021-09-07: ๐บ๐ In Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, episode 11, “The Hunted,” there is a โฆ
2021-09-07: 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 โฆ
2021-09-07: Putting Gardens and Streams II on my calendar. I’m only a maybe because, as always, parenting.
2021-09-06: ๐๐ The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer โน Literary Hub if youโve read a book penned by โฆ
2021-09-06: ๐Read The Public Writing Life: How to Lose an Editor in Five Days โฆ
2021-09-06: ๐Read Ravynn K. Stringfield’s essay, Bullet Journaling to Save a Life. Beautiful.
2021-09-04: “She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.” Oscar Wilde, The โฆ
2021-09-03: I had a client meeting this morning where we made plans for me to do some blogging and podcasting โฆ
2021-09-03: “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them…” Oscar Wilde, The Picture โฆ
2021-09-02: Beginning my third read of Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC. ๐
2021-09-02: Sleep Deprivation, Sugar Crash, or Both? The Kimberly Hirsh Story
2021-09-02: Gonna create a literary subgenre/internet aesthetic and call it “snark academia.”
2021-09-01: I just published another free/pay-what-you-can Notion template. This time it’s a permissions โฆ
2021-09-01: Welcome to September, or as I like to call it, October Part 1. The world is full of terrors. Today โฆ
2021-08-31: 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 โฆ
2021-08-31: Did not realize I was on the Motherscholar Project website so that’s cool!
2021-08-31: 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 โฆ
2021-08-30: Just recorded a conference session. I’m really happy about the accessibility remote โฆ
2021-08-28: Watched @patrickrhone’s Micro Camp talk Want to write a book? You probably already have this โฆ
2021-08-28: ๐๐ฌ Parents Are Not Okay: Through these grinding 18 months, weโve managed our kidsโ lives as best we โฆ
2021-08-28: Shout-out to Kelly J. Baker for naming archivists and librarians first in the acknowledgements of โฆ
2021-08-27: there is no separation between mother and writer, nor can I tease apart the time I spend tending to โฆ
2021-08-26: ๐๐ Sara Fredman’s How Motherhood Helped Me Reject the โFather Tongueโ of Academia is both โฆ
2021-08-26: Want to read: How to Write Qualitative Research by Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower ๐
2021-08-26: Want to read: Thinking Inside the Box Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who โฆ
2021-08-25: Finished reading: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan ๐
2021-08-25: My taste in fantasy art is less Lisa Frank and more Frank Frazetta.
2021-08-25: Whoops, I didn’t mean unicorn and waterfall, I meant swan and rainbow. We also had the tiger โฆ
2021-08-25: Trapper Keeper is back but I’m holding out for the re-release of the unicorn in front of a โฆ
2021-08-25: How come every time Rachel Cohn & David Levithan collaborate the result is adorable? โฆ
2021-08-24: Casey Fiesler asked for tips for creating equal participation in breakout rooms. One strategy to try โฆ
2021-08-24: Younger S7E5 is delighting me with Janeane Garofalo as an art college dean and Sutton Foster as Liza โฆ
2021-08-24: ๐๏ธ Listening to Keegan-Michael Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy on Audible & in ep 5 he โฆ
2021-08-24: One of the many straws on the proverbial camel’s back that led me to stop watching THE CHAIR โฆ
2021-08-24: About to go pick kid up from first day of preschool. (1/2 day today, full day Thurs). Achieved: โฆ
2021-08-24: ๐ Just finished the introduction of Data Feminism & am jotting down some thoughts. I hope to โฆ
2021-08-24: ๐ Data Feminism has the best (and perhaps only) definition of positionality I’ve ever seen: โฆ
2021-08-23: Colleagues are all “I forgot how exhausting teaching in person is!” & I’m all โฆ
2021-08-23: Want to read: Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White ๐
2021-08-23: Me, prepping for my kid’s very masked return to preschool: IMAGE: Liz Lemon (from the TV show โฆ
2021-08-22: Want to read: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped โฆ
2021-08-22: 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 โฆ
2021-08-22: ๐บ It’s been interesting seeing other (current or former) academians' responses to THE CHAIR. I โฆ
2021-08-22: Setting aside my TIME 100 list plan to play in the land of YA rom-coms. Just started NICK AND โฆ
2021-08-22: ย Read Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling รขยย Scalawag โฆ
2021-08-20: I clocked a solid chunk of time on my current consulting contract today and I really enjoyed the โฆ
2021-08-20: “Being a mom is my calling, and being a writer is also my calling, so they have to both exist โฆ
2021-08-20: The questions driving me right now I read Ravynn K. Stringfieldโs How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy and felt energized. I โฆ
2021-08-17: Today, in Sesame Street Is the Best Comedy School, Grover and Campers Learn About Trees. Excellent โฆ
2021-08-17: Who’s your favorite fictional character with an extreme love of school supplies? Mine is Amy โฆ
2021-08-16: We might need to have a talk about how I don’t want to eat any actual meals, just leftovers of โฆ
2021-08-16: I just processed all the action items from the beginning of the year email the head teacher at my โฆ
2021-08-16: Read Chicago Improv Was Dead. Can New Leaders Revive It? - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: โฆ
2021-08-15: I use Old Spice Krakengard mostly because the name and graphic amuse me. I always thought it was โฆ
2021-08-15: I can’t get a good picture of it but right now there is a lone piece of green glitter sitting โฆ
2021-08-15: I hardly ever cried about my dissertation and I’m really proud of that.
2021-08-15: ๐๐ Read The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer โน Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com lithub.com โฆ
2021-08-15: Woke up to a house with no light at all and my first thought was not “The power must be โฆ
2021-08-15: 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 โฆ
2021-08-15: Who is Kimberly Hirsh?
2021-08-15: My talk from Micro Camp, “Learning in Public on Your Blog,” is now available on my โฆ
2021-08-14: What are your top 3 movies you turn to when you are sick and/or anxious? Mine are Ferris โฆ
2021-08-13: ๐ Ravynn K. Stringfield’s How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy is an energizing read. โฆ
2021-08-13: Some notes on my Time's 100 Best ๐ Plan Because fantasy is the genre I read the most and YA is the market segment I read the most, โฆ
2021-08-12: So far today I have taken my kid to the pool for swim lessons & stayed for an extra 3 hrs, โฆ
2021-08-12: Donโt think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to train for reality. It always โฆ
2021-08-12: Until I get tired of doing it, I’m going to read my way through Time’s The 100 Best โฆ
2021-08-12: New bio: “A good little mommy and always very curious.”
2021-08-12: Solidarity to everyone who was awake earlier than they needed to be this morning.
2021-08-12: In case you were wondering which website has the best favicon, it’s Jennifer Laughranโs.
2021-08-12: My kid is asleep well before 9 pm, what do I do with all this freeeeeedom? (The smart thing would be โฆ
2021-08-11: I cannot convey the extent to which the statement “be part of one of the largest events on โฆ
2021-08-11: That feeling when someone you only kind of knew from church as a kid over 20 years ago invites you โฆ
2021-08-10: Hey hey! I’ll be giving a talk at Micro Camp Friday @ 3:30 pm EST about Learning in Public on โฆ
2021-08-09: ๐ฌ watched Beverly Hills Cop. Eddie Murphy is brilliant here. I can’t believe he was only 22 or โฆ
2021-08-08: My brain, on August 8, 2021: LetterMo is just around the corner! It’s January now, so February โฆ
2021-08-07: It’s fine if you’ve been sleeping on SCHMIGADOON so far but this week they gave both โฆ
2021-08-06: 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 โฆ
2021-08-06: I can’t recall if I’d ever seen Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on โฆ
2021-08-05: Hello and welcome to my current existential crisis.
2021-08-04: The CHIP ‘N’ DALE: RESCUE RANGERS theme is a masterpiece of musical maximalism. ๐ต
2021-08-04: I love physicist Carlo Rovelli’s phrase, “radical lack of certainty,” quoted in โฆ
2021-08-04: ๐บ I’m not remotely close to caught up on The Owl House but I just want to say that Luz’s โฆ
2021-08-03: Want to read: A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee ๐
2021-08-01: Finished reading: The Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss ๐
2021-08-01: ๐ฎ Played Dragon Quest on Android. Gorgeous pixel remake of the foundational JRPG. Super fun! ๐ฒ
2021-08-01: ๐๐ฏ๏ธ Read Once & Future Vol. 1: The King Is Undead by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora. Arthuriana and โฆ
2021-07-31: ๐ฌ๐ “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot โฆ
2021-07-31: ๐ A surprise The Locked Tomb book! Yay! ๐
2021-07-30: ๐๐บ At Electric Literature, Meera Vijayan writes about the value of seeing Alina Starkov build her โฆ
2021-07-29: I feel both seen and attacked by this Lit Hub piece that says the literary character who shares my โฆ
2021-07-28: I’m available for work starting September 7. Ideal employed situation is part-time, remote, at โฆ
2021-07-27: Putting yourself back together I’ve written before about how matrescence is like kintsugi: having a baby shatters you and the โฆ
2021-07-27: Today my (medical) doctor called me and when I answered, she said, “Hello, Dr. Hirsh?”
2021-07-27: ๐ This interview with Tamsyn Muir is great.
2021-07-27: Finished reading: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ๐
2021-07-23: ๐ In HARROW THE NINTH Harrowhark uses the phrase “A fatal longing for the picturesque” โฆ
2021-07-22: What a beautiful day! We're not scared. ๐ป Are you familiar with the poem/book/animated short film WE’RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT? I highly โฆ
2021-07-21: ๐๐บ๐ฟThis piece identifies what made LOKI less than ideal for me: Loki himself is constrained, not as โฆ
2021-07-21: ๐๐ฟ๐ It’s nice timing to read this after recently starting my Dorian Gray re-read: Manic Pixie โฆ
2021-07-21: The article Meet the typical 40-year-old millennial, who has $128,000 in debt, is not nearly as โฆ
2021-07-21: Me, after two nights of terrible sleep: Welp, I worked for 48 billable minutes. Time to pack it in โฆ
2021-07-20: My personal history with sewing ๐งต I promise I’m going to write about what I learned from sewing napkins soon. But first: my โฆ
2021-07-20: Other people’s midi dress is my maxi dress.
2021-07-20: You know what would be an interesting pair of books to read together? The 4-Hour Work Week and How โฆ
2021-07-19: Random stream-of-consciousness life updates I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. Hello, everyone! How are โฆ
2021-07-18: Austin Kleon's pirate-gardener Austin Kleon writes about his desire to be a pirate-gardener, Iโd like to stay happily at home, in โฆ
2021-07-18: ๐ฌ๐ “Harrow would be tripping over herself for her whole existence, a frictionless hoop of โฆ
2021-07-17: ๐ O no I have HARROW THE NINTH on my eReader and want to hermit up and just read it until I’m โฆ
2021-07-17: ๐ I’m re-reading THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and I want to write down all of Lord Henry โฆ
2021-07-17: Just watched the first episode of Schmigadoon and Aaron Tveit channeling John Raitt/Gordon โฆ
2021-07-17: I’m working on developing a new academia aesthetic, it’s kind of a sff academia. โฆ
2021-07-16: I love when I have a call with my doctor and I say “I think I should do this” and she โฆ
2021-07-16: ๐งต I made napkins today and I learned a lot! I’ll write about it soon.
2021-07-15: I’m about to start using Noter Live to live-tweet #MIRAULV2021. Conferring on the couch next โฆ
2021-07-15: Wait wait wait bootcut jeans are on-trend again? Gen Z, you’re turning exhausted parents into โฆ
2021-07-14: My kid is watching Doc McStuffins and I’m over here swooning over the knight toy Sir Kirby โฆ
2021-07-14: I tried Voila AI artist & this is what it says I’d look like as a 3D cartoon princess.
2021-07-14: Happy birthday to me! W & M got me a sewing machine that has a manual! I asked for one I knew โฆ
2021-07-14: 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 โฆ
2021-07-14: Want to read: The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun ๐
2021-07-14: Finished reading: Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett ๐
2021-07-13: Stream-of-Consciousness Quick Review: Kristen Arnett's MOSTLY DEAD THINGS ๐๐ฆฉ (or, Kristen Arnett Please Be My New Best Friend) I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this post. Kristen Arnett is โฆ
2021-07-13: Tomorrow is my birthday (40th). If you want to celebrate, here are some options: have donuts read a โฆ
2021-07-13: I just signed up for 1-Day Online Nonfiction Seminar: The Scholar’s Guide to Writing & โฆ
2021-07-12: I didn’t see Katy Peplin’s blog post about grumping it out until just now but now is โฆ
2021-07-12: The thing about being a bard is that performance is more than just singing.
2021-07-11: I need everyone to understand that in Marvel comics, there is the version of Thor that is a frog, โฆ
2021-07-09: The Quiet Space has a website. This evolving project offers tools to help scholars & other โฆ
2021-07-09: The water and the moon are my teachers. ๐๐ Tonight is the New Moon in Cancer. Next Wednesday is my birthday. My Sun, Ascendant, and Mercury are โฆ
2021-07-09: W: Would you say the town of Brigadoon is changed by the events of the musical? Me: What? No! โฆ
2021-07-09: 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. โฆ
2021-07-09: Hulu has both Beetlejuice and Season 7 of Younger, see y’all next week. ๐บ๐ฟ
2021-07-09: 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 โฆ
2021-07-07: Habits from UNF*CK YOUR HABITAT I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. I’m re-reading Unf*ck โฆ
2021-07-07: Nightstand before & after courtesy the first couple of mini-challenges in the original UfYH โฆ
2021-07-07: I take 20 medications/supplements, some of them more than once a day.
2021-07-03: I’m brewing 2 essays about Star Trek: The Next Generation: about Data, perfectionism, & โฆ
2021-07-02: My kid asked me if he was a camper & I told him we could call our home a camp if he wanted and โฆ
2021-07-02: Years ago now, my sister gave M. a 3D printed Jiji from Kiki’s Delivery Service. Today I โฆ
2021-07-02: I don’t believe being a librarian is A Calling but I do believe it is a disposition; it is one โฆ
2021-07-01: Welcome to Camp NaNoWriMo with me! I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. It’s July 1 which โฆ
2021-06-29: Response to "Knittingโs resurgence reflects womenโs 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 โฆ
2021-06-29: ๐ Putting a pin in this article to remind me to write later about the perils of outsiders โฆ
2021-06-29: 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 โฆ
2021-06-28: Want to read: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher ๐
2021-06-28: ๐โถ๏ธ Watching Meet Courtney: An American Girl Movie & trying not to lose it every time they โฆ
2021-06-28: ๐๐บ Listen, as a 90s babybat I welcome the new Anne Rice television universe. ๐ฆ
2021-06-28: I don’t have a plan beyond keeping my kid alive, resting a lot, trying to be more chill. โฆ
2021-06-27: Want to read: Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by Marc Goulden, Mary Ann โฆ
2021-06-27: ๐ I read only the Introduction to Kelly J. Baker’s SEXISM ED and I’m already seething โฆ
2021-06-27: I don’t like to drink rosรฉ but I love the rosรฉwave vibe. I’m trying to figure out what โฆ
2021-06-27: Finished reading: Succeeding Outside the Academy ๐
2021-06-26: ๐ฌ๐ “Why have I surrendered so much of my present self to an abstract future self that may โฆ
2021-06-26: Every time I work on this article revision I end up getting mad at Reviewer 2 all over again, mostly โฆ
2021-06-26: My Kid (4.5 yo): Donatello is playing a video game. Me: Fun! What’s it called? Kid: โฆ
2021-06-26: ๐โถ๏ธ Watched Create Your Unicorn Career from Scratch. Engaging talk from a science โฆ
2021-06-25: Low-key day today: chilling with my kid in the morning, an adventure with a locked but unoccupied โฆ
2021-06-24: JK, today is a rest-in-bed kind of day now that I’ve done my most important work, registering โฆ
2021-06-24: Today is a work-in-bed kind of day. (I have chronic illness and a 4 year old; kindly keep your sleep โฆ
2021-06-24: As a younger person I thought people in their 40s had their acts together. ~3 wks away from turning โฆ
2021-06-24: ๐๐ I love Austin Kleon’s advice to relocate your darlings. I have a file for every project โฆ
2021-06-24: Want to read: Annotation by Remi H. Kalir and Antero Garcia ๐
2021-06-23: Is my hair still wet or is it like this because I tried the Curly Girl method and used gel? The โฆ
2021-06-23: Want to read: Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie ๐
2021-06-23: ๐ I know I’m very late to this party but GIDEON THE NINTH is so good.
2021-06-22: What is less helpful than it might be is when a reviewer suggests that people have already written a โฆ
2021-06-21: 9 am Kimberly: I’m totally going to work this afternoon! 1 pm Kimberly: I’m totally โฆ
2021-06-20: In the bathroom at the children’s museum yesterday, I looked in the mirror. I saw a sweaty โฆ
2021-06-20: ๐ (Please don’t spoil me) Me reading Gideon the Ninth: KISS! KISS! KISS!
2021-06-19: Welp. Sitting on hold with the grocery store because they accidentally charged me $78.89 for 1 lb of โฆ
2021-06-19: The layers of references in this poster are delightful: cats as Data and Geordi as Holmes and Watson โฆ
2021-06-18: Finished reading: Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo ๐
2021-06-18: ๐ฌ๐ “If you cannot bear our pain, you are not fit to carry our strength.” WONDER WOMAN: โฆ
2021-06-18: ๐ I’m reading Leigh Bardugo’s WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER & while it took a little โฆ
2021-06-16: I’m announcing it to make it real: I’m going to write a sweet romance novella for Camp โฆ
2021-06-16: ๐๐ Read What We Canโand Can’tโLearn About Louisa May Alcott from Her Teenage Fiction - โฆ
2021-06-15: ๐ฌ๐บ “No one likes having a curse, but if you take the right steps, it’s โฆ
2021-06-15: Anybody else feel like a lot of qualitative methodology writeups in studies are basically “I โฆ
2021-06-14: ๐ Read Toll from political push at UNC continues to mount | NC Policy Watch ncpolicywatch.com Read: โฆ
2021-06-14: Me: What am I going to do with my kid all summer? The pool: Hi. Me: ๐๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ
2021-06-14: Someone in my neighborhood is doing yardwork at 9 pm and I’m not okay with it.
