Kimberly Hirsh, PhD

2021-08-05: I can’t recall if I’d ever seen Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on …

2021-08-05: Hello and welcome to my current existential crisis.

2021-08-04: The CHIP ‘N’ DALE: RESCUE RANGERS theme is a masterpiece of musical maximalism. 🎵

2021-08-04: I love physicist Carlo Rovelli’s phrase, “radical lack of certainty,” quoted in …

2021-08-04: 📺 I’m not remotely close to caught up on The Owl House but I just want to say that Luz’s …

2021-08-03: Want to read: A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee 📚

2021-08-01: Finished reading: The Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss 📚

2021-07-31: 🎮 Played Dragon Quest on Android. Gorgeous pixel remake of the foundational JRPG. Super fun! 🐲

2021-07-31: 📚🗯️ Read Once & Future Vol. 1: The King Is Undead by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora. Arthuriana and …

2021-07-31: 💬🔖 “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot …

2021-07-30: 📚 A surprise The Locked Tomb book! Yay! 💀

2021-07-30: 📚📺 At Electric Literature, Meera Vijayan writes about the value of seeing Alina Starkov build her …

2021-07-29: I feel both seen and attacked by this Lit Hub piece that says the literary character who shares my …

2021-07-28: I’m available for work starting September 7. Ideal employed situation is part-time, remote, at …

2021-07-27: Putting yourself back together I’ve written before about how matrescence is like kintsugi: having a baby shatters you and the …

2021-07-26: Today my (medical) doctor called me and when I answered, she said, “Hello, Dr. Hirsh?”

2021-07-26: 📚 This interview with Tamsyn Muir is great.

2021-07-26: Finished reading: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 📚

2021-07-23: 📚 In HARROW THE NINTH Harrowhark uses the phrase “A fatal longing for the picturesque” …

2021-07-22: What a beautiful day! We're not scared. 🐻 Are you familiar with the poem/book/animated short film WE’RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT? I highly …

2021-07-21: 🔖📺🍿This piece identifies what made LOKI less than ideal for me: Loki himself is constrained, not as …

2021-07-21: 🔖🍿📚 It’s nice timing to read this after recently starting my Dorian Gray re-read: Manic Pixie …

2021-07-21: The article Meet the typical 40-year-old millennial, who has $128,000 in debt, is not nearly as …

2021-07-21: Me, after two nights of terrible sleep: Welp, I worked for 48 billable minutes. Time to pack it in …

2021-07-20: My personal history with sewing 🧵 I promise I’m going to write about what I learned from sewing napkins soon. But first: my …

2021-07-20: Other people’s midi dress is my maxi dress.

2021-07-20: You know what would be an interesting pair of books to read together? The 4-Hour Work Week and How …

2021-07-19: Random stream-of-consciousness life updates I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. Hello, everyone! How are …

2021-07-18: Austin Kleon's pirate-gardener Austin Kleon writes about his desire to be a pirate-gardener, I’d like to stay happily at home, in …

2021-07-18: 💬📚 “Harrow would be tripping over herself for her whole existence, a frictionless hoop of …

2021-07-17: 📚 O no I have HARROW THE NINTH on my eReader and want to hermit up and just read it until I’m …

2021-07-17: 📚 I’m re-reading THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and I want to write down all of Lord Henry …

2021-07-16: Just watched the first episode of Schmigadoon and Aaron Tveit channeling John Raitt/Gordon …

2021-07-16: I’m working on developing a new academia aesthetic, it’s kind of a sff academia. …

2021-07-16: I love when I have a call with my doctor and I say “I think I should do this” and she …

2021-07-15: 🧵 I made napkins today and I learned a lot! I’ll write about it soon.

2021-07-15: I’m about to start using Noter Live to live-tweet #MIRAULV2021. Conferring on the couch next …

2021-07-15: Wait wait wait bootcut jeans are on-trend again? Gen Z, you’re turning exhausted parents into …

2021-07-14: My kid is watching Doc McStuffins and I’m over here swooning over the knight toy Sir Kirby …

2021-07-14: I tried Voila AI artist & this is what it says I’d look like as a 3D cartoon princess.

2021-07-14: Happy birthday to me! W & M got me a sewing machine that has a manual! I asked for one I knew …

2021-07-14: Who will I be at 40? Three makes a pattern, so this is the year that blogging about who I want to be in this year of my …

2021-07-14: Want to read: The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun 📚

2021-07-13: Finished reading: Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett 📚

2021-07-13: Stream-of-Consciousness Quick Review: Kristen Arnett's MOSTLY DEAD THINGS 📚🦩 (or, Kristen Arnett Please Be My New Best Friend) I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this post. Kristen Arnett is …

2021-07-13: Tomorrow is my birthday (40th). If you want to celebrate, here are some options: have donuts read a …

2021-07-12: I just signed up for 1-Day Online Nonfiction Seminar: The Scholar’s Guide to Writing & …

2021-07-12: I didn’t see Katy Peplin’s blog post about grumping it out until just now but now is …

2021-07-11: The thing about being a bard is that performance is more than just singing.

2021-07-11: I need everyone to understand that in Marvel comics, there is the version of Thor that is a frog, …

2021-07-09: The Quiet Space has a website. This evolving project offers tools to help scholars & other …

2021-07-09: The water and the moon are my teachers. 🌊🌕 Tonight is the New Moon in Cancer. Next Wednesday is my birthday. My Sun, Ascendant, and Mercury are …

2021-07-09: W: Would you say the town of Brigadoon is changed by the events of the musical? Me: What? No! …

2021-07-09: Introducing The Quiet Space: A set of offerings for scholars and knowledge creators Good morning, friends. I have a new-ish morning ritual. I creep downstairs so as not to wake my kid. …

2021-07-08: Hulu has both Beetlejuice and Season 7 of Younger, see y’all next week. 📺🍿

2021-07-08: 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 …

2021-07-07: Habits from UNF*CK YOUR HABITAT I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. I’m re-reading Unf*ck …

2021-07-07: Nightstand before & after courtesy the first couple of mini-challenges in the original UfYH …

2021-07-07: I take 20 medications/supplements, some of them more than once a day.

2021-07-03: I’m brewing 2 essays about Star Trek: The Next Generation: about Data, perfectionism, & …

2021-07-02: My kid asked me if he was a camper & I told him we could call our home a camp if he wanted and …

2021-07-02: Years ago now, my sister gave M. a 3D printed Jiji from Kiki’s Delivery Service. Today I …

2021-07-02: I don’t believe being a librarian is A Calling but I do believe it is a disposition; it is one …

2021-07-01: Welcome to Camp NaNoWriMo with me! I may receive commissions for purchases made through links on this page. It’s July 1 which …

2021-06-29: Response to "Knitting’s resurgence reflects women’s desire to confront inequality": things that have been things for a while, affinity space research, and punk rock new domesticity I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. I’m writing up a …

2021-06-29: 🔖 Putting a pin in this article to remind me to write later about the perils of outsiders …

2021-06-29: Returning to Dissertating in the Open Back when I started the dissertation process, I had this whole plan to dissertate in the open. I did …

2021-06-28: Want to read: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher 📚

2021-06-28: 🔖▶️ Watching Meet Courtney: An American Girl Movie & trying not to lose it every time they …

2021-06-28: 🔖📺 Listen, as a 90s babybat I welcome the new Anne Rice television universe. 🦇

2021-06-27: I don’t have a plan beyond keeping my kid alive, resting a lot, trying to be more chill. …

2021-06-27: Want to read: Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by Marc Goulden, Mary Ann …

2021-06-27: 📚 I read only the Introduction to Kelly J. Baker’s SEXISM ED and I’m already seething …

2021-06-27: I don’t like to drink rosé but I love the roséwave vibe. I’m trying to figure out what …

2021-06-26: Finished reading: Succeeding Outside the Academy 📚

2021-06-26: 💬📚 “Why have I surrendered so much of my present self to an abstract future self that may …

2021-06-26: Every time I work on this article revision I end up getting mad at Reviewer 2 all over again, mostly …

2021-06-26: My Kid (4.5 yo): Donatello is playing a video game. Me: Fun! What’s it called? Kid: …

2021-06-26: 🔖▶️ Watched Create Your Unicorn Career from Scratch. Engaging talk from a science …

2021-06-25: Low-key day today: chilling with my kid in the morning, an adventure with a locked but unoccupied …

2021-06-24: JK, today is a rest-in-bed kind of day now that I’ve done my most important work, registering …

2021-06-24: Today is a work-in-bed kind of day. (I have chronic illness and a 4 year old; kindly keep your sleep …

2021-06-24: As a younger person I thought people in their 40s had their acts together. ~3 wks away from turning …

2021-06-24: 🔖📝 I love Austin Kleon’s advice to relocate your darlings. I have a file for every project …

2021-06-24: Want to read: Annotation by Remi H. Kalir and Antero Garcia 📚

2021-06-23: Is my hair still wet or is it like this because I tried the Curly Girl method and used gel? The …

2021-06-23: Want to read: Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie 📚

2021-06-22: 📚 I know I’m very late to this party but GIDEON THE NINTH is so good.

2021-06-22: What is less helpful than it might be is when a reviewer suggests that people have already written a …

2021-06-21: 9 am Kimberly: I’m totally going to work this afternoon! 1 pm Kimberly: I’m totally …

2021-06-20: In the bathroom at the children’s museum yesterday, I looked in the mirror. I saw a sweaty …

2021-06-19: 📚 (Please don’t spoil me) Me reading Gideon the Ninth: KISS! KISS! KISS!

2021-06-19: Welp. Sitting on hold with the grocery store because they accidentally charged me $78.89 for 1 lb of …

2021-06-19: The layers of references in this poster are delightful: cats as Data and Geordi as Holmes and Watson …

2021-06-18: Finished reading: Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo 📚

2021-06-18: 💬📚 “If you cannot bear our pain, you are not fit to carry our strength.” WONDER WOMAN: …

2021-06-18: 📚 I’m reading Leigh Bardugo’s WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER & while it took a little …

2021-06-16: I’m announcing it to make it real: I’m going to write a sweet romance novella for Camp …

2021-06-16: 🔖📚 Read What We Can—and Can’t—Learn About Louisa May Alcott from Her Teenage Fiction - …

2021-06-15: 💬📺 “No one likes having a curse, but if you take the right steps, it’s …

2021-06-15: Anybody else feel like a lot of qualitative methodology writeups in studies are basically “I …

2021-06-14: 🔖 Read Toll from political push at UNC continues to mount | NC Policy Watch ncpolicywatch.com Read: …

2021-06-14: Me: What am I going to do with my kid all summer? The pool: Hi. Me: 😍🧜🏻‍♀️

2021-06-13: Someone in my neighborhood is doing yardwork at 9 pm and I’m not okay with it.

2021-06-12: Do I pretend I’m Kaz Brekker when I use my new cane? Only with every step I take.

2021-06-12: Part of me is always working on a taxonomy and ontology of #StarTrekTNG episodes. (Currently: only …

2021-06-11: I have no special insight into the MCU but this song might be a bit instructive (and if you’re …

2021-06-11: 🔖🎮 Read Loki episode 1 finds a startling way to rest the antihero for Marvel TV - Polygon …

2021-06-11: 🔖🎮 Read Loki episode 1 recap and Easter eggs: Thor’s naughty brother gets busted for time …

2021-06-11: 📺 watched Loki Season 1, Episode 1, “Glorious Purpose.” Took me a little while to get …

2021-06-11: 🔖🎮 Read Star Trek | Games of Fame gamesoffame.wordpress.comRead: gamesoffame.wordpress.com …

2021-06-11: 🔖🎮 Read 1974: Super Star Trek - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.comRead: if50.substack.com …

2021-06-11: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Addendums | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blogRead: bluerenga.blog Jason Dyer …

2021-06-11: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Part 5: Wumpus 2 and 3 | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blogRead: bluerenga.blog …

2021-06-11: 🔖🎮 Read » Hunt the Wumpus, Part 2 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net …

2021-06-11: Watching “new” She-Ra with my kid & forgot who my She-Ra avatar was but then we got …

2021-06-10: 🔖🎮 Read » Hunt the Wumpus, Part 1 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net filfre.net …

2021-06-10: What does after even mean? Lately some of the things that have been lifelines for me during the pandemic have started to feel …

2021-06-10: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Part 4: Hunt the Wumpus (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: …

2021-06-10: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Part 2: Mugwump, Hurkle, Snark (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: …

2021-06-10: 🔖🎮 Read Before Adventure, Part 1: Hide and Seek (1972) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: …

2021-06-10: 🍿📺🗯️ I just watched the two pre-Loki episodes of Marvel Studios LEGENDS and y’all the MCU gets …

2021-06-10: 🔖🎮 ReadBefore Adventure, Part 3: Caves (1973) | Renga in Blue bluerenga.blog Read: bluerenga.blog …

2021-06-10: 🔖🎮 Read 1973: Hunt the Wumpus - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.com Read: if50.substack.com …

2021-06-09: Text adventure nostalgia I hope your Wednesday’s going well! (Or Thursday if you’re farther east enough than me …

2021-06-09: Today, in letting go of my internalized ableism: using a cane during a hip pain flare.

2021-06-09: 🔖🎮 Read Forty Years of Lunar Lander technologizer.com Read: www.technologizer.com technologizer.com …

2021-06-09: 🔖🎮 Read Lunar Lander: The Full Story of the Legendary Game and Genre fictionphile.com Read: …

2021-06-09: 🔖🎮 Read 1972: ROCKET - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.com Read: if50.substack.com …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read Something Found In The Oregon Trail - Code Dive codedive.substack.com Read: …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 5 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 4 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read Oregon Trail Ver. 3 (BASIC 3.1, 1978) | Desert Hat deserthat.wordpress.com Read: …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 3 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 2 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.net Read: …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read Rafting Down the Columbia River died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read Matt’s Store & Starting the Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read Crossing Rivers died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com died-of-dysentery.com …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read The Earliest Versions of the Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read A Brief History of the Oregon Trail Game died-of-dysentery.com Read: …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read The Oregon Trail Memes died-of-dysentery.com Read: www.died-of-dysentery.com …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read Designing the Travel Screen for “The Oregon Trail” | by R. Philip Bouchard | The …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 The FEMICOM museum is my new favorite thing.

