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Dec 2, 2024: ๐ฌ๐ “When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws. This is your utopia.” Derek Sivers, โฆ
Dec 2, 2024: ๐ฌ๐ “I’m a student, not a guru.” Derek Sivers, Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
Nov 27, 2024: ๐ฟ I’ve watched still more made-for-TV holiday movies: Jingle Bell Run Meet Me Next Christmas Hot Frosty Hot Frosty taught me that no matter โฆ
Nov 26, 2024: Finished reading: A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane ๐ So, so good. I’m so happy to have found my fantasy romance sweet spot. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Nov 22, 2024: ๐ฟ Watched Christmas on the Ranch. I like this but he asks her to give up her life in New York and move to his ranch in Ohio before they even kiss. โฆ
Nov 21, 2024: Is this still a migraine or am I in the postdrome phase? The Kimberly Hirsh story
Nov 21, 2024: I love my job and my family, and yet I find myself resenting that I have to do anything today besides sit around reading A Heart of Blood and Ashes. ๐
Nov 20, 2024: Finished reading: The Beast of Blackmoor by Milla Vane ๐ Milla Vane asks, “What if grimdark, but romance?” and I answer, “Yes โฆ
Nov 20, 2024: Finished reading: Killer Underwear Invasion! How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation, and Conspiracy Theories by Elise Gravel ๐ This is a great book, โฆ
Nov 18, 2024: Chronically ill stationery nerd life: you can’t find the pill sorter you thought was on your nightstand, but at least while you were searching โฆ
Nov 18, 2024: Finished reading: Nobody’s Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips ๐ Most of this book is set in the Smoky Mountains near Asheville and I just โฆ
Nov 18, 2024: It took over a week, but my little web lab(yrinth) is live. (Previously mentioned here.)
Nov 18, 2024: My word for 2025 is MORE. I want to do more next year. Details forthcoming.
Nov 18, 2024: After all that thinking about traveler’s journals and field journals, I think I’m going to end up sticking with an official Bullet Journal โฆ
Nov 17, 2024: Finished reading: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera ๐ I love Adriana Herrera’s Las Leonas series so much. This is a very hot ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ. โฆ
Nov 16, 2024: Hello friends! If you’re seeing this on BlueSky, that’s because my website automatically syndicates there. Your replies get piped back โฆ
Nov 15, 2024: Finished reading: Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet ๐ White wrote the first novels I remember reading: Stuart Little, โฆ
Nov 15, 2024: ๐ฌ๐ “Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” E. B. White quoted in Some Writer! The โฆ
Nov 15, 2024: ๐ฌ๐ “Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most โฆ
Nov 13, 2024: Finding myself holding dear to my heart stories where people fight evil in community: Sailor Moon, Buffy Seasons 1-4 & 7.
Nov 11, 2024: I have scheduled a sleep study. I think I’m done for the day. I have been productive, right? (I’m also taking the kiddo to the โฆ
Nov 10, 2024: Bought a new domain and hosting package to have a spot to put random web projects, as one does.
Nov 9, 2024: Currently reading: Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life by Joanna Ebenstein ๐
Nov 9, 2024: ๐๐ฌ “By learning to live with our fear of death, we also learn to live with our fear of that which we cannot control, to sit with the mystery at โฆ
Nov 8, 2024: ๐ Read 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won. This is helpful.
Nov 7, 2024: It is November 7. I am wearing sandals.
Nov 7, 2024: ๐ Read Please publish more (on your website) by Colin Devroe. Micro.blog is the best way I’ve found to do this. (Full disclosure: I contract for โฆ
Nov 6, 2024: ThredUp: It’s sweater weather. Weather forecast: It’s going to be 79ยฐ F. Me: So like… Short-sleeved sweaters?
Nov 6, 2024: On November 9, 2016, I took my one month old baby to the New Parents Group at my doula’s office. Parents and babies sat together and unpacked โฆ
Nov 5, 2024: Finished reading: Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Nov 2, 2024: Finished reading: Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase ๐ The. Best. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Nov 1, 2024: The Cure might not be goth, but I am, and I’m excited about their new album.
Oct 31, 2024: Lukewarm take: Moominpappa is a terrible parent.
Oct 30, 2024: ๐ฟ I have watched more Hallmark and Hallmark-style autumnal movies: October Kiss Haunted Wedding You Cast a Spell on Me The most fun thing with these โฆ
Oct 29, 2024: ๐ฌ๐ “The best writing is often done by persons who are snatching time from something else.” E. B. White
Oct 29, 2024: Finished reading: Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase ๐ So good. Loretta Chase knows the job. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Oct 28, 2024: I have voted. I have given to two giving circles aimed at moving state legislatures in the direction I want them to go. I am finding that even โฆ
Oct 24, 2024: That feeling when you’re cited in the book you’re reading to tell you how to do your job better.
Oct 23, 2024: ๐ฟ Watched Autumn at Apple Hill. ๐ฟ Watched Autumn at Apple Hill. I wanted made-for-TV Christmas movie vibes without succumbing to the early Christmas fervor, because I adore autumn โฆ
Oct 21, 2024: Finished reading: The Truth About Him by M. O’Keefe ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Oct 21, 2024: Finished reading: Everything I Left Unsaid by M. O’Keefe ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Oct 19, 2024: Unglamorous voting selfie!
Oct 16, 2024: Finished reading: You Had Me at Happy Hour by Timothy Janovsky ๐ Of course Timothy Janovsky can write a book that has incredible mental illness & โฆ
Oct 16, 2024: ๐ Read Spinning your wheels by Annie Mueller. This is a great read. Sometimes the only way out is through, and the only way through is patience, and โฆ
Oct 16, 2024: Fan Studies Network North America 2024 starts tomorrow. It’s one of my favorite conferences. Between work and parenting, I don’t know how โฆ
Oct 14, 2024: ๐ฌ๐ “His brain doesn’t work like everyone else’s, so he’s largely stopped expecting understanding from others.” Timothy โฆ
Oct 13, 2024: Fortnight notes, 9/30/24 - 10/13/24 Trying fortnight notes today. I finally got Wโs fancy watch back to him, with a nice new battery and glass that isn’t cracked. A belated โฆ
Oct 13, 2024: I love the idea of week notes or month notes but honestly the rhythm of my life is such that neither one quite works for me. I might play with life โฆ
Oct 13, 2024: ๐ฟ Also watched They Live. A very different flavor of Carpenter. Two great tastes that taste great together!
Oct 13, 2024: ๐ฟ Watched John Carpenter’s The Thing. I love practical effects so much.
Oct 12, 2024: Finished reading: The Pairing by Casey McQuiston ๐ I love it. I’m a sucker for a second-chance romance. Casey McQuiston always does a great job. โฆ
Oct 11, 2024: My website should be automatically cross-posting to Threads now. Hi Threads friends! (Hi everyone else, too.)
Oct 11, 2024: ๐ The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen looks like exactly the kind of thing many of my Internet friends and acquaintances โฆ
Oct 11, 2024: Finished reading: The Villa by Rachel Hawkins ๐ This is a modern gothic. I bounced off of it in print but audio worked beautifully for me, as there โฆ
Oct 8, 2024: Epistolary RPGs have me writing fiction again. ๐ I mentioned in my month notes for September that I’ve been playing epistolary RPGs with my friend K. K lives three states away from me and is a โฆ
Oct 8, 2024: Finished reading: The Lion’s Daughter by Loretta Chase ๐ An older book by a luminary of the genre. I love when romance includes a lot of โฆ
Oct 6, 2024: Notebook update: buying only elastic to use with the cover we have in the house is a no-go. The cover isn’t strong enough; it really is meant to โฆ
Oct 4, 2024: ๐ Read Motherhood Is Antarctica: On the Underexplored Landscape of Postpartum Loneliness lithub.com Literary Hub โฆ
Oct 3, 2024: ๐ฌ “On your personal site, getting it wrong is not a bug, itโs a feature.” Matthias Ott, Own Your Web โ Issue 1: Your Superpower
Oct 3, 2024: ๐ Read The IndieWeb is for developers. This is a great set of points.
Oct 3, 2024: I love my child and it cracks me up that he has managed to come into my room and take up the whole king-size bed so that both W. and I have retreated โฆ
Oct 2, 2024: ๐บ Watched the DS9 episode, “Destiny,” and I feel like the Bajorans could really benefit from reading Oedipus Rex as an object lesson in โฆ
Oct 2, 2024: ๐ Read Chaos Layouts and Other Tales from Electric Worlds by Melon. I love this so much. I want to be on Melon’s web. I think to make myself a โฆ
Oct 2, 2024: Monthnotes: September 2024 If you asked me what happened in September 2024 and I answered without looking at my calendar, Iโd say nothing much. My mom was hospitalized for โฆ
Oct 2, 2024: Finished reading: If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens ๐
Oct 1, 2024: For anyone following along, here’s the resolution of my notebook question. We have a gorgeous side load leather notebook cover in our house โฆ
Sep 30, 2024: ๐ Book Review: Hungry Bones by Louise Hung Hungry Bones by Louise Hung is a spooky middle grade novel about a 13 year old girl who learns thereโs a ghost in her new house. Hereโs the โฆ
Sep 30, 2024: Analog people of Micro.blog (and Mastodon and Bluesky and the open web I guess?), talk to me about those notebook setups where you have a cover and โฆ
Sep 30, 2024: I don’t use Fb a lot, but I do check out my On This Day, which today gave me this gem: โEmilie Wapnick says you can be struggling AND thriving, โฆ
Sep 26, 2024: Finished reading: Operation: Cover-Up by Tate Godwin ๐
Sep 23, 2024: ๐บ Just finished watching the latest season of Hilda. My heart is so full. ๐ฅน
Sep 23, 2024: Finished reading: Hungry Bones by Louise Hung ๐ Full review coming soon!
Sep 23, 2024: This is Midnight and this copy of WTF Is Tarot? And How Do I Do It? by Bakara Wintner is his now.
Sep 21, 2024: ๐ Read Even Books Have Ancestors or That Time I Was a Fourth Grade Publishing Mogul by Louise Hung (Teen Librarian Toolbox). I’m reading โฆ
Sep 18, 2024: Finished reading: Knockout by Sarah MacLean ๐ Another extra hot ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ. Bless Sarah MacLean for giving us a short, round, dark-haired, brilliant, weird โฆ
Sep 16, 2024: I spent almost 4 hours each weekend day sitting at the hospital with my mom, who has colitis of mysterious origin. Today, I had tea with a friend and โฆ
Sep 13, 2024: ๐ The ebook of Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them by Jillian Venters is on sale at Amazon and B&N! I love โฆ
Sep 13, 2024: Confession time: when I started the new job, I uninstalled Inoreader from my phone and I haven’t been keeping up with my RSS feeds since. My โฆ
Sep 12, 2024: Three years ago I named my aesthetic “witchy sparkle romantigothabilly academia” which still holds but I’d like to add โฆ
Sep 10, 2024: Finished reading: Heartbreaker by Sarah MacLean ๐ Whoo. This is a hot ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ on the romance.io scale. Romance is unmatched and so is Sarah MacLean.
Sep 9, 2024: ๐๐ฌ “…the deeply rooted culture of the Jews of Eastern Europe was utterly destroyed between 1939 and 1945.” Ashkenazi Herbalism: โฆ
Sep 9, 2024: ๐ Book Review: When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman is a middle grade novel that imagines what Anne Frankโs life might have been like before she had to move to the โฆ
Sep 8, 2024: ๐ญ Just saw Clue and found it delightful. If it’s coming to where you are, definitely check it out.
Sep 7, 2024: What I've learned after a month on the job as a part-time school librarian Itโs been a full month since the official first day at my new job, and weโve had the kids at school for three weeks. And, as you might expect, in that โฆ
Sep 6, 2024: Today: a cascade of tough stuff. My hypothyroid symptoms are still mysterious, I forgot my work key, my work plans got waylaid, I cleaned up a nasty โฆ
Sep 6, 2024: Changed my bio so it only reads “escribitionist.”
Sep 4, 2024: Finished reading: Bombshell by Sarah MacLean ๐ Sarah MacLean is just so good. This is like… A 3.5 on the romance.io scale? The language is โฆ
Sep 2, 2024: Listen I don’t repost a lot from or on social, but Muppet History is out here doing good work and making me feel seen.
Aug 29, 2024: Apparently my mid-life crisis is mostly watching Derry Girls and thinking, “Yes! That’s exactly what it felt like to be a teen girl in the โฆ
Aug 28, 2024: TV : Jim Henson :: The Web : Me
Aug 27, 2024: Finished reading: Love, Come to Me by Lisa Kleypas ๐ This has a steam rating of ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ. A very early Kleypas. Be warned: the hero is a Confederate โฆ
Aug 27, 2024: Hi. I’m Kimberly and caring for my chronically ill body is a lot of work.
Aug 26, 2024: Yay, my doctor ordered antibody tests and a thyroid ultrasound. It’s such a treasure to have a doctor who trusts you when you describe your โฆ
Aug 23, 2024: You will not be surprised to discover I was a weird teen. I think I had a different high school experience than a lot of my peers. When the reunion committee asks, “What was your favorite after school โฆ
Aug 22, 2024: Finished reading: When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman ๐ Full review forthcoming.
Aug 22, 2024: Got lab results today, my thyroid numbers look great but I feel very specifically like a Kimberly whose thyroid is not functioning properly & my โฆ
Aug 21, 2024: ๐ Read The Comfort of Drawing Batman by Austin Kleon. Austin Kleon’s newsletter is the one that I let come to my inbox even after I’ve โฆ
Aug 21, 2024: Finished reading: When Grumpy Met Sunshine by Charlotte Stein ๐ Super cute, very hot. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ on the romance.io scale.
Aug 20, 2024: I just feel like we need to be more specific than saying things like “In the 1900s” or “In the mid-1900s.” Could we not give a โฆ
Aug 19, 2024: Photo dump of the school library ready for the first day of school.
Aug 17, 2024: Finished reading: This Will Be Fun by E B Asher ๐ Full review forthcoming.
Aug 11, 2024: ๐ Book Review: Hers for the Weekend by Helena Greer This is a romance. I would say on the romance.io steam rating scale, this is ๐ฅ๐ฅ: behind closed doors. Helena Greerโs romances set at Carrigan’s โฆ
Aug 11, 2024: Finished reading: Indigo by Beverly Jenkins ๐ This is so good. I learned more about abolitionism from this romance novel in a more engaging way than โฆ
Aug 10, 2024: It has been an exhausting week, in a good way. I’m so thrilled to be working with excellent colleagues who are themselves thrilled to have me โฆ
Aug 8, 2024: Finished reading: Hers for the Weekend by Helena Greer ๐ Loved it! This releases August 27. Expect a full review soon!
Aug 6, 2024: Finished reading: Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey ๐
Aug 5, 2024: ๐ Book Review: Love Requires Chocolate by Ravynn K. Stringfield If the Paris 2024 Olympic Opening Ceremony has you dreaming of reads with Parisian vibes, I’ve got a new release for you. Love Requires โฆ
Aug 5, 2024: 7 Links People Shared with Me Sod shared 7 links people shared with him. I really liked the idea that we can learn something about ourselves by looking at that, so here are 7 โฆ
Aug 3, 2024: I don’t want my 7-year-old to really understand Interview with the Vampire, obviously, but I did tell him that Taylor Swift is in a feud with an โฆ
Aug 2, 2024: Finished reading: The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler ๐ Read this to prepare for collaborating with teachers at work who want support finding books to โฆ
Aug 2, 2024: ๐๐๐ฅค Read The Enduring Mystery of Cook Out. A Cook Out Junior Tray with a cheeseburger (mayo only), double fries, and Coke was the first meal I had โฆ
Jul 31, 2024: Finished reading: Tender Rebel by Johanna Lindsey ๐
Jul 31, 2024: It’s me, hi, I’m the one watching the Olympic opening ceremonies 5 days late. It’s me.
Jul 31, 2024: ๐๐ชฆ I wish I could have gone to Funeral Services Education Camp.
Jul 29, 2024: Finished reading: Love Only Once by Johanna Lindsey ๐
Jul 29, 2024: Hey friends, I am starting a new half-time job as a school librarian in August, so I’ll be taking a break from curating Micro.blog while I get โฆ
Jul 25, 2024: I’ve been reading the staff handbook for my new school library job and my dress is supposed to meet or exceed the standards expected of โฆ
Jul 23, 2024: San Diego Comic-Con starts tomorrow. Here are a couple resources that help me feel like I’m part of it. this video of Loki interrupting the โฆ
Jul 20, 2024: Finished reading: Daring and the Duke by Sarah MacLean ๐ If you want to see Sarah MacLean do a magic trick and turn the villain of two books into the โฆ
Jul 20, 2024: ๐๐ Read Sherlock Holmes self-insert fanfic written by a 7th grader in 1903. I love this so much.
Jul 20, 2024: Updated my bio: Middle-aged magical girl. Mom. Once and future school librarian. Contract curator for Micro.blog. Citizen of Romancelandia. I manage โฆ
Jul 19, 2024: ๐ Read Frida Kahloโs life of chronic pain by Carol A. Courtney (OUPblog). Looking for examples of chronically ill and disabled creatives to be models โฆ
Jul 19, 2024: I was reading Austin Kleon’s newsletter and feeling jealous of how he seems to do so much and see so much. I realized that I spend so much of my โฆ
Jul 19, 2024: ๐ Read Welcome to Your Cronehood by Catherine Newman (Cup of Jo). I am not psyched about menopause. I’ve already lived a lot of my life for me โฆ
Jul 19, 2024: ๐๐บ๏ธ Read How Paris Hopes the Summer Olympics Will Transform the Cityโfor Good by Lindsey Tramuta (Condรฉ Nast Traveler). This is a fascinating article. โฆ
Jul 18, 2024: ๐ฎ I got Metroid: Samus Returns. I’m really enjoying it. I know there will be parts that are super difficult, but I am happy to use walkthroughs โฆ
Jul 18, 2024: ๐๐ 100 of the Greatest Posters of Celebrities Urging You to Read by James Folta (Lit Hub) This is the kind of content carefully calibrated to please โฆ
Jul 17, 2024: Hey y’all! The Connected Learning Lab published the work from my postdoc today! Two new reports for library staff and leaders compiling valuable โฆ
Jul 15, 2024: Finished reading: Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean ๐ Sarah MacLean is just the best.
Jul 14, 2024: Some years on my birthday, I share who I want to be in the following year. This year, in addition to the stuff from earlier years, I want to add: I โฆ
Jul 14, 2024: ๐ฎ Finished Metroid: Zero Mission. This is a remake of the original NES Metroid with a lengthy epilogue. I mostly enjoy Metroidvanias for the โฆ
Jul 12, 2024: ๐๐ Celebrate my birthday, Bastille Day, with me by engaging with French stuff! ๐ซ๐ท๐ผ It’s my birthday on Sunday! As my birthday is Bastille Day and this is the second birthday I’ve had since going to France and confirming โฆ
Jul 11, 2024: How do I decide what to feature in the Discover tab on Micro.blog? Disclaimer: This is not an official Micro.blog communication. Just me explaining my process. And it’s all rather stream-of-consciousness. Hey! I โฆ
Jul 11, 2024: I’ve been doing French on Duolingo for a bit over a year (and Dutch before that) and this morning I realized I can translate a not insubstantial โฆ
Jul 10, 2024: Hey friends of Micro.blog. I am a contractor working mostly on M.b curation for about 5 hours a week. So if you perceive I’m not doing as much โฆ
Jul 9, 2024: Finished reading: Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean ๐ I love this one. The hero is so dreamy.
Jul 9, 2024: “I luxiriated in books.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Jul 8, 2024: ๐๐ฌ “All I ever wanted was to belong, to wear that hat of belonging.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Jul 8, 2024: ๐๐ฌ “Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to show up anywhere.” Anne Lamott, โฆ
Jul 8, 2024: ๐๐ฌ “I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore โฆ
Jul 8, 2024: ๐๐ฌ “One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Jul 8, 2024: ๐๐ Read Notes on Romance Novels as “Camp”. Andrea, author of the Shelf Love newsletter, does an amazing job of arguing for romance novels โฆ
Jul 5, 2024: Finished reading: The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean ๐ This one made me cry. I just really love a second chance.
Jul 3, 2024: Finished reading: A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean ๐
Jul 3, 2024: Finished reading: The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean ๐
Jul 3, 2024: Me: What if I eat yogurt and granola for every meal today?
Jul 2, 2024: That thing where you’ve just spent a couple days immersed in something over which you have no control, so you very carefully align all the โฆ
Jun 26, 2024: Want to read: The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives by Adam Smyth ๐
Jun 24, 2024: ๐๐ Read The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy by Verlyn Flieger (Literary Hub) Dr. Flieger says: Tolkien created โฆ
Jun 24, 2024: ๐ Read Ten Years Out of Academia by Anne Helen Petersen. I’m 3 years out from my doctoral defense and 6 months out from holding an academic job. โฆ
Jun 23, 2024: Finished reading: The Price of Pleasure by Kresley Cole ๐ This one made me smile at the end.
Jun 23, 2024: ๐ฟI'm so glad I watched Jim Henson: Idea Man. I watched the documentary, Jim Henson: Idea Man yesterday. I found it incredibly moving. I re-read Austin Kleonโs Steal Like an Artist frequently and โฆ
Jun 22, 2024: Personal Publishing and The Coney Island Problem Here are a pair of blog posts that ended up in conversation with each other in my brain because I read them both this morning in quick succession. CJ โฆ
Jun 21, 2024: Solstice tarot/oracle reading and baby shower planning Iโm typing this blog post in Google Docs, because of its autosave feature. Thereโs probably a better way, but oh well. I kind of want to just type it โฆ
Jun 20, 2024: Rambling thoughts shared on the day of the solstice Itโs the summer solstice and tomorrow weโll have a Strawberry Moon. Here are some rambling thoughts on things that have captured my attention lately. โฆ
Jun 19, 2024: ๐ It’s Juneteenth! The National Museum of African-American History and Culture interviewed the museum’s curators about Juneteenth and โฆ
Jun 18, 2024: Finished reading: The Captain of All Pleasures by Kresley Cole ๐ I do love a sailor heroine.
Jun 17, 2024: Hey Internet in general and Micro.blog specifically! I was on vacation and away from much of the Internet from 6/8 - 6/15. Is there anything I missed โฆ
Jun 17, 2024: Finished reading: If You Desire by Kresley Cole ๐ Somehow forgot to post this when I finished it. It was my favorite of the MacCarrick Brothers โฆ
Jun 13, 2024: Finished reading: If You Deceive by Kresley Cole ๐
Jun 8, 2024: Finished reading: If You Dare by Kresley Cole ๐
Jun 6, 2024: Want to read: Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success by Christine M. Larson ๐
Jun 4, 2024: Finished reading: The Devil of Downtown by Joanna Shupe ๐ Another excellent Gilded Age historical romance.
Jun 3, 2024: ๐๐บ Read The Donald Trump I Saw on The Apprentice. For 20 years, I couldnโt say what I watched the former president do on the set of the show that โฆ
May 31, 2024: Finished reading: Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun ๐ This made me bawl. I love a childhood best friends to enemies to lovers story, and this one is โฆ
May 31, 2024: Oh the irony of being unable to go to the pharmacy to pick up your (my) migraine meds because you (I) have a migraine. (Please do not recommend โฆ
May 30, 2024: Today: woke up way too early read about Romance Writers of America filing for bankruptcy and the absurd way they’re trying to blame it on โฆ
May 29, 2024: ๐ฎ Played Assemble with Care. I’m really feeling wholesome games lately, especially those with a warm pastel color palette and soothing music. In โฆ
May 28, 2024: Finished reading: The Prince of Broadway by Joanna Shupe ๐ I loved it. A delightful heroine, a debutante with dreams of owning a women-only casino. โฆ
May 28, 2024: Midnight is very sleepy.
May 28, 2024: Finished reading: The Essential X-Men Volume 3 by Chris Claremont ๐ Read as single issues and only the Uncanny X-Men books, not the annuals, but this โฆ
May 25, 2024: That feeling when you went to the pool with children and you only had snacks for lunch and your knee hurts and you’re ready for bed at 3:30. โฆ
May 25, 2024: Finished reading: The Rogue of Fifth Avenue by Joanna Shupe ๐ Gilded Age New York, a hotshot lawyer, and a responsible eldest daughter who finds her โฆ
May 23, 2024: Whoops, I was too busy actually paying attention to FanLIS to take notes. Also, it turns out virtual conferences are much less exhausting when โฆ
May 23, 2024: I’m attending FanLIS this morning. This is my favorite little academic space: the intersection of fan studies and library & information โฆ
May 22, 2024: Finished reading: The Essential X-Men Volume 2 by Chris Claremont ๐ Again, read as single issues in Marvel Unlimited, but this is the best way to โฆ
May 22, 2024: Finished reading: Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by Sarah MacLean ๐ This has my favorite of Sarah MacLean’s heroes. Give me a guy who is clever โฆ
May 20, 2024: ๐ Reading The Dark Phoenix Saga (not for the first time) and I had forgotten how heavily this whole deal, especially Scott talking to Dark Phoenix โฆ
May 20, 2024: ๐๐ Read Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker Made an Irreverent, Charming Kidsโ Book by Stephen Bell (Harper’s Bazaar). I’m super curious to โฆ
May 19, 2024: ๐ฟ Watched UHF on the big screen today, when I’d only watched it at home before. Early on I seemed to be the only person laughing but maybe โฆ
May 19, 2024: Finished reading: Essential X-Men - Volume 1 I read these as single issues in Marvel Unlimited, but this is the easiest way to track them.
May 18, 2024: Currently reading: The Best There is at what He Does: Examining Chris Claremontโs X-Men by Jason Powell ๐ Started watching X-Men 97 ๐บ which reminded โฆ
May 17, 2024: Want to read: A Web of Our Own Making by Antรณn Barba-Kay ๐
May 16, 2024: My kid told me, “A cross between a piglet and a pug is a puglet.” When I replied, “Good night,” meaning to indicate that it โฆ
May 16, 2024: Finished reading: No Good Duke Goes Unpunished by Sarah MacLean ๐ I love every Sarah MacLean heroine.
May 14, 2024: Finished reading: One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean ๐ Lady Phillipa Marbury is a refreshing take on a bluestocking.
May 14, 2024: Hello world, I am full of hormonally-induced ill feeling including headache, nausea, and cramps. Until further notice, I hate everything except my โฆ
May 14, 2024: ๐๐ Here is the actual study with the evidence of the correlation between fiction reading and cognition.
May 14, 2024: ๐๐ Read If You Read a Lot of Fiction, Scientists Have Very Good News About Your Brain. It’s always good to look at the actual studies behind โฆ
May 13, 2024: Just a little reproductive system education, because I’ve met many adults who have uteruses and don’t know this: the menstrual cycle โฆ
May 13, 2024: ๐ Book Review: You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian Austin Kleon introduced me to a newsletter issue in which director and writer Mark Slutsky talks about the feeling of being in good hands: Iโve come โฆ
May 13, 2024: ๐ Read a pair of pieces about art and mothering: The โImpossible Lifeโ of Equal Devotion to Art and Mothering by Jessica Grose (NYT Gift Link) โฆ
May 11, 2024: Finished reading: A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean ๐ I do love a good 19th Century casino. Thank goodness for the romance-guaranteed happily โฆ
May 10, 2024: Thanks to everyone for your kind words over on Manton’s post about my joining the Micro.blog team! I want to be clear that I’m not taking โฆ
May 9, 2024: My Sister's Baby Is Not My Baby and My Sister Is Also Not My Baby My little sister M.E. is expecting a baby. Her due date is July 20. She’s 4 and a half years (and 4 days and 30 minutes) younger than me. She โฆ
May 9, 2024: Finished reading: Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart by Sarah MacLean ๐ Yes, I finished this less than 36 hours after I finished the โฆ
May 9, 2024: Between chronic illness and acute illness it feels like I have so little time when I can be doing things besides resting.
May 9, 2024: ๐๐ Read How Pregnancy Forever Transforms the Body and the Mind by Lucy Jones (Literary Hub).
May 9, 2024: First pool visit of the season yesterday. If I could do everything in water, I would. ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ
May 8, 2024: Finished reading: Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean ๐ I love the heroine in this so much. Big eldest daughter, โฆ
May 6, 2024: ๐๐ Read What Eve L. Ewingโs Career Trajectory Tells Us About Black Womenโs Place in Mainstream Superhero Comics by Ravynn K. Stringfield. Dr. โฆ
May 6, 2024: ๐๐ Read A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life by Heidi Reimer (Literary Hub).
May 5, 2024: Finished reading: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean ๐ My first MacLeaniverse adventure and, of course, I loved it.
May 3, 2024: Finished reading: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo ๐ So great. I loved it so much. More later.
May 2, 2024: Me: goes to Target Ah, it’s so nice to be out in the world.
May 2, 2024: ๐ Read The films that gave us unrealistic expectations about what makes a ‘home’. …I too had one of those houses I had always โฆ
Apr 30, 2024: Now that the offer letter is signed and everybody at the school has been notified, I’m happy to share that next year I’ll be the librarian โฆ
Apr 30, 2024: ๐๐ Read Tackling Balletโs History of Anti-Blackness as a White Woman. The infinitely kinder cousin of ignorance is curiosity. A great short piece โฆ
Apr 29, 2024: ๐๐ Read My Sonโs Love Life Is None of My Business, Except It Is by Yukiko Tominaga (Electric Literature). This is a lovely piece about love and โฆ
Apr 28, 2024: Finished reading: The (Fake) Dating Game by Timothy Janovsky ๐ Whew! Timothy Janovsky wasn’t kidding when he said this was his steamiest book โฆ
Apr 28, 2024: Y’all got me ready for “I cry a lot but I’m so productive” but I was not prepared for the resonant truth of “I’m โฆ
Apr 26, 2024: My friend Josh died last week. My friend Josh died last week. He was only 32 and had already given the world so much. I’m angry on the world’s behalf at all the decades โฆ
Apr 25, 2024: Finished reading: You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian ๐ Full review coming soon but y’all, this is so great. It’s out May 7. Olivia โฆ
Apr 24, 2024: New bio! Mom. PhD. Once and future school librarian. Freelance academic. Citizen of Romancelandia. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I love books โฆ
Apr 23, 2024: ๐ Read The Messy Places Are Where the Learning Happens: On Being a Beginner by Michelle Boyd (Digits and Threads) A great reminder to deliberately be โฆ
Apr 22, 2024: Finished reading: The Witch Queen of Halloween by Kresley Cole ๐ This is a super fun romance novella, inspired by horror movies. Might become an โฆ
Apr 21, 2024: Finished reading: The Player by Kresley Cole ๐ A con artist falling in love with her tech billionaire mark? Sign me up.
Apr 20, 2024: ๐๐๐ Read Mothering and Writing Are Both Undervalued Labor, so How Do Women Do Both? . An excellent excerpt from the book The Mother Artist: Portraits โฆ
Apr 19, 2024: ๐๐ฌ “…publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing โฆ
Apr 19, 2024: ๐๐ฌ “One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: โฆ
Apr 19, 2024: ๐๐ Read An Oasis in the Desert: Why Libraries Are the Best Places to Write. I love to write in a library carrel. More than once I’ve considered โฆ
Apr 18, 2024: Finished reading: The Master by Kresley Cole ๐
Apr 17, 2024: Over here fantasizing about spending my own money on ModCloth and eShakti dresses, as well as having a place to wear them. ๐
Apr 16, 2024: Finished reading: The Professional by Kresley Cole ๐ I finished this in just a couple of days. Definitely read the info on the author’s website โฆ
Apr 16, 2024: ๐๏ธ Month Notes: March 2024 March was a full month! Our local historic cinema shows retro films. W & I went to This Is Spinal Tap together. It turns out it’s still โฆ
Apr 15, 2024: One of the cool things about kids is that some are obsessed with stuff like Pokรฉmon and some are obsessed with stuff like cats, while still others are โฆ
Apr 15, 2024: Finished reading: Munro by Kresley Cole ๐ The heroine in this one is a time-traveling Transylvanian knife-throwing carnie so, you know, she’s โฆ
Apr 13, 2024: ๐๐งถ Read This Is Your Brain on Fibre by Michelle Woodvine (Digits & Threads). A great article that explores a lot of the reasons fiber crafting is โฆ
Apr 13, 2024: Finished reading: Wicked Abyss by Kresley Cole ๐ This is a banger of a Beauty and the Beast retelling, with an ending I radically prefer to the Disney โฆ
Apr 12, 2024: ๐ Read You are having a midlife crisis. It’s fine. This is an interesting pairing with The Cut’s The Case for Marrying an Older Man. The โฆ
Apr 10, 2024: Finished reading: Shadow’s Seduction by Kresley Cole ๐ It took me a long time to get into this one and it’s not as strong as a lot of the โฆ
Apr 9, 2024: Finished reading: Shadow’s Claim by Kresley Cole ๐ I really liked this one, the way the main characters interact with each other is both sweet โฆ
Apr 8, 2024: Don’t buy any plants today, y’all.
Apr 7, 2024: Finished reading: Sweet Ruin by Kresley Cole ๐ “She’d thought there was no greater connection than destiny decreeing them joined. But โฆ
Apr 5, 2024: Happy First Contact Day, y’all! Only 39 years until warp flight & meeting Vulcans! ๐๐ป
Apr 5, 2024: Nap first or eat first? The Kimberly Hirsh story
Apr 3, 2024: Finished reading: Dark Skye by Kresley Cole ๐ Other people seem to hate this one but I like it pretty well. Lanthe and Thronos’s story is epic, โฆ
Apr 3, 2024: ๐ When I’m catching up on a long-running series, I sometimes forget that there are people who, for example, couldn’t read 19 Immortals โฆ
Apr 1, 2024: Did you know that April is School Library Month? It’s true! Did you know that I’m trained as and have worked as a school librarian? Also โฆ
Mar 29, 2024: Finished reading: Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas ๐ A lovely historical about an author and a publisher who fall in lust and then love. Her body is โฆ
Mar 28, 2024: Finished reading: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang ๐ A lovely romance novel with an autistic heroine. I highlighted a lot.
Mar 24, 2024: Finished reading: Matilda by Roald Dahl ๐ We went to see Matilda the Musical and I loved it. I’d watched the Netflix movie of the musical and โฆ
Mar 22, 2024: Finished reading: MacRieve by Kresley Cole ๐ This one is beautifully done as always. There’s a traumatic backstory of childhood sexual abuse for โฆ
Mar 19, 2024: ๐ Read Why I Celebrate The Spring Equinox As The Real โNew Yearโ. I really love this. I want to live more in line with the seasons. Spring is a great โฆ
Mar 17, 2024: Finished reading: Lothaire by Kresley Cole ๐ Of course if you’re reading Immortals After Dark you must read this one. You simply must.
Mar 16, 2024: ๐ฟ Watched Yes Day. This is a super fun family movie! I love it in no small part because of Jennifer Garner and Jenna Ortega but also it’s just โฆ
Mar 16, 2024: I’m celebrating (?) the Ides of March a day late with an Italian Night Club sandwich from Jimmy John’s and Roman Raspberry Talenti โฆ
Mar 15, 2024: ๐ Babyโs First Author Event Let me be clear, when I say โbaby,โ I mean โbig kid.โ We took M to his first author event a couple weeks ago. It was awesome. Adam Gidwitz has a new โฆ
Mar 13, 2024: Finished reading: Preferential Treatment by Heather Guerre ๐ Read this billionaire romance because it’s the next Fated Mates read along. โฆ
Mar 12, 2024: I know there are things to do in life besides play Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, but I don’t care to do them. ๐ฎ
Mar 11, 2024: Finished reading: Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole ๐ This one took me a little while to get into but once I was in, I couldn’t put it โฆ
Mar 8, 2024: To quote @cheribaker@writing.exchange: Don’t wish us Happy International Women’s Day. Instead, help to vote out the ghouls who deny โฆ
Mar 7, 2024: Finished reading: Demon From the Dark by Kresley Cole ๐ I really enjoyed this one and tore through it. Give me a sad, traumatized couple of people who โฆ
Mar 6, 2024: New glasses, same as the old glasses except they actually fit.
Mar 5, 2024: Finished reading: Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole ๐ I really liked, maybe even loved this one. The back half is all adventure, super โฆ
Mar 5, 2024: ๐ Read The โDisney adultโ industrial complex by Amelia Tait (The New Statesman via The Rec Center) The grown-up Disney superfan has become a โฆ
Mar 3, 2024: Finished reading: “Untouchable” in Deep Kiss of Winter by Kresley Cole ๐
Mar 3, 2024: ๐ Why am I obsessed with romance fiction right now? Last May, I read Mr. and Mrs. Witch by Gwenda Bond, and it made me so happy that I decided to try exclusively reading romance for a while. From May to โฆ
Mar 3, 2024: ๐ Blogging is the medium of incomplete stories I love this. I often feel that blogging is the most natural medium for my writing, which makes sense as โฆ
Mar 2, 2024: ๐๏ธ Month Notes, February 2024 Lars-Christian noted that month notes work better than week notes for him due to the cadence of his life, and I think this will be true for me, too. โฆ
Mar 1, 2024: Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop by John Scalzi ๐ This was a re-read. A bit of a time โฆ
Mar 1, 2024: ๐ฎ Okay people of the Internet. I’m about to start Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth. See you in a couple hundred hours.
Mar 1, 2024: ๐ Read The Memex Method Virtually every sentence that contains the word โbrandโ is [BS]… Cory Doctorow on the value of a blog as a โฆ
Feb 29, 2024: ๐ฎ Finished Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, and Super Mario Bros. 3. Classics all, only accessible for me due to the rewind feature in Nintendo โฆ
Feb 28, 2024: “Books always heal the hands they come through.” Leonie Dawson, 40 Days to a Finished Book (If you purchase the course through this link, โฆ
Feb 27, 2024: ๐ I’m doing a writing project currently and I set a goal of 10000 words but ran out of planned stuff to say at 5000, so today I added this to โฆ
Feb 27, 2024: ๐ Read What Is Mental Load? (And Why Is It Important?) by Randi Donahue (The Good Trade). It feels a propos that I read this sitting in the โฆ
Feb 27, 2024: ๐ I wanted to respond to Lars-Christian’s post asking what the point of daily writing is. Here’s what I said: I wanted to let you know โฆ
Feb 26, 2024: Finished reading: Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole ๐
Feb 26, 2024: Finished reading: Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole ๐
Feb 24, 2024: Finished reading: Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole ๐ ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ I tore through this one so fast. I think it might partly be because the heroine โฆ
Feb 22, 2024: Finished reading: Dark Needs at Night’s Edge by Kresley Cole ๐ My favorite Immortals After Dark book so far. A burlesque dancer becomes a โฆ
Feb 19, 2024: Finished reading: Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night by Kresley Cole ๐ ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ as always. Werewolves continue to not be my thing but I love โฆ
Feb 15, 2024: Finished reading: No Rest For The Wicked by Kresley Cole ๐ Listen, all these Immortals After Dark books are ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ, okay? That’s just โฆ
Feb 14, 2024: I added “Citizen of Romancelandia.” to my bio everywhere.
Feb 14, 2024: ๐๐จ๏ธ “This union was supposed to be for eternityโit followed that their courtship would be extended.” - Kresley Cole, No Rest for the โฆ
Feb 14, 2024: Hello, Internet! I hope you have a great day today.
Feb 13, 2024: ๐ This is your reminder that The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond is out today!
Feb 12, 2024: Taking a break from academia I’m taking a deliberate break from all things academia and academia-adjacent. I spent the past 2 years working on a big project as the key โฆ
Feb 12, 2024: I’m currently doing Leonie Dawson’s 40 Days to a Finished Book ecourse and I love this that she said: It’s a collage of words. You โฆ
Feb 11, 2024: Finished reading: A Hunger Like No other by Kresley Cole ๐ Incredibly high spice level, all the chili pepper emoji ๐ถ๏ธ! A Valkyrie/vampire hybrid and a โฆ
Feb 11, 2024: Finished reading: The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leung ๐ A 2024 Caldecott Honor winner.
Feb 11, 2024: Finished reading: Two New Years by Richard Ho ๐ Winner of the 2024 Sydney Taylor book award.
Feb 8, 2024: Finished reading: Nacho y Lolita/Nacho and Lolita by Pam Muรฑoz Ryan ๐ Pam Muรฑoz Ryan won the Childrenโs Literature Legacy Award. This was where โฆ
Feb 8, 2024: Finished reading: Fox Has a Problem by Corey R. Tabor ๐ Reading my way through this year’s American Library Association Youth Media Award โฆ
Feb 8, 2024: Now I’m thinking about Odo’s maintenance of his humanoid form and how it can be read as an analog for neurodivergent masking. Like, โฆ
Feb 8, 2024: ๐๐ป Odo is DS9!Data. (And I know, Data is TNG!Spock.)
Feb 7, 2024: Finished reading: Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas ๐ A sizzling historical that has two refreshing leads: she’s a writer, not a bluestocking. He โฆ
Feb 6, 2024: What are you obsessed with right now? For me it’s the podcast Fated Mates, all things romance book-adjacent, and Parisian vibes.
Feb 6, 2024: The personal brand paradox wepresent.wetransfer.com WePresent https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/personal-brand-paradox-debbie-millman When a โฆ
Feb 6, 2024: ๐๏ธ Week Notes, 2024, Weeks 3 through 5: A Link to the Past and Linkโs Awakening Are Super Fun Itโs three weeksโ worth of week notes at once! My son Mโs school has a โDay Onโ on Martin Luther King, Jr. day. They choose a theme for the day and โฆ
Feb 6, 2024: Parents who are freelancers/self-employed, what do you do when your kid is home sick? Do you just sort of give up on getting work done?
Feb 6, 2024: ๐ฎ Finished Link’s Awakening. Super fun!
Feb 5, 2024: ๐บ๐ Watched Christmas Flow, mostly for the Parisian locations.
Feb 4, 2024: ๐บ Watched Emily in Paris. All of it, fairly quickly. Gorgeous views of Paris and fun to see how much of the French I understood but I don’t find โฆ
Feb 3, 2024: Finished reading: Then Came You by Lisa Kleypas ๐ Classic 90s pre-Victorian historical, medium spice level.
Feb 1, 2024: ๐บ Watching Emily in Paris, mostly for the gorgeous locations and Sylvie’s fashion. Emily’s relationships with men stress me out.
Jan 31, 2024: I just shared in a fibromyalgia Facebook group what it takes for me to get decent sleep. Thought I’d share here as well: 300mg gabapentin โฆ
Jan 30, 2024: Finished reading: The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun ๐ Lovely! What if the dude who was producing The Bachelor fell in love with the bachelor? This โฆ
Jan 29, 2024: ๐ Reading Notes: A Quaker Book of Wisdom by Robert Lawrence Smith, Chapter 9, โEducationโ โฆa good school is one that is constantly engaged in self-examination, in improving itself, in becoming wiser in its ability to both teach and inspire. โฆ
Jan 28, 2024: My kid has started randomly singing “Bela Lugosi’s dead” (like, that one phrase) so I can retire now. My adorable babybat.
Jan 27, 2024: ๐ฟ Watched Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Can’t believe I’ve never seen this before. Surprised to find that Sean Penn was my favorite part โฆ
Jan 27, 2024: ๐จ๏ธ๐ “Take the time to take time because nobody else will do it for you.” Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Margaret, and Sophie Mas, โฆ
Jan 27, 2024: I went upstairs to get my glasses. I came downstairs with two books and no glasses. This is peak Kimberly. (I’m nearsighted so I don’t โฆ
Jan 26, 2024: Finished reading: New Adult by Timothy Janovsky ๐ Like if 13 Going on 30 was instead 23 Going on 30. Timothy Janovsky’s characters make me so โฆ
Jan 24, 2024: People of the Internet who wear scents from small businesses, what do you do when your signature scent is discontinued? I have a bottle of Whisper โฆ
Jan 24, 2024: Finished reading: A Dish Best Served Hot by Natalie Caรฑa ๐ A lovely, slightly spicy romance. This one resonates a lot because one of the main โฆ
Jan 21, 2024: Finished reading: A Proposal They Can’t Refuse by Natalie Caรฑa ๐ Super sweet and a little steamy romance.
Jan 21, 2024: I was in Baltimore for just over 24 hours for a conference but I did find time for just a bit of goth literary tourism.
Jan 20, 2024: Sorry to have missed the Micro.blog analog meetup! My sense of timing is a bit discombobulated due to conference travel and changes to it. See โฆ
Jan 20, 2024: Want to read: Grove Hollow Metamorphosis: A 1980s Gothic Paranormal Romance Novel by Shelby Nicole McFadden ๐ Probably going to buy this one but โฆ
Jan 20, 2024: Finished reading: In the Case of Heartbreak by Courtney Kae ๐ Highest of recommendations here. This book is a cute romance but it’s also healing โฆ
Jan 19, 2024: ๐๐จ๏ธ You are not a burden… You are a blessing. Just Courtney Kae still wrecking me with In the Case of Heartbreak, that’s all.
Jan 19, 2024: ๐๐จ๏ธ Your feelings are valid and important no matter how they make me feel… you aren’t responsible for my response. Read this in โฆ
Jan 19, 2024: ๐จ๏ธ Get a group of people around you that you love, and that love you… Give them an idea that has enough empty space in it that they can make โฆ
Jan 16, 2024: Ah hiding in the bathroom to get a little quiet, my old friend.
Jan 16, 2024: ๐๏ธ Week Notes, 2024 Week 2: Zelda II is skippable It’s time for another round of Week Notes! Monday morning I had my usual coffee work date with my friend C. I worked on my session for โฆ
Jan 16, 2024: Kinda sad today’s idea gardens post from Austin Kleon is one of the paid ones because I want everyone to be able to check it out. For similar โฆ
Jan 14, 2024: Finished reading: Love Requires Chocolate by Ravynn K. Stringfield ๐ Full review coming later, but I loved this confection of a YA romance from Ravynn โฆ
Jan 12, 2024: Book Review: The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond The thing about Gwenda Bond is that sheโll take your favorite microgenre or trope, mix some magic in, and give you a whole new story to enjoy. Which โฆ
Jan 11, 2024: Finished reading: The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond ๐ I thought this was going to be a romance book with a heist, but I was mistaken. It’s a heist โฆ
Jan 11, 2024: And, the answer is ... Following Alex’s lead, I’m answering some questions. Best sandwich? I don’t like having to choose but I really like a good roast โฆ
Jan 11, 2024: Friends of the Internet, timelines move too fast for where my head is at right now. I’m not abandoning them but I hope you know that if โฆ
Jan 10, 2024: ๐ฟ Watched Heartburn. This one is written by Nora Ephron & directed by Mike Nichols, and it’s mostly very sad. But the cries it made me cry โฆ
Jan 10, 2024: ๐ฟ Watched The Intern. Another Nancy Meyers film. I really liked this. It made me cry. I think it was a little tricky because it seemed both to โฆ
Jan 9, 2024: ๐ฟ Watched It’s Complicated. Happy to have watched. It seemed to me mostly to be about how a manbaby doesn’t want to contribute to his new โฆ
Jan 9, 2024: ๐๏ธ Week Notes, 2024 Week 1: Beautiful dragons in crystal forests I do so like when other people, like @cygnoir, write week notes, so I thought I’d give it a try. On New Year’s Day, my little household โฆ
Jan 9, 2024: If you like analog tools, you probably want to sign up for @cygnoir’s analog meetup.