2021-06-12: Do I pretend I’m Kaz Brekker when I use my new cane? Only with every step I take.
2021-06-12: Part of me is always working on a taxonomy and ontology of #StarTrekTNG episodes. (Currently: only โฆ
2021-06-11: I have no special insight into the MCU but this song might be a bit instructive (and if you’re โฆ
2021-06-11: ๐๐ฎ Read Loki episode 1 finds a startling way to rest the antihero for Marvel TV - Polygon โฆ
2021-06-11: ๐๐ฎ Read Loki episode 1 recap and Easter eggs: Thor’s naughty brother gets busted for time โฆ
2021-06-11: ๐บ watched Loki Season 1, Episode 1, “Glorious Purpose.” Took me a little while to get โฆ
2021-06-11: ๐๐ฎ Read Star Trek | Games of Fame gamesoffame.wordpress.comRead: gamesoffame.wordpress.com โฆ
2021-06-11: ๐๐ฎ Read 1974: Super Star Trek - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.comRead: if50.substack.com โฆ
2021-06-11: ๐๐ฎ Read Before Adventure, Addendums | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blogRead: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer โฆ
2021-06-11: ๐๐ฎ Read Before Adventure, Part 5: Wumpus 2 and 3 | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blogRead: bluerenga.blog โฆ
2021-06-11: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป Hunt the Wumpus, Part 2 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net โฆ
2021-06-11: Watching “new” She-Ra with my kid & forgot who my She-Ra avatar was but then we got โฆ
2021-06-11: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป Hunt the Wumpus, Part 1 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net โฆ
2021-06-10: What does after even mean? Lately some of the things that have been lifelines for me during the pandemic have started to feel โฆ
2021-06-10: ๐๐ฎ Read Before Adventure, Part 4: Hunt the Wumpus (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: โฆ
2021-06-10: ๐๐ฎ Read Before Adventure, Part 2: Mugwump, Hurkle, Snark (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: โฆ
2021-06-10: ๐๐ฎ Read Before Adventure, Part 1: Hide and Seek (1972) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: โฆ
2021-06-10: ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฏ๏ธ I just watched the two pre-Loki episodes of Marvel Studios LEGENDS and y’all the MCU gets โฆ
2021-06-10: ๐๐ฎ ReadBefore Adventure, Part 3: Caves (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog โฆ
2021-06-10: ๐๐ฎ Read 1973: Hunt the Wumpus - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.com Read: if50.substack.com โฆ
2021-06-09: Text adventure nostalgia I hope your Wednesday’s going well! (Or Thursday if you’re farther east enough than me โฆ
2021-06-09: Today, in letting go of my internalized ableism: using a cane during a hip pain flare.
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read Forty Years of Lunar Lander technologizer.com Read: www.technologizer.com technologizer.com โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read Lunar Lander: The Full Story of the Legendary Game and Genre fictionphile.com Read: โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read 1972: ROCKET - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.com Read: if50.substack.com โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read Something Found In The Oregon Trail - Code Dive codedive.substack.com Read: โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 5 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 4 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read Oregon Trail Ver. 3 (BASIC 3.1, 1978) | Desert Hat deserthat.wordpress.com Read: โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 3 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 2 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read Rafting Down the Columbia River died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read Matt’s Store & Starting the Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read Crossing Rivers died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read The Earliest Versions of the Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read A Brief History of the Oregon Trail Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read The Oregon Trail Memes died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com โฆ
2021-06-09: ๐๐ฎ Read Designing the Travel Screen for โThe Oregon Trailโ | by R. Philip Bouchard | The โฆ
2021-06-08: ๐๐ฎ The FEMICOM museum is my new favorite thing.
2021-06-08: Things that can bring on trochanteric (hip) bursitis: sitting, lying down, physical activity. ๐ฌ
2021-06-08: On pain Hello again! My right hip has been hurting the past couple of days. Or almost a week, I guess - it โฆ
2021-06-08: ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Read The Power of Pride - Arc Digital arcdigital.mediaRead: www.arcdigital.media โฆ
2021-06-08: ๐๐ฎ Read Designing the Hunting Game for โThe Oregon Trailโ | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium โฆ
2021-06-08: ๐๐ฎ Read How I Managed to Design the Most Successful Educational Computer Game of All Time | by R. โฆ
2021-06-08: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 1 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: โฆ
2021-06-08: ๐๐ฎ Read The Forgotten History of ‘The Oregon Trail,’ As Told By Its Creators โฆ
2021-06-08: ๐๐ฎ Read 1971: The Oregon Trail - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.comRead: if50.substack.com โฆ
2021-06-07: 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 โฆ
2021-06-07: ๐ Martha Bautells’s On Writing Through a Residency That Never Happened (But Did?) resonates โฆ
2021-06-07: โช๏ธ in reply to Bridgy stats update I wonder if the drop-off in publishing after August 2020 might be โฆ
2021-06-06: ๐ฌ๐ “The graduate program… hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a โฆ
2021-06-05: ๐๐งต๐งถ Read What We Learned From a Year of Crafting - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: โฆ
2021-06-05: There are worse things than sitting outside at a children’s museum on a beautiful day with โฆ
2021-06-05: ๐๐ Read Kristen Arnett Gets Her Best Ideas at the Bar - Interview Magazine โฆ
2021-06-05: ๐ฌ๐๐ Kate Zambreno on her new book "To Write as if Already Dead" - Los Angeles Times The postpartum experience isnโt just expensive; it can also be one of psychic trauma and creative โฆ
2021-06-05: ๐๐ฅ๏ธ Elizabeth and Gav promised in this week’s The Rec Center that 1992: Silverwolf would be โฆ
2021-06-03: Career Advice for PhDs Websites and Professionals: You should use ImaginePhD! It will help you โฆ
2021-06-03: ๐๐ Read Together As We Burn: On a Complicated Maternal Bond and Intergenerational Love. A โฆ
2021-06-03: ๐๐ Read Stories and Hormones Shape Our Lives by Elanor Broker. Beautiful essay weaving together โฆ
2021-06-03: ๐๐ Read Finding Time to Write About Motherhoodโฆ While Parenting During a Pandemic . The usual โฆ
2021-06-02: Quick Review: The City We Became ๐ I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. I love the way N. K. โฆ
2021-06-01: Finished reading: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin ๐
2021-06-01: I’ve also made my Scholarly Writing Project Audit and Pipeline Notion template available via โฆ
2021-06-01: For #TrekTuesday, I’ll share that I spend a LOT of time wondering why we don’t see โฆ
2021-05-31: I’ve made my Conceptual Synthesis Spreadsheet Notion template available via Gumroad. โฆ
2021-05-30: Thanks to a generous person I met in the Mermaids of NC group on Facebook, I am now Dr. Mer-Mom. โฆ
2021-05-28: Build networks & ask for what you need & give what you can. Swimming in a mermaid tail is a โฆ
2021-05-28: I got a Rakuten Libra H2O and I am so excited about its OverDrive integration. So many public โฆ
2021-05-28: Finished reading: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo ๐
2021-05-27: ๐๐ฌ “We learn to wring magic from the ordinary… When the world owed you nothing, you โฆ
2021-05-25: Want to read: The Lightmaker’s Manifesto: How to Work for Change Without Losing Your Joy by โฆ
2021-05-24: ๐ Kaz Brekker is the best. Why do we have obligations besides reading books?
2021-05-24: ๐๐ฌ I’ve heard a lot about the excellent disability representation in the Six of Crows duology. โฆ
2021-05-23: ๐ In Crooked Kingdom, Inej thinks about her hope that she and Kaz could be “more than two wary โฆ
2021-05-21: Hey guess what? You can download the Creative Commons-licensed version of my dissertation on my โฆ
2021-05-20: Added “consulting scholar-librarian ๐” to my bio.
2021-05-20: Getting a lot of targeted ads for EdDs like “Heeeey noticed you just finished a doctorate, โฆ
2021-05-20: Personal reflections after (but not really on) #FanLIS My head is swimming after attending the #FanLIS symposium today. At this moment when I’m โฆ
2021-05-20: Most of my tweets from #FanLIS I’m planning to return and clean up formatting and add links to videos once they’re โฆ
2021-05-19: ๐ Faridah รbรญkรฉ-รyรญmรญdรฉ's ACE OF SPADES: Gossip Girl meets Get Out in a gripping debut thriller ACE OF SPADES by Faridah รbรญkรฉ-รyรญmรญdรฉ Chiamaka and Devon are both students at the prestigious โฆ
2021-05-19: Just deleted “expected” before “May 2021” in my CV.
2021-05-19: ๐ How do you keep track of quotes that resonate with you? I usually write them in my Bullet Journal โฆ
2021-05-19: Finished reading: Ace of Spades by Faridah รbรญkรฉ-รyรญmรญdรฉ ๐
2021-05-18: ๐บ I’ve got 2 episodes left of SHRILL. It’s so weird being right in the middle of Annie โฆ
2021-05-18: Want to read: Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews by โฆ
2021-05-18: ๐บ Fran is always my favorite on SHRILL. Today it’s because she says, “I just don’t โฆ
2021-05-18: Today in “But they’re worth it": my kid showed me a tiny grape as though he had โฆ
2021-05-17: Yesterday I did 3 things so today my body wants me to do no things. I hope the plan I made with my โฆ
2021-05-17: ๐ Sometimes I have to start a book several times before it holds my interest. A GAME OF THRONES was โฆ
2021-05-16: I carry a tote bag around my house as I move through my day. I never know what I’ll be in the โฆ
2021-05-16: Want to read: How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams ๐
2021-05-15: ๐ Right before I started my Grishaverse catch up, I went on a dark academia spree. These were three โฆ
2021-05-14: ๐ Remember how I said my hammock was my favorite reading spot? Here’s a flashback to me โฆ
2021-05-14: Want to read: Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope ๐
2021-05-14: Want to read: Anya of Ark by Kristian Joseph ๐
2021-05-14: Post-graduation reception.
2021-05-14: Tassel turned! (The gown and hood were too itchy to keep on with only a sundress underneath.)
2021-05-13: Let’s get this virtual graduation show on the road. [My son and I smiling. I am wearing โฆ
2021-05-13: Want to read: Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller ๐
2021-05-13: My kid and I are building NYC for the Ninja Turtles & Marvel Superheroes to adventure in, so of โฆ
2021-05-13: ๐ I first read SHADOW AND BONE 5 years ago, on a hammock at the beach, when I was 7 months pregnant. โฆ
2021-05-13: I had to do one more round of formatting this morning but at long last my dissertation has been โฆ
2021-05-12: I started a bookstagram account. You can find it at kimberlyhirsh.reads if you want to follow along. โฆ
2021-05-11: I love when I talk to my doctor and we agree on the best course of action.
2021-05-11: Me, watching STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS: Battle, battle, battle. When are we going to get another โฆ
2021-05-11: I fixed the formatting problem which was in fact my fault. When I tried to fix one thing it did โฆ
2021-05-11: I’ve been attending to my mind almost exclusively for 6 years (and arguably for almost 40). โฆ
2021-05-11: Was playing Ninja Turtles with my kid & his action figures & kid made Leo tell Donnie โฆ
2021-05-11: I am filled with rage over the number of formatting revisions I am having to make to my โฆ
2021-05-11: Finished reading: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May ๐
2021-05-09: ๐ I’ve started calling my kid Little One & after reading Meg Elison’s How Lwaxana โฆ
2021-05-08: I was thinking last night about why characters who look a mess but are competent when it counts are โฆ
2021-05-07: Prepping to launch my consulting career ๐ฉโโ๐ผ Hello again, internet. I just finished writing the last thing I had to write for my assistantship. โฆ
2021-05-06: Want to read: THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of โฆ
2021-05-06: Added “serious Belle vibes ๐” to my bio.
2021-05-04: You should probably look at Laz Marquez’s #StarTrekGala art project because it’s โฆ
2021-05-04: ๐๐ Austin Kleon writes today about [wintering and dormancy] โฆ
2021-05-03: ๐๐บ๐ Read The Measure of a Man Demonstrates the Many Forms of Love by Anna E. Gant
2021-05-03: ๐๐บ๐ Hrisoula Gatzogiannis’s The Only Work Ethic I Care About Is the One on Star Trek details โฆ
2021-05-03: I think at some point in the past 6 years I became an information scientist. Yay?
2021-05-03: I’m thinking about metaphors for how people consume information. Infodemic. Infobesity. I โฆ
2021-05-03: Went really minimal with my latest bio: motherscholar ๐ฉโ๐ป she/her โฟ โค๏ธ๐๐ Durham, NC, USA ๐
2021-05-03: I want to share that if you have panic attacks fueled by imposter syndrome more than 2 weeks after โฆ
2021-05-02: Want to read: Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins ๐
2021-05-02: ๐ReadPost-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan louisaellenstein.comRead: โฆ
2021-05-02: ๐ Read Against Aca-Fandom bogost.comRead: bogost.com bogost.com โฆ
2021-05-02: ๐ Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies louisaellenstein.comRead: โฆ
2021-05-02: ๐๐บ Read On Disliking Mad Men justtv.wordpress.comRead: justtv.wordpress.com adornofangirl โฆ
2021-04-30: Frank Oz, on Miss Piggy: She has a lot of vulnerability, which she has to hide, because of her need โฆ
2021-04-30: Kermit, while he is no saint, has achieved a wonderful equilibrium in which a common sense and a โฆ
2021-04-30: Want to read: Digital Black Feminism by Catherine Knight Steele ๐
2021-04-30: Played Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego? via the Internet Archive with M. this morning & โฆ
2021-04-29: What we do is chatacter comedy. Jerry Juhl, head writer of The Muppet Show, quoted in Of Muppets โฆ
2021-04-29: CS101: Week One I’m auditing Stanford’s CS101 on EdX because while I love Harvard’s CS50x I think โฆ
2021-04-29: Woohoo, I think I wrote the introduction of this article, yay me. Back to chipping away at the lit โฆ
2021-04-29: Here’s me in 2018 unknowingly arguing the key finding of my dissertation: information literacy โฆ
2021-04-29: ๐ Read No One Makes a Living on Patreon.
2021-04-29: Oh hey I got so excited about becoming Dr. Hirsh that I forgot to share photos of my Data make-up โฆ
2021-04-28: Y’all is Kevin Feige okay? Has he ever, you know, been outside? Somebody should probably take โฆ
2021-04-27: Spoiler font on my website I’m playing with CSS to get spoiler-text hidden unless selected on my website. Let’s see โฆ
2021-04-27: On languishing, being dormant, and lying in wait. Adam Grant’s article Thereโs a Name for the Blah Youโre Feeling: Itโs Called Languishing has โฆ
2021-04-27: Notes and highlights from Katie Rose Guest Pryal's THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC ๐ I’ve read Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s The Freelance Academic twice now. It’s a great โฆ
2021-04-27: Am I always tired because I’m: A) a newly minted PhD recovering from dissertating B) the โฆ
2021-04-26: My Dissertation Acknowledgments It’s probably going to be a little while before I get my full dissertation up online, so I โฆ
2021-04-26: ๐ Read โBuy Nothingโ groups: A place to share goods, services โ and gratitude.
2021-04-26: Biggest takeaway from the first 5 episodes of SHADOW & BONE is that I want to get really good at โฆ
2021-04-26: ๐ Read Rebuilding the Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com anildash.com โฆ
2021-04-26: ๐ Read The Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com anildash.com โฆ
2021-04-25: O hai. the early blogosphere was full of people who obsessed over โcorrectlyโ labeling and โฆ
2021-04-25: Finished reading: Come Back, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish and Wallace Tripp ๐
2021-04-25: Finished reading: Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower by Peggy Parish and Barbara Siegel Thomas ๐
2021-04-24: I have been so focused on writing my dissertation for so long that it’s a challenge to write a โฆ
2021-04-24: Finished reading: Thank You, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish, Barbara Siebel Thomas ๐
2021-04-24: Finished reading: Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish and Fitz Siebel ๐
2021-04-23: Stocking the flow of my garden in the stream ๐ป I’ve been wanting to clean up my blog at least since I migrated from WordPress to Micro.blog, โฆ
2021-04-23: Hello I have watched the first episode of SHADOW & BONE and Jesper has now replaced Kaz as my โฆ
2021-04-23: You can now watch my dissertation defense presentation! I’ve stopped the video before the โฆ
2021-04-23: Finished reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo ๐
2021-04-23: ๐๐ฟ๐บ Read Marvel movies have a weird relationship with kissing and romance - Polygon polygon.comRead: โฆ
2021-04-22: Today’s weather is the best kind of NC spring weather. It’s 57F and there are fluffy โฆ
2021-04-22: Want to read: Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir by Callum Roberts ๐
2021-04-22: Want to read: The Brilliant Abyss, Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the โฆ
2021-04-22: I’m so happy that I’m now qualified to wear this Delicious PhD Darling โฆ
2021-04-21: ๐ Read How Bookishness Affects the Book Biz publishersweekly.comRead: www.publishersweekly.com โฆ
2021-04-21: ๐ Read How to Read When You Have a Baby | Book Riot bookriot.combookriot.com โฆ
2021-04-21: I resent the fact that Book Riot’s Find Out Your SHADOW AND BONE Character quiz made me choose โฆ
2021-04-21: ๐ Read On the Relationship Between Motherhood and Madness in Victorian Literature โน Literary Hub โฆ
2021-04-21: I know somebody on micro.blog has put together an On This Day type page that shows you posts on โฆ
2021-04-20: My favorite thing about Labyrinth is that the ending suggests that you can grow up while retaining โฆ
2021-04-19: Told y’all I was going all-in on Trek. ๐๐ป๐
2021-04-19: Submitted my dissertation to the university. Ordered Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’s The Dark โฆ
2021-04-18: ๐ Reagan Ray has collected a bunch of hand-lettered logos from Marvel comics pre-2000. My favorite โฆ
2021-04-15: Exhausted from defense & migrainey because PCOS, so it’s time to settle in with some โฆ
2021-04-15: Advisor: So make these revisions because those were good questions and you had answers to them. Me: โฆ
2021-04-15: Katherine Taylor’s essay, I Am Not a Robot, explores Data’s value as a stand-in for โฆ
2021-04-15: I have a lot of thank yous to catch up on, and I will. But in the meantime, I highly recommend โฆ
2021-04-14: Lt. Cmdr. DOCTOR Kimberly Hirsh here… I mean Data, whoops… I passed my dissertation โฆ
2021-04-14: This really does feel like waiting to go to the hospital to be induced. I hope the dissertation โฆ
2021-04-14: Really wish I felt like I could sweeten my defense with a laugh track.