2021-06-08: Things that can bring on trochanteric (hip) bursitis: sitting, lying down, physical activity. 😬

2021-06-08: On pain Hello again! My right hip has been hurting the past couple of days. Or almost a week, I guess - it …

2021-06-08: 🔖🏳️‍🌈 Read The Power of Pride - Arc Digital arcdigital.mediaRead: www.arcdigital.media …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read Designing the Hunting Game for “The Oregon Trail” | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read How I Managed to Design the Most Successful Educational Computer Game of All Time | by R. …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read » On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 1 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read The Forgotten History of ‘The Oregon Trail,’ As Told By Its Creators …

2021-06-08: 🔖🎮 Read 1971: The Oregon Trail - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.comRead: if50.substack.com …

2021-06-07: Welcome to a week of daily blogging: stream-of-consciousness flavor! I’m working to get into the flow of daily blogging, so this post will be rather stream of …

2021-06-07: 🔖 Martha Bautells’s On Writing Through a Residency That Never Happened (But Did?) resonates …

2021-06-07: ↪️ in reply to Bridgy stats update I wonder if the drop-off in publishing after August 2020 might be …

2021-06-06: 💬📚 “The graduate program… hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a …

2021-06-05: 🔖🧵🧶 Read What We Learned From a Year of Crafting - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: …

2021-06-05: There are worse things than sitting outside at a children’s museum on a beautiful day with …

2021-06-05: 🔖📚 Read Kristen Arnett Gets Her Best Ideas at the Bar - Interview Magazine …

2021-06-05: 💬🔖📚 Kate Zambreno on her new book "To Write as if Already Dead" - Los Angeles Times The postpartum experience isn’t just expensive; it can also be one of psychic trauma and creative …

2021-06-05: 🔖🖥️ Elizabeth and Gav promised in this week’s The Rec Center that 1992: Silverwolf would be …

2021-06-03: Career Advice for PhDs Websites and Professionals: You should use ImaginePhD! It will help you …

2021-06-03: 🔖📚 Read Together As We Burn: On a Complicated Maternal Bond and Intergenerational Love. A …

2021-06-03: 🔖📚 Read Stories and Hormones Shape Our Lives by Elanor Broker. Beautiful essay weaving together …

2021-06-03: 🔖📝 Read Finding Time to Write About Motherhood… While Parenting During a Pandemic . The usual …

2021-06-01: Quick Review: The City We Became 📚 I love the way N. K. Jemisin captures the spirit of the five boroughs of New York here in a way that …

2021-06-01: Finished reading: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin 📚

2021-06-01: I’ve also made my Scholarly Writing Project Audit and Pipeline Notion template available via …

2021-06-01: For #TrekTuesday, I’ll share that I spend a LOT of time wondering why we don’t see …

2021-05-31: I’ve made my Conceptual Synthesis Spreadsheet Notion template available via Gumroad. …

2021-05-30: Thanks to a generous person I met in the Mermaids of NC group on Facebook, I am now Dr. Mer-Mom. …

2021-05-28: Build networks & ask for what you need & give what you can. Swimming in a mermaid tail is a …

2021-05-28: I got a Rakuten Libra H2O and I am so excited about its OverDrive integration. So many public …

2021-05-27: Finished reading: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo 📚

2021-05-26: 📚💬 “We learn to wring magic from the ordinary… When the world owed you nothing, you …

2021-05-25: Want to read: The Lightmaker’s Manifesto: How to Work for Change Without Losing Your Joy by …

2021-05-24: 📚 Kaz Brekker is the best. Why do we have obligations besides reading books?

2021-05-24: 📚💬 I’ve heard a lot about the excellent disability representation in the Six of Crows duology. …

2021-05-23: 📚 In Crooked Kingdom, Inej thinks about her hope that she and Kaz could be “more than two wary …

2021-05-21: Hey guess what? You can download the Creative Commons-licensed version of my dissertation on my …

2021-05-20: Added “consulting scholar-librarian 🔍” to my bio.

2021-05-20: Getting a lot of targeted ads for EdDs like “Heeeey noticed you just finished a doctorate, …

2021-05-20: Personal reflections after (but not really on) #FanLIS My head is swimming after attending the #FanLIS symposium today. At this moment when I’m …

2021-05-20: Most of my tweets from #FanLIS I’m planning to return and clean up formatting and add links to videos once they’re …

2021-05-19: 📚 Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's ACE OF SPADES: Gossip Girl meets Get Out in a gripping debut thriller ACE OF SPADES by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Chiamaka and Devon are both students at the prestigious …

2021-05-19: Just deleted “expected” before “May 2021” in my CV.

2021-05-18: 📚 How do you keep track of quotes that resonate with you? I usually write them in my Bullet Journal …

2021-05-18: Finished reading: Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 📚

2021-05-18: 📺 I’ve got 2 episodes left of SHRILL. It’s so weird being right in the middle of Annie …

2021-05-18: Want to read: Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews by …

2021-05-18: 📺 Fran is always my favorite on SHRILL. Today it’s because she says, “I just don’t …

2021-05-18: Today in “But they’re worth it“: my kid showed me a tiny grape as though he had …

2021-05-17: Yesterday I did 3 things so today my body wants me to do no things. I hope the plan I made with my …

2021-05-17: 📚 Sometimes I have to start a book several times before it holds my interest. A GAME OF THRONES was …

2021-05-16: I carry a tote bag around my house as I move through my day. I never know what I’ll be in the …

2021-05-16: Want to read: How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams 📚

2021-05-15: 📚 Right before I started my Grishaverse catch up, I went on a dark academia spree. These were three …

2021-05-14: 📚 Remember how I said my hammock was my favorite reading spot? Here’s a flashback to me …

2021-05-13: Want to read: Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope 📚

2021-05-13: Want to read: Anya of Ark by Kristian Joseph 📚

2021-05-13: Post-graduation reception.

2021-05-13: Tassel turned! (The gown and hood were too itchy to keep on with only a sundress underneath.)

2021-05-13: Let’s get this virtual graduation show on the road. [My son and I smiling. I am wearing …

2021-05-13: Want to read: Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller 📚

2021-05-13: My kid and I are building NYC for the Ninja Turtles & Marvel Superheroes to adventure in, so of …

2021-05-13: 📚 I first read SHADOW AND BONE 5 years ago, on a hammock at the beach, when I was 7 months pregnant. …

2021-05-13: I had to do one more round of formatting this morning but at long last my dissertation has been …

2021-05-12: I started a bookstagram account. You can find it at kimberlyhirsh.reads if you want to follow along. …

2021-05-11: I love when I talk to my doctor and we agree on the best course of action.

2021-05-11: Me, watching STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS: Battle, battle, battle. When are we going to get another …

2021-05-11: I fixed the formatting problem which was in fact my fault. When I tried to fix one thing it did …

2021-05-11: I’ve been attending to my mind almost exclusively for 6 years (and arguably for almost 40). …

2021-05-11: Was playing Ninja Turtles with my kid & his action figures & kid made Leo tell Donnie …

2021-05-11: I am filled with rage over the number of formatting revisions I am having to make to my …

2021-05-10: Finished reading: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May 📚

2021-05-09: 🔖 I’ve started calling my kid Little One & after reading Meg Elison’s How Lwaxana …

2021-05-08: I was thinking last night about why characters who look a mess but are competent when it counts are …

2021-05-07: Prepping to launch my consulting career 👩‍‍💼 Hello again, internet. I just finished writing the last thing I had to write for my assistantship. …

2021-05-06: Want to read: THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of …

2021-05-05: Added “serious Belle vibes 📚” to my bio.

2021-05-04: You should probably look at Laz Marquez’s #StarTrekGala art project because it’s …

2021-05-04: 🔖📚 Austin Kleon writes today about wintering and dormancy, quoting Katherine May’s book …

2021-05-03: 🔖📺🖖 Read The Measure of a Man Demonstrates the Many Forms of Love by Anna E. Gant

2021-05-03: 🔖📺🖖 Hrisoula Gatzogiannis’s The Only Work Ethic I Care About Is the One on Star Trek details …

2021-05-03: I think at some point in the past 6 years I became an information scientist. Yay?

2021-05-02: I’m thinking about metaphors for how people consume information. Infodemic. Infobesity. I …

2021-05-02: Went really minimal with my latest bio: motherscholar 👩‍💻 she/her ♿ ❤️💜💙 Durham, NC, USA 🌎

2021-05-02: I want to share that if you have panic attacks fueled by imposter syndrome more than 2 weeks after …

2021-05-02: Want to read: Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins 📚

2021-05-02: 🔖ReadPost-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan louisaellenstein.comRead: …

2021-05-02: 🔖 Read Against Aca-Fandom bogost.comRead: bogost.com bogost.com …

2021-05-02: 🔖 Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies louisaellenstein.comRead: …

2021-05-02: 🔖📺 Read On Disliking Mad Men justtv.wordpress.comRead: justtv.wordpress.com adornofangirl …

2021-04-30: Frank Oz, on Miss Piggy: She has a lot of vulnerability, which she has to hide, because of her need …

2021-04-30: Kermit, while he is no saint, has achieved a wonderful equilibrium in which a common sense and a …

2021-04-30: Want to read: Digital Black Feminism by Catherine Knight Steele 📚

2021-04-30: Played Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego? via the Internet Archive with M. this morning & …

2021-04-29: What we do is chatacter comedy. Jerry Juhl, head writer of The Muppet Show, quoted in Of Muppets …

2021-04-29: CS101: Week One I’m auditing Stanford’s CS101 on EdX because while I love Harvard’s CS50x I think …

2021-04-29: Woohoo, I think I wrote the introduction of this article, yay me. Back to chipping away at the lit …

2021-04-29: Here’s me in 2018 unknowingly arguing the key finding of my dissertation: information literacy …

2021-04-29: 🔖 Read No One Makes a Living on Patreon.

2021-04-28: Oh hey I got so excited about becoming Dr. Hirsh that I forgot to share photos of my Data make-up …

2021-04-28: Y’all is Kevin Feige okay? Has he ever, you know, been outside? Somebody should probably take …

2021-04-27: Spoiler font on my website I’m playing with CSS to get spoiler-text hidden unless selected on my website. Let’s see …

2021-04-27: On languishing, being dormant, and lying in wait. Adam Grant’s article There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing has …

2021-04-27: Notes and highlights from Katie Rose Guest Pryal's THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC 📚 I’ve read Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s The Freelance Academic twice now. It’s a great …

2021-04-27: Am I always tired because I’m: A) a newly minted PhD recovering from dissertating B) the …

2021-04-26: My Dissertation Acknowledgments It’s probably going to be a little while before I get my full dissertation up online, so I …

2021-04-26: 🔖 Read ‘Buy Nothing’ groups: A place to share goods, services — and gratitude.

2021-04-25: Biggest takeaway from the first 5 episodes of SHADOW & BONE is that I want to get really good at …

2021-04-25: 🔖 Read Rebuilding the Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com anildash.com …

2021-04-25: 🔖 Read The Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com anildash.com …

2021-04-25: O hai. the early blogosphere was full of people who obsessed over “correctly” labeling and …

2021-04-25: Finished reading: Come Back, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish and Wallace Tripp 📚

2021-04-25: Finished reading: Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower by Peggy Parish and Barbara Siegel Thomas 📚

2021-04-24: I have been so focused on writing my dissertation for so long that it’s a challenge to write a …

2021-04-23: Finished reading: Thank You, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish, Barbara Siebel Thomas 📚

2021-04-23: Finished reading: Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish and Fitz Siebel 📚

2021-04-23: Stocking the flow of my garden in the stream 💻 I’ve been wanting to clean up my blog at least since I migrated from WordPress to Micro.blog, …

2021-04-23: Hello I have watched the first episode of SHADOW & BONE and Jesper has now replaced Kaz as my …

2021-04-23: You can now watch my dissertation defense presentation! I’ve stopped the video before the …

2021-04-23: Finished reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 📚

2021-04-22: 🔖🍿📺 Read Marvel movies have a weird relationship with kissing and romance - Polygon polygon.comRead: …

2021-04-22: Today’s weather is the best kind of NC spring weather. It’s 57F and there are fluffy …

2021-04-22: Want to read: Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir by Callum Roberts 📚

2021-04-22: Want to read: The Brilliant Abyss, Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the …

2021-04-21: I’m so happy that I’m now qualified to wear this Delicious PhD Darling …

2021-04-21: 🔖 Read How Bookishness Affects the Book Biz publishersweekly.comRead: www.publishersweekly.com …

2021-04-21: 🔖 Read How to Read When You Have a Baby | Book Riot bookriot.combookriot.com …

2021-04-21: I resent the fact that Book Riot’s Find Out Your SHADOW AND BONE Character quiz made me choose …

2021-04-21: 🔖 Read On the Relationship Between Motherhood and Madness in Victorian Literature ‹ Literary Hub …

2021-04-20: I know somebody on micro.blog has put together an On This Day type page that shows you posts on …

2021-04-20: My favorite thing about Labyrinth is that the ending suggests that you can grow up while retaining …

2021-04-19: Told y’all I was going all-in on Trek. 🖖🏻📚

2021-04-19: Submitted my dissertation to the university. Ordered Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’s The Dark …

2021-04-18: 🔖 Reagan Ray has collected a bunch of hand-lettered logos from Marvel comics pre-2000. My favorite …

2021-04-15: Exhausted from defense & migrainey because PCOS, so it’s time to settle in with some …

2021-04-15: Advisor: So make these revisions because those were good questions and you had answers to them. Me: …

2021-04-15: Katherine Taylor’s essay, I Am Not a Robot, explores Data’s value as a stand-in for …

2021-04-14: I have a lot of thank yous to catch up on, and I will. But in the meantime, I highly recommend …

2021-04-14: Lt. Cmdr. DOCTOR Kimberly Hirsh here… I mean Data, whoops… I passed my dissertation …

2021-04-14: This really does feel like waiting to go to the hospital to be induced. I hope the dissertation …

2021-04-14: Really wish I felt like I could sweeten my defense with a laugh track.

2021-04-14: Me, when Wesley Crusher tells Guinan he always gets As: Really? We’re still grading things in …

2021-04-13: Last call for anyone who wants to attend my dissertation defense on Zoom, 4/14/21 1pm Eastern! The …

2021-04-13: O no my defense adrenaline has arrived 18 hours early

2021-04-13: THE NEVERS as Disability Metaphor ♿ 📺 This post contains slight spoilers for The Nevers. I just watched the first episode of The Nevers. …

2021-04-13: Weeks ago now my kid told me, “You don’t need to be a doctor. You’re already …

2021-04-13: 🔖Also, the Sesame Street Tiny Desk Concert made me tear up. 📺🎵

2021-04-13: 🔖 I highly recommend this video of the Yip Yip Invasion at Phoenix Comicon 2017, in which a group of …

2021-04-13: Can I be in the book fandom? Like, I’m a fan of books as a medium and as aesthetic objects?

2021-04-12: Finished reading: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo 📚

2021-04-11: Exhausted from reviewing my dissertation slides with W (and applying for a job and doing a makeup …

2021-04-11: Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi …

2021-04-09: Finished my defense slides and I’m so tired. 📝

2021-04-09: Me: Why am I so obsessed with identity construction? The little Chani Nicholas my head: Because your …

2021-04-09: Fellow academics, do you have a writerly identity? I told my artist BFF my 1st diss draft was …

2021-04-07: I have decided to go all-in on Star Trek. Especially TNG of course, but for the time being, …

2021-04-07: I’m not saying I’m just saying I kind of wish the Season 2 finale of Picard would be …

2021-04-07: Which Muppet do I most identify with? Well… 📺🍿

2021-04-07: Don’t mind me, I’m just over here flailing in response to the Picard Season 2 Teaser …

2021-04-07: Reddit user JaytheChou is photoshopping Paddington into a different movie every day and it is a …

2021-04-07: I’ve always been resentful of the trope where girls have to pretend to be boys to get stuff …

2021-04-07: Improv as community/business/cult has a lot of problems that would require a radical new model to …

2021-04-06: I’m in a hammock and I don’t want to get up.