Jan 9, 2024: ๐ I’m genuinely thrilled for the Gen Zers and others who have the energy for a weekly everything shower, but this chronically ill Xennial is โฆ
Jan 7, 2024: ๐ฎ Finished The Legend of Zelda (NES). A classic, of course. I’ve never been able to get very far before, but I played it with Nintendo Switch โฆ
Jan 7, 2024: Finished reading: Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky ๐ Another delightful romance given to us by Timothy Janovsky, whose little details feel so โฆ
Jan 7, 2024: High pain day today.
Jan 5, 2024: ๐๐บ Watched Pokemon Concierge and read Pokรฉmon Concierge’s Psyduck Is for the Millennial Pokรฉmon Fans. I’m a Xennial: Pokemon was more for โฆ
Jan 5, 2024: I like @ayjay’s idea of reflecting on what you’ve read weekly or monthly.
Jan 4, 2024: ๐ Read The Web Renaissance Takes Off by Anil Dash. Sign me up. (I’m trying to make a web-related pun here about Lucrezia Borgia, but it’s โฆ
Jan 3, 2024: Finished reading: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert ๐ I’m late to this party but happy to finally be here. As sweet and hot as the โฆ
Jan 3, 2024: Gonna be updating my about page soon. If you were going to choose something to include on my about page, what would it be?
Jan 3, 2024: ๐ Read Ambient Co-Presence by Maggie Appleton. This sounds really nice. My favorite locale for physical ambient co-presence is a university library, โฆ
Jan 2, 2024: ๐ Austin Kleon’s list of 100 things that made his year is excellent, as always.
Jan 1, 2024: Leigh Bardugo encourages people on New Year’s Day to Begin As You Mean to Go On, meaning to spend 15 minutes doing something you want to do more โฆ
Jan 1, 2024: ๐ Read 2024: The Year of the Personal Website by Matthias Ott. How about, from now on, we make every year the year of the personal website โ and make โฆ
Jan 1, 2024: Responding to this post on gift-giving: For me, the sweet spot for a gift is when you can use it to show that you’ve paid attention to what the โฆ
Dec 31, 2023: ๐ฟ Watched Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story. A fascinating documentary about a fascinating person.
Dec 31, 2023: My Reading Year 2023 Some notes on my reading year 2023. I read 47 books. I overwhelmingly read romance, much more than any other genre. I have no regrets about that. โฆ
Dec 30, 2023: Finished reading: For Never & Always by Helena Greer ๐ I love it so much. Finished it in under 48 hours. Helena Greer has given us a lovely place โฆ
Dec 29, 2023: It is not humanly possible for Helena Greer to write fast enough to meet my desire for Carrigan’s content. It’s generous of her to give us โฆ
Dec 29, 2023: Me: I started this book last night and read only one chapter before bed. Now I’m on page 214. W: Sounds like my wife. ๐
Dec 28, 2023: Finished reading: How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow ๐ Lovely and sweet. Made me cry when the main character’s mom really shows up for โฆ
Dec 28, 2023: ๐๐จ๏ธ “I want to live my life being irrationally hopeful. Loving people and fish and cities with my whole heart.” Jake Maia Arlow, How to โฆ
Dec 26, 2023: Yesterday my mom, who in April 2022 was told she would probably never walk again, walked (with a walker and people around to spot her) up my front โฆ
Dec 25, 2023: ๐ฟ Watched Hats Off to Christmas. This is the most paradigmatic Hallmark Christmas movie. It has everything: a struggling small business a suit guy โฆ
Dec 24, 2023: Finished reading: Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun ๐ This one was so lovely it made me cry. I can’t even sum up. Go read the description โฆ
Dec 24, 2023: ๐จ๏ธ๐ “the emptiness was the absence of myself.” Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me
Dec 23, 2023: I made this Funko Pop of myself using this Microsoft Designer prompt and I love her so much.
Dec 21, 2023: My little family is in the production of A Christmas Carol honoring the retirement of the director of the theater where W & I met. At rehearsal โฆ
Dec 18, 2023: Bringing back The PhD Story’s predictive text New Year’s Resolution: My resolution for 2024 is to be a good time.
Dec 18, 2023: How I talk about books online ๐ In today’s issue of Happy Dancing, Charlie Jane Anders writes about how to fix GoodReads to avoid people review-bombing books to lower their โฆ
Dec 17, 2023: Finished reading: You’re a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky ๐ Oh my goodness I love it. Matthew Prince starts out as a spoiled party โฆ
Dec 15, 2023: ๐ Listening to Patrick Stewart read A Christmas Carol and it’s just feels like having Jean-Luc Picard read it to you. ๐
Dec 14, 2023: Finished reading: In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae ๐ A lovely place-based friends-to-lovers second chance. As often happens, the third act breakup โฆ
Dec 14, 2023: Finished reading: Eight Kisses by Mindy Klasky ๐ Eight Hanukkah romance stories. I read one each night. My favorites are the one with the Frisky Bean โฆ
Dec 14, 2023: ๐๐จ๏ธ When people who donโt have fibromyalgia ask me how it feels, I tell them to imagine the last time they had a bad flu, then to picture going โฆ
Dec 12, 2023: Me: My heel hurts. My doctor: Have you tried using that ointment I told to use for pain on it? Me: I will now.
Dec 12, 2023: ๐๐ Read How To Get Started Reading Romance Novels by Stephanie Fallon (The Good Trade). This is an excellent guide. Also? If you have unkind things to โฆ
Dec 11, 2023: Me: I’m going to take a 20 minute nap (sets alarm) Narrator: She took a 90 minute nap. She did not hear the alarm.
Dec 11, 2023: I have 3 one -month gift subscriptions to Jami Attenberg’s Craft Talk to give away. Let me know if you want one.
Dec 11, 2023: I just don’t feel like writing a year-in-review post, y’all. So I might not.
Dec 10, 2023: ๐ฟ Watched Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. My kid’s first time seeing both. Home Alone is, of course, a classic. Home Alone 2 โฆ
Dec 8, 2023: ๐๐๐ป I would like to thank s-h-a-s-e on Tumblr for this Hanukkah gift of Sarek, Amanda, and Spock celebrating. In the words of Adam Sandler: You โฆ
Dec 8, 2023: Book Character, Age 25: Seeing her has me feeling seventeen again. Me, Age 42: Please. You’re only 25. You’re barely not 17. 2006 Me, Age โฆ
Dec 8, 2023: ๐ฟ๐บ๐ Watched The Christmas Train. Based on a David Baldacci novel & bringing a bit of star power with Dermot Mulroney, Joan Cusack, and Danny โฆ
Dec 7, 2023: Happy Hanukkah from this honorary M.O.T., whose 41% Jewishness is all on her dad’s side. ๐
Dec 7, 2023: Today’s stay poor slowly scheme: open a romance-only bookstore. ๐
Dec 7, 2023: I was using Bing to play with ChatGPT-4 and I asked it who I am. It returned what is perhaps the most truthful answer.
Dec 6, 2023: ๐ Planning Writing Goals with Kate McKean Kate McKean’s Agents and Books newsletter yesterday includes a flowchart to help you plan writing goals for next year. I’m in the “I โฆ
Dec 6, 2023: ๐ Today’s library haul. Catching up on Holigays22 and some other holiday reads, plus a YA biography of my hero Sarah Bernhardt - quand mรชme!
Dec 6, 2023: Finished reading: Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur ๐ The first holiday rom-com of a month where I hope to read many. Elle is an โฆ
Dec 5, 2023: It reveals something about my character that I’m really psyched about being on someone’s dissertation committee.
Dec 5, 2023: ๐ Read Bring back the blog by Alan Jacobs. Hear, hear.
Dec 4, 2023: Fun with migraines: in the past year or so I’ve started having vertigo in the prodrome stage, tilting involuntarily when I walk. In the past โฆ
Dec 3, 2023: ๐ฟ Watched Airplane!. Super fun. I can’t begin to imagine how delightful it must have been for the people who saw it when it was first released.
Dec 3, 2023: ๐๐ป Read The Indie Web Manifesto. Before the IndieWeb, there was the Indie Web. This was published in 1997.
Dec 3, 2023: ๐๐ป Read The Hacker Manifesto. the beauty of the baud I love this turn of phrase. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what โฆ
Dec 3, 2023: ๐ Read True/useful by Seth Godin. Seth shares a handy matrix for helping us stay resilient and cultivate belief, shaking off cynicism and avoiding โฆ
Dec 3, 2023: ๐บ๐ฟ๐ Watched The Naughty Nine. This is a heist movie about kids on the naughty list breaking into Santa’s workshop. It honors all the heist โฆ
Dec 2, 2023: A list of lists: in his book Keep Going, Austin Kleon writes about a variety of types of lists you might keep and I made a list of them: to-do โฆ
Dec 1, 2023: New bio on most of my profiles: Mom & PhD with a librarian’s heart and an academic’s mind. I manage multiple chronic illnesses and I โฆ
Dec 1, 2023: ๐ I know Twitter is all the things we all know it is now but I still love that some scholars wrote a journal article about the relationship between โฆ
Nov 30, 2023: ๐บ๐ฟ๐ Watched Reporting for Christmas. I really like this one. A hard-hitting Chicago reporter heads to a small town in Iowa to cover the 40th โฆ
Nov 30, 2023: Me: I’ll put this little tumbled sodalite crystal on my bedside table, it will make me happy. The Kitten: Ooh a new toy!
Nov 30, 2023: ๐ฌ “Recover yourself. Thatโs where your creativity is.” Kate McKean in today’s Agents & Books Q&A issue.
Nov 30, 2023: I was thinking about Austin Kleon’s urging to show your work and I thought, “But Austin, what do I do when I don’t even feel up to โฆ
Nov 30, 2023: ๐Read Twenty Rules for the New Escribitionist. 23 and a half-year-old blogging advice that is still pretty solid.
Nov 30, 2023: I’ve had kimberlyhirsh.com for fifteen years today. I had other domains before that. I’m really glad I claimed this one. It’s been โฆ
Nov 30, 2023: ๐ Read You Can’t Unsubscribe from Grief by Jenessa Abrams (Electric Literature). This is a gorgeous essay. I really needed it right now.
Nov 29, 2023: ๐บ๐ฟ๐ Watched A Biltmore Christmas. Mostly for Jonathan Frakes & Robert Picardo ๐๐ป but I ended up really liking it. There’s a lot of 40s โฆ
Nov 29, 2023: Well, it’s taken more than 7 years, but it’s finally happened: my child’s taste has completely eclipsed mine in my Spotify Wrapped.
Nov 29, 2023: ๐บ๐ฟ๐ In the movie A Timeless Christmas, I can suspend my disbelief enough to accept that a man time-traveled from 1903 to 2020, but asking me to accept โฆ
Nov 28, 2023: ๐ฟ๐บ๐ Watched A Christmas Frequency. A radio producer sets her show’s host up on on-air blind dates to save the show from the slump it’s in โฆ
Nov 28, 2023: Darth Vader and I are finishing off the Thanksgiving babka with some cherry Coke.
Nov 28, 2023: ๐ป Recently my less-than-alma mater asked, “Remember the 90s at Carolina? I didn’t get there until 1999 so I had different things in my โฆ
Nov 27, 2023: ๐บ๐ฟ๐ By the way, time travel is a whole subgenre of holiday made-for-TV movie. See: Eve’s Christmas (yes, that IS Amber from Clueless!) Back to โฆ
Nov 27, 2023: ๐บ๐ฟ๐ I was watching Hulu’s A Christmas Frequency and everything was going great but then it shattered my suspension of disbelief by having one โฆ
Nov 26, 2023: ๐ฟ Saw Wish. A story full of good ideas. Music nice but not as memorable as, say, Encanto. Chris Pine is, of course, a delight. Full of beautifully โฆ
Nov 22, 2023: ๐ Jami Attenberg in today’s Craft Talk newsletter: itโs important to write the things you can write.
Nov 22, 2023: Today in Year of Making, LEGO set 40658, Millennium Falcon Holiday Diorama.
Nov 22, 2023: Anybody know if there are vampire stories, in any medium, that address the question of neuroplasticity? I feel like an animated corpse shouldn’t โฆ
Nov 21, 2023: Finished reading: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado ๐ A bunch of excellent and chilling stories. Horror and make it literary. โฆ
Nov 21, 2023: I just want to be able to feel grief in my heart and also sleep. It doesn’t seem like a lot to ask but my body disagrees.
Nov 20, 2023: It’s never too late to start a year of making, so here I am starting my Year of Making 2023 on November 20. This is the Goldberry shawl, โฆ
Nov 20, 2023: โค๏ธ The loss of a loved one ๐ฆ CW: Parental Death My husband, W., has been blessed to have two mothers: the one who gave birth to him and the one who has been a constant presence โฆ
Nov 17, 2023: Want to read: Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson ๐
Nov 17, 2023: Want to read: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey ๐
Nov 16, 2023: If you’re in North Carolina and interested in having natural organic reduction (aka human composting) available as a funeral option, please โฆ
Nov 16, 2023: Want to read: Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek ๐
Nov 15, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “Your death matters. You can choose something that will reflect the values and beliefs that you held in your life, and translate them into โฆ
Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel by Loren Rhoads ๐
Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom ๐
Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: The Victorian Book of the Dead by Chris Woodyard ๐
Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death by Chris Woodyard ๐
Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: Good Grief: Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter by E.B. Bartels ๐
Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: The Anatomical Venus by Joanna Ebenstein ๐
Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: The Morbid Anatomy Anthology by Joanna Ebenstein ๐
Nov 13, 2023: Want to read: Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris by Mel Gordon ๐
Nov 13, 2023: A timeline of my dissertation inspiration๐๐ For AcWriMoments Day 8, Margy Thomas and Helen Sword encouraged us to trace a lineage of the ideas we work on. I decided to do this with my โฆ
Nov 13, 2023: ๐๐๐ญ Read Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeareโs First Folio (Literary Hub).
Nov 12, 2023: Finished reading: Future Tense: Why Anxiety Is Good for You (Even Though It Feels Bad) by Tracy Dennis-Tiwary ๐ A helpful framing of normal, baseline โฆ
Nov 12, 2023: November is not my favorite month.
Nov 12, 2023: ๐ Read The enshittification of academic social media (The Thesis Whisperer).
Nov 10, 2023: Set up the Vapor1994 theme with custom colors on my website until I create a custom theme. A few font-size and color tweaks to make still but mostly โฆ
Nov 9, 2023: ๐ Read Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival?. Fun to read about all the IndieWeb’s neighbors!
Nov 8, 2023: Finished reading: The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish ๐ A 17th Century bit of philosophical fantastical adventure.
Nov 8, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “I endeavour to be as singular as I can.” Margaret Cavendish, The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World
Nov 8, 2023: Hey Micro.bloggers and other interested parties, do you have favorite resources that helped you learn how to create a Hugo theme?
Nov 8, 2023: ๐ Read Two Wins for Public Libraries This Week at the Polls by Kelly Jensen (Literary Activism). Good things are happening but we need to remain โฆ
Nov 8, 2023: ๐ Read: What happened to blogging for the hell of it? On mobile phones, the small web, and able-bodied privilege Follow-up to the phone post & an โฆ
Nov 8, 2023: ๐ Revising is hard work, and other thoughts on writing I’m participating this year in AcWriMo, which is a month of focused academic writing work inspired by NaNoWriMo. I’m doing this work with โฆ
Nov 7, 2023: ๐๐ป Read Why the Internet Isnโt Fun Anymore by Kyle Chayka (The New Yorker).
Nov 7, 2023: Voting selfie!
Nov 7, 2023: ๐๐ Read A Pennsylvania Public Library Had Funding Cut Because of LGBTQ+ Books. Then, An Olympian Stepped In.. An important reminder from Kelly Jensen โฆ
Nov 4, 2023: ๐ Read The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts by Brewster Kale (The Guardian). A useful reminder that even โฆ
Nov 1, 2023: If, like me, you grieve Halloween’s passing, I’m delighted to inform you that I have officially extended Halloween season. The last day of โฆ
Oct 31, 2023: Get ready for a jump scare next time you open this backpack.
Oct 30, 2023: ๐ Reading NotesโCollection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion, and Learning)โChapter 1: Why a focus on equity? Collection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion, and Learning Hereโs the publisherโs summary of this book: With a renewed emphasis on facilitating โฆ
Oct 27, 2023: Reading NotesโCollection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion, and LearningโIntroduction Collection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion, and Learning by Sandra Hughes-Hassell Hereโs the publisherโs summary of this book: With a renewed โฆ
Oct 27, 2023: I often find myself watching movies in 22-minute chunks, partly because of being a parent and partly because of having a short attention span lately. โฆ
Oct 26, 2023: ๐บ๐ฑโโ๏ธ Buffy’s experience in the episode “I, Robot… You, Jane” is super relatable. I had two friends with online boyfriends โฆ
Oct 25, 2023: ๐ It's cozy fantasy season! I think between reading a few Gothics (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Turn of the Screw, The Haunting of Hill House, The Hacienda) and watching โฆ
Oct 24, 2023: LinkedIn: Recommended job for you! FBI Special Agent! Me: Ooh, I wonder if I can get assigned to The X-Files.
Oct 20, 2023: Yesterday the House Committee on Education held a session called Protecting Kids: Combatting Graphic, Explicit Materials in School Libraries. In this โฆ
Oct 17, 2023: Finished reading: The Hacienda by Isabel Caรฑas ๐ Great all the way through but extra compelling for the last third. Like Mexican Gothic, it uses โฆ
Oct 12, 2023: ๐๐บ Read How The Haunting of Hill House conveys the horror of family. In the world of Hill House, devotion to family is a tender kind of madness that โฆ
Oct 10, 2023: I’m having one of those days where you give yourself credit for every single thing you do. So here’s what my work task list looks like โฆ
Oct 10, 2023: On visiting Paris ๐ซ๐ท I’ve been obsessed with Paris as long as I can remember. Maybe it’s because I was born on Bastille Day. Maybe I read Madeline at an early โฆ
Oct 9, 2023: Want to read: The Brain that Loves to Play by Jacqueline Harding ๐
Oct 9, 2023: Want to read: The Brain that Loves to Play by Jacqueline Harding ๐
Oct 8, 2023: Feted my kid thoroughly and now I am so tired.
Oct 7, 2023: Tonight I’m very obsessed with the idea of reading The Secret Garden as a child as a gateway to a love of Gothic literature. ๐
Oct 7, 2023: My kid is 7 today. I love him so much.
Oct 5, 2023: Finished reading: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson ๐ Keeping this Gothic train rolling. This one is excellent, of course.
Oct 5, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “When I am afraid, I can see perfectly the sensible, beautiful not-afraid side of the world, I can see chairs and tables and windows staying โฆ
Oct 2, 2023: Finished reading: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ๐ Another Gothic. Governesses, am I right?
Oct 2, 2023: ๐ฌ๐ Dropping this quote here so that next time I try to hung it down I’ll find it on my own site and not have to go to GoodReads: “She โฆ
Oct 2, 2023: Finished reading: “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe ๐ Making my pivot to Gothic now that it’s October. (I skipped โฆ
Oct 1, 2023: ๐๐ฌ Roderick Usher has sensory integration issues: “He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses; the most insipid food was alone โฆ
Sep 30, 2023: I have only skimmed this EdWeek piece on the science of reading but the person saying reading instruction doesn’t need to be changed because it โฆ
Sep 30, 2023: ๐๐ผ๏ธ Pokรฉmon teams up with Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam My kid doesn’t like art museums and only tolerated the Van Gogh museum because the โฆ
Sep 29, 2023: Sparking and Sustaining Connected Learning through Libraries: Insights and Questions at the Connected Learning Summit I’ll be leading and participating in a roundtable at the Connected Learning Summit at the end of October. Here’s the description of my โฆ
Sep 29, 2023: ๐ Books about Freelance Writing Originally posted on LinkedIn: One of the tools in my toolbox for carrying me through times between big projects is freelance writing. As I expect to โฆ
Sep 29, 2023: LinkedIn introduction I’ve been experimenting with posting on LinkedIn more frequently and while some of my posts there are posted at my domain first, others are โฆ
Sep 26, 2023: We’ve reached the moment when we learn if my claim that I wouldn’t go on the academic market because I didn’t want a tenure track โฆ
Sep 25, 2023: I’ve been watching Star Trek: Deep Space 9 for the first time since I watched it as a kid when it originally aired. I remembered liking Quark โฆ
Sep 23, 2023: Finished reading: We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian ๐ I loved it so much, finished it in under 48 hours. “Newsies for shippers” is an โฆ
Sep 22, 2023: Today’s Literary Activism newsletter from Book Riot shares information about several student groups fighting book bans. ๐
Sep 21, 2023: So, this week on Lower Decks, we learned that Vulcans have an understanding of the importance of informed consent when conducting social research. ๐๐ป
Sep 19, 2023: ๐ I’m reading Sandra Hughes-Hassell’s book, Collection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion, and Learning and planning to share my โฆ
Sep 13, 2023: I’ve got big days the next couple of days so what am I doing? Reading past bedtime, of course. (Future Kimberly, please forgive me.)
Sep 13, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “She didn’t know much about buildings, but it was clear that this one needed an unbelievable amount of work. But at the end of it? โฆ
Sep 13, 2023: Finished reading: An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera ๐ So good! Manuela is going to marry a wealthy man, for the good of her โฆ
Sep 13, 2023: I was planning on getting to work soon but my office mate had a different idea.
Sep 12, 2023: I’m sleepy and in pain which is a rough combo because it’s hard to actually sleep while in pain.
Sep 12, 2023: There are few feelings as good as canceling a bunch of library holds because your family already owns all the books. ๐
Sep 11, 2023: Midnight says hi. ๐โโฌ
Sep 10, 2023: ๐ There are still spots available for online attendance at Public Librarianship in Contentious Times, a conference hosted by the University of โฆ
Sep 8, 2023: Pro tip: too tired/anxious to introduce yourself at a social event? Wear a bookish shirt and wait for people to come ask you about what you’re โฆ
Sep 8, 2023: I might not eat this whole baguette today. When we stayed in Le Vรฉsinet, a suburb of Paris, there was a boulangerie on our walk home from the train station. Every time we went into the city, we โฆ
Sep 8, 2023: ๐๐๐ป Happy Star Trek Day! I just read Teaching in Trek: A Look at the Education System of the Future by @joepraska@universeodon.com. I love thinking, โฆ
Sep 8, 2023: Finally watched the Amsterdam episode of Ted Lasso and just really missed Amsterdam the whole time. It was a really cool place to be and I’m โฆ
Sep 7, 2023: Farewell, Wednesday. ๐โโฌ๐ CW: Pet death When we brought our kitties home last week, Wednesday had a little nasal discharge. The person at the front desk was all, “Yeah, โฆ
Sep 6, 2023: About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my first writing craft book. In case you didn’t believe that I was excited, I recently found my โฆ
Sep 5, 2023: ๐บ๐๐ป Finished my rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation today. It felt much less intense watching “All Good Things…” now than โฆ
Sep 4, 2023: ๐ ๐ป Read Now is the time for grimoires: It isn’t data that will unlock AI, it is human expertise by Ethan Mollick (One Useful Thing). This is โฆ
Sep 3, 2023: Fan Studies Network North America is October 11 -15 and open for registration! I’ll be facilitating a conversation among FanLIS scholars about โฆ
Sep 3, 2023: ๐๐ณ Started reading the introduction to Jules Sherred’s Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook and I might cry. โฆ
Sep 1, 2023: ๐๐ Read Shadow and Bone author Leigh Bardugo: โPeople sneer at the things women and girls loveโ by Sian Cain (The Guardian). She really is my hero.
Sep 1, 2023: ๐๐ Read Falling in Love With the Avengers, Americaโs Most Toxic Work Force by Leigh Bardugo (New York Times, gift link) I love Leigh Bardugo so much.
Aug 30, 2023: Meet Midnight and Wednesday.
Aug 30, 2023: ๐ฌ๐ “I hunker down with books when I need time to process what’s happening in my own life. Books give me the space to breathe.” โฆ
Aug 30, 2023: Currently reading: Final Girl: And Other Essays on Grief, Trauma, and Mental Illness by Kelly Baker ๐ Austin Kleon says to climb your creative family โฆ
Aug 30, 2023: On twenty-five years of being together Twenty-five years ago tonight, W. and I went on our first date. (Yes, we were young.) We went to see a cross-cast production of A Midsummer โฆ
Aug 27, 2023: Finished reading: From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper ๐ Loved it even more than Payback’s A Witch. Full review coming later this week.
Aug 27, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “Disaster and hero, monster and martyr, beauty and beast . . . Choose your own dichotomy. Because it doesn’t matter. We were always โฆ
Aug 27, 2023: W: I just don’t have a framework for doing this kind of writing… Me: You need to read a lot of it and then just start writing. W: holds โฆ
Aug 26, 2023: If generative AI traffic is declining, does that mean AI can just become another tool we use and we can talk about it normally without talking about โฆ
Aug 25, 2023: Everybody else: You seen Barbieheimer yet? Me: Nah, I’m going to the theater to see Terminator & Robocop. (Time travel is rad. So are retro โฆ
Aug 25, 2023: The belief at the beginning of a writing project that we don’t know how to write it comes for all of us who write, no matter how many writing โฆ
Aug 25, 2023: I just donated to and joined Students Protecting Education, a national organization that a group of high schoolers started in response to book banning โฆ
Aug 23, 2023: ๐๐๐ป Read โStar Trek: Picardโ Had to Update the Look of Beloved Characters โ and Battle the Pitiless Gaze of HD. I love that they were able to let โฆ
Aug 23, 2023: Welcome to the analog part of qualitative data analysis. Whenever I get to the coding-the-codes stage, I need to channel Austin Kleon and use my โฆ
Aug 22, 2023: In the US? You might think the Kids Online Safety Act is good but before you decide, please read this piece at Ars Technica, this piece from the โฆ
Aug 21, 2023: My infant starts first grade tomorrow, nbd.
Aug 21, 2023: My aspiration as a parent is to one day have a plan for the day and a half of free time my kid has the first week of school.
Aug 20, 2023: I find myself resentful of my body’s need for sleep.
Aug 20, 2023: If you’re in New Zealand and you have improv experience, you should probably go do this workshop with Bianca Casusรถl. She’s the best.
Aug 19, 2023: ๐ Read To Be a Consumer of Culture Means Living in a Hostage Situation by Aaron Bady (Slate) A great exploration of the role of fan labor in culture โฆ
Aug 18, 2023: Looking at my On This Day page, I found this blog post about letting go of self-punishing goals. I really needed it, as I’ve spent much of this โฆ
Aug 18, 2023: ๐๐ Read The Parentified Protagonist: From Shifting Roles to Shapeshifter, a guest post by Stephanie Willing (Teen Librarian Toolbox).
Aug 18, 2023: ๐ Book Riot’s Literary Activism newsletter is always valuable. This week, Kelly Jensen takes a deep dive into the use of ChatGPT to decide โฆ
Aug 17, 2023: Finished reading: Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper ๐ It’s a witchy romance between two bi women and it has a punny title. What’s not โฆ
Aug 17, 2023: ๐๐ฌ๐ฑโโ๏ธ “When Pearl Dragon and cheap wine and even magic have all failed us… there will always be Buffy marathons.” Lana Harper, โฆ
Aug 17, 2023: There was a big storm in Durham a couple days ago. Much of the city was without power. As soon as their power was restored, the libraries opened as โฆ
Aug 16, 2023: Bookstore Romance Day Recommendations ๐โฅ๏ธ We’re just a few days out from Bookstore Romance Day! A couple things to know about romance novels: First, they always end with the love โฆ
Aug 14, 2023: Finished reading: Chef’s Kiss by TJ Alexander ๐ This book is super queer and super cute. Simone’s a chef. Ray’s a kitchen manager. โฆ
Aug 13, 2023: Want to read: Disabilities and the Library by Clayton A. Copeland ๐
Aug 13, 2023: Want to read: Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age by Meryl Alper ๐
Aug 12, 2023: Want to read: 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow ๐
Aug 12, 2023: Want to read: Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men over Motherhood by Allison Yarrow ๐
Aug 12, 2023: ๐๐ป Did I just revise my LinkedIn bio so it starts with a Star Trek quote? Yes, yes I did, and the whole thing is very professional.
Aug 12, 2023: ๐ Read On looking down. A lovely meditation from @dwalbert on the things we notice when we walked. Our family stayed in Le Vรฉsinet, a garden city โฆ
Aug 11, 2023: J’aime les vacances. โฑ๏ธ
Aug 11, 2023: ๐๐ฎ “…the Tarot constitutes first and foremost an apprenticeship in seeing.” Marianne Costa, The Way of Tarot: The Spiritual Teacher โฆ
Aug 10, 2023: Finished reading: Solomon’s Crown by Natasha Siegel ๐ Gorgeous prose in this book that’s like if The Lion in Winter was mostly a romance โฆ
Aug 10, 2023: I may be leaning into being a middle-aged librarian stereotype, but I’m leaning into being a goth middle-aged librarian stereotype.
Aug 10, 2023: ๐ฎ Played the Pikmin 4 demo, ended up buying the Pikmin 1 + 2 bundle, and I feel so guilty every time my little plant guys die in battle. ๐ฑ
Aug 9, 2023: ๐๐ August 19 is Bookstore Romance Day! My fiction reading has been almost exclusively romance (across a variety of subgenres) since May and it’s โฆ
Aug 8, 2023: This is true friendship.
Aug 7, 2023: Finished reading: The Enchanted Hacienda by J.C. Cervantes ๐ This one didn’t click with me right away, but that was about me and what else โฆ
Aug 7, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “…my body is the keeper of secrets, and this pen is its liberator.” J. C. Cervantes, The Enchanted Hacienda
Aug 7, 2023: ๐๐บ The trailer for The Power dropped. I loved this book so much. The show has an amazing cast. I’m looking forward to watching it.
Aug 5, 2023: Finished reading: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune ๐ Listened to the audiobook. I understand why so much of the beginning of this book had to โฆ
Aug 5, 2023: ๐ Read The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries. Karawynn Long compares the trajectory of Overdrive/Libby to platforms like Amazon and Facebook โฆ
Aug 5, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “We are who we are, not because of our birthright, but because of what we choose to do in this life.” TJ Klune, The House in the โฆ
Aug 5, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “Why can’t life work whatever way we want it to? What’s the point of living if you only do it how others want you to?” TJ โฆ
Aug 4, 2023: ๐บ๐ฑโโ๏ธ๐ Glen Weldon’s rewrite of song titles from “Once More, with Feeling” to include Star Trek stuff is precisely calculated to โฆ
Aug 1, 2023: Finished reading: The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest ๐ Adorable romance about a publishing assistant who starts an email friendship with the author โฆ
Jul 29, 2023: ๐ฟ Watched Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie. A reimagining of the TV show. I loved how well it used the Palais Garnier. Sweet story and you get all โฆ
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett ๐ Lovely! A scholar of faerie lore travels to a frozen Scandinavian โฆ
Jul 28, 2023: ๐ Skimmed Publicize Your Principles. This idea might be helpful for articulating Micro.blog’s principles. ATTN: @manton @jean
Jul 27, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “I was supposed to remain comfortably outside the stories with my pen and my notebook.” Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s โฆ
Jul 27, 2023: ๐ Research methods in Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett ๐ I am a very specific kind of nerd. In this book, set in 1909, a scholar studying faeries says she’s going to use naturalistic observation and โฆ
Jul 26, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “He felt lighter somehow. Like he wasn’t paint blending into the wall. He felt real. He felt present. Almost like he could be โฆ
Jul 26, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “Home is where we get to be who we are.” T. J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea
Jul 25, 2023: There’s a special irony in the fact that GalaxyCon Raleigh’s Cosplay, Cons, & Parenting panel takes place from 6:30 to 7:30 pm, โฆ
Jul 24, 2023: o no I am become the dad in the LEGO movie
Jul 24, 2023: ๐ Finding my throughline: Library enthusiast ๐ป I recently listened to Katie Rose Guest Pryal on Camille Pagรกn’s podcast, You Should Write a Book, talking about how she found the throughline โฆ
Jul 24, 2023: So I’m on Bluesky. (If you’re seeing this on Bluesky, it’s thanks to Micro.blog cross-posting!) If they ever actually federate, โฆ
Jul 24, 2023: ๐๐ Read IN A WAVE OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY RETELLINGS, WHERE ARE THE GREEK WRITERS? by Lyndsie Manusos (Book Riot). Lots of exciting recommendations in โฆ
Jul 24, 2023: ๐๐ฟ Read Greta Gerwigโs Barbie is a Fascinating, Spectacular Philosophical Experiment by Olivia Rutigliano (Literary Hub). Well, I was already โฆ
Jul 23, 2023: I love how the Web works. I post that I want to read Jillian Hess’s book, How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information. Anna Havron reads โฆ
Jul 23, 2023: I should really stick with my watch-mostly-Star-Trek plan. ๐๐ป
Jul 22, 2023: Was too busy actually celebrating my 14th wedding anniversary yesterday to blog about it. A thoroughly Durham date: browsing & picking up orders โฆ
Jul 21, 2023: ๐ฌ๐ โSometimes silence was the loudest thing of all.โ T. J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea
Jul 21, 2023: ๐ฌ๐ “Why is it that I must always worry about tomorrows?” T. J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea
Jul 20, 2023: Finished reading: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston ๐ Listened to the audiobook. Super adorable. Super hot. Super made me teary with โฆ
Jul 19, 2023: Finished reading: Nimona by ND Stevenson ๐ Weird I waited so long to read it. A lot going on here and I’m always delighted by the way ND โฆ
Jul 18, 2023: Finished reading: Ana Marรญa and The Fox by Liana De la Rosa ๐
Jul 17, 2023: ๐๐ Read Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Childrenโs Books by Janet Manley (Literary Hub).
Jul 17, 2023: ๐๐ Read Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time by Ellen Samuels (Disability Studied Quarterly).
Jul 14, 2023: Photo of my lovely husband W & myself in front of Ferris Bueller singing in the parade! Thanks to Retro Film Series!
Jul 14, 2023: C'est mon anniversaire! It’s my birthday! As I’m 42, I understand that according to Douglas Adams, I myself am the answer to life, the universe, and everything. โฆ
Jul 13, 2023: I have a (relatively subdued thanks to new meds) migraine (3 hormone shifts a month cause these for me whee!). I also went and had 3 fillings all on โฆ
Jul 12, 2023: Finished reading: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna ๐ What a sweet, cozy cup of tea of a book. This one made me so happy. โฆ
Jul 11, 2023: ๐ฌ๐ “It was always irksome when an idea went nowhere, but Mika knew by now that there would always be new ideas.” Sangu Mandanna, The Very โฆ
Jul 11, 2023: Okay it’s not noon and my library’s collective daily borrow limit for Hoopla has been reached which… I feel like we must have a โฆ
Jul 10, 2023: It’s my birthday Friday! I’m keeping Kimbertide low key this year. If you want to play along, watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or The โฆ
Jul 8, 2023: Finished reading: Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin ๐ Another sweet romance set in the Toronto Muslim community from Uzma Jalaluddin. This one โฆ
Jul 7, 2023: ๐๐ญ๐ Read Itโs Getting Hard to Stage a School Play Without Political Drama by Michael Paulson (NYT, gift link) via Book Riot’s Literary Activism โฆ
Jul 6, 2023: I’m signed up for Threads. I’ll actually use it when it implements ActivityPub and/or is available in-browser.
Jul 3, 2023: Finished reading: You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi ๐ I read this start-to-finish in about 8 hours. It’s a romance that โฆ
Jul 2, 2023: My On This Day page surfaced this blog post today: Constructing websites as constructing ourselves: Thinking out loud I still think about this all the โฆ
Jun 30, 2023: Apparently my idea for what counts as the prettiest hair is bound to the year 1993. This soft hair on Deanna Troi, with thin bangs, the front pulled โฆ
Jun 30, 2023: I seem to have no attention span today. I’m going to blame the postdrome stage of migraine.
Jun 29, 2023: Finished reading: Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin ๐ This is a beautiful homage to Pride & Prejudice, as well as to the Toronto Muslim community. โฆ
Jun 28, 2023: ๐ Brilliant gem from Jaya Saxena in today’s #1000WordsOfSummer letter: my writing got better the moment I allowed myself to be the kind of โฆ
Jun 28, 2023: ๐ Me, reading Ayesha At Last: This is a Pride & Prejudice retelling, I know this, so when is Khalid going to go all Mr. Darcy? Author Uzma โฆ
Jun 27, 2023: I am on Day 4 of a migraine. I’m about to try a new medication for it. Here’s hoping it makes a difference.
Jun 27, 2023: Picard: I feel as if I’m in the Scottish Highlands. Colonist: The cornerstone of every building was taken from Edinburgh, Glasgow, โฆ
Jun 23, 2023: Hey friends, what are some good values statements from organizations? (I’m deliberately not defining criteria for good, but please feel free to โฆ
Jun 23, 2023: ๐ Read What Is A Third Place? (And Hereโs Why You Should Have One) by Emily Torres (The Good Trade). I’ve been thinking about third places, โฆ
Jun 21, 2023: My desk chair broke a little bit and I’m having trouble determining whether I can fix it…
Jun 20, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “To me intellectual life is fundamentally different from academic careerism.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the artist at work
Jun 20, 2023: ๐๐ฌ It is precisely because common structures of evaluation and advancement in various academic jobs require homogenous thought and action… โฆ
Jun 20, 2023: Belated Travel Blog: Into Amsterdam for the First Time Our first foray into Amsterdam besides going to the airport was heading to the International Newcomers office at the World Trade Center (right by the โฆ
Jun 20, 2023: ๐ Read Katy Simpson Smith on Writing a Southern Woman Louder Than Herself. Writing, as a career, is inherently boat-rocking.
Jun 19, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “Science fiction is the literature of social and technological change.” Nalo Hopkinson, “What is science fiction for?” in โฆ
Jun 19, 2023: Belated Travel Blog: Aalsmeer I loved Amsterdam almost immediately, at first because of how the major roads are laid out. Buses have their own two lanes, totally separate from the โฆ
Jun 19, 2023: ๐ This bread is from Simple Mills’s Artisan Bread mix. It has a beautiful crack, but vinegar as a leavening agent leaves something to be โฆ
Jun 18, 2023: In response to @mbkriegh’s In Praise of the Choir: This post reminds me of Austin Kleon’s writing on Brian Eno’s concept of โฆ
Jun 16, 2023: Finished reading: The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller ๐ This is a lovely romance set in Gilded Age New York, where a scandalous society widow and โฆ
Jun 16, 2023: ๐ฌ๐ “Real life is people leaning on each other when things are hard. It’s loving each other so much there’s no question about facing โฆ
Jun 14, 2023: Halfway through the week of no school or camp and we’re not doing too badly, thanks to grandma time, the pool, and a moratorium on screen time โฆ
Jun 14, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “Love isn’t naรฏve, Alva. It’s hope, and it’s faith, and it can outlast buildings and wars and empires.” The Widow of โฆ
Jun 12, 2023: ๐๐๐ A couple of links about pleasure reading for your reading pleasure: What Romance Novels Taught Me About Taking Pleasure More Seriously by โฆ
Jun 8, 2023: There’s something really special about being a 90s comedy nerd married to another 90s comedy nerd.
Jun 8, 2023: I like how when I text someone and am a lot, knowing they’re a lot too means I know we’ll both be okay because we’re both a lot and โฆ
Jun 7, 2023: ๐๐Listened to Our Opinions Are Correct, Episode 131: The State of Star Trek, with Mike McMahan. Spoilery still from the Strange New Worlds Season 2 โฆ
Jun 7, 2023: ๐ Read A LETTER FROM THE NEW CORPORATE OWNERS OF HOOPERโS STORE (McSweeney’s). This is hilarious and ends with a perfect button.
Jun 6, 2023: ๐๐ Fascinated by this ethnographic study on youth’s “pocket writing” practices. Most fiction I write happens in my pocket now and is โฆ
Jun 5, 2023: Installing Linux on my Windows machine…
Jun 5, 2023: ๐ Some interesting links around “wholesome” as a word for things that restore us, rather than a conservative metric by which to judge โฆ
Jun 4, 2023: ๐๐ Read How Pew Research Center will report on generations moving forward. I love some of these alternate ways of creating age groupings. I could โฆ
Jun 3, 2023: ๐บ Watched The Baby-sitters Club S02E07, Claudia and the Sad Goodbye. ๐๐ญ If you know, you know.
Jun 3, 2023: ๐๐ Can ChatGPT Replace UX Researchers? An Empirical Analysis of Comment Classifications This is an interesting study with implications for qualitative โฆ
Jun 3, 2023: Finished reading: Wyngraf #1 The first issue of a cozy fantasy magazine. Full of lovely stories I very much enjoyed. Mother-daughter dragon calming, โฆ
Jun 3, 2023: Does anybody else know why all I feel like doing is lying in bed and watching Netflix Originals? ๐บ
Jun 2, 2023: ๐บ The Babysitters Club S02E03, “Stacey’s Emergency,” brilliantly depicts what it’s like living with chronic illness.
Jun 2, 2023: I’m only now catching up on the second season of The Babysitters Club and having Mary Ann as a triple virgo is brilliant. ๐บ
Jun 2, 2023: ๐๏ธ๐ฌ “Sometimes it can be hard when we’re fucking exhausted to choose the thing that feels nourishing.” Lindsay Mack, Tarot for the โฆ
May 30, 2023: Finished reading: Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel by Leigh Bardugo ๐ Gorgeous graphic version of the Darkling’s origin story.
May 30, 2023: Jami Attenberg’s #1000WordsOfSummer starts June 17 and the Slack is hopping right now, in case you want to join in on the fun. ๐
May 29, 2023: ๐ Today is the first day of the 10th Annual 100 Days of Blue Mind challenge. As often as you can between now and Labor Day, “get near, in, on or โฆ
May 29, 2023: It was hard finding time to write while traveling, so I didn’t do all the travel blogging I would have liked. But I have consistent childcare โฆ
May 28, 2023: Where have I been? I like Manton’s Where have I been post and have had a pretty significant change in where I’ve visited since the start of the year, so I โฆ
May 28, 2023: ๐๐ Read This Is Dedicated To Anyone Who Ever Left - Kelly McMaster interviewed by Lyz Lenz.
May 28, 2023: ๐๐ Read “I think, like marriage, home is a fantasy” - Kelly McMaster interviewed by Amanda Montei Here are all of my intellectual โฆ
May 27, 2023: ๐บ Me, watching Bridgerton: How can anyone tell these Bridgerton brothers apart? They all have the same coloration. I guess two of them are a little โฆ
May 27, 2023: ๐ Read Monkey House: Strange Reflections at the Singerie by Kate Zambreno (VQR).
May 27, 2023: ๐บ Watched Velma. The two primary criticisms - that it relies too heavily on meta-humor and that the characters are selfish & don’t grow - โฆ
May 26, 2023: ๐ Read The Winter Zoo by Kate Zambreno (The Yale Review). For a few years when M. was a toddler, our family went to Knoxville - the place of my โฆ
May 25, 2023: ๐ฟ Watched Howard. It’s always striking when you realize the outsize influence an artist has had on you, and watching this it really hit home โฆ
May 25, 2023: ๐ Here comes the BBC with a list of the 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time. Maybe when I’m recovered from jetlag I’ll see how โฆ
May 25, 2023: Want to read: The Light Room by Kate Zambreno ๐
May 25, 2023: Time for a needs assessment! Micro.blog community, what resources do you need in the Micro.blog Community Library?
May 25, 2023: ๐ Purchased 2 different books from museums to be shipped directly to my house rather than carrying them home myself: Sarah Bernhardt - Et la femme โฆ
May 25, 2023: Just learned that it would cost ยฃ22 to have 100g of Tchai-Ovna’s Faeries Blood Tea shipped to me here in the US. Yikes.
May 25, 2023: ๐ Read How to Scale Back, Even When It Seems Impossible. Do you need to lose something else to find yourself? Katie Pryal writes about how she had to โฆ
May 25, 2023: ๐๐ Reading Revision can be fun. No, really. by Charlie Jane Anders. …revision can actually be kind of exhilarating at times. Because instead โฆ
May 23, 2023: Home again and happy to be here.
May 23, 2023: ๐ Read The Healing Power of JavaScript. โค๏ธ
May 22, 2023: Happy World Goth Day! Tomorrow I will go home, where I will have access to all my goth perfumes and jewelry. Today, I give you this photo of Sarah โฆ
May 22, 2023: I’ve created playlists on YouTube for all 3 Micro Camps, in case you, like me, have a long flight and might want to download and watch them all โฆ
May 22, 2023: Last full day in Europe and I’m spending it alternating between packing and lying down. Don’t underestimate how much stuff you can acquire โฆ
May 21, 2023: “Y’all” is the best contraction. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
May 21, 2023: ๐ Revisiting Time’s The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. N. K. Jemisin: Donโt think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to โฆ
May 21, 2023: ๐บ Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures is exactly the Star Wars show I would have written as a kid: Kai Brightstar Nash Durango The Crimson Firehawk โฆ
May 20, 2023: Finished reading: Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale ๐ A sweet historical romance involving a Quaker and a rakish Duke.
May 20, 2023: Announcement time! Do you write a blog? Send it to me and I’ll read it!