2021-04-14: Me, when Wesley Crusher tells Guinan he always gets As: Really? We’re still grading things in โฆ
2021-04-14: Last call for anyone who wants to attend my dissertation defense on Zoom, 4/14/21 1pm Eastern! The โฆ
2021-04-14: O no my defense adrenaline has arrived 18 hours early
2021-04-13: THE NEVERS as Disability Metaphor โฟ ๐บ This post contains slight spoilers for The Nevers. I just watched the first episode of The Nevers. โฆ
2021-04-13: Weeks ago now my kid told me, “You don’t need to be a doctor. You’re already โฆ
2021-04-13: ๐Also, the Sesame Street Tiny Desk Concert made me tear up. ๐บ๐ต
2021-04-13: ๐ I highly recommend this video of the Yip Yip Invasion at Phoenix Comicon 2017, in which a group of โฆ
2021-04-13: Can I be in the book fandom? Like, I’m a fan of books as a medium and as aesthetic objects?
2021-04-13: Finished reading: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo ๐
2021-04-11: Exhausted from reviewing my dissertation slides with W (and applying for a job and doing a makeup โฆ
2021-04-11: Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi โฆ
2021-04-09: Finished my defense slides and I’m so tired. ๐
2021-04-09: Me: Why am I so obsessed with identity construction? The little Chani Nicholas my head: Because your โฆ
2021-04-09: Fellow academics, do you have a writerly identity? I told my artist BFF my 1st diss draft was โฆ
2021-04-07: I have decided to go all-in on Star Trek. Especially TNG of course, but for the time being, โฆ
2021-04-07: I’m not saying I’m just saying I kind of wish the Season 2 finale of Picard would be โฆ
2021-04-07: Which Muppet do I most identify with? Well… ๐บ๐ฟ
2021-04-07: Don’t mind me, I’m just over here flailing in response to the Picard Season 2 Teaser โฆ
2021-04-07: Reddit user JaytheChou is photoshopping Paddington into a different movie every day and it is a โฆ
2021-04-07: I’ve always been resentful of the trope where girls have to pretend to be boys to get stuff โฆ
2021-04-07: Improv as community/business/cult has a lot of problems that would require a radical new model to โฆ
2021-04-06: I’m in a hammock and I don’t want to get up.
2021-04-06: I just finished Leigh Bardugo’s Siege and Storm and I’m so glad I’ve got the next โฆ
2021-04-06: Finished reading: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo ๐
2021-04-06: Teared up watching @levarburton’s cameos for other people. “It’s over. It’s โฆ
2021-04-06: So I’m reading my dissertation and I think it’s… Good? Like it was written by โฆ
2021-04-06: About to start reading and marking up this thing in preparation for next week’s defense, at โฆ
2021-04-05: Honored today to deliver a pre-recorded guest lecture on Reader’s Advisory for Dr. Megan โฆ
2021-04-05: I really miss the internet of 2004 - 2007, specifically the DIY/New Domesticity craft punk blog โฆ
2021-04-04: I have now met all my pre-defense scholarly obligations (paper draft & guest lecture) so I guess โฆ
2021-04-04: ๐ I somehow missed Linda Holmes’s beautiful piece about The Muppet Movie soundtrack. She pulls โฆ
2021-04-03: True story, my dissertation includes the statement, “I was wrong.” ๐
2021-04-02: 18 hrs post-vaccine woke up a little achey, a little lymph node-y. Not too bad but still planning to โฆ
2021-04-02: 5 hrs post-vaccine, feeling fuzzy-headed and mildly achey, chills receded but I bet they’ll be โฆ
2021-04-01: J&J vaccine, side effects (or psychosomatic effects?) settling in after 3 hours: vague malaise, โฆ
2021-04-01: This windblown lady is vaccinated and waiting outside the Cookout Walk Up Window for a celebratory โฆ
2021-03-30: Thinking of launching an academic editing service explicitly targeted to scholars who are also โฆ
2021-03-29: I did the My Next Move interests profile and it says I should be an information research scientist. โฆ
2021-03-29: Being in a “life happens” moment myself (finishing my dissertation), I originally missed โฆ
2021-03-25: Watching My Neighbor Totoro & my kid is saying that I’m like Mama Kusakabe because we both โฆ
2021-03-23: My kid’s over here telling his dad a Magic Treehouse/Wild Kratts crossover story. ๐๐๐๐บ
2021-03-23: Want to read: The Writer’s Practice by John Warner ๐
2021-03-22: I’m finishing up my PhD this May! I have a lot of possibilities for what’s next; I would โฆ
2021-03-22: 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 โฆ
2021-03-21: Want to read: When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong ๐
2021-03-18: 4yo: What are you defending? Me: My dissertation. 4yo: Why do you have to defend it? Me:
2021-03-18: Friend: I was thinking like I needed to get in my 10,000 hours and be an expert. Me: The 10,000 โฆ
2021-03-17: Here’s a proposed title for my memoir, inspired by me being aggressively helped at a friend โฆ
2021-03-17: You know that thing where you’ve pursued something long enough that now you’ve pretty โฆ
2021-03-17: Debating with myself about regalia since I’m not going to an in-person ceremony. Definitely โฆ
2021-03-17: “The academy is not designed to accommodate women, families, or the demands of modern โฆ
2021-03-17: “[The graduate program] hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus โฆ
2021-03-16: “Lives matter more than careers. Focus on building the life you want rather than pursuing the โฆ
2021-03-16: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic by Katie Rose Guest Pryal ๐
2021-03-16: ๐ What are we folding when we are folding laundry in quarantine is a beautiful poem by Sarah Ruhl. โฆ
2021-03-16: ๐ I love this take. I’d love to see it even more fleshed out: WandaVision Is Basically a โฆ
2021-03-16: Apparently it’s going to be an up-every-two-hours kind of night.
2021-03-15: SAVE THE DATE! My dissertation defense is set for April 14th from 1 - 3 pm. It will be held via โฆ
2021-03-13: Sewing is not going great because my machine is old and unhelpful and difficult to find a manual โฆ
2021-03-12: I threaded a needle and pulled up the bobbin thread! ๐งต
2021-03-12: I wound a bobbin! ๐งต
2021-03-11: Taking a mini-spring break over UNC’s Wellness Days & the weekend, including bailing on โฆ
2021-03-10: No YOU meant to go to bed an hour ago but got distracted by online window-shopping for sewing โฆ
2021-03-09: I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent my finished, formatted dissertation to my advisor, who will โฆ
2021-03-08: We are now at the “Watch Studio Ghibli instead of PBS Kids” stage of the pandemic. ๐ฟ
2021-03-08: In the process of scheduling and thought to myself I should be sure to invite my Grandmomma. ๐ข
2021-03-07: Catching up on MCU. My favorite parts of Daredevil S2 are when Matt Murdock & Frank Castle have โฆ
2021-03-06: Me, justifying my discussion chapter to the committee in my head: It’s only 1/3 of a โฆ
2021-03-06: I may have finished my discussion chapter. I definitely sent it off to my advisor.
2021-03-05: Discussion section: behind the scenes [Alt text: A piece of paper showing a black and white diagram โฆ
2021-03-05: Wrote ~1200 words. Time for a cake break! ๐ฐ Oh no, there’s no cake! Time for a donut break! ๐ฉ
2021-03-05: Today’s writing music: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Original Soundtrack SQUARE ENIX MUSIC
2021-03-05: Me, this morning: Sure buddy, I’ll find those missing toys for you! Me, after taking โฆ
2021-03-05: I’m thisclose to requesting submissions for a WandaVision digital zine. To be edited AFTER I โฆ
2021-03-04: As long as I defend before the semester is over I’m good. On the off chance my post-defense โฆ
2021-03-04: Today: Day 3 of garbage sleep. Empathetically worried about funding for the PhD cohorts coming up โฆ
2021-03-04: ๐ This piece about WandaVision & fan theories has me musing on the difference between trying to โฆ
2021-03-04: ๐ This piece about WandaVision and fan theories has me thinking about fannish meta and where it โฆ
2021-03-04: Finishing my PhD & launching information consulting has me basically pretending I’m Dr. โฆ
2021-03-03: You know how sometimes you serendipitously learn about a theoretical framework that’s going to โฆ
2021-03-03: My kid woke me up an hour early and I added ~1500 words to my discussion chapter today, plus pulled โฆ
2021-03-03: Want to read: How Humans Learn by Joshua R. Eyler ๐
2021-03-03: Want to read: The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey ๐
2021-03-03: Today in the Hundred Acre Wood: Piglet might have the coronavirus but he’s asymptomatic; Pooh, โฆ
2021-03-03: I’ll say this (among other things) for being a part-time stay-at-home mom/part-time scholar: โฆ
2021-03-03: I remember when MCU fans were clamoring for WandaVision to reveal its big bad already & Ashley โฆ
2021-03-02: Is there anything more attractive than an attractive person writing a grant application & โฆ
2021-03-02: ๐ These images of comic book heroes redrawn to have average body types are fascinating from a โฆ
2021-03-02: ๐ Check out Riana Mckeith’s period-appropriate cartoon homages to WandaVision. So great! It โฆ
2021-03-01: I just reviewed my advisor’s notes on the first 6 chapters of my dissertation (Intro, 2 Lit โฆ
2021-03-01: What I’m learning from the MCU (caught up on WandaVision & currently watching Agents of โฆ
2021-03-01: There are a lot of hard moments as a parent. I tend to share moments like this: M. quietly building โฆ
2021-03-01: Want to read: Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science by Anna Reser and Leila McNeill ๐
2021-03-01: 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 โฆ
2021-02-28: Just finished the introduction to SUCCEEDING OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY. Excited to read the rest. It seems โฆ
2021-02-27: I woke up with a migraine today. I’ve had enough caffeine that it’s significantly โฆ
2021-02-26: Do I know anybody who works in youth services in the Wake County Public Libraries? If you do, will โฆ
2021-02-26: I may have added, um, 40 pages (mostly quotes and tables) to my findings chapter in revision…
2021-02-25: Okay. I finished pulling quotes from the last interview. I was like, “Cool! Time to move on to โฆ
2021-02-25: Only one interview left to pull quotes from for my findings chapter and then I can move on to the โฆ
2021-02-24: Just updated my Fan Studies in LIS page to include some scholars I met at FSNNA20!
2021-02-24: OKAY. I finished pulling quotes from that giant and awesome interview. Three more interviews left to โฆ
2021-02-24: It’s a good day for lying on a hammock and listening to an audiobook. ๐ท
2021-02-23: Hello today I think my ideal job would be to read books and then write essays (not straight up โฆ
2021-02-23: I’m writing through a migraine right now. I have this one participant interview that’s โฆ
2021-02-23: I finished reading Mona Awad’s BUNNY last night. I can’t even write a review of it โฆ
2021-02-23: Finished reading: Bunny by Mona Awad ๐
2021-02-22: My current writing process: mine one interview for quotes. Read a chapter of BUNNY by Mona Awad. โฆ
2021-02-22: Finished reading: Keep Going by Austin Kleon ๐
2021-02-22: I should hang this Austin Kleon drawing from p. 165 of KEEP GOING up in my home office. โฆ
2021-02-21: “Art Monsters are not necessary or glamorous and they are not to be condoned, pardoned, or โฆ
2021-02-20: Just gonna give up all other pursuits and devote my life to writing Muppet Show friendfic from now โฆ
2021-02-20: I have so many happy Muppet Show feelings. Every time Fozzie is on screen my brain almost literally โฆ
2021-02-19: The latest episode of WandaVision has given me a new cosplay goal… ๐บ
2021-02-19: Give Kathryn Hahn an Emmy. ๐บ
2021-02-19: ๐ This is a library that is also a theater. I want to go to there.
2021-02-18: Want to read: Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South by Regina Bradley ๐
2021-02-17: Sent off my methodology chapter today. It only needed a little revision, mostly moving stuff from it โฆ
2021-02-17: Renee Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler) sings the theme song for the new Muppet Babies. This โฆ
2021-02-16: I’m actually enjoying messing around on the Internet for a while and some water started โฆ
2021-02-16: Hello! I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent a theory chapter off to my advisor. You should be โฆ
2021-02-16: ๐ If you love beautiful writing with a wistful vibe, you should be reading Jess Zimmerman’s โฆ
2021-02-16: ๐ Y’all, Sir Ian McKellen has been blogging about his work since he started working on โฆ
2021-02-16: ๐ Go read what Tim Carmody has to say about two songs from “The Muppet Movie”. I’m โฆ
2021-02-15: “Wellness” day #1: Wrote ~1700 words for my dissertation, outlined the methods section โฆ
2021-02-15: Here are some things I’m not interested in: content marketing lead magnets analytics โฆ
2021-02-15: ๐ The spellbinding history of cheese and witchcraft is the witchy content I didn’t know I โฆ
2021-02-14: I’m so psyched to read all the articles fan studies scholars are going to write about โฆ
2021-02-14: Doing more lurking/replying than posting rn. I’ve blocked Twitter on my phone. It redirects me โฆ
2021-02-14: Want to read: Bookish Broads by Lauren Marino ๐
2021-02-13: Want to read: We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman ๐
2021-02-12: I added >1000 words to the theory chapter of my dissertation today. I’ve still a ways to โฆ
2021-02-11: ๐ One option the New York Times didn’t mention in their piece about keeping a digital โฆ
2021-02-11: It was kind of fun to see one of my drama professors from undergrad in M. L. Rio’s โฆ
2021-02-10: Finished reading: If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio ๐
2021-02-10: ๐ This deep-dive into fans reverse-engineering knitwear like Bernie’s mittens & the fourth โฆ
2021-02-10: ๐ Jess Zimmerman’s latest Dead Channel compares the old Internet to Faerie & tackles what โฆ
2021-02-10: Got about 500 words written today. Hoping to go faster moving forward. I slept poorly last night and โฆ
2021-02-09: I’ve been low-key reading all the tie-in comics for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in release โฆ
2021-02-09: Want to read: Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee ๐
2021-02-08: Making progress on both dissertation & assistantship today. Beginning to feel like I might get โฆ
2021-02-08: ๐ My granddaddy got his Ed. D. in 1972 and I just found the record for his dissertation in the UF โฆ
2021-02-08: Writing that theory chapter…
2021-02-08: We went to the NC Museum of Art Park as a family Saturday. It was a really nice change of pace from โฆ
2021-02-07: In case you’re following along, this morning the impostor syndrome was so bad I could feel it โฆ
2021-02-05: ๐ Highly recommended: Library Ambience Sounds for Studying / Relaxing White Noise.
2021-02-05: Okay. Reorganized my work and my thinking and feeling better about my ability to be the kind of โฆ
2021-02-05: New plans for this afternoon: Eat. Cry. Get back to work.
2021-02-05: I feel like Charlie in Flowers for Algernon, knowing he used to be smart. I think, “Remember โฆ
2021-02-05: Every once in a while early Sesame Street drops in a random Carol Burnett segment and it brings me โฆ
2021-02-05: ๐ In Back-Talking The Tone Police: Book People Are Not Your Enemy, Tika Vateri says all the things I โฆ
2021-02-04: Y’all RiffTrax is doing a Star Trek: Generations watch along tonight and if my kid is asleep โฆ
2021-02-04: The pandemic is making my brain not. Dissertating during a pandemic is not easy. Maintaining concentration is a real challenge. Before โฆ
2021-02-04: Hello! Today I’m (not) enjoying some musculoskeletal pain. How are things with you?
2021-02-03: Me: reviews dissertation feedback and writes down 5 questions for meeting tomorrow w/advisor & โฆ
2021-02-03: Great question from Jen Polk (@FromPhDtoLife) that it’d help me if you answer: What do I do โฆ
2021-02-03: I have so many thoughts about information literacy and they’re so timely. It would be โฆ
2021-02-03: I’m reading IF WE WERE VILLAINS by M. L. Rio & it does this interesting thing where you โฆ
2021-02-02: I’m doing a daily tarot pull starting today. Four cards popped out of the deck at me today. โฆ
2021-02-02: Me: Why is my neck hurting? Child: climbs on my neck Me: Oh.
2021-02-02: Every night I lie in my kid’s bed until he falls asleep and every night I wish someone would โฆ
2021-01-31: I’ve got that sweet, sweet book hangover where you finish reading and then look around and โฆ
2021-01-31: Finished reading: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova ๐
2021-01-31: I’m having to remind myself that the reason a 2 yr ethnographic dissertation I’m reading โฆ
2021-01-29: GENTLE WRITING ADVICE: You could write some words sometime if you feel like it, but if you’re โฆ
2021-01-29: The model for a dissertation defense in my head is still f2f. When I try to envision my inevitable โฆ
2021-01-29: ๐ I am a Book Person. I don’t love the shots this piece takes at Book People, but I appreciate โฆ
2021-01-29: Just got “Wait, you’re KIBA?” for the first time in several years and it still โฆ
2021-01-28: Anything that restores you isn’t a waste of time.