2021-04-06: I just finished Leigh Bardugo’s Siege and Storm and I’m so glad I’ve got the next …

2021-04-06: Finished reading: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo 📚

2021-04-06: Teared up watching @levarburton’s cameos for other people. “It’s over. It’s …

2021-04-06: So I’m reading my dissertation and I think it’s… Good? Like it was written by …

2021-04-06: About to start reading and marking up this thing in preparation for next week’s defense, at …

2021-04-05: Honored today to deliver a pre-recorded guest lecture on Reader’s Advisory for Dr. Megan …

2021-04-05: I really miss the internet of 2004 - 2007, specifically the DIY/New Domesticity craft punk blog …

2021-04-03: I have now met all my pre-defense scholarly obligations (paper draft & guest lecture) so I guess …

2021-04-03: 🔖 I somehow missed Linda Holmes’s beautiful piece about The Muppet Movie soundtrack. She pulls …

2021-04-03: True story, my dissertation includes the statement, “I was wrong.” 📝

2021-04-02: 18 hrs post-vaccine woke up a little achey, a little lymph node-y. Not too bad but still planning to …

2021-04-01: 5 hrs post-vaccine, feeling fuzzy-headed and mildly achey, chills receded but I bet they’ll be …

2021-04-01: J&J vaccine, side effects (or psychosomatic effects?) settling in after 3 hours: vague malaise, …

2021-04-01: This windblown lady is vaccinated and waiting outside the Cookout Walk Up Window for a celebratory …

2021-03-30: Thinking of launching an academic editing service explicitly targeted to scholars who are also …

2021-03-29: I did the My Next Move interests profile and it says I should be an information research scientist. …

2021-03-28: Being in a “life happens” moment myself (finishing my dissertation), I originally missed …

2021-03-25: Watching My Neighbor Totoro & my kid is saying that I’m like Mama Kusakabe because we both …

2021-03-23: My kid’s over here telling his dad a Magic Treehouse/Wild Kratts crossover story. 💗💓📚📺

2021-03-23: Want to read: The Writer’s Practice by John Warner 📚

2021-03-22: I’m finishing up my PhD this May! I have a lot of possibilities for what’s next; I would …

2021-03-22: It's spring and my dissertation is submitted! Let's do all the things! It feels like submitting my dissertation has freed up an immense amount of space in my head and …

2021-03-21: Want to read: When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong 📚

2021-03-18: 4yo: What are you defending? Me: My dissertation. 4yo: Why do you have to defend it? Me:

2021-03-18: Friend: I was thinking like I needed to get in my 10,000 hours and be an expert. Me: The 10,000 …

2021-03-17: Here’s a proposed title for my memoir, inspired by me being aggressively helped at a friend …

2021-03-17: You know that thing where you’ve pursued something long enough that now you’ve pretty …

2021-03-17: Debating with myself about regalia since I’m not going to an in-person ceremony. Definitely …

2021-03-16: “The academy is not designed to accommodate women, families, or the demands of modern …

2021-03-16: “[The graduate program] hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus …

2021-03-16: “Lives matter more than careers. Focus on building the life you want rather than pursuing the …

2021-03-16: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic by Katie Rose Guest Pryal 📚

2021-03-16: 🔖 What are we folding when we are folding laundry in quarantine is a beautiful poem by Sarah Ruhl. …

2021-03-16: 🔖 I love this take. I’d love to see it even more fleshed out: WandaVision Is Basically a …

2021-03-16: Apparently it’s going to be an up-every-two-hours kind of night.

2021-03-15: SAVE THE DATE! My dissertation defense is set for April 14th from 1 - 3 pm. It will be held via …

2021-03-12: Sewing is not going great because my machine is old and unhelpful and difficult to find a manual …

2021-03-12: I threaded a needle and pulled up the bobbin thread! 🧵

2021-03-12: I wound a bobbin! 🧵

2021-03-11: Taking a mini-spring break over UNC’s Wellness Days & the weekend, including bailing on …

2021-03-09: No YOU meant to go to bed an hour ago but got distracted by online window-shopping for sewing …

2021-03-09: I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent my finished, formatted dissertation to my advisor, who will …

2021-03-08: We are now at the “Watch Studio Ghibli instead of PBS Kids” stage of the pandemic. 🍿

2021-03-08: In the process of scheduling and thought to myself I should be sure to invite my Grandmomma. 😢

2021-03-07: Catching up on MCU. My favorite parts of Daredevil S2 are when Matt Murdock & Frank Castle have …

2021-03-06: Me, justifying my discussion chapter to the committee in my head: It’s only 1/3 of a …

2021-03-06: I may have finished my discussion chapter. I definitely sent it off to my advisor.

2021-03-05: Discussion section: behind the scenes [Alt text: A piece of paper showing a black and white diagram …

2021-03-05: Wrote ~1200 words. Time for a cake break! 🍰 Oh no, there’s no cake! Time for a donut break! 🍩

2021-03-05: Today’s writing music: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Original Soundtrack SQUARE ENIX MUSIC

2021-03-05: Me, this morning: Sure buddy, I’ll find those missing toys for you! Me, after taking …

2021-03-04: I’m thisclose to requesting submissions for a WandaVision digital zine. To be edited AFTER I …

2021-03-04: As long as I defend before the semester is over I’m good. On the off chance my post-defense …

2021-03-04: Today: Day 3 of garbage sleep. Empathetically worried about funding for the PhD cohorts coming up …

2021-03-04: 🔖 This piece about WandaVision & fan theories has me musing on the difference between trying to …

2021-03-04: 🔖 This piece about WandaVision and fan theories has me thinking about fannish meta and where it …

2021-03-04: Finishing my PhD & launching information consulting has me basically pretending I’m Dr. …

2021-03-03: You know how sometimes you serendipitously learn about a theoretical framework that’s going to …

2021-03-03: My kid woke me up an hour early and I added ~1500 words to my discussion chapter today, plus pulled …

2021-03-03: Want to read: How Humans Learn by Joshua R. Eyler 📚

2021-03-03: Want to read: The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey 📚

2021-03-03: Today in the Hundred Acre Wood: Piglet might have the coronavirus but he’s asymptomatic; Pooh, …

2021-03-03: I’ll say this (among other things) for being a part-time stay-at-home mom/part-time scholar: …

2021-03-03: I remember when MCU fans were clamoring for WandaVision to reveal its big bad already & Ashley …

2021-03-02: Is there anything more attractive than an attractive person writing a grant application & …

2021-03-02: 🔖 These images of comic book heroes redrawn to have average body types are fascinating from a …

2021-03-02: 🔖 Check out Riana Mckeith’s period-appropriate cartoon homages to WandaVision. So great! It …

2021-03-01: I just reviewed my advisor’s notes on the first 6 chapters of my dissertation (Intro, 2 Lit …

2021-03-01: What I’m learning from the MCU (caught up on WandaVision & currently watching Agents of …

2021-03-01: There are a lot of hard moments as a parent. I tend to share moments like this: M. quietly building …

2021-03-01: Want to read: Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science by Anna Reser and Leila McNeill 📚

2021-03-01: Trusting my (book blogging) intuition Fourteen years ago, I started a book blog - or, as I called it at the time, a reading journal. I …

2021-02-27: Just finished the introduction to SUCCEEDING OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY. Excited to read the rest. It seems …

2021-02-26: I woke up with a migraine today. I’ve had enough caffeine that it’s significantly …

2021-02-26: Do I know anybody who works in youth services in the Wake County Public Libraries? If you do, will …

2021-02-26: I may have added, um, 40 pages (mostly quotes and tables) to my findings chapter in revision…

2021-02-25: Okay. I finished pulling quotes from the last interview. I was like, “Cool! Time to move on to …

2021-02-25: Only one interview left to pull quotes from for my findings chapter and then I can move on to the …

2021-02-24: Just updated my Fan Studies in LIS page to include some scholars I met at FSNNA20!

2021-02-24: OKAY. I finished pulling quotes from that giant and awesome interview. Three more interviews left to …

2021-02-24: It’s a good day for lying on a hammock and listening to an audiobook. 📷

2021-02-23: Hello today I think my ideal job would be to read books and then write essays (not straight up …

2021-02-23: I’m writing through a migraine right now. I have this one participant interview that’s …

2021-02-23: I finished reading Mona Awad’s BUNNY last night. I can’t even write a review of it …

2021-02-22: Finished reading: Bunny by Mona Awad 📚

2021-02-22: My current writing process: mine one interview for quotes. Read a chapter of BUNNY by Mona Awad. …

2021-02-22: Finished reading: Keep Going by Austin Kleon 📚

2021-02-22: I should hang this Austin Kleon drawing from p. 165 of KEEP GOING up in my home office. …

2021-02-21: “Art Monsters are not necessary or glamorous and they are not to be condoned, pardoned, or …

2021-02-19: Just gonna give up all other pursuits and devote my life to writing Muppet Show friendfic from now …

2021-02-19: I have so many happy Muppet Show feelings. Every time Fozzie is on screen my brain almost literally …

2021-02-19: The latest episode of WandaVision has given me a new cosplay goal… 📺

2021-02-19: Give Kathryn Hahn an Emmy. 📺

2021-02-19: 🔖 This is a library that is also a theater. I want to go to there.

2021-02-18: Want to read: Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South by Regina Bradley 📚

2021-02-17: Sent off my methodology chapter today. It only needed a little revision, mostly moving stuff from it …

2021-02-17: Renee Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler) sings the theme song for the new Muppet Babies. This …

2021-02-16: I’m actually enjoying messing around on the Internet for a while and some water started …

2021-02-16: Hello! I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent a theory chapter off to my advisor. You should be …

2021-02-16: 🔖 If you love beautiful writing with a wistful vibe, you should be reading Jess Zimmerman’s …

2021-02-15: 🔖 Y’all, Sir Ian McKellen has been blogging about his work since he started working on …

2021-02-15: 🔖 Go read what Tim Carmody has to say about two songs from “The Muppet Movie”. I’m …

2021-02-15: “Wellness” day #1: Wrote ~1700 words for my dissertation, outlined the methods section …

2021-02-15: Here are some things I’m not interested in: content marketing lead magnets analytics …

2021-02-14: 🔖 The spellbinding history of cheese and witchcraft is the witchy content I didn’t know I …

2021-02-14: I’m so psyched to read all the articles fan studies scholars are going to write about …

2021-02-14: Doing more lurking/replying than posting rn. I’ve blocked Twitter on my phone. It redirects me …

2021-02-14: Want to read: Bookish Broads by Lauren Marino 📚

2021-02-13: Want to read: We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman 📚

2021-02-11: I added >1000 words to the theory chapter of my dissertation today. I’ve still a ways to …

2021-02-10: 🔖 One option the New York Times didn’t mention in their piece about keeping a digital …

2021-02-10: It was kind of fun to see one of my drama professors from undergrad in M. L. Rio’s …

2021-02-10: Finished reading: If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio 📚

2021-02-10: 🔖 This deep-dive into fans reverse-engineering knitwear like Bernie’s mittens & the fourth …

2021-02-10: 🔖 Jess Zimmerman’s latest Dead Channel compares the old Internet to Faerie & tackles what …

2021-02-09: Got about 500 words written today. Hoping to go faster moving forward. I slept poorly last night and …

2021-02-09: I’ve been low-key reading all the tie-in comics for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in release …

2021-02-09: Want to read: Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee 📚

2021-02-08: Making progress on both dissertation & assistantship today. Beginning to feel like I might get …

2021-02-08: 🔖 My granddaddy got his Ed. D. in 1972 and I just found the record for his dissertation in the UF …

2021-02-08: Writing that theory chapter…

2021-02-08: We went to the NC Museum of Art Park as a family Saturday. It was a really nice change of pace from …

2021-02-06: In case you’re following along, this morning the impostor syndrome was so bad I could feel it …

2021-02-05: 🔖 Highly recommended: Library Ambience Sounds for Studying / Relaxing White Noise.

2021-02-05: Okay. Reorganized my work and my thinking and feeling better about my ability to be the kind of …

2021-02-05: New plans for this afternoon: Eat. Cry. Get back to work.

2021-02-05: I feel like Charlie in Flowers for Algernon, knowing he used to be smart. I think, “Remember …

2021-02-05: Every once in a while early Sesame Street drops in a random Carol Burnett segment and it brings me …

2021-02-05: 🔖 In Back-Talking The Tone Police: Book People Are Not Your Enemy, Tika Vateri says all the things I …

2021-02-04: Y’all RiffTrax is doing a Star Trek: Generations watch along tonight and if my kid is asleep …

2021-02-04: The pandemic is making my brain not. Dissertating during a pandemic is not easy. Maintaining concentration is a real challenge. Before …

2021-02-04: Hello! Today I’m (not) enjoying some musculoskeletal pain. How are things with you?

2021-02-03: Me: reviews dissertation feedback and writes down 5 questions for meeting tomorrow w/advisor & …

2021-02-03: Great question from Jen Polk (@FromPhDtoLife) that it’d help me if you answer: What do I do …

2021-02-03: I have so many thoughts about information literacy and they’re so timely. It would be …

2021-02-02: I’m reading IF WE WERE VILLAINS by M. L. Rio & it does this interesting thing where you …

2021-02-02: I’m doing a daily tarot pull starting today. Four cards popped out of the deck at me today. …

2021-02-02: Me: Why is my neck hurting? Child: climbs on my neck Me: Oh.

2021-02-01: Every night I lie in my kid’s bed until he falls asleep and every night I wish someone would …

2021-01-31: I’ve got that sweet, sweet book hangover where you finish reading and then look around and …

2021-01-31: Finished reading: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 📚

2021-01-31: I’m having to remind myself that the reason a 2 yr ethnographic dissertation I’m reading …

2021-01-29: GENTLE WRITING ADVICE: You could write some words sometime if you feel like it, but if you’re …

2021-01-29: The model for a dissertation defense in my head is still f2f. When I try to envision my inevitable …

2021-01-29: 🔖 I am a Book Person. I don’t love the shots this piece takes at Book People, but I appreciate …

2021-01-28: Just got “Wait, you’re KIBA?” for the first time in several years and it still …

2021-01-28: Anything that restores you isn’t a waste of time.