May 20, 2023: Quand mรชme A while back I said I was going to get obsessed with Sarah Bernhardt (I seem to have said it somewhere other than my own website โน๏ธ) but never โฆ
May 18, 2023: ๐๐ Read Webring History. animated email gifs, web counters, scrolling and/or blinking text, midi background music that could not be turned off and โฆ
May 18, 2023: I was feeling disconnected from the Micro.blog community, and I was pretty sure it wasn’t just because I wasn’t posting that much. So I โฆ
May 17, 2023: O no two meetings left, not done for 3+ hrs, and yet so sleepy. Might be an afternoon caffeine day. I would love to just live in Paris forever but it โฆ
May 17, 2023: ๐ How Does Motherhood Impact Your Creativity? Itโs Complicated vogue.com Read: www.vogue.com Vogue: Fashion, Beauty, Celebrity, Fashion Shows โฆ
May 16, 2023: I’m in Paris this week so I don’t know how much of Micro Camp I’ll catch live, but the schedule looks great.
May 14, 2023: Missing Moulin Rouge playing in my hometown but it’s okay because I got to see the actual Moulin Rouge.
May 12, 2023: ๐๐ต Read Patiently Holding the Sound: Gretchen Parlato on motherhood as a musical inspiration. What a great interview.
May 11, 2023: ๐๐ Read Bring Back Personal Blogging by Monique Judge (The Verge).
May 11, 2023: My blog host, Micro.blog, has declared it the Summer of Blogging and is offering 4 months of their standard hosting plan at a price of $1/month. I โฆ
May 11, 2023: I’ve been obsessed with this chandelier for a long time and today I finally got to see it in person.
May 11, 2023: Reading the souvenir book they sell at Shakespeare and Company, Shakespeare and Company: A Brief History of a Parisian Bookstore. For George, it was โฆ
May 11, 2023: Je suis ร Paris. J’adore Paris. Yesterday I sat in the reading room of Shakespeare and Company, wrote in my notebook, and pretended to be A โฆ
May 10, 2023: I’m grieving dooce by going through her archives and reading this post while I am in Paris is extra beautiful. I was cranky and tired and in โฆ
May 10, 2023: Content Warning: Suicide There’s an AP news piece confirming what I suspected when I first saw Manton’s post about Heather Armstrong’s death. Heather โฆ
May 8, 2023: Starting Season 7 in my rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, finding myself very glad there’s so much other Trek media including TNG โฆ
May 7, 2023: Want to read: The Witch of Woodland by Laurel Snyder ๐
May 6, 2023: ๐๐ Read My Commitment to Wellness as a Lifelong Writer by Yolande House โ Breathing Space Creative Iโve learned that honouring my needs each and โฆ
May 6, 2023: Over the past week, I’ve worked through Esmรฉ Weijun Wang’s workshop, Building a Writing Habit While Living with Limitations. In the โฆ
May 4, 2023: ๐๐ Read BookTok encourages reading as an aesthetic and no one is safe from its gaze by Elena Cavender (Mashable). Insightful piece about how limiting โฆ
May 3, 2023: Finished reading: Mr. & Mrs. Witch by Gwenda Bond ๐ Loved it. Scorchingly hot, fun secret agent hijinks. Highly recommend.
May 1, 2023: I am reading Gwenda Bond’s Mr. & Mrs. Witch right now and one of the ๐ฅ scenes actually made me cry because it was so beautiful and made me โฆ
Apr 28, 2023: ๐๐ Read Automated transcription and some risks of machine interpretation. Dr. Daniel Turner does a great job illuminating how large language models โฆ
Apr 28, 2023: Want to read: How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information by Jillian M. Hess ๐
Apr 27, 2023: Want to read: It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World by Mikaela Loach ๐
Apr 26, 2023: Want to read: Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc ๐
Apr 22, 2023: Me: I put my hair up and brushed my teeth! I’m ready to face the day! flops onto bed
Apr 21, 2023: I’m trying to see myself as others see me. Would you please tell me: When have you seen me happiest? What do you come to me for? Where do I โฆ
Apr 19, 2023: ๐๐ Read Roman Polanski, David Bowie, and a New Solution to the Problem of Art Made by Monstrous Men by Laura Miller (Slate). The magnitude of an โฆ
Apr 18, 2023: Response to Charlie Jane Anders's "What the Universal Translator Tells Us About Exploring Other Cultures" ๐๐๐๐บ๐ฟ Read What the Universal Translator Tells Us About Exploring Other Cultures by Charlie Jane Anders (Happy Dancing newsletter). Anders talks about โฆ
Apr 16, 2023: It's over now, the music of the night. I first encountered music from The Phantom of the Opera when I was 9 years old. I had taken a lip syncing class, because the Leon County, FL gifted โฆ
Apr 16, 2023: Went by the Oscar Wilde house yesterday and the plaque saying he lived there said: OSCAR WILDE POET, DRAMATIST, WIT and I liked it so well I’m โฆ
Apr 15, 2023: ๐๐จ Read On growing alongside your artistic practice (The Creative Independent). Mother-artist Bailey Elder talks about growing as an artist and being โฆ
Apr 15, 2023: ๐ Read Durham Officials Push for Affordable Housing in Southpoint Redevelopment. Pleased with my city’s Planning Commission members.
Apr 14, 2023: ๐๐ Read When You Arenโt Sure Whether Your Writing Is โImportantโ by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic). You just need to find one person who understands and โฆ
Apr 14, 2023: ๐๐ Read Kids Will Still Read Banned Books by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic). Chung doesn’t minimize the harm of book banning, but discusses how โฆ
Apr 14, 2023: ๐๐ Read How Can You Write About Pain Without Retraumatizing Yourself? by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic).
Apr 14, 2023: ๐๐ Read On Pitching and Rejection by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic). pitching is not just about figuring out what editors or publications may be โฆ
Apr 14, 2023: It’s my defense-aversary! I’ve been a PhD for two years. For me, getting the PhD was much bigger than having the PhD has been. Perhaps โฆ
Apr 14, 2023: ๐ฌ๐๐๐ No dissertation is worth a lifetime of revision. William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
Apr 12, 2023: I haven’t been sharing a lot of travel adventures not because I haven’t been having them, but just because making the time to share is โฆ
Apr 10, 2023: ๐ Read Lois Before Clark: In Defense of the Superhero Girlfriend. Dreamed I decided to get obsessed with Lois Lane, decided this meant I should โฆ
Apr 10, 2023: ๐๐ Read “I Hate the Idea of Healing” A Conversation with Maggie Smith One thing that mothering has taught me is that I can’t be โฆ
Apr 9, 2023: Finished reading: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett ๐ My first finished Discworld. Reading Piers Anthony feels like coming home (miss me with your โฆ
Apr 7, 2023: ๐๐ป๐บ Data: *has a personal problem* *does extensive research* Captain Picard, I have done all the research but I do not have the answer to my problem. โฆ
Apr 6, 2023: Full-on happy misty-eyed over this week’s Picard. ๐๐ป๐บ
Apr 6, 2023: ๐ฌ๐๐๐ Learn how to revise and you will produce a better first book. Remember it and you will enjoy writing the books to follow. William Germano, From โฆ
Apr 6, 2023: ๐ฌ๐๐๐ Revision is unromantic, time-consuming, tiring. It is also the only way to make one’s writing better. William Germano, From Dissertation โฆ
Apr 6, 2023: ๐ Read Subjectivity and Reflexivity: An Introduction by Franz Breuer, Katja Mruck & Wolff-Michael Roth (Forum: Qualitative Social Research). A โฆ
Apr 5, 2023: ๐ฌ๐๐๐ Writing isn’t a record of your thinking. It is your thinking. William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
Apr 5, 2023: ๐ฌ๐๐๐ Revision is a job for optimists. William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
Apr 5, 2023: The Barbie Selfie Generator is pretty fun.
Apr 5, 2023: Hey Internet! I’m interested in your perceptions. What are my superpowers? What are my areas of expertise?
Apr 4, 2023: ๐ฌ๐๐๐ …the operating instructions of scholarly publishing rarely form a part of graduate training… William Germano, From Dissertation โฆ
Apr 3, 2023: ๐ฌ๐๐๐ Write everything you want published as if there are people who make decisions and work within limited budgetsโtheir checkbooks, or their โฆ
Apr 3, 2023: Turning My Dissertation into a Book in the Open It’s been almost two years since I defended my doctoral dissertation. Before it was written, an editor had expressed interest in it. After it โฆ
Apr 3, 2023: Looking at my Scholarly Pipeline (Notion template I made, pay what you want) for the first time in a while & I’ve got an idea for a piece of โฆ
Apr 3, 2023: Want to read: Malice House by Megan Shepherd ๐
Mar 31, 2023: Teenagers at this park are listening to the Macarena. Do I feel old or 15?
Mar 31, 2023: It took a couple years, but I finally created a page on my website curating all my writing about dissertating in the open.
Mar 31, 2023: Blogging as letters to our future selves I blog for a lot of reasons. One of them is because blogging is a little like writing letters to your future self. My current research contract โฆ
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques by Joyce H. Townsend ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature by Allen Staley ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists ; Publ.on the Occasion of the Exhibition at Manchester City Art Galleries, 22 November 1997-22 February โฆ
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Flora Symbolica: Flowers in Pre-Raphaelite Art by Debra N. Mancoff ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites by Laurence Des Cars ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: English Pre-Raphaelite Painters: Their Associates and Successors by Percy H. Bate ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Haunted Texts by William Evan Fredeman ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Essential Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy by William Gaunt ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites in Love by Gay Daly ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde by Tim Barringer,T. J. Barringer ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites in Literature and Art by Dennis Sydney Reginald Welland ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Reading the Pre-Raphaelites by Tim Barringer ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel by Sophia Andres ๐
Mar 30, 2023: I love the Gothic Charm School book very much and am happy to have bought it as an ebook so I can re-read it as I travel, but I miss the special font โฆ
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Haunted Greece by John L. Tomkinson ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Troublesome Things by Diane Purkiss ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fairy Tales, Now First Collected by Joseph Ritson ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-eastern and Central Europe by Eva Pocs ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Banshee by Patricia Lysaght ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Elf Queens and Holy Friars by Richard Firth Green ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Handbook of Fairies by Ronan Coghlan ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Fairies in Tradition and Literature by Katharine Mary Briggs ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Dictionary of Fairies by Katherine Briggs ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature by Nicola Bown ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fairy Lore by D. L. Ashliman ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Tolkien on Fairy-stories by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies by Anna Franklin ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Good People by Peter Narvยez ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Northumberland Folk Tales by Rosalind Kerven ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols by Cassandra Eason ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Want to read: Strange and Secret Peoples by Carole G. Silver ๐
Mar 30, 2023: Hello Internet! I’m having a vampire night due to migraine. I’m going to get up and take my morning medicine so I can wait an hour and โฆ
Mar 29, 2023: Want to read: The Classic Fairy Tales (Norton Critical Editions) by ๐
Mar 29, 2023: Want to read: The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler ๐
Mar 29, 2023: Finished reading: A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow ๐ This one took me a little while to get into but once I was in, I was all in. Super fun โฆ
Mar 29, 2023: ๐๐ Read Ladies of Leisure. This one bummed me out. I think it sells Dept. of Speculation short.
Mar 29, 2023: ๐๐๐Read Is Parenthood the Enemy of Creative Work? by Kim Brooks (The Cut) Thatโs one of the major things parenting is teaching me, the balance โฆ
Mar 29, 2023: ๐๐ Read The books that help define motherhood โ for mums everywhere to read Is it ever possible to reclaim yourself without endangering your child? โฆ
Mar 29, 2023: ๐บ Want to watch: SMILF Catastrophe Motherland The Letdown Workin' Moms
Mar 29, 2023: ๐ฟ Want to watch: Tully.
Mar 29, 2023: ๐๐ Read Art or Babies. you can make your art without being an art monster: You can do it as… an art mother.
Mar 29, 2023: ๐๐ Read Why are we only talking about โmom booksโ by white women? by Angela Garbes (The Cut). I love Angela Garbes’s writing. This is another โฆ
Mar 29, 2023: ๐๐ Read The Stranger Guest: The Literature of Pregnancy and New Motherhood by Lily Gurton-Wachter (Los Angeles Review of Books) Another old bookmark. โฆ
Mar 29, 2023: ๐๐ In a Raft of New Books, Motherhood From (Almost) Every Angle by Parul Sehgal (The New York Times). Recent books on motherhood, however, frequently โฆ
Mar 29, 2023: ๐๐ Read Maggie Nelson: Inflections Forever New by Ariel Lewiton (Guernica). Weโre all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We donโt โฆ
Mar 29, 2023: ๐๐ Read Why All the Books About Motherhood? by Laura Elkin (The Paris Review). Another bookmark I’ve been sitting on for years. These new books โฆ
Mar 29, 2023: ๐๐ Read We Need to Talk About Whiteness in Motherhood Memoirs by Nancy Reddy (Electric Literature). I bookmarked this 4 years ago & am only โฆ
Mar 28, 2023: ๐๐๐ Read The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? by Lara Feigel (The Guardian) Feigel writes about motherly ambivalence.
Mar 28, 2023: ๐ Read Writer Moms: Can We Do Deep Work While the Kids are Home? by Sara Bates. Before we do… the practical things we need to do in order to โฆ
Mar 28, 2023: Want to read: A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle ๐
Mar 28, 2023: Want to read: How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents) by Hettie Judah ๐
Mar 28, 2023: ๐๐๐ Read I left my baby to write this. How do artists balance creativity and the ache for their child? by Rhiannon Lucy Coslett (The Guardian). โฆ
Mar 28, 2023: Want to read: This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris ๐
Mar 28, 2023: ๐ Read How Writing and Motherhood Coexist for Author Taylor Harris by Ravynn K. Stringfield (Shondaland). Great interview! I need to go track down โฆ
Mar 28, 2023: ๐ Read Rebecca Solnit on Womenโs Work and the Myth of the Art Monster (Lithub). I want to be an art monster like Grover: lovable and loving and โฆ
Mar 28, 2023: Want to read: Weird Girls by Caroline Hagood ๐
Mar 28, 2023: ๐๐๐ Read The Mother, the Artist, and Me by Caroline Hagood (Elle). This is a great essay about what can happen when we bring our kids into the work of โฆ
Mar 28, 2023: Finished reading: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill ๐ I want to write a long response to this one but don’t have time today. It’s less โฆ
Mar 27, 2023: Look, I’d love to play in an improv jam but I can no longer do things that START at 10 pm so I guess I need to organize an improv jam for sleepy โฆ
Mar 26, 2023: I just want to fight censorship ๐ and make theatre ๐ญ.
Mar 26, 2023: Finished reading: Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders ๐ I love this so much! Charlie Jane Anders says to invent imaginary friends โฆ
Mar 25, 2023: Finished reading: Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn ๐ I might love this even more than Legendborn, which I didn’t think was possible. Tracy Deonn goes โฆ
Mar 25, 2023: I cannot recommend Book Riot’s censorship coverage highly enough. They’re doing great work, with Kelly Jensen leading it. If you’re โฆ
Mar 24, 2023: Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I do weird things like buying a Krang cosplay t-shirt or getting all 3 The Librarians movies on Amazon Prime. โฆ
Mar 23, 2023: ๐๐ป Brent Spiner is my hero.
Mar 23, 2023: ๐บ๐ฌ๐๐ป “I can’t say being equal parts irritating and endearing isn’t slightly familiar.” Picard 3x06, The Bounty. IT ME.
Mar 23, 2023: Yo Internet, why does the Voyager theme tug at my heartstrings so? I barely remember the show but it always gets me misty.
Mar 22, 2023: ๐ Read Should I learn coding as a second language? by Meghan O’Gieblyn (Wired). the most celebrated historical revolutions (those initiated, โฆ
Mar 21, 2023: ๐ Read โฆ
Mar 21, 2023: ๐ Read Why No One Clicked on the Great Hypertext Story wired.com Read: www.wired.com Wired.com https://www.wired.com/2013/04/hypertext/
Mar 21, 2023: ๐๐๐ Read A Beginnerโs Guide to Writing IP in Publishing โ ERIC SMITH ericsmithrocks.com Read: www.ericsmithrocks.com ericsmithrocks.com โฆ
Mar 19, 2023: Want to read: A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs ๐
Mar 19, 2023: Want to read: Saving Time by Jenny Odell ๐
Mar 19, 2023: Want to read: The Magician’s Daughter by H. G. Parry ๐
Mar 15, 2023: Ah yes, that weird need-to-cry, don’t-know-why feeling… (I suspect this is about the fact that the amount of stuff you have when โฆ
Mar 15, 2023: Scenes I want to explore more: TTRPGs, literary (incl but not limited to sff). What pubs, websites, podcasts, people, other stuff should I check out?
Mar 14, 2023: ๐จ๏ธ My response to Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and Iโm Going to Write About It Happy anniversary, Jason! Is the font on that Notes entry Tahoma or โฆ
Mar 12, 2023: ๐บ Shrinking is doing a great job dressing a teen in 90s throwback clothes and if y’all see me walking around in overalls with one side undone โฆ
Mar 11, 2023: hey hey you know how that moral philosopher profiled in the New Yorker would solve the trolley problem? whichever way would give her the most material โฆ
Mar 11, 2023: Had abbrevia.me describe me based on my tweets. Alt text contains the text of the description, which was too many characters to include here. I know โฆ
Mar 9, 2023: High Pain Day: Oh yeah, I'm disabled! I had forgotten. I had my first high-pain day since we came to Europe yesterday (or today, if you’re in the US when I’m writing this). I think I must have โฆ
Mar 7, 2023: Finished reading: Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto ๐ This has been a great read while wandering โฆ
Mar 7, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that.” Frieda Menco, Holocaust survivor, quoted โฆ
Mar 5, 2023: Anne Frank kept a commonplace book.
Mar 5, 2023: “She didn’t die. She was killed. Because she was a Jewish girl.” Hannah Pick-Goslar, a friend of Anne Frank’s ๐
Mar 2, 2023: ๐ Read Understanding Blogs by Tracy Durnell. An excellent exploration of what makes blogging its own medium.
Mar 2, 2023: I guess I missed World Book Day & International Cat Rescue Day in Europe but it’s still March 2 back home, so happy both of those! As I like โฆ
Mar 2, 2023: Haven’t listened to Worlds Beyond Number yet but Erika Ishii in this TechCrunch interview is making me cry so that’s cool: “When โฆ
Mar 1, 2023: I’ve got a couple recent co-authored articles: Description framework of makerspaces: Examining the relationship between spatial arrangement and โฆ
Feb 28, 2023: ๐ฎ Playing Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe with my kid. Super fun. Couch co-op Kirby seems to be his gateway to playing instead of just โฆ
Feb 28, 2023: Hi friends! It’s time for an Amsterdam Photo Dump! There are 8 photos here so if you’re viewing this on a timeline, be sure to click โฆ
Feb 27, 2023: ๐ Read Sci-Fi Publishers Are Bracing for an AI Battle by Elizabeth Minkel (Wired). I’m interested to see how this shakes out.
Feb 24, 2023: Finished reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers ๐ Happy to have read it. Turns out vibes are enough when you’ve got โฆ
Feb 24, 2023: I'm a piler-filer. Who are you? Austin Kleon blogs about pilers and filers, a dichotomy/spectrum he learned about reading Temple Grandin’s book, _Visual Thinking _, in which โฆ
Feb 24, 2023: ๐ Read The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing by Vauhina Vara (Wired). This is an excellent long read. There are a lot of good questions here. How can โฆ
Feb 23, 2023: Currently reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers ๐ Now that I’m reading for vibes & character instead of a โฆ
Feb 22, 2023: My kid’s school is hiring a classroom teacher in his age range. So if you got the gig you might get to teach him, and I hear he’s pretty โฆ
Feb 21, 2023: ๐๐ Read IF YOU LOVE WRITING, YOU SHOULD RELISH REJECTION. This is a really helpful piece that reframes rejection as the water writers swim in.
Feb 20, 2023: ๐๐ Read All my classes suddenly became AI classes. I love the assignment here that asks students to work with ChatGPT as if it were a student and they โฆ
Feb 19, 2023: How a post ends up on my blog Hi friends. I wanted to take a moment to share my blogging “process,” which I put in scare quotes because it’s not very refined. โฆ
Feb 19, 2023: Yesterday I saw 3 people (I’d guess women) at Amsterdam Centraal ๐ walking together wearing matching pairs of gorgeous plain black Docs and then โฆ
Feb 16, 2023: Status: in a parasocial relationship with the crew of the Enterprise D.
Feb 16, 2023: I’m not saying I’m just saying, the introduction to GENDER AT SEA talks a lot about Moana and what the story can tell us about women in โฆ
Feb 16, 2023: Who goes to the Dutch National Maritime Museum and buys an edited collection titled Gender at Sea as a souvenir? This academic. ๐๐๐
Feb 16, 2023: Hello, I require this shirt.
Feb 16, 2023: ๐๐ Read Why PhDs Need to Study Creative Writing by Anthony Ocampo, at the recommendation of Dr. Ravynn K. Stringfield. This is one of the reasons I โฆ
Feb 15, 2023: Today I’m grieving the closure of Catapult magazine and classes. ๐
Feb 13, 2023: The latest Dutch food: nasi satรฉ ajam. This is an Indonesian dish. Because Indonesia was once a Dutch colony, there’s a lot of Indonesian โฆ
Feb 13, 2023: ๐๐๐ Read Mess Up Your Good, Premium, Luxury Notebooks. Yes! Great advice from Anna Havron.
Feb 13, 2023: ๐ Read Antisemitic text was projected onto the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. ๐
Feb 11, 2023: Finished reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke ๐ This one took me a while to get into. Before giving up, I hunted down a review. The review indicated โฆ
Feb 10, 2023: ๐ ๐ Joanna Penn discusses her use of AI to help her write a short story. This could be a valuable model for educators to use to teach students how to โฆ
Feb 9, 2023: ๐ Read The Summer-Camp Feeding Frenzy Has Already Begun.
Feb 9, 2023: ๐ Read Theater never recovered from COVID โ and now change is no longer a choice. …the people who live in the shadow of the refinery often โฆ
Feb 8, 2023: Another Dutch meal. This is hutspot. It’s smoked sausage with gravy on a bed of potatoes, onions, and carrots. I liked it better than the one โฆ
Feb 8, 2023: ๐ Read THE JEDI ACADEMY WILL NO LONGER TEACH ANAKIN SKYWALKERโS MASSACRE OF THE YOUNGLINGS. A+ geek satire.
Feb 7, 2023: ๐บ Watched Key & Peele - I Said…. This is a beautiful sketch that heightens literally as high as you can go. Strong one to have early in the โฆ
Feb 7, 2023: ๐ฟ Watched Bert Williams - The Poker Game. Stunningly good object work.
Feb 7, 2023: ๐ฟWatched Mantan Moreland & Ben Carter - Indefinite Talk. This bit is so fun. Ought to be mentioned in the same breath as Who’s On First?
Feb 7, 2023: ๐ Read The Sad Clown Joke That Became a Beloved Meme. My favorite take on Pagliacci is Rhett Miller’s theme song for the podcast The Hilarious โฆ
Feb 7, 2023: ๐๐ฌ๐ “… being transparent about one’s positionality, and choosing a granularity of analysis appropriate to your actual knowledge and โฆ
Feb 6, 2023: ๐ A swirling soup of thoughts in my head about self-presentation after reading these posts: The personal brand paradox - Debbie Millman Build a โฆ
Feb 6, 2023: You know what’s really great for a migraine is the monthly test of public warning sirens in the Netherlands. OH WAIT NO THAT DOES NOT HELP WITH โฆ
Feb 5, 2023: ๐ Read Is My Child Eating Enough Pirate’s Booty? Parenting comedy is a microgenre that always lands with me.
Feb 4, 2023: ๐ Read “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather." Took me a little while to get into the format of this short story but in the end I loved it. Big The โฆ
Feb 3, 2023: Today’s adventure: NEMO Science Museum. Very cool, but I’m spoiled by having an awesome science museum in my hometown. I think it would โฆ
Feb 2, 2023: Finished reading: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ๐ I’m extremely late to this one. It’s excellent, of course. I love the way Angie Thomas โฆ
Feb 2, 2023: ๐ Read Interview with Kelly J. Baker: โI canโt push through when Iโm stuck.โ “My writing routine became write frantically whenever I had a โฆ
Feb 1, 2023: Another Dutch meal: stamppot boerenkool. This is smoked sausage with sauce on a bed of potatoes mixed with kale. I really liked the sausage but it โฆ
Feb 1, 2023: I made a menu of Dutch foods for us to try. They’re sort of home food staples, not anything too elaborate or traditional. This is the first โฆ
Feb 1, 2023: I’m so excited to hang out with my friends for new stories.
Jan 31, 2023: ๐ Read WEโVE LOST THE PLOT by Megan Garber (The Atlantic). “Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and โฆ
Jan 30, 2023: Finished reading: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo ๐ I love it so much. I left the hardcover at home but bought the ebook to read while I’m traveling, โฆ
Jan 30, 2023: ๐๐บ๐ฎ Read Television Is Better Without Video Games and Video Games Are Better Without Gameplay (Ian Bogost, The Atlantic). Maybe Ian Bogost should stop โฆ
Jan 30, 2023: My kid made a Kirby and the Forgotten Land fanzine, I am dead from cute.
Jan 28, 2023: ๐บ๐๐ป When I watch TNG or Picard, Data is Data, but anyone else Brent Spiner plays is Brent Spiner doing an awesome job. But Data is, viscerally for me, โฆ
Jan 27, 2023: ๐บ Watched Ares. Brilliant dark academia horror with all the hallmarks: secret society, dangerously powerful young people, gorgeous fashion, a lower โฆ
Jan 27, 2023: Quiet Time in Aalsmeer Our second week in the Netherlands has been quiet so far. Exactly a week after we got here, I came down with a cough that has developed into a pretty โฆ
Jan 26, 2023: Duolingo really emphasizes the importance of learning the Dutch word “krant,” which means newspaper. I was confused at first because it โฆ
Jan 24, 2023: The video of the Pop Culture Dialogue I was part of on inherited fandoms is now on YouTube.
Jan 24, 2023: In just a bit I’ll be contributing to the live-streamed Pop Culture Dialogue on Inherited Fandoms, hosted by the Popular culture Studies โฆ
Jan 23, 2023: I love your newsletter, whoever you are, but I’ve put it on web-only. Trying to get quiet in here ๐ง . I’ll find you when I’m ready.
Jan 22, 2023: Well I guess the jet lag is over because instead of getting a brilliant solid stretch of sleep that didn’t start until 2 am, I was out by 11 but โฆ
Jan 20, 2023: We took a walk through the village down to the Westeindeplassen (a lake) today. Here are some photos from that walk.
Jan 20, 2023: The other day W pointed out that the way we communicate in memes is basically the same as Tamarians in “Darmok” ๐๐ป. When I say, โฆ
Jan 19, 2023: Our first 60 hours in Europe In case you missed it: my husband, W, received a Fulbright award to study European & transatlantic copyright harmonization, especially with โฆ
Jan 19, 2023: ๐ Read The online free speech debate is raging in fan fiction, too by Elizabeth Minkel.
Jan 19, 2023: ๐ Read The Fannish Potlatch: Creation of Status Within the Fan Community by Rachael Sabotini (Fanfic Symposium) via Lori Morimoto’s Introduction โฆ
Jan 19, 2023: Me in the Netherlands on Day 3: UGH I can’t believe I haven’t been to ALL THE MUSEUMS, what am I even doing
Jan 18, 2023: ๐ฎ Played the Dragon Quest Treasures demo. Cute with some fun mechanics and a cool world but not so compelling that I’d purchase without a steep โฆ
Jan 18, 2023: ๐๐บ๐ฑโโ๏ธ Read Sarah Michelle Gellar Returns to Fighting Form: โIโve Earned the Right to Stand Where I Amโ. “Was it an ideal working situation? โฆ
Jan 18, 2023: Woont u in Nederland? Ik ben in Aalsmeer. Wil u afspreken? Ik spreek een beetje Nederlands, maar ik spreek veel Engels.
Jan 18, 2023: Me: wants to message all my friends and family My friends and family: are sleeping, I hope, as it’s 3:30 AM where most of them are
Jan 17, 2023: Well, a cat walked us home from the bus stop so I guess we and everyone we know are moving to Amsterdam.
Jan 14, 2023: ๐บ Finished watching Wednesday. Glad I stuck with it. I appreciate Wednesday refusing to be in the same teen drama show as everyone else. I was โฆ
Jan 13, 2023: ๐บ๐ฌ Tyler: Come on, don’t you like a day that’s all about you? Wednesday: Every day is all about me. This one just comes with cake and a โฆ
Jan 13, 2023: ๐บ๐ฌ “It’s not my fault I can’t interpret your emotional morse code.” ๐ค Wednesday ๐ค
Jan 12, 2023: ๐ Back on my dark academia bullshit thanks to WEDNESDAY (the show is DA, the character is goth) and so I read this interview with Donna Tartt.
Jan 12, 2023: Real struggle to focus today which is probably a combo of getting to bed late because I wanted to keep tabs on how my mom was doing in the ER (poorly โฆ
Jan 10, 2023: Pro-tip: asking questions about why you’re doing the research in the way you’re doing it and what you originally said you were going to do โฆ
Jan 10, 2023: ๐บ Watching WEDNESDAY and every time Christina Ricci says, “Wednesday,” I’m all, “Are you talking to yourself?” in spite โฆ
Jan 10, 2023: How I Begin In Austin Kleonโs paid newsletter post today, he asked his readers, to share how we begin. I opened by saying, โI donโt know how I begin.โ Then I โฆ
Jan 10, 2023: Tarot: My Year Ahead I’m taking Lindsay Mack’s tarot class called The Threshold. Here’s my reading for the year ahead. Four major arcana - huge! This โฆ
Jan 9, 2023: Make a note: 2023 is the year of unsubscribing.
Jan 9, 2023: Hey librarians! Where do you get information to help you do your job?
Jan 9, 2023: ๐๐ฌ “Be open to the possibility that you are bigger, more magical, more powerful than you dare imagine, that you are here to do something that is โฆ
Jan 8, 2023: ๐ Read How Wednesday Addams Birthed a Generation of Cynics by Emily Alford (Longreads). This is my favorite Wednesday think piece so far. Ricciโs โฆ
Jan 6, 2023: It seems extra cruel that while my mom can’t actually carry herself around on her legs, she can feel lots of pain in them.
Jan 6, 2023: ๐ Read All in Good Fun: How Fanfiction Reignited My Passion for Writing by Briana Lawrence, linked in this week’s The Rec Center The first time โฆ
Jan 6, 2023: Hello. LIS scholars, scholars of #LIS for those of you on hashtaggy places: are you familiar with LIS research that points to PEOPLE as the โฆ
Jan 6, 2023: Hey Internet. What’s fun with a kid in Amsterdam? Besides De Poezenboot, obviously. ๐โโฌ
Jan 3, 2023: Me: gets Steam Deck for Christmas Me: proceeds to add tons of 90s PC adventure games to my Steam wishlist
Jan 3, 2023: ๐ฎ Started playing The Secret of Monkey Island on the Steam Deck. Correcting a gap in my point & click bona fides. So far Yakko & Wakko Warner โฆ
Jan 3, 2023: Loved my first day hike, hiked in spite of the sense of impending bursitis. Two days later, bursitis is still here plus some other joint pain and โฆ
Jan 2, 2023: Q: Was there ever a series of books you were skeptical about, but ended up liking very much? A: I can’t think of any right now but this is a โฆ
Jan 2, 2023: Q: who was your crush in middle school lmao A: Had a different one each year. Not naming names but one of them performed surgery on my mom a few years โฆ
Jan 2, 2023: Q: the longest time you’ve ever gone without showering? A: Don’t know but far too long, more than a week. I’m generally bad about it โฆ
Jan 2, 2023: Dense fog advisory today until 10 AM. Big woodland goth vibes.
Jan 2, 2023: Finished reading: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie ๐ Poirot’s first case. A bit of homage to Doyle at the start, then on to โฆ
Jan 1, 2023: Begin As You Mean to Go On, courtesy of Leigh Bardugo: Read for pleasure: Read The Mysterious Affair at Styles on my Kobo. Make things (courtesy of โฆ
Jan 1, 2023: Q: What’s one thing that typical town libraries should change to increase community participation? A: Find ways to reach people who aren’t โฆ
Jan 1, 2023: Q: What are your plans this weekend? A: Nothing big - maybe going to the Farmer’s Market & then prepping bc on 1/16 I leave for Amsterdam - โฆ
Jan 1, 2023: Anon message: You’re still one of the first people I think of fondly when I’m reminiscing. ๐ชต๐ซ Reply: Aww thank you! That’s super โฆ
Jan 1, 2023: Next anon q: Do you remember your Bronzer days with joy? Or with time (and events) does it feel like just an old phase you went through? Answer: So โฆ
Jan 1, 2023: Next anonymous question: Favourite fandom/ship for fanfic? My answer: Oh my goodness this is way harder than the career question. My AO3 bookmarks say โฆ
Jan 1, 2023: Next anonymous message: You are the best! My reply: Thanks! Backatcha!
Jan 1, 2023: Fourth anonymous question: Favorite place you’ve ever visited? My answer: The Library of Congress
Jan 1, 2023: Third anonymous question: If you could choose any career would it be what you’re doing right now or something else? My answer: This is such a โฆ
Jan 1, 2023: Second anonymous question: Who’s the last person you texted? My answer: My sister
Jan 1, 2023: First anonymous question: Hottest sport? My answer: I don’t really sport and I’m super heat sensitive so… All of them that โฆ
Jan 1, 2023: Saw @heroicendeavour@glammr.us answering anonymous questions and thought it might be fun to do this myself. I reserve the right to refuse to answer โฆ
Dec 31, 2022: Did the PBS Kids NYE countdown so… Here’s to some good stuff happening in 2023.
Dec 31, 2022: A Dispatch from the Threshold of 2023 ๐ช๐ I don’t know if I’ll get to do all the year-end/new year transition things I’d hoped to do today: tarot stuff, bullet journal โฆ
Dec 31, 2022: On this day last year, I wrote: “…my word of the year for 2022 is MEND. My goal is to keep going.” Last night I quote tweeted โฆ
Dec 31, 2022: PS If you’re wondering why I’m still awake at 4 it’s because my mom keeps having miserable side effects from the TKIs for her โฆ
Dec 31, 2022: My Child Woke Me Up at 1:30 and I’m Still Awake at 4: The Kimberly Hirsh Story
Dec 30, 2022: My Reading Year 2022, Part Deux I’m calling it for the year. I’m not going to try to squeeze one more in before the end of the day tomorrow. When I wrote my year in โฆ
Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Hooky by Mรญriam Bonastre Tur ๐ Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.
Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Career Change: Stop hating your job, discover what you really want to do with your life, and start doing it! by Joanna Penn ๐ โฆ
Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career by Katie Rose Guest Pryal ๐ Posting this so it automatically gets โฆ
Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery - Aftermath by Kirsten Beyer ๐ Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.
Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Keith S. Wilson ๐ Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.
Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Rose (New Poets of America) by Li-Young Lee ๐ Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.
Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Troll: Hilda Book 1 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson ๐ Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading โฆ
Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Midnight Giant: Hilda Book 2 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson ๐ Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end โฆ
Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Black Hound: Hilda Book 4 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson ๐ Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end โฆ
Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Stone Forest: Hilda Book 5 (Hildafolk) by Luke Pearson ๐ Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end โฆ
Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Hilda and the Mountain King by Luke Pearson ๐ Posting this so it automatically gets added to my year-end reading post.
Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: Death on the Nile [Movie Tie-In 2022] by Agatha Christie ๐ Another fun one. Poirot has more heart here.
Dec 30, 2022: Currently reading: Death on the Nile [Movie Tie-In 2022] by Agatha Christie ๐ Another pre-movie watch read.
Dec 29, 2022: Cat help me, I’ve fallen into the rabbit hole that is Benoit Blanc/Phillip fluff and I’m very happy here.
Dec 28, 2022: Part of me wants to take all my favorite character tropes and rewrite them as mom. Mom detective. Mom swashbuckler. Mom grand dame. Just a bunch of โฆ
Dec 28, 2022: Finished reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie ๐ Wow, that went fast. Super fun.
Dec 27, 2022: Currently reading: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie ๐ Reading in advance of watching the Branagh film.
Dec 27, 2022: Finished reading: Season of Love by Helena Greer ๐ I love it so much. Sweet, hot but closed doors, I really do wish Carrigan’s was a real place, โฆ
Dec 24, 2022: ๐๐ Read …and a partridge in a pear tree (19913 words) by strangehunger. This is a beautiful and perfect Gideon the Ninth mall employee AU. โฆ
Dec 23, 2022: Currently reading: Season of Love by Helena Greer ๐ I’ve read 141 pages in this book since I picked it up yesterday afternoon.
Dec 23, 2022: ๐ฟ Watched Glass Onion. Had fun. Still adore Benoit Blanc.
Dec 23, 2022: ๐ I’m sure there are a lot of things I’ll want to tell you about Season of Love but the first is that there’s a Veronica Mars โฆ
Dec 22, 2022: I feel like my new glasses give me a nebbishy vibe and I kind of love it. Who’s ready to cast me as Seymour?
Dec 22, 2022: Finally picked this beauty up from the library. I had it from NetGalley but didn’t get it read before it expired. (Don’t fret over the โฆ
Dec 22, 2022: I drew the Ace of Swords as my anchor card for winter. I made it my phone background to help me remember that this season, I can use my sharp mind to โฆ
Dec 22, 2022: ๐๐ Read Finding the Secret Door Into Your Novel. When a novel is wick, it has a life about it. (Have we talked about how I married Dickon, Internet? โฆ
Dec 21, 2022: Said I was gonna disconnect cross-posting from Twitter, forgot to actually do it, gonna leave it on for now since they’ve walked back the โฆ
Dec 21, 2022: Finished reading: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko ๐ Finished this in 2 or 3 days. I was drawn to it because of the cover & buzz. I stayed in it because โฆ
Dec 21, 2022: Happy solstice!
Dec 21, 2022: Kelly J. Baker’s latest newsletter is about a year of not writing & what that means when being a writer is a key piece of your identity. It โฆ
Dec 20, 2022: New glasses! Who knew I had a face under those cateyes?
Dec 19, 2022: Currently reading: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko ๐
Dec 18, 2022: Disconnecting cross-posting to Twitter after this post. Find my follow page at kimberlyhirsh.com if you want to keep up with me.
Dec 18, 2022: Finished reading: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo ๐ I loved it so much. I know Leigh Bardugo is done with the Grishaverse for a while but I hope not โฆ
Dec 18, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “None of this had been fated; none of it foretold… They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive. But maybe that โฆ
Dec 18, 2022: Woodland Goth: The Goblins of Labyrinth by Brian Froud ๐ Yep, I created a whole Woodland Goth bookshelf. Goblins of Labyrinth is a collectible. I โฆ
Dec 17, 2022: Moderating my own smartphone use (but still not belonging in the Luddite club) I thought, given my heavy criticism of the potential perspective that we should all join the Luddite club, it might be useful to discuss my own โฆ
Dec 16, 2022: Maybe we don't all need to join the Luddite club. I have some thoughts about the Luddite club. First, I don’t have a problem with people switching to flip phones. I do have a problem with the โฆ
Dec 16, 2022: Me, misquoting Lord of the Rings: “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them โฆ
Dec 16, 2022: I use a smartphone AND I read novels.
Dec 16, 2022: Revised 5 TV shows to introduce me, now in chronological order of release! ๐บ Star Trek: The Next Generation ๐๐ป Animaniacs๐ Buffy the Vampire Slayer โฆ
Dec 15, 2022: Replacing Firefly in my 5 shows to introduce me and subbing in CXG.
Dec 15, 2022: 'Wednesday' is full of "Whoa." ๐บ I just finished the first episode of Wednesday. I have so many thoughts and feelings. First, I’ve seen criticism that the Addams Family works โฆ
Dec 15, 2022: Introduce yourself with 5 TV shows ๐บ: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ๐ฑโโ๏ธ Firefly ๐ Star Trek: The Next Generation ๐ GLOW ๐คผโโ๏ธ The X-Files ๐ธ
Dec 15, 2022: ๐๐บ Read Wednesday Forgets Why We Fell in Love With the Addams Family. “The Addams Family films were about family being a haven of pure โฆ
Dec 15, 2022: Apparently tonight is a waking-after-every-sleep-cycle night. Not my favorite.
Dec 14, 2022: I want my hair to look like Emily Axford’s hair.
Dec 14, 2022: ๐ฟ Watched Santa Games (Hulu). Super cute. A sweet story about family & the power of second chances mixed with a funny take on social media, โฆ
Dec 14, 2022: ๐ Read A year of new avenues robinsloan.com Robin Sloan https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/ Iย want to insist on an amateur internet; a garage โฆ
Dec 14, 2022: On being an escribitionist In November, when I realized there was no way I was going to be able to get 50,000 words of writing done, I decided to try writing 750 words a day โฆ
Dec 14, 2022: ๐ Read What Is a Strike? Reflections from the Virtual Front Lines of the UC Academic Worker Strike by Mary Jirmanas Saba (LA Progressive).
Dec 13, 2022: Currently reading: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo ๐ Kind of resent that I have to do anything besides read this book, even though I love a lot of the โฆ
Dec 13, 2022: ๐ Read Attention, trust and GPT3 “If your work isnโt more useful or insightful or urgent than GPT can create in 12 seconds, donโt interrupt โฆ
Dec 12, 2022: ๐๐ฌ “I am most interested in confessional writing when it allows us to move into the personal as a way to go beyond it. In all my work I invoke โฆ
Dec 12, 2022: ๐๐ฌ “I had been so well socialized by graduate school that I was torn between which writing path to pursue, agonizing over whether I could write โฆ
Dec 12, 2022: ๐๐ Read If You Want to Give Something Back to Nature, Give Your Body by Caitlin Doughty (New York Times Gift Link). I hope we get human composting in โฆ
Dec 12, 2022: Lately I often find myself feeling alert but unable to focus. This is a new vibe for me. If you’re a person who experiences this feeling โฆ
Dec 11, 2022: Finished reading: 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl ๐ Read this because it’s on Austin Kleon’s list of books about โฆ
Dec 11, 2022: “Perhaps having children makes one increasingly distrust the symbolic world. Because suddenly nothing is as important as the very real โฆ
Dec 11, 2022: This week’s Craft Talk from Jami Attenberg is another great one: “Donโt ever talk yourself out of writing something because you donโt โฆ
Dec 11, 2022: Y’all ever think about how the worst moments in your life personally align with some of the most personally important cultural moments? โฆ
Dec 10, 2022: ๐ Read Creativity as Spiritual Practice by Rabbi Adina Allen (My Jewish Learning). “Each of us is endowed with creative capacity simply by โฆ
Dec 10, 2022: ๐๐ญ๐จ๐งถ๐งต๐ต๐๐ฟ This is a reminder that I write Genetrix, a very occasional newsletter curating stories of creative mothers. If those are the kind of stories โฆ
Dec 10, 2022: ๐๐บ๐ Read TV Recaps Taught Me How to Write Criticism by Joelle Kidd. I love Kidd’s discussion of the role of pleasure in criticism.
Dec 10, 2022: ๐๐บ Read Wednesday Addams Is the Ultimate Outcast by Miyako Pleines (Catapult). ๐ค
Dec 8, 2022: ๐ Read Haunted by the Ghost of 2019, Helena Fitzgerald “A return to 2019 is an attempt to erase all of the losses that happened between then โฆ
Dec 8, 2022: Want to read: Screaming on the Inside by Jessica Grose ๐
Dec 8, 2022: My personal Pokรฉmon avatar was behind today’s advent calendar door.
Dec 8, 2022: ๐ Read How’d That Thing Go? by Kate McKean. “I donโt want a schedule, I want a sandbox. I want a list of things that need to be done and โฆ
Dec 8, 2022: How to feel like myself My kid’s best friend’s mom got a new job and isn’t starting it until January, but has already left her old job. She has all of โฆ
Dec 7, 2022: Just listened to a super stressful strike townhall and I’m tempted to watch tonight’s Neverafter but I think TNG is the smarter move right โฆ
Dec 7, 2022: ๐ฟ Watched Falling for Christmas. I’ve been an unironic Lindsay Lohan fan since I saw Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, so I was delighted to โฆ
Dec 6, 2022: Q asks Baby Q Amanda Rogers if she’s ever caused the spontaneous combustion of someone she doesn’t like, then gives Picard a look as if to โฆ
Dec 5, 2022: Trying to figure out if I can make a crow cane head work on my adjustable cane so I can walk the streets of Amsterdam pretending it’s Ketterdam โฆ
Dec 5, 2022: ๐ฎ Apparently my Dragon Age: Origins character isn’t in leather armor that looks like underwear. She’s in her actual underwear because I โฆ
Dec 5, 2022: ๐ฎ I’m more than 10 yrs behind & have already played Inquisition but some quick thoughts after 1 hr of DA: Origins: I appreciate that the โฆ
Dec 5, 2022: Getting blood work done, it’s been 20 minutes since my appointment time and I still haven’t been seen, fasting and haven’t eaten in โฆ
Dec 4, 2022: My whole family and I are moving to Tom Bombadil’s house. He and Goldberry are such gracious hosts and we will be relaxed there. (Please note: โฆ
Dec 3, 2022: Y’all don’t even know how transformed this fireplace is from just a couple months ago. W painted it white & my brother-in-law MM and I โฆ
Dec 3, 2022: The head teacher at my kid’s school for next year sent an email saying that the only school supplies he will need are a backpack and a lunchbox โฆ
Dec 3, 2022: ๐๐ฎ Read Playing โTunicโ Reminds Me How to Approach Sickness and Recovery by Martin Cahill (Catapult).
Dec 2, 2022: I have done all the things in Stardew Valley 1.4 and it took me ~245 hrs. That’s ~245 hrs when I was playing Stardew Valley and not โฆ
Dec 2, 2022: 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 including comics/graphic novels and poetry. About โฆ
Nov 30, 2022: True facts about my time on the early web: In many chats (like, html + server side scripting with auto-refresh), my handle was Elora Danan and my โฆ
Nov 30, 2022: Wonderful things ๐ฅณ: My kid fell asleep before 9:30 for the first time this week. ๐ด I โค๏ธ Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, & Andy Serkis singing as both of โฆ
Nov 30, 2022: Some notes on my Spotify Wrapped: Joe Hisaishi is the composer for My Neighbor Totoro, which is what I wake M up with on the rare morning he’s โฆ
Nov 30, 2022: Friends! Are you on Mastodon? Are you seeing this on Mastodon? I’m about to stop using indieweb.social to syndicate my posts to Mastodon but you โฆ
Nov 30, 2022: My son sings “Step by Step” at school sometimes. I always thought it sounded like a union song and, indeed, the lyrics come from a โฆ
Nov 30, 2022: Hey Micro.blog friendos, I activated ActivityPub & can follow Mastodon peeps via M.b but how do I tell people to find me at โฆ
Nov 29, 2022: I’m like a toddler over here with big feelings, might cry from relief because my parents got my brother’s special needs trust and ABLE โฆ
Nov 29, 2022: ๐ Read ‘Y’all,โ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream โ and itโs about time by David B. Parker (The Conversation), h/t โฆ
Nov 29, 2022: Today has not been my favorite day, for reasons I may choose to detail more extensively in the future. For now, I’ll just say that the day began โฆ
Nov 29, 2022: ๐ฎ If you told me in 2015 that I would be really psyched about getting farming sims by 2022, I would have laughed at you. Yet here we are.