2021-01-27: If I have any friends/followers diagnosed with hEDS or HSD who would be willing to talk with me โฆ
2021-01-27: 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 โฆ
2021-01-27: Hi. I’m Kimberly, and everything you need to know about me can be summed up by the fact that โฆ
2021-01-26: Just over here having an anxiety attack about taking my car to the mechanic for some routine work โฆ
2021-01-25: If somebody could get on replacing Larry in “Pinky & the Brain & Larry” with โฆ
2021-01-25: It’s here! Yay! #AcademicTarot @CoyoteAndBones
2021-01-25: ๐ The Power of German Playwright Bertholt Brechtโs V-Effekt: Oliver Mayer discusses the connection โฆ
2021-01-25: ๐ Whatโs Behind the Label โDomestic Fictionโ?: Soledad Fox Maura writes about why we need to โฆ
2021-01-24: ๐ An old piece that the Rec Center brought to my attention: How Writing Fanfic Introduced Me To โฆ
2021-01-24: Finished reading: Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan ๐
2021-01-24: ๐บ Ugh, Dr. Pulaski is the worst. ๐
2021-01-24: ๐ I continue to be proud of my city: Durham Moves to Protect Residents Against Natural Hair โฆ
2021-01-24: Want to read: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein ๐
2021-01-23: Finished reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan ๐
2021-01-22: 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 - โฆ
2021-01-22: ๐I went into reading this expecting a fluff piece. I came out of it with a reminder of the spiritual โฆ
2021-01-22: ๐This interview is extremely validating! Just Move: Scientist Author Debunks Myths About Exercise โฆ
2021-01-21: Who has two thumbs and just applied to be a Star Wars librarian for the summer? This Kimberly!
2021-01-21: ๐ Gaby has curated an amazing collection of Bernie memes. The Beetlejuice and Clerks ones are my โฆ
2021-01-21: Last “What’s next?” question! If you’d like to help, please complete this โฆ
2021-01-20: I’ve just finished creating my dissertation revisions matrix. Only 41 comments! Granted, one โฆ
2021-01-20: What’s next? Part 2! If you’d like to help, please complete this sentence: “I โฆ
2021-01-20: ๐Paging Through Broadway While the Stages Are Dark: 2020 was supposed to be the year I got back into โฆ
2021-01-20: ๐ The Deep Sadness of Marvelโs WandaVision: This is the kind of WandaVision thinkpiece I want. ๐บ
2021-01-19: We are now at the stage of the pandemic/coup/grief process where I decide that I attended a single โฆ
2021-01-19: I only just realized that to understand how information literacy has been conceptualized over time, โฆ
2021-01-19: Getting real vulnerable! Want to help me plan for what’s next? Complete this statement: โฆ
2021-01-19: Why yes, I am prioritizing #MuppetTwitter today.
2021-01-19: If Buffy Summers were real she’d be 40 years old today.
2021-01-19: Here’s my personal affirmation for the foreseeable future: DO WHAT I CAN, WHEN I CAN.
2021-01-19: Okay TNG friends. I made it through “Skin of Evil.” It’s all uphill from here โฆ
2021-01-18: HEY I DID A THING! It was for my assistantship and not my dissertation but still. YAY ME!
2021-01-18: I put in a grocery order so now it’s time to crochet and watch TNG, yeah? I woke up this โฆ
2021-01-18: Novel I’m reading: includes chapter that is just the text of an imaginary academic journal โฆ
2021-01-17: Well my grandmother must have really crossed over, in my own estimation anyway, because I just woke โฆ
2021-01-17: 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 โฆ
2021-01-17: ๐ In “The Black Casting Choices in BRIDGERTON WereโฆA Choice”, Jessica Pryde explains the โฆ
2021-01-15: ๐ This is really cool. I hope that in addition to making it possible for scholarship recipients to โฆ
2021-01-15: I wonder how much of my lingering 90s cyberutopianism is because I forget the internet is not โฆ
2021-01-15: ๐บ I know the consensus is that Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation is Not Good, but I find a โฆ
2021-01-14: I crack up every time M. & I watch the Emotions episode of Storybots Super Songs because a kid โฆ
2021-01-13: I’m pretty sure Kermit the Frog is my oldest friend.
2021-01-11: This morning M. told me, “I’m not an architologyist,” and when I asked what an โฆ
2021-01-10: ๐บ Me, a former educator, watching the new Saved by the Bell: This is really good, but I feel like โฆ
2021-01-08: ๐บ I’ve been watching Bridgerton & aside from the obvious fact that Lady Danbury & โฆ
2021-01-07: My kid is pulling toys out of bins and saying what they are… “Spider-Man’s car, a โฆ
2021-01-05: I look like I’m dicking around on my phone but really I’m despairing about the future.
2021-01-05: ๐๐ฟ The Wonder Woman Movies Have a Women Problem A great analysis with ideas for how Wonder Woman โฆ
2021-01-05: I’m officially Not Okay: I just created a new WordPress install for a new website I’ve โฆ
2021-01-05: How am I only just now realizing that the Holodeck is a very high tech LARP environment?
2021-01-05: Apparently this week I’m going to be awake at night and sleep in the afternoon. Cool cool โฆ
2021-01-05: I might also read more Dawn of X and play Two Dots.
2021-01-05: Hello. I want to want to do things but I do not want to do things, so I will be alternating between โฆ
2021-01-04: I really did not spend this holiday “break” how I expected to, and now all I can do is โฆ
2021-01-04: Which stage of grief is the not-sleeping-because-you-are-contemplating-your-own-denial one? My โฆ
2021-01-04: Probably gonna cry thanks to the crushing weight of (gesturing at the world) all this, and I’m โฆ
2021-01-04: ๐ฟ Watched Wonder Woman 1984. Was it flawless? No. Did the fact that it was a Wonder Woman movie and โฆ
2021-01-02: My grandmother Nita died this morning. She loved us all so much and always welcomed us to her home, โฆ
2021-01-02: ๐ Tips for Starting a Bookstagram: Getting started in the bookish corner of Instagram can be โฆ
2021-01-01: Currently reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan ๐
2021-01-01: Want to read: The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century โฆ
2021-01-01: Want to read: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman ๐
2020-12-31: Me at 5 am: It’s fine, I’ll take a nap this afternoon. Me at 5 pm: Why would I nap when โฆ
2020-12-31: 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 โฆ
2020-12-31: ๐ Yes to Masks. No to Parties. 2021 Will Be a Lot Like 2020: disheartening, but not surprising.
2020-12-31: ๐ Run, Die, Repeat: How Roguelike Games Helped Us Get Through 2020 - Roguelikes reflect not only the โฆ
2020-12-31: Here are my goals for 2021: Learn about pain management & find pain management that works for โฆ
2020-12-31: Want to read: Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt ๐
2020-12-30: ๐ Friends, there are at least two modern retellings of Jane Eyre coming out this year: The Wife โฆ
2020-12-29: ๐ Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us I will never not appreciate Ed Yong.
2020-12-29: ๐ The Vaccine Rollout’s Known Knowns and More In Zeynep Tufecki’s Insight newsletter, โฆ
2020-12-29: ๐ The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable I don’t have a word for how this article โฆ
2020-12-29: Time to crowdsource a tagline! I’m going to start calling myself a Consulting โฆ
2020-12-29: More dark academia books! The Lessons, Naomi Alderman The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis Possession, A. โฆ
2020-12-28: Me to W: You know how you sometimes for fun you give people advice on research design in a Fan โฆ
2020-12-28: Want to read: Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas ๐
2020-12-28: Want to read: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth ๐
2020-12-28: I bought myself a Theracane and it’s not arriving until Thursday. I’m really looking โฆ
2020-12-28: Currently reading: The Iliad by Homer; Caroline Alexander (translator) ๐
2020-12-28: ๐ฏ๏ธ Read Lore Olympus episodes 1 - 10. Gorgeous art, fun characterization, planning to keep going.
2020-12-28: ๐ฎ Currently playing Hades on Nintendo Switch. Been coveting this for a while, so when W. suggested โฆ
2020-12-27: I’m still obsessed with Dark Academia. Here are some books I’ve read or will read that โฆ
2020-12-27: Currently reading: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova ๐
2020-12-27: Living with chronic illness is really hard and I don’t like it.
2020-12-27: ๐Humans 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 โฆ
2020-12-26: ๐ How Literary Female Friendships Shaped the Fiction Market This piece by Sarah Lonsdale describes the kind of literary friendship I fantasize about having. Who โฆ
2020-12-25: Also, I don’t know who in the SNL writers' room is a mom, but solidarity, friend.
2020-12-25: To those of you who celebrate Christmas and have children, I hope your kids' joy offsets your โฆ
2020-12-24: I have so many thoughts on Jingle Jangle! This article about how the movie centers Black Girl Magic โฆ
2020-12-24: Netflix: 22 minutes left in Jingle Jangle! Me: ๐ญ๐ฅบ๐๐๐๐ฅบ๐ญ
2020-12-24: Jingle Jangle: has huge climactic sequence with positive resolution Netflix time bar: shows 36 โฆ
2020-12-24: Today has been the kind of day where you lie down on the floor after wrapping the Christmas presents โฆ
2020-12-23: One song into Jingle Jangle and I’m aching for more R&B musicals - originals, not juke box โฆ
2020-12-23: The results of this Spotify-evaluating AI are hilarious. Enya + The Lonely Island are peak Kimberly โฆ
2020-12-23: My child: “I learned a valuable lesson today.” W: “What’s that, โฆ
2020-12-22: Rachel Reichenbach’s Why your Instagram Engagement Kinda Sucks Right Now explains so much. I โฆ
2020-12-21: Finished reading: Dawn of X, Volume 2 ๐
2020-12-21: My Reading Year 2020 It’s the most wonderful time of the year, which has nothing to do with any gift-giving related โฆ
2020-12-21: Finished reading: Dawn of X, Volume 1 ๐
2020-12-20: Finished reading: Powers of X # 1 - 6 ๐
2020-12-20: Finished reading: House of X # 1 - 6 ๐
2020-12-20: Current status: https://partlynn.tumblr.com/post/186963632813/artpigeons-tragicallybeautifultiger
2020-12-19: Elizabeth Minkel’s The Year of Loving Things Again, published in December 2017, resonates โฆ
2020-12-18: I don’t want to spoil The Mandalorian finale much, so I’ll just say that technology used โฆ
2020-12-18: My Most Memorable Christmas Presents from Childhood I’m really on a break now - had my last business-ish meeting yesterday, no Zoom calls โฆ
2020-12-17: Sufganiyot! Easy jelly donut recipe from The Nosher.
2020-12-17: I have been having this problem all week where I sit down and then I need to eat but eating would โฆ
2020-12-16: At Literary Mama, Victoria Livingstone writes about how the tasks of motherhood that “cannot โฆ
2020-12-16: Crocheting while watching Clone Wars is very pleasant.
2020-12-16: I’m experimenting with using Notion for weekly and daily planning. I put my most important โฆ
2020-12-15: Got myself a Hanukkah present from Everyday Magic & it arrived today. Rededication body butter โฆ
2020-12-14: Okay but what if a manatee had a narwhal tusk.
2020-12-13: ๐ Laurie Pennyโs WIRED piece about falling in love over Zoom is one of the most hopeful things โฆ
2020-12-13: ๐ This NPR piece about keeping warm and embracing wintry outdoor adventures is exactly the kind of โฆ
2020-12-12: Just a little light reading from sister.is on the first day of my break from my dissertation.
2020-12-12: Baby’s first latkes. (I am the baby in question, and it’s my first time making them, not โฆ
2020-12-11: The dissertation revision nightmares have started, so, that’s cool.
2020-12-11: So what I learned from Disney Investors Day is that Muppets Now is probably the last Muppets content โฆ
2020-12-10: 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 โฆ
2020-12-10: That feeling when you decide to cut a big chunk of your outline out of your dissertation intro โฆ
2020-12-09: Want to read: The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel ๐
2020-12-09: I really enjoyed reading this piece about Star Wars stormtrooper strategy & tactics, which is โฆ
2020-12-08: This is just to say I have eaten the kisses that looked like Santa hats and which I said I was โฆ
2020-12-08: Instead of the usual fullscreen symbol, the PBS Kids website video player has a circle with the word โฆ
2020-12-07: Household division of labor: W - cooks, cleans, does yardwork, generates 80% of household income, โฆ
2020-12-07: I’m really hung up on how nothing is neutral and every decision, intentionally or not, is โฆ
2020-12-07: If you’re into it, Star Wars is pretty much the ultimate in comfort media, so I’m going โฆ
2020-12-07: 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 โฆ
2020-12-06: You know when you are writing and then ideas start flowing and words come out of you expressing โฆ
2020-12-06: I am so close to done with my discussion chapter with almost 3 hours of childcare left to go! Time โฆ
2020-12-06: Finished reading: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ๐
2020-12-04: When you’re pretty much secular, but descended from 2 faith traditions and mostly just really โฆ
2020-12-04: I'm Jew-ish, but not Jewish. I know Hanukkah is not a major religious holiday. But my connection with Jewish heritage and culture โฆ
2020-12-03: 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 โฆ
2020-12-03: I’m just gonna buy 8 matching purple sweatsuits and say I’m cosplaying as Kate Bishop โฆ
2020-12-03: Pretending that signing up for texts from Zooey Deschanel’s community.com number is the same โฆ
2020-12-02: Updated my now page!
2020-12-02: I am not a piece of ๐ฉ 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 - โฆ
2020-12-02: Check me out with my #wipwednesday. This is the beginning of the Habitat Cardigan. Lion Brand โฆ
2020-12-02: This is how my year sounded on @Spotify. Get your 2020 Wrapped now #2020Wrapped โฆ
2020-12-01: 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 โฆ
2020-12-01: Reading Chani Nicholas’s *You Were Born for This" and only tearing up a little at the โฆ
2020-11-30: You, a reasonable person: Don’t you have a dissertation to finish? Me, a Kimberly: Okay but โฆ
2020-11-30: Okay okay but hear me out: what if you ALSO watched the OLD Animaniacs on Hulu?
2020-11-30: What’s a weird skill you have that you will possibly never use again? I’m REALLY good at โฆ
2020-11-30: I wrote a page in my Discussion/Conclusions chapter! YAY ME! (Turns out trying to move discussions โฆ
2020-11-30: Present Kimberly is over here agonizing about the discussion piece of her dissertation. Meanwhile, โฆ
2020-11-29: Holidays are lovely but I have to give myself time to recover after them. (The thing about having โฆ
2020-11-28: My kid just explained to me an imaginary informational text he has that explains why Grinches โฆ
2020-11-27: I’m 20 minutes into Happiest Season and it is every bit as cute as I thought it would be, โฆ
2020-11-27: Oh right. Knitting stresses me out. Better for re-learning when I have the bandwidth for something โฆ
2020-11-27: I think it’s time for me to re-learn to knit. I find myself craving the kinds of textures that โฆ
2020-11-26: I have only dabbled in Horse Girlery, but I’m delighted by Polygon’s Horse Girl Canon. โฆ
2020-11-25: It’s happening.
2020-11-25: I’m super thankful for my fellow doc students, who today have dropped off a laser printer and โฆ
2020-11-25: I’ve been enjoying the Animaniacs reboot, while not finding it as rapturous as the Animaniacs โฆ
2020-11-25: I’ve been enjoying the Animaniacs reboot, while not finding it as rapturous as the Animaniacs โฆ
2020-11-25: My advisor just said “Let’s enjoy our time off!” which is code for “Stop โฆ
2020-11-24: Worn down to a nub from moming. Retreating to bed. Definitely going to sleep, NOT to watch The โฆ
2020-11-24: My kid just told me I’m “very proper” because I want him to “put on all the โฆ
2020-11-24: Me: Okay, I’m going to finish reading Frankenstein. W: Didn’t you finish reading that โฆ
2020-11-23: I'm having trouble with my dissertation discussion. My goal for November’s #AcWriMo was to write the discussion chapter for my dissertation. After โฆ
2020-11-23: Finished reading: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ๐
2020-11-23: My household will be celebrating the Yule Book Flood this year. I can’t afford to buy everyone โฆ
2020-11-21: Bare tree branches against a clear blue sky remind me of lace.
2020-11-21: On some level, THE MANDALORIAN really is just about parenting a young child. “Don’t eat โฆ
2020-11-20: Want to read: Ruinsong by Julia Ember ๐
2020-11-20: Just got an email inviting me to join a network of patient influencers because I’m active in โฆ
2020-11-20: I’m happy to have new Animaniacs and I’m also happy to have old Animaniacs.
2020-11-20: My kid woke me up at the wrong moment in my sleep cycle and I’m pretty sure I’m going to โฆ
2020-11-20: When writing is both scholarly and beautiful, that’s a sweet spot.
2020-11-18: WHERE DID NOVEMBER GO?
2020-11-18: Just cleaned the 15+ yrs of storage gunk (not too bad really) off my sewing machine. EXCITEMENT!
2020-11-18: Say what you will about screen time, when my kid and I binge-watch remote library storytimes he gets โฆ
2020-11-17: No YOU’RE spending too much time looking at vintage tartan and/or velvet blazers on Etsy.
2020-11-17: But before I go I’m just going to say that listening to my genius husband present about โฆ
2020-11-17: Today, because we’re on migraine day 3, I’m looking for scientific evidence that when I โฆ
2020-11-17: Welcome to Kimberly’s Migraine Day 3, brought to you by Lowered Estrogen and Serotonin!
2020-11-17: You ever watch a rom-com & forget the characters don’t know they’re in a rom-com? โฆ
2020-11-17: Y’all I am so scared about this current COVID surge. I haven’t had a real strong COVID โฆ
2020-11-17: Tonight my kid requested a bedtime story about @emilyvgordon & @kumailn’s cat, Bagel, and โฆ
2020-11-16: Y’all, the Rockapella Holiday album is… different than I expected.
2020-11-16: I coded an interview with a migraine. Aren’t you impressed?
2020-11-16: This thread terrifies me. It's looking like we've turned the corner at my house, so I'm going to โฆ
2020-11-15: Okay spoiler for Dash & Lily I guess but I have so much empathy for all the worried adults in โฆ
2020-11-15: I just finished episode 2 of Dash & Lily (which, just like the book, I love) and spent WAY too โฆ
2020-11-15: Our family has been exploring our playgroundless city parks. Today we went to Sandy Creek Park, โฆ
2020-11-14: Want to read: a tumblr book by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill โฆ
2020-11-14: Put Bert & Ernie Sing-Along on while my kid was in the bath this morning and we’re โฆ
2020-11-13: Added details to my discussion chapter outline, input new code system into data analysis software, โฆ
2020-11-13: It’s possible I am putting way too much thought into this discussion chapter.