2021-01-27: If I have any friends/followers diagnosed with hEDS or HSD who would be willing to talk with me …

2021-01-27: How are you holding up? Here's what's up with me. How are you holding up? Are you holding up? I have a headache today. I really want to write about …

2021-01-27: Hi. I’m Kimberly, and everything you need to know about me can be summed up by the fact that …

2021-01-26: Just over here having an anxiety attack about taking my car to the mechanic for some routine work …

2021-01-25: If somebody could get on replacing Larry in “Pinky & the Brain & Larry” with …

2021-01-25: It’s here! Yay! #AcademicTarot @CoyoteAndBones

2021-01-25: 🔖 The Power of German Playwright Bertholt Brecht’s V-Effekt: Oliver Mayer discusses the connection …

2021-01-25: 🔖 What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction‘?: Soledad Fox Maura writes about why we need to …

2021-01-24: 🔖 An old piece that the Rec Center brought to my attention: How Writing Fanfic Introduced Me To …

2021-01-24: Finished reading: Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan 📚

2021-01-23: 📺 Ugh, Dr. Pulaski is the worst. 🖖

2021-01-23: 🔖 I continue to be proud of my city: Durham Moves to Protect Residents Against Natural Hair …

2021-01-23: Want to read: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein 📚

2021-01-23: Finished reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan 📚

2021-01-22: Putting the person back in my personal website I kind of want to put the person back in my personal website. Not that it isn’t personal - …

2021-01-22: 🔖I went into reading this expecting a fluff piece. I came out of it with a reminder of the spiritual …

2021-01-22: 🔖This interview is extremely validating! Just Move: Scientist Author Debunks Myths About Exercise …

2021-01-21: Who has two thumbs and just applied to be a Star Wars librarian for the summer? This Kimberly!

2021-01-21: 🔖 Gaby has curated an amazing collection of Bernie memes. The Beetlejuice and Clerks ones are my …

2021-01-21: Last “What’s next?” question! If you’d like to help, please complete this …

2021-01-20: I’ve just finished creating my dissertation revisions matrix. Only 41 comments! Granted, one …

2021-01-20: What’s next? Part 2! If you’d like to help, please complete this sentence: “I …

2021-01-20: 🔖Paging Through Broadway While the Stages Are Dark: 2020 was supposed to be the year I got back into …

2021-01-19: 🔖 The Deep Sadness of Marvel’s WandaVision: This is the kind of WandaVision thinkpiece I want. 📺

2021-01-19: We are now at the stage of the pandemic/coup/grief process where I decide that I attended a single …

2021-01-19: I only just realized that to understand how information literacy has been conceptualized over time, …

2021-01-19: Getting real vulnerable! Want to help me plan for what’s next? Complete this statement: …

2021-01-19: Why yes, I am prioritizing #MuppetTwitter today.

2021-01-19: If Buffy Summers were real she’d be 40 years old today.

2021-01-19: Here’s my personal affirmation for the foreseeable future: DO WHAT I CAN, WHEN I CAN.

2021-01-18: Okay TNG friends. I made it through “Skin of Evil.” It’s all uphill from here …

2021-01-18: HEY I DID A THING! It was for my assistantship and not my dissertation but still. YAY ME!

2021-01-18: I put in a grocery order so now it’s time to crochet and watch TNG, yeah? I woke up this …

2021-01-17: Novel I’m reading: includes chapter that is just the text of an imaginary academic journal …

2021-01-17: Well my grandmother must have really crossed over, in my own estimation anyway, because I just woke …

2021-01-17: I'm still grieving my grandmother and I don't feel like doing anything. It’s been two weeks and a day since my grandmother died, and I don’t feel like doing …

2021-01-17: 🔖 In “The Black Casting Choices in BRIDGERTON Were…A Choice”, Jessica Pryde explains the …

2021-01-15: 🔖 This is really cool. I hope that in addition to making it possible for scholarship recipients to …

2021-01-15: I wonder how much of my lingering 90s cyberutopianism is because I forget the internet is not …

2021-01-15: 📺 I know the consensus is that Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation is Not Good, but I find a …

2021-01-14: I crack up every time M. & I watch the Emotions episode of Storybots Super Songs because a kid …

2021-01-13: I’m pretty sure Kermit the Frog is my oldest friend.

2021-01-11: This morning M. told me, “I’m not an architologyist,” and when I asked what an …

2021-01-10: 📺 Me, a former educator, watching the new Saved by the Bell: This is really good, but I feel like …

2021-01-08: 📺 I’ve been watching Bridgerton & aside from the obvious fact that Lady Danbury & …

2021-01-07: My kid is pulling toys out of bins and saying what they are… “Spider-Man’s car, a …

2021-01-05: I look like I’m dicking around on my phone but really I’m despairing about the future.

2021-01-05: 🔖🍿 The Wonder Woman Movies Have a Women Problem A great analysis with ideas for how Wonder Woman …

2021-01-05: I’m officially Not Okay: I just created a new WordPress install for a new website I’ve …

2021-01-05: How am I only just now realizing that the Holodeck is a very high tech LARP environment?

2021-01-05: Apparently this week I’m going to be awake at night and sleep in the afternoon. Cool cool …

2021-01-04: I might also read more Dawn of X and play Two Dots.

2021-01-04: Hello. I want to want to do things but I do not want to do things, so I will be alternating between …

2021-01-04: I really did not spend this holiday “break” how I expected to, and now all I can do is …

2021-01-04: Which stage of grief is the not-sleeping-because-you-are-contemplating-your-own-denial one? My …

2021-01-03: Probably gonna cry thanks to the crushing weight of (gesturing at the world) all this, and I’m …

2021-01-03: 🍿 Watched Wonder Woman 1984. Was it flawless? No. Did the fact that it was a Wonder Woman movie and …

2021-01-02: My grandmother Nita died this morning. She loved us all so much and always welcomed us to her home, …

2021-01-01: 🔖 Tips for Starting a Bookstagram: Getting started in the bookish corner of Instagram can be …

2021-01-01: Currently reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan 📚

2021-01-01: Want to read: The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century …

2021-01-01: Want to read: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman 📚

2020-12-31: Me at 5 am: It’s fine, I’ll take a nap this afternoon. Me at 5 pm: Why would I nap when …

2020-12-31: 2020 Year-in-Review & 2021 Word of the First Quarter I just re-read my 2019 Year-in-Review & 2020 Word of the Year blog post, published a little over …

2020-12-31: 🔖 Yes to Masks. No to Parties. 2021 Will Be a Lot Like 2020: disheartening, but not surprising.

2020-12-31: 🔖 Run, Die, Repeat: How Roguelike Games Helped Us Get Through 2020 - Roguelikes reflect not only the …

2020-12-31: Here are my goals for 2021: Learn about pain management & find pain management that works for …

2020-12-31: Want to read: Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt 📚

2020-12-30: 📚 Friends, there are at least two modern retellings of Jane Eyre coming out this year: The Wife …

2020-12-29: 🔖 Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us I will never not appreciate Ed Yong.

2020-12-29: 🔖 The Vaccine Rollout’s Known Knowns and More In Zeynep Tufecki’s Insight newsletter, …

2020-12-29: 🔖 The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable I don’t have a word for how this article …

2020-12-29: Time to crowdsource a tagline! I’m going to start calling myself a Consulting …

2020-12-28: More dark academia books! The Lessons, Naomi Alderman The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis Possession, A. …

2020-12-28: Me to W: You know how you sometimes for fun you give people advice on research design in a Fan …

2020-12-28: Want to read: Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas 📚

2020-12-28: Want to read: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth 📚

2020-12-28: I bought myself a Theracane and it’s not arriving until Thursday. I’m really looking …

2020-12-27: Currently reading: The Iliad by Homer; Caroline Alexander (translator) 📚

2020-12-27: 🗯️ Read Lore Olympus episodes 1 - 10. Gorgeous art, fun characterization, planning to keep going.

2020-12-27: 🎮 Currently playing Hades on Nintendo Switch. Been coveting this for a while, so when W. suggested …

2020-12-27: I’m still obsessed with Dark Academia. Here are some books I’ve read or will read that …

2020-12-27: Currently reading: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 📚

2020-12-26: Living with chronic illness is really hard and I don’t like it.

2020-12-26: 🔖Humans Used to Sleep in Two Shifts, And Maybe We Should Start It Again via @Miraz Humans Used to Sleep in Two Shifts, And Maybe We Should Start It Again …

2020-12-26: 🔖 How Literary Female Friendships Shaped the Fiction Market This piece by Sarah Lonsdale describes the kind of literary friendship I fantasize about having. Who …

2020-12-25: Also, I don’t know who in the SNL writers’ room is a mom, but solidarity, friend.

2020-12-25: To those of you who celebrate Christmas and have children, I hope your kids’ joy offsets your …

2020-12-24: I have so many thoughts on Jingle Jangle! This article about how the movie centers Black Girl Magic …

2020-12-24: Netflix: 22 minutes left in Jingle Jangle! Me: 😭🥺💗💞💗🥺😭

2020-12-24: Jingle Jangle: has huge climactic sequence with positive resolution Netflix time bar: shows 36 …

2020-12-23: Today has been the kind of day where you lie down on the floor after wrapping the Christmas presents …

2020-12-23: One song into Jingle Jangle and I’m aching for more R&B musicals - originals, not juke box …

2020-12-23: The results of this Spotify-evaluating AI are hilarious. Enya + The Lonely Island are peak Kimberly …

2020-12-22: My child: “I learned a valuable lesson today.” W: “What’s that, …

2020-12-22: Rachel Reichenbach’s Why your Instagram Engagement Kinda Sucks Right Now explains so much. I …

2020-12-21: Finished reading: Dawn of X, Volume 2 📚

2020-12-21: My Reading Year 2020 It’s the most wonderful time of the year, which has nothing to do with any gift-giving related …

2020-12-21: Finished reading: Dawn of X, Volume 1 📚

2020-12-20: Finished reading: Powers of X # 1 - 6 📚

2020-12-20: Finished reading: House of X # 1 - 6 📚

2020-12-19: Current status: https://partlynn.tumblr.com/post/186963632813/artpigeons-tragicallybeautifultiger

2020-12-18: Elizabeth Minkel’s The Year of Loving Things Again, published in December 2017, resonates …

2020-12-18: I don’t want to spoil The Mandalorian finale much, so I’ll just say that technology used …

2020-12-18: My Most Memorable Christmas Presents from Childhood I’m really on a break now - had my last business-ish meeting yesterday, no Zoom calls …

2020-12-17: Sufganiyot! Easy jelly donut recipe from The Nosher.

2020-12-17: I have been having this problem all week where I sit down and then I need to eat but eating would …

2020-12-16: At Literary Mama, Victoria Livingstone writes about how the tasks of motherhood that “cannot …

2020-12-15: Crocheting while watching Clone Wars is very pleasant.

2020-12-15: I’m experimenting with using Notion for weekly and daily planning. I put my most important …

2020-12-14: Got myself a Hanukkah present from Everyday Magic & it arrived today. Rededication body butter …

2020-12-14: Okay but what if a manatee had a narwhal tusk.

2020-12-13: 🔖 Laurie Penny’s WIRED piece about falling in love over Zoom is one of the most hopeful things …

2020-12-13: 🔖 This NPR piece about keeping warm and embracing wintry outdoor adventures is exactly the kind of …

2020-12-11: Just a little light reading from sister.is on the first day of my break from my dissertation.

2020-12-11: Baby’s first latkes. (I am the baby in question, and it’s my first time making them, not …

2020-12-11: The dissertation revision nightmares have started, so, that’s cool.

2020-12-10: So what I learned from Disney Investors Day is that Muppets Now is probably the last Muppets content …

2020-12-10: Dissertation Draft Finished + Pandemic Parenting and My Body I sent off the introduction chapter for my dissertation to my advisor a few minutes ago. I also …

2020-12-10: That feeling when you decide to cut a big chunk of your outline out of your dissertation intro …

2020-12-09: Want to read: The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel 📚

2020-12-09: I really enjoyed reading this piece about Star Wars stormtrooper strategy & tactics, which is …

2020-12-08: This is just to say I have eaten the kisses that looked like Santa hats and which I said I was …

2020-12-08: Instead of the usual fullscreen symbol, the PBS Kids website video player has a circle with the word …

2020-12-07: Household division of labor: W - cooks, cleans, does yardwork, generates 80% of household income, …

2020-12-07: I’m really hung up on how nothing is neutral and every decision, intentionally or not, is …

2020-12-07: If you’re into it, Star Wars is pretty much the ultimate in comfort media, so I’m going …

2020-12-07: The Imagined Academia and How I Still Love It I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. I’ve spent my whole …

2020-12-06: You know when you are writing and then ideas start flowing and words come out of you expressing …

2020-12-06: I am so close to done with my discussion chapter with almost 3 hours of childcare left to go! Time …

2020-12-06: Finished reading: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 📚

2020-12-04: When you’re pretty much secular, but descended from 2 faith traditions and mostly just really …

2020-12-04: I'm Jew-ish, but not Jewish. I know Hanukkah is not a major religious holiday. But my connection with Jewish heritage and culture …

2020-12-03: Making stuff is a vulnerable act. The end of a PhD is a weird time, especially if you don’t have your eyes set on the …

2020-12-03: I’m just gonna buy 8 matching purple sweatsuits and say I’m cosplaying as Kate Bishop …

2020-12-03: Pretending that signing up for texts from Zooey Deschanel’s community.com number is the same …

2020-12-02: Updated my now page!

2020-12-02: I am not a piece of 💩 and neither are you. Austin Kleon says to write the book you want to read. If I were to write a book in this moment - …

2020-12-02: Check me out with my #wipwednesday. This is the beginning of the Habitat Cardigan. Lion Brand …

2020-12-01: This is how my year sounded on @Spotify. Get your 2020 Wrapped now #2020Wrapped …

2020-12-01: I'm pressing publish every day with Leonie. I woke up this morning to an email in my inbox from Leonie Dawson’s newsletter, sharing that …

2020-11-30: Reading Chani Nicholas’s *You Were Born for This” and only tearing up a little at the …

2020-11-30: You, a reasonable person: Don’t you have a dissertation to finish? Me, a Kimberly: Okay but …

2020-11-30: Okay okay but hear me out: what if you ALSO watched the OLD Animaniacs on Hulu?

2020-11-30: What’s a weird skill you have that you will possibly never use again? I’m REALLY good at …

2020-11-30: I wrote a page in my Discussion/Conclusions chapter! YAY ME! (Turns out trying to move discussions …

2020-11-30: Present Kimberly is over here agonizing about the discussion piece of her dissertation. Meanwhile, …

2020-11-29: Holidays are lovely but I have to give myself time to recover after them. (The thing about having …

2020-11-28: My kid just explained to me an imaginary informational text he has that explains why Grinches …

2020-11-26: I’m 20 minutes into Happiest Season and it is every bit as cute as I thought it would be, …

2020-11-26: Oh right. Knitting stresses me out. Better for re-learning when I have the bandwidth for something …

2020-11-26: I think it’s time for me to re-learn to knit. I find myself craving the kinds of textures that …

2020-11-26: I have only dabbled in Horse Girlery, but I’m delighted by Polygon’s Horse Girl Canon. …

2020-11-25: It’s happening.

2020-11-25: I’m super thankful for my fellow doc students, who today have dropped off a laser printer and …

2020-11-25: I’ve been enjoying the Animaniacs reboot, while not finding it as rapturous as the Animaniacs …

2020-11-25: I’ve been enjoying the Animaniacs reboot, while not finding it as rapturous as the Animaniacs …

2020-11-25: My advisor just said “Let’s enjoy our time off!” which is code for “Stop …

2020-11-24: Worn down to a nub from moming. Retreating to bed. Definitely going to sleep, NOT to watch The …

2020-11-24: My kid just told me I’m “very proper” because I want him to “put on all the …

2020-11-23: Me: Okay, I’m going to finish reading Frankenstein. W: Didn’t you finish reading that …

2020-11-23: I'm having trouble with my dissertation discussion. My goal for November’s #AcWriMo was to write the discussion chapter for my dissertation. After …

2020-11-22: Finished reading: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 📚

2020-11-22: My household will be celebrating the Yule Book Flood this year. I can’t afford to buy everyone …

2020-11-21: Bare tree branches against a clear blue sky remind me of lace.