Nov 28, 2022: ๐ Read 1 in 4 hiring managers say they are less likely to move forward with Jewish applicants (ResumeBuilder), h/t @benwerd. The convenience sampling โฆ
Nov 28, 2022: ๐๐ป I’ve been falling asleep to the TNG episode “Relics,” and every time Captain Picard says “Ensign Rager” it sounds โฆ
Nov 28, 2022: ๐ Read Taking on the Feminine Labor of Creating Holiday Magic by Sarah Hunter Simanson (Catapult). This year will be the first Christmas that my mom โฆ
Nov 28, 2022: ๐ Read PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet by Jamie Zawinski. (h/t @manton) At the moment, if I can’t do it in a browser, I’m โฆ
Nov 28, 2022: Finished reading: The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo ๐ I love that Leigh Bardugo wrote this and The Language of Thorns to give us the immersion of โฆ
Nov 28, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “I don’t remember my own story… I remember only how I fell into books, never to rise from their pages, how I was never truly โฆ
Nov 26, 2022: Thanksgiving 1: Plain black leggings, gray sweater. Thanksgiving 2: Floral dress. Thanksgiving 3: PlayStation T-shirt, Star Wars leggings
Nov 26, 2022: Today: Thanksgiving #3, Booster #2. Tomorrow: Rest, D&D.
Nov 24, 2022: Locking myself in the bathroom at my parents' house to get a break from overstimulation, happy Thanksgiving 1996 everybody.
Nov 24, 2022: ๐๐ฒ Read On Mother Trees: What Old-Growth Trees Taught Me About Parenting by Kaitlyn Teer (Catapult). A gorgeous essay in conversation with The Giving โฆ
Nov 24, 2022: ๐๐ฟ Read The Mom in โHome Aloneโ Is a Messy and Magnificent Model of Motherhood. It’s easy to forget how hard Kate McAllister works to make sure โฆ
Nov 24, 2022: ๐๐โฟ Read As a Disabled Writer, I Am a Rich Innovator by [Sarah Fawn Montgomery](www.sarahfawnmontgomery.com/l (Catapult). This is my new favorite โฆ
Nov 22, 2022: Currently attending Dr. Anuja Cabraal’s session on emoji coding. The analysis process and how we choose to analyze influences the results. โฆ
Nov 22, 2022: 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 you’re avoiding spoilers, just move along… . โฆ
Nov 22, 2022: Today is a day of widespread pain and miserable stomach cramps. Thanks a lot, chronic illness exacerbated by shifting hormones…
Nov 22, 2022: ๐ Read What is Jewish Spirituality? Mystics have their experiences, but what matters is what they learn from them…
Nov 22, 2022: ๐ Read The Eight Genders in the Talmud. Super interesting discussion of how halakhah handles things that don’t fit a binary.
Nov 21, 2022: ๐ฟ I’m about 30 minutes into Disney’s Disenchanted and while it definitely doesn’t have the magic of Enchanted, Amy Adams is still a โฆ
Nov 21, 2022: ๐ฟ Watched Eve’s Christmas. This & Back to Christmas have similar premises. If I woke up to discover I’d had a successful second chance โฆ
Nov 21, 2022: Me: Ugh. Why am I so irritable? looks at Euki app calendar Me: Oh.
Nov 21, 2022: Because I’m Extremely Online, I joined Hive with the username kimberlyhirsh. Because I’m an IndieWeb person and they have no API at โฆ
Nov 20, 2022: Finished reading: Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ๐ I loved it so much. And I’m still pretty confused but that’s okay. ๐
Nov 20, 2022: Okay, I have enough people still hanging out on Twitter to stick around, reactivated syndication. Via @toddgrotenhuis on micro.blog - Introduce โฆ
Nov 20, 2022: Turning off Twitter syndication from my blog. Still syndicating to Tumblr (@kimberlyhirsh) & Mastodon (@kimberlyhirsh@indieweb.social).
Nov 19, 2022: I have spent the past 3 hours online shopping for Christmas presents. I have bought ONE gift. But I’ve rejected hundreds, so… Yay?
Nov 19, 2022: It really makes me happy to introduce to you Maddie Priebe’s Rainbow Connection Tarot (major arcana only), the most perfect fan artist’s โฆ
Nov 18, 2022: You are a creature of flesh. You have all the same bodily needs any wild mammal does.
Nov 18, 2022: My first tweet, from December 2, 2008, is super on-brand for me: “QUESTION: What term(s) do academia use to refer to video games?” โฆ
Nov 18, 2022: Today’s @750words playlist: Music for Writing in a Haunted Mansion curated by Sarah Chavez. ๐ต
Nov 18, 2022: The Muppets is (are? I’m sticking with is) my oldest fandom and I cycle away from them but I always come back so hi, time for me to reinvigorate โฆ
Nov 18, 2022: I have a newsletter! It emails you all my posts for the week on Fridays!
Nov 18, 2022: Big last day of the WB Bronze nostalgia with all the farewell tweets tonight.
Nov 18, 2022: Guess I better start cross-posting to Instagram more!
Nov 17, 2022: A helicopter was just flying low and loud too close to my house and I’m very glad it seems to be gone now.
Nov 17, 2022: I just backed A Book About the Magic of Foraging Pigments & Making Art on Kickstarter.
Nov 17, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “We give the people we mother our bodies, and what they will recall is our presence and heat, our animal closeness.” Angela Garbes, โฆ
Nov 17, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “I don’t believe care work has to wreck us. This labor can be shared, social, collectiveโand transformative.” Angela Garbes, โฆ
Nov 17, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “Those who mother are the sanitation workers of bodiesโ handling the refuse, the filth and putrescence, living in the stink.” Angela โฆ
Nov 17, 2022: Want to read: Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin ๐ Thanks for the rec, @agilelisa!
Nov 16, 2022: So worn out and it’s almost time to start the second shift of my day job (parenting).
Nov 16, 2022: Decided to do morning pages over at 750words. It’s not longhand, but it also doesn’t give me hand cramps, so. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Nov 16, 2022: A letter to my past self circa 1997 Dear Kimberly, I’m just going to jump right in. Remember E’s cute boyfriend and how you noticed she seems to not be dating him anymore and โฆ
Nov 15, 2022: ๐๐ Read As a Queer Author, I Thought I Had to Come Out Before My Books Did. Excellent piece about the dangers of outing anyone before they’re โฆ
Nov 15, 2022: What feels like your people? I have a lot of friends, but the circle of friends I think of as my people is much smaller. If I make a list, it’s probably maybe 10 or so โฆ
Nov 15, 2022: ๐ How to Write a Novel (Or Anything, Really) with ADHD Lots of helpful ideas for people who, like myself, struggle to finish writing long things.
Nov 15, 2022: ๐ Read Instagram Makes Parents Feel More Clueless Than We Really Are by Elisabeth Sherman (Catapult). Great piece. Every time I think I’m โฆ
Nov 15, 2022: Thanks to Ransom on Lower Decks, I now notice every time Riker has his foot up on furniture on TNG. ๐๐ป
Nov 14, 2022: ๐บ๐ฌ On MythicQuest… Ian: Poppy, lines are so Web1. You don’t wanna be in Web1, do you? Me: I do! I love Web1!
Nov 13, 2022: It’s Sunday morning and I am back to being overwhelmed by meal planning, how’s your day? I should say that M & I made banana bread and โฆ
Nov 12, 2022: Maybe not 50K words of literally anything... It turns out giving yourself credit for everything you write is actually really challenging because you have to pull it all together somewhere, and โฆ
Nov 12, 2022: ๐๐ฌ “Proximity to power, however real that feels, is a simpler choice than solidarity. True allyship lives in relationships, true solidarity โฆ
Nov 12, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “The perspective mothers bring to their jobsโwhether it’s law making, coalition building, project managementโis that family and care โฆ
Nov 12, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “We are entrusting that which we say is most preciousโour children, our futureโ to other people, yet we are not willing to pay them a living โฆ
Nov 12, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “Childcare professionals, many of them mothers, are three times as likely to live in poverty as workers in other professions.” Angela โฆ
Nov 11, 2022: The number of people grieving the loss of Kevin Conroy in my various timelines has confirmed that I’m following the right people.
Nov 10, 2022: Hello I require a meme where Lore is impersonating Data on Twitter, they’re both verified, will pay in high praise kthx ๐๐ป
Nov 9, 2022: Over at Mastodon, I have a lot of new infosec/cybersecurity followers. I assume y’all followed me because Kevin Beaumont follows me. Kev & I โฆ
Nov 9, 2022: Moved Mastodon instances from mastodon.social to indieweb.social because the prior kept timing out. People who were following me shouldn’t need โฆ
Nov 9, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “Weekends aren’t time off for parents; they are two long days of caregiving.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social โฆ
Nov 9, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “Early on in quarantine, I found myself thinking, ‘What is the most valuable thing I could be doing with my time?’ The answer โฆ
Nov 8, 2022: Just moved a publication on my CV from “In Progress” to “In Press.” An RA gathered data in 2018-19. A professor & myself โฆ
Nov 8, 2022: ๐๐ Read How to Finish. Should I force myself to Make New Work or should I let the blank pages stay blank and sharpen pages Iโve already made? Should โฆ
Nov 8, 2022: ๐๐ Read This Machine Will Make You Write More: A Product Recommendation with a Twist. I covet the Alphasmart/Freewrite, but I don’t think โฆ
Nov 8, 2022: ๐๐ Read “You Make the Space, You Fight for the Space” “…every draft after the first draft for me is a kind of process of โฆ
Nov 8, 2022: NaNoWriMo pivot: Back to 50,000 words of literally anything at all Hello friends! It’s been slow-going working on my TNG fanfic. Early in October, I toyed with the idea of being a NaNo Rebel with the goal of โฆ
Nov 7, 2022: Logging out of socials until at least Wednesday. See kimberlyhirsh.com/hello if you want to get in touch.
Nov 7, 2022: ๐๐ Read The Art of Reading While Feeding (with a Newborn). I love articles about how other people enjoy things that aren’t necessarily โฆ
Nov 7, 2022: 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 homemade food that won’t eat up all your โฆ
Nov 7, 2022: ๐๐ Read Writing Advice Isnโt Made for Bodies In Pain. Too many things I want to quote here, so if the headline appeals you should just go read the โฆ
Nov 7, 2022: “if youโre looking for a sign from the universe that itโs okay to stop trying to force your work, that itโs not just okay but good to tend to โฆ
Nov 7, 2022: Over and over again I search for this comic by Sylvie Reuter that is the best depiction I’ve ever seen of how I, personally, experience โฆ
Nov 7, 2022: ๐๐บ Read โBad Sistersโ Captures the Intensity of Having and Being a Sister Ooh. When I’m ready for intense TV I might try this. โฆ
Nov 7, 2022: ๐ Read Emma Thompsonโs Third Act. I’ve always loved Emma Thompson, envisioned her as a kindred spirit, a screen aunt like Carrie Fisher is a โฆ
Nov 6, 2022: ๐ฟ Watched Back to Christmas. Jennifer Elise Cox steals the show. I was hoping Michael Muhney (Sheriff Lamb on Veronica Mars) would get to play someone โฆ
Nov 6, 2022: ๐ฟ Watched Snowbound for Christmas (on Amazon Prime). Based on the book Snowbound with the CEO. A lot of changes from the book. Cute enough, though.
Nov 6, 2022: Seeing Scott Thompson as the French (Canadian?) hotel front of house manager in Snowbound for Christmas is a fun surprise. ๐ฟ
Nov 6, 2022: Finished reading: Snowbound with the CEO by Shannon Stacey ๐ Sweet, short. Stacey wastes no time in making things steamy, but leaves plenty to the โฆ
Nov 5, 2022: ๐ Went to the library to pick up my hold on I Dream of Dinner (so You Don’t Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes and Nona the Ninth was โฆ
Nov 4, 2022: ๐ Read #AcademicTwitter Will Endureโfor Now. If you’re at an institution that provides hosted blogging, you could microblog there, pipe the feed โฆ
Nov 3, 2022: As I eagerly await Linda Holmes’s inevitable holiday TV movie round up, I have used her previous ones to curate a list of 33 new-to-me movies โฆ
Nov 2, 2022: Big Luisa Energy today and I don’t like it. Give it to your sister, it doesn’t hurt, and See if she can handle every family burden Watch โฆ
Nov 2, 2022: I will remember 2022 as the year I wanted to do everything, actually did some things, and felt like I did nothing.
Nov 1, 2022: Now that I’m trained in human subjects research I find myself siding with the Board of Governors in Jekyll & Hyde. ๐ญ๐ต
Nov 1, 2022: Still in the prep stages for this month’s writing projects. I created a reversible notebook to hold workbooks for both.
Nov 1, 2022: The world is full of writing challenges in November, and it’s rough because I want to do them all. Might try my usual method of attempting โฆ
Oct 31, 2022: Happy Halloween from Hilda and Twig!
Oct 31, 2022: The Gothic novel to Broadway musical pipeline ๐ค
Oct 31, 2022: Want to get your own website going but need some info on how? Check out getblogging.org.
Oct 31, 2022: One last fic prompt from when M was 3: Spider-Man and Michelangelo team up to defeat Dormammu.
Oct 31, 2022: Another fic prompt from when M was 3: In โThe Green Ribbon,โ Jenny tells Alfred that she just likes the green ribbon and thatโs why she wears it all โฆ
Oct 31, 2022: Fic prompt from when M was 3: in The Velveteen Rabbit but at the end, not only does the Velveteen rabbit become real, but also the boy and his parents โฆ
Oct 31, 2022: I’m not going to spend a lot of time scrolling Mastodon, but I’m set up to cross-post from my blog there (just like I do with Twitter) so โฆ
Oct 29, 2022: If you’re in/near Glasgow and the mother of a child who’s under a year old, check out the New Mothers Writing Circle.
Oct 28, 2022: ๐ Read Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies | The New Yorker.
Oct 28, 2022: Cooking when your energy bar is low: make some instant oatmeal using the microwave or a kettle. Dump some trail mix on top. Stir. Eat.
Oct 28, 2022: ๐ Read Editorial policies, “public domain,” and acafandom. the importance of fans as both human subjects and creators… can be a โฆ
Oct 28, 2022: ๐Read Attention Economy, Layered Publics, and Research Ethics Kristina Busse / University of South Alabama โ Flow The dilemma that online researchers โฆ
Oct 27, 2022: ๐ Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies โ transform We need to ask ourselves how identifying as an aca-fan impacts the โฆ
Oct 27, 2022: ๐ Read Post-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan โ transform I would argue that aca/fan is most vitally understood as a contextual position โฆ
Oct 27, 2022: ๐ Read Against Aca-Fandom | Ian Bogost. Specialty humanities conferences are just fan conventions with more strangely-dressed attendees.
Oct 27, 2022: ๐ Read When is a Publication Not a Publication? | Just TV. The thing that โcountsโ as a line on a CV is slow-moving and comparatively hard to access, โฆ
Oct 27, 2022: ๐ Read On Disliking Mad Men | Just TV. Itโs worth considering the role of fandom within media scholarship, not as a separate object of โฆ
Oct 27, 2022: Me, watching the Lower Decks finale after finally finishing watching “Time’s Arrow, Part 2”: Is Buenamigo’s cigar hand-rolled โฆ
Oct 27, 2022: ๐ Finished reading An Introduction to Media Fan Studies by Lori Morimoto. A super accessible introduction with helpful paraphrases of jargon-filled โฆ
Oct 26, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “‘Pure,’ ideologically unadulterated consumption/fandom may be a possibility, but it’s not what most media fans experience โฆ
Oct 26, 2022: What’s that? Oh, just a quick pamphlet bind of Lori Morimoto’s An Introduction to Media Fan Studies ๐
Oct 26, 2022: Hey, Internet. I want to get Table of Contents alerts for the Journal of Fandom Studies. My institution doesn’t subscribe, so I can’t set โฆ
Oct 25, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “The acafan… is one who is able to occupy the spaces of both fandom and academia and speak authoritatively on both.” A Fan โฆ
Oct 25, 2022: I change NaNoWriMo plans a lot. Most recently, I’m planning to write YES, ANDROID, a Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfic where Data recruits โฆ
Oct 24, 2022: Hello world. I’m weary. For reasons. Sometimes life is a lot. I’m really glad there are great bits when there are because it would be so โฆ
Oct 23, 2022: I love Baby Galadriel so much.
Oct 23, 2022: Having a nightmare where your relative who’s dealing with infection-induced delirium in the waking world wanders off & is convinced by quack โฆ
Oct 22, 2022: Voting selfie!
Oct 21, 2022: Finished reading: Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien ๐ Reading my way through Wyngraf’s Appendix C (for cozy!).
Oct 21, 2022: Taking another run at limiting screen time, because I’m wondering if the increase in migraines for me lately is correlated with an increase in โฆ
Oct 20, 2022: My superpower is taking any Star Trek: The Next Generation B-story focused on Data and forgetting the A-story that goes with it “The Outrageous โฆ
Oct 20, 2022: My kid goes to a Reggio Emilia school; his kindergarten class is a community of researchers. Today he & I talked about our epistemological โฆ
Oct 19, 2022: ๐ Everyone Wants to Be a Hot, Anxious Girl on Twitter I am both fascinated and terrified by the phrase “the girl in the machine.”
Oct 19, 2022: ๐ NC Mutual Will Cease Operations This Month This is heartbreaking and I’m ashamed I didn’t follow this story earlier.
Oct 19, 2022: I get excited and ambitious and then I have a flare and then I forget all my passions and ambitions. Listen, body: I am doing my best to build a life โฆ
Oct 17, 2022: This is an example of process art.
Oct 17, 2022: I want to food, to cook fresh ingredients into beautiful and tasty things. But I like to experience this as meditative and do it when I have energy, โฆ
Oct 17, 2022: How to Scholar(?) In my doctoral program, there was a class that we colloquially referred to as โbabydocs.โ As it was taught the year I took it, the purpose of babydocs โฆ
Oct 16, 2022: Finished up my time at #FSNNA22 with a dance by the pastries.
Oct 16, 2022: Okay, getting dressed and then heading to the #FSNNA22 Gather lobby to try dancing and throwing confetti.
Oct 16, 2022: Skipping the first sessions of #FSNNA22 today to have breakfast with my family. Back for the 11 am, then missing the closing session to play D&D.
Oct 15, 2022: Today, in Kimberly remembers that scholarly publishing is broken: lots of journals demand either full transfer of copyright or an exclusive license โฆ
Oct 15, 2022: #FSNNA 22 Roundtable: Materiality & Liveness Paul_Lucas: Welcoming everyone to the session "Materiality & Liveness" Talking about WWE and the impact of it being termed an "essential business" โฆ
Oct 15, 2022: I’m attending “Transcultural Fandom Experiences” at #FSNNA22 but not live-tweeting because I’m prepping for the #FanLIS โฆ
Oct 15, 2022: #FSNNA22 Keynote: Turn On, Tune In, Get Out: Rethinking Escapism and Domestic Spectatorship Caetlin Benson-Allott: Beginning Turn On, Tune In, Get Out: Rethinking Escapism and Domestic Spectatorship articulates the need for a theory of โฆ
Oct 14, 2022: Super headachey, so probably gonna lie down, may or may not do more #FSNNA22 today.
Oct 14, 2022: Me to friend who is also a mom: Want me to drop the water bottle you left at M’s birthday party off at your house? Her: Yes. Me: I’ll let โฆ
Oct 14, 2022: W just reminded me we have a Parent-Teacher conference this morning so I actually will miss the first 2 #FSNNA22 sessions today but should be back in โฆ
Oct 14, 2022: Up too early and going to sleep a little more. I’m going to miss the first #FSNNA22 session of the day because it’s right during โฆ
Oct 14, 2022: ๐ Tom Bombadil (๐) sings SO. MUCH.
Oct 13, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Oct 13, 2022: Now is the part of #FSNNA22 where I retreat to my hotel room, order room service, and watch TV except because it’s a virtual conference I โฆ
Oct 13, 2022: The Daily Mail: Don’t use these emojis! They make Gen Z people perceive you as old! Me: I mean they’re going to perceive me like that โฆ
Oct 13, 2022: Time for a liedown, hope to be back up in time for the #FSNNA22 publishing session.
Oct 13, 2022: It’s super energizing to go to conferences like #FSNNA22, #CLS2022, and #FanLIS2022. I’m reminded that I do enjoy research, I am part of a โฆ
Oct 13, 2022: #FSNNA22 Live Blog: Fandom During/After Covid Olivia Johnston-Riley: Next session: Fandom During/After COVID Norbert Nyari: โReaching Fans Through Deeper Interaction: The Case of Concerts Through โฆ
Oct 13, 2022: Even in Gather, I’m that nerd sitting in the front row. #FSNNA22
Oct 13, 2022: Taking kid to the dentist during the next #FSNNA22 session so I won’t be live-tweeting but hope to keep up with others' tweets about it. The โฆ
Oct 13, 2022: M after watching me confer in Gather: “Can we play a little Stardew Valley?”
Oct 13, 2022: #FSNNA2022 Live Blog: The New Bedroom Cultures Dr. Nicola Welsh-Burke: introducing the panel "The New Bedroom Cultures" Elise Sandbach: โThe Growth of Fangirls and Fanfiction During the COVID-19 โฆ
Oct 13, 2022: Kid woke up, so break from live-posting but I’m introducing him to Gather. “What game is that?”
Oct 13, 2022: Side question for anyone at #FSNNA22 or anyone aware of fan studies at all - have folks looked at parents/caregivers and what their fannish activity โฆ
Oct 13, 2022: Good morning! It’s the first day of #FSNNA22, the Fan Studies Network North America conference, and I might be live tweeting and then posting โฆ
Oct 9, 2022: Experimenting with limiting leisure screen time for a little bit. You’ll be able to tell how it goes by following whether I post or not.
Oct 6, 2022: I am asking for COPING advice, not TREATMENT advice: I feel crappy always, with stress and/or migraines and/or insomnia and/or joint pain and/or brain โฆ
Oct 6, 2022: Me, a postdoc and research lead at an R1 institution with a PhD from another institution: I’m not really an academic, though!
Oct 5, 2022: Tape worked great on the part of the giant cat rip that wasn’t a seam, but not the part that was, so I’ll either sew it or try some seam โฆ
Oct 5, 2022: ๐๏ธIt’s taken me more than 2.5 yrs, but I have finished listening to Keegan-Michael Key & Elle Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy. It โฆ
Oct 4, 2022: Yesterday: Noodling on work stuff while swapping out winter clothes and putting away laundry. Today: Getting. Things. Done. and marking them off my โฆ
Oct 3, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “…the work of critical thinking and theorizing is itself an expression of political praxis that constructs a foundation wherein โฆ
Oct 3, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “Critical writing counts for very little when critics speak about ending domination… in our work without changing individual habits โฆ
Oct 3, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “The point is not to render ideas less complexโthe point is to make the complex clear.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at โฆ
Oct 3, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “I write with the intent to share ideas in a manner that makes them accessible to the widest possible audience.” bell hooks, โฆ
Oct 3, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “All academics write but not all see themselves as writers.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work
Oct 2, 2022: The giant cat popped less than 24 hours after going up with probably less than 10 hours up time. Hubris? I’ve got special tape ordered to try โฆ
Oct 1, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “No woman is writing too much. Women need to write more. We need to know what it feels like to be submerged in language, carried away by the โฆ
Oct 1, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “…we must not let the commercial success of writing by women lead us to believe that the struggle to create and maintain a culture โฆ
Oct 1, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “Even in academic circles it has become much more fashionable to do work on gender than work that is distinctly feminist in outlook.” โฆ
Oct 1, 2022: It’s spooky season, so I’m living my best life with a skeleton glow necklace.
Oct 1, 2022: Giant cat!
Oct 1, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “…we all should feel utterly free to write as much as time, grace, and the imagination allow.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: โฆ
Oct 1, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “Since I have never tried to make a living as a writer, I have had the extreme good fortune to be able to write only what I want to write โฆ
Oct 1, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “No writer writes often or well if they despair of ever having an audience for their work.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer โฆ
Oct 1, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “Since my interests are broad and wide-ranging, I am not surprised that there is an endless flow of ideas in my mind.” bell hooks, โฆ
Oct 1, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “There is always someone who waits for words, eager to embrace them and hold them close.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer โฆ
Oct 1, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “Writing that keeps us away from death, from despair, does not necessarily help us to be well.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the โฆ
Oct 1, 2022: ๐๐ฌ๐ “… the being we become in the very act of writing is only ever intimately present to the one who writes.” bell hooks, โฆ
Sep 30, 2022: There have been 22 weekdays this September. My kid has been in school for only 14 of them. The 8 remaining days: 1 holiday, 1 school break, 3 home โฆ
Sep 29, 2022: Finished reading: Up: A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure by Patricia Ellis Herr ๐ An uplifting and compelling read. Herr documents โฆ
Sep 29, 2022: ๐ Read Howlโs Moving Castle should be the model for every book-to-film adaptation (Polygon) by Petrana Radulovic
Sep 29, 2022: Finished reading: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones ๐ Super fun! Highly recommend.
Sep 29, 2022: I’m reading Howl’s Moving Castle. Bit of a spoiler & Miyazaki left it out of the movie (rightly, I think) but Howl is actually a โฆ
Sep 27, 2022: I’m exhausted. My mom has gone to the ER once a week for the past 5 weeks. My kid has not been in school for a full week since the beginning of โฆ
Sep 25, 2022: A hike at Eno River State Park Yesterday, W, M, my sister ME, and I went for a little hike at the Eno River State Park. I’d planned a little flat loop, but we didn’t โฆ
Sep 23, 2022: Want to read: Ghosts of the Forbidden (Glazier’s Gap Book 1) by Leanna Renee Hieber ๐
Sep 21, 2022: I just ordered a 20 ft inflatable black cat. It will dominate the culdesac. I’m kind of hoping it becomes haunted. (RIP The Best Cat, 11/1999 - โฆ
Sep 21, 2022: My currently-planned NaNoWriMo novel is a YA supernatural rom-com set at musical theatre camp in the late 90s. It miiiiiiight have some โฆ
Sep 20, 2022: You can have all of the research that funding agencies can possibly provide us but if we can’t talk about what it means for our actual lived โฆ
Sep 19, 2022: I love today’s issue of Publish Not Perish in which Jenn McClearen draws a connection between Joli Jensen’s idea of communal writing and โฆ
Sep 18, 2022: I just played D&D for the first time in 3+ years and it was so great I almost cried.
Sep 13, 2022: ๐ฎ Things from today’s Nintendo Direct that feel like gifts they’re making for me, specifically: Theatrhythm Final Bar Line Harvestella โฆ
Sep 13, 2022: I rarely watch actual play TTRPG shows because Life Circumstances have made a 3-hr viewing a real challenge. I backed DesiQuest at the Town Folk level โฆ
Sep 13, 2022: Day 3 of a garbage migraine. Hate it. Rarely get them this bad anymore.
Sep 12, 2022: ๐บ Will I need to watch The Book of Boba Fett to follow what’s happening in the next season of The Mandalorian?
Sep 11, 2022: ๐บ Excuse me, I am watching The Rings of Power and Disa is my new fave, thought you should know. (And that’s a big deal because Galadriel, Nori, โฆ
Sep 11, 2022: ๐บ Watched The Sandman. It’s so great. I don’t think a better adaptation would be possible. I missed the black speech bubbles but I know โฆ
Sep 11, 2022: Dark academia is too emotionally bleak an aesthetic for me right now, but I enjoy the ability to admire pretty pictures and have a list of new hobbies โฆ
Sep 11, 2022: We took a little walk on the trail behind our house this morning. Here are some pictures of what we saw: misty trees, a red leaf, an acorn cap, a โฆ
Sep 9, 2022: 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 interfacing with the world. The tools we use shape our โฆ
Sep 9, 2022: Currently reading: Fabric by Victoria Finlay ๐
Sep 8, 2022: Peace and long life, y’all. Happy Star Trek Day! ๐๐ป
Sep 7, 2022: I don’t write a lot of lengthy blog posts lately, partly because there’s a lot going on with my mom’s health that wears me out. But โฆ
Sep 6, 2022: I can suspend my disbelief enough to believe that entities like Dream, Death, Desire, & Despair exist, ravens can talk, nightmares can walk the โฆ
Sep 6, 2022: John Cameron Mitchell doing Ethel Merman singing “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” is all I have ever wanted. A mid-90s musical theatre โฆ
Sep 6, 2022: I’m very sorry for the colleague of my interviewee who was sick today and thus meant interviewee couldn’t get time off-desk and had to โฆ
Sep 6, 2022: Just spent a minute staring at all the app icons on my phone trying to figure out why the Star Trek app wasn’t in alphabetical order in the S โฆ
Sep 6, 2022: Kirby Howell-Baptiste is brilliant in The Sandman. I need all the Death spin-offs: High Cost of Living, At Death’s Door, all of it. She’s โฆ
Sep 5, 2022: Every time I call myself “Miss Kimberly” in my head, I immediately correct myself with “Doctor Kimberly.”
Sep 3, 2022: Finished reading: The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien ๐ Listened to the audiobook narrated by Andy Serkis, which I think made it โฆ
Sep 3, 2022: Me, listening to an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation with my eyes closed: “Is that Harry Groener? It sounds like Harry Groener. opens โฆ
Sep 2, 2022: There’s been some hard stuff this week, but I also went to the pool and had dinner outside on my gorgeous deck with my gorgeous family and that โฆ
Sep 2, 2022: ๐ฟ Watched The Company of Wolves. Peak 80s gothic fantasy with a gorgeous score and the grossest werewolf transformations I’ve ever seen.
Sep 2, 2022: What’s the most fun thing you’ve done in the past 2 years?
Sep 1, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Aug 31, 2022: Okay, Internet. What’s the best way to D&D remotely?
Aug 31, 2022: I slept for 9 hours instead of 10 last night (what a luxury, I know, believe me that I give up a lot of leisure time to sleep this much and I โฆ
Aug 28, 2022: The Jiminy Cricket or Frog (of Frog and Toadl in my head: “If you do X, the whole week will go more smoothly.” Me: “Nah, I’m โฆ
Aug 27, 2022: Did not finish: A Little Life: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara ๐ Beautifully written. After 400+ pgs of almost non-stop trauma, this book was actively โฆ
Aug 26, 2022: Picture of the view from my deck didn’t seem to actually end up attached to the post about working from the deck. Whoops!
Aug 26, 2022: Working on the deck in summer always feels like working in a treehouse.
Aug 25, 2022: Went to apply for passports for myself & M today and the passport person just wasn’t there, didn’t contact the people with โฆ
Aug 24, 2022: My legs started getting medically-restless by 4 pm today. I didn’t have caffeine after 2 or so, took a warm bath with epsom salt & essential โฆ
Aug 24, 2022: Is there space for robust research-practice partnerships in the time of COVID, or are people too tired for this kind of long-term collaboration?
Aug 24, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn’t have the energy to try.” - Hanya Yanagihara, A โฆ
Aug 24, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “This was not what he thought acting would be, but what had he known about what acting would be?” - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Aug 22, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “…he was an optimist. Every month, every week, he chose to open his eyes, to live another day in the world.” - Hanya Yanagihara, โฆ
Aug 22, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “He felt in those minutes his body’s treason… that he would be betrayed by it again and again, that he could expect nothing from โฆ
Aug 22, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved. - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life โฆ
Aug 22, 2022: M. styled my jewelry for our morning playdate. The earrings are stylized bats. He was going for “spooky and pretty,” which, as W pointed โฆ
Aug 21, 2022: I ventured into the world of Duolingo fanfiction looking for Odile/Melissa stories because they’re a very cute couple, but what I found โฆ
Aug 18, 2022: I cannot adequately convey how much I appreciate that Duolingo accepts “y’all” as the correct translation of the second person โฆ
Aug 18, 2022: ๐ Read The Big Bang Didn’t Happen. I know very little about cosmology, but this makes some good points about the limits of academic funding and โฆ
Aug 17, 2022: Coburn, C. E., & Penuel, W. R. (2016). Research-practice partnerships in education: Outcomes, dynamics, and open questions. Educational โฆ
Aug 17, 2022: It was so overcast yesterday that the moonflowers stayed open all day.
Aug 17, 2022: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Blippi asks. “A law doctor & a father,” M says. “Why do you want to be a โฆ
Aug 17, 2022: Postdocs are contingent/precarious, yeah?
Aug 16, 2022: Finished reading: Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King ๐ This dude is so prolific and so fun to read. I would like to write things that โฆ
Aug 13, 2022: ๐ Read A CRITIQUE OF DARK ACADEMIA: THE ROMANTICIZATION OF OVERWORK. Wearing tweed and wandering old bookshops is fine. Denying yourself sleep over โฆ
Aug 12, 2022: ๐ Read Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes. I would venture that slipping on a tailored button-up and โฆ
Aug 10, 2022: Themes have emerged.
Aug 9, 2022: ๐ Read THE SCHOLARSHIP OF SEXY PRIVILEGE: WHY DO I LOVE DARK ACADEMIA BOOKS? This ownership over dark academia gives me the courage to keep going โฆ
Aug 8, 2022: ๐ Read Whatโs Dark about Dark Academia I think the real power of dark academia is the way it compressesโand thus preservesโhumanistic study at a time โฆ
Aug 6, 2022: Today in Pokemon Research Reflects Real Research: an early career researcher didn’t have access to a journal article she wanted to read, she โฆ
Aug 5, 2022: Took the Buzzfeed Inner Aesthetic Stranger Things Character quiz & got Will Byers and Cottagecore: “If you haven’t already, you should โฆ
Aug 5, 2022: Currently reading: Different Seasons: Four Novellas by Stephen King ๐
Aug 5, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “…a story’s as much a house or garden as song.” Jane Alison, _Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative _
Aug 5, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.” Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
Aug 5, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “As blocked creatives, we focus not on our responsibilities to ourselves, but on our responsibilities to others. We tend to think such โฆ
Aug 5, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “Do not let your self-doubt turn into self-sabotage.” Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
Aug 5, 2022: I’m wearing an oversized Sailor Moon tee and black bike shorts with lace trim, so hello from 1995, I guess.
Aug 4, 2022: Day 3, #TheSealeyChallenge, Rose, Li-Young Lee ๐ This is a gorgeous book, full of grief and beauty. Selected quotes: Water In water my sister is no longer lonely. Her right leg is crooked and โฆ
Aug 3, 2022: I’ve got an ARC of The Nap Ministry’s book REST IS RESISTANCE ready for me to download from NetGalley, and will probably take it to the โฆ
Aug 3, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “Perhaps people who experience the world in ways that are considered atypical have an intuitive feeling for the limits of typicality.” โฆ
Aug 3, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “A scientist’s explanations about other animals are dictated by the data she collects, which are influenced by the questions she asks, โฆ
Aug 3, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “[The senses] pull relevance from randomness, and weave meaning from miscellany.” Ed Yong, An Immense World
Aug 2, 2022: Day 2 #TheSealeyChallenge, Leaves of Grass Book I: Inscriptions, Walt Whitman ๐ Selected quotes: Eidolons We seeming solid wealth, strength, beauty build, But really build eidolons. To the States …Resist much, obey โฆ
Aug 2, 2022: ๐ ๐บ Celia Rose Gooding, who does an amazing job playing Cadet Nyota Uhura on Strange New Worlds, wrote a beautiful guest column for The Hollywood โฆ
Aug 1, 2022: 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 Theory You think, what if I am stuck like this? โฆ
Aug 1, 2022: ๐ฟ Watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It was super refreshing to watch a movie that was deliberately, though not ploddingly, paced. This โฆ
Aug 1, 2022: ๐๐ฌ “Animals are not just stand-ins for humans or fodder for brainstorming sessions. They have worth in themselves.” - Ed Yong, An Immense โฆ
Aug 1, 2022: I’m devoting the next few weeks to healing and rest, aside from my existing obligations. I release myself from worry about the future, pressure โฆ
Aug 1, 2022: ๐๐ฌ “It is all that we know, and so we easily mistake it for all there is to know.” Ed Yong, An Immense World
Jul 31, 2022: It’s August, so I’m going to do The Sealey Challenge and plan to read a book of poetry every day this month.
Jul 31, 2022: Finished reading: The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It by Helen Scales ๐
Jul 29, 2022: Real talk, I skipped the end of #CLS2022 to hang out with my kid and nap and I have no regrets.
Jul 29, 2022: ๐ Read Rapport or Respect? (Helen Kara). Dr. Kara makes excellent points about how research can seem friendly but be extractive. This is why I prefer โฆ
Jul 28, 2022: I have a lot of hairs that are white at the bottom, black or brown in the middle, and white at the top. These are a useful indicator of changes in my โฆ
Jul 28, 2022: #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 few takeaways and a list of resources/links in โฆ
Jul 28, 2022: I’m taking the 10:30 - 11:30 PST hour off from #CLS2022 so that I can get some quiet time in before facilitating at 12. See y’all soon!
Jul 28, 2022: My Notes from #CLS2022: OPENING PLENARY - Staying Connected, Fueling Innovation, Affirming Core Values: Three Learning Organizations Carrying Lessons Forward from the Twin Pandemics Scot Osterweil: Getting today's plenary started - Staying Connected, Fueling Innovation, Affirming Core Values: Three Learning Organizations Carrying โฆ
Jul 28, 2022: I can’t liveblog/tweet any of the 12p Pacific sessions at #CLS2022 today because I’m co-facilitating one. If you want to livetweet or โฆ
Jul 28, 2022: Deciding when to drop a paper: Rethinking my lit review about tabletop RPGs and identity development I’ve been sitting on a paper that was “accepted with revisions” for more than 3 years. I have poked at it sometimes and worked hard โฆ
Jul 28, 2022: Over the course of #CLS2022, I’ll be adding my liveblogtweets/notes to the Connected Learning page on my website.
Jul 27, 2022: My Notes from #CLS2022: Rising Scholars - Post-Pandemic Life: Recovering From Burnout and Finding Motivation Khalia Braswell: Introducing the next Rising Scholars session: Post-Pandemic Life: Recovering From Burnout and Finding Motivation Naomi Thompson: โฆ
Jul 27, 2022: My Notes from #CLS2022: Rising Scholars - Exploring Pathways: Finding Your Place of Impact Wendy Roldan: introducing the panel Exploring Pathways: Finding Your Place of Impact is a UX researcher at Google, place of impact with users in โฆ
Jul 27, 2022: My Notes from #CLS2022: Rising Scholars - Sharing Work Beyond Academic Publishing Alexis Hope: Alexis worked on hackathons including the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon (love it!) and others to bring people together to hack โฆ
Jul 27, 2022: The next panel at #CLS2022 for Rising Scholars is Sharing Work Beyond Academic Publishing.
Jul 27, 2022: For the next few days, I’ll be liveblogging/tweeting the Connected Learning Summit (#CLS2022) on Twitter and kimberlyhirsh.com via NoterLive. If โฆ
Jul 27, 2022: ๐ต๐ญ I’m listening to the Broadway cast of Moulin Rouge and I’m really impressed with how well it uses the 20 years' worth of music between โฆ
Jul 26, 2022: Want to read: The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses by Paul Koudounaris ๐
Jul 26, 2022: ๐ In 2008, 8 years before my kid was born, I replied to a Slate article that asked, “do you really want the Hulk teaching your kid to โฆ
Jul 25, 2022: I was distracted around Summerween so I’m declaring July 31 Second Summerween.
Jul 25, 2022: “When we are making our art we must bend all of the resources and possibilities to work for us, not the other way around.” -Jami โฆ
Jul 24, 2022: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery: Succession by Kirsten Beyer ๐ I honestly don’t know how anyone is left living in the Terran Empire. โฆ
Jul 24, 2022: Finished reading: Star Trek: Discovery - The Light of Kahless by Mike Johnson ๐
Jul 22, 2022: I speak Dutch with a Yiddish accent, I can’t help it, it’s in my blooooood. ๐ณ๐ฑ
Jul 22, 2022: It’s my and Will’s 13th wedding anniversary today. The traditional gift for this anniversary is lace. The modern gift is fur or textiles. โฆ
Jul 22, 2022: Dealing with SDCC envy About 7 years ago, Geek and Sundry (RIP) published a post titled HOW TO HAVE A GREAT, GEEKY WEEKEND WHEN YOUโRE NOT GOING TO SDCC. As a chronically โฆ
Jul 21, 2022: Finished reading: The Dead Zone by Stephen King ๐ I love the way King has characters reference his own other work. “Like in that book, โฆ
Jul 20, 2022: True facts about my dreams: when I was reading CARRIE and started having dreams related to it, it felt like a relief, a respite from my stress dreams โฆ
Jul 20, 2022: Pro-tip: Stuck in or overwhelmed by your research? Write a memo.
Jul 19, 2022: Thinking about writing a blog post about the alignment of research, especially qualitative research, over the life of a project. We live in a world โฆ
Jul 19, 2022: I was all, “My blog isn’t cross-posting to Twitter! Whyyyy?” but then I saw that I had disabled it cross-posting anywhere. This post โฆ
Jul 18, 2022: The Internet is all “Check out the Whimsigoth aesthetic!” and y’all, a better name for it would be dELiA*s-core.
Jul 17, 2022: Currently reading: The Dead Zone by Stephen King ๐
Jul 15, 2022: ๐ Read โLostโ Fans Gave Me a Safe Place on the Internet. Is Such Fandom Possible Now? (Catapult) by Anna Myers
Jul 15, 2022: ๐ Read Violence Made Me Feel Like Iโd Left My Body. Physical Theater Helped Me Return by Lindsey Trout Hughes ๐ญ
Jul 15, 2022: Birthday selfie from yesterday in my South Square Mall - oops I meant Starcourt Mall - hat.
Jul 15, 2022: Finished reading: Carrie by Stephen King ๐ I don’t recall the last time I read a book inside of 24 hours.
Jul 14, 2022: Me: I don’t know what to do! Should I spend the next 45 minutes reading CARRIE or playing METROID? W: I like the 80s, too.
Jul 14, 2022: Posted on my birthday in 2018: Yesterday I found out that my thyroid is out of whack again. Iโm trying to remember everything I learned before, not โฆ
Jul 14, 2022: It's my birthday! Here's who I want to be and how we should celebrate. I’m 41 today and it’s a big deal because every day that I live is a day I chose to be in the world and a whole year of sticking around is โฆ
Jul 13, 2022: ๐๐ Read On Writing with Chronic Migraines (Catapult) by Yuvi Zalkow. I really appreciate Zalkow’s metaphors for pain and tiered system for โฆ
Jul 13, 2022: ๐ Read Black Women in Fantasy Saved Me Where Academia Failed (Catapult by Ravynn K. Stringfield. I always love reading what Dr. Stringfield has to โฆ
Jul 13, 2022: ๐ Read Video Games Are for EveryoneโAnd That Should Include Disabled People (Catapult) by Allyssa Capri. Great discussion of where the gaming โฆ
Jul 12, 2022: I keep asking myself, “When will I not be too tired for x?” and it turns out my thyroid hormone levels are suboptimal so now that โฆ
Jul 12, 2022: The past few years, I’ve written a blog post on my birthday about who I want to be that year. My birthday’s in 2 days & as I look back โฆ
Jul 11, 2022: Most of the time the answer to not having enough storage is to get rid of stuff, but with books, I tend to feel the answer is more bookshelves.
Jul 10, 2022: Y’all, check out this picture of Gene Roddenberry cosplaying as a Romulan commander from Balance of Terror from Cinefantastique #20 that I found โฆ
Jul 9, 2022: Me, pitching future research clients: So in this scenario, see, you’re Buffy, and you know there’s fork guy and he’s scared of the โฆ
Jul 8, 2022: I found a picture of myself on Tumblr. Dropping all other descriptors of myself in favor of “Data in an oversized cardigan.” ๐๐ป
Jul 8, 2022: I’m workshopping a new professional tagline because I want to emphasize that I’m a qualitative researcher. First draft: “I use โฆ
Jul 7, 2022: Finished Strange New Worlds Season 1. A+. Somebody give Ethan Peck’s eyebrow an Emmy. ๐๐ป๐บ
Jul 7, 2022: “There’s surviving, and then there’s living.” - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ๐๐ป๐บ๐ฌ
Jul 6, 2022: Sometimes I’ll have a run of bad dreams such that I then fear sleep for a bit.
Jul 5, 2022: On Kimbertide Day 4, I enjoyed an ice cream sandwich. For day 5, I’m playing Metroid: Zero Mission. ๐ฎ
Jul 5, 2022: ๐ฑโโ๏ธI had a dream last night that Giles a) was real b) was still in his 40s and most importantly, c) owned a really beautiful indie bookstore. I โฆ
Jul 4, 2022: Finished Stranger Things 4 and I love it so much and also will somebody just play D&D with Will already, yeesh. ๐บ
Jul 4, 2022: Editor Jordan Pavlin says historical fiction “has a unique ability to elicit deep compassion and empathy,” and I can’t help but โฆ
Jul 4, 2022: ๐ Ben Werdmรผller has a different but related, equally valuable, set of insights on what we should be thinking about this Independence Day. ๐บ๐ธ
Jul 4, 2022: It’s a rough time for our democratic republic. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us what it’s supposed to be about. ๐บ๐ธ
Jul 3, 2022: Kimbertide Day 3: Played a little of the new Capcom Fighting Collection ๐ฎ
Jul 2, 2022: Today for Kimbertide, I made banana bread from a Simple Mills mix.
Jul 2, 2022: Finished reading: Borderland edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold ๐ The beginnings of woodland goth. I love it, of course.