2020-11-13: 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 โฆ
2020-11-13: Listen. If you want to get a jump on the winter holidays now with decorations and baking, I say go โฆ
2020-11-12: Brain fog has returned but I got the kid to sit next to me instead of on me and squeezed in 5+ pages โฆ
2020-11-12: Kimberly problems: when your brain fog lifts enough for you to read scholarship but you can’t โฆ
2020-11-12: What do you think are my areas of expertise?
2020-11-11: The burnout is real. From September 8 to October 2, I attended a virtual dissertation writing boot camp. I have childcare โฆ
2020-11-11: The more I go nowhere and do nothing, the more money I spend on books… Which is why โฆ
2020-11-11: All 3 Roger Rabbit shorts are on Disney+, this is not a drill.
2020-11-11: Everything hurts but it’s too hot to wear my “everything hurts” sweatshirt: the โฆ
2020-11-10: Current status: counting “figuring out which book will tell me how to write my discussion โฆ
2020-11-10: Bunnies and fishes at For Garden’s Sake.
2020-11-10: Put on my podcast for M, who likes to listen to “the Mommy Podcast” and he said, โฆ
2020-11-10: 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! โฆ
2020-11-09: I’m reasonably well-rested today and yet my brain still just… won’t.
2020-11-09: W & M were drawing boats so I drew mine but 1. I had to make it a shape I could sit in and 2. โฆ
2020-11-08: I just took a minute to call my dad to see how he’s doing in the wake of Alex Trebek’s โฆ
2020-11-07: Let’s keep working to make the unpocalypse happen.
2020-11-07: W. is reading The Magic Treehouse to M. Morgan le Fay: Most people call me an enchantress, but โฆ
2020-11-06: I’ve updated my bullet journal & I think that’s my work for today. I’m giving โฆ
2020-11-06: What if moving forward we took the energy people say we should spend on courting voters in whatever โฆ
2020-11-05: Y’all getting any work done today, or no? I did one thing for my assistantship and made the โฆ
2020-11-05: The comedic possibilities are inherent.
2020-11-04: I feel great affinity for the Mandalorian, because, like him, I am usually accompanied on my โฆ
2020-11-04: My plan for coping for… oh, the rest of my life… is to read books and make stuff. Want โฆ
2020-11-03: Finished reading: Show Your Work by Austin Kleon ๐
2020-11-03: Finished reading: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by โฆ
2020-11-02: You know what isn’t great for my mental well-being as a student? Taking a required 45 minute โฆ
2020-11-02: Logging off Twitter tonight and don’t expect to be back for a while… Will still โฆ
2020-10-30: Blown away by Flow’s ability to get a piece on Cottagecore out while it’s still a thing. โฆ
2020-10-30: Hey guess what, just submitted a THIRD chapter to my advisor! Worth noting that all of these have โฆ
2020-10-29: Do you feel like you need a nap even after the most energizing of video calls? How do y’all โฆ
2020-10-28: Hello I am Kimberly and I have now sent 2 completed chapter drafts to my advisor and expect to send โฆ
2020-10-28: I joined some Discord servers related to my research interests and now my phone feels like the โฆ
2020-10-28: ๐๐ฌ “I’m a 21st-century American woman; I don’t have enough faith to covet anything โฆ
2020-10-28: Feeling cute on a high-pain day. Not going to take it for granted.
2020-10-27: I just uploaded my #FSNNA20 poster, “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? The โฆ
2020-10-27: One challenge with my research interests related to academic publishing is that a lot of them are โฆ
2020-10-27: Co-star gets me. [Image reads “Your heart is a book."]
2020-10-26: I’m very cranky today. I don’t like it. I don’t like who I feel like I am when I โฆ
2020-10-26: Been trying to figure out who to cosplay for my dissertation defense. Needs to be professional, โฆ
2020-10-25: I finished drafting a dissertation chapter (I’ve had 4 almost finished chapters for a couple โฆ
2020-10-25: See this is why we read in the original language if we can: Caesar says the Rhine bends toward Ursa โฆ
2020-10-25: If you’ve been away from Latin for 10+ years but want to return to reading it as a hobby, โฆ
2020-10-25: Things my kid said tonight: “Mommy, you’ll never be a doctor.” ๐ “I’m โฆ
2020-10-24: Finished reading: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving ๐
2020-10-24: I think… I think I just don’t enjoy consuming Actual Play content and maybe โฆ
2020-10-22: Okay seriously is anyone keeping any of their shit together right now?
2020-10-22: ๐ฝ๏ธ I just finished watching REBECCA on Netflix and it’s… fine. But it’s not โฆ
2020-10-21: Heeeey, just over here psyching myself up to revisit Chapter 11 - Trustworthiness - in Lincoln & โฆ
2020-10-21: Conversation with friends: Tweens - Who’s cute Teen - Who’s dating 20s - Good food 30s - โฆ
2020-10-21: I read this piece & I need a cold shower. Gonna be intense when I finally read CARMILLA. โฆ
2020-10-19: Over at University of Venus, Mary Churchill asks about The Day After: What will you do on November โฆ
2020-10-19: I went to #FSNNA20 and it was awesome. I “went” to the Fan Studies Network North America conference last week. It was awesome. โฆ
2020-10-17: Want to read: Maximizing the Impacts of Academic Research by Jane Tinkler and Patrick Dunleavy ๐
2020-10-17: Want to read: Raising the Resistance A Mother’s Guide to Practical Activism by Farrah โฆ
2020-10-16: Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze - Witch Iโm experimenting with podcasting about whatever I want. Here’s episode 2 of my Buffy podcast, โฆ
2020-10-16: M & I have been watching Netflix’s Bookmarks today. Grace Byers’s I AM ENOUGH is so โฆ
2020-10-13: If #FSNNA20 were a meatspace conference and I was there, I would not be berating myself for not โฆ
2020-10-13: Just added a note to include as a limitation in my dissertation that my methods don’t capture โฆ
2020-10-13: Dreamed this morning I was at my co-working space w/Glen Weldon (@ghweldon) & he would not stop โฆ
2020-10-13: Portrait of an awesome life partnership: you get the kid down to sleep and then chat in the #FSNNA20 โฆ
2020-10-12: Pleased as can be to be hanging out @ #FSNNA20 this week. You can find me in Discord primarily โฆ
2020-10-12: Is anybody out there managing to be even mediocre at both parenting & working right now? Because โฆ
2020-10-11: Current dissertation status: 4 chapters begun but with holes to fill, 116 pages. 1 chapter โฆ
2020-10-11: ๐ Reading Sarah Kendzior’s (@sarahkendzior) book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT & had to take a โฆ
2020-10-10: I definitely just handed The Teacher from the Black Lagoon to my kid thinking it was Miss Nelson Is โฆ
2020-10-07: 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 โฆ
2020-10-05: I did a dissertation bootcamp last week and honestly I feel like I need a break. We spent some time โฆ
2020-10-03: Today I learned that my kid’s teacher plays tabletop RPGs. โฅ๏ธ (I did not ask her if I could โฆ
2020-10-02: 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 โฆ
2020-10-02: My not-quite-4yo just told me that the famous quote from The New Colossus begins “Give me all โฆ
2020-10-02: Listening to M. & W. play that they are the kids from The Magic Treehouse and have wished their โฆ
2020-10-01: Welcome to October, y’all.
2020-10-01: In recent weeks I have watched all of Sherlock, finished tonight. It was fun, then it wasn’t โฆ
2020-09-30: I’m presenting my virtual poster, “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? The โฆ
2020-09-29: Hello. I am tired and sweaty. Dissertation boot camp is pretty serious. โฅ๏ธ
2020-09-29: Today is a screaming 3yo day. I love my child and I find his screaming stressful.
2020-09-28: Hello, it’s coffee and chocolate o’clock.
2020-09-28: Dissertation boot camp week: conserving spoons in the morning so I can write hard in the afternoon. โฆ
2020-09-28: Finished reading: Dracula by Bram Stoker ๐
2020-09-26: Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is โฆ
2020-09-26: Fascinating: Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait via Dan Cohen I’ve โฆ
2020-09-25: I’m kind of loving my messy, curly, 38% Ashkenazi hair today. (Image heavily filtered, of โฆ
2020-09-25: I’m worried about Kimberly. Kimberly is tired & overwhelmed. Kimberly has lots of tools to โฆ
2020-09-24: Me: Meh, I guess I should dress professionally for this remote group career coaching session. throws โฆ
2020-09-24: My kid is watching @JimTheLibrarian’s Dinosaur Storytime. Kid said, “Maybe I’ll โฆ
2020-09-23: HELLO I DON’T WANT TO STAY MOTIVATED AND ON TRACK. I WANT TO WALLOW AND READ GOTHIC NOVELS.
2020-09-22: Want to read: Can’t Even by Anne Helen Petersen ๐
2020-09-21: I ordered a used copy of a paperback that was published in 1969. It was listed as being in good โฆ
2020-09-21: ๐ 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 โฆ
2020-09-19: If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested. -Austin Kleon, SHOW YOUR WORK, p. 131
2020-09-19: Finished reading: The Secret History by Donna Tartt ๐
2020-09-19: I saw the news about Justice Ginsburg while my husband was reading bedtime stories to my son. I felt โฆ
2020-09-17: Want to read: She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh โฆ
2020-09-17: Want to read: Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom ๐
2020-09-17: I don’t feel like writing an informative blog post today. It feels like a day for writing โฆ
2020-09-16: W: I would encourage you to have lunch. Me: I will, but right now I’m writing. (Y’ALL. I โฆ
2020-09-16: Please do not ask me how many times my son and I have watched the Courtney 1986 music video from โฆ
2020-09-15: Me to M & W: These days, besides you guys, books are my best friends. W: These days?
2020-09-14: 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 โฆ
2020-09-12: I have named my aesthetic and it is witchy sparkle romantigothabilly academia.
2020-09-11: Three flavors of learning I’ve flirted on and off with #100DaysOfCode over the past few years, and always quit when I โฆ
2020-09-11: Jen Polk (@FromPhDtoLife) has created an amazing reading list for grad students and PhDs exploring โฆ
2020-09-10: 15 years of blogging (and 3 reasons I keep going) - Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) writes about why he โฆ
2020-09-10: New profile pic. I think we all knew that a headshot where I look like I dgaf would give way to one โฆ
2020-09-10: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic by Katie Rose Guest Pryal ๐
2020-09-10: ๐Lee Skallerup Bessette sums up so much: Just because its hard, doesnโt mean itโs good and when โฆ
2020-09-09: A quick note on MEXICAN GOTHIC ๐ This book is SO GOOD, but I don’t feel I can write a review that does it justice. It is a โฆ
2020-09-09: My first PSL of the season. I waited until Bean Traders had them.
2020-09-08: I was already clued in to post-ac/alt-ac possibilities before beginning my PhD. For some reason, โฆ
2020-09-08: 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 โฆ
2020-09-08: Me, browsing Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) website after reading about her in Katie Rose โฆ
2020-09-08: I’m out on timelines and feeds for a while, folks. Taking some time to be really intentional โฆ
2020-09-07: In which I have a mid-life crisis and freak out about schooling as a societal... thing. Woo Dead Poets Society! ๐ฝ๏ธ I’ve been pulled deep into Dark Academia’s orbit, because it is the aesthetic I’ve โฆ
2020-09-07: Finished reading: MEXICAN GOTHIC by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ๐
2020-09-06: ๐ฝ๏ธ Just finished watching DEAD POETS SOCIETY for the first time in years and now I’m having an โฆ
2020-09-06: My three-almost-four-year-old just said, “When I’m lonesome, my fear grows.”
2020-09-04: World, we had a Pandemic Parenting morning and even though the sources of stress were resolved by โฆ
2020-09-02: Got a ring light, tripod, and bluetooth shutter so of course I had to have a little photo booth fun.
2020-09-02: ๐ 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” โฆ
2020-09-02: Sometimes you and a friend come up with a hilarious idea and then a year later your friend executes โฆ
2020-09-02: Had to use the Wayhome Tarot for Lindsay Mack’s Coming Home to Ourselves spread, if course. I, โฆ
2020-09-01: I’m still/again grieving the dissertation I planned and will not get to carry out. Maybe I โฆ
2020-08-31: Becky Albertalli wrote this moving essay about her shifting understanding of her sexuality. The โฆ
2020-08-31: ๐๐ From Petra Mayer at NPR: Welcome To Story Hour: 100 Favorite Books For Young Readers Well, โฆ
2020-08-31: ๐๐ From Megan Mabee at Book Riot: How The Hunger Games Prequel Helped Me Realize Iโve Changed I can โฆ
2020-08-30: ๐ I’m reading MEXICAN GOTHIC and it’s wonderful but every description of the house gets โฆ
2020-08-30: ๐ฝ๏ธ I am watching BLACK PANTHER for the first time. The fact that every single Wakandan is awesome is โฆ
2020-08-29: I could use less productivity advice or inspiration and more permission to just be.
2020-08-28: I fell on the basement stairs yesterday and mildly sprained my right ankle. I sprained the left one โฆ
2020-08-28: Pocketed to read later: People of color who craft are done being overlooked as customers and โฆ
2020-08-28: ๐ต Do you think if I listen to Bauhaus for the rest of the day, that will magically make it be โฆ
2020-08-28: My new glasses are the glasses of a woman who has no patience with BS.
2020-08-27: Welp. My whole household hates my new glasses.
2020-08-27: ๐ป If you’re wondering what the heck this IndieWeb thing is that I’ve been going on about โฆ
2020-08-27: My new glasses are a little over-the-top, but then, so am I.
2020-08-27: Was just reading the Carolina Friends School Lower School page and saw they use “Ago!” โฆ
2020-08-27: ๐ 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 โฆ
2020-08-27: ๐บ M. and I are watching MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC and I am reminded of the extent to which โฆ
2020-08-27: I just read “sheltering in place” as “shattering in peace” so now you know โฆ
2020-08-26: Still planning to post at kimberlyhirsh.com and auto-crosspost to Twitter and Tumblr, but not โฆ
2020-08-26: Tracy Deonn's LEGENDBORN: Black Girl Magic, Dark Academia, and Arthuriana ON MY CAMPUS! ๐ Publisher’s Summary: After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews โฆ
2020-08-24: ๐ I’ve got about 100 pages left in #LEGENDBORN & won’t write a full review til โฆ
2020-08-24: Reply to Another day in Hellsville: It is a lot. Having caregiving responsibilities adds another โฆ
2020-08-24: Current professional goals: 1. Be a qualitative researcher. (I am now, but I think I would like to โฆ
2020-08-23: How did it take me until just now to consciously verbalize the fact that THE SECRET GARDEN is a โฆ
2020-08-21: The internet has been full of productivity-in-a-pandemic advice for months and I’m over it. I โฆ
2020-08-20: I have become super enamored of the #darkacademia aesthetic, but being in actual academia, this is โฆ
2020-08-20: Teen, new adult, and undergrad librarians, let me introduce you to your new best friend: the โฆ
2020-08-20: ๐ 17/31 THE ONE WHERE I RUIN YOUR CHILDHOOD by Daniel Crocker. Excerpt from โC is for Cookieโ: โYou โฆ
2020-08-19: Hi. I don’t feel like it today, and it’s okay if you don’t feel like it either. โฆ
2020-08-18: 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 โฆ
2020-08-18: We share our hot takes in order that we may refine them: Makerspaces should consider sewing โฆ
2020-08-18: I did more #motherscholar-ing this morning, saying things like “I would do a visual analysis โฆ
2020-08-18: A refinement of my earlier hot take: a sewing machine with a zigzag stitch should be considered โฆ
2020-08-18: Hot take: A serger should be assumed basic equipment in every makerspace. ๐งต
2020-08-18: Switching all my wallpapers to this “Keep going. You’re doing great.” wallpaper by โฆ
2020-08-18: In case you need some very trivial but good news today: After a LOT of work, it seems like maybe โฆ
2020-08-17: Anybody know of somebody doing research on makerspaces specifically located in schools of education? โฆ
2020-08-17: Hear me out: A first-year experience librarian [PDF], but for grad students.
2020-08-17: Help me #TeamLowBar, I set my low bar too high!
2020-08-17: Want to read: Craftfulness by Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin ๐๐งต๐งถ
2020-08-17: ๐ 16/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL, THERE WERE MOUNTAINS by Blake Hackler. Excerpt from โOn The Other Sideโ: โฆ
2020-08-16: I’ve got all the pieces of my sewing machine, my sewing basket, 2 sewing books, and 2 sewing โฆ
2020-08-16: I think my aesthetic is that I’m the librarian at the boarding school all the dark academia โฆ
2020-08-16: ๐ 15/31 PORTAGE by Sarah Ann Winn. Excerpt from โAlmaโ: โGorge of girl, shaped by erosion, gorgeous, โฆ
2020-08-15: Here’s the truth about life, kids: not one of us has it figured out. Every person who looks โฆ
2020-08-15: ๐ 14/31 SEED, STAR, SONG by May Chong. Excerpt from “Tembeling”: “The new โฆ
2020-08-15: ๐ 13/31 MOTHER IS THE NAME FOR GOD by Judith Kingston. Excerpt from “III. Pentheus, My Son: โI โฆ
2020-08-14: My glasses broke. No advice needed: there’s no easy fix. I ordered 2 pair so that when this โฆ
2020-08-14: Did some very strong #motherscholar-ing this morning, simultaneously joining a meeting on branding โฆ
2020-08-13: I used to keep this circlet in my office for days when I needed a boost. It might become my โฆ
2020-08-13: I have all my best ideas around 3 AM.