2020-11-20: On some level, THE MANDALORIAN really is just about parenting a young child. “Don’t eat …

2020-11-20: Want to read: Ruinsong by Julia Ember 📚

2020-11-20: Just got an email inviting me to join a network of patient influencers because I’m active in …

2020-11-20: I’m happy to have new Animaniacs and I’m also happy to have old Animaniacs.

2020-11-20: My kid woke me up at the wrong moment in my sleep cycle and I’m pretty sure I’m going to …

2020-11-19: When writing is both scholarly and beautiful, that’s a sweet spot.

2020-11-18: WHERE DID NOVEMBER GO?

2020-11-18: Just cleaned the 15+ yrs of storage gunk (not too bad really) off my sewing machine. EXCITEMENT!

2020-11-18: Say what you will about screen time, when my kid and I binge-watch remote library storytimes he gets …

2020-11-17: No YOU’RE spending too much time looking at vintage tartan and/or velvet blazers on Etsy.

2020-11-17: But before I go I’m just going to say that listening to my genius husband present about …

2020-11-17: Today, because we’re on migraine day 3, I’m looking for scientific evidence that when I …

2020-11-17: Welcome to Kimberly’s Migraine Day 3, brought to you by Lowered Estrogen and Serotonin!

2020-11-17: You ever watch a rom-com & forget the characters don’t know they’re in a rom-com? …

2020-11-16: Y’all I am so scared about this current COVID surge. I haven’t had a real strong COVID …

2020-11-16: Tonight my kid requested a bedtime story about @emilyvgordon & @kumailn’s cat, Bagel, and …

2020-11-16: Y’all, the Rockapella Holiday album is… different than I expected.

2020-11-16: I coded an interview with a migraine. Aren’t you impressed?

2020-11-15: This thread terrifies me. It’s looking like we’ve turned the corner at my house, so …

2020-11-15: Okay spoiler for Dash & Lily I guess but I have so much empathy for all the worried adults in …

2020-11-15: I just finished episode 2 of Dash & Lily (which, just like the book, I love) and spent WAY too …

2020-11-14: Our family has been exploring our playgroundless city parks. Today we went to Sandy Creek Park, …

2020-11-14: Want to read: a tumblr book by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill …

2020-11-13: Put Bert & Ernie Sing-Along on while my kid was in the bath this morning and we’re …

2020-11-13: Added details to my discussion chapter outline, input new code system into data analysis software, …

2020-11-13: It’s possible I am putting way too much thought into this discussion chapter.

2020-11-13: I did what I wanted during my PhD and I regret nothing. Six months ago today, Inger Mewburn published the post, Where I call bullshit on the way we do the …

2020-11-13: Listen. If you want to get a jump on the winter holidays now with decorations and baking, I say go …

2020-11-12: Brain fog has returned but I got the kid to sit next to me instead of on me and squeezed in 5+ pages …

2020-11-12: Kimberly problems: when your brain fog lifts enough for you to read scholarship but you can’t …

2020-11-12: What do you think are my areas of expertise?

2020-11-11: The burnout is real. From September 8 to October 2, I attended a virtual dissertation writing boot camp. I have childcare …

2020-11-11: The more I go nowhere and do nothing, the more money I spend on books… Which is why …

2020-11-11: All 3 Roger Rabbit shorts are on Disney+, this is not a drill.

2020-11-10: Everything hurts but it’s too hot to wear my “everything hurts” sweatshirt: the …

2020-11-10: Current status: counting “figuring out which book will tell me how to write my discussion …

2020-11-10: Bunnies and fishes at For Garden’s Sake.

2020-11-10: Put on my podcast for M, who likes to listen to “the Mommy Podcast” and he said, …

2020-11-10: Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze Episode 3 - Teacher's Pet It’s here! The long-awaited all-librarian episode of my Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast! …

2020-11-09: I’m reasonably well-rested today and yet my brain still just… won’t.

2020-11-09: W & M were drawing boats so I drew mine but 1. I had to make it a shape I could sit in and 2. …

2020-11-08: I just took a minute to call my dad to see how he’s doing in the wake of Alex Trebek’s …

2020-11-07: Let’s keep working to make the unpocalypse happen.

2020-11-06: W. is reading The Magic Treehouse to M. Morgan le Fay: Most people call me an enchantress, but …

2020-11-06: I’ve updated my bullet journal & I think that’s my work for today. I’m giving …

2020-11-06: What if moving forward we took the energy people say we should spend on courting voters in whatever …

2020-11-05: Y’all getting any work done today, or no? I did one thing for my assistantship and made the …

2020-11-04: The comedic possibilities are inherent.

2020-11-04: I feel great affinity for the Mandalorian, because, like him, I am usually accompanied on my …

2020-11-04: My plan for coping for… oh, the rest of my life… is to read books and make stuff. Want …

2020-11-03: Finished reading: Show Your Work by Austin Kleon 📚

2020-11-02: Finished reading: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by …

2020-11-02: You know what isn’t great for my mental well-being as a student? Taking a required 45 minute …

2020-11-01: Logging off Twitter tonight and don’t expect to be back for a while… Will still …

2020-10-30: Blown away by Flow’s ability to get a piece on Cottagecore out while it’s still a thing. …

2020-10-30: Hey guess what, just submitted a THIRD chapter to my advisor! Worth noting that all of these have …

2020-10-29: Do you feel like you need a nap even after the most energizing of video calls? How do y’all …

2020-10-28: Hello I am Kimberly and I have now sent 2 completed chapter drafts to my advisor and expect to send …

2020-10-28: I joined some Discord servers related to my research interests and now my phone feels like the …

2020-10-28: 📚💬 “I’m a 21st-century American woman; I don’t have enough faith to covet anything …

2020-10-28: Feeling cute on a high-pain day. Not going to take it for granted.

2020-10-27: I just uploaded my #FSNNA20 poster, “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? The …

2020-10-27: One challenge with my research interests related to academic publishing is that a lot of them are …

2020-10-27: Co-star gets me. [Image reads “Your heart is a book.”]

2020-10-26: I’m very cranky today. I don’t like it. I don’t like who I feel like I am when I …

2020-10-25: Been trying to figure out who to cosplay for my dissertation defense. Needs to be professional, …

2020-10-25: I finished drafting a dissertation chapter (I’ve had 4 almost finished chapters for a couple …

2020-10-25: See this is why we read in the original language if we can: Caesar says the Rhine bends toward Ursa …

2020-10-25: If you’ve been away from Latin for 10+ years but want to return to reading it as a hobby, …

2020-10-24: Things my kid said tonight: “Mommy, you’ll never be a doctor.” 💔 “I’m …

2020-10-23: Finished reading: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 📚

2020-10-23: I think… I think I just don’t enjoy consuming Actual Play content and maybe …

2020-10-22: Okay seriously is anyone keeping any of their shit together right now?

2020-10-22: 📽️ I just finished watching REBECCA on Netflix and it’s… fine. But it’s not …

2020-10-21: Heeeey, just over here psyching myself up to revisit Chapter 11 - Trustworthiness - in Lincoln & …

2020-10-21: Conversation with friends: Tweens - Who’s cute Teen - Who’s dating 20s - Good food 30s - …

2020-10-20: I read this piece & I need a cold shower. Gonna be intense when I finally read CARMILLA. …

2020-10-19: Over at University of Venus, Mary Churchill asks about The Day After: What will you do on November …

2020-10-19: I went to #FSNNA20 and it was awesome. I “went” to the Fan Studies Network North America conference last week. It was awesome. …

2020-10-17: Want to read: Maximizing the Impacts of Academic Research by Jane Tinkler and Patrick Dunleavy 📚

2020-10-17: Want to read: Raising the Resistance A Mother’s Guide to Practical Activism by Farrah …

2020-10-16: Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze - Witch I’m experimenting with podcasting about whatever I want. Here’s episode 2 of my Buffy podcast, …

2020-10-16: M & I have been watching Netflix’s Bookmarks today. Grace Byers’s I AM ENOUGH is so …

2020-10-13: If #FSNNA20 were a meatspace conference and I was there, I would not be berating myself for not …

2020-10-13: Just added a note to include as a limitation in my dissertation that my methods don’t capture …

2020-10-12: Dreamed this morning I was at my co-working space w/Glen Weldon (@ghweldon) & he would not stop …

2020-10-12: Portrait of an awesome life partnership: you get the kid down to sleep and then chat in the #FSNNA20 …

2020-10-12: Pleased as can be to be hanging out @ #FSNNA20 this week. You can find me in Discord primarily …

2020-10-12: Is anybody out there managing to be even mediocre at both parenting & working right now? Because …

2020-10-11: Current dissertation status: 4 chapters begun but with holes to fill, 116 pages. 1 chapter …

2020-10-10: 📚 Reading Sarah Kendzior’s (@sarahkendzior) book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT & had to take a …

2020-10-09: I definitely just handed The Teacher from the Black Lagoon to my kid thinking it was Miss Nelson Is …

2020-10-07: My kid is 4 and I might almost be ready to share my birthing story but not yet. It’s my kid’s birthday today, and thus my birthing day. It’s interesting that the …

2020-10-05: I did a dissertation bootcamp last week and honestly I feel like I need a break. We spent some time …

2020-10-03: Today I learned that my kid’s teacher plays tabletop RPGs. ♥️ (I did not ask her if I could …

2020-10-02: Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze - Welcome to the Hellmouth and The Harvest I’m experimenting with podcasting about whatever I want. I’ve got 3 finished episodes of …

2020-10-02: My not-quite-4yo just told me that the famous quote from The New Colossus begins “Give me all …

2020-10-02: Listening to M. & W. play that they are the kids from The Magic Treehouse and have wished their …

2020-10-01: Welcome to October, y’all.

2020-09-30: In recent weeks I have watched all of Sherlock, finished tonight. It was fun, then it wasn’t …

2020-09-30: I’m presenting my virtual poster, “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? The …

2020-09-29: Hello. I am tired and sweaty. Dissertation boot camp is pretty serious. ♥️

2020-09-29: Today is a screaming 3yo day. I love my child and I find his screaming stressful.

2020-09-28: Hello, it’s coffee and chocolate o’clock.

2020-09-28: Dissertation boot camp week: conserving spoons in the morning so I can write hard in the afternoon. …

2020-09-27: Finished reading: Dracula by Bram Stoker 📚

2020-09-26: Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is …

2020-09-26: Fascinating: Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait via Dan Cohen I’ve …

2020-09-25: I’m kind of loving my messy, curly, 38% Ashkenazi hair today. (Image heavily filtered, of …

2020-09-25: I’m worried about Kimberly. Kimberly is tired & overwhelmed. Kimberly has lots of tools to …

2020-09-24: Me: Meh, I guess I should dress professionally for this remote group career coaching session. throws …

2020-09-24: My kid is watching @JimTheLibrarian’s Dinosaur Storytime. Kid said, “Maybe I’ll …

2020-09-23: HELLO I DON’T WANT TO STAY MOTIVATED AND ON TRACK. I WANT TO WALLOW AND READ GOTHIC NOVELS.

2020-09-22: Want to read: Can’t Even by Anne Helen Petersen 📚

2020-09-21: I ordered a used copy of a paperback that was published in 1969. It was listed as being in good …

2020-09-21: 📚 A morbid longing for the picturesque: Donna Tartt's THE SECRET HISTORY Has a book ever broken you? By that I mean, all books after it suffered in comparison for some …

2020-09-19: If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested. -Austin Kleon, SHOW YOUR WORK, p. 131

2020-09-18: Finished reading: The Secret History by Donna Tartt 📚

2020-09-18: I saw the news about Justice Ginsburg while my husband was reading bedtime stories to my son. I felt …

2020-09-17: Want to read: She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh …

2020-09-17: Want to read: Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom 📚

2020-09-17: I don’t feel like writing an informative blog post today. It feels like a day for writing …

2020-09-16: W: I would encourage you to have lunch. Me: I will, but right now I’m writing. (Y’ALL. I …

2020-09-16: Please do not ask me how many times my son and I have watched the Courtney 1986 music video from …

2020-09-15: Me to M & W: These days, besides you guys, books are my best friends. W: These days?

2020-09-14: Visualization to help us choose our next steps I was reading some of Jen Polk’s blog archives a while back and came across a post about a …

2020-09-12: I have named my aesthetic and it is witchy sparkle romantigothabilly academia.

2020-09-11: Three flavors of learning I’ve flirted on and off with #100DaysOfCode over the past few years, and always quit when I …

2020-09-10: Jen Polk (@FromPhDtoLife) has created an amazing reading list for grad students and PhDs exploring …

2020-09-10: 15 years of blogging (and 3 reasons I keep going) - Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) writes about why he …

2020-09-10: New profile pic. I think we all knew that a headshot where I look like I dgaf would give way to one …

2020-09-10: Finished reading: The Freelance Academic by Katie Rose Guest Pryal 📚

2020-09-09: 🔖Lee Skallerup Bessette sums up so much: Just because its hard, doesn’t mean it’s good and when …

2020-09-09: A quick note on MEXICAN GOTHIC 📚 I may receive a commission for any purchase you make through a link on this post. This book is SO …

2020-09-09: My first PSL of the season. I waited until Bean Traders had them.

2020-09-08: I was already clued in to post-ac/alt-ac possibilities before beginning my PhD. For some reason, …

2020-09-08: I need to re-write my dissertation proposal, for myself. I’ve been a bit stuck with my dissertation, and only partly due to parenting and chronic …

2020-09-08: Me, browsing Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) website after reading about her in Katie Rose …

2020-09-07: I’m out on timelines and feeds for a while, folks. Taking some time to be really intentional …

2020-09-07: In which I have a mid-life crisis and freak out about schooling as a societal... thing. Woo Dead Poets Society! 📽️ I’ve been pulled deep into Dark Academia’s orbit, because it is the aesthetic I’ve …

2020-09-06: Finished reading: MEXICAN GOTHIC by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚

2020-09-06: 📽️ Just finished watching DEAD POETS SOCIETY for the first time in years and now I’m having an …

2020-09-05: My three-almost-four-year-old just said, “When I’m lonesome, my fear grows.”

2020-09-04: World, we had a Pandemic Parenting morning and even though the sources of stress were resolved by …

2020-09-02: Got a ring light, tripod, and bluetooth shutter so of course I had to have a little photo booth fun.