Jul 1, 2022: For Day 1 of Kimbertide, I celebrated with a special lunch: hardboiled eggs & sweet baby gherkin pickles. I didn’t know this when I made โฆ
Jul 1, 2022: It’s the first day of my birthday month! I often extend the celebration beyond the day itself (July 14) and this year I’ve decided to do โฆ
Jun 29, 2022: Finished reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by โฆ
Jun 28, 2022: “…anger is counterproductive to puzzle solving. And to problem solving in general.” A. J. Jacobs in The Puzzler: One Man’s โฆ
Jun 28, 2022: Santigold’s Can’t Get Enough of Myself is mental health goals. ๐ต
Jun 28, 2022: ๐ A solution to writerโs block: Transcribe yourself (Austin Kleon) This is a brilliant piece of advice. The 1000+ words of my post about sweetweird โฆ
Jun 27, 2022: Today I swam one pool-length, then water-walked for about 30 minutes. I also packed up 3 boxes of storage stuff to clear out the room we’re โฆ
Jun 27, 2022: I’m extra psyched about July’s Atlas Obscura Finding Wonder book club pick, The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales. It’s got that โฆ
Jun 24, 2022: Anti-Racism Daily offers actions to take in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Jun 23, 2022: W is reading M a Pokemon manga where a professor invited Ash & Goh to be her research fellows, which they see as great for their careers, and I โฆ
Jun 22, 2022: Currently reading: Borderland 1 by Terri Windling ๐ Continuing my deep dive into woodland goth.
Jun 22, 2022: Currently reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by โฆ
Jun 22, 2022: 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 freewrite, not a carefully structured essay. Some โฆ
Jun 21, 2022: I already spend very little time on Facebook but now their mobile web UI has little notification badges on each icon even when there are 0 โฆ
Jun 20, 2022: No YOU’RE looking up contact juggling tutorials on YouTube to send to your spouse.
Jun 17, 2022: In our work team meeting today we spent a significant chunk of time discussing the history of Star Trek fanfic and its trajectory from zines to web to โฆ
Jun 17, 2022: A little less than 12 years ago, I attended my first American Library Association Annual Conference. I’ve been to 3 more since then. My advice: โฆ
Jun 17, 2022: Literati: Hey if you don’t want to read a super cool book about the deep ocean as part of the Atlas Obscura book club, log in and change โฆ
Jun 16, 2022: Want to read: Meet Me by the Fountain by Alexandra Lange ๐
Jun 15, 2022: ๐ Nathanial White writes Disturbing the Comfortable: On Writing Disability in Science Fiction. I freewrote 1100 words today on reading disability in โฆ
Jun 15, 2022: This Is How I Do It (TL;DR: Piecemeal and Flexibly) Katy Peplin has a great Twitter thread on the difference between sharing your process with โThis is how I do itโ and โThis is how you should do it.โ โฆ
Jun 15, 2022: ๐ The Bullet Journal blog has a great interview with Tiago Forte, author of Building a Second Brain, which comes out today. I hope to get a full โฆ
Jun 15, 2022: ๐ Today’s #1000WordsOfSummer letter is all about letting writing be fun and silly. I needed to read this today. Maybe you do, too. ๐
Jun 14, 2022: Hello, Internet. Please recommend to me your favorite essay collections that combine TV or other pop culture analysis with personal writing. Thank โฆ
Jun 14, 2022: What’s that thing where your brain is like “Even leisure is too much right now”? Whatever it is, it’s happening to me. The โฆ
Jun 13, 2022: The TNG episode, “The Masterpiece Society,” is great. ๐๐ป๐บ๐ฌ “It was the wish of our founders that no one have to suffer a life of โฆ
Jun 13, 2022: Hi! Do you struggle with activities of daily living due to executive dysfunction, cognitive overload, or brain fog? I do. Autism Grown Up, a โฆ
Jun 12, 2022: Want to read: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan ๐
Jun 12, 2022: Want to read: Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany ๐
Jun 12, 2022: ๐ Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) advice on being productive with long COVID is sound for anyone with chronic illness or many other โฆ
Jun 11, 2022: Finished reading: The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Angela Carter ๐ New (well, ~40 โฆ
Jun 10, 2022: Austin Kleon urges us to embrace belwiderment.. He quotes Rumi: “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” This is now my overarching โฆ
Jun 9, 2022: Goodnight, everybody.
Jun 9, 2022: Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer was awesome, too. “I will de-intellectualize and re-sensualize my writing practice.” Morgan Parker
Jun 9, 2022: Want to read: This Time Tomorrow: A Novel by Emma Straub ๐
Jun 9, 2022: Today’s #1000wordsofsummer letter made me really happy. Diary writing! Noticing! And This Time Tomorrow is going on my TBR because I could use a โฆ
Jun 8, 2022: I am very exhausted. Not sleepy. Not fatigued. Exhausted.
Jun 7, 2022: I’m just grumping it out right now so if you’re going to be interacting with me, know that. It’s not you, it’s that I’m โฆ
Jun 7, 2022: Currently reading: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter ๐
Jun 7, 2022: Time for a Gothic Charm School re-read. ๐
Jun 7, 2022: On sweetweird and hopepunk ๐๏ธ ๐๐บ๐ฟ Transcript: Hello friends. I wanted to write a blog post about sweetweird and its relationship to hopepunk and other narrative aesthetics, we’ll โฆ
Jun 6, 2022: How to Make a Star Wars Reference Hello, friends. I want to talk about something from Stranger Things 4 that is brilliantly done. And thatโs a Star Wars reference. There are a lot of โฆ
Jun 6, 2022: Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer reading: many stories in Angela Carter’s THE BLOODY CHAMBER. So good. ๐
Jun 4, 2022: Google Keep is my notetaking app of choice, which makes me a bit of a rarity, but if you use it and would like it to be more helpful or if โฆ
Jun 4, 2022: If you’re looking for a writing community, check out Jami Attenberg’s #1000WordsOfSummer. I’m prioritizing reading. Today: Kelly โฆ
Jun 3, 2022: Finished reading: War for the Oaks: A Novel by Emma Bull ๐ Rock music + fey = delightful.
Jun 3, 2022: Today’s outfit: LGBTQ Center of Durham Rainbow Bull Shirt, popsicle shorts from Torrid.
Jun 2, 2022: If you enjoyed the Chapel/Ortegas dynamic in this week’s SNW, there are [21 works tagged with their relationship] โฆ
Jun 2, 2022: “It appears that hijinks are the most logical course of action.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, 1x05, “Spock Amok” ๐๐ป๐บ๐ฌ
Jun 2, 2022: It’s hot out. I’m tired. I had a call with my doctor this morning. She’s giving me gabapentin for pain. I’m so glad because โฆ
Jun 2, 2022: Current phone screen. (Yesterday, W to me: “Look at all these old pictures of Jennifer Connelly.” Me: “Oh yeah, I had those saved on โฆ
Jun 2, 2022: Gonna start doing outfit of the day posts as often as I feel like it. The shirt says “What’s more punk than the public library?” You โฆ
Jun 1, 2022: Woodland. Goth.
Jun 1, 2022: I am all in on Woodland Goth, y’all.
Jun 1, 2022: I feel like the captioners for Stranger Things (who are doing an awesome job describing the music) should Google any place name on the show followed โฆ
May 31, 2022: “You dwell in my mind like a household spirit. All that I think is followed with, ‘I shall tell that thought to Eddi.’ Whatever I โฆ
May 31, 2022: I made a book! The fic is Mischief Managed by touchedglitter (who is me). This is pamphlet bound. The big thing I learned was that I need a better โฆ
May 31, 2022: Just followed some Trek fan Micro.bloggers from yesterday’s roll call. I’m current on new shows & doing a rewatch of TNG. Happy to โฆ
May 30, 2022: In Star Trek: TNG, S5E11, “Hero Worship,” a kid asks Data what he thinks of a model the kid built. When Data expresses his aesthetic โฆ
May 29, 2022: Your girl’s over here finding old Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfiction listed on Fanlore but not linked anywhere and digging it up in the โฆ
May 28, 2022: “…embodied writing is not in opposition to political writing. In fact, it is the kind of political writing that I am most interested in โฆ
May 27, 2022: Reply to Meg Pillow's This Is Not the Essay I Meant to Write I have a craft essay about writing into uncertainty, contradiction, and grief in the new issue of @PhoebeJournal today. This one means a lot to me - โฆ
May 27, 2022: How do none of the early results in a Google Images search for Star Trek Bingo have something like “mysterious pathogen takes down whole โฆ
May 26, 2022: Mood update: the leaden feeling in my heart has been joined by a similar feeling in my stomach.
May 26, 2022: “As we honor the lives that have been given, let us also be grateful to be still on the journey.” “The enemy doesn’t care โฆ
May 26, 2022: The Michigan Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence has a really useful letter template for writing to congresspeople.
May 26, 2022: I don’t have the oomph to discuss this at length but my dad wrote a good journal entry for CaringBridge about the most recent impact of chemo on โฆ
May 25, 2022: I can’t neglect the world & focus on my child, because my child is in & of the world. I’m overwhelmed by the sheer number of โฆ
May 25, 2022: Self-soothing by typesetting my 9 year old New Girl fanfic and it actually looks like a book.
May 25, 2022: The world is very dismal and I am heartbroken, but my husband is on a meeting talking to people about how he was in A Midsummer Night’s Dream โฆ
May 24, 2022: Me “well actually"ing last week’s Fansplaining in the car on the way to pick my kid up: “But Elizabeth the ‘In sleep he โฆ
May 24, 2022: I have extreme MCU fatigue so I’m only going to watch the stuff clearly and closely inspired by comics I’ve actually read and enjoyed. โฆ
May 23, 2022: Not me putting a Lizzie Bennet Diaries gif in a work presentation. Nope.
May 22, 2022: I love a good slice-of-life story but the constant interruptions to Worf’s work once his son Alexander boards the Enterprise in the episode โฆ
May 21, 2022: Apparently crows can do metacognition.
May 20, 2022: Symposium’s over, it’s 90F outside. Time for a wardrobe change! [Image description: A white woman with dark hair wears a black tank top โฆ
May 20, 2022: Want to read: The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom by Jessa Lingel ๐
May 20, 2022: Responses to the chat during my #FanLIS2022 presentation The chat runs by much too quickly to scroll with it while presenting but I love the vibrance of #FanLIS2022 chat so I wanted to go through and respond โฆ
May 20, 2022: So far my favorite outcome of #FanLIS2022 is another attendee asking me if I’m sure I’m not Caitlin Doughty.
May 20, 2022: Some of my tweets from #FanLIS2022 Day 1 I was able to recover my Noter Live log, yay! I’ll go back and collect the tweets from after my reboot later. Dr Suzanne Black: has been joined โฆ
May 19, 2022: ๐ Read Durham GOPโs โBetter Board, Better Schoolsโ candidate slate is soundly defeated. What a relief.
May 19, 2022: Week 3 of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds and there are already 189 works on AO3. Looking forward to discovering new favorite creators. ๐๐ป
May 19, 2022: There are a lot of great things about attending a conference from home. Still, it’s a bit sad not to be able to go hide in a hotel room and let โฆ
May 19, 2022: Definitely just brainstormed the paper title “Screw General Order One: Representing Positionality as an Insider When Doing Fan Studies โฆ
May 19, 2022: Missed a huge chunk of the current #FanLIS2022 paper due to Zoom crash & also lost my NoterLive log because I didn’t think to post it before โฆ
May 19, 2022: A squirrel is trying to break into my house.
May 19, 2022: Gonna be live-posting #FanLIS2022 today & tomorrow. Will transition to LiveNoter in an hour and a half but posting through Micro.blog until โฆ
May 18, 2022: 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 Smith: I agree with Smith’s assessment of โฆ
May 18, 2022: I’m adding things to it slowly, but I’ve created a Connected Learning page curating my notes, memos, and blog posts on this topic. I have โฆ
May 18, 2022: 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: Document impetus of thought (often after the โฆ
May 17, 2022: ๐ Read When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life (The Atlantic) by Cindy Lamothe “she said she often distrusts that other โฆ
May 17, 2022: Next time I take it into my head that words won’t come out of me in written form, I’m going to re-read this 2018 blog post in which I โฆ
May 16, 2022: Stole a quote from the woodland goth page of Aesthetics wiki for my bio/tagline: “…a hybrid of fey imagery, Glam Rock glitter, and the โฆ
May 16, 2022: Pool’s open!
May 15, 2022: ๐ Read Why I Blog Part 1 and Part 2 (Kyle Mathews).
May 14, 2022: ๐๐ป Read You’re Not Blogging, My Friend. (Tom Critchlow).
May 14, 2022: ๐๐ป Read Incrementally correct personal websites (Brian Lovin).
May 14, 2022: ๐๐ป Read envisioning my homepage as an online therapeutic space (Winnie Lim).
May 14, 2022: ๐๐ป Read revisiting architectural blogging (Alan Jacobs).
May 14, 2022: ๐๐ป Read Building a Digital Homestead, Bit by Brick (Tom Critchlow). I like this homesteading metaphor. Neither gardens nor streams quite work for what โฆ
May 14, 2022: Voting selfie!
May 14, 2022: ๐๐ป Read Why blog? (Chuck Grimmett). Well said. These are my reasons, too.
May 14, 2022: I love Discovery and I’ve enjoyed Picard and Prodigy, but Strange New Worlds feels like nostalgic Trek in a way that of the new shows, only โฆ
May 13, 2022: As always, The Trans Advice column is helpful. The latest: Should cis folks use gender neutral pronouns? Your pronouns shouldn’t be some sort โฆ
May 13, 2022: ๐Raising Us Wrecked Her Career But My Mom’s Thriving In Her Second Act romper.com Read: www.romper.com romper.com โฆ
May 13, 2022: ๐๐ Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion? | The New Yorker newyorker.com Read: www.newyorker.com newyorker.com โฆ
May 13, 2022: ๐๐ “This is the Book I’m Meant to Write Right Now” sarafredman.substack.com Read: sarafredman.substack.com sarafredman.substack.com โฆ
May 13, 2022: ๐๐ Angela Garbes Is Reclaiming Realistic Motherhood thecut.com Read: www.thecut.com thecut.com โฆ
May 12, 2022: How to remove timestamps and extra lines from a Zoom transcript using Notepad++ or BBEdit In case it would help other people, here’s how I did it. I would have something that looked like this: 9 00:00:36.900 –> 00:00:40.560 โฆ
May 12, 2022: It’s a rough time right now so I’m trying to notice small joys and one of today’s is that I learned how to use regular expressions โฆ
May 12, 2022: I just wrote the beginning of a fiction story after being inspired by Amanda Cook’s “Weaving Serenity” in issue 1 of @wyngraf. I โฆ
May 11, 2022: ๐ I joined Austin Kleon’s Read Like an Artist book club today and am also going to read his past choices. I’m starting with a re-read of โฆ
May 11, 2022: ๐๏ธ I listened to the first episode of A Beautiful Anarchy on my way to pick up the kid. It was about imposter syndrome. There were some really โฆ
May 11, 2022: 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 latest issue - italics are emphasis from the โฆ
May 11, 2022: ๐๐ Kate McKean writes in today’s Agents and Books about professional jealousy. Her advice applies to academics, too, and probably any field. โฆ
May 11, 2022: “…is that not what a Scholar does? Question the world, examine it from every angle, and marvel at the wonder of it all?” Natasha โฆ
May 10, 2022: If I took a day off every day that I felt sick I would almost never work. Chronic illness is not my fave.
May 9, 2022: It’s a work in progress, but I’m curating a woodland goth playlist. I recommend playing on shuffle. ๐ต
May 9, 2022: Oh hey, I should probably share that my husband Will is a 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar. Very proud of him & super psyched to take this opportunity โฆ
May 8, 2022: “Other people are… challenging for me.” La’an is the new Data, pass it on. #StarTrek #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW โฆ
May 8, 2022: Screw General Order 1? SCREW GENERAL ORDER 1?! ๐ #StarTrek #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW ๐๐ป๐บ
May 8, 2022: I hope everyone who had to mother their own mother is doing something fun today. 9-year-old Kimberly salutes you.
May 8, 2022: Today I wish you nurturing love and bodily self-determination, extra if you have a uterus.
May 8, 2022: Finished reading: Redwall: A Tale from Redwall by Brian Jacques ๐ Cozy fantasy, just what I need right now. Two quotes that stood out for me: โฆ
May 7, 2022: Now I’m only halfway through the Strange New Worlds pilot but the Kilean makeup looks to me nearly identical to vampires on BtVS. ๐๐ป๐บ
May 7, 2022: I just took the IPIP Big Five Factor Marker test. According to the results, I’m intellectual/imaginative af, pretty outgoing, friendly, and โฆ
May 7, 2022: Anybody else assume based on TNG that Picard & Guinan had a friends with benefits situation? ๐๐ป
May 7, 2022: I have a vague sense that I am Not Okay. I don’t know if it’s a medical thing, stress from my mom’s illness, or the world. I โฆ
May 6, 2022: Who has two thumbs and is doing Reader’s Advisory for fun? ๐๐ป๐๐ป This Kimberly.
May 6, 2022: Usually Spotify Autoplay makes me grouchy but it turns out when I listen to goth music it suggests more goth music so I’m very happy with its โฆ
May 6, 2022: ๐๐ Read Cozy Flash: The Cat and the Conerian. Adorable. Cozy fantasy is my current genre of choice.
May 5, 2022: Traumatic previously aside, the Picard finale made me very happy. ๐๐ป๐บ
May 4, 2022: Here is a Google Document with links to abortion funds. It was created by @helmsinki on Twitter. I donated in my home state, NC, as well as in TN, โฆ
May 4, 2022: “Although I did extremely well scholastically, my lack of human understanding often created social obstacles.” Data on his first year at โฆ
May 3, 2022: The theatre-major-to-youth-services-librarian pipeline.
May 2, 2022: I’m supposed to be sleeping but I just learned about the Woodland goth aesthetic. Dark mori style + goth music = the Frouds? Yes please.
May 1, 2022: Currently reading: Redwall: A Tale from Redwall by Brian Jacques ๐
May 1, 2022: Currently reading: Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper ๐
May 1, 2022: Currently reading: How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (Cultural Front Book 3) by Marc Bousquet ๐
May 1, 2022: Breaking out Crystal Bar Soap’s Moonlit Harbor to support this Cancer Sun woman through some intense eldest daughtering.
May 1, 2022: Dr. Crusher’s plans for a community theater production of Pirates of Penzance in TNG episode 5x05 delight me. ๐๐ป
Apr 30, 2022: I’m going full 90s with my personal style and nothing can stop me. And I mean what I, now middle-aged, actually wore in the 90s, not the modern โฆ
Apr 30, 2022: My spring/summer silhouette: oversized t-shirt + biker shorts. It gets hot in NC, y’all.
Apr 30, 2022: I’m having the kind of day where you wish you could take your heart out of your chest and just set it in a little box for a while, because the โฆ
Apr 30, 2022: I have no chance at Heardle but if someone made Broadweardle I might do well.
Apr 29, 2022: Finished reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte ๐ Recommended. Full review coming in June.
Apr 28, 2022: I’m having a really hard time processing this week’s episode of Picard, for personal reasons. One thing I will say, though, is they could โฆ
Apr 28, 2022: I’m correcting a Zoom Live Transcription transcript and while it’s a lot faster than transcribing it myself, it’s still a lot slower โฆ
Apr 28, 2022: Today I’m wearing an oversized Sailor Moon tee and black leggings with a run in the left knee. I think 1996 Kimberly would be really happy with โฆ
Apr 26, 2022: In case anyone was curious as to whether my personal style has changed in the last 25 years, I was devastated that this green lace dress at the thrift โฆ
Apr 26, 2022: Now is as good a time as any to revisit Vicki Boykis’s essay, Fix the internet by writing good stuff and being nice to people.
Apr 25, 2022: Currently reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte ๐
Apr 25, 2022: Micro.blog is a free social network if you blog elsewhere and plug in a feed. It can also host your blog/website for $5/mo. For $10/mo, it will host โฆ
Apr 25, 2022: ๐ Micro.blog is one my favorite places on the Internet, and Jean MacDonald’s article A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate โฆ
Apr 25, 2022: Everybody on Twitter wants to know where to go now. The answer is your own website, syndicating out to wherever else people end up. This is the โฆ
Apr 23, 2022: Finished reading: Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare ๐ Review soon. On the All About Romance sensuality levels scale, this is Hot approaching Burning. โฆ
Apr 23, 2022: Baby’s first fanfic. Image description: On the title page of a homemade book, “HAO TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGIN BOOK OF DAGINS” is scrawled โฆ
Apr 22, 2022: W reading a scene to M about a girl doing the school play & it’s The Wizard of Oz: The teacher held up the script. Me: No no, Wizard of Oz โฆ
Apr 22, 2022: You can take the librarian out of the library, but I’m wearing a cardigan over another cardigan.
Apr 22, 2022: Want to read: Heroines by Kate Zambreno ๐
Apr 22, 2022: Want to read: Heroines by Kate Zambreno ๐
Apr 21, 2022: ๐ Read Review: A riveting biographer โ and mother โ works to solve โthe mind-baby problemโ.
Apr 21, 2022: It’s out! The latest issue of Genetrix, a very occasional newsletter curating stories of creative mothers!
Apr 21, 2022: ๐ Read Cranking.
Apr 21, 2022: ๐ Read The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done. I’ve been thinking a lot about personal productivity, what it’s good for and what it โฆ
Apr 21, 2022: ๐ Read Who Is Steven Hotdog? Or, Untangling the โBraided Essayโ |. Whatโs Steven Hotdog to me, or I to Steven Hotdog, that I should weep for him? โฆ
Apr 21, 2022: Me, to myself: I can’t be everyone at once. Me: OR CAN I?
Apr 21, 2022: On my first year as a doctor (of philosophy) As I mentioned earlier, I defended my dissertation a year and a week ago. It was a joyous defense, with my committee cosplaying and my friends and โฆ
Apr 21, 2022: Today I’m reviving my newsletter Genetrix, curating stories of creative mothers. The upcoming issue includes links to 15 articles & 1 artist โฆ
Apr 21, 2022: I didn’t even notice the one year anniversary of my dissertation defense (4/14) but I realized today that I’ve been a doctor (of โฆ
Apr 21, 2022: Okay whose idea was it to only have turbolifts on starships because people would be less likely to be trapped if there were also ramps or something.
Apr 20, 2022: Why Is My Child Still Awake? The Kimberly Hirsh Story
Apr 20, 2022: ๐ Read 11 Bookish Accessories to Make Reading More Accessible. I love pieces like this. Getting a book holder changed my reading life.
Apr 20, 2022: So I’m delighted by the premise of Is It Cake? but it really feels like a parody reality show from 30 Rock.
Apr 20, 2022: ๐ Read Should you ever NOT listen to user feedback?. I’m exploring the possibility of a career in UX research & reading this article showed โฆ
Apr 20, 2022: I know you’re not supposed to share your morning pages but in mine today I wrote “It’s time to develop a writing practice that fits โฆ
Apr 20, 2022: Want to read: Overdue by Amanda Oliver ๐
Apr 20, 2022: ๐Read Being a Public Librarian Can Be Dangerous Work, Why Donโt We Acknowledge That? - Electric Literature Libraries are resolutely radical โฆ
Apr 19, 2022: It’s really weird to have been the precocious teen on the Internet 25 years ago and be the old person in the writer academia Discord server now.
Apr 19, 2022: In other news, Season 5 of TNG is stacked with memorable episodes. Darmok. Silicon Avatar. The Game. Ethics. The Innermost Light. Time’s Arrow. โฆ
Apr 19, 2022: Yesterday I helped my parents sort out the logistics of making the house more accessible for my mom when she’s using mobility aids. A few hours โฆ
Apr 19, 2022: Anybody interested in becoming a Sesame Street librarian?
Apr 18, 2022: Me, thinking about the logistics of attending my sister’s Master’s hooding: I mean, how many times does your sister finish graduate โฆ
Apr 17, 2022: I would like to thank the fine people at Nintendo of America for making the Easter Bunny’s job much easier this year. M: Did you get me the toys โฆ
Apr 17, 2022: My kid, raised in a mostly secular witchy agnostic home but with a vague understanding of holiday stories, after I explain that the Pharisees in Jesus โฆ
Apr 15, 2022: My closest friends are now the crow who hangs out in my yard and the moon. Also, I received a shipment of crystal-infused bath products today โฆ
Apr 15, 2022: ๐๐ต๐ญ๐ฟ Read Judas Christ Superstar: Easter thoughts on being just (Reader) by Katie Prout. This piece is excellent. JCS is an extremely important show โฆ
Apr 15, 2022: Spouse: So, how do I write up a plan for this research project? Me: Step 1. Get a PhD. Just kidding! Read this one chapter - whoops, all of part II - โฆ
Apr 14, 2022: ๐๐ป๐บ This /Film review of #StarTrekPicard 2x07 verbalizes something that’s bothered me all season: “Picard” has invented trauma for โฆ
Apr 14, 2022: ๐บ Blippi is like if someone fed Mr. Rogers several thousand Pixy Stix.
Apr 14, 2022: ๐๐ป๐บ I’m not trying to spoil anybody for #StarTrekPicard but I would squee if we saw Mulder & Scully in the next episode. It won’t โฆ
Apr 14, 2022: Me: I don’t remember how to do a remote research interview! It’s been almost two years! Also me: I wrote a blog post to help people โฆ
Apr 14, 2022: 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 books were sexy and full of pop culture โฆ
Apr 14, 2022: Finished reading: The Date from Hell by Gwenda Bond ๐ Review coming soon!
Apr 13, 2022: ๐ Read Projects: The Alastair Method. Alastair Johnston has created a Kanban-like tracking system for the Bullet Journal that I may modify for use as โฆ
Apr 13, 2022: Ethnographers, what are some of your favorite ways to ease a participant into an interview?
Apr 13, 2022: First iced chai of the season.
Apr 12, 2022: Brent Spiner is killing it on Picard. ๐๐ป๐บ
Apr 12, 2022: My mom went to the hospital Saturday due to muscle weakness. (Previous surprise visits involved myocardial infarction & colitis, plus a bonus โฆ
Apr 12, 2022: ๐ Read ecosystem theory: how to reframe the “i do this or i do that” binary (Thrive PhD) by Katy Peplin Such a helpful perspective.
Apr 12, 2022: ๐ฟ Watched Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis. ๐ This shows some awesome innovations in water conservation from people all over the โฆ
Apr 12, 2022: Want to read: The Wastewater Gardener: Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time by Mark Nelson PhD ๐
Apr 12, 2022: Want to read: Water 4.0 by David Sedlak ๐
Apr 11, 2022: Another super informal poll! If you are a scholar, regardless of your relationship ship to academia (student/university employee/working outside โฆ
Apr 11, 2022: Hi there! This morning the outdoor temperature is 44F. When I pick my kid up at 3 pm it will be 80F. Welcome to central North Carolina!
Apr 10, 2022: I’m curious: if you are currently or have ever been in a graduate program, are you familiar with the concept of “personal knowledge โฆ
Apr 10, 2022: ๐ Read Plan to rewrite NC teacher licensing could also raise pay, but it’s too early to say Educators, what do you think? I’m not sure โฆ
Apr 10, 2022: According to this blog post, some of the core concepts of Learning Experience Design include: human-centered design constructive alignment learning โฆ
Apr 9, 2022: Notes from the LX2017 magazine As you may have noticed, I’m reading up on Learning Experience Design. LXCON 2017 resulted in a beautiful magazine. I highlighted this bit: To โฆ
Apr 9, 2022: Feeling this.
Apr 9, 2022: ๐ Read Dirty hands do all the thinking in LXD (LXD.org) by Patrick van der Bogt.
Apr 9, 2022: ๐ Read The incredible power of paper prototyping (LXD.org) by Niels Floor.
Apr 9, 2022: ๐ Read Learning Experience Design vs Instructional Design (LXD.org) by Niels Floor.
Apr 9, 2022: ๐ Read Four Ingredients for a Memorable Learning Experience (LXD.org) by Rodrigo J. Gallego Studying up on Learning Experience Design & Research. โฆ
Apr 8, 2022: Eventually I will get so annoyed with websites that are not responsive that I’ll start cold-quoting companies offering to fix that for them.
Apr 8, 2022: Took the Be Bright Studios Brand Quiz & it says mine is a “Generous Knowledge” brand which, yes.
Apr 8, 2022: Super informal survey but hey library workers, what would a professional organization that worked for YOU look like?
Apr 8, 2022: Chatting with Casey about D&D this morning and I’m thinking about constructivist pedagogy and how the DM can create a gradual release of โฆ
Apr 7, 2022: I’ve been feeling a need for increased witch vibes, so I slipped this pink agate in my pocket and drew a card from Visions in the Liminal Space โฆ
Apr 6, 2022: Having big feelings because my favorite witch store’s owner moved away, even though the store has been online-only for a couple of years & I โฆ
Apr 6, 2022: Sat on my foot and now it’s numb, really missing AIMs circa 2002 from Kelly O’Shea reminding me not to do this.
Apr 6, 2022: Bless the people who create prefilled Easter baskets because this mom who usually loves filling her kid’s basket does NOT have the bandwidth โฆ
Apr 5, 2022: Gonna write a romance where one love interest has Hashimoto’s and has to bail on a date due to low spoons & the other love interest is like, โฆ
Apr 5, 2022: If high-risk people have to be individually responsible for mitigating their risk, employers should be expected to treat risk mitigation as a โฆ
Apr 5, 2022: I really am amazed that as an autoimmune Kimberly I used to just let people breathe all over me.
Apr 5, 2022: My Current Productivity Stack (including scholarly tools) I am a productivity hobbyist and have a bad habit of chucking my whole system every once in a while to try and adopt somebody elseโs from scratch. โฆ
Apr 5, 2022: I’m Kimberly and today I just don’t feel like doing it, where it = anything.
Apr 4, 2022: One last merch design for today: I PhDID IT!
Apr 4, 2022: I made a new t-shirt/merch design: Stick a Fork in Me - I’m PhDone.
Apr 4, 2022: 7 Things to Do Before You Start Your PhD Itโs the time of year when people are announcing their PhD acceptances. If you are psyched to be doing a PhD, yay you! I have some advice for things โฆ
Apr 3, 2022: New oversized graphic tee!
Apr 3, 2022: Me, watching #StarTrek: Picard ๐๐ป: Whoa, do they think 3D printers will be that fast in 2024?
Apr 2, 2022: Two true things about my brother @MicahHirsh: he’s an animator and he’s autistic. For Autism Acceptance Month, I’m going to share โฆ
Apr 2, 2022: Yesterday, I told Dr. Katie Rose Guest Pryal that she should take the good idea she couldn’t do now and do it later. Today, I made DO IT LATER โฆ
Apr 2, 2022: Registration for #FanLIS2022 is open! If you’re interested in fan studies in library and information science (#FanLIS), be sure to check out โฆ
Apr 1, 2022: Hello world. Please mark the wonderfulness of my spouse who, when my kid wanted to go find the neighbors & play after we’d been out all day โฆ
Apr 1, 2022: Today’s the day it’s best to ignore the internet, so byeeee.
Mar 30, 2022: I have brain fog today. I do not know why I have brain fog today. I’m going to blame hormones. ๐ง ๐ซ
Mar 29, 2022: ๐ญ๐ต Spending my Tues night building an audition repertoire, as one does. The Party’s Over A Trip to the Library Another Hundred People โฆ
Mar 28, 2022: ๐ Read How to Use Evernote for Your Creative Workflow. A couple key quotes: Start acting like every idea you come across or come up with has the โฆ
Mar 28, 2022: ๐ Read The Secret Power of โRead It Laterโ Apps.
Mar 28, 2022: ๐ Read One-Touch to Inbox Zero: How I Spend 17 Minutes Per Day on Email.
Mar 27, 2022: ๐ฟ๐ญ๐ต Watched Anything Goes. Sutton Foster is my hero. Wish I could get to NYC to see her in The Music Man. Everybody in this production was great. I โฆ
Mar 27, 2022: I appreciate the implication from Star Trek: Picard that our timeline is the horrible timeline Q created. ๐๐ป๐บ
Mar 25, 2022: Finished reading: “So What Are You Going to Do with That?" by Susan Basalla ๐
Mar 25, 2022: This pandemy has not lessened my misanthropy. Today I got very annoyed that another family was in the Museum of Life and Science bathroom (a large โฆ
Mar 25, 2022: ๐๐ญ Read Having a Child Meant Imagining a New Way to Make Theater (Catapult) by Lindsey Trout Hughes. This resonated with me more than anything else โฆ
Mar 25, 2022: ๐๐ต Read โThe Queerest of the Queerโ: Listening to Garbage in the Nineties (Catapult) by Niko Stratis. I enjoy Garbage so much and I appreciate this โฆ
Mar 24, 2022: ๐ Read I Gained 70 Pounds During COVID. Here’s What Happened On My First Day Back In The Office. (HuffPost) by Emily McCombs A good read; not โฆ
Mar 24, 2022: ๐โฟ Read Disability Status Shouldnโt Have a Hierarchy (Catapult) by s. e. smith. Excellent column illuminating the challenges in and importance of โฆ
Mar 24, 2022: ๐ The programme for #FanLIS 2022 is live! I’ll be sharing my dissertation research on Friday, May 20. I’ll let you know when registration โฆ
Mar 24, 2022: ๐๐ Read After the Green Ribbon (Catapult) by A. E. Osworth The Green Ribbon is a favorite of mine. I love Osworth’s discussion of how it marks โฆ
Mar 23, 2022: ๐ Read My Mother Has Terminal Cancer, and I Canโt Seem to Stop Buying Sweaters (Catapult) by Rachel Vorona Cote
Mar 23, 2022: ๐ Read What Tarot Taught Me About the Stories We Tell (Catapult) by Mishka Hoosen CW: Racism, rape A beautiful meditation on one person’s โฆ
Mar 23, 2022: I have renewed and revitalized respect for sociologists after trying to quickly understand the sociology of space. Your theories seem impenetrable and โฆ
Mar 23, 2022: ๐ Read Teachers Are Told to Ignore Their Bodies, But Chronic Pain Made Me Listen to Mine (Catapult) by Chiara di Lello
Mar 23, 2022: ๐ Read The World Doesnโt Bend for Disabled Kids (or Disabled Parents) (Catapult) by Katie Rose Pryal It breaks my heart when adults won’t figure โฆ
Mar 23, 2022: ๐ Read twisty little passages (Catapult) by Jess Zimmerman. A beautiful, heartbreaking short story told in the form of a text adventure.
Mar 23, 2022: ๐ Read The Coronavirusโs Next Move (The Atlantic) by Katherine J. Wu.
Mar 22, 2022: ๐ Read The Girlboss Has Left the Building.
Mar 22, 2022: ๐๐บ Read The Comedies That Understand What Peak Scammer TV Does Not.
Mar 22, 2022: Hi scholars. Can you point me to a scholarly definition of “space” that would encompass space broadly constituted, including physical โฆ
Mar 22, 2022: ๐Read The Ukraine Crisis Briefly Put Americaโs Culture War in Perspective.
Mar 22, 2022: Fostering Information Literacy Through Autonomy and Guidance in the Inquiry and Maker Learning Environments - Koh et al, 2020 Koh, K., Ge, X., Lee, L., Lewis, K. R., Simmons, S., & Nelson, L. (2020). Fostering Information Literacy Through Autonomy and Guidance in the โฆ
Mar 22, 2022: ๐๐ฎ Read Inside the fight to save video game history. Great intro to the copyright issues at play in the conflict between game companies and museums โฆ
Mar 21, 2022: Finished reading: Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore ๐ Cashore’s GRACELING was the book that fixed me after THE NAME OF THE WIND broke me (because I โฆ
Mar 21, 2022: ๐ Read COVID Wonโt End Up Like the Flu. It Will Be Like Smoking.
Mar 21, 2022: ๐๐ Read โThe Invisible Kingdomโ Shines a Light on Womenโs Chronic Pain. Another great interview with Meghan O’Rourke. Here are some quotes that โฆ
Mar 21, 2022: ๐ Read Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?. Another great piece with an argument centered on the importance of information literacy.
Mar 21, 2022: ๐ Read How Gullibility Became Our New Normal. I love when information literacy pops up in popular publications like this. These pieces can be models โฆ
Mar 21, 2022: ๐๐ Read Back Draft: Meghan OโRourke. O’Rourke’s making the rounds to promote her new book, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic โฆ
Mar 18, 2022: It’s good to have a statement that sums up what you do, writ large, that isn’t just a job title. And thanks to influences including Star โฆ
Mar 18, 2022: ๐ Read How to Be A Successful Multipassionate Entrepreneur.
Mar 18, 2022: ๐ Read 5 Ways to Thrive as a Multipassionate Entrepreneur “Clarity comes from engagement, not thought.” Whoa, I needed to read that.
Mar 18, 2022: ๐ I’m always looking for Leonie Dawson’s post about heroic self-gentleness and struggling to track it down in searches so now that โฆ
Mar 18, 2022: Reading the schedule for GIFCon and my breath caught and I teared up a little at Kat Humphries’s paper title, โWhatโs this cheery singing all โฆ
Mar 18, 2022: ๐ Read Academic Waste. ๐
Mar 17, 2022: Why I like St. Patrick's Day โ๏ธ I originally posted this on Facebook on March 17, 2016. I’m only 9% Irish, but I sure love Saint Patrick’s Day. I think most of my โฆ
Mar 17, 2022: I added a Shop page to my website! Right now all that’s there are my Notion templates (all pay what you can, $0+). In the future I hope to add a โฆ
Mar 17, 2022: I’m thinking about adding an Ask Me Anything’s page to my blog. But I also might just sometimes make a post soliciting questions. What โฆ
Mar 16, 2022: Colored a page from Dover Coloring Book Fairy Fashion by Scott Altmann. I’m using jumbo crayons so I don’t get hand cramps. Coloreds this โฆ
Mar 16, 2022: Shang-Chi is all “1996โ and later is all “PRESENT DAY” and it’s confusing how those aren’t synonyms.
Mar 15, 2022: Finished reading: Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang Vol. 1: Brothers and Sisters by Gene Yang ๐
Mar 15, 2022: I haven’t watched it yet but I’ve decided The Adam Project is a sequel to 13 Going on 30 and nothing will convince me otherwise.
Mar 15, 2022: ๐ฟ Watched Turning Red. Highly recommend. Perfectly captures being 13, navigating our own growth and our parents' expectations, and the way these โฆ
Mar 15, 2022: Added “A very enterprising, mildly annoying young lady” to my bio. Thanks, #TurningRed!
Mar 15, 2022: Wordle Walkthrough - 03/14/2022 As promised, here’s a walkthrough of my thought process for playing Wordle. This is the game for 03/14/2022. I begin most games with the word โฆ
Mar 15, 2022: ๐ Read Storytelling and the Craft of Quiltmaking. ๐งต
Mar 14, 2022: I like to ask from time to time and I haven’t in a while: what’s my brand?
Mar 14, 2022: Whoever wrote that thing about how 13 yos don’t write fanfic has everybody on Twitter talking about their Sailor Moon fanfic. I wrote mine (the โฆ
Mar 14, 2022: Want to read: Information Hunters by Kathy Peiss ๐
Mar 14, 2022: The Klein Librarian for Science Fiction at UC Riverside sounds like a pretty cool job.
Mar 13, 2022: ๐ฟ Watched Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga because it was nominated for a Hugo. I had a lot of fun with it. I like this kind of gentle โฆ
Mar 12, 2022: Finished reading: How to Make a Living with Your Writing Third Edition by Joanna Penn ๐ Great advice on creating multiple income streams as a writer. โฆ
Mar 11, 2022: How I win at Wordle (when I win at Wordle) I don’t share my daily Wordle result, but I do play it most days. I get it in 5 or fewer tries 94% of the time, 3 or fewer 32% of the time. I โฆ
Mar 11, 2022: We are at DEFCON Falling Asleep to Mr. Rogers.
Mar 10, 2022: Will the giant invasive ballooning spiders eat the mosquitos in my yard? If so, I don’t welcome like ALL of them but you know, a couple would be โฆ
Mar 10, 2022: In case you’re wondering where my head is at, I spilled the PCR testing solution while trying to test my kid, had to ask the pharmacy tech for a โฆ
Mar 9, 2022: I changed my goal for April’s Camp NaNoWriMo. My goal now is to publish 22,500 words on my blog over the course of the month. I’ve changed โฆ
Mar 9, 2022: Finished reading: Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore ๐ So great. Cashore gets five genres in this book and each one is a delight.
Mar 9, 2022: Pro-tip: brains work better when you feed them.
Mar 7, 2022: Finished reading: The Immune System Recovery Plan by Susan Blum ๐
Mar 6, 2022: My kid’s school is going mask-optional indoors in April and now I don’t know if I’m going to sleep any time soon because I’m โฆ
Mar 6, 2022: Hello, world. Got any cool qualitative UX researcher friends you can connect me with? I’d love to learn more about this career (especially in ed โฆ
Mar 6, 2022: Me: Let’s see who among my LinkedIn connections has qualitative research in their profile. Maybe I can eyeball their jobs and see what might be โฆ
Mar 5, 2022: I ran the introductory adventure for Hero Kids for M & W. It was a lot of fun and now I’m very tired. ๐ฒ
Mar 4, 2022: I’m at that point in a documentation/literature review where you have to just let stuff roll around in your brain and while it IS productive, it โฆ
Mar 4, 2022: I can’t tell if the locus of origin of my current inability to focus is in my body, in The World, or shared between them.
Mar 4, 2022: What?! Kristin Cashore just had a character in Jane, Unlimited share my one strong Doctor Who opinion! “Nobody likes Martha Jones but I like โฆ
Mar 4, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ “A storm can be a cozy thing when one isn’t in it.” - Kristin Cashore in Jane, Unlimited
Mar 4, 2022: ๐ฌ๐บ๐๐ป “Exhilaration enhances the absorption of knowledge.” Picard, 2x01, โThe Stargazerโ [Cool how this sums up my whole deal.]
Mar 4, 2022: ๐ฌ๐บ๐๐ป “The part of me that really wants is the part that has to wait in line.” Picard, 2x01, “The Stargazer”
Mar 2, 2022: I played a LOT of the Pokemon TCG in my freshman year of college, burned a lot of scholarship money on it. When I stored it away I wasn’t โฆ
Mar 2, 2022: If you must get a flat tire, I recommend doing it on a beautiful day when you have snacks packed in the car and plenty of data on your mobile plan so โฆ
Mar 2, 2022: Me, reading Jane, Unlimited: Wait, wait, wait. Her aunt/guardian was an adjunct at this fancy private university and she got the child-of-faculty โฆ
Mar 1, 2022: I let a tiny bit of crying come out at 3 am Monday morning and now all the crying I haven’t done in the past 2 years is trying to push its way โฆ
Mar 1, 2022: Oof. Doing a second round of coding and I am R-U-S-T-Y rusty.
Feb 28, 2022: How do you handle a day when your brain isn’t doing a great job but you also don’t really want to nap because you will feel logie โฆ
Feb 28, 2022: Hey, Kimberly. You actually are not in a good position right now to do an in-depth analysis of every mention or example of social science in the Star โฆ
Feb 28, 2022: ๐ Read Itโs Called Acting: Learning to Fight for the Stage. ๐ญ
Feb 28, 2022: ๐ Read Network sitcoms are actually good again. ๐บ
Feb 26, 2022: ๐ฟ Watched Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe and I definitely cried twice because I’m a big sister and there were some โฆ
Feb 25, 2022: ๐ Read Is it time to live with COVID-19? Some scientists warn of โendemic delusionโ โI donโt particularly want to be in a future where I get COVID โฆ
Feb 25, 2022: It can feel like Social Science Communication isn’t a thing, but here are some people doing it: Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Dr. Zeynep Tufecki โฆ
Feb 25, 2022: ๐ Loved reading what Kathy Tabbutt had to say about Social Science Communication in the January 23 Fancy Comma newsletter. I’ve been thinking โฆ
Feb 25, 2022: ๐ Read Curing Coronavirus Isnโt a Job for Social Scientists. (This article is from May 2020, which is probably why it has the word โฆ
Feb 25, 2022: ๐ Read Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself?.
Feb 25, 2022: It IS great news that’s my mom’s leukemia is in remission. It’s important to me to remember that there is a long road ahead, with โฆ
Feb 25, 2022: My mom’s leukemia is in remission.
Feb 24, 2022: Please listen to Gaslit Nation, where Sarah Kendzior & Andrea Chalupa “take a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, โฆ
Feb 24, 2022: I am scared and overwhelmed. Here’s what I’m doing about it: Making sure I take my meds and supplements Reading and following the Gaslit โฆ
Feb 23, 2022: Working through Project READY and I wrote an “I am” poem [PDF]. I don’t want to share the whole thing but in case you’re โฆ
Feb 23, 2022: That feeling when your new job pays you to work through the professional development curriculum you created as part of your old job.
Feb 23, 2022: Life stuff, health stuff, and the Wheel of Fortune (tarot card, not game show) My sense of routine and timing and goal-setting has been completely exploded over the past month or so. The routines I put in place to help me cope in โฆ
Feb 22, 2022: Not sure what my dream casting for most of the roles in Ninth House would be, but @may_wise Mary Wiseman for Pamela Dawes please, okay bye.
Feb 21, 2022: I did the seven stories exercise & put everything into a word cloud, combining related words & eliminating irrelevant words & ended up โฆ
Feb 21, 2022: ๐ Read More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries. This. The lifting of mask mandates. The expansion of what counts as โฆ
Feb 20, 2022: Finished reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo ๐ So good. It puts the academia in dark academia.
Feb 20, 2022: No YOU just ordered a Mini Tarot de Marseille.
Feb 20, 2022: I was going to ask what the best career path was for an insufferable know-it-all and then realized I should qualify the question with aside from โฆ
Feb 20, 2022: Scene: Today’s Micro.blog Meetup Them: I have writer’s block and was hoping to get ideas for how to bust through it. Me: Let me tell you โฆ
Feb 20, 2022: ๐ Not their first rodeo: How Black riders are reclaiming their place in cowboy culture This is so cool and the pictures are phenomenal.
Feb 20, 2022: Me: I was so psyched about the topic and methods of my dissertation when I defended my proposal in February 2020, but I find it hard to get psyched โฆ
Feb 19, 2022: I’m RSVPing to IndieWeb Create Day on March 5, 2022. This might show up as a yes but it’s actually a maybe.
Feb 18, 2022: Me to W: I need to go be in the dark and quiet for a little while now because I’m overstimulated. There were so many people outside when M was โฆ
Feb 17, 2022: I am thisclose to posting a vibe shift reading list.
Feb 16, 2022: I have too many chronic conditions and I don’t like it.