2020-08-13: ๐ 12/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL by Jennifer Jackson Berry. Excerpt: โthe boy will be stiff if & only โฆ
2020-08-12: Because I am both a qualitative researcher and a web developer, when I see people talk about โฆ
2020-08-12: Time to take Count Rugen’s advice. via GIPHY
2020-08-12: How Daddy types vs how Mommy types, according to my very observant child.
2020-08-12: ๐ Here’s a study that combines my loves for qualitative coding, comedy, and tween media: More โฆ
2020-08-12: ๐ 11/31 NEGOTIATING WITH OBJECTS by Lisa M Cole. Excerpt from “After the Ever-Glow”: โฆ
2020-08-11: Help I took a Zoom meeting in bed and now I don’t want to get up.
2020-08-11: What I'm excited about today: public scholarship and #SocSciComm ๐ Today, I’m excited about: The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship the first โฆ
2020-08-11: My kid is really getting into hygge.
2020-08-11: ๐ 10/31 BOTTOMLAND by Erin Elkins Radcliffe. #TheSealeyChallenge
2020-08-10: ๐2015 Kimberly would be SO EXCITED about this article: โWhose Line Is It Anyway?โ Using โฆ
2020-08-10: ๐ It’s the first day of class! I’ve been done with coursework since the end of 2017, but โฆ
2020-08-10: ๐From Pat Thomson, the ‘later on’ PhD …what the professional usually wants from โฆ
2020-08-10: ๐ 9/31 MEND by Kristin LaTour & Angel E. Perez. #TheSealeyChallenge
2020-08-09: Me: So I was watching “Big Business.” W: What’s “Big Business”? Me: ๐ฒ
2020-08-09: My favorite thing about live-tweeting The Emperor’s New Groove today was researching Peruvian โฆ
2020-08-09: Want to read: Bad Habits by Amy Gentry ๐
2020-08-09: ๐ฝ๏ธ Late to the party but here I go. #20YearsOfGroove โฆ
2020-08-09: ๐ 8/31 CHICKENHAWKS & GOLDILOCKS by Grey Vild. Excerpt from โA prayer no one wants toโ: โBut you โฆ
2020-08-08: ๐ Katie Yee’s Very Good Writing Advice from New Girl’s Nick Miller is the most โฆ
2020-08-08: ๐ 7/31 SPACE BABY: EPISODES I - III by Nicole Oquendo. Excerpt from โI.vi.โ: โYou have read about โฆ
2020-08-07: Here’s how I cope with dissertation-related anxiety: make a plan. Send advisor doomy email โฆ
2020-08-07: A bookcase that converts to a coffin feels very on-brand for me.
2020-08-06: ๐ 6/31 WOLF DAUGHTER by Amy Watkins. Excerpt from โsixteenโ: “It was my voice she wanted,/as I โฆ
2020-08-06: 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 โฆ
2020-08-05: ๐ 5/31 [RE]CONSTRUCTION OF THE NECROMANCER by Hannah V. Warren. Excerpt from โForgetting More Than I โฆ
2020-08-05: Just over here with my kid binge-watching Mr. Jim’s Story Time (@JimTheLibrarian on Twitter). โฆ
2020-08-05: Got it down to 15 categories! #SocSciComm #InfoLit #FanLIS
2020-08-05: Me, today: Drinking coffee and getting work done. LIKE A BADASS.
2020-08-05: Got it down to 17 categories. I don’t think I can do much better than that. When you’re โฆ
2020-08-05: I interviewed 10 cosplayers; together they used over 60 different terms to describe the resources โฆ
2020-08-05: ๐ 4/31 TO THE BONE by Angela Narciso Torres. Excerpt from โSelf-portrait as Waterโ: โmost forgiving โฆ
2020-08-04: No YOU’RE considering pivoting after graduation to a career that focuses on supporting mothers โฆ
2020-08-04: 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 โฆ
2020-08-04: Currently reading: ‘Making It’ as a Contract Researcher: A Pragmatic Look at Precarious โฆ
2020-08-04: Finished reading: Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing ๐
2020-08-03: ๐ 3/31 ELECTRIC ARCHES by Eve L. Ewing. Excerpt from “to the notebook kid”: โฆ
2020-08-03: Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. โฆ
2020-08-03: Pocketing this Book Riot post on rad poetry from the Women’s Suffrage Movement for later in โฆ
2020-08-03: Are you in academia or alt-ac? Talk to me about your current productivity or lack thereof, the grace โฆ
2020-08-03: From Lauren Elkin: "Why All the Books About Motherhood?" I’ve been sitting on Lauren Elkin’s article asking “Why all the books about โฆ
2020-08-03: Feeling bummed because I know the savviest angle on my research is misinformation and disinformation โฆ
2020-08-03: Finished reading: Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen ๐
2020-08-03: ๐ 2/31 NOT HERE by Hieu Minh Nguyen. Excerpt from โHeavyโ: “There are days when I give up on โฆ
2020-08-03: From Hillary Frank: The Special Misogyny Reserved for Mothers Despite receiving multiple rejections from radio station editors, journalist and author Hillary โฆ
2020-08-03: Me: Napster is clearly the best P2P file sharing app. W: Mmmm… Me: What? What’s better โฆ
2020-08-02: Finished reading: Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora ๐
2020-08-01: From Austin Kleon: Books on art and motherhood During my sonโs first few weeks, I spent most of his naps reading about matrescence (the process of โฆ
2020-08-01: ๐ 1/31 UNACCOMPANIED by Javier Zamora. Excerpt from “Then, It Was So”: โฆ
2020-08-01: ๐ From The Oatmeal: Marvelous & Melancholy Things I’ve Learned about Creativity This is so โฆ
2020-08-01: #TheSealeyChallenge Link Roundup ๐ I’ve been looking for ways to read more books and talk to more people about them, so when the โฆ
2020-07-31: Welcome to Genetrix: Curating Stories of Creative Mothers Yesterday, I talked about my project, Genetrix: Curating Stories of Creative Mothers and how I would โฆ
2020-07-31: Me: Whoa, Muppets Now crashed Disney+! Internet: No, Kimberly. Beyoncรฉ did it. Me: squinting Or was โฆ
2020-07-30: Curating stories of motherhood and creativity, esp. writing Exactly a year and a half ago, I started a newsletter called Genetrix after reading Grace โฆ
2020-07-30: Given that my estrogen & progesterone are at their lowest & that today is today, this was an โฆ
2020-07-29: Want to read: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer ๐
2020-07-29: Want to read: The Blue Jayโs Dance by Louise Erdrich ๐
2020-07-29: Just added new content to my reading page ๐: updated 2020 reading goals, a โฆ
2020-07-28: ๐บ I recently binged Disney+’s Diary of a Future President, about an ambitious Latina middle โฆ
2020-07-27: Made myself a half-caf with Fast Forward and Slow Motion from Counter Culture and oh my goodness it โฆ
2020-07-26: Finished reading: Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen โฆ
2020-07-24: TFW you’re coding an interview transcript & say to your past self, “PLEASE have โฆ
2020-07-24: First Med Deli gluten free chocolate cake in about 4 years. NOM NOM NOM.
2020-07-23: How do people do things? Do I seem to do things? I feel like I do no things. I feel like my life is โฆ
2020-07-23: ๐ 5 Productivity Practices That Helped Me Finish My Dissertation Thought I would feel attacked by โฆ
2020-07-22: W. and I have now been married longer than we were together before we were married. He continues to โฆ
2020-07-22: ๐ The Allure of the Nap Dress, the Look of Gussied-Up Oblivion I don’t have a clothing budget โฆ
2020-07-21: 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 โฆ
2020-07-21: Advanced Literature Review Tips By far, my most visited blog post ever is my Start-to-Finish Literature Review Workflow and โฆ
2020-07-21: Creative Time as Meditation Time What if we considered our creative time to be meditation time? Repetitive crafts like knitting, โฆ
2020-07-20: ๐ Kelly J. Baker’s essay, “You Were Ambitious,” struck me to the core. โฆ
2020-07-20: Lithub takes a fun dive into all the books people read or reference in Clueless. ๐
2020-07-20: Sometimes, one little thing can take a lot out of me. Today, the plumber came to my house around โฆ
2020-07-20: If you ever wonder how my brain works, simply recall that I’ve been writing with hypertext โฆ
2020-07-19: 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 โฆ
2020-07-17: ๐ฌ๐ “The Spy Girls are what happens when you record an episode of Charlie’s Angels over a โฆ
2020-07-17: ๐บ Netflix's Babysitters Club: Response and Link Roundup ๐ I binged the Netflix Babysitters Club series last weekend. Growing up, I was not a Babysitters Club โฆ
2020-07-16: ๐๐บ Alex Brannan’s article, โIt Could Be About Anythingโ: Middleditch & Schwartz and the โฆ
2020-07-15: So happy to have this Silvia Moreno-Garcia reading pathway from Book Riot, because I’ve been โฆ
2020-07-15: I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be working as a research assistant with Dr. Maggie โฆ
2020-07-14: 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 โฆ
2020-07-13: Want to read: We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry ๐
2020-07-13: RSVP yes to A Domain of Oneโs Own Meetup | July 23, 2020
2020-07-13: 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 โฆ
2020-07-12: Want to read: Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans ๐
2020-07-12: Pretty proud of my first Scratch project. It looks like a little thing, but if you click “See โฆ
2020-07-12: ๐บ “Parents are just older weirdos, doing the best they can. Just like the rest of us.” โฆ
2020-07-10: ๐ Adrienne So’s Wired piece, โโCrisis Schoolingโ and the New Rhythms of Pandemic โฆ
2020-07-10: Just received the Call for Proposals for the Fan Studies Network North America virtual conference โฆ
2020-07-10: Page of Cups and Knight of Cups: the two sides of my soul. (Cards are from the Moonchild Tarot by โฆ
2020-07-10: Want to read: BIG FRIENDSHIP How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman ๐
2020-07-10: Want to read: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green ๐
2020-07-09: TFW you have to go back to the literature and carefully review it to figure out the next step for โฆ
2020-07-09: My Favorite People with Weird Internet Careers I started reading Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch, this morning. I first became familiar โฆ
2020-07-08: I just added a Reading page to my site. It lists every book I’ve read since March 2007. Over โฆ
2020-07-08: Want to read: Want by Lynn Steger Strong ๐
2020-07-08: ๐ ๐ I found myself wanting to read so many of the books on Book Riot’s Best Books of 2020 So โฆ
2020-07-07: ๐ ๐ “…we have little hope of producing excellent writing unless we write a great โฆ
2020-07-07: ๐๐ I’ve started doing The Artist’s Way. Yesterday I read the chapter for Week 1 (which, โฆ
2020-07-06: ๐ Reflecting on Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility" Please note: Robin DiAngelo says she’s writing for a white audience, and I’m white, so โฆ
2020-07-06: I’ll be 39 in a little over a week, so I decided it was time to just lean into becoming my โฆ
2020-07-05: Finished reading: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo ๐
2020-07-05: From NPR: A Competition To Finish Louisa May Alcott’s Story - I mean why have a competition โฆ
2020-07-04: What to an American Is the Fourth of July? Power comes before freedom, not the other way around. - โฆ
2020-07-03: Oh yeah THAT’S why I always stop listening after “Cabinet Battle #2.” ๐ญ
2020-07-03: I’m watching Hamilton & of course it’s amazing but I’m especially blown away โฆ
2020-07-03: Started CS50x and programming with Scratch last night and definitely decided to build a robot to be โฆ
2020-07-03: Want to read: The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuil ๐
2020-07-02: I just realized that part of watching Hamilton will involve watching “It’s Quiet โฆ
2020-07-01: School and Life goals for 2020 Q3 Here are my goals for 2020 Q3: School goals Complete my dissertation data collection. Write two โฆ
2020-07-01: I drew The Tower for my daily tarot pull. There’s a person on the left falling off the tower. โฆ
2020-07-01: Getting back into 100 Days of #bluemind with a Blue Mind Company sticker on my second notebook for โฆ
2020-06-30: Want to read: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ๐
2020-06-30: ๐ 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 โฆ
2020-06-30: Want to read: A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow ๐
2020-06-30: Want to read: The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall ๐
2020-06-29: ๐ 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 โฆ
2020-06-29: ๐ Finished reading The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs (@ayjay) Another โฆ
2020-06-29: ๐ Just finished reading The Power by Naomi Alderman. It’s so good and I want to write about it โฆ
2020-06-28: ๐ Want to read: Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books By Lynne Sharon Schwartz Data Science in โฆ
2020-06-26: Looking back at the first half of 2020 Weโre coming up on Q3 of 2020 and I donโt know how the year is going for you (except to the extent โฆ
2020-06-25: Hi friend. I’m taking a break from most social media right now. It can be valuable for a lot โฆ
2020-06-23: Oh oh oh, so THIS is what it feels like to care about something besides keeping your child and โฆ
2020-06-22: I’m excited to read this IFLA special issue on information literacy, and also keenly aware โฆ
2020-06-19: Move Slowly and Mend Things ๐ Iโm re-reading Jeff Goinsโs book, You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One) and I came upon a bit โฆ
2020-06-19: When I express frustration about squeezing work in around childcare, I am NOT complaining about โฆ
2020-06-18: Why won’t my brain? It just won’t.
2020-06-18: Hands can blog today, but brain won't, so have some stuff from other people that's great. ๐ ๐ Kelly J. Baker’s book Grace Period, which I devoured over the course of 2 days. I want to say โฆ
2020-06-17: 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 โฆ
2020-06-17: High pain day. Hard to do any of my favorite things - just trying to get groceries ordered and then โฆ
2020-06-16: 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 โฆ
2020-06-15: 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 โฆ
2020-06-15: Sharp & sparkly. I’m very happy to channel Mother of Swords @ this stage in the โฆ
2020-06-12: Just finished correcting my interview transcripts and loading them into my data analysis software. โฆ
2020-06-11: Me, in an interview w/ a cosplayer who, like myself, is a cosplayer d’un certain รขge: I never โฆ
2020-06-11: Third time The Chariot has come up in the past two weeks. From the Wayhome Tarot by Bakara Wintner โฆ
2020-06-11: ๐ I just finished reading Alexandra Rowland’s (@_alexrowland on Twitter) A Choir of Lies and โฆ
2020-06-08: More AI transcription fun: Ways my software transcribes Nightcrawler. nightbot. Nicole. Nikon. โฆ
2020-06-08: Since last Monday, I’ve been beginning my work day with a Tarot pull. Today brought me the โฆ
2020-06-05: ๐คโฅ๏ธ๐งก๐๐๐๐ She-Ra ๐๐๐๐๐งกโฅ๏ธ๐ค
2020-06-04: Taking some time to share stories of and resources about Black joy. This CNN story about Black โฆ
2020-06-03: Every day is a good day to listen to a bunch of songs focused on Black joy, curated by Sidney Madden โฆ
2020-06-02: ๐ Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest? And other commonly asked โฆ
2020-06-02: Project READY is a series of free, online professional development modules for youth-serving library โฆ
2020-06-02: More anti-racism resources.
2020-06-02: Another valuable resource: Anti-Racism Resources: Books, Conversations and People Leading The Charge
2020-06-01: Bit of levity to break up the awfulness: the way my transcription software tries to transcribe โฆ
2020-06-01: Been quiet for the past couple of days because anything I have to say feels inane right now. This โฆ
2020-05-29: ๐ 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice is immensely valuable, because it gives you โฆ
2020-05-29: ๐ Read recently: The Three Equations for a Happy Life, Even During a Pandemic Cosplay Is a Business โฆ
2020-05-28: 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 โฆ
2020-05-28: Pretty proud of my new About page. You should probably go read it.
2020-05-28: New bio: “space mermaid sparkle goth” and new profile photo: (If you, too, are obsessed โฆ
2020-05-28: 100 Days of #bluemind Day 3: Sat on the front porch and watched and listened to the rain. Tried to โฆ
2020-05-27: 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 โฆ
2020-05-27: ๐ฆ My child has decreed that henceforth this character shall be known as R2 Bleep Bloop. You’re โฆ
2020-05-26: 100 Days of #bluemind, Day 2: Took a drive along the North Durham Country Byway, crossing over Lake โฆ
2020-05-26: ๐งถGot bored making a sweater that just uses the same stitches over and over, so added Sophie’s โฆ
2020-05-26: Had a great call with my school’s career services coordinator where she urged me not to let โฆ
2020-05-26: Today is the first day of the 100 Days of Blue Mind challenge. I got my #bluemind on today by gazing โฆ
2020-05-24: Deep cleaning 3 essential oil diffusers at once, as you do.