2020-09-02: 📓 Redefining my professional identity: From research assistant to doctoral researcher For the first few years of my doctoral program, I defined myself as a “doctoral student” …

2020-09-01: Sometimes you and a friend come up with a hilarious idea and then a year later your friend executes …

2020-09-01: Had to use the Wayhome Tarot for Lindsay Mack’s Coming Home to Ourselves spread, if course. I, …

2020-09-01: I’m still/again grieving the dissertation I planned and will not get to carry out. Maybe I …

2020-08-31: Becky Albertalli wrote this moving essay about her shifting understanding of her sexuality. The …

2020-08-31: 🔖📚 From Petra Mayer at NPR: Welcome To Story Hour: 100 Favorite Books For Young Readers Well, …

2020-08-31: 🔖📚 From Megan Mabee at Book Riot: How The Hunger Games Prequel Helped Me Realize I’ve Changed I can …

2020-08-30: 📚 I’m reading MEXICAN GOTHIC and it’s wonderful but every description of the house gets …

2020-08-30: 📽️ I am watching BLACK PANTHER for the first time. The fact that every single Wakandan is awesome is …

2020-08-28: I could use less productivity advice or inspiration and more permission to just be.

2020-08-28: I fell on the basement stairs yesterday and mildly sprained my right ankle. I sprained the left one …

2020-08-28: Pocketed to read later: People of color who craft are done being overlooked as customers and …

2020-08-28: 🎵 Do you think if I listen to Bauhaus for the rest of the day, that will magically make it be …

2020-08-28: My new glasses are the glasses of a woman who has no patience with BS.

2020-08-27: Welp. My whole household hates my new glasses.

2020-08-27: 💻 If you’re wondering what the heck this IndieWeb thing is that I’ve been going on about …

2020-08-27: My new glasses are a little over-the-top, but then, so am I.

2020-08-27: Was just reading the Carolina Friends School Lower School page and saw they use “Ago!” …

2020-08-27: 📓 Semi-structured interviews: Stick to only a few big questions, but leave room for follow-ups One of my responsibilities in the Equity in the Making lab is to create an interview guide that will …

2020-08-27: 📺 M. and I are watching MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC and I am reminded of the extent to which …

2020-08-27: I just read “sheltering in place” as “shattering in peace” so now you know …

2020-08-26: Still planning to post at kimberlyhirsh.com and auto-crosspost to Twitter and Tumblr, but not …

2020-08-25: Tracy Deonn's LEGENDBORN: Black Girl Magic, Dark Academia, and Arthuriana ON MY CAMPUS! 📚 Publisher’s Summary: After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews …

2020-08-24: 📚 I’ve got about 100 pages left in #LEGENDBORN & won’t write a full review til …

2020-08-24: Reply to Another day in Hellsville: It is a lot. Having caregiving responsibilities adds another …

2020-08-23: Current professional goals: 1. Be a qualitative researcher. (I am now, but I think I would like to …

2020-08-23: How did it take me until just now to consciously verbalize the fact that THE SECRET GARDEN is a …

2020-08-21: The internet has been full of productivity-in-a-pandemic advice for months and I’m over it. I …

2020-08-20: I have become super enamored of the #darkacademia aesthetic, but being in actual academia, this is …

2020-08-20: Teen, new adult, and undergrad librarians, let me introduce you to your new best friend: the …

2020-08-20: 📚 17/31 THE ONE WHERE I RUIN YOUR CHILDHOOD by Daniel Crocker. Excerpt from “C is for Cookie”: “You …

2020-08-19: Hi. I don’t feel like it today, and it’s okay if you don’t feel like it either. …

2020-08-18: I'm done with exfoliants and goals. #TeamLowBar Recently, I squeezed some of my Shea Moisture African Black Soap Soothing Body Wash on a washcloth …

2020-08-18: We share our hot takes in order that we may refine them: Makerspaces should consider sewing …

2020-08-18: I did more #motherscholar-ing this morning, saying things like “I would do a visual analysis …

2020-08-18: A refinement of my earlier hot take: a sewing machine with a zigzag stitch should be considered …

2020-08-18: Hot take: A serger should be assumed basic equipment in every makerspace. 🧵

2020-08-18: Switching all my wallpapers to this “Keep going. You’re doing great.” wallpaper by …

2020-08-17: In case you need some very trivial but good news today: After a LOT of work, it seems like maybe …

2020-08-17: Anybody know of somebody doing research on makerspaces specifically located in schools of education? …

2020-08-17: Hear me out: A first-year experience librarian [PDF], but for grad students.

2020-08-17: Help me #TeamLowBar, I set my low bar too high!

2020-08-17: Want to read: Craftfulness by Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin 📚🧵🧶

2020-08-16: 📚 16/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL, THERE WERE MOUNTAINS by Blake Hackler. Excerpt from “On The Other Side”: …

2020-08-16: I’ve got all the pieces of my sewing machine, my sewing basket, 2 sewing books, and 2 sewing …

2020-08-15: I think my aesthetic is that I’m the librarian at the boarding school all the dark academia …

2020-08-15: 📚 15/31 PORTAGE by Sarah Ann Winn. Excerpt from “Alma”: “Gorge of girl, shaped by erosion, gorgeous, …

2020-08-15: Here’s the truth about life, kids: not one of us has it figured out. Every person who looks …

2020-08-15: 📚 14/31 SEED, STAR, SONG by May Chong. Excerpt from “Tembeling”: “The new …

2020-08-15: 📚 13/31 MOTHER IS THE NAME FOR GOD by Judith Kingston. Excerpt from “III. Pentheus, My Son: “I …

2020-08-14: My glasses broke. No advice needed: there’s no easy fix. I ordered 2 pair so that when this …

2020-08-14: Did some very strong #motherscholar-ing this morning, simultaneously joining a meeting on branding …

2020-08-13: I used to keep this circlet in my office for days when I needed a boost. It might become my …

2020-08-13: I have all my best ideas around 3 AM.

2020-08-12: 📚 12/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL by Jennifer Jackson Berry. Excerpt: “the boy will be stiff if & only …

2020-08-12: Because I am both a qualitative researcher and a web developer, when I see people talk about …

2020-08-12: Time to take Count Rugen’s advice. via GIPHY

2020-08-12: How Daddy types vs how Mommy types, according to my very observant child.

2020-08-12: 🔖 Here’s a study that combines my loves for qualitative coding, comedy, and tween media: More …

2020-08-11: 📚 11/31 NEGOTIATING WITH OBJECTS by Lisa M Cole. Excerpt from “After the Ever-Glow”: …

2020-08-11: Help I took a Zoom meeting in bed and now I don’t want to get up.

2020-08-11: What I'm excited about today: public scholarship and #SocSciComm 📓 Today, I’m excited about: The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship the first …

2020-08-11: My kid is really getting into hygge.

2020-08-10: 📚 10/31 BOTTOMLAND by Erin Elkins Radcliffe. #TheSealeyChallenge

2020-08-10: 🔖2015 Kimberly would be SO EXCITED about this article: ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’ Using …

2020-08-10: 📓 It’s the first day of class! I’ve been done with coursework since the end of 2017, but …

2020-08-10: 🔖From Pat Thomson, the ‘later on’ PhD …what the professional usually wants from …

2020-08-09: 📚 9/31 MEND by Kristin LaTour & Angel E. Perez. #TheSealeyChallenge

2020-08-09: Me: So I was watching “Big Business.” W: What’s “Big Business”? Me: 😲

2020-08-09: My favorite thing about live-tweeting The Emperor’s New Groove today was researching Peruvian …

2020-08-09: Want to read: Bad Habits by Amy Gentry 📚

2020-08-09: 📽️ Late to the party but here I go. #20YearsOfGroove …

2020-08-08: 📚 8/31 CHICKENHAWKS & GOLDILOCKS by Grey Vild. Excerpt from “A prayer no one wants to”: “But you …

2020-08-08: 🔖 Katie Yee’s Very Good Writing Advice from New Girl’s Nick Miller is the most …

2020-08-07: 📚 7/31 SPACE BABY: EPISODES I - III by Nicole Oquendo. Excerpt from “I.vi.”: “You have read about …

2020-08-07: Here’s how I cope with dissertation-related anxiety: make a plan. Send advisor doomy email …

2020-08-07: A bookcase that converts to a coffin feels very on-brand for me.

2020-08-06: 📚 6/31 WOLF DAUGHTER by Amy Watkins. Excerpt from “sixteen”: “It was my voice she wanted,/as I …

2020-08-06: Feeling bad, feeling better, and making it work with illness “Have you ever felt pain in literally all of your joints at once?” I asked W. last …

2020-08-05: 📚 5/31 [RE]CONSTRUCTION OF THE NECROMANCER by Hannah V. Warren. Excerpt from “Forgetting More Than I …

2020-08-05: Just over here with my kid binge-watching Mr. Jim’s Story Time (@JimTheLibrarian on Twitter). …

2020-08-05: Got it down to 15 categories! #SocSciComm #InfoLit #FanLIS

2020-08-05: Me, today: Drinking coffee and getting work done. LIKE A BADASS.

2020-08-05: Got it down to 17 categories. I don’t think I can do much better than that. When you’re …

2020-08-05: I interviewed 10 cosplayers; together they used over 60 different terms to describe the resources …

2020-08-04: 📚 4/31 TO THE BONE by Angela Narciso Torres. Excerpt from “Self-portrait as Water”: “most forgiving …

2020-08-04: No YOU’RE considering pivoting after graduation to a career that focuses on supporting mothers …

2020-08-04: From Parul Sehgal: In a Raft of New Books, Motherhood From (Almost) Every Angle In this piece that is mostly a review of Jacqueline Rose’s book Mothers: An Essay on Love and …

2020-08-03: Currently reading: ‘Making It’ as a Contract Researcher: A Pragmatic Look at Precarious …

2020-08-03: Finished reading: Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing 📚

2020-08-03: 📚 3/31 ELECTRIC ARCHES by Eve L. Ewing. Excerpt from “to the notebook kid”: …

2020-08-03: Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. Thinking time is working time. …

2020-08-03: Pocketing this Book Riot post on rad poetry from the Women’s Suffrage Movement for later in …

2020-08-03: Are you in academia or alt-ac? Talk to me about your current productivity or lack thereof, the grace …

2020-08-03: From Lauren Elkin: "Why All the Books About Motherhood?" I’ve been sitting on Lauren Elkin’s article asking “Why all the books about …

2020-08-03: Feeling bummed because I know the savviest angle on my research is misinformation and disinformation …

2020-08-02: Finished reading: Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen 📚

2020-08-02: 📚 2/31 NOT HERE by Hieu Minh Nguyen. Excerpt from “Heavy”: “There are days when I give up on …

2020-08-02: From Hillary Frank: The Special Misogyny Reserved for Mothers Despite receiving multiple rejections from radio station editors, journalist and author Hillary …

2020-08-02: Me: Napster is clearly the best P2P file sharing app. W: Mmmm… Me: What? What’s better …

2020-08-02: Finished reading: Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora 📚

2020-08-01: From Austin Kleon: Books on art and motherhood During my son’s first few weeks, I spent most of his naps reading about matrescence (the process of …

2020-08-01: 📚 1/31 UNACCOMPANIED by Javier Zamora. Excerpt from “Then, It Was So”: …

2020-08-01: 🔖 From The Oatmeal: Marvelous & Melancholy Things I’ve Learned about Creativity This is so …

2020-07-31: #TheSealeyChallenge Link Roundup 📚 I’ve been looking for ways to read more books and talk to more people about them, so when the …

2020-07-31: Welcome to Genetrix: Curating Stories of Creative Mothers Yesterday, I talked about my project, Genetrix: Curating Stories of Creative Mothers and how I would …

2020-07-31: Me: Whoa, Muppets Now crashed Disney+! Internet: No, Kimberly. Beyoncé did it. Me: squinting Or was …

2020-07-30: Curating stories of motherhood and creativity, esp. writing Exactly a year and a half ago, I started a newsletter called Genetrix after reading Grace …

2020-07-30: Given that my estrogen & progesterone are at their lowest & that today is today, this was an …

2020-07-29: Want to read: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 📚

2020-07-29: Want to read: The Blue Jay’s Dance by Louise Erdrich 📚

2020-07-29: Just added new content to my reading page 📚: updated 2020 reading goals, a …

2020-07-28: 📺 I recently binged Disney+’s Diary of a Future President, about an ambitious Latina middle …

2020-07-27: Made myself a half-caf with Fast Forward and Slow Motion from Counter Culture and oh my goodness it …

2020-07-26: Finished reading: Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ‘80s and ‘90s Teen …

2020-07-24: TFW you’re coding an interview transcript & say to your past self, “PLEASE have …

2020-07-23: First Med Deli gluten free chocolate cake in about 4 years. NOM NOM NOM.

2020-07-23: How do people do things? Do I seem to do things? I feel like I do no things. I feel like my life is …

2020-07-23: 🔖 5 Productivity Practices That Helped Me Finish My Dissertation Thought I would feel attacked by …

2020-07-22: W. and I have now been married longer than we were together before we were married. He continues to …

2020-07-22: 🔖 The Allure of the Nap Dress, the Look of Gussied-Up Oblivion I don’t have a clothing budget …

2020-07-21: A post-ac/alt-ac reading list Posting this list of books here in case others might find it useful. It will probably grow with …

2020-07-21: Advanced Literature Review Tips By far, my most visited blog post ever is my Start-to-Finish Literature Review Workflow and …

2020-07-21: Creative Time as Meditation Time What if we considered our creative time to be meditation time? Repetitive crafts like knitting, …

2020-07-20: 🔖 Kelly J. Baker’s essay, “You Were Ambitious,” struck me to the core. …

2020-07-20: Lithub takes a fun dive into all the books people read or reference in Clueless. 📚

2020-07-20: Sometimes, one little thing can take a lot out of me. Today, the plumber came to my house around …

2020-07-20: If you ever wonder how my brain works, simply recall that I’ve been writing with hypertext …

2020-07-19: My new dream: To write and share helpful things I think a lot about dreams. Following them. Achieving them. Making new ones. The first dream I …

2020-07-17: 💬📚 “The Spy Girls are what happens when you record an episode of Charlie’s Angels over a …

2020-07-17: 📺 Netflix's Babysitters Club: Response and Link Roundup 📚 I binged the Netflix Babysitters Club series last weekend. Growing up, I was not a Babysitters Club …

2020-07-16: 🔖📺 Alex Brannan’s article, “It Could Be About Anything”: Middleditch & Schwartz and the …

2020-07-15: So happy to have this Silvia Moreno-Garcia reading pathway from Book Riot, because I’ve been …

2020-07-15: I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be working as a research assistant with Dr. Maggie …

2020-07-14: Who will I be? 2020-2021 edition On my last birthday, I set out a list of things that described who I wanted to be in the coming …

2020-07-13: Want to read: We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry 📚

2020-07-13: RSVP yes to A Domain of One’s Own Meetup | July 23, 2020

2020-07-13: How to Celebrate Kimbertide (AKA my birthday, AKA Bastille Day) About 10 years ago, when I shared that I usually take at least a week to celebrate my birthday and …

2020-07-12: Want to read: Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans 📚

2020-07-12: Pretty proud of my first Scratch project. It looks like a little thing, but if you click “See …

2020-07-11: 📺 “Parents are just older weirdos, doing the best they can. Just like the rest of us.” …

2020-07-10: 🔖 Adrienne So’s Wired piece, ”‘Crisis Schooling’ and the New Rhythms of Pandemic …