Feb 16, 2022: ๐ Read The Millions of People Stuck in Pandemic Limbo …people are still dying, and immunocompromised people disproportionately so. Ignoring โฆ
Feb 16, 2022: The middle-school-Kimberly-to-grown-up-Kimberly pipeline I’ve been reading the Future Ready with the Library posts at the YALSA blog and it’s got me thinking about the skills I was building in โฆ
Feb 16, 2022: I just heard my neck crack. I am really over everything. Everything except crafting and my job. And loving my kid. I guess I’m over stuff that โฆ
Feb 16, 2022: Today’s vibe: driving home from my fasting bloodwork appointment listening to “Surface Pressure” on repeat-1 while basically โฆ
Feb 16, 2022: I get annoyed at the voice in my head that, when I’m stressed, offers an oh-so-helpful list of all the stress-relieving things I’m not โฆ
Feb 16, 2022: I will never not be a caregiver. I realized as I was helping my family in the face of my mom’s return to the hospital that there will never be a time when I’m not a โฆ
Feb 15, 2022: ๐ป Watching We Are NOT Okay: Library Worker Trauma Before and During COVID-19 and What Happens After #LibraryTrauma #WeAreNotOkay #LibraryLove
Feb 15, 2022: I’m intrigued by the pedagogy of uncertainty concept that Ronnie Videla-Reyes and Claudio Aguayo will introduce at this week’s SoTEL โฆ
Feb 15, 2022: As we approach the spring of deception, it feels rude to me that the earth is moving forward with the seasons with my mom in and out of the hospital. โฆ
Feb 15, 2022: Changing my profile pic to Luisa Madrigal for a while.
Feb 14, 2022: I was feeling sad about my mom being readmitted to the hospital so I took a break from work and made a pillow cover. Blog post with details โฆ
Feb 14, 2022: I’m a great lover of Valentine’s Day as a time to express special affection for friends & family as well as romantic partners. Today โฆ
Feb 11, 2022: My mom was discharged from the hospital tonight and will be doing the rest of her induction therapy outpatient. Thought you might like some good news โฆ
Feb 11, 2022: Started Octopath Traveler again tonight and it made me very happy. Last time I played was almost 2 years ago. ๐ฎ
Feb 11, 2022: I think the union rep at this postdoc orientation is doing this presentation outside during the Santa Ana winds, which is a choice.
Feb 11, 2022: I am having a grumping it out day.
Feb 10, 2022: #StarTrek:The Next Generation Season 4 Episode 20 “Qpid” aired 04/22/91. ๐๐ป Q: You would have me stand idly by as she leads you to your โฆ
Feb 10, 2022: ๐ Read How to Reclaim Normal Life Without Being โDoneโ. I appreciate the acknowledgement here that inputs for risk calculation vary widely.
Feb 10, 2022: Got an email about my kid’s school moving to endemic risk management instead of pandemic and I get it but I do worry about those of us who are โฆ
Feb 10, 2022: 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 Lamottโs Bird by Bird, but I also have more obscure โฆ
Feb 10, 2022: The Teens Leading Change initiative at the LA Public Library is awesome. A great reminder that there are people committed to doing good work in the โฆ
Feb 10, 2022: 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 I have to be reminded frequently is that creating โฆ
Feb 9, 2022: Words cannot convey how psyched I am for Chrono Cross Radical Dreamers Edition. I’ve wanted a Chrono Cross remaster for a long time. PSX-era โฆ
Feb 9, 2022: Realized today as I was listening to the John de Lancie episode of Gates McFadden Investigates that I would 100% sign up for a Star Trek acting โฆ
Feb 9, 2022: Today’s 28 Days of Black History post about Jerry Lawson, who led the division that made the first console where players could change out game โฆ
Feb 9, 2022: I just did a search on Google Scholar for the exact phrases “serious leisure” and “pedagogy of play” together and only found โฆ
Feb 9, 2022: Finished reading: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon ๐ Again!
Feb 9, 2022: Essays on essays on essays Iโm still thinking about essays after reading Jackson Arnโs โDot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dotโ | Against the Contemporary American Essay. Arn references other โฆ
Feb 8, 2022: ๐ Read My Platonic Life Partnership Went Viral On TikTok, & People Have A Lot Of Questions I’m a person who’s been squarely โฆ
Feb 8, 2022: Peak on-brand middle aged Kimberly: Cutting out doll clothes sewing patterns while watching the Ask a Mortician video about books bound in human skin.
Feb 8, 2022: That feeling when you step away from your desk and the good ideas rush in.
Feb 8, 2022: What even is my writing voice, anyway? That critique of the essay piece I read and linked yesterday has sent me down a rabbit hole of other writing about essays. Iโll put together a list of โฆ
Feb 7, 2022: ๐ Read Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dotโ | Against the Contemporary American Essay by Jackson Arn. Timely, given my own musings on essays. There’s a lot โฆ
Feb 7, 2022: 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 form. So versatile, I canโt pin it down. There are โฆ
Feb 6, 2022: I haven’t felt like writing a long blog post for the post couple of weeks. Maybe tomorrow. I’m reading a lot though & that has made me โฆ
Feb 6, 2022: Currently reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo ๐
Feb 6, 2022: Currently reading: Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 (CultureAmerica) by Kelly J. Baker ๐
Feb 5, 2022: Finished reading: King Of Scars by Leigh Bardugo ๐ I love it so much. Nikolai, Zoya, and Nina have always been my faves so it felt a little like Leigh โฆ
Feb 5, 2022: Finished reading: Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia by Kelly J. Baker ๐ Highly recommend. Baker’s writing is always incisive and โฆ
Feb 4, 2022: ๐ Read The Holes We Live With by Katie Rose Guest Pryal. I think my hole is named in the Encanto song “Surface Pressure”: I’m โฆ
Feb 4, 2022: Dana has a lightsaber now. [Image description: An 18 inch doll holds an appropriately scaled lightsaber.]
Feb 4, 2022: Want to read: The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University (Reforming Higher Education: Innovation and the Public Good) by Adrianna โฆ
Feb 4, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ The life of the mind tends to ignore the body, but our bodies aren’t so easily avoided. - Kelly J. Baker in Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and โฆ
Feb 4, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ Explaining away the plight of adjuncts as brainwashed dupes ignores the structural realities of the disastrous academic job market. - Kelly J. โฆ
Feb 4, 2022: I thought the Internet should know: Nikolai Lantsov is now my book boyfriend. Sorry, Kvothe. (Links definitely contain spoilers.) ๐
Feb 3, 2022: ๐ฌ๐ One of [the] things about the “love professions,” which includes academia, it is really easy to forget that you are a worker. But when โฆ
Feb 3, 2022: Finished reading: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty ๐
Feb 3, 2022: Accepting death doesn’t mean that you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, โฆ
Feb 3, 2022: The great achievements of humanity were born out of the deadlines imposed by death. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from โฆ
Feb 3, 2022: The doll is named Dana. She is here now and I think she’s actually 200% haunted. The mid-life crisis continues.
Feb 3, 2022: I’m psyched to present my dissertation research at FanLIS 2022: Fan Futures Beyond the Archive. I’ll talk about how cosplayers find, โฆ
Feb 3, 2022: I Kimberly Hirsh am RSVPing yes to Micro Camp 2022 .
Feb 3, 2022: ๐ Read Women of a Certain Age. Great piece about how the Golden Age of TV creates space for roles beyond somebody’s mom, somebody’s wife, โฆ
Feb 2, 2022: The Kimberly urge to write Picard/Gomez fic. ๐๐ป
Feb 2, 2022: My kid definitely just said “Thwip” in his sleep. ๐ธ๏ธ
Feb 1, 2022: “People as everyday theorists of their experiences” - great insight from Bill Penuel at the Crown Institute Participatory Toolkit โฆ
Feb 1, 2022: Welcome to my mid-life crisis. [Image description: An eBay item page for an 18 inch fashion doll. The page says “You purchased this item on Feb โฆ
Feb 1, 2022: It’s February. Black history is important all year long but February is extra awesome because Black cosplayers show off their stuff daily all โฆ
Feb 1, 2022: Me, thinking about my mom’s experience with leukemia: The medicine will be what it will be, but what about her feeeeeeelings? (Never has it been โฆ
Jan 31, 2022: Me, gathering up all my old dolls that I gave my kid so I can brush their hair: “I know - dolls.” (Oh, Clyde Bruckman. You ask such good โฆ
Jan 31, 2022: Hello, I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just bought and set up creativityforscholars.com. If the domain name intrigues you, why not pop over and sign up โฆ
Jan 31, 2022: We must be brave enough to look at our own academic systems, if we plan to make them just and equitable. - Kelly J. Baker, Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender โฆ
Jan 31, 2022: Feeling cute today. [A pale white woman with dark hair & blue eyes wears black cat eye glasses, a black cable knit sweater over a white dress with โฆ
Jan 30, 2022: ๐ Read A Counterintuitive Nighttime Routine For The Type A Insomniac. I love this. I’m constantly trying to Type-A-away symptoms of chronic โฆ
Jan 30, 2022: The concept of the body as canvas becomes more powerful if the canvas is dead. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the โฆ
Jan 30, 2022: We are all just future corpses. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory ๐ฌ๐
Jan 30, 2022: Encountering a corpse forced the man who would be Buddha to see life as a process of unpredictable and constant change. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets โฆ
Jan 30, 2022: I just bought the Kindle edition of both volumes of Briana Lawrence’s mixed media magical girl series, Magnifique NOIR, and I am psyched about โฆ
Jan 30, 2022: Burnham’s “Let’s fly” is probably the best captain catchphrase but Dal’s “Go fast” might be a close second. โฆ
Jan 29, 2022: I have a vague feeling I’m at risk of becoming the first victim in the X-Files episode “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose”: Why โฆ
Jan 28, 2022: Reading misuthewitch’s thesis for my Artist Date today. [Image Description: A tablet in a purple case displays a paper titled, “Make-Up!: โฆ
Jan 26, 2022: I’m RSVPing yes to IndieWebCamp Personal Libraries Pop Up Session. Excited to chat about how we track and share book stuff! ๐
Jan 26, 2022: Six month check-in: Who am I at 40? It was my half birthday almost 2 weeks ago, so it seems like a good time to check in on whether I’m being the person I want to be at 40. Here โฆ
Jan 25, 2022: When is a gap not a gap? Doing research that hasn't already been done An undergrad sent me a message thanking me for my post A Start-to-Finish Literature Review Workflow and asked the question: Is there an exhaustive โฆ
Jan 25, 2022: ๐ Read The Only Work Ethic I Care About is the One on Star Trek Yes! When a 20th c guy ends up on the Enterprise and is all “What am I supposed โฆ
Jan 25, 2022: More than a little psyched about Emily Vardell & Sarah Beth Nelson’s paper Teaching Reference Interview Skills with Improv.
Jan 25, 2022: Okay, world. I’m going to try turning it off and then turning it on again, “it” being this day.
Jan 25, 2022: In the spirit of cosmic effery that embracing radical uncertainty requires, I turned my ankle this morning. Probably a super mild sprain, given the โฆ
Jan 24, 2022: Sent my mom the Six of Crows duology for her Kindle. Pretty pleased with myself. ๐
Jan 24, 2022: Tag yourself. I’m Arcade Fire Dad (sub in improv troupe for band). โฆ
Jan 24, 2022: 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 trying to do things besides worry about her anyway. โฆ
Jan 24, 2022: I’m back to cross-posting from my site automatically to Twitter. Everywhere else I’m going to stick with manusl cross-posting.
Jan 23, 2022: The Empath’s Dilemma: You won’t cry for yourself, but you cry really hard when you start to think how scared and alone the rest of your โฆ
Jan 23, 2022: ๐Read What is โDark Academia,โ and why is it trending on social media in 2022?
Jan 23, 2022: My bedhead is feeling extra goth and channeling Tim Burton a little bit this morning.
Jan 23, 2022: ๐ Read Julia Cameron Says You Can Get Creative Indoors.
Jan 22, 2022: My mom was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia this week and started chemo yesterday. If you want details, email me and I’ll send you โฆ
Jan 21, 2022: ๐ฟ Watched Encanto. Lovely.
Jan 21, 2022: ๐ Read The Homebound Symphony by @ayjay Iโm trying to be the Homebound Symphony. Just one person sitting in my study with a computer on my lap, โฆ
Jan 21, 2022: Key lines from “Surface Pressure": Give it to your sister, your sister’s older Give her all the heavy things we can’t โฆ
Jan 20, 2022: I haven’t seen ENCANTO but I gather Luisa is the middle sister and yet her song is the anthem of eldest daughters the world over. ๐ฟ๐ต
Jan 20, 2022: Peak IndieWeb Eldest Daughter Kimberly: considering for a few minutes trying to do a self-hosted version of CaringBridge before deciding it’s โฆ
Jan 20, 2022: W’s aunt gave M an amaryllis and it’s blooming. Big Alice in Wonderland vibes. [Image description: a large red amaryllis flower blooms.]
Jan 20, 2022: ๐ I highly recommend Everything Is Awful and Iโm Not Okay: questions to ask before giving up as a tool for managing daily living when things feel โฆ
Jan 19, 2022: I am immensely pleased to be getting so much new Star Trek in the next few months. ๐๐ป
Jan 19, 2022: ๐ Read Tamsyn Muir Understood the Assignment: The Locked Tomb Seriesโ Expansive Exploration of Death and Grieving by Emma Leff ๐
Jan 19, 2022: ๐ Read As We May Think by Vannevar Bush This 1945 essay by Vannebar Bush is one of the first texts they had us read when I got my MS in Library โฆ
Jan 19, 2022: ๐ Read Why PhDs Need to Study Creative Writing. Awesome piece with an excellent argument. I’ve been tacking this direction for a while and โฆ
Jan 19, 2022: ๐ Read We Are All Hostages to Anti-Semitism by Yair Rosenberg Excellent piece about how anti-Semitism is not individual prejudice, but part of a vast, โฆ
Jan 18, 2022: ๐ Read Hypertext Gardens. Efficient traversal provides the information readers think they want, but may hide information readers need. I love the โฆ
Jan 18, 2022: I’m experimenting with building a digital garden via a personal wiki so of course my first page is about Digital Gardens and Streams. I โฆ
Jan 18, 2022: Life just ran more smoothly when she got her way. Leigh Bardugo, KING OF SCARS ๐ฌ๐
Jan 18, 2022: On indefinite hiatus from most social media Iโm taking an indefinite hiatus from checking or cross-posting to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and most other social media services, with the โฆ
Jan 18, 2022: Just a little pro tip, muting words on Twitter will not prevent them from appearing in the “What’s happening” sidebar. A little โฆ
Jan 17, 2022: New bio/tagline: “mothering, researching, reading, writing, playing, making, always learning”
Jan 17, 2022: Testing my commitment to embracing radical uncertainty This week is really asking me to live my commitment to embracing radical uncertainty. I’ve had a hypothyroidism flare due to the cold weather, โฆ
Jan 17, 2022: Finished reading: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo ๐ I definitely want to write a longer review of this โฆ
Jan 17, 2022: What gave her strength then? We cannot know for sure. That contrary thing inside her? The hard stone of rage that all lonely girls possess? - Leigh โฆ
Jan 17, 2022: Okay, I’ll do the 10 year challenge.
Jan 16, 2022: Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new.Leigh Bardugo, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS ๐ฌ๐
Jan 16, 2022: Yesterday I interrupted my kid’s marathon viewing of BLIPPI and transformed it into a marathon viewing of PHINEAS AND FERB, I am the best at โฆ
Jan 15, 2022: My reading life ๐ Since the Micro.blog community is starting a reading group in the near future, I thought it would be a good time to talk about my reading habits and โฆ
Jan 14, 2022: Currently reading: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo ๐ I have so much respect for how dark Bardugo is โฆ
Jan 14, 2022: My workplace harassment training is promoting person-first language, but ends with “Ultimately, it is important to treat everyone as an โฆ
Jan 14, 2022: Wisdom from my blog archives: What if everything I am - everything Iโve tried to improve in this particular, optimizing, tool-utilizing way - is just โฆ
Jan 13, 2022: No YOU’RE thinking about writing a fanfic that’s just an IRB application for a xenoanthropology dissertation at Starfleet Academy.
Jan 13, 2022: Now that I’m gainfully employed, mosts of my discretionary spending is going to creators in little $5/mo increments.
Jan 13, 2022: How 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 thyroid hormone levels to what I consider optimal. โฆ
Jan 13, 2022: Future Directions for Connected Learning in Libraries This is the fourth post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected learning. Here are all the posts published so far: What โฆ
Jan 13, 2022: Me: If I were going to write fiction, what genre should I write? Brain: YA high fantasy. Me: does analysis by genre & market of the last 20 books โฆ
Jan 12, 2022: W: Do you know the first documented time “Google” was used as a verb? Me: Yes, it was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ๐ฉ๐ผ, Willow said it, it โฆ
Jan 12, 2022: I started reading A Court of Thorns and Roses because it’s, um, overdue & 9 people have it on hold (sorry people, thanks library for โฆ
Jan 10, 2022: ๐Read What happens when we die. Beautiful notes from Maria Popova on the novel Mr g.
Jan 10, 2022: Putting together references and resources for making myself a Tidemaker kefta, no big deal.
Jan 7, 2022: Connected Learning in Libraries: Changes and Challenges This is the third post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected learning. Here are all the posts published so far: What โฆ
Jan 7, 2022: Want to read: The Comedy of Survival: Literary Ecology and a Play Ethic by Joseph W. Meeker ๐
Jan 7, 2022: ๐ Read The comedy of survival.
Jan 7, 2022: ๐ Read “I Feel Very Uncomfortable When People Call Me A Writer”. Great conversation between Sara Fredman & Dr. Merve Emre. WRITE LIKE โฆ
Jan 6, 2022: This is a note to myself to write about how connected learning has existential value, not just $/academic/civic. For more, see Jermaine’s story โฆ
Jan 6, 2022: Want to read: Dead Collections: A Novel by Isaac Fellman ๐
Jan 6, 2022: ๐ต Had to skip “Moonlight Sonata” on the Spotify Dark Academia Classical playlist because belting “Schroeder” at the top of my โฆ
Jan 5, 2022: ๐ Read Lost Time in COVID. Overall, we have, of necessity, learned to value the quality of our time over the quantity of it, and to work with the โฆ
Jan 5, 2022: I just got finished with my onboarding meeting for the Connected Learning Lab and I can’t adequately express how psyched I am to get to do the โฆ
Jan 5, 2022: Google Scholar: Hi Dr. Kimberly, would you like some journal articles about families playing Pokemon Go together and teaching and learning in Pokemon โฆ
Jan 5, 2022: How Connected Learning Happens in Libraries This is the second post in a series contextualizing my position as a researcher of connected learning. Here are all the posts published so far: What โฆ
Jan 5, 2022: Pretty psyched that this is my new institution.
Jan 5, 2022: My time is vampire time: The critical disability studies concept of "crip time" ๐โฟ I’ve seen and heard a lot of people in the Micro.blog community discuss the book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. The hold list โฆ
Jan 4, 2022: ๐ Read Everyone should blog.
Jan 4, 2022: ๐ Read Celebrate by Writing.
Jan 4, 2022: Somebody wrote a post on Micro.blog with the title “Everybody should blog” in the past couple days and I can’t find it now. If you โฆ
Jan 4, 2022: What is Connected Learning? I start working remotely for the Connected Learning Lab tomorrow and while a lot of people are excited for me, most of them donโt actually understand โฆ
Jan 4, 2022: Fighting with the VPN so I can have off-campus library access. Academia, how I’ve missed you. :) (I’m re-instituting emoticons instead of โฆ
Jan 4, 2022: ๐ต I’m listening to the full album of Lady Gaga’s BORN THIS WAY for the first time, and I’m a little embarrassed by coming to her โฆ
Jan 3, 2022: 1/3/22 plan: Wake up at normal time, hang out with kid, eat wholesome food, clean bedroom, prep for week ahead 1/3/22 reality: Wake up 1 hr late & โฆ
Jan 3, 2022: New bio! “Big sister, little mother, perpetual learner. I love books AND computers.”
Jan 3, 2022: New rule: Especially on days when my kid is home from school, it’s okay if my routines don’t go as planned. Extra okay if it’s also โฆ
Jan 3, 2022: 10 Video Games to Know Me ๐ฎ Final Fantasy Final Fantasy VII Street Fighter Alpha 3 Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure Chrono Cross Golden Sun Final โฆ
Jan 3, 2022: 10 TV Shows to Know Me ๐บ The Muppet Show Punky Brewster Star Trek: The Next Generation The Kids In the Hall Buffy the Vampire Slayer Firefly 30 Rock โฆ
Jan 2, 2022: ๐ Read True gender-neutral clothing must go beyond fancy sweatpants. I love the idea of a shop where clothing is arranged by type (shirts here, โฆ
Jan 2, 2022: Welp, my corkboard is now mostly a collage of tarot and oracle cards. The mermaids are very concerned about research ethics.
Jan 2, 2022: Quick Thoughts on TRULY DEVIOUS ๐ I don’t want to write a full review of Truly Devious but I want to share a couple things. First: it goes back and forth between details of a โฆ
Jan 2, 2022: Finished reading: Truly Devious: A Mystery by Maureen Johnson ๐
Jan 1, 2022: New (Year) hair before and after brushing. (Better-lit photos coming soon.)
Jan 1, 2022: ๐ฌ “We are being asked to no longer abandon ourselves, to embrace and make space for all parts of ourselves to come alive and be honored.” โฆ
Jan 1, 2022: Happy New Year from the hair I just cut off in a literal and symbolic act of lightening my load. Selfies to come after a shower and hair air drying.
Jan 1, 2022: ๐ Read 6 ways to deal with anxiety and uncertainty this winter. One way to embrace radical uncertainty is to develop coping mechanisms. This NPR piece โฆ
Dec 31, 2021: Closing out the year with a couple of runs in Hades ๐ฎ followed by some Star Trek: The Next Generation ๐๐ป. Here’s to staying on-brand in 2022.
Dec 31, 2021: ๐ Read What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good life. This is an excellent way to think about how to live.
Dec 31, 2021: My only resolution for 2022: Embrace [radical uncertainty] (https://www.johnkay.com/2020/02/12/radical-uncertainty/).
Dec 31, 2021: The Extreme Unknown: 2021 Year-in-Review & Thoughts for 2022 Here are a couple of earlier year-in-review posts: 2020 2019 2018 This one’s going to be a little different. I will write up my catalogue of โฆ
Dec 30, 2021: ๐ Read There Is No โBest ofโ List From Me This Year. ๐ Beautiful writing from Kelly Jensen: how books impacted her this year; where she is in her โฆ
Dec 30, 2021: I just finished the midseason finale of #StarTrekDiscovery and I thought it was beautifully done. Space family talking through problems is my fave. โฆ
Dec 29, 2021: Me, watching STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION and seeing a newborn in a glass bassinet in sickbay with the birthing parent nowhere in sight: โฆ
Dec 28, 2021: I just watched the SHORT TREKS episode “Q & A” and it has me really excited for STRANGE NEW WORLDS. ๐บ๐ป๐๐ป
Dec 27, 2021: ๐๐ Read All Your Followers Will Not Buy Your Book - by Kate McKean katemckean.substack.comkatemckean.substack.com โฆ
Dec 27, 2021: ๐๐ Read Yes, Social Media Can Sell Books. But Not If Publishers Sit on Their Hands | Jane Friedman janefriedman.comjanefriedman.com โฆ
Dec 27, 2021: ๐๐ Read Millions of Followers? For Book Sales, โItโs Unreliable.โ - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com Www.nytimes.com โฆ
Dec 27, 2021: ๐ Read How your brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal. This time last year, my grandmother was in the hospital. She’d been โฆ
Dec 25, 2021: ๐ Read if weโre all about to get Omicron, here are 5 tips from a long-hauler (via @agilelisa on Micro.blog). This is sound advice for living with any โฆ
Dec 25, 2021: I don’t know how your December 25 is going, but my spouse gave me a Roy Kent Christmas card so mine is going very well.
Dec 25, 2021: I’m that annoying friend who loves Christmas way too much but, like, the exhausted goth version of her. I hope you have a good December 25, โฆ
Dec 24, 2021: It’s unseasonably warm here in central NC and will be even warmer tomorrow. Many people have complained that this doesn’t feel like โฆ
Dec 24, 2021: ๐ฌ “North Americans practice embalming, but we do not believe in embalming.” Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory โฆ
Dec 24, 2021: Bodies donated to Western Carolina University’s forensic anthropology program end up in the John A. Williams Human Skeletal Collection and โฆ
Dec 23, 2021: Until now, you’ve had to have a Micro.blog account to reply to my blog posts or sometimes, when I’ve had it active, use Disqus to reply. โฆ
Dec 22, 2021: My Reading Year 2021 ๐ I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. This was a slow reading year for me. I read a lot more fiction than last โฆ
Dec 20, 2021: I had assumed that since I, a 40-year-old mother of a young child, have been very into Dark Academia for more than a year, it must be over. But it โฆ
Dec 20, 2021: ๐ Read The Scholarship of Sexy Privilege: Why Do I Love Dark Academia Books? …there will always be fringe groups who parade their complete โฆ
Dec 19, 2021: Listen Vanessa Hudgens is winning regardless of the quality of the script or her accent.
Dec 19, 2021: Watched A California Christmas & A California Christmas: City Lights. They’re… Fine. There’s the use of a trope in the City โฆ
Dec 19, 2021: I had a dream where there was a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer motion comic where the writers had made a new character say “I’m going to โฆ
Dec 19, 2021: A core question that must eventually be answered about every space, physical or digital, is “Who is this for?” and if your answer is โฆ
Dec 17, 2021: Excuse me, there is a Netflix Rom-Com starring Damon Wayans Jr and Rachel Leigh Cook? Be still my geriatric millennial heart.
Dec 17, 2021: I have something else to say about Single All the Way. Not only is it lovely to see Michael Urie be a lead, but it’s also lovely to see him โฆ
Dec 17, 2021: As a person who made some of my dearest friends online before video chat was a thing, I’m strugglign with the protagonist of Love Hard being โฆ
Dec 17, 2021: Io, Saturnalia!
Dec 16, 2021: It dinnae matter to this wee American lassie that Cary Elwes has a naff Scottish accent.
Dec 16, 2021: Some how I did not realize Cary Elwes would have a Scottish accent in A Castle for Christmas and I. Will be. In. My. Bunk.
Dec 16, 2021: I just watched Single All the Way while making part of W’s Christmas present. It is the anti-Happiest Season and I love it extra for that. More โฆ
Dec 15, 2021: Today, I completed my hiring paperwork for UC Irvine & tried to figure out public service loan forgiveness. M & I stopped by Freeman’s โฆ
Dec 15, 2021: Book Riot published a reading pathway for the work of bell hooks a while back, if you are overwhelmed by her prolific work.
Dec 15, 2021: Upon the death of bell hooks ๐๏ธ Transcript: Hello internet friends. I’m experimenting today with doing a micro cast. I have this capability on my website and I thought I would โฆ
Dec 15, 2021: “I am Google make testing Lens g fusing to blog post. a” That’s regular print. It looks like for now, the limits of OCR mean โฆ
Dec 15, 2021: Cursive paper blog post Google Lens attempt: “I am using. a blog mas Leng post.” Less successful, but that’s to be expected. Next, โฆ
Dec 15, 2021: I AM TESTING USING GOOGLE LENS TO MAKE A BLOG POST. It works with my block print. I’m going to try cursive next.
Dec 15, 2021: O no I am up too late pondering cool possibilities for the web.
Dec 14, 2021: Peak Kimberly struggle: There’s 54 minutes of childcare left. Do I spend it tweaking my website or playing FF7R?
Dec 14, 2021: In case you’re on micro.blog and missed it, @JohnPhilpin is asking people interested in joining a Micro.blog Reader’s Club to complete โฆ
Dec 14, 2021: Target app: Okay so listen we know you’ve bought your kid like 5 sets of pajamas this quarter but look at this one IT’S SO CUTE
Dec 14, 2021: Want to read: Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage by Heather Havrilesky ๐
Dec 14, 2021: ๐จ M & I are doing Craftsy’s Jump Into Drawing class together. The first activity was shading a unicorn picture. I learned that I prefer line โฆ
Dec 14, 2021: ๐ Read and highly recommend Neurodiversity in Academia: The Autistic advantage in qualitative research.
Dec 13, 2021: Hoping to make it to this week’s Homebrew Website Club if I can do it without waking my kid.
Dec 13, 2021: ๐ Read The New Outliers: How Creative Nonfiction Became a Legitimate, Serious Genre.
Dec 11, 2021: ๐ Read Queer and Jewish Identity Are the Heart of โWhere the Wild Things Areโ. ๐ I love this. I want to look at In The Night Kitchen and Outside Over โฆ
Dec 11, 2021: ๐ Read On the Fleeting Wonder of Youth and the Surreal Permanence of Motherhood .
Dec 11, 2021: ๐ Read Will Self: How Should We Read? In Praise of Literary Promiscuity in the Digital Age.
Dec 11, 2021: ๐ Read Two Musicals on the Perils of Aging. ๐ต๐ญ
Dec 11, 2021: The one finished task to two new tasks pipeline.
Dec 11, 2021: I’m taking a break from most feeds and timelines, disconnecting auto-posting from my blog to curb the desire to check for notifications. If you โฆ
Dec 10, 2021: I am a grown human (a woman, specifically) and so I am having cookies as part of my breakfast today. I had a rough night.
Dec 10, 2021: I thought you should know that this Jean-Luc Picard cover of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (feat. Q) is my new โฆ
Dec 9, 2021: What WOULD Christmas be without historically low mountain snow causing staggering drought?
Dec 9, 2021: How much do we know about the instructors at Starfleet Academy and their pedagogy? ๐๐ป๐บ
Dec 9, 2021: I’m excited to share that I’ve accepted an offer to start in January as a (remote) Postdoctoral Scholar with the Connected Learning Lab at โฆ
Dec 7, 2021: I spent about an hour tonight playing the 1980 Commodore 64 port of Super Star Trek and I have no regrets. ๐ฎ๐ป
Dec 7, 2021: Want to read: The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling ๐
Dec 6, 2021: Me: *finds one footnote in article I’m revising, figures out what needs to change about the part that references it, stars those readings in โฆ
Dec 6, 2021: Want to read: The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People by Rachel Miller ๐
Dec 5, 2021: All. In. On. Trek. [Image Description: A white woman with dark hair and blue eyes wears a black mask. On the mask is a depiction of Captain Picard โฆ
Dec 5, 2021: ๐ Read So Youโve Just Found Out Youโre Jewish. Whatโs Next? By DNA, I’m almost half Jewish. I’ve known this my whole life. By religious โฆ
Dec 5, 2021: These are the sufganiyot I didn’t char. (The ones I did char are still pretty delicious.) Gluten-free, dairy-free, corn-free.
Dec 5, 2021: ๐ Read The 100 Most Jewish Foods.
Dec 5, 2021: Made latkes from a mix this year.
Dec 3, 2021: My first Artist Date! I don’t think I’m going to write up my annotations for the first chapter/week of The Artist’s Way, “Recovering a Sense of โฆ
Dec 3, 2021: ๐ Read A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Really Ugly.
Dec 2, 2021: The luxury of time and space to grieve (CW: Suicide) CW: Suicide Sherrie was my friend. Sherrie and I never met in person. We talked on the phone once ever for a few seconds. But we interacted a lot via โฆ
Dec 2, 2021: About to metaphorically bleed my heart onto my keyboard, nbd, I’ll see you soon.
Dec 2, 2021: I keep messing around on my phone instead of actually doing anything bc on top of the world being like it is & a raging instance of PMS that has โฆ
Dec 2, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read How Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak text-adventures | Ars Technica arstechnica.comRead: arstechnica.com โฆ
Dec 2, 2021: This week’s issue of 50 Years of Text Games is about the game The Freshman and its parent app, Choices. I have played the heck out of Choices. โฆ
Dec 2, 2021: Grieving something weird and frivolous today. Last night UNC deactivated my user id, because it’s been more than 6 months since I graduated. I โฆ
Dec 1, 2021: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Safety ๐
Dec 1, 2021: Moleskine’s green velvet notebook makes my little 90s heart sing. $70 is way too much since I go through 2 or 3 of these a year but SO PRETTY I โฆ
Dec 1, 2021: As has happened for the past 5 years, my kid’s taste and needs have heavily influenced my Spotify year-end wrap-up. Proud that together he and I โฆ
Dec 1, 2021: Morning pages palindrome!
Dec 1, 2021: Starting December right with eggnog flavored coffee in a seasonal mug and yogurt seasoned with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice.
Dec 1, 2021: Today I send solidarity and support to my colleagues in the UK participating in the UCU strike.
Nov 30, 2021: I’m back on Pokemon Go and looking for friends, so here’s my friend code: 7480 5774 3887
Nov 30, 2021: Finished reading: The Artist’s Way - The Basic Tools by Julia Cameron. ๐ In this chapter, Cameron introduces the morning pages and the artist โฆ
Nov 29, 2021: Want to read: The Tarot of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington ๐
Nov 29, 2021: Also in his first appearance, Tommy the Green Ranger wears this amazing green & white plaid with black short sleeves and a black hood. It’s โฆ
Nov 29, 2021: Every time we’re watching Power Rangers and Kimberly says “I’m Kimberly” I say “I’M Kimberly!” and I โฆ
Nov 29, 2021: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - The Basic Tools by Julia Cameron ๐
Nov 29, 2021: ๐ Read Marked In Remembrance: How Tattoos Help Us Grieve.
Nov 29, 2021: ๐ Read The Death Positive Movement.
Nov 29, 2021: โถ๏ธ๐ป Watched What is the Death Positive movement?
Nov 28, 2021: ๐Read Death Is Having a Moment.
Nov 28, 2021: ๐ Read The Death Positive Movement Encourages Us to Face Death Directly.
Nov 28, 2021: โถ๏ธ๐ป Watched What remains.
Nov 28, 2021: Finished reading: The Artist’s Way - Spirtual Electricity: The Basic Principles by Julia Cameron. ๐ I don’t have a lot to say overall โฆ
Nov 28, 2021: โถ๏ธ๐ป Watched A burial practice that nourishes the planet.
Nov 28, 2021: ๐ Read Feminist Death Work: A History.
Nov 28, 2021: ๐ Read Funerals are expensive, broken and exploitative. They have to change I love what Sarah Chavez says: Your death matters. You can choose โฆ
Nov 27, 2021: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Spiritual Electricity: The Basic Principles by Julia Cameron ๐
Nov 27, 2021: Big Kimberly Energy, according to W., is writing a full parody libretto for a musical.
Nov 27, 2021: Anybody else get a little Billy-Crystal-as-Miracle-Max vibe from Brent Spiner’s performance as very-old Dr. Noonian Soong? ๐๐ป๐บ
Nov 27, 2021: 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." Near the end of the latest episode of Discovery, โฆ
Nov 27, 2021: Information is my love language.
Nov 26, 2021: I want to mark Stephen Sondheim’s passing with a story about his influence in my life but there are too many little moments to sum it all up. โฆ
Nov 26, 2021: Bless Linda Holmes and her holiday movie guides.
Nov 24, 2021: Some international fans will be getting new episodes of Star Trek: Discovery starting Friday, Yay!
Nov 24, 2021: Hello world. Imagine I’m interested in fountain pens but am a complete beginner. Where would you tell me to go to learn more? What would your โฆ
Nov 23, 2021: Reading STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST again and when Austin Kleon described Patti Smith pretending to be an artist I thought “Cool, I’ll pretend to โฆ
Nov 23, 2021: Finished: The Artist’s Way - Introduction by Julia Cameron. ๐ Cameron’s introduction is very introducey, setting a foundation for โฆ
Nov 23, 2021: Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Introduction by Julia Cameron ๐
Nov 22, 2021: ๐ Read Catapult | Minor Arcana | Marissa Levien catapult.coRead: catapult.co catapult.co โฆ
Nov 22, 2021: ๐Will Real Estate Ever Be Normal Again? - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com Www.nytimes.com โฆ
Nov 22, 2021: ๐Every King Arthur Retelling Is Fanfic About Who Gets to Be Legendary tor.comRead: www.tor.com tor.com โฆ
Nov 22, 2021: ๐๐ฌ “Never send a scholar who studies dystopias to a conference with futuristic themes.” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED
Nov 22, 2021: Join me for a super low-key Artistโs Way Creative Cluster. I mentioned in September that I was going through the Artistโs Way. I got about three weeks in when I realized I was only doing morning pages and โฆ
Nov 22, 2021: ๐Read “How the Real Estate Boom Left Black Neighborhoods Behind”. This is a long & valuable read. I’m researching how I can โฆ
Nov 20, 2021: ๐ Started reading OUTLANDER and if my spouse finds my interest in my scholarship as tiresome as Claire finds Frank’s, I wish he and his kilted โฆ
Nov 19, 2021: Beautiful Eclipse medicine spread from Lindsay Mack with The Moonchild Tarot. Time to trust my mind, let go of worries about love, move forward in โฆ
Nov 19, 2021: I watched Star Trek Discovery 4x01 “Kobayashi Maru” last night and I have a lot of feelings. I’m happy to chat if you’d like โฆ
Nov 18, 2021: Okay I watched the Season 4 premiere of Star Trek: Discovery and now I need ALL the Detmer & Owo friendfic.
Nov 18, 2021: How to Transform from Mom Kimberly to Professional Kimberly: Replace t-shirt with dress. Add cardigan. Extra hair brushing. Tada!
Nov 17, 2021: From now on whenever you meet a couple, you are required to ask: Which of you is the Stamets & which of you is the Culbert? (I’m the Stamets โฆ
Nov 17, 2021: ๐ Read Who Writes the Books in Video Games? . This is relevant to my interests. ๐๐ฎ
Nov 17, 2021: I just finished the Season 3 finale of #StarTrekDiscovery and wow. What a beautiful close to a season. I’m heartbroken for all the people who โฆ
Nov 17, 2021: 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 a year. Maybe since before the pandemic started, โฆ
Nov 17, 2021: I just learned about this Disney-approved line of romance novel reimaginings of the princess stories and I am INTERESTED.
Nov 16, 2021: Welcome to my workspace! These are pictures of my desk, corkboard, and shelves. Mermaid painting by me via Wine & Design. Slay quilt by Casey โฆ
Nov 16, 2021: Hi there. I’m drafting a Star Trek/Ted Lasso crossover in my head. It’s called “Starfleet Til We Die.” I can’t wait to โฆ
Nov 15, 2021: Y’all, I love my kid and helping him manage his emotions is hard work.
Nov 14, 2021: Here is a non-exhaustive list of things that make me cry: “Some Things Are Meant to Be,” Little Women: The Musical “Forever and โฆ
Nov 14, 2021: I Don’t Have Time to Watch the Next Whole Episode of Star Trek Before Resuming My Caregiving Duties: The Kimberly Hirsh Story
Nov 13, 2021: It took ibuprofen, me singing a lot of songs, and Rock-A-Bye Baby’s Lullaby Renditions of Queen, but I finally got my freshly vaxxed kid to โฆ
Nov 12, 2021: The song “Forever and Ever” from POOH’S GRAND ADVENTURE: THE SEARCH FOR CHRISTOPHER ROBIN has been making me cry for two days and I โฆ
Nov 12, 2021: My kid is getting his first COVID shot tomorrow and I definitely used that as an excuse to buy him a bunch of snacks, a new coloring book, a new book, โฆ
Nov 12, 2021: I have been boosted and will now avoid productivity until Monday. Byeeee.
Nov 11, 2021: Finished reading: Not Your Average Hot Guy by Gwenda Bond ๐
Nov 10, 2021: Darren Rowse in his Ultimate Guide to Starting a Blog Course: Are you a high energy person or a low energy person? Me: Yes! (Yes I have been blogging โฆ
Nov 9, 2021: Great news, bad attitude Hi web friends. I’m having a weird day, with some great news but also me not feeling like doing anything, where I can swing from ecstatic about โฆ
Nov 9, 2021: It feels really good to talk about my work and be able to remind myself that I’ve done a lot of really cool things and that I am and for 17 โฆ
Nov 8, 2021: I’m more than 16 minutes into S3E1 of Star Trek Discovery and I haven’t seen Saru, Tilly, Stamets, Culber, Detmer, Owo, or Reno yet, so โฆ
Nov 8, 2021: My kid has discovered Power Rangers and I have a feeling there’s a lot of deja vu in my future except it’ll be my kid asking me to play โฆ
Nov 8, 2021: Good morning. I had fasting bloodwork at 9:30am today, so I’m just eating for the first time today now, and I’m thinking about giving my โฆ
Nov 8, 2021: 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” today. Here are some bits that hit me hard: Itโs โฆ
Nov 7, 2021: 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 writers who are also mothers. Some bits from the โฆ
Nov 7, 2021: Want to read: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder ๐
Nov 7, 2021: Like the Bloggess, I too look like I have it together when I’m depressed but really think I’m failing at everything and everyone is mad at โฆ
Nov 5, 2021: ๐ I’m on page 78 of Gwenda Bond’s NOT YOUR AVERAGE HOT GUY and y’all, I’m so glad she’s expanded her repertoire to โฆ
Nov 4, 2021: M, as we sort Magnatiles: Wow, you’re really good at sorting! Me: Yeah, thanks, I have two graduate degrees in it.
Nov 1, 2021: I can’t move to California but being a science fiction librarian sounds like a pretty sweet gig.
Nov 1, 2021: It’s the month with all the writing events! Hi! I’ll probably be focused on #AcWriMo - I’ve got a journal article to finish โฆ
Oct 31, 2021: Finished reading: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston ๐
Oct 31, 2021: ๐ฏ: Hey don’t you want to buy your kid some cute PJs? They’re on saaaaale… Me: Bro I just bought him 4 sets FROM YOU a few weeks โฆ
Oct 30, 2021: ๐ Read ‘They start calling you Hitler’: Why Disneyland has some of the most toxic fans on the internet.
Oct 29, 2021: ๐ Read From Princes to Pigeons: A Beginnerโs Guide to Otome Games ๐ฎ
Oct 29, 2021: I’m starting to actually enjoy revising my own writing. This is a huge development and it’s going to make a big difference in my capacity โฆ
Oct 29, 2021: ๐ Read โThe Girl With The Green Ribbonโ: A Tale of Many Lives. ๐
Oct 29, 2021: ๐ Read Dear Congress: Paid leave is not a perk. Itโs a requirement..
Oct 29, 2021: It seems to me that institutions don’t/can’t care. People do & can. Am I missing out on knowing about caring institutions?
Oct 29, 2021: Current priorities: Take care of my health. Take care of my kid. Take care of my home. Figure out how I can help primary caregivers on a grand scale. โฆ
Oct 29, 2021: In past crises, our leaders have been quick to bail out the banks. They made sure the airlines got rescued. But moms, in the middle of an โฆ
Oct 28, 2021: I’m about to log off for the night but I want to talk about #StarTrekProdigy so tell me about your favorite bits and I’ll reply tomorrow! โฆ
Oct 28, 2021: Want to read: They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe ๐
Oct 28, 2021: I have a cool idea. What if, in addition to having a mental health summit, the university committed time and money to improving mental health services โฆ
Oct 27, 2021: M and I decorated some sugar cookies this evening.
Oct 27, 2021: If you’re a person who would be interested in a virtual co-working space for parents, could you kindly let me know? Thanks! (I’m thinking โฆ
Oct 27, 2021: Thanks to Jennifer Polk’s co-working session, I made big progress on a paper revision today. ๐
Oct 27, 2021: ๐ Lee Skallerup Bessette’s You Can Ask for Mental-Health Help, but Can You Find Any? is crucial reading. It hits extra hard in the wake of a โฆ
Oct 26, 2021: M: Can we keep playing Breath of the Wild [pretend, not the video game]? Me: Wait, we’re playing Breath of the Wild? Oops! I was playing Ocarina โฆ
Oct 26, 2021: Hello I am 40 will a local community theater please cast me as Mama Rose now kthx
Oct 26, 2021: This is a reminder that Brent Spiner’s book Fan Fiction, which I reviewed back in September, came out a few weeks ago & you can purchase it โฆ
Oct 25, 2021: I’ve got to remember to search parenting groups, not scroll. I just about had an anxiety attack reading about something that happened to โฆ
Oct 25, 2021: Also making a note to myself to write a full blog post about going to see my first community theater production in ages & how it made me feel.
Oct 25, 2021: Making a note to myself here to write a full blog post about Star Trek: The Next Generation 3x21, “Hollow Pursuits,” and the connection to โฆ
Oct 23, 2021: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: Dr. Lesley Willard: Introducing topic. How do scholars in fan & media studies articulate their discipline? How do these disciplines interact? When โฆ
Oct 23, 2021: Next #FSNNA21 live-tweet: “Fans, Players and/or Users? Bridging Fan and Media Studies” Will post log to kimberlyhirsh.com.
Oct 23, 2021: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: Adriana Amaral: First, the state of fan studies in Brazil: research focused on digital settings but still working on integrating digital methods with โฆ
Oct 23, 2021: I’ll be live-tweeting the #FSNNA21 panel “Digital Methods and Digital Fan Practices” in a few minutes and share the log at โฆ
Oct 23, 2021: I set foot in a bookstore for the first time since the start of the pandemic today. I stood there, looking at everything, almost having a panic attack โฆ
Oct 23, 2021: Introducing my five-year-old to Sweeney Todd (original cast), as you do. ๐ญ๐ต
Oct 22, 2021: I’m watching the season 1 finale of Star Trek Discovery and having L’Rell do the previously in Klingon is a nice touch. ๐๐ป
Oct 22, 2021: Extemely chuffed to announce that my first blog post written for @QuirkosSoftware, “A priori coding is A-OK!", has gone live!
Oct 21, 2021: I don’t like how clear it is that we are living in the mirror universe and the primary Star Trek universe is not ours. At least, this is what โฆ
Oct 21, 2021: I may have been excessively affectively engaged in the conversation about Buffy fic writers' responses to “Seeing Red.” I really โฆ
Oct 21, 2021: Help I Read a Lower Decks Fanfic and Now I Resent All Other Activities: The Kimberly Hirsh Story ๐๐ป
Oct 21, 2021: Taking a break from livetweeting to just listen to the Participatory Culture Wars session at #FSNNA21.
Oct 21, 2021: #FSNNA21 livetweet log: This doesn’t include the discussion/Q&A because things started to go so fast I couldn’t keep up. Stacy Lantagne: introducing other โฆ
Oct 21, 2021: Planning to use Noter Live to livetweet “The Money Question” at #FSNNA21. Will post all tweets to kimberlyhirsh.com after the session.
Oct 20, 2021: Well mirror universe stuff is very upsetting. ๐๐ป
Oct 20, 2021: I myself am strange and unusual. (Earrings by Witching Hour Baby.)