2020-05-24: I just realized that to figure out what professional options I want to consider in the future, I โฆ
2020-05-24: I don’t think of librarianship as a CALLING, but I do consider it a disposition. For example, โฆ
2020-05-22: Finished reading: The Addams Family: An Evilution by Charles Addams and Kevin Miserocchi ๐
2020-05-22: Happy World Goth Day! I’m GothEnough and if you want to be, so are you! If you are Not-a-Goth โฆ
2020-05-22: ๐ Read ‘A joyful thing’: the man who wrote his wife a poem every day for 25 years. I โฆ
2020-05-21: North Carolina is moving from Stay-at-Home to Safer-at-Home & I’m anxious about it. My โฆ
2020-05-20: I just can’t brain this week, so I’m going to liveblog some career assessment results! โฆ
2020-05-20: ๐ Stuff I read yesterday: One of Oscar Wildeโs last stops in England before exile was a bookstore. โฆ
2020-05-19: Want to read: Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright ๐
2020-05-19: ๐ Read today: 6 Ways to Maximize Your Reading Time During the Pandemic - I can’t tell whether โฆ
2020-05-18: ๐ฎ I finished playing Final Fantasy VII Remake yesterday. I had fun with the game and I adore Tifa, โฆ
2020-05-18: Lest I think I’m doing nothing during this social isolation time, in addition to raising my โฆ
2020-05-18: I’m struggling to dissertate today. My main task for the next little bit is just to correct AI โฆ
2020-05-18: Thinking of changing my website’s title (but not my domain) from “Kimberly Hirsh” โฆ
2020-05-18: ๐๐ต๐ญ๐ Read 8 Musicals that You Might Not Know Were Based on Books by Emily Neuberger. I’ve been โฆ
2020-05-18: ๐๐ Read How to Write 1000 Poems in a 1000 Days by Nick Asbury. More why to than how to, this is a โฆ
2020-05-16: ๐ฆ My kid just told me that Iron Lychee is a whole bunch of Iron Mans [sic] inside one giant Iron โฆ
2020-05-16: The best part of conducting my dissertation interviews via Zoom is I get to see my participants' โฆ
2020-05-15: ๐ 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 โฆ
2020-05-15: ๐ฆ Me: One of the things a librarian can do is suggest a book you might like to read next. M: But we โฆ
2020-05-15: The neighbors closest to the back of my property seem to be partying late into the night every โฆ
2020-05-13: Feels like I’m really closing in on an accurate self-representation with my latest bio โฆ
2020-05-13: Bonus bio addition: “Let’s talk about Buffy. ๐ฑโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ”
2020-05-12: Low energy + high pain = reading about ghosts while lying on a hammock. ๐ป๐
2020-05-12: Today’s bio addition: Gothic mermaid scholar-librarian net girl ๐
2020-05-12: I just don’t feel like blogging today. I’m not miserable or anything, just every time I โฆ
2020-05-11: ๐ finished reading The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White This is a re-read; I โฆ
2020-05-11: I spent the me-time my family generously gave me today mostly on brushing up my web development โฆ
2020-05-10: We got a new hammock with stand for our deck, big enough for our whole household to fit in at once โฆ
2020-05-08: Settling In My son is registered to start at a Quaker school in August. I donโt know what that will end up โฆ
2020-05-08: ๐ Just found my copies of Making Sense of Qualitative Data (Coffey & Atkinson) and Writing the โฆ
2020-05-07: If I get one more listserv email advising me to use this time productively, I will be even more โฆ
2020-05-06: ๐ From Austin Kleon: Not Everything Will Be Okay But Some Things Will I share Kleon’s โฆ
2020-05-06: 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 โฆ
2020-05-06: Taking a break from scrolling micro.blog and Twitter for a while. Still checking mentions โฆ
2020-05-05: I know how to do stuff. Impostor syndrome is nonsense. Are you at loose ends? Iโm at loose ends. I have a number of projects on the go but I am not doing a โฆ
2020-05-04: ๐ต๐ญ๐ You know that feeling when you’re irritated that you have to feed your family instead of โฆ
2020-05-04: Lately, my blogging has been all flow, no stock. That’s certainly not what I hoped for when I โฆ
2020-05-02: Oh hey, just over here pondering what LIS even means and whether information practice should be โฆ
2020-05-01: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: completed CSS Flexbox at freeCodeCamp. Previously on โฆ
2020-05-01: I have bangs for the first time in 30 years and it’s Tifa’s fault. ๐ฎ
2020-04-28: Dusk is bunny time in my yard and it is THE BEST.
2020-04-28: I have this problem where I want to buy all the Hot Topic shortalls because I’m pretty sure โฆ
2020-04-28: My AI transcription software knows the names of Pokemon and it’s going to make my research so โฆ
2020-04-27: I was a good mom this morning, so I’m going to be an okay academic this afternoon.
2020-04-26: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: continued the Applied Accessibility challenges at โฆ
2020-04-25: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: finished freeCodeCamp’s Applied Visual Design, started โฆ
2020-04-24: Just spent almost 2 hours correcting an AI transcript of a 47 minute interview. This is about 1/3 of โฆ
2020-04-24: Today’s bio update: replaced “Mom & Scholar-Librarian” with “Mom. โฆ
2020-04-24: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: started freeCodeCamp’s Applied Visual Design โฆ
2020-04-23: Today’s #100DaysOfCode Progress: I completed all of the Basic CSS challenges at freeCodeCamp. โฆ
2020-04-23: A (self)diagnosis For the past couple of years, I’ve felt like I was having a Hashimoto’s thyroiditis โฆ
2020-04-22: #100DaysOfCode Round 1, 1/100 Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: I completed all of the “Basic HTML and HTML5” โฆ
2020-04-21: Having another go at #100DaysofCode, because nobody ever said, “I sure wish my employee โฆ
2020-04-21: Took my kid for a drive this morning, just to do something different and because we were cleaning โฆ
2020-04-21: “We want the human relationship with nature to be based on abundance, a relationship that โฆ
2020-04-20: My kid insists that Darkwing Duck’s sidekick is named Lunchpack, and it’s adorable.
2020-04-20: Today we went for a family walk and from a distance we saw a neighbor family walking their pig, and โฆ
2020-04-19: Me: Hm, this is a lot of pain from this flare, whatever its origin. I think I’ll just watch โฆ
2020-04-18: It’s a high pain day but my brain is less foggy than it has been in a while. Mens sana in โฆ
2020-04-18: Thank you, Reviewer 2! (No sarcasm!) As I mentioned earlier, I’ve been sitting on an accepted-with-revisions paper for well over a โฆ
2020-04-17: This is an… interesting… time to be researching cosplay.
2020-04-17: Kim Werker, one of my favorite people I’ve never met, is offering her course Crochet for โฆ
2020-04-17: Going to re-learn knitting so that I can make all the things from Doomsday Knits, including the โฆ
2020-04-17: 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 โฆ
2020-04-17: ๐ Finished reading: Freelancing 101: Launching Your Editorial Business by Ruth E. Thaler-Carter You โฆ
2020-04-17: ๐ Abandoning Blue Mind for now, but I definitely want to come back to it.
2020-04-15: I’m struggling to write a blog post today or even a short note. My mood is low due to extreme โฆ
2020-04-15: Today in My Son, the 3 Year Old Fic Author: a crossover in which Spider-Man and the Ninja Turtle โฆ
2020-04-14: Doing a 15 minute #AcWri challenge Iโm reading Dr. Katie Linderโs blog archive. One of her earliest posts is titled 51 Tips to Help โฆ
2020-04-14: Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. I’m a learner who writes.
2020-04-13: ๐บ So is Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist a jukebox-musical version of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend?
2020-04-13: I’m sure there are grad students for whom a list of ways to stay productive right now might be โฆ
2020-04-13: I just DMed 6 cosplayers on Instagram to invite them to participate in my study. 5 were in person โฆ
2020-04-12: Sometimes, as an exercise to give me insight into what I should be focusing on, where I should put โฆ
2020-04-12: ๐ฎ I think Tifa is my fave now? I always liked her, but now I like her best?
2020-04-12: ๐ฎ It’s happening.
2020-04-11: Weekly Update: 04/11/20 We just finished up week 4 of staying at home. In one sense, I didnโt have much going on before โฆ
2020-04-10: Sesame Street is a great comedy school. My preferred comedy format, though I’ve not really performed it, is sketch. Yes, I did improv โฆ
2020-04-10: Facebook Live museum tours on my calendar today, The Dark Crystal exhibit at the Center for Puppetry โฆ
2020-04-10: Because it’s seasonally appropriate, today we’re listening to Christo Graham’s โฆ
2020-04-10: Guess I have to not Internet until after our copy of FF7R gets here… See y’all later, โฆ
2020-04-09: ๐บ My wishlist for Picard Season 2: Geordi More Spot II
2020-04-08: Feeling like hiding today, but I worked on recruiting for my dissertation and put my CV on โฆ
2020-04-07: I definitely have some sensory processing problems & they’ve gotten worse since isolating. โฆ
2020-04-06: Changing my research design I submitted proposed changes to my research design to my committee today. I had to make these โฆ
2020-04-06: I’m reading Lori Morimoto’s (@acafanmom on Twitter) book, An Introduction to Media Fan โฆ
2020-04-04: Something about watching Picard gives me the same feeling as reading a novel and I love it. ๐บ๐
2020-04-04: Want to read: Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil ๐
2020-04-03: Weekly Update: 04/03/20 First, some cute things my kid said. He was talking about flushing the toilet and said that the โฆ
2020-04-03: 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 โฆ
2020-04-03: Everybody get the Marco Polo app and let’s have asynchronous video chats.
2020-04-02: My three-year-old is over here writing fix-it fic for The Velveteen Rabbit. ๐
2020-04-02: I know this isn’t what actually happened, but I like to imagine that I summoned into being the โฆ
2020-04-02: I fell into a new COVID-19 spiral today. This went beyond anxiety and felt closer to depression. The โฆ
2020-04-01: ๐ The library is closed, limiting my book borrowing options, but the gym is also closed, freeing up โฆ
2020-04-01: It’s nice to see that Alexandra Rowland has written a book for/about me. ๐
2020-04-01: I’m having a down day. Not helping is this (extremely informative but also depressing) piece โฆ
2020-04-01: More gold from McSweeney’s: Self-Isolation or Graduate School?
2020-04-01: McSweeney’s Frog and Toad are self-quarantined friends by Jennie Egerdie is my favorite art to โฆ
2020-04-01: The Punky Brewster episode “The Perils of Punky” aired in 1985. In it, Punky’s dog โฆ
2020-03-31: 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 โฆ
2020-03-30: Steal Like an Artist for Scholars Austin Kleon is one of the creative people who have had the greatest influence on my thinking about โฆ
2020-03-29: I feel like when you’re young & you realize you’re weird you can choose one of two โฆ
2020-03-29: You can comment on kimberlyhirsh.com now! I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about what I consider the golden age of blogging - โฆ
2020-03-28: I’m obsessed with the 1997.chat app and sad about my empty buddy list. You can find me at Kiba โฆ
2020-03-27: 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 โฆ
2020-03-27: My son and I have been listening to the Frog and Toad audiobook collection, read by the author, โฆ
2020-03-27: I put on the Labyrinth soundtrack & said to W, “This music is so good.” He said, โฆ
2020-03-26: Long before the coronavirus moved from animals to humans, I had set myself a goal of recognizing the โฆ
2020-03-26: 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 โฆ
2020-03-26: My city’s mayor issued a Stay-at-Home order today. I’m grateful that the two people โฆ
2020-03-25: 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 โฆ
2020-03-25: Spread the word: my blog host, micro.blog, is offering teachers free hosting for the next six โฆ
2020-03-24: ๐ต 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 โฆ
2020-03-23: Baby Piggy is me: “Everyone knows the most important thing about being a rock star is LOOKING โฆ
2020-03-23: My sister’s friend Connor shared this hilarious Les Mis parody dedicated to teachers with us.
2020-03-23: I like The Muppets (2015) TV show more than I thought I would. ๐บ _My brother gave me [this Muppet version of The Phantom of the Opera โฆ
2020-03-22: Our family's social distancing schedule I wanted to share our family’s current weekday schedule, mostly to help other people feel okay โฆ
2020-03-20: From my last note, which said only “It me,” you may be wondering “What she?” โฆ
2020-03-19: It me.
2020-03-19: Life has been extra intense from March 6 until now. I missed a dissertation fellowship application โฆ
2020-03-19: 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, โฆ
2020-03-17: When my kid’s preschool announced that they would be closing, I had plans to blog daily about โฆ
2020-03-17: M. asked “How old is Darth Vader?” I calculated using this timeline & told M., โฆ
2020-03-17: Social distancing day 4, no preschool day 2: M is enjoying these miniature water beads from โฆ
2020-03-16: My kid just showed me his Winnie the Pooh in a Santa outfit stuffy and said, “So this is โฆ
2020-03-14: Whitney (@whitneyellenb) & I are going to post about the video games we play while stuck at home โฆ
2020-03-13: Let’s all give ourselves permission to be thoroughly mediocre parents for the next few weeks.
2020-03-13: I’m totally accepting keypals/epals to help stave off social isolation during social โฆ
2020-03-13: ๐ 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. โฆ
2020-03-13: Local schools are closing, including my Montessori/co-working space, so I’m now a stay-at-home โฆ
2020-03-13: No YOU want to buy every Leia item in the new Jen Bartels collection, twice, so you can keep one of โฆ
2020-03-11: Also, I love being on podcasts, so if you need a guest for yours, hit me up.
2020-03-11: I guested on a podcast for the first time in almost 5 years! And I only talked about BtVS a little! โฆ
2020-03-11: Current wishlist: Everything BtVS on Hot Topic
2020-03-11: Changing my research plans in light of COVID-19 All friends & students who are in the midst of dissertation data collection - I know recent โฆ
2020-03-11: Hi, I’m Kimberly, and today I’m wearing yoga pants with combat boots.
2020-03-09: Rather than an elbow bump, I’m planning to replace handshakes and high fives with a forearm โฆ
2020-03-09: Reintroducing Genetrix, curating stories about creative mothers Last January, I launched Genetrix, a newsletter to curate stories of creative mothers. After sending โฆ
2020-03-08: ๐๏ธ Listened to Mighty Creative, episodes: Prologue: The Podcast Is Back 101 - Prerequisite โฆ
2020-03-08: ๐บ Watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 23, “Skin of Evil.”
2020-03-08: ๐งถ Finally finished crocheting these dragon scale fingerless gloves. They’re a birthday gift โฆ
2020-03-07: ๐บ Watched Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 episodes 1 & 2, “Encounter at Farpoint.โ โฆ
2020-03-06: Y’all, my brother’s latest cartoon is hilarious. Lots of fun visual gags. Watch at least โฆ
2020-03-05: ๐ต Another Dragonforce recommendation: “Symphony of the Night”. (If you think you know โฆ
2020-03-05: ๐ต Decided to listen to Power Metal while working today. There’s a lot wrong with the world, โฆ
2020-03-05: Want to read: Fibershed : growing a movement of farmers, fashion activists, and makers for a new โฆ
2020-03-04: Here’s your (somewhat) regularly scheduled voting selfie!
2020-03-03: 03/02/20 Process Memo I spent some time this morning installing encryption software so that I can encrypt the data files I โฆ
2020-03-03: Having a low spoons day today, so I’m working through a bunch of fiddly, errand-type to-do โฆ
2020-03-02: ๐ Read: Fake News and Instagram 7 Ways to Survive a Flare When Youโre Chronically Ill 16 Simple โฆ
2020-03-02: ๐ฎ Played Monument Valley 2. I loved it but it went so fast!
2020-03-02: ๐ Want to Read: How to Be Sick by Toni Bernhard
2020-03-02: 02/28/2020 Process Memo: Beginning sustained, systematic observation I began my sustained, systematic observation today by gathering my initial resources for this phase. โฆ
2020-03-01: Just skimmed Parenting Doesn’t Matter, the main premise of which is that according to science, โฆ
2020-02-28: What am I opening? (Dissertating in the Open) I’ve been doing some reading this week on what it means to dissertate in the open, and as โฆ
2020-02-27: Dissertating in the Open: Beginning to Set Up a Data Collection Structure I’ve been trying to establish my data collection/analysis workflow and I’m running into โฆ
2020-02-26: Dissertating in the Open: Writing and Defending the Dissertation Proposal I successfully defended my dissertation proposal on February 3, 2020. I have one huge piece of โฆ
2020-02-26: Just lost a really long post about my dissertation proposal and proposal defense because, like a โฆ
2020-02-25: So my dissertation study was determined exempt from further review so I guess I have to actually, โฆ
2020-02-25: Starting to create a data collection/analysis workflow... Not there yet. Most of my blogging has been micro this month, which is appropriate since I’m hosting my blog โฆ
2020-02-24: ๐ Want to read: Wheat Belly by William Davis, MD
2020-02-24: ๐ Want to read: Carpe Diem: Seizing the Day in a Distracted World by Roman Krznaric Found this on โฆ
2020-02-24: Pisces New Moon spread.
2020-02-24: ๐ Set aside for now with plans to pick back up later: Total Immersion Swim Ultra-efficient โฆ
2020-02-24: ๐ Currently reading: The Immune System Recovery Plan by Susan Blum, M.D., M.P.H.
2020-02-24: ๐บ Watched Brooklyn 99: Season 6 - episode 18, “Suicide Squad” Season 7 episodes - 1, โฆ
2020-02-24: ๐ฝ๏ธ Watched Notting Hill. As cute as it was when it was released. We were all so much younger in โฆ
2020-02-23: ๐ฅ Watched Home Again.
2020-02-22: ๐ Currently reading: Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster, and Easier by โฆ
2020-02-22: ๐ Currently reading: Swim Ultra-efficient Freestyle by Terry Laughlin ๐๐ฌ
2020-02-20: Help me identify my strengths & make plans for what’s next! This is a 4-question โฆ
2020-02-20: Want to read: Going Alt-Ac by Kathryn E. Linder, Kevin Kelly, and Thomas J. Tobin ๐
2020-02-20: This is pretty much two weeks' worth of online reading. ๐ Read: The Plan of Attack Burned Out โฆ
2020-02-19: ๐ฝ๏ธ Watched Spider-Man: Homecoming. Oh my goodness did I enjoy this one. Spidey has been my second โฆ
2020-02-19: I have, um, really different feelings about Jean-Luc Picard on ST:TNG rewatch than I did from 1987 - โฆ
2020-02-19: ๐ So, The Starless Sea. This is going to be fairly stream-of-consciousness and more about my โฆ
2020-02-18: This is what going Full Kimberly looks like.
2020-02-18: Currently reading His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik. ๐
2020-02-18: Finished reading The Starless Sea (affiliate link). So much to say about this book but too tired to โฆ
2020-02-17: ๐ฝ๏ธ Watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. I remember when this came out hearing friends debate โฆ
2020-02-17: ๐ Read House of X #1. I’m excited about this book and the Dawn of X relaunch event. It’s โฆ
2020-02-15: Currently reading: eBay for Dummies by Marsha Collier ๐
2020-02-14: I just audibly gasped because Splash is on Disney+.