2020-07-10: Just received the Call for Proposals for the Fan Studies Network North America virtual conference …

2020-07-10: Page of Cups and Knight of Cups: the two sides of my soul. (Cards are from the Moonchild Tarot by …

2020-07-10: Want to read: BIG FRIENDSHIP How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman 📚

2020-07-10: Want to read: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green 📚

2020-07-09: TFW you have to go back to the literature and carefully review it to figure out the next step for …

2020-07-09: My Favorite People with Weird Internet Careers I started reading Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch, this morning. I first became familiar …

2020-07-08: I just added a Reading page to my site. It lists every book I’ve read since March 2007. Over …

2020-07-08: Want to read: Want by Lynn Steger Strong 📚

2020-07-07: 🔖 📚 I found myself wanting to read so many of the books on Book Riot’s Best Books of 2020 So …

2020-07-07: 📝 📚 ”…we have little hope of producing excellent writing unless we write a great …

2020-07-07: 📝📚 I’ve started doing The Artist’s Way. Yesterday I read the chapter for Week 1 (which, …

2020-07-06: 📚 Reflecting on Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility" Please note: Robin DiAngelo says she’s writing for a white audience, and I’m white, so …

2020-07-06: I’ll be 39 in a little over a week, so I decided it was time to just lean into becoming my …

2020-07-05: Finished reading: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo 📚

2020-07-04: From NPR: A Competition To Finish Louisa May Alcott’s Story - I mean why have a competition …

2020-07-04: What to an American Is the Fourth of July? Power comes before freedom, not the other way around. - …

2020-07-03: Oh yeah THAT’S why I always stop listening after “Cabinet Battle #2.” 😭

2020-07-03: I’m watching Hamilton & of course it’s amazing but I’m especially blown away …

2020-07-03: Started CS50x and programming with Scratch last night and definitely decided to build a robot to be …

2020-07-03: Want to read: The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuil 📚

2020-07-02: I just realized that part of watching Hamilton will involve watching “It’s Quiet …

2020-07-01: School and Life goals for 2020 Q3 Here are my goals for 2020 Q3: School goals Complete my dissertation data collection. Write two …

2020-07-01: I drew The Tower for my daily tarot pull. There’s a person on the left falling off the tower. …

2020-07-01: Getting back into 100 Days of #bluemind with a Blue Mind Company sticker on my second notebook for …

2020-06-30: Want to read: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚

2020-06-30: 📚 Dr. Kelly J. Baker's "Grace Period" resonated strongly with me. A couple of weeks ago, I finished reading Dr. Kelly J. Baker’s book, Grace Period: A Memoir in …

2020-06-30: Want to read: A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow 📚

2020-06-30: Want to read: The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall 📚

2020-06-29: 📚 Naomi Alderman's "The Power" and the end of the #girlboss era I read Naomi Alderman’s The Power very quickly (well, what passes for quickly now that …

2020-06-29: 📚 Finished reading The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs (@ayjay) Another …

2020-06-28: 📚 Just finished reading The Power by Naomi Alderman. It’s so good and I want to write about it …

2020-06-28: 📚 Want to read: Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books By Lynne Sharon Schwartz Data Science in …

2020-06-26: Looking back at the first half of 2020 We’re coming up on Q3 of 2020 and I don’t know how the year is going for you (except to the extent …

2020-06-25: Hi friend. I’m taking a break from most social media right now. It can be valuable for a lot …

2020-06-23: Oh oh oh, so THIS is what it feels like to care about something besides keeping your child and …

2020-06-22: I’m excited to read this IFLA special issue on information literacy, and also keenly aware …

2020-06-19: Move Slowly and Mend Things 📚 I’m re-reading Jeff Goins’s book, You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One) and I came upon a bit …

2020-06-19: When I express frustration about squeezing work in around childcare, I am NOT complaining about …

2020-06-18: Why won’t my brain? It just won’t.

2020-06-18: Hands can blog today, but brain won't, so have some stuff from other people that's great. 📚 🖖 Kelly J. Baker’s book Grace Period, which I devoured over the course of 2 days. I want to say …

2020-06-17: Which characters feel like friends to you? A little over a year ago, M. and I were in Atlanta to accompany W., who was attending an …

2020-06-17: High pain day. Hard to do any of my favorite things - just trying to get groceries ordered and then …

2020-06-16: I'm done being hard on myself (for today). I saw this tweet today: Want to succeed #withaphd? Don't disappear into an academic bubble while …

2020-06-15: My (Remote) Interview Workflow, from Recruitment to Member Checking (Dissertating in the Open) Last Friday, I finished correcting the AI-provided transcripts for my dissertation interviews. This …

2020-06-15: Sharp & sparkly. I’m very happy to channel Mother of Swords @ this stage in the …

2020-06-12: Just finished correcting my interview transcripts and loading them into my data analysis software. …

2020-06-11: Me, in an interview w/ a cosplayer who, like myself, is a cosplayer d’un certain âge: I never …

2020-06-11: Third time The Chariot has come up in the past two weeks. From the Wayhome Tarot by Bakara Wintner …

2020-06-10: 📚 I just finished reading Alexandra Rowland’s (@_alexrowland on Twitter) A Choir of Lies and …

2020-06-08: More AI transcription fun: Ways my software transcribes Nightcrawler. nightbot. Nicole. Nikon. …

2020-06-08: Since last Monday, I’ve been beginning my work day with a Tarot pull. Today brought me the …

2020-06-04: 🖤♥️🧡💛💚💙💜 She-Ra 💜💙💚💛🧡♥️🖤

2020-06-04: Taking some time to share stories of and resources about Black joy. This CNN story about Black …

2020-06-03: Every day is a good day to listen to a bunch of songs focused on Black joy, curated by Sidney Madden …

2020-06-02: 🔖 Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest? And other commonly asked …

2020-06-02: Project READY is a series of free, online professional development modules for youth-serving library …

2020-06-02: More anti-racism resources.

2020-06-01: Another valuable resource: Anti-Racism Resources: Books, Conversations and People Leading The Charge

2020-06-01: Bit of levity to break up the awfulness: the way my transcription software tries to transcribe …

2020-05-31: Been quiet for the past couple of days because anything I have to say feels inane right now. This …

2020-05-29: 🔖 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice is immensely valuable, because it gives you …

2020-05-29: 🔖 Read recently: The Three Equations for a Happy Life, Even During a Pandemic Cosplay Is a Business …

2020-05-28: 100 Days of #bluemind, Day 4: Aquarium Playlist In November 2018, I had respiratory inflammation that was on its way to becoming pneumonia when I …

2020-05-28: Pretty proud of my new About page. You should probably go read it.

2020-05-28: New bio: “space mermaid sparkle goth” and new profile photo: (If you, too, are obsessed …

2020-05-28: 100 Days of #bluemind Day 3: Sat on the front porch and watched and listened to the rain. Tried to …

2020-05-27: This is not a polished blog. I’m still in a mostly flow, very little stock place. I’m coming up with ideas for blog …

2020-05-26: 👦 My child has decreed that henceforth this character shall be known as R2 Bleep Bloop. You’re …

2020-05-26: 100 Days of #bluemind, Day 2: Took a drive along the North Durham Country Byway, crossing over Lake …

2020-05-26: 🧶Got bored making a sweater that just uses the same stitches over and over, so added Sophie’s …

2020-05-26: Had a great call with my school’s career services coordinator where she urged me not to let …

2020-05-25: Today is the first day of the 100 Days of Blue Mind challenge. I got my #bluemind on today by gazing …

2020-05-24: Deep cleaning 3 essential oil diffusers at once, as you do.

2020-05-23: I just realized that to figure out what professional options I want to consider in the future, I …

2020-05-23: I don’t think of librarianship as a CALLING, but I do consider it a disposition. For example, …

2020-05-22: Finished reading: The Addams Family: An Evilution by Charles Addams and Kevin Miserocchi 📚

2020-05-22: Happy World Goth Day! I’m GothEnough and if you want to be, so are you! If you are Not-a-Goth …

2020-05-21: 🔖 Read ‘A joyful thing’: the man who wrote his wife a poem every day for 25 years. I …

2020-05-21: North Carolina is moving from Stay-at-Home to Safer-at-Home & I’m anxious about it. My …

2020-05-20: I just can’t brain this week, so I’m going to liveblog some career assessment results! …

2020-05-20: 🔖 Stuff I read yesterday: One of Oscar Wilde’s last stops in England before exile was a bookstore. …

2020-05-19: Want to read: Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright 📚

2020-05-18: 🔖 Read today: 6 Ways to Maximize Your Reading Time During the Pandemic - I can’t tell whether …

2020-05-18: 🎮 I finished playing Final Fantasy VII Remake yesterday. I had fun with the game and I adore Tifa, …

2020-05-18: Lest I think I’m doing nothing during this social isolation time, in addition to raising my …

2020-05-18: I’m struggling to dissertate today. My main task for the next little bit is just to correct AI …

2020-05-18: Thinking of changing my website’s title (but not my domain) from “Kimberly Hirsh” …

2020-05-18: 🔖🎵🎭📚 Read 8 Musicals that You Might Not Know Were Based on Books by Emily Neuberger. I’ve been …

2020-05-18: 🔖📝 Read How to Write 1000 Poems in a 1000 Days by Nick Asbury. More why to than how to, this is a …

2020-05-16: 👦 My kid just told me that Iron Lychee is a whole bunch of Iron Mans [sic] inside one giant Iron …

2020-05-15: The best part of conducting my dissertation interviews via Zoom is I get to see my …

2020-05-15: 📚 Reading Notes, Having Trouble Reading, and a Read What You Own Challenge I added a page to the index section of my Bullet Journal that tracks Reading Notes. I don’t …

2020-05-15: 👦 Me: One of the things a librarian can do is suggest a book you might like to read next. M: But we …

2020-05-14: The neighbors closest to the back of my property seem to be partying late into the night every …

2020-05-13: Feels like I’m really closing in on an accurate self-representation with my latest bio …

2020-05-12: Bonus bio addition: “Let’s talk about Buffy. 👱‍♀️🧛‍♂️”

2020-05-12: Low energy + high pain = reading about ghosts while lying on a hammock. 👻📚

2020-05-12: Today’s bio addition: Gothic mermaid scholar-librarian net girl 💀

2020-05-12: I just don’t feel like blogging today. I’m not miserable or anything, just every time I …

2020-05-11: 📚 finished reading The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White This is a re-read; I …

2020-05-10: I spent the me-time my family generously gave me today mostly on brushing up my web development …

2020-05-09: We got a new hammock with stand for our deck, big enough for our whole household to fit in at once …

2020-05-08: Settling In My son is registered to start at a Quaker school in August. I don’t know what that will end up …

2020-05-07: 📚 Just found my copies of Making Sense of Qualitative Data (Coffey & Atkinson) and Writing the …

2020-05-07: If I get one more listserv email advising me to use this time productively, I will be even more …

2020-05-06: 🔖 From Austin Kleon: Not Everything Will Be Okay But Some Things Will I share Kleon’s …

2020-05-06: Life update: How things are going for me How’s your day going? Aside from the continuing world situation + its impact on higher ed (and …

2020-05-05: Taking a break from scrolling micro.blog and Twitter for a while. Still checking mentions …

2020-05-05: I know how to do stuff. Impostor syndrome is nonsense. Are you at loose ends? I’m at loose ends. I have a number of projects on the go but I am not doing a …

2020-05-04: 🎵🎭📚 You know that feeling when you’re irritated that you have to feed your family instead of …

2020-05-04: Lately, my blogging has been all flow, no stock. That’s certainly not what I hoped for when I …

2020-05-02: Oh hey, just over here pondering what LIS even means and whether information practice should be …

2020-04-30: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: completed CSS Flexbox at freeCodeCamp. Previously on …

2020-04-30: I have bangs for the first time in 30 years and it’s Tifa’s fault. 🎮

2020-04-28: Dusk is bunny time in my yard and it is THE BEST.

2020-04-28: I have this problem where I want to buy all the Hot Topic shortalls because I’m pretty sure …

2020-04-28: My AI transcription software knows the names of Pokemon and it’s going to make my research so …

2020-04-27: I was a good mom this morning, so I’m going to be an okay academic this afternoon.

2020-04-25: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: continued the Applied Accessibility challenges at …

2020-04-24: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: finished freeCodeCamp’s Applied Visual Design, started …

2020-04-24: Just spent almost 2 hours correcting an AI transcript of a 47 minute interview. This is about 1/3 of …

2020-04-24: Today’s bio update: replaced “Mom & Scholar-Librarian” with “Mom. …

2020-04-23: Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: started freeCodeCamp’s Applied Visual Design …

2020-04-22: Today’s #100DaysOfCode Progress: I completed all of the Basic CSS challenges at freeCodeCamp. …

2020-04-22: A (self)diagnosis For the past couple of years, I’ve felt like I was having a Hashimoto’s thyroiditis …

2020-04-21: #100DaysOfCode Round 1, 1/100 Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: I completed all of the “Basic HTML and HTML5” …

2020-04-21: Having another go at #100DaysofCode, because nobody ever said, “I sure wish my employee …

2020-04-21: Took my kid for a drive this morning, just to do something different and because we were cleaning …

2020-04-20: “We want the human relationship with nature to be based on abundance, a relationship that …

2020-04-20: My kid insists that Darkwing Duck’s sidekick is named Lunchpack, and it’s adorable.

2020-04-19: Today we went for a family walk and from a distance we saw a neighbor family walking their pig, and …

2020-04-18: Me: Hm, this is a lot of pain from this flare, whatever its origin. I think I’ll just watch …

2020-04-18: It’s a high pain day but my brain is less foggy than it has been in a while. Mens sana in …

2020-04-18: Thank you, Reviewer 2! (No sarcasm!) As I mentioned earlier, I’ve been sitting on an accepted-with-revisions paper for well over a …

2020-04-17: This is an… interesting… time to be researching cosplay.

2020-04-17: Kim Werker, one of my favorite people I’ve never met, is offering her course Crochet for …

2020-04-17: Going to re-learn knitting so that I can make all the things from Doomsday Knits, including the …

2020-04-17: Information and Learning Sciences: Situating my work at the intersection Since the beginning of my doctoral program, I’ve struggled to situate my work and research …

2020-04-16: 📚 Finished reading: Freelancing 101: Launching Your Editorial Business by Ruth E. Thaler-Carter You …

2020-04-16: 📚 Abandoning Blue Mind for now, but I definitely want to come back to it.

2020-04-15: I’m struggling to write a blog post today or even a short note. My mood is low due to extreme …

2020-04-14: Today in My Son, the 3 Year Old Fic Author: a crossover in which Spider-Man and the Ninja Turtle …

2020-04-14: Doing a 15 minute #AcWri challenge I’m reading Dr. Katie Linder’s blog archive. One of her earliest posts is titled 51 Tips to Help …

2020-04-14: Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. I’m a learner who writes.

2020-04-13: 📺 So is Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist a jukebox-musical version of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend?