Oct 19, 2021: I built a Book Event Calendar! It’s only got one event in it right now, as proof of concept, but I plan to add more soon.
Oct 18, 2021: Today I: found contact info for new handyman filled meds cases made cinnamon sugar pumpkin seeds put away a little laundry drove kid around to look โฆ
Oct 17, 2021: Hey book friends. Is there any sort of centralized calendar for virtual author events? My searches are turning up Eventbrite, specific publisher โฆ
Oct 17, 2021: Part of me wants to swim in a vault filled with books like some sort of literary Scrooge McDuck, but the other part of me knows I would get So. Many. โฆ
Oct 15, 2021: This thing where I need to sleep instead of staying up all night watching Star Trek: Discovery is really bumming me out. ๐๐ป
Oct 15, 2021: On my Starfleet ship, we would have Sirenian ops.
Oct 15, 2021: ๐ปโถ๏ธ Watched The Doctor, The Mortician, and the Murder.
Oct 15, 2021: Don’t want to spoil the Lower Decks finale much but I was so distracted by my delight at encountering Captain Sonya Gomez I actually missed โฆ
Oct 14, 2021: The other day while doing some Artist’s Way exercises my subconscious bubbled up and told me I wanted a typewriter. Now I’m stuck on this โฆ
Oct 14, 2021: ๐๐๐ Read Catapult | I Found My Literary Community by Writing Book Reviews | catapult.coRead: catapult.co catapult.co โฆ
Oct 12, 2021: ๐ฌ “… fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting around time.” Maria Bamford, THE BURNING BRIDGES TOUR
Oct 12, 2021: Finished reading: Writing the New Ethnography by H. L. Goodall, Jr. ๐
Oct 12, 2021: Academia sure loves bricolage.
Oct 12, 2021: ๐ Read Catapult | Why Full-Time Freelancing Isnโt For Me | Gabrielle Drolet catapult.coRead: catapult.co catapult.co โฆ
Oct 11, 2021: ๐ Read The Quiet Crisis of Parents on the Tenure Track.
Oct 11, 2021: ๐ฌ๐ “Anger is not the action itself. It is action’s invitation.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY
Oct 11, 2021: ๐ฌ๐๐ญ “Ideas don’t get opening nights. Finished plays do.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY
Oct 11, 2021: ๐ฌ๐ “…anger is a map… Anger points the way, not just the finger.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY
Oct 10, 2021: ๐ Read Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes โ The Daily Free Press dailyfreepress.comRead: โฆ
Oct 10, 2021: Want to read: The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling ๐
Oct 9, 2021: The #FanLIS panel I’m co-moderating with Ludi Price is the first session of Fan Studies Network North America! You should come. It’s a โฆ
Oct 8, 2021: Want to read: Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster ๐
Oct 8, 2021: As in the actual Haunted Mansion ride, the best part of Muppets Haunted Mansion is the ballroom/party scene. In this case, less for the Pepper’s โฆ
Oct 8, 2021: M (who turned 5 yesterday!) & I are watching Muppets Haunted Mansion and I’m very happy.
Oct 8, 2021: Hey LIS scholars. What is the most elegant, arresting, or fascinating writing you’ve seen in our field?
Oct 8, 2021: Did I just send an email to all the parents at my kid’s school in which I used the phrase “totally buggin'”? Yes, yes I did.
Oct 7, 2021: ๐ฌ “we are conditioned as academics (and also just people in 2021!) to sacrifice long term stability for short term productivity.” From โฆ
Oct 7, 2021: I’ve been without wifi for over 18 hours & while I’m old enough to remember a time before home dialup, it’s a real pain to deal โฆ
Oct 5, 2021: My brand is: person who spends far too much time thinking about the absence of social science research ethics and the reflexive turn in Star Trek. ๐๐ป
Oct 4, 2021: ๐ป๐บ๐ Watched Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 1 Episode 1 & oh my goodness how fun is this show? So fun! Mariner is my fave. “Do you know Deanna โฆ
Oct 4, 2021: ๐ Me continuing to read Black Sun: Uhhuh uhhuh Sun Priestess is cool, nice chill use of non-binary gender without making it A Thing but WHEN DO I GET โฆ
Oct 4, 2021: ๐ Me, reading Black Sun: Ch. 1 - This parent-child dynamic is upsetting, i don’t know if I can keep going… Ch. 2 - Magical singing bi sea โฆ
Oct 4, 2021: ๐ Read The Invisible Burden That Leaves Moms Drained. Especially timely since I just hosted my kid’s (outdoor masked) birthday party last โฆ
Oct 4, 2021: ๐ Read On Pandering. This piece made me think about how lucky I’ve been to always be writing for my past or future self or for a body of โฆ
Oct 4, 2021: The extent to which my handwriting is a perfect mix of my parents' handwriting is remarkable.
Oct 4, 2021: ๐ This week’s takeaway from The Artist’s Way is that I’m already really good at making time for the things I love to do and keeping โฆ
Oct 4, 2021: ๐ฌ๐ “If I’m expected to be a kin keeper, no one can judge my coffee consumption.” Kelly J. Baker, Sexism Ed โ
Oct 4, 2021: Added “Memento mori girl” to my bio and I am far too pleased with myself. ๐
Oct 4, 2021: I have one weird set of emotions when I begin writing in a new notebook and another when I get close to the end of a new notebook, but I can’t โฆ
Oct 3, 2021: ๐ฎ Played Dragon Quest III. Each game in the series gets more expansive. I love that.
Oct 3, 2021: ๐ป๐บ Watched Salt Fat Acid Heat episode 1, “Fat.”
Oct 3, 2021: I had a dream that Gates McFadden became a real doctor. My kid was having breathing trouble & she helped. Then when I needed to send her a message โฆ
Oct 3, 2021: ๐ Read Why Everyone Is Always Giving Unsolicited Advice (Tressie McMillan Cottom for the New York Times).
Oct 3, 2021: Excuse me I will be over here flailing because I just learned there is a licensed Star Trek TNG/X-Men crossover novel. ๐๐๐บ๐ฏ๏ธ UPDATED TO ADD: Literally โฆ
Oct 1, 2021: Finished reading: The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinka ๐
Oct 1, 2021: Why are my neighbors so loud don’t they know it’s after 10 pm and their neighbors have children: the Kimberly Hirsh story
Oct 1, 2021: My son found this toad at school a week ago. He said his friend touched it and it jumped.
Oct 1, 2021: Now that I have Paramount+, my current viewing strategy is: Want something familiar? TNG/DS9/VOY Want something new? Discovery. Want something funny? โฆ
Oct 1, 2021: It’s been a busy day of prepping for my kid’s birthday party (outdoor masked at a park we’re careful) and I think tomorrow when โฆ
Oct 1, 2021: My kid’s school is having fall break today so um we have Paramount Plus now. Because it has All the Ninja Turtles.
Oct 1, 2021: ๐Read “So Coke-yโฆSo Entitled!โ: This Is What It Was Like Going to Bennington College With Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt, and Jonathan Lethem. โฆ
Sep 30, 2021: 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 classroom and how we might learn from the ease โฆ
Sep 30, 2021: I did a thing! I wrote a blog post for a client! Yay me! Time for a dance party! via GIPHY
Sep 30, 2021: Here’s the deal with being employed by someone besides myself right now: they have to pay me enough that I can pay other people to do all the โฆ
Sep 30, 2021: One of the frustrating things about chronic illness is that sometimes you have a good brain day but a bad body day.
Sep 30, 2021: Weather report from my kid: the air temperature is warm Luke.
Sep 30, 2021: ๐๐บ Read Nathan Lane on Only Murders in the Buildingโs Big Twist.
Sep 30, 2021: ๐๐บ Read Why Only Murders in the Building Is the Most Romantic Show on TV.
Sep 29, 2021: I’m planning a historical witchy YA fantasy, it’s historical because it’s set in the 90s, the soundtrack is all Garbage & โฆ
Sep 29, 2021: ๐ Read Star Trekโs food replicators may be on their way to your kitchen. ๐
Sep 29, 2021: Want to read: Several Short Sentences about Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg ๐
Sep 29, 2021: Want to read: The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan ๐
Sep 29, 2021: ๐ Read Amia Srinivasan: โFeminism is a political practice, not just a set of ideasโ.
Sep 28, 2021: Witch influencer or Indiana Jones villain? You decide. (Image: A white woman with dark hair wears a black wool Panama hat.)
Sep 28, 2021: Attempted a Hashimoto’s/PCOS friendly version of my great-grandmother’s goldenrod eggs: gluten-free bread, ghee, tapioca flour, almond โฆ
Sep 28, 2021: Replaced “Extremely online since 1995โ in my bio with “Human cabinet of curiosities,” perhaps the most accurate way I’ve ever โฆ
Sep 27, 2021: Want to read: Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender by Casey Kayser ๐๐ญ
Sep 27, 2021: ๐๐ญ Read On and Off Stage: The Deep-Seated Bias in the Culture of American Theatre. In addition to thinking about whose plays get produced, promoted, โฆ
Sep 27, 2021: Mindy Thomas & Guy Raz have some great advice for writers of all ages in their National Book Festival video. ๐๐
Sep 27, 2021: ๐ Read What Reading Looks Like When Youโre a Full-Time Author (Book Riot).
Sep 27, 2021: Asking for a friend: what do you think Kaz Brekker’s D&D class would be? Rogue? I feel like rogue. (The friend is me.) ๐๐บ๐ฒ
Sep 27, 2021: I realized reading Week 1 of THE ARTIST’S WAY that most of my negative self-talk isn’t modeled on how other people talked to me (I was โฆ
Sep 27, 2021: ๐ฌ๐ “…if we can become one-tenth as good at positive self-talk as we are at negative self-talk, we will notice an enormous change.” โฆ
Sep 27, 2021: ๐ Read Please Keep Doing Virtual Book Stuff After The Pandemic. Jessica Pryde makes a great argument for maintaining virtual and/or adding hybrid book โฆ
Sep 27, 2021: ๐ฌ๐ “It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY
Sep 27, 2021: ๐ฌ๐ “Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY
Sep 27, 2021: ๐ฌ๐ “Creativity is play, but for shadow artists, learning to allow themselves to play is hard work.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY
Sep 27, 2021: ๐Read The Caregiving Economy - The Atlantic theatlantic.comRead: www.theatlantic.com theatlantic.com โฆ
Sep 26, 2021: A lot is bad but my kid is dancing to Tank! by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts and that’s pretty great.
Sep 26, 2021: Me today: Ooh what an interesting journal article! I wonder if I could pitch a research brief on it to my client for the company blog.looks closer โฆ
Sep 26, 2021: Want to read: Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies by Shailoo Bedi and Jenaya Webb, Eds. ๐
Sep 26, 2021: ๐๐ ๐ฟ Some good things I’ve read so far today: Revisiting The Flight of Dragons, a Forgotten Gem of โ80s Fantasy (Tor.com) How Harrow the Ninth โฆ
Sep 24, 2021: Kid reading your book on a bench at the playground while your sibling plays: I see you. You are not alone.
Sep 24, 2021: That feeling when your own article is at the top of the “Recommended article” list on your Google Scholar homepage.
Sep 24, 2021: What was going on in my life when I got sick It’s hard to figure out exactly which of the many symptoms I have should determine when I got sick but based on the impact of treatment, โฆ
Sep 23, 2021: “The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” C. G. Jung, quoted by Julia Cameron in the Artist’s Way. ๐ฌ๐
Sep 23, 2021: How Hashimoto's makes me feel Hashimoto’s makes me feel like the opposite of myself. At various points in my life, if you asked friends about me they’d tell you that I โฆ
Sep 22, 2021: My health goals I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. One of the things I’m focusing on right now is feeling better. Today, โฆ
Sep 21, 2021: My aesthetic is Mermaid Academia.
Sep 21, 2021: In case you wonder what kind of parent I am: yesterday, my kid was recounting a Halloween episode of Muppet Babies and said that Miss Piggy was in โฆ
Sep 21, 2021: I have input days and output days. Today is an input day: learning about UX and user research.
Sep 20, 2021: I just moved my next follow up doctor’s appointment up two months to the week after next because I’m still so tired all the time and not โฆ
Sep 20, 2021: On preferring learning to doing I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. I love to read about writing. I’m the kind of person who finds Strunk โฆ
Sep 20, 2021: Amy Gentry’s second guest post for The Professor Is In, about transitioning from academic to novelist, is one of the most helpful post-ac pieces โฆ
Sep 20, 2021: ๐ Portrait of the Mother as an Artist โ Guernica guernicamag.comRead: www.guernicamag.com Diane Benjamin (Litman โ64) โฆ
Sep 19, 2021: Watching the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Offspring” as a parent adds a whole new perspective to the experience.
Sep 19, 2021: Have y’all read THE DARK TIDE by Alicia Jasinka? because I started it tonight and it is gorgeous. ๐๐๐งโโ๏ธ
Sep 19, 2021: Whoopi Goldberg has done a lot of great work in her career, but I think I’ll always feel that Guinan has been her greatest role. ๐๐บ
Sep 18, 2021: Finished reading: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski ๐
Sep 17, 2021: So far in my rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode 3x13, “Deja Q,” is my favorite. Having Data be Q’s tutor in humanity โฆ
Sep 17, 2021: Me, watching Super Monsters with my kid: I can suspend my disbelief to allow that Universal monsters send their kids to night preschool, but putting โฆ
Sep 16, 2021: Brainfog day ๐
Sep 15, 2021: ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป That feeling when it takes all day to maintain your (6-year-old budget) laptop…
Sep 15, 2021: There is a medium-small spider hanging out on my corkboard and I’ve decided to adopt it as a pet. I will lure mosquitoes to it and call it cute โฆ
Sep 15, 2021: ๐๐ฌ “If this is your first draft, stop worrying.” - Leigh Bardugo in her latest newsletter
Sep 14, 2021: What I mean when I say I have variable disabilities: today, I am using a cane because I have mild vertigo and need the stability. Yesterday I did not โฆ
Sep 13, 2021: 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: In this review, I use “Brent” to refer โฆ
Sep 13, 2021: ๐๐ฌ “When academic women, experts in their fields, are seen as not credible, then can women ever be?” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED, โAcademic โฆ
Sep 13, 2021: Want to read: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit ๐
Sep 13, 2021: ๐๐ฌ “My Ph.D. cannot trump my gender.” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED, “Academic Men Explain Things to Me,” p. 52.
Sep 12, 2021: ๐๏ธ Listened to Gates McFadden Investigates 101: Jonathan Frakes. Love it. McFadden is a great host & it feels like being with friends.
Sep 12, 2021: “Life just ran more smoothly when she got her way.” Leigh Bardugo, KING OF SCARS. Oh, Zoya, I love you so. ๐
Sep 12, 2021: I finished reading SIX OF CROWS almost 4 months ago. It’s time for me to get back to the Grishaverse with KING OF SCARS. ๐
Sep 12, 2021: Finished reading: Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner ๐
Sep 11, 2021: Went to Internet Archive to find my blog post from 20 years ago. More interesting than anything I had to say was this comment from my grandmother, who โฆ
Sep 10, 2021: Wearing my 90s pop culture goth uniform today: Buffy the Vampire Slayer tee, Nightmare Before Christmas leggings.
Sep 10, 2021: I’ve been thinking a lot about how I want to spend my time and one of the things I want to do is make higher ed better for caregivers. It only โฆ
Sep 10, 2021: New bio: Extremely online since 1995. Mom. Household COO. Consulting scholar-librarian. Book person. Geek-of-all-trades. PhD in Information & โฆ
Sep 10, 2021: ๐๐ป Read Why bad technology dominates our lives, according to Ron Norman. If you didn’t already believe we were living in the Matrix, this โฆ
Sep 10, 2021: ๐ฝ๏ธ Watched In a Lonely Place. I watched this because it’s on the movie list on the aesthetics wiki page for dark academia. I’m not sure โฆ
Sep 9, 2021: My 20th Domainiversary Today is the 20th anniversary of the first time the Internet Archive captured my first personal domain. The 20th anniversary of my first blog post was โฆ
Sep 9, 2021: Me: yesterday for #StarTrekDay: AHHHH Star Trek, everything Star Trek! this morning when it was all gray and rainy: AHHHH Dark Academia, everything โฆ
Sep 8, 2021: This Picard/Riker 2024 merch is all well and good but what I want is reprints of the Picard/Riker 1992 merch.
Sep 8, 2021: The Voyager theme is over here tugging at my heart strings. This is unexpected. #StarTrekDay
Sep 8, 2021: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I will never not have a crush on Wil Wheaton. #StarTrekDay
Sep 8, 2021: It’s taken me a while but I think I have a stable connection for watching #StarTrekDay and I’m so psyched for Prodigy. I’ve watched โฆ
Sep 8, 2021: If you read through today’s Done List, you’ll notice I put basic self-care tasks like showering and dental hygiene on it. This is because โฆ
Sep 8, 2021: I know enough about Brent Spiner and his history with fans to know that this does not make us BFFs but I’m still psyched he liked my tweet.
Sep 8, 2021: Loading my advanced readers’s copy of Brent Spiner’s mem-noir Fan Fiction to my ereader in honor of Star Trek Day. ๐๐บ๐โ
Sep 8, 2021: Repping TNG Operations in my Lauren Christians Handmade dress for Star Trek Day. My kid told his teachers, “I’m being Spot because my mom โฆ
Sep 7, 2021: My Done List for 9/7/21: It’s easy for me to feel like a day went by where I didn’t do anything, so I’m making a list of what I did. โฆ
Sep 7, 2021: ๐บ๐ In Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, episode 11, “The Hunted,” there is a whole society of intellectual bros wearing blazers โฆ
Sep 7, 2021: In defense of not living up to your potential I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. Betsy Greer shared some pages from Carol Dweck’s book Mindset on โฆ
Sep 6, 2021: Putting Gardens and Streams II on my calendar. I’m only a maybe because, as always, parenting.
Sep 5, 2021: ๐๐ The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer โน Literary Hub if youโve read a book penned by a woman with young children recently, thereโs a โฆ
Sep 5, 2021: ๐Read The Public Writing Life: How to Lose an Editor in Five Days katieroseguestpryal.comkatieroseguestpryal.com โฆ
Sep 5, 2021: ๐Read Ravynn K. Stringfield’s essay, Bullet Journaling to Save a Life. Beautiful.
Sep 4, 2021: “She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray ๐๐ฌ
Sep 3, 2021: I had a client meeting this morning where we made plans for me to do some blogging and podcasting for the client. But it’s also about research. โฆ
Sep 2, 2021: “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them…” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray ๐๐ฌ
Sep 2, 2021: Beginning my third read of Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC. ๐
Sep 2, 2021: Sleep Deprivation, Sugar Crash, or Both? The Kimberly Hirsh Story
Sep 1, 2021: Gonna create a literary subgenre/internet aesthetic and call it “snark academia.”
Sep 1, 2021: I just published another free/pay-what-you-can Notion template. This time it’s a permissions tracker to help you keep track of copyrighted โฆ
Sep 1, 2021: Welcome to September, or as I like to call it, October Part 1. The world is full of terrors. Today I’m going to deal with my to-do list and then โฆ
Aug 31, 2021: My post-PhD identity crisis, #motherscholar edition I am making a few notes here now that I hope to turn into a longer post later. As I scrolled Twitter and read there what some colleagues have been โฆ
Aug 31, 2021: Did not realize I was on the Motherscholar Project website so that’s cool!
Aug 31, 2021: Dr. Kimberly's Comedy School: Pairing the absurd with the mundane If you have access to it, watch The Simpsons, Season 1, episode 3, “Homer’s Odyssey.” This bit happens at around 12:50: Depressed โฆ
Aug 30, 2021: Just recorded a conference session. I’m really happy about the accessibility remote conferences provide but everything feels so formal. โฆ
Aug 28, 2021: Watched @patrickrhone’s Micro Camp talk Want to write a book? You probably already have this am & it shifted a lot for me in terms of my own โฆ
Aug 28, 2021: ๐๐ฌ Parents Are Not Okay: Through these grinding 18 months, weโve managed our kidsโ lives as best we could while abandoning our own.
Aug 27, 2021: Shout-out to Kelly J. Baker for naming archivists and librarians first in the acknowledgements of her book, Gospel According to the Klan: The โฆ
Aug 26, 2021: there is no separation between mother and writer, nor can I tease apart the time I spend tending to my child from the time I spend thinking about my โฆ
Aug 26, 2021: ๐๐ Sara Fredman’s How Motherhood Helped Me Reject the โFather Tongueโ of Academia is both about writing the kind of thing I want to write and is โฆ
Aug 26, 2021: Want to read: How to Write Qualitative Research by Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower ๐
Aug 25, 2021: Want to read: Thinking Inside the Box Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel ๐
Aug 25, 2021: Finished reading: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan ๐
Aug 25, 2021: My taste in fantasy art is less Lisa Frank and more Frank Frazetta.
Aug 25, 2021: Whoops, I didn’t mean unicorn and waterfall, I meant swan and rainbow. We also had the tiger one.
Aug 25, 2021: Trapper Keeper is back but I’m holding out for the re-release of the unicorn in front of a waterfall.
Aug 24, 2021: How come every time Rachel Cohn & David Levithan collaborate the result is adorable? What’s up with that? ๐
Aug 24, 2021: Casey Fiesler asked for tips for creating equal participation in breakout rooms. One strategy to try is providing distinct roles for each individual. โฆ
Aug 24, 2021: Younger S7E5 is delighting me with Janeane Garofalo as an art college dean and Sutton Foster as Liza Miller dancing to a recording of Sutton Foster in โฆ
Aug 24, 2021: ๐๏ธ Listening to Keegan-Michael Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy on Audible & in ep 5 he mentions the Carol Burnett Show. Comedian guests โฆ
Aug 24, 2021: One of the many straws on the proverbial camel’s back that led me to stop watching THE CHAIR after only 8 minutes was when the dean said โฆ
Aug 24, 2021: About to go pick kid up from first day of preschool. (1/2 day today, full day Thurs). Achieved: made coffee made breakfast drank coffee ate breakfast โฆ
Aug 24, 2021: ๐ Just finished the introduction of Data Feminism & am jotting down some thoughts. I hope to expand on these later. To what extent and how do โฆ
Aug 24, 2021: ๐ Data Feminism has the best (and perhaps only) definition of positionality I’ve ever seen: “Positionality is a term that describes how โฆ
Aug 23, 2021: Colleagues are all “I forgot how exhausting teaching in person is!” & I’m all “I forgot how exhausting getting your kid โฆ
Aug 23, 2021: Want to read: Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White ๐
Aug 23, 2021: Me, prepping for my kid’s very masked return to preschool: IMAGE: Liz Lemon (from the TV show 30 Rock), a white woman with brown hair wearing โฆ
Aug 22, 2021: Want to read: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly ๐
Aug 22, 2021: Advice for new parents and parents-to-be I have a friend who is due to have a baby in January. I offered to write up a bunch of notes for her and realized it would make a pretty good blog โฆ
Aug 22, 2021: ๐บ It’s been interesting seeing other (current or former) academians' responses to THE CHAIR. I made it 8 minutes but once the notion of just โฆ
Aug 21, 2021: Setting aside my TIME 100 list plan to play in the land of YA rom-coms. Just started NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST. ๐
Aug 21, 2021: ย Read Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling รขยย Scalawag scalawagmagazine.orgRead: scalawagmagazine.org โฆ
Aug 20, 2021: I clocked a solid chunk of time on my current consulting contract today and I really enjoyed the work. That’s such a good feeling.
Aug 20, 2021: “Being a mom is my calling, and being a writer is also my calling, so they have to both exist simultaneously.” Well said, A’Ziah โฆ
Aug 20, 2021: The questions driving me right now I read Ravynn K. Stringfieldโs How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy and felt energized. I felt energized specifically by how she found role โฆ
Aug 17, 2021: Today, in Sesame Street Is the Best Comedy School, Grover and Campers Learn About Trees. Excellent use of the rule of three and a beautiful button.
Aug 17, 2021: Who’s your favorite fictional character with an extreme love of school supplies? Mine is Amy Santiago. (I’m super behind on B99 โฆ
Aug 16, 2021: We might need to have a talk about how I don’t want to eat any actual meals, just leftovers of the Fran’s Torte L’Orange that my โฆ
Aug 16, 2021: I just processed all the action items from the beginning of the year email the head teacher at my kid’s preschool sent out, capturing them in my โฆ
Aug 16, 2021: Read Chicago Improv Was Dead. Can New Leaders Revive It? - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com Www.nytimes.com โฆ
Aug 15, 2021: I use Old Spice Krakengard mostly because the name and graphic amuse me. I always thought it was protecting me from the Kraken but I read the โฆ
Aug 15, 2021: I can’t get a good picture of it but right now there is a lone piece of green glitter sitting on top of my biggest, most obvious gall bladder โฆ
Aug 15, 2021: I hardly ever cried about my dissertation and I’m really proud of that.
Aug 15, 2021: ๐๐ Read The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer โน Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com lithub.com โฆ
Aug 15, 2021: Woke up to a house with no light at all and my first thought was not “The power must be out” but instead “I’ve lost my โฆ
Aug 14, 2021: What I Learned from Recording My Micro Camp Talk I learned a lot from recording my Micro Camp 2021 talk. If you watch it, you’ll notice a pretty big sync problem starting a bit before the โฆ
Aug 14, 2021: Who is Kimberly Hirsh?
Aug 14, 2021: My talk from Micro Camp, “Learning in Public on Your Blog,” is now available on my website!
Aug 14, 2021: What are your top 3 movies you turn to when you are sick and/or anxious? Mine are Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Princess Bride, and Who Framed โฆ
Aug 13, 2021: ๐ Ravynn K. Stringfield’s How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy is an energizing read. Psyched to be in her workshop on creative โฆ
Aug 13, 2021: 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, I’ve already read a lot of the books on these lists. โฆ
Aug 12, 2021: So far today I have taken my kid to the pool for swim lessons & stayed for an extra 3 hrs, scheduled a bathroom floor repair, and emailed a client โฆ
Aug 12, 2021: Donโt think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to train for reality. It always has been, after all. N.K. Jemisin on the Timeless โฆ
Aug 12, 2021: Until I get tired of doing it, I’m going to read my way through Time’s The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time & then when I finish or โฆ
Aug 12, 2021: New bio: “A good little mommy and always very curious.”
Aug 12, 2021: Solidarity to everyone who was awake earlier than they needed to be this morning.
Aug 12, 2021: In case you were wondering which website has the best favicon, it’s Jennifer Laughranโs.
Aug 11, 2021: My kid is asleep well before 9 pm, what do I do with all this freeeeeedom? (The smart thing would be to go to sleep myself.)
Aug 11, 2021: I cannot convey the extent to which the statement “be part of one of the largest events on campus” would put me off an event. Even in the โฆ
Aug 11, 2021: That feeling when someone you only kind of knew from church as a kid over 20 years ago invites you to her Facebook MLM group. ๐ฌ
Aug 10, 2021: Hey hey! I’ll be giving a talk at Micro Camp Friday @ 3:30 pm EST about Learning in Public on Your Blog. Want to learn more about the micro.blog โฆ
Aug 9, 2021: ๐ฌ watched Beverly Hills Cop. Eddie Murphy is brilliant here. I can’t believe he was only 22 or 23 when he made this.
Aug 8, 2021: My brain, on August 8, 2021: LetterMo is just around the corner! It’s January now, so February will be here soon! Narrator: It is not January โฆ
Aug 6, 2021: It’s fine if you’ve been sleeping on SCHMIGADOON so far but this week they gave both Kristin Chenoweth and Jane Krakowski amazing songs so โฆ
Aug 6, 2021: What I Learned from Sewing Napkins And some stuff I already knew but needed the reminder sewing napkins gave me. 1. If you want things to be the same size, cut them at the same time. โฆ
Aug 5, 2021: I can’t recall if I’d ever seen Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on First” before tonight but I just watched it, โฆ
Aug 5, 2021: Hello and welcome to my current existential crisis.
Aug 4, 2021: The CHIP ‘N’ DALE: RESCUE RANGERS theme is a masterpiece of musical maximalism. ๐ต
Aug 4, 2021: I love physicist Carlo Rovelli’s phrase, “radical lack of certainty,” quoted in Austin Kleon’s blog post about uncertainty in โฆ
Aug 4, 2021: ๐บ I’m not remotely close to caught up on The Owl House but I just want to say that Luz’s tailcoat and tutu combo is the dream. Via โฆ
Aug 3, 2021: Want to read: A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee ๐
Aug 1, 2021: Finished reading: The Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss ๐
Jul 31, 2021: ๐ฎ Played Dragon Quest on Android. Gorgeous pixel remake of the foundational JRPG. Super fun! ๐ฒ
Jul 31, 2021: ๐๐ฏ๏ธ Read Once & Future Vol. 1: The King Is Undead by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora. Arthuriana and a story about the nature of stories, plus a โฆ
Jul 31, 2021: ๐ฌ๐ “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot more than writing. Catapult | On Writing (with a โฆ
Jul 30, 2021: ๐ A surprise The Locked Tomb book! Yay! ๐
Jul 30, 2021: ๐๐บ At Electric Literature, Meera Vijayan writes about the value of seeing Alina Starkov build her strength a little at a time in the face of โฆ
Jul 29, 2021: I feel both seen and attacked by this Lit Hub piece that says the literary character who shares my Enneagram type (4) is Dorian Gray.
Jul 28, 2021: I’m available for work starting September 7. Ideal employed situation is part-time, remote, at least $1500/mo. Also open to contract work. My โฆ
Jul 27, 2021: Putting yourself back together I’ve written before about how matrescence is like kintsugi: having a baby shatters you and the living you do after you have the baby puts you โฆ
Jul 26, 2021: Today my (medical) doctor called me and when I answered, she said, “Hello, Dr. Hirsh?”
Jul 26, 2021: ๐ This interview with Tamsyn Muir is great.
Jul 26, 2021: Finished reading: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ๐
Jul 23, 2021: ๐ In HARROW THE NINTH Harrowhark uses the phrase “A fatal longing for the picturesque” and I’m all “AHHHHH is that a THE โฆ
Jul 22, 2021: 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 recommend it. Kids wander through all types of โฆ
Jul 21, 2021: ๐๐บ๐ฟThis piece identifies what made LOKI less than ideal for me: Loki himself is constrained, not as grand or mischievous as we’re used to. Great โฆ
Jul 21, 2021: ๐๐ฟ๐ It’s nice timing to read this after recently starting my Dorian Gray re-read: Manic Pixie Dream Portrait: On 500 Days of Summer and Dorian โฆ
Jul 21, 2021: The article Meet the typical 40-year-old millennial, who has $128,000 in debt, is not nearly as wealthy as their parents were, and is known as โฆ
Jul 21, 2021: Me, after two nights of terrible sleep: Welp, I worked for 48 billable minutes. Time to pack it in and watch TV!
Jul 20, 2021: My personal history with sewing ๐งต I promise I’m going to write about what I learned from sewing napkins soon. But first: my personal history with sewing! I’ve known how to โฆ
Jul 20, 2021: Other people’s midi dress is my maxi dress.
Jul 20, 2021: You know what would be an interesting pair of books to read together? The 4-Hour Work Week and How to Do Nothing. ๐
Jul 19, 2021: Random stream-of-consciousness life updates I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. Hello, everyone! How are you doing? Over here, I’m on Day 6 of being In โฆ
Jul 18, 2021: Austin Kleon's pirate-gardener Austin Kleon writes about his desire to be a pirate-gardener, Iโd like to stay happily at home, in the studio, planting my seeds and cultivating my โฆ
Jul 18, 2021: ๐ฌ๐ “Harrow would be tripping over herself for her whole existence, a frictionless hoop of totally f-cking up.” - Tamsyn Muir, HARROW THE โฆ
Jul 17, 2021: ๐ O no I have HARROW THE NINTH on my eReader and want to hermit up and just read it until I’m doooooonnnnneee.
Jul 17, 2021: ๐ I’m re-reading THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and I want to write down all of Lord Henry Wotton’s bon mots but there are too many and all of โฆ
Jul 16, 2021: Just watched the first episode of Schmigadoon and Aaron Tveit channeling John Raitt/Gordon McRae/Robert Goulet is ๐ฏ.
Jul 16, 2021: I’m working on developing a new academia aesthetic, it’s kind of a sff academia. Inspired by the Mythic Quest episode โฆ
Jul 16, 2021: I love when I have a call with my doctor and I say “I think I should do this” and she says “I agree.”
Jul 15, 2021: ๐งต I made napkins today and I learned a lot! I’ll write about it soon.
Jul 15, 2021: I’m about to start using Noter Live to live-tweet #MIRAULV2021. Conferring on the couch next to my kid who is binge-watching Number Blocks on โฆ
Jul 15, 2021: Wait wait wait bootcut jeans are on-trend again? Gen Z, you’re turning exhausted parents into fashion-forward geniuses, and we thank you.
Jul 14, 2021: My kid is watching Doc McStuffins and I’m over here swooning over the knight toy Sir Kirby because his voice sounds like @yakkopinky is doing an โฆ
Jul 14, 2021: I tried Voila AI artist & this is what it says I’d look like as a 3D cartoon princess.
Jul 14, 2021: Happy birthday to me! W & M got me a sewing machine that has a manual! I asked for one I knew was affordable and simple. I can upgrade later.
Jul 14, 2021: Who will I be at 40? Three makes a pattern, so this is the year that blogging about who I want to be in this year of my life becomes a tradition. Shout out to my friend โฆ
Jul 14, 2021: Want to read: The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun ๐
Jul 13, 2021: Finished reading: Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett ๐
Jul 13, 2021: 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 Florida’s and the Internet’s Lesbian dad. Her โฆ
Jul 13, 2021: Tomorrow is my birthday (40th). If you want to celebrate, here are some options: have donuts read a book go swimming watch something from or about โฆ
Jul 12, 2021: I just signed up for 1-Day Online Nonfiction Seminar: The Scholar’s Guide to Writing & Publishing Creative Nonfiction, which I would not โฆ
Jul 12, 2021: I didn’t see Katy Peplin’s blog post about grumping it out until just now but now is when I needed it, so that worked out well.
Jul 11, 2021: The thing about being a bard is that performance is more than just singing.
Jul 11, 2021: I need everyone to understand that in Marvel comics, there is the version of Thor that is a frog, and there is also a frog who is not Thor but has โฆ
Jul 9, 2021: The Quiet Space has a website. This evolving project offers tools to help scholars & other knowledge creators manage the organizational aspects of โฆ
Jul 9, 2021: 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 all in Cancer. I don’t believe the stars โฆ
Jul 9, 2021: W: Would you say the town of Brigadoon is changed by the events of the musical? Me: What? No! Visitors to Brigadoon can’t change Brigadoon. It โฆ
Jul 9, 2021: Introducing The Quiet Space: A set of offerings for scholars and knowledge creators Good morning, friends. I have a new-ish morning ritual. I creep downstairs so as not to wake my kid. I get out a glass. I go to the fridge. I get out โฆ
Jul 8, 2021: Hulu has both Beetlejuice and Season 7 of Younger, see y’all next week. ๐บ๐ฟ
Jul 8, 2021: I'm having a tantrum about how hard it is to live with chronic illness. Back in May, I had some bloodwork done. I discovered that my thyroid hormone levels were in the normal reference range but were, in my opinion, โฆ
Jul 7, 2021: Habits from UNF*CK YOUR HABITAT I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. I’m re-reading Unf*ck Your Habitat and wanted to keep some notes in a โฆ
Jul 7, 2021: Nightstand before & after courtesy the first couple of mini-challenges in the original UfYH book. (I’ll get a commission if you purchase the โฆ
Jul 7, 2021: I take 20 medications/supplements, some of them more than once a day.
Jul 3, 2021: I’m brewing 2 essays about Star Trek: The Next Generation: about Data, perfectionism, & imposter syndrome in “Peak Performance” โฆ
Jul 2, 2021: My kid asked me if he was a camper & I told him we could call our home a camp if he wanted and he named it LD Camp. It stands for Librarian Doctor โฆ
Jul 2, 2021: Years ago now, my sister gave M. a 3D printed Jiji from Kiki’s Delivery Service. Today I painted it as we watched Kiki.
Jul 2, 2021: I don’t believe being a librarian is A Calling but I do believe it is a disposition; it is one of my most prominent dispositions & as such โฆ
Jul 1, 2021: Welcome to Camp NaNoWriMo with me! I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. It’s July 1 which means it’s the start of Camp NaNoWriMo! โฆ
Jun 29, 2021: 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 response to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s โฆ
Jun 29, 2021: ๐ Putting a pin in this article to remind me to write later about the perils of outsiders researching affinity spaces, the overlooked punk rockness of โฆ
Jun 29, 2021: Returning to Dissertating in the Open Back when I started the dissertation process, I had this whole plan to dissertate in the open. I did this successfully up through the proposal โฆ
Jun 28, 2021: Want to read: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher ๐
Jun 28, 2021: ๐โถ๏ธ Watching Meet Courtney: An American Girl Movie & trying not to lose it every time they mention the Challenger or Christa McAuliffe. 35 years โฆ
Jun 28, 2021: ๐๐บ Listen, as a 90s babybat I welcome the new Anne Rice television universe. ๐ฆ
Jun 27, 2021: I don’t have a plan beyond keeping my kid alive, resting a lot, trying to be more chill. I’ve never not had a plan before. I’m lucky โฆ
Jun 27, 2021: Want to read: Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by Marc Goulden, Mary Ann Mason, and Nicholas H. Wolfinger ๐
Jun 27, 2021: ๐ I read only the Introduction to Kelly J. Baker’s SEXISM ED and I’m already seething with rage.
Jun 27, 2021: I don’t like to drink rosรฉ but I love the rosรฉwave vibe. I’m trying to figure out what faux-luxe looks like for parents of young children. โฆ
Jun 26, 2021: Finished reading: Succeeding Outside the Academy ๐
Jun 26, 2021: ๐ฌ๐ “Why have I surrendered so much of my present self to an abstract future self that may never exist? Why have I made my present happiness โฆ
Jun 26, 2021: Every time I work on this article revision I end up getting mad at Reviewer 2 all over again, mostly for treating me like a baby, even though โฆ
Jun 26, 2021: My Kid (4.5 yo): Donatello is playing a video game. Me: Fun! What’s it called? Kid: “Science Nerd.” ๐ข๐น๏ธ
Jun 26, 2021: ๐โถ๏ธ Watched Create Your Unicorn Career from Scratch. Engaging talk from a science communicator/comedian! Don’t throw any part of yourself away! โฆ
Jun 25, 2021: Low-key day today: chilling with my kid in the morning, an adventure with a locked but unoccupied bathroom that resulted in me taking the handle off โฆ
Jun 24, 2021: JK, today is a rest-in-bed kind of day now that I’ve done my most important work, registering my kid for the next round of swim lessons. Also โฆ
Jun 24, 2021: Today is a work-in-bed kind of day. (I have chronic illness and a 4 year old; kindly keep your sleep hygiene tips to yourself.)
Jun 24, 2021: As a younger person I thought people in their 40s had their acts together. ~3 wks away from turning 40 I realize people in their 40s have simply โฆ
Jun 24, 2021: ๐๐ I love Austin Kleon’s advice to relocate your darlings. I have a file for every project with the word “Cut” in the filename and โฆ
Jun 24, 2021: Want to read: Annotation by Remi H. Kalir and Antero Garcia ๐
Jun 23, 2021: Is my hair still wet or is it like this because I tried the Curly Girl method and used gel? The Kimberly Hirsh story [Caption: a woman with hair that โฆ
Jun 23, 2021: Want to read: Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie ๐
Jun 22, 2021: ๐ I know I’m very late to this party but GIDEON THE NINTH is so good.
Jun 22, 2021: What is less helpful than it might be is when a reviewer suggests that people have already written a bunch about the thing you’re writing about โฆ
Jun 21, 2021: 9 am Kimberly: I’m totally going to work this afternoon! 1 pm Kimberly: I’m totally going to read GIDEON THE NINTH this afternoon! ๐
Jun 20, 2021: In the bathroom at the children’s museum yesterday, I looked in the mirror. I saw a sweaty mess who was clearly somebody’s mom. I thought, โฆ
Jun 19, 2021: ๐ (Please don’t spoil me) Me reading Gideon the Ninth: KISS! KISS! KISS!
Jun 19, 2021: Welp. Sitting on hold with the grocery store because they accidentally charged me $78.89 for 1 lb of turkey is not how I expected to spend my Saturday โฆ
Jun 19, 2021: The layers of references in this poster are delightful: cats as Data and Geordi as Holmes and Watson chef kiss ๐๐บ๐ผ๏ธ
Jun 18, 2021: Finished reading: Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo ๐
Jun 18, 2021: ๐ฌ๐ “If you cannot bear our pain, you are not fit to carry our strength.” WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER, Leigh Bardugo
Jun 18, 2021: ๐ I’m reading Leigh Bardugo’s WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER & while it took a little while to grab me, here at about 2/3 of the way through โฆ
Jun 16, 2021: I’m announcing it to make it real: I’m going to write a sweet romance novella for Camp NaNoWriMo in July & I’m going to write it โฆ
Jun 16, 2021: ๐๐ Read What We Canโand Can’tโLearn About Louisa May Alcott from Her Teenage Fiction - Electric Literature electricliterature.com Read: โฆ
Jun 15, 2021: ๐ฌ๐บ “No one likes having a curse, but if you take the right steps, it’s manageable.” - Eda the Owl Lady, The Owl House Season 1 โฆ
Jun 15, 2021: Anybody else feel like a lot of qualitative methodology writeups in studies are basically “I did a qual! I analyzed a thing! DATA! CODES!” โฆ
Jun 14, 2021: ๐ Read Toll from political push at UNC continues to mount | NC Policy Watch ncpolicywatch.com Read: www.ncpolicywatch.com ncpolicywatch.com โฆ
Jun 14, 2021: Me: What am I going to do with my kid all summer? The pool: Hi. Me: ๐๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ
Jun 13, 2021: Someone in my neighborhood is doing yardwork at 9 pm and I’m not okay with it.
Jun 12, 2021: Do I pretend I’m Kaz Brekker when I use my new cane? Only with every step I take.
Jun 12, 2021: Part of me is always working on a taxonomy and ontology of #StarTrekTNG episodes. (Currently: only Data can safely go down to the planet. A girl or โฆ
Jun 11, 2021: I have no special insight into the MCU but this song might be a bit instructive (and if you’re familiar with Marvel Comics is pretty hilarious): โฆ
Jun 11, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Loki episode 1 finds a startling way to rest the antihero for Marvel TV - Polygon polygon.comRead: www.polygon.com polygon.com โฆ
Jun 11, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Loki episode 1 recap and Easter eggs: Thor’s naughty brother gets busted for time crimes - CNET cnet.comRead: www.cnet.com cnet.com โฆ
Jun 11, 2021: ๐บ watched Loki Season 1, Episode 1, “Glorious Purpose.” Took me a little while to get into but I’m looking forward to seeing where โฆ
Jun 11, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Star Trek | Games of Fame gamesoffame.wordpress.comRead: gamesoffame.wordpress.com gamesoffame.wordpress.com โฆ
Jun 11, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read 1974: Super Star Trek - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.comRead: if50.substack.com if50.substack.com โฆ
Jun 11, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Before Adventure, Addendums | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blogRead: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer โฆ
Jun 11, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Before Adventure, Part 5: Wumpus 2 and 3 | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blogRead: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer โฆ
Jun 11, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป Hunt the Wumpus, Part 2 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net โฆ
Jun 11, 2021: Watching “new” She-Ra with my kid & forgot who my She-Ra avatar was but then we got to episode 5…
Jun 10, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป Hunt the Wumpus, Part 1 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net โฆ
Jun 10, 2021: What does after even mean? Lately some of the things that have been lifelines for me during the pandemic have started to feel less lifeliney. The crafting group I meet with on โฆ
Jun 10, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Before Adventure, Part 4: Hunt the Wumpus (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer โฆ
Jun 10, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Before Adventure, Part 2: Mugwump, Hurkle, Snark (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer โฆ
Jun 10, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Before Adventure, Part 1: Hide and Seek (1972) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer โฆ
Jun 10, 2021: ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฏ๏ธ I just watched the two pre-Loki episodes of Marvel Studios LEGENDS and y’all the MCU gets more obtuse all the time. In comics they do โฆ
Jun 10, 2021: ๐๐ฎ ReadBefore Adventure, Part 3: Caves (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer โฆ
Jun 10, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read 1973: Hunt the Wumpus - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.com Read: if50.substack.com if50.substack.com โฆ
Jun 9, 2021: Text adventure nostalgia I hope your Wednesday’s going well! (Or Thursday if you’re farther east enough than me that that’s what day it is!) I’ve been โฆ
Jun 9, 2021: Today, in letting go of my internalized ableism: using a cane during a hip pain flare.
Jun 9, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Forty Years of Lunar Lander technologizer.com Read: www.technologizer.com technologizer.com โฆ
Jun 9, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Lunar Lander: The Full Story of the Legendary Game and Genre fictionphile.com Read: fictionphile.com fictionphile.com โฆ
Jun 9, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read 1972: ROCKET - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.com Read: if50.substack.com if50.substack.com https://if50.substack.com/p/1972-rocket
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Something Found In The Oregon Trail - Code Dive codedive.substack.com Read: codedive.substack.com codedive.substack.com โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 5 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: www.filfre.net filfre.net โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 4 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: www.filfre.net filfre.net โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Oregon Trail Ver. 3 (BASIC 3.1, 1978) | Desert Hat deserthat.wordpress.com Read: deserthat.wordpress.com deserthat.wordpress.com โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 3 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: www.filfre.net filfre.net โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 2 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: www.filfre.net filfre.net โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Rafting Down the Columbia River died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Matt’s Store & Starting the Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Crossing Rivers died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read The Earliest Versions of the Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read A Brief History of the Oregon Trail Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read The Oregon Trail Memes died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Designing the Travel Screen for โThe Oregon Trailโ | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium | Medium medium.comRead: medium.com medium.com โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ The FEMICOM museum is my new favorite thing.