2020-02-13: Had a dream that my committee required a year to read my dissertation between submission and defense โฆ
2020-02-13: Every time I go to Blue Bicycle Books in Charleston, SC, USA I’m delighted by this sign they โฆ
2020-02-12: Raging because I don’t understand how OneDrive is supposed to work and thus lost more than โฆ
2020-02-12: Mom dreams: this morning, I dreamed I had to save Michelangelo, who was trapped in a collapsed Roman โฆ
2020-02-12: My kid paints these giant abstract paintings; I call him my little Rothko. I cut hearts out from 2 โฆ
2020-02-10: I stepped outside for an unexpected emergency medical shopping expedition this morning and the moon โฆ
2020-02-10: Took my favorite person to my favorite spot in Charleston yesterday, but forgot to post the picture โฆ
2020-02-10: ๐ฎ Played Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores (again not for the first time).
2020-02-09: Little and big reading together.
2020-02-09: ๐ Read: What We Link to When We Link to Books The art of rejection The art of mending The Origins โฆ
2020-02-08: ๐ฎ Played Monument Valley (not for the first time). As beautiful and satisfying as ever.
2020-02-08: ๐ Read: 3 Supplements I Give My Kids to Boost Their Immune Systems at Preschool and Daycare by โฆ
2020-02-07: Metadata mermaid doodle. It me!
2020-02-07: I’m vaguely appalled at the mobile-unfriendliness of the official websites of a couple of โฆ
2020-02-07: ๐ Read Ask an Astrologer: How can I create more success and flow for in my career according to the โฆ
2020-02-07: Made some Paleo-ish Chocolate frosted chocolate donuts.
2020-02-06: ๐ Read How to build wealth slowly Paul Jarvis
2020-02-06: ๐ฝ๏ธ Watched Doctor Strange. I don’t have strong feelings about this one. The visuals were super โฆ
2020-02-06: Pieces for my first ever Kitty Pryde cosplay started arriving today!
2020-02-05: ๐ง Listened to Beetlejuice (Original Broadway Cast Recording). Best part - Delia: Crystals speak to โฆ
2020-02-05: Me: These hanging jewelry organizer pockets are so big. I should put multiple pairs of earrings in โฆ
2020-02-05: “Practice loving yourself with the same exhilaration of a new crush.” Co-star has given โฆ
2020-02-05: ๐ Read: “Welcome back blogging?" by CJ Chilvers โThe life model of blogging” by โฆ
2020-02-05: Spotted this little mushroom nestled in the grass outside the co-working space/Montessori School.
2020-02-05: Currently reading: Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen โฆ
2020-02-05: ๐บ Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Season 1 episode 7, “Duel of the Droids.”
2020-02-05: ๐ Read Uncanny X-Men #131.
2020-02-03: This is what one doctoral candidate looks like.
2020-02-02: It’s Proposal Defense Eve, when Impostor Syndrome comes out to frolic!
2020-02-02: ๐บ Watched Ranma 1/2, season 1, episode 1.
2020-02-02: ๐บ Watched Sailor Moon, Season 1, episodes 1 & 2.
2020-02-02: ๐บ Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Season 1 episodes: 1 “Ambush” 2 “Rising โฆ
2020-02-01: Imbolc Tarot Spread by Lindsay Mack Cards are The Moonchild Tarot. What seeds did I plant at the โฆ
2020-02-01: Want to read: Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Krรถger and Melanie R. Anderson ๐
2020-02-01: Switching my kid’s carseat from rear-facing to front-facing is a much bigger milestone than I โฆ
2020-01-31: ๐ Read: Are Docs Comfortable? 10 Reasons to Wear Dr. Martens Boots by RosaMorelli How to Break in a โฆ
2020-01-30: ๐ Read: How I Tricked Myself Into Reading More Books by Patrick Allan 14 Ways to Cultivate a โฆ
2020-01-29: I was trying to figure out how to scrape data from YouTube for my dissertation & then I โฆ
2020-01-29: Want to read: The Summoner by Gail Z. Martin ๐
2020-01-29: ๐ Read: Motherhood and Spirituality: A New Kind of Enlightenment by Astra Niedrea What Is Hygge? โฆ
2020-01-29: Want to read: The Once and Future Geek by Mari Mancusi ๐
2020-01-29: Want to read: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia ๐
2020-01-29: Look, I’m never not going to have a crush on Wil Wheaton, okay? (This message brought to you โฆ
2020-01-29: Want to read: The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi ๐
2020-01-29: Want to read: Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty ๐
2020-01-28: ๐ต Listened to The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists. I “picked this up,” to the extent โฆ
2020-01-28: Want to read: Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel ๐
2020-01-27: ๐ฒ Played Illimat yesterday. Gorgeous and fun. I want to play it all the time now. Also, it’s โฆ
2020-01-27: Okay but WHY a PhD? And what next? Sometimes I ask myself why I’m doing a PhD and what I’m getting out of it. This is โฆ
2020-01-27: Revelation that should have been obvious to me before now: all of life is laundry & dishes & โฆ
2020-01-26: ๐ Read: A Checklist for Your Very First Altar by Amy Wall How to Soften Acrylic Yarn & Save โฆ
2020-01-25: ๐ Read: When Is a Bird a โBirbโ? An Extremely Important Guide by Asher Elbein Hopepunk, the latest โฆ
2020-01-25: M just now: Here you go, Daddy, I have some secret battle plans for you from Princess Leia. Me: โฐ๏ธ๐๐ฅ
2020-01-25: The scene of tonight’s New Moon tarot reading, my first with the Wayhome Tarot. I love all of โฆ
2020-01-25: Co-Star pulls no punches.
2020-01-24: Buffy the Vampire Slayer is (90s gothic) noblebright while Angel is (pretty widely accepted as) โฆ
2020-01-24: ๐ฝ๏ธ Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The criticisms of this are really interesting. I definitely โฆ
2020-01-24: W: Do you dare to eat a peach? Me: I would sit on its throne.
2020-01-23: One of my plans for 2020 is that if something is easy & helpful (as opposed to harmful), I do โฆ
2020-01-23: I’ve re-started The Starless Sea once, decided to re-start again but didn’t, once, and โฆ
2020-01-23: ๐ Read If Your Wellness Isn’t Intersectional Then You’re Not “Well.” โฆ
2020-01-22: ๐ป Completed MDN’s What’s in the head? Metadata in HTML, HTML text fundamentals, and Test โฆ
2020-01-22: ๐ป Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s Getting started with HTML
2020-01-22: ๐ Read: How the Web works by Mozilla Developer Network HTML by Mozilla Developer Network โฆ
2020-01-21: ๐ป Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s Publishing your website.
2020-01-21: ๐ป Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s Javascript basics.
2020-01-21: Doing a big Tumblr unfollow, too. Messages and asks are open, though.
2020-01-21: Doing a big Twitter unfollow over the next few days (probably of literally everyone), then will add โฆ
2020-01-21: Reclaiming my Spotify recommendations My kid has taken over my Spotify recommendations. My Discover Weekly this week includes: Rainbow โฆ
2020-01-21: ๐ Read Uncanny X-Men #130.
2020-01-21: Currently reading: Reinventing You by Dorie Clark ๐
2020-01-21: ๐ Read: Did Inadequate Womenโs Healthcare Destroy Star Warsโ Old Republic? by Sarah Jeong Hide and โฆ
2020-01-21: ๐ฝ๏ธ Watched Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Unlike everyone else, this is my least โฆ
2020-01-20: Want to read: How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs ๐
2020-01-20: Want to read: The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs ๐
2020-01-20: ๐ Read What’s wrong with sitting down in the shower? by Tom Meltzer Since I sprained my ankle โฆ
2020-01-20: ๐ป Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s: What will your website look like? Dealing with files โฆ
2020-01-19: ๐ฝ๏ธ Watched Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. This one is about exactly like I remember โฆ
2020-01-19: ๐ฟ This is the best thread I’ve read in forever, and it’s so heartening to see somebody โฆ
2020-01-19: ๐ Read Uncanny X-Men #129.
2020-01-19: ๐ป Watched: Getting started with Visual Studio Code How the Internet works in 5 minutes
2020-01-19: ๐ Read: The old internet by Rebecca Toh How and why to keep a commonplace book by Ryan Holiday What โฆ
2020-01-18: Finished reading: How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick ๐
2020-01-18: ๐ฝ๏ธ Watched Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. This isn’t as bad as I remembered. โฆ
2020-01-17: If I could give you a piece of advice today, it would be not to try carrying four ninja turtle โฆ
2020-01-16: ๐ป Completed the remaining 8 challenges in the Basic CSS portion of freecodecamp’s Responsive โฆ
2020-01-16: ๐ Read X-Men: First Class Vol. 1, #s 1 - 3.
2020-01-16: ๐ Read: 3 ways to make Spotify’s killer feature even smarter by Xiomara Blanco These five โฆ
2020-01-16: ๐ป Completed the first 36 (of 44) challenges in Basic CSS for freecodecamp’s Responsive Web โฆ
2020-01-15: Finished reading: X-Men: Season One by Dennis Hopeless and Jamie McKelvie ๐
2020-01-15: Me, after finding out Chris Claremont will be at Oak City Comicon:
2020-01-15: A (somewhat dry) musical autobiography: Addendum ๐ต๐ฝ I realized as I was describing yesterday’s musical autobiography (which is different than โฆ
2020-01-15: Just found out Chris Claremont is coming to Oak City Comicon & I’m over here having a tiny โฆ
2020-01-15: ๐ Read: Blogging the PhD journey by Kay Oddone Join the #100DaysOfCode by Alexander Kallaway The โฆ
2020-01-15: ๐ป Completed Basic HTML and HTML5 for freecodecamp’s Responsive Web Design certification. โฆ
2020-01-14: Want to read: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott ๐
2020-01-14: I only have to get through the next 40 minutes, then I can hand M. off to my m-i-l and lie down. โฆ
2020-01-14: A (somewhat dry) musical autobiography ๐ต๐ฝ๐ I don’t know if it’s a problem or a good thing that when my mind can’t come up โฆ
2020-01-14: ๐ Read Ultimate Spider-Man #4.
2020-01-14: ๐บ Watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3, episode 8, “A Jewish Girl Walks into the โฆ
2020-01-14: ๐ Read: Content, bloat, privacy, archives by @petermolnar Owning my reading log by Tom MacWright A โฆ
2020-01-13: Why do I blog what I blog? I’ll have a post later today with some links to things I’m reading, but for now, โฆ
2020-01-13: ๐ Read Ultimate Spider-Man #2, #3.
2020-01-13: ๐ Read Bloggers are not reporters and Journalists: We are not you by Dave Winter via Frank โฆ
2020-01-12: ๐ป Watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | ‘Turtles Take Time (and Space ๐)' by Brandon Auman
2020-01-12: ๐ Read: We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses โฆ
2020-01-12: ๐ Read The Bassist in Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Is Inspired By the Revolutionary Real-Life Musician โฆ
2020-01-12: ๐บ Watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3, episodes: 4 “Hands!” 5 “It’s โฆ
2020-01-11: ๐ Read Thoughts on linkblogs, bookmarks, reads, likes, favorites, follows, and related links by โฆ
2020-01-11: Here’s what I look for in my Star Wars content: Fun Optimism about what a few dedicated โฆ
2020-01-11: ๐ Read An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet by Aaron Parecki
2020-01-10: ๐ Read Titling it “The Problem That Has No Name” seemed a bit heavy handed by Drew โฆ
2020-01-09: ๐ Read Carbon monoxide emergency is Durhamโs Katrina, McDougald Terrace residents tell city. CW: โฆ
2020-01-09: ๐ Want to read The War of Art by Steven Pressfield ๐
2020-01-09: ๐ฝ๏ธ Watched The Empire Strikes Back
2020-01-08: Updated my Now page! Just updated my Now page with the following information: I’m living happily in Durham, North โฆ
2020-01-08: ๐บ Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 8: Redemption”
2020-01-08: ๐บ Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 7: The Reckoning”
2020-01-07: Made a less-paleo, less-vegan version of beaming baker’s 2 ingredient 5 minute homemade fudge, โฆ
2020-01-07: M (3 yo): grabs toy phone, gets in toy car, waits for me to answer phone Me: Hello? M: Hi, โฆ
2020-01-07: ๐บ Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 6: The Prisoner”
2020-01-07: ๐ Want to read Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
2020-01-07: I just realized that the frequency with which I suggest purchases for my local library makes me โฆ
2020-01-07: Quick reading response - Why Johnny Doesn't Flap: NT is OK! ๐ Some quick notes on Why Johnny Doesn’t Flap: NT is OK!: This is a kid’s picture book โฆ
2020-01-07: ๐ Finished reading: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle ๐
2020-01-07: ๐ Read Why Johnny Doesn’t Flap: NT is OK! by Clay Morton & Gail Morton
2020-01-07: ๐ Want to read One Person/Multiple Careers by Marci Alboher ๐
2020-01-07: ๐ Want to read Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher
2020-01-06: ๐ท Leaning into the middle-aged librarian stereotype with a glasses chain, though apparently they โฆ
2020-01-06: Migrating my site from WordPress to micro.blog I spent my winter vacation migrating my website from WordPress to micro.blog. I thought I’d โฆ
2020-01-06: Watching The Empire Strikes Back for the first time in years & I’d forgotten what a โฆ
2020-01-06: Between supplements & prescriptions, I swallow 24 pills every day, take 2 tinctures, 1 โฆ
2020-01-05: ๐บ Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 5: The Gunslinger”
2020-01-05: Escaped “The Green Room” at Tic Toc Escapes. ๐
2020-01-04: ๐ Read 100 things that made my year (2019) Austin Kleon captures so many beautiful small moments โฆ
2020-01-02: ๐ Currently reading How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick ๐
2020-01-02: ๐บ Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 4: Sanctuary”
2020-01-02: ๐ท Soul Expansion Spread by Lindsay Mack of Wild Soul Healing. 2020 is an Emperor year: structure and โฆ
2020-01-02: ๐ฝ๏ธ Watched Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Wasn’t sure how I would like it, given the โฆ
2019-12-30: ๐ Currently reading: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern ๐
2019-12-29: ๐ฌ Replied to None of the kids wanted toys for Christmas this year, they just wanted cash. โฆ
2019-12-28: ๐ Hi there! I’m considering migrating my WordPress site to micro.blog, and am playing with the โฆ
2019-12-20: ๐ I know I just took a hiatus because of comps, but now I’m taking another one for the โฆ
2019-12-18: ๐ Read Frozen II (Midwest Film Journal) by Aly Caviness I was going to write a whole blog post about โฆ
2019-12-18: 2019 Year-in-Review & 2020 Word of the Year ๐ I didn’t feel ready to write a year-in-review post before now, but here we are! So what did โฆ
2019-12-17: Dissertating in the Open: Comprehensive Qualifying Exams I passed my comps last Tuesday, and I thought I’d take some time to write about it today. โฆ
2019-12-11: Hey guess what I passed my comps. Taking a post-comps hiatus. See y’all Monday.
2019-12-09: It’s remarkable how chill I am about my comps oral exam tomorrow. I guess I’m โฆ
2019-12-06: This little comb-bound packet represents a year’s worth of work.
2019-12-05: Today I finished my dissertation proposal and sent it to my committee. I sent them the literature โฆ
2019-12-05: NOW I’ve finished my dissertation proposal, and even sent it to my committee ahead of my โฆ
2019-12-04: What It's Like to Live with Chronic Illness I’m writing this in an attempt to help people without chronic illness understand the constant โฆ
2019-12-04: How did I not know that it’s not just me, but rather theย entire Internet, that refers to โฆ
2019-12-03: NPR’s Book Concierge is live and Tumblr’s Fandom Year-in-Review is out. It is truly the โฆ
2019-12-02: Connecting doesn't have to be hard. Grad school and parenthood are both immensely isolating experiences. So when you combine them, you โฆ
2019-11-27: This morning, when W. and M. were sleeping in, I could have chosen to do one of many different โฆ
2019-11-26: I… think I’m almost done with my dissertation proposal?
2019-11-26: I went thrifting yesterday by myself for the first time since having M. Thrifting used to be a โฆ
2019-11-25: This weekend was a good weekend. On Saturday, we had a harvest meal at the Montessori/co-working โฆ
2019-11-19: You don't have to love yourself to be worthy of love. I’ve been thinking today about something Maria Bamford said - I think it was in her episode of โฆ
2019-11-15: I wish I could tell little 13/14 year old me, back in 1995, that she actually DOES like a genre of โฆ
2019-11-15: Anybody got tips on automating Instagram data collection (specifically images, post text, comments) โฆ
2019-11-14: My kid’s preferred type of narrative conflict is Bear vs. Self.
2019-11-04: #goals: Welcome to #AcWriMo/#DissProWriMo! This blog post contains affiliate links. If you click them and make a purchase, I may receive a โฆ
2019-10-31: I hereby declare November to be #DissProWriMo. Writing your dissertation proposal? Me too! โฆ
2019-10-28: Current hobby: lying in bed and re-watching Downton Abbey.
2019-10-26: Remember conversation? I was out at dinner with my family a couple days ago and four adults were sitting at the next table โฆ
2019-10-24: Just sent my completed comps package off to my advisor with plans to send it to my committee next โฆ
2019-10-11: Just finished writing the first draft of my last chapter of my comps package!
2019-10-10: The world is like “Why are comedians depressed and anxious?” and “Why are โฆ
2019-10-08: TFW your birthing day float therapy self-care appointment gets cancelled & you spend your โฆ
2019-10-08: Obligatory voting selfie!
2019-10-04: Today my doctor pointed out that after gestating a child for 9 months and nursing him for 33 months, โฆ
2019-10-04: Threw off my anxiety just long enough to ask my doctor for anxiety meds. (Reader, she prescribed โฆ
2019-10-04: On my commute this morning I was pondering further whether I’m a Ravenclaw or Slytherin. Since โฆ
2019-10-04: Wizarding World app just sorted me into Slytherin, just as Pottermore did many years ago, so I guess โฆ
2019-10-02: Freewrite! Writing is a messy process. When we see a finished piece of writing, we rarely see all the mess that went into creating it. As โฆ
2019-09-27: Art by Paperhand artists.
2019-09-27: Current life goals: 1. Finish this gd comps chapter 2. Catch up on @_alexrowland’s & โฆ
2019-09-26: I love this. My friend Alana & I used to hear some Eisley lyrics as โฆ
2019-09-25: Coping when I'm not okay I&rsquo