Jun 8, 2021: Things that can bring on trochanteric (hip) bursitis: sitting, lying down, physical activity. ๐ฌ
Jun 8, 2021: On pain Hello again! My right hip has been hurting the past couple of days. Or almost a week, I guess - it started last Wednesday and has been off-and-on โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Read The Power of Pride - Arc Digital arcdigital.mediaRead: www.arcdigital.media arcdigital.media โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read Designing the Hunting Game for โThe Oregon Trailโ | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium | Medium medium.comRead: medium.com medium.com โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read How I Managed to Design the Most Successful Educational Computer Game of All Time | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium | Medium โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read ยป On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 1 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read The Forgotten History of ‘The Oregon Trail,’ As Told By Its Creators vice.comRead: www.vice.com vice.com โฆ
Jun 8, 2021: ๐๐ฎ Read 1971: The Oregon Trail - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.comRead: if50.substack.com if50.substack.com โฆ
Jun 7, 2021: Welcome to a week of daily blogging: stream-of-consciousness flavor! I’m working to get into the flow of daily blogging, so this post will be rather stream of consciousness. I work best in two-hour chunks. Today, โฆ
Jun 7, 2021: ๐ Martha Bautells’s On Writing Through a Residency That Never Happened (But Did?) resonates with me, as I still grieve the dissertation I โฆ
Jun 7, 2021: โช๏ธ in reply to Bridgy stats update I wonder if the drop-off in publishing after August 2020 might be due to pandemic fatigue.
Jun 6, 2021: ๐ฌ๐ “The graduate program… hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and dedication to one’s intellectual โฆ
Jun 5, 2021: ๐๐งต๐งถ Read What We Learned From a Year of Crafting - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com Www.nytimes.com โฆ
Jun 5, 2021: There are worse things than sitting outside at a children’s museum on a beautiful day with little fans pointed at your face while your spouse โฆ
Jun 5, 2021: ๐๐ Read Kristen Arnett Gets Her Best Ideas at the Bar - Interview Magazine interviewmagazine.comRead: www.interviewmagazine.com interviewmagazine.com โฆ
Jun 5, 2021: 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 crisis. Someone who was a person becomes a mother. โฆ
Jun 5, 2021: ๐๐ฅ๏ธ Elizabeth and Gav promised in this week’s The Rec Center that 1992: Silverwolf would be the most engrossing post I’d read all week and โฆ
Jun 3, 2021: Career Advice for PhDs Websites and Professionals: You should use ImaginePhD! It will help you identify a good post/alt/non-ac career for your โฆ
Jun 3, 2021: ๐๐ Read Together As We Burn: On a Complicated Maternal Bond and Intergenerational Love. A heartbreaking excerpt from Ashley C. Ford’s memoir, โฆ
Jun 3, 2021: ๐๐ Read Stories and Hormones Shape Our Lives by Elanor Broker. Beautiful essay weaving together personal experiences of trans matrescence and the โฆ
Jun 3, 2021: ๐๐ Read Finding Time to Write About Motherhoodโฆ While Parenting During a Pandemic . The usual fragmented life of a mother is intensified by the โฆ
Jun 1, 2021: 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. Jemisin’s The City We Became captures the spirit โฆ
Jun 1, 2021: Finished reading: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin ๐
Jun 1, 2021: I’ve also made my Scholarly Writing Project Audit and Pipeline Notion template available via Gumroad. Itโs pay-what-you-can/want. It is based on โฆ
Jun 1, 2021: For #TrekTuesday, I’ll share that I spend a LOT of time wondering why we don’t see social scientists as key crew members on the โฆ
May 31, 2021: I’ve made my Conceptual Synthesis Spreadsheet Notion template available via Gumroad. It’s pay-what-you-can/want. This spreadsheet is based โฆ
May 30, 2021: Thanks to a generous person I met in the Mermaids of NC group on Facebook, I am now Dr. Mer-Mom. Apparently having a mermaid tail makes me extra โฆ
May 28, 2021: Build networks & ask for what you need & give what you can. Swimming in a mermaid tail is a hobby with a community. I’ve wanted to get โฆ
May 28, 2021: I got a Rakuten Libra H2O and I am so excited about its OverDrive integration. So many public library books at my fingertips on a screen that’s โฆ
May 27, 2021: Finished reading: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo ๐
May 26, 2021: ๐๐ฌ “We learn to wring magic from the ordinary… When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.” Crooked โฆ
May 25, 2021: Want to read: The Lightmaker’s Manifesto: How to Work for Change Without Losing Your Joy by Karen Walrond ๐
May 24, 2021: ๐ Kaz Brekker is the best. Why do we have obligations besides reading books?
May 24, 2021: ๐๐ฌ I’ve heard a lot about the excellent disability representation in the Six of Crows duology. Obviously Kaz is phenomenal; Wylan is awesome, โฆ
May 23, 2021: ๐ In Crooked Kingdom, Inej thinks about her hope that she and Kaz could be “more than two wary creatures united by their distrust of the โฆ
May 21, 2021: Hey guess what? You can download the Creative Commons-licensed version of my dissertation on my dissertation page!
May 20, 2021: Added “consulting scholar-librarian ๐” to my bio.
May 20, 2021: Getting a lot of targeted ads for EdDs like “Heeeey noticed you just finished a doctorate, want another?” [GIF: Seth Meyer laughing and โฆ
May 20, 2021: Personal reflections after (but not really on) #FanLIS My head is swimming after attending the #FanLIS symposium today. At this moment when I’m taking a few weeks off before launching consulting, โฆ
May 20, 2021: Most of my tweets from #FanLIS I’m planning to return and clean up formatting and add links to videos once they’re online, but for now, here’s a collection of โฆ
May 19, 2021: 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 Niveus Academy and total opposites. Devon is a nobody, โฆ
May 19, 2021: Just deleted “expected” before “May 2021” in my CV.
May 18, 2021: ๐ How do you keep track of quotes that resonate with you? I usually write them in my Bullet Journal or post them to my blog, but sometimes I snap a โฆ
May 18, 2021: Finished reading: Ace of Spades by Faridah รbรญkรฉ-รyรญmรญdรฉ ๐
May 18, 2021: ๐บ I’ve got 2 episodes left of SHRILL. It’s so weird being right in the middle of Annie and Gabe’s ages, too old to be an โฆ
May 18, 2021: Want to read: Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews by Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel ๐
May 18, 2021: ๐บ Fran is always my favorite on SHRILL. Today it’s because she says, “I just don’t think I can work somewhere where I’m not โฆ
May 18, 2021: Today in “But they’re worth it": my kid showed me a tiny grape as though he had found an amazing treasure. If you like kids but โฆ
May 17, 2021: Yesterday I did 3 things so today my body wants me to do no things. I hope the plan I made with my Dr gets my thyroid levels back to optimal. These โฆ
May 17, 2021: ๐ Sometimes I have to start a book several times before it holds my interest. A GAME OF THRONES was like that, but eventually I caught it in the right โฆ
May 16, 2021: I carry a tote bag around my house as I move through my day. I never know what I’ll be in the mood to read if I have the time to, so I usually โฆ
May 16, 2021: Want to read: How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams ๐
May 15, 2021: ๐ Right before I started my Grishaverse catch up, I went on a dark academia spree. These were three of the books I read as part of that. They’re โฆ
May 14, 2021: ๐ Remember how I said my hammock was my favorite reading spot? Here’s a flashback to me reading SIX OF CROWS in my hammock a few weeks ago. The โฆ
May 13, 2021: Want to read: Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope ๐
May 13, 2021: Want to read: Anya of Ark by Kristian Joseph ๐
May 13, 2021: Post-graduation reception.
May 13, 2021: Tassel turned! (The gown and hood were too itchy to keep on with only a sundress underneath.)
May 13, 2021: Let’s get this virtual graduation show on the road. [My son and I smiling. I am wearing doctoral regalia, including a dark blue PhD hood and โฆ
May 13, 2021: Want to read: Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller ๐
May 13, 2021: My kid and I are building NYC for the Ninja Turtles & Marvel Superheroes to adventure in, so of course I had to build the @nypl Schwarzman bldg on โฆ
May 13, 2021: ๐ I first read SHADOW AND BONE 5 years ago, on a hammock at the beach, when I was 7 months pregnant. I was too impatient to do a re-read before the โฆ
May 13, 2021: I had to do one more round of formatting this morning but at long last my dissertation has been accepted by my university!
May 12, 2021: I started a bookstagram account. You can find it at kimberlyhirsh.reads if you want to follow along. Right now this almost 20 year old picture of me โฆ
May 11, 2021: I love when I talk to my doctor and we agree on the best course of action.
May 11, 2021: Me, watching STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS: Battle, battle, battle. When are we going to get another DIPLOMACY episode? (Padme is my prequel era fave, OF โฆ
May 11, 2021: I fixed the formatting problem which was in fact my fault. When I tried to fix one thing it did another thing and I didn’t realize it and was โฆ
May 11, 2021: I’ve been attending to my mind almost exclusively for 6 years (and arguably for almost 40). Time to give some attention to her neglected โฆ
May 11, 2021: Was playing Ninja Turtles with my kid & his action figures & kid made Leo tell Donnie he’s just a toy & I made Donnie have a full-on โฆ
May 11, 2021: I am filled with rage over the number of formatting revisions I am having to make to my dissertation, especially as the most recent one they requested โฆ
May 10, 2021: Finished reading: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May ๐
May 9, 2021: ๐ I’ve started calling my kid Little One & after reading Meg Elison’s How Lwaxana Troi Became Our Space Aunt I couldn’t be โฆ
May 8, 2021: I was thinking last night about why characters who look a mess but are competent when it counts are some of my favorites and I realized that’s โฆ
May 7, 2021: Prepping to launch my consulting career ๐ฉโโ๐ผ Hello again, internet. I just finished writing the last thing I had to write for my assistantship. I’m taking a break and not hustling hustling โฆ
May 6, 2021: Want to read: THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live by Danielle โฆ
May 5, 2021: Added “serious Belle vibes ๐” to my bio.
May 4, 2021: You should probably look at Laz Marquez’s #StarTrekGala art project because it’s AWESOME. ๐๐ป๐จ๐บ
May 4, 2021: ๐๐ Austin Kleon writes today about [wintering and dormancy] (https://austinkleon.com/2021/05/04/wintering-and-dormancy/), quoting Katherine โฆ
May 3, 2021: ๐๐บ๐ Read The Measure of a Man Demonstrates the Many Forms of Love by Anna E. Gant
May 3, 2021: ๐๐บ๐ Hrisoula Gatzogiannis’s The Only Work Ethic I Care About Is the One on Star Trek details what Picard explains in the TNG episode “The โฆ
May 3, 2021: I think at some point in the past 6 years I became an information scientist. Yay?
May 2, 2021: I’m thinking about metaphors for how people consume information. Infodemic. Infobesity. I think there are more thoughts to be had here, โฆ
May 2, 2021: Went really minimal with my latest bio: motherscholar ๐ฉโ๐ป she/her โฟ โค๏ธ๐๐ Durham, NC, USA ๐
May 2, 2021: I want to share that if you have panic attacks fueled by imposter syndrome more than 2 weeks after your dissertation defense, you are not alone, โฆ
May 2, 2021: Want to read: Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins ๐
May 2, 2021: ๐ReadPost-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan louisaellenstein.comRead: louisaellenstein.com louisaellenstein.com โฆ
May 2, 2021: ๐ Read Against Aca-Fandom bogost.comRead: bogost.com bogost.com http://bogost.com/blog/against_aca-fandom/
May 2, 2021: ๐ Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies louisaellenstein.comRead: louisaellenstein.com louisaellenstein.com โฆ
May 2, 2021: ๐๐บ Read On Disliking Mad Men justtv.wordpress.comRead: justtv.wordpress.com adornofangirl โฆ
Apr 30, 2021: Frank Oz, on Miss Piggy: She has a lot of vulnerability, which she has to hide, because of her need to be a superstar. Quoted in Of Muppets and Men โฆ
Apr 30, 2021: Kermit, while he is no saint, has achieved a wonderful equilibrium in which a common sense and a hunger for the absurd are nicely balanced. Were he to โฆ
Apr 30, 2021: Want to read: Digital Black Feminism by Catherine Knight Steele ๐
Apr 30, 2021: Played Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego? via the Internet Archive with M. this morning & explained that Moscow is no longer the capital of โฆ
Apr 29, 2021: What we do is chatacter comedy. Jerry Juhl, head writer of The Muppet Show, quoted in Of Muppets and Men: The Making of the Muppet Show by โฆ
Apr 29, 2021: CS101: Week One I’m auditing Stanford’s CS101 on EdX because while I love Harvard’s CS50x I think I need some back to basics stuff. (All of this โฆ
Apr 29, 2021: Woohoo, I think I wrote the introduction of this article, yay me. Back to chipping away at the lit review…
Apr 29, 2021: Here’s me in 2018 unknowingly arguing the key finding of my dissertation: information literacy models should include creation.
Apr 29, 2021: ๐ Read No One Makes a Living on Patreon.
Apr 28, 2021: Oh hey I got so excited about becoming Dr. Hirsh that I forgot to share photos of my Data make-up test on my non-cosplay accounts. Here you go! โฆ
Apr 28, 2021: Y’all is Kevin Feige okay? Has he ever, you know, been outside? Somebody should probably take him to a park.
Apr 27, 2021: Spoiler font on my website I’m playing with CSS to get spoiler-text hidden unless selected on my website. Let’s see if it works! I’m putting double pipes โฆ
Apr 27, 2021: On languishing, being dormant, and lying in wait. Adam Grant’s article Thereโs a Name for the Blah Youโre Feeling: Itโs Called Languishing has been floating around different places I spend time โฆ
Apr 27, 2021: 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 book. I’ve taken notes on it and highlighted โฆ
Apr 27, 2021: Am I always tired because I’m: A) a newly minted PhD recovering from dissertating B) the parent of a young child C) a person living with chronic โฆ
Apr 26, 2021: My Dissertation Acknowledgments It’s probably going to be a little while before I get my full dissertation up online, so I thought I’d go ahead and post my โฆ
Apr 26, 2021: ๐ Read โBuy Nothingโ groups: A place to share goods, services โ and gratitude.
Apr 25, 2021: Biggest takeaway from the first 5 episodes of SHADOW & BONE is that I want to get really good at embroidery & goldwork and make all the โฆ
Apr 25, 2021: ๐ Read Rebuilding the Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com anildash.com https://anildash.com/2012/12/18/rebuilding_the_web_we_lost/
Apr 25, 2021: ๐ Read The Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com anildash.com http://anildash.com/2012/12/13/the_web_we_lost/
Apr 25, 2021: O hai. the early blogosphere was full of people who obsessed over โcorrectlyโ labeling and organizing content. Anil Dash, The Lost Infrastructure of โฆ
Apr 25, 2021: Finished reading: Come Back, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish and Wallace Tripp ๐
Apr 25, 2021: Finished reading: Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower by Peggy Parish and Barbara Siegel Thomas ๐
Apr 24, 2021: I have been so focused on writing my dissertation for so long that it’s a challenge to write a lit review short enough for a journal article. ๐
Apr 23, 2021: Finished reading: Thank You, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish, Barbara Siebel Thomas ๐
Apr 23, 2021: Finished reading: Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish and Fitz Siebel ๐
Apr 23, 2021: 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, maybe longer. But at over 1000 entries and more โฆ
Apr 23, 2021: Hello I have watched the first episode of SHADOW & BONE and Jesper has now replaced Kaz as my Ketterdam favorite. (I don’t think my Ravka โฆ
Apr 23, 2021: You can now watch my dissertation defense presentation! I’ve stopped the video before the Q&A to protect my committee and guests' privacy, โฆ
Apr 23, 2021: Finished reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo ๐
Apr 22, 2021: ๐๐ฟ๐บ Read Marvel movies have a weird relationship with kissing and romance - Polygon polygon.comRead: www.polygon.com polygon.com โฆ
Apr 22, 2021: Today’s weather is the best kind of NC spring weather. It’s 57F and there are fluffy clouds. The trees are all green. I’m in a โฆ
Apr 22, 2021: Want to read: Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir by Callum Roberts ๐
Apr 22, 2021: Want to read: The Brilliant Abyss, Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It by Helen Scales ๐
Apr 21, 2021: I’m so happy that I’m now qualified to wear this Delicious PhD Darling “regalia.” ๐คฃ (If you’ve never seen this before, โฆ
Apr 21, 2021: ๐ Read How Bookishness Affects the Book Biz publishersweekly.comRead: www.publishersweekly.com publishersweekly.com โฆ
Apr 21, 2021: ๐ Read How to Read When You Have a Baby | Book Riot bookriot.combookriot.com https://bookriot.com/how-to-read-when-you-have-a-baby/ Sound advice here.
Apr 21, 2021: I resent the fact that Book Riot’s Find Out Your SHADOW AND BONE Character quiz made me choose between Nikolai & Kaz. (I chose Nikolai but โฆ
Apr 21, 2021: ๐ Read On the Relationship Between Motherhood and Madness in Victorian Literature โน Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com lithub.com โฆ
Apr 20, 2021: I know somebody on micro.blog has put together an On This Day type page that shows you posts on today’s date in previous years. I can’t โฆ
Apr 20, 2021: My favorite thing about Labyrinth is that the ending suggests that you can grow up while retaining your attachment to fantasy. ๐ฟ
Apr 19, 2021: Told y’all I was going all-in on Trek. ๐๐ป๐
Apr 19, 2021: Submitted my dissertation to the university. Ordered Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’s The Dark Fantastic from Rofhiwa Bookcafรฉ to celebrate. ๐ ๐๐
Apr 18, 2021: ๐ Reagan Ray has collected a bunch of hand-lettered logos from Marvel comics pre-2000. My favorite series from this era is the 6 issue miniseries โฆ
Apr 15, 2021: Exhausted from defense & migrainey because PCOS, so it’s time to settle in with some #StarTrekTNG. I’m doing a very slow rewatch. โฆ
Apr 15, 2021: Advisor: So make these revisions because those were good questions and you had answers to them. Me: Please send the defense video, I will not remember โฆ
Apr 15, 2021: Katherine Taylor’s essay, I Am Not a Robot, explores Data’s value as a stand-in for autistic people. It also gets at how all kinds of โฆ
Apr 14, 2021: I have a lot of thank yous to catch up on, and I will. But in the meantime, I highly recommend having most of your best friends at your dissertation โฆ
Apr 14, 2021: Lt. Cmdr. DOCTOR Kimberly Hirsh here… I mean Data, whoops… I passed my dissertation defense! Yay me! And immense thanks to the people โฆ
Apr 14, 2021: This really does feel like waiting to go to the hospital to be induced. I hope the dissertation defense involves less back labor.
Apr 14, 2021: Really wish I felt like I could sweeten my defense with a laugh track.
Apr 14, 2021: Me, when Wesley Crusher tells Guinan he always gets As: Really? We’re still grading things in the 24th century? ๐๐ป๐บ
Apr 13, 2021: Last call for anyone who wants to attend my dissertation defense on Zoom, 4/14/21 1pm Eastern! The title is “Where’d You Get Those โฆ
Apr 13, 2021: O no my defense adrenaline has arrived 18 hours early
Apr 13, 2021: THE NEVERS as Disability Metaphor โฟ ๐บ This post contains slight spoilers for The Nevers. I just watched the first episode of The Nevers. Yes, it was created, written, and directed by Joss โฆ
Apr 13, 2021: Weeks ago now my kid told me, “You don’t need to be a doctor. You’re already somebody special.” Carrying that energy in my โฆ
Apr 13, 2021: ๐Also, the Sesame Street Tiny Desk Concert made me tear up. ๐บ๐ต
Apr 13, 2021: ๐ I highly recommend this video of the Yip Yip Invasion at Phoenix Comicon 2017, in which a group of cosplayers dress as The Martians from Sesame โฆ
Apr 13, 2021: Can I be in the book fandom? Like, I’m a fan of books as a medium and as aesthetic objects?
Apr 12, 2021: Finished reading: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo ๐
Apr 11, 2021: Exhausted from reviewing my dissertation slides with W (and applying for a job and doing a makeup test and parenting). Off to Ravka for the next 45 โฆ
Apr 11, 2021: Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing by John Scalzi ๐
Apr 9, 2021: Finished my defense slides and I’m so tired. ๐
Apr 9, 2021: Me: Why am I so obsessed with identity construction? The little Chani Nicholas my head: Because your Sun & Ascendant are both in Cancer in the 1st โฆ
Apr 9, 2021: Fellow academics, do you have a writerly identity? I told my artist BFF my 1st diss draft was garbage & she said “Lol so writing like art โฆ
Apr 7, 2021: I have decided to go all-in on Star Trek. Especially TNG of course, but for the time being, I’m making Trek writ large my primary fandom.
Apr 7, 2021: I’m not saying I’m just saying I kind of wish the Season 2 finale of Picard would be Picard and Q’s wedding is all. ๐๐ป๐บ
Apr 7, 2021: Which Muppet do I most identify with? Well… ๐บ๐ฟ
Apr 7, 2021: Don’t mind me, I’m just over here flailing in response to the Picard Season 2 Teaser Trailer. ๐๐ป๐บ๐
Apr 7, 2021: Reddit user JaytheChou is photoshopping Paddington into a different movie every day and it is a source of joy. ๐ฟ๐
Apr 7, 2021: I’ve always been resentful of the trope where girls have to pretend to be boys to get stuff done, but Natalie Zutter’s piece about Leia โฆ
Apr 7, 2021: Improv as community/business/cult has a lot of problems that would require a radical new model to fix but improv as playful art form taught me a lot โฆ
Apr 6, 2021: I’m in a hammock and I don’t want to get up.
Apr 6, 2021: I just finished Leigh Bardugo’s Siege and Storm and I’m so glad I’ve got the next one ready to go tonight. I’m not saying โฆ
Apr 6, 2021: Finished reading: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo ๐
Apr 6, 2021: Teared up watching @levarburton’s cameos for other people. “It’s over. It’s done. You defended the damn thing…” โฆ
Apr 6, 2021: So I’m reading my dissertation and I think it’s… Good? Like it was written by somebody who knows what they’re talking about? โฆ
Apr 6, 2021: About to start reading and marking up this thing in preparation for next week’s defense, at which I will boldly go where (to my knowledge) no โฆ
Apr 5, 2021: Honored today to deliver a pre-recorded guest lecture on Reader’s Advisory for Dr. Megan Threats’s Reference Sources & Services class. โฆ
Apr 5, 2021: I really miss the internet of 2004 - 2007, specifically the DIY/New Domesticity craft punk blog & forum corner of it. I think my soul is a little โฆ
Apr 3, 2021: I have now met all my pre-defense scholarly obligations (paper draft & guest lecture) so I guess it’s time to prepare for my defense. โฆ
Apr 3, 2021: ๐ I somehow missed Linda Holmes’s beautiful piece about The Muppet Movie soundtrack. She pulls out the very lines that always makes me cry. ๐๐ธ๐ต
Apr 3, 2021: True story, my dissertation includes the statement, “I was wrong.” ๐
Apr 2, 2021: 18 hrs post-vaccine woke up a little achey, a little lymph node-y. Not too bad but still planning to rest most of the day.
Apr 1, 2021: 5 hrs post-vaccine, feeling fuzzy-headed and mildly achey, chills receded but I bet they’ll be back.
Apr 1, 2021: J&J vaccine, side effects (or psychosomatic effects?) settling in after 3 hours: vague malaise, mild infrequent chill.
Apr 1, 2021: This windblown lady is vaccinated and waiting outside the Cookout Walk Up Window for a celebratory Cookout tray. (It’s me. This vaccinated and โฆ
Mar 30, 2021: Thinking of launching an academic editing service explicitly targeted to scholars who are also caregivers. Interested to hear thoughts on this from โฆ
Mar 29, 2021: I did the My Next Move interests profile and it says I should be an information research scientist. Yay?
Mar 28, 2021: Being in a “life happens” moment myself (finishing my dissertation), I originally missed Tantek รelik’s chat conversations & โฆ
Mar 25, 2021: Watching My Neighbor Totoro & my kid is saying that I’m like Mama Kusakabe because we both have dark hair and fair skin. I said, “And โฆ
Mar 23, 2021: My kid’s over here telling his dad a Magic Treehouse/Wild Kratts crossover story. ๐๐๐๐บ
Mar 23, 2021: Want to read: The Writer’s Practice by John Warner ๐
Mar 22, 2021: I’m finishing up my PhD this May! I have a lot of possibilities for what’s next; I would welcome even more! I’m open to hearing โฆ
Mar 22, 2021: It's spring and my dissertation is submitted! Let's do all the things! It feels like submitting my dissertation has freed up an immense amount of space in my head and heart to start thinking about other things. Iโm so โฆ
Mar 21, 2021: Want to read: When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong ๐
Mar 18, 2021: 4yo: What are you defending? Me: My dissertation. 4yo: Why do you have to defend it? Me:
Mar 18, 2021: Friend: I was thinking like I needed to get in my 10,000 hours and be an expert. Me: The 10,000 hours rule is not entirely evidence-based and we โฆ
Mar 17, 2021: Here’s a proposed title for my memoir, inspired by me being aggressively helped at a friend via text: TELLING FRIENDS THINGS I NEED TO HEAR: THE โฆ
Mar 17, 2021: You know that thing where you’ve pursued something long enough that now you’ve pretty much been exposed to all the fundamentals of it, and โฆ
Mar 17, 2021: Debating with myself about regalia since I’m not going to an in-person ceremony. Definitely not trying to get the fancy stuff I dreamed of 10 โฆ
Mar 16, 2021: “The academy is not designed to accommodate women, families, or the demands of modern life… Settling for mediocrity in everything but โฆ
Mar 16, 2021: “[The graduate program] hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and dedication to one’s intellectual โฆ
Mar 16, 2021: “Lives matter more than careers. Focus on building the life you want rather than pursuing the career that people think you should have.” - โฆ
Mar 16, 2021: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic by Katie Rose Guest Pryal ๐
Mar 16, 2021: ๐ What are we folding when we are folding laundry in quarantine is a beautiful poem by Sarah Ruhl. Probably time for me to pick up my copy of 100 โฆ
Mar 16, 2021: ๐ I love this take. I’d love to see it even more fleshed out: WandaVision Is Basically a Retelling of the Scarlet Letter (LitHub) ๐บ
Mar 15, 2021: Apparently it’s going to be an up-every-two-hours kind of night.
Mar 15, 2021: SAVE THE DATE! My dissertation defense is set for April 14th from 1 - 3 pm. It will be held via Zoom. SILS dissertation defenses are open. Please get โฆ
Mar 12, 2021: Sewing is not going great because my machine is old and unhelpful and difficult to find a manual for. (I’ve tried all the places but if you find โฆ
Mar 12, 2021: I threaded a needle and pulled up the bobbin thread! ๐งต
Mar 12, 2021: I wound a bobbin! ๐งต
Mar 11, 2021: Taking a mini-spring break over UNC’s Wellness Days & the weekend, including bailing on Social Media. See y’all Monday!
Mar 9, 2021: No YOU meant to go to bed an hour ago but got distracted by online window-shopping for sewing supplies. ๐งต
Mar 9, 2021: I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent my finished, formatted dissertation to my advisor, who will send it to my committee. All that remains is for โฆ
Mar 8, 2021: We are now at the “Watch Studio Ghibli instead of PBS Kids” stage of the pandemic. ๐ฟ
Mar 8, 2021: In the process of scheduling and thought to myself I should be sure to invite my Grandmomma. ๐ข
Mar 7, 2021: Catching up on MCU. My favorite parts of Daredevil S2 are when Matt Murdock & Frank Castle have quiet conversations about vigilante ethics & โฆ
Mar 6, 2021: Me, justifying my discussion chapter to the committee in my head: It’s only 1/3 of a dissertation so that’s why there’s only 1/3 of โฆ
Mar 6, 2021: I may have finished my discussion chapter. I definitely sent it off to my advisor.
Mar 5, 2021: Discussion section: behind the scenes [Alt text: A piece of paper showing a black and white diagram with several shapes on it and text overlaid on the โฆ
Mar 5, 2021: Wrote ~1200 words. Time for a cake break! ๐ฐ Oh no, there’s no cake! Time for a donut break! ๐ฉ
Mar 5, 2021: Today’s writing music: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Original Soundtrack SQUARE ENIX MUSIC
Mar 5, 2021: Me, this morning: Sure buddy, I’ll find those missing toys for you! Me, after taking everything out and spreading out because I might as well โฆ
Mar 4, 2021: I’m thisclose to requesting submissions for a WandaVision digital zine. To be edited AFTER I finish my dissertation, of course.
Mar 4, 2021: As long as I defend before the semester is over I’m good. On the off chance my post-defense revisions are so substantial I can’t make the โฆ
Mar 4, 2021: Today: Day 3 of garbage sleep. Empathetically worried about funding for the PhD cohorts coming up behind me. In so much pain that I actually whimper โฆ
Mar 4, 2021: ๐ This piece about WandaVision & fan theories has me musing on the difference between trying to figure out who will make a cameo and, say, โฆ
Mar 4, 2021: ๐ This piece about WandaVision and fan theories has me thinking about fannish meta and where it lives now, if anywhere.
Mar 4, 2021: Finishing my PhD & launching information consulting has me basically pretending I’m Dr. Liara T’soni (huge Mass Effect spoilers โฆ
Mar 3, 2021: You know how sometimes you serendipitously learn about a theoretical framework that’s going to tie the end of your dissertation together? That โฆ
Mar 3, 2021: My kid woke me up an hour early and I added ~1500 words to my discussion chapter today, plus pulled over another 9 pages from an earlier draft. I โฆ
Mar 3, 2021: Want to read: How Humans Learn by Joshua R. Eyler ๐
Mar 3, 2021: Want to read: The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey ๐
Mar 3, 2021: Today in the Hundred Acre Wood: Piglet might have the coronavirus but he’s asymptomatic; Pooh, Rabbit, and Eeyore have all been vaccinated. โฆ
Mar 3, 2021: I’ll say this (among other things) for being a part-time stay-at-home mom/part-time scholar: the mom part gives you lots of staring into space โฆ
Mar 3, 2021: I remember when MCU fans were clamoring for WandaVision to reveal its big bad already & Ashley Esqueda said “maybe grief is enough” โฆ
Mar 2, 2021: Is there anything more attractive than an attractive person writing a grant application & looking in the household copy of Creswell & Creswell โฆ
Mar 2, 2021: ๐ These images of comic book heroes redrawn to have average body types are fascinating from a cosplayer’s perspective. The “real” โฆ
Mar 2, 2021: ๐ Check out Riana Mckeith’s period-appropriate cartoon homages to WandaVision. So great! It will surprise no one that the 80s one is my fave. โฆ
Mar 1, 2021: I just reviewed my advisor’s notes on the first 6 chapters of my dissertation (Intro, 2 Lit Review, 2 Theory, Methods). When I started I was in โฆ
Mar 1, 2021: What I’m learning from the MCU (caught up on WandaVision & currently watching Agents of SHIELD 3x15) is that everyone with a PhD in the โฆ
Mar 1, 2021: There are a lot of hard moments as a parent. I tend to share moments like this: M. quietly building with Magnatiles while leaning on my leg. We share โฆ
Mar 1, 2021: Want to read: Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science by Anna Reser and Leila McNeill ๐
Mar 1, 2021: Trusting my (book blogging) intuition Fourteen years ago, I started a book blog - or, as I called it at the time, a reading journal. I jumped in and started writing without any worries โฆ
Feb 27, 2021: Just finished the introduction to SUCCEEDING OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY. Excited to read the rest. It seems like having 14 informational interviews in a โฆ
Feb 26, 2021: I woke up with a migraine today. I’ve had enough caffeine that it’s significantly receded but now I’m SO AWAKE. I would normally โฆ
Feb 26, 2021: Do I know anybody who works in youth services in the Wake County Public Libraries? If you do, will you let me know? Mind if I message/email you with โฆ
Feb 26, 2021: I may have added, um, 40 pages (mostly quotes and tables) to my findings chapter in revision…
Feb 25, 2021: Okay. I finished pulling quotes from the last interview. I was like, “Cool! Time to move on to the justification writing!” and my body โฆ
Feb 25, 2021: Only one interview left to pull quotes from for my findings chapter and then I can move on to the part where I justify my data analysis decisions. โฆ
Feb 24, 2021: Just updated my Fan Studies in LIS page to include some scholars I met at FSNNA20!
Feb 24, 2021: OKAY. I finished pulling quotes from that giant and awesome interview. Three more interviews left to pull quotes from, then some writing up of my data โฆ
Feb 24, 2021: It’s a good day for lying on a hammock and listening to an audiobook. ๐ท
Feb 23, 2021: Hello today I think my ideal job would be to read books and then write essays (not straight up reviews) about those books. Sometimes a group of books โฆ
Feb 23, 2021: I’m writing through a migraine right now. I have this one participant interview that’s really detailed and part of me wants to just copy โฆ
Feb 23, 2021: I finished reading Mona Awad’s BUNNY last night. I can’t even write a review of it because I don’t have enough words to convey all โฆ
Feb 22, 2021: Finished reading: Bunny by Mona Awad ๐
Feb 22, 2021: My current writing process: mine one interview for quotes. Read a chapter of BUNNY by Mona Awad. Repeat. ๐ #amwriting ๐ฐ
Feb 22, 2021: Finished reading: Keep Going by Austin Kleon ๐
Feb 22, 2021: I should hang this Austin Kleon drawing from p. 165 of KEEP GOING up in my home office. [Description: a human skeleton wearing a black hat & โฆ
Feb 21, 2021: “Art Monsters are not necessary or glamorous and they are not to be condoned, pardoned, or emulated.” - Austin Kleon, Keep Going, p. 124 ๐
Feb 19, 2021: Just gonna give up all other pursuits and devote my life to writing Muppet Show friendfic from now on, byeeeee.
Feb 19, 2021: I have so many happy Muppet Show feelings. Every time Fozzie is on screen my brain almost literally superimposes my dad’s image over him. This โฆ
Feb 19, 2021: The latest episode of WandaVision has given me a new cosplay goal… ๐บ
Feb 19, 2021: Give Kathryn Hahn an Emmy. ๐บ
Feb 19, 2021: ๐ This is a library that is also a theater. I want to go to there.
Feb 18, 2021: Want to read: Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South by Regina Bradley ๐
Feb 17, 2021: Sent off my methodology chapter today. It only needed a little revision, mostly moving stuff from it to findings. Started working on findings & โฆ
Feb 17, 2021: Renee Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler) sings the theme song for the new Muppet Babies. This makes me very happy.
Feb 16, 2021: I’m actually enjoying messing around on the Internet for a while and some water started leaking out of my eyes. Are these tears of joy?
Feb 16, 2021: Hello! I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent a theory chapter off to my advisor. You should be proud of me. I am.
Feb 16, 2021: ๐ If you love beautiful writing with a wistful vibe, you should be reading Jess Zimmerman’s Dead Channel. The latest issue talks about the โฆ
Feb 15, 2021: ๐ Y’all, Sir Ian McKellen has been blogging about his work since he started working on “X-Men” in 1999 & I love his writing.
Feb 15, 2021: ๐ Go read what Tim Carmody has to say about two songs from “The Muppet Movie”. I’m hoping to be able to write a detailed response โฆ
Feb 15, 2021: “Wellness” day #1: Wrote ~1700 words for my dissertation, outlined the methods section for an article. Maybe time to get a breath of fresh โฆ
Feb 15, 2021: Here are some things I’m not interested in: content marketing lead magnets analytics clickthrough SEO branded partnerships the hustle Here are โฆ
Feb 14, 2021: ๐ The spellbinding history of cheese and witchcraft is the witchy content I didn’t know I needed. ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ง
Feb 14, 2021: I’m so psyched to read all the articles fan studies scholars are going to write about #DeanCasWedding.
Feb 14, 2021: Doing more lurking/replying than posting rn. I’ve blocked Twitter on my phone. It redirects me to Austin Kleon’s How to Read More post. I โฆ
Feb 14, 2021: Want to read: Bookish Broads by Lauren Marino ๐
Feb 13, 2021: Want to read: We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman ๐
Feb 11, 2021: I added >1000 words to the theory chapter of my dissertation today. I’ve still a ways to go, but it’s nice to see such progress.
Feb 10, 2021: ๐ One option the New York Times didn’t mention in their piece about keeping a digital commonplace book: doing it on your own website.
Feb 10, 2021: It was kind of fun to see one of my drama professors from undergrad in M. L. Rio’s acknowledgements for If We Were Villains. Plus two actors I โฆ
Feb 10, 2021: Finished reading: If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio ๐
Feb 10, 2021: ๐ This deep-dive into fans reverse-engineering knitwear like Bernie’s mittens & the fourth Doctor’s scarf sits at the center of a Venn โฆ
Feb 10, 2021: ๐ Jess Zimmerman’s latest Dead Channel compares the old Internet to Faerie & tackles what it means to know someone’s handle. It โฆ
Feb 9, 2021: Got about 500 words written today. Hoping to go faster moving forward. I slept poorly last night and woke up about every 2 hours. I had a pretty good โฆ
Feb 9, 2021: I’ve been low-key reading all the tie-in comics for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in release order. Most are skippable, but Zombies Assemble is โฆ
Feb 9, 2021: Want to read: Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee ๐
Feb 8, 2021: Making progress on both dissertation & assistantship today. Beginning to feel like I might get this dissertation revised in time after all.
Feb 8, 2021: ๐ My granddaddy got his Ed. D. in 1972 and I just found the record for his dissertation in the UF catalog.
Feb 8, 2021: Writing that theory chapter…
Feb 8, 2021: We went to the NC Museum of Art Park as a family Saturday. It was a really nice change of pace from our usual neighborhood trails & city parks. โฆ
Feb 6, 2021: In case you’re following along, this morning the impostor syndrome was so bad I could feel it in my chest, but after doing like my advisor & โฆ
Feb 5, 2021: ๐ Highly recommended: Library Ambience Sounds for Studying / Relaxing White Noise.
Feb 5, 2021: Okay. Reorganized my work and my thinking and feeling better about my ability to be the kind of scholar I want to be. Phew.
Feb 5, 2021: New plans for this afternoon: Eat. Cry. Get back to work.
Feb 5, 2021: I feel like Charlie in Flowers for Algernon, knowing he used to be smart. I think, “Remember when I was a good scholar and knew how to do โฆ
Feb 5, 2021: Every once in a while early Sesame Street drops in a random Carol Burnett segment and it brings me such joy. ๐บ
Feb 5, 2021: ๐ In Back-Talking The Tone Police: Book People Are Not Your Enemy, Tika Vateri says all the things I couldn’t articulate in response to Joanna โฆ
Feb 4, 2021: Y’all RiffTrax is doing a Star Trek: Generations watch along tonight and if my kid is asleep in time, I may try to hop on! ๐
Feb 4, 2021: The pandemic is making my brain not. Dissertating during a pandemic is not easy. Maintaining concentration is a real challenge. Before the pandemic, my chronic illness allowed me about 2 โฆ
Feb 4, 2021: Hello! Today I’m (not) enjoying some musculoskeletal pain. How are things with you?
Feb 3, 2021: Me: reviews dissertation feedback and writes down 5 questions for meeting tomorrow w/advisor & methodologist Still Me: Welp, time for a nap. โฆ
Feb 3, 2021: Great question from Jen Polk (@FromPhDtoLife) that it’d help me if you answer: What do I do that others don’t?
Feb 3, 2021: I have so many thoughts about information literacy and they’re so timely. It would be brilliant to write them up as public scholarship but โฆ
Feb 2, 2021: I’m reading IF WE WERE VILLAINS by M. L. Rio & it does this interesting thing where you know it’s not THE SECRET HISTORY but it a โฆ
Feb 2, 2021: I’m doing a daily tarot pull starting today. Four cards popped out of the deck at me today. The tarot always knows what we need to hear. โฆ
Feb 2, 2021: Me: Why is my neck hurting? Child: climbs on my neck Me: Oh.
Feb 1, 2021: Every night I lie in my kid’s bed until he falls asleep and every night I wish someone would pick me up and carry me to my own bed.
Jan 31, 2021: I’ve got that sweet, sweet book hangover where you finish reading and then look around and think, “Where am I? What is this strange โฆ
Jan 31, 2021: Finished reading: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova ๐
Jan 31, 2021: I’m having to remind myself that the reason a 2 yr ethnographic dissertation I’m reading is more expansive than mine is bc I wrote mine on โฆ
Jan 29, 2021: GENTLE WRITING ADVICE: You could write some words sometime if you feel like it, but if you’re in more of a taking-a-nap or โฆ
Jan 29, 2021: The model for a dissertation defense in my head is still f2f. When I try to envision my inevitable remote defense my brain just shuts down. Will I โฆ
Jan 29, 2021: ๐ I am a Book Person. I don’t love the shots this piece takes at Book People, but I appreciate its conclusion: it would be good to calm down โฆ
Jan 28, 2021: Just got “Wait, you’re KIBA?” for the first time in several years and it still feels kinda good… I’m not a classy fan.
Jan 28, 2021: Anything that restores you isn’t a waste of time.
Jan 27, 2021: If I have any friends/followers diagnosed with hEDS or HSD who would be willing to talk with me about the diagnostic process & benefits of having โฆ
Jan 27, 2021: How are you holding up? Here's what's up with me. How are you holding up? Are you holding up? I have a headache today. I really want to write about ideas: craft as healing, being a parent and being โฆ
Jan 27, 2021: Hi. I’m Kimberly, and everything you need to know about me can be summed up by the fact that I’m currently bullet journaling while rocking โฆ
Jan 26, 2021: Just over here having an anxiety attack about taking my car to the mechanic for some routine work and state inspection, NBD.
Jan 25, 2021: If somebody could get on replacing Larry in “Pinky & the Brain & Larry” with Bernie, that’d be great.
Jan 25, 2021: It’s here! Yay! #AcademicTarot @CoyoteAndBones
Jan 25, 2021: ๐ The Power of German Playwright Bertholt Brechtโs V-Effekt: Oliver Mayer discusses the connection between the January 6 insurrection and โฆ
Jan 25, 2021: ๐ Whatโs Behind the Label โDomestic Fictionโ?: Soledad Fox Maura writes about why we need to reconsider genre.
Jan 24, 2021: ๐ An old piece that the Rec Center brought to my attention: How Writing Fanfic Introduced Me To Myself. I’ve been feeling the need to do some โฆ
Jan 24, 2021: Finished reading: Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan ๐
Jan 23, 2021: ๐บ Ugh, Dr. Pulaski is the worst. ๐
Jan 23, 2021: ๐ I continue to be proud of my city: Durham Moves to Protect Residents Against Natural Hair Discrimination
Jan 23, 2021: Want to read: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein ๐
Jan 23, 2021: Finished reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan ๐
Jan 22, 2021: Putting the person back in my personal website I kind of want to put the person back in my personal website. Not that it isn’t personal - especially my short little notes. But I’ve been โฆ
Jan 22, 2021: ๐I went into reading this expecting a fluff piece. I came out of it with a reminder of the spiritual and psychological depth of tabletop RPGs: How One โฆ
Jan 22, 2021: ๐This interview is extremely validating! Just Move: Scientist Author Debunks Myths About Exercise And Sleep
Jan 21, 2021: Who has two thumbs and just applied to be a Star Wars librarian for the summer? This Kimberly!
Jan 21, 2021: ๐ Gaby has curated an amazing collection of Bernie memes. The Beetlejuice and Clerks ones are my favorites.
Jan 21, 2021: Last “What’s next?” question! If you’d like to help, please complete this sentence: “The world would be a better place โฆ
Jan 20, 2021: I’ve just finished creating my dissertation revisions matrix. Only 41 comments! Granted, one of those is “Write a new chapter” but โฆ
Jan 20, 2021: What’s next? Part 2! If you’d like to help, please complete this sentence: “I could see Kimberly…”
Jan 20, 2021: ๐Paging Through Broadway While the Stages Are Dark: 2020 was supposed to be the year I got back into theater. ๐ญ
Jan 19, 2021: ๐ The Deep Sadness of Marvelโs WandaVision: This is the kind of WandaVision thinkpiece I want. ๐บ
Jan 19, 2021: We are now at the stage of the pandemic/coup/grief process where I decide that I attended a single solitary virtual work meeting, so I deserve a cake.
Jan 19, 2021: I only just realized that to understand how information literacy has been conceptualized over time, we need to leverage our own information literacy. โฆ
Jan 19, 2021: Getting real vulnerable! Want to help me plan for what’s next? Complete this statement: “Kimberly’s greatest gifts โฆ
Jan 19, 2021: Why yes, I am prioritizing #MuppetTwitter today.
Jan 19, 2021: If Buffy Summers were real she’d be 40 years old today.
Jan 19, 2021: Here’s my personal affirmation for the foreseeable future: DO WHAT I CAN, WHEN I CAN.
Jan 18, 2021: Okay TNG friends. I made it through “Skin of Evil.” It’s all uphill from here (except that I really like Tasha Yar). ๐
Jan 18, 2021: HEY I DID A THING! It was for my assistantship and not my dissertation but still. YAY ME!
Jan 18, 2021: I put in a grocery order so now it’s time to crochet and watch TNG, yeah? I woke up this morning full of the belief that I was ready to do a โฆ
Jan 17, 2021: Novel I’m reading: includes chapter that is just the text of an imaginary academic journal article Me: puts novel down and backs away
Jan 17, 2021: Well my grandmother must have really crossed over, in my own estimation anyway, because I just woke from a nap in which I had my first dream with her โฆ
Jan 17, 2021: I'm still grieving my grandmother and I don't feel like doing anything. It’s been two weeks and a day since my grandmother died, and I don’t feel like doing anything. When I posted about her death, I โฆ
Jan 17, 2021: ๐ In “The Black Casting Choices in BRIDGERTON WereโฆA Choice”, Jessica Pryde explains the ways this was very much NOT colorblind casting. I โฆ
Jan 15, 2021: ๐ This is really cool. I hope that in addition to making it possible for scholarship recipients to show up, they make it so scholarship recipients โฆ
Jan 15, 2021: I wonder how much of my lingering 90s cyberutopianism is because I forget the internet is not primarily text-based anymore.
Jan 15, 2021: ๐บ I know the consensus is that Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation is Not Good, but I find a lot in it to love. Q! The beginning of โฆ
Jan 14, 2021: I crack up every time M. & I watch the Emotions episode of Storybots Super Songs because a kid says, “I love my cat Blue because she’s โฆ
Jan 13, 2021: I’m pretty sure Kermit the Frog is my oldest friend.
Jan 11, 2021: This morning M. told me, “I’m not an architologyist,” and when I asked what an architologyist does, he said, “Science.”
Jan 10, 2021: ๐บ Me, a former educator, watching the new Saved by the Bell: This is really good, but I feel like with a doctorate, it makes more sense for Jessie to โฆ
Jan 8, 2021: ๐บ I’ve been watching Bridgerton & aside from the obvious fact that Lady Danbury & Eloise are the best, my biggest takeaway is that I โฆ