2020-04-13: I’m sure there are grad students for whom a list of ways to stay productive right now might be …

2020-04-13: I just DMed 6 cosplayers on Instagram to invite them to participate in my study. 5 were in person …

2020-04-12: Sometimes, as an exercise to give me insight into what I should be focusing on, where I should put …

2020-04-11: 🎮 I think Tifa is my fave now? I always liked her, but now I like her best?

2020-04-11: 🎮 It’s happening.

2020-04-11: Weekly Update: 04/11/20 We just finished up week 4 of staying at home. In one sense, I didn’t have much going on before …

2020-04-10: Sesame Street is a great comedy school. My preferred comedy format, though I’ve not really performed it, is sketch. Yes, I did improv …

2020-04-10: Facebook Live museum tours on my calendar today, The Dark Crystal exhibit at the Center for Puppetry …

2020-04-10: Because it’s seasonally appropriate, today we’re listening to Christo Graham’s …

2020-04-10: Guess I have to not Internet until after our copy of FF7R gets here… See y’all later, …

2020-04-09: 📺 My wishlist for Picard Season 2: Geordi More Spot II

2020-04-08: Feeling like hiding today, but I worked on recruiting for my dissertation and put my CV on …

2020-04-07: I definitely have some sensory processing problems & they’ve gotten worse since isolating. …

2020-04-06: Changing my research design I submitted proposed changes to my research design to my committee today. I had to make these …

2020-04-05: I’m reading Lori Morimoto’s (@acafanmom on Twitter) book, An Introduction to Media Fan …

2020-04-04: Something about watching Picard gives me the same feeling as reading a novel and I love it. 📺🖖

2020-04-04: Want to read: Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil 📚

2020-04-03: Weekly Update: 04/03/20 First, some cute things my kid said. He was talking about flushing the toilet and said that the …

2020-04-03: Wisdom from the Co-Star app All you have to do this month is allow for things to feel uncertain. Now is a good time to …

2020-04-02: Everybody get the Marco Polo app and let’s have asynchronous video chats.

2020-04-02: My three-year-old is over here writing fix-it fic for The Velveteen Rabbit. 📚

2020-04-02: I know this isn’t what actually happened, but I like to imagine that I summoned into being the …

2020-04-02: I fell into a new COVID-19 spiral today. This went beyond anxiety and felt closer to depression. The …

2020-04-01: 📚 The library is closed, limiting my book borrowing options, but the gym is also closed, freeing up …

2020-04-01: It’s nice to see that Alexandra Rowland has written a book for/about me. 📚

2020-04-01: I’m having a down day. Not helping is this (extremely informative but also depressing) piece …

2020-04-01: More gold from McSweeney’s: Self-Isolation or Graduate School?

2020-04-01: McSweeney’s Frog and Toad are self-quarantined friends by Jennie Egerdie is my favorite art to …

2020-03-31: The Punky Brewster episode “The Perils of Punky” aired in 1985. In it, Punky’s dog …

2020-03-31: Don't wait until you know who you are to get started, scholars. This is part two of a series in which I’m writing up how Austin Kleon’s work …

2020-03-30: Steal Like an Artist for Scholars Austin Kleon is one of the creative people who have had the greatest influence on my thinking about …

2020-03-29: I feel like when you’re young & you realize you’re weird you can choose one of two …

2020-03-29: You can comment on kimberlyhirsh.com now! I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about what I consider the golden age of blogging - …

2020-03-28: I’m obsessed with the 1997.chat app and sad about my empty buddy list. You can find me at Kiba …

2020-03-27: Weekly Update: 03/27/20 I’m trying a new thing with a weekly round-up on Friday. This has been the second week of …

2020-03-27: My son and I have been listening to the Frog and Toad audiobook collection, read by the author, …

2020-03-27: I put on the Labyrinth soundtrack & said to W, “This music is so good.” He said, …

2020-03-26: Long before the coronavirus moved from animals to humans, I had set myself a goal of recognizing the …

2020-03-26: I ordered my sister from a catalog. The other day I mentioned how I named my sister after a preschool friend. When I was 3, I was …

2020-03-25: My city’s mayor issued a Stay-at-Home order today. I’m grateful that the two people …

2020-03-24: Do stuff your three-year-old self liked. After realizing that 1. The Muppets (specifically those of The Muppet Show) is pretty much my first …

2020-03-24: Spread the word: my blog host, micro.blog, is offering teachers free hosting for the next six …

2020-03-24: 🎵 Introducing: #showtunesisters (i.e., me challenging my sister to sing showtune duets with me) View this post on Instagram Challenging @ailuruscosmos to join me for a #showtunesisters …

2020-03-23: Baby Piggy is me: “Everyone knows the most important thing about being a rock star is LOOKING …

2020-03-22: My sister’s friend Connor shared this hilarious Les Mis parody dedicated to teachers with us.

2020-03-22: I like The Muppets (2015) TV show more than I thought I would. 📺 My brother gave me this Muppet version of The Phantom of the Opera a couple Christmases back, and I …

2020-03-21: Our family's social distancing schedule I wanted to share our family’s current weekday schedule, mostly to help other people feel okay …

2020-03-19: From my last note, which said only “It me,” you may be wondering “What she?” …

2020-03-19: It me.

2020-03-19: Life has been extra intense from March 6 until now. I missed a dissertation fellowship application …

2020-03-19: What I'm doing about my pandemic anxiety Something in me has broken, and now I am cracked, open and vulnerable. For the first time yesterday, …

2020-03-17: When my kid’s preschool announced that they would be closing, I had plans to blog daily about …

2020-03-17: M. asked “How old is Darth Vader?” I calculated using this timeline & told M., …

2020-03-17: Social distancing day 4, no preschool day 2: M is enjoying these miniature water beads from …

2020-03-16: My kid just showed me his Winnie the Pooh in a Santa outfit stuffy and said, “So this is …

2020-03-13: Whitney (@whitneyellenb) & I are going to post about the video games we play while stuck at home …

2020-03-13: Let’s all give ourselves permission to be thoroughly mediocre parents for the next few weeks.

2020-03-13: I’m totally accepting keypals/epals to help stave off social isolation during social …

2020-03-13: 🔖 Keeping kids busy at home Storing links here so they’re easy for me to find when I need them during the next two weeks. …

2020-03-13: Local schools are closing, including my Montessori/co-working space, so I’m now a stay-at-home …

2020-03-12: No YOU want to buy every Leia item in the new Jen Bartels collection, twice, so you can keep one of …

2020-03-11: Also, I love being on podcasts, so if you need a guest for yours, hit me up.

2020-03-11: I guested on a podcast for the first time in almost 5 years! And I only talked about BtVS a little! …

2020-03-11: Current wishlist: Everything BtVS on Hot Topic

2020-03-11: Changing my research plans in light of COVID-19 All friends & students who are in the midst of dissertation data collection - I know recent …

2020-03-11: Hi, I’m Kimberly, and today I’m wearing yoga pants with combat boots.

2020-03-09: Rather than an elbow bump, I’m planning to replace handshakes and high fives with a forearm …

2020-03-09: Reintroducing Genetrix, curating stories about creative mothers Last January, I launched Genetrix, a newsletter to curate stories of creative mothers. After sending …

2020-03-07: 🎙️ Listened to Mighty Creative, episodes: Prologue: The Podcast Is Back 101 - Prerequisite …

2020-03-07: 📺 Watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 23, “Skin of Evil.”

2020-03-07: 🧶 Finally finished crocheting these dragon scale fingerless gloves. They’re a birthday gift …

2020-03-07: 📺 Watched Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 episodes 1 & 2, “Encounter at Farpoint.” …

2020-03-06: Y’all, my brother’s latest cartoon is hilarious. Lots of fun visual gags. Watch at least …

2020-03-05: 🎵 Another Dragonforce recommendation: “Symphony of the Night”. (If you think you know …

2020-03-05: 🎵 Decided to listen to Power Metal while working today. There’s a lot wrong with the world, …

2020-03-05: Want to read: Fibershed : growing a movement of farmers, fashion activists, and makers for a new …

2020-03-03: Here’s your (somewhat) regularly scheduled voting selfie!

2020-03-03: 03/02/20 Process Memo I spent some time this morning installing encryption software so that I can encrypt the data files I …

2020-03-03: Having a low spoons day today, so I’m working through a bunch of fiddly, errand-type to-do …

2020-03-02: 🔖 Read: Fake News and Instagram 7 Ways to Survive a Flare When You’re Chronically Ill 16 Simple …

2020-03-02: 🎮 Played Monument Valley 2. I loved it but it went so fast!

2020-03-02: 📚 Want to Read: How to Be Sick by Toni Bernhard

2020-03-02: 02/28/2020 Process Memo: Beginning sustained, systematic observation I began my sustained, systematic observation today by gathering my initial resources for this phase. …

2020-03-01: Just skimmed Parenting Doesn’t Matter, the main premise of which is that according to science, …

2020-02-28: What am I opening? (Dissertating in the Open) I’ve been doing some reading this week on what it means to dissertate in the open, and as …

2020-02-27: Dissertating in the Open: Beginning to Set Up a Data Collection Structure I’ve been trying to establish my data collection/analysis workflow and I’m running into …

2020-02-26: Dissertating in the Open: Writing and Defending the Dissertation Proposal I successfully defended my dissertation proposal on February 3, 2020. I have one huge piece of …

2020-02-26: Just lost a really long post about my dissertation proposal and proposal defense because, like a …

2020-02-25: So my dissertation study was determined exempt from further review so I guess I have to actually, …

2020-02-25: Starting to create a data collection/analysis workflow... Not there yet. Most of my blogging has been micro this month, which is appropriate since I’m hosting my blog …

2020-02-24: 📚 Want to read: Wheat Belly by William Davis, MD

2020-02-24: 📚 Want to read: Carpe Diem: Seizing the Day in a Distracted World by Roman Krznaric Found this on …

2020-02-24: Pisces New Moon spread.

2020-02-23: 📚 Set aside for now with plans to pick back up later: Total Immersion Swim Ultra-efficient …

2020-02-23: 📚 Currently reading: The Immune System Recovery Plan by Susan Blum, M.D., M.P.H.

2020-02-23: 📺 Watched Brooklyn 99: Season 6 - episode 18, “Suicide Squad” Season 7 episodes - 1, …

2020-02-23: 📽️ Watched Notting Hill. As cute as it was when it was released. We were all so much younger in …

2020-02-22: 🎥 Watched Home Again.

2020-02-22: 📚 Currently reading: Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster, and Easier by …

2020-02-22: 📚 Currently reading: Swim Ultra-efficient Freestyle by Terry Laughlin 🏊🐬

2020-02-20: Help me identify my strengths & make plans for what’s next! This is a 4-question …

2020-02-20: Want to read: Going Alt-Ac by Kathryn E. Linder, Kevin Kelly, and Thomas J. Tobin 📚

2020-02-20: This is pretty much two weeks’ worth of online reading. 🔖 Read: The Plan of Attack Burned Out …

2020-02-19: 📽️ Watched Spider-Man: Homecoming. Oh my goodness did I enjoy this one. Spidey has been my second …

2020-02-18: I have, um, really different feelings about Jean-Luc Picard on ST:TNG rewatch than I did from 1987 - …

2020-02-18: 📚 So, The Starless Sea. This is going to be fairly stream-of-consciousness and more about my …

2020-02-18: This is what going Full Kimberly looks like.

2020-02-18: Currently reading His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik. 📚

2020-02-17: Finished reading The Starless Sea (affiliate link). So much to say about this book but too tired to …

2020-02-17: 📽️ Watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. I remember when this came out hearing friends debate …

2020-02-17: 📚 Read House of X #1. I’m excited about this book and the Dawn of X relaunch event. It’s …

2020-02-15: Currently reading: eBay for Dummies by Marsha Collier 📚

2020-02-14: I just audibly gasped because Splash is on Disney+.

2020-02-13: Had a dream that my committee required a year to read my dissertation between submission and defense …

2020-02-12: Every time I go to Blue Bicycle Books in Charleston, SC, USA I’m delighted by this sign they …

2020-02-12: Raging because I don’t understand how OneDrive is supposed to work and thus lost more than …

2020-02-12: Mom dreams: this morning, I dreamed I had to save Michelangelo, who was trapped in a collapsed Roman …

2020-02-11: My kid paints these giant abstract paintings; I call him my little Rothko. I cut hearts out from 2 …

2020-02-10: I stepped outside for an unexpected emergency medical shopping expedition this morning and the moon …

2020-02-10: Took my favorite person to my favorite spot in Charleston yesterday, but forgot to post the picture …

2020-02-09: 🎮 Played Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores (again not for the first time).

2020-02-08: Little and big reading together.

2020-02-08: 🔖 Read: What We Link to When We Link to Books The art of rejection The art of mending The Origins …

2020-02-08: 🎮 Played Monument Valley (not for the first time). As beautiful and satisfying as ever.

2020-02-08: 🔖 Read: 3 Supplements I Give My Kids to Boost Their Immune Systems at Preschool and Daycare by …

2020-02-07: Metadata mermaid doodle. It me!

2020-02-07: I’m vaguely appalled at the mobile-unfriendliness of the official websites of a couple of …

2020-02-06: 🔖 Read Ask an Astrologer: How can I create more success and flow for in my career according to the …

2020-02-06: Made some Paleo-ish Chocolate frosted chocolate donuts.

2020-02-05: 🔖 Read How to build wealth slowly Paul Jarvis

2020-02-05: 📽️ Watched Doctor Strange. I don’t have strong feelings about this one. The visuals were super …

2020-02-05: Pieces for my first ever Kitty Pryde cosplay started arriving today!

2020-02-05: 🎧 Listened to Beetlejuice (Original Broadway Cast Recording). Best part - Delia: Crystals speak to …

2020-02-05: Me: These hanging jewelry organizer pockets are so big. I should put multiple pairs of earrings in …

2020-02-05: “Practice loving yourself with the same exhilaration of a new crush.” Co-star has given …

2020-02-04: 🔖 Read: “Welcome back blogging?” by CJ Chilvers ”The life model of blogging” by …

2020-02-04: Spotted this little mushroom nestled in the grass outside the co-working space/Montessori School.

2020-02-04: Currently reading: Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ‘80s and ‘90s Teen …

2020-02-04: 📺 Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Season 1 episode 7, “Duel of the Droids.”

2020-02-04: 📚 Read Uncanny X-Men #131.

2020-02-03: This is what one doctoral candidate looks like.

2020-02-02: It’s Proposal Defense Eve, when Impostor Syndrome comes out to frolic!

2020-02-01: 📺 Watched Ranma ½, season 1, episode 1.

2020-02-01: 📺 Watched Sailor Moon, Season 1, episodes 1 & 2.

2020-02-01: 📺 Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Season 1 episodes: 1 “Ambush” 2 “Rising …

2020-02-01: Imbolc Tarot Spread by Lindsay Mack Cards are The Moonchild Tarot. What seeds did I plant at the …

2020-02-01: Want to read: Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson 📚

2020-01-31: Switching my kid’s carseat from rear-facing to front-facing is a much bigger milestone than I …

2020-01-30: 🔖 Read: Are Docs Comfortable? 10 Reasons to Wear Dr. Martens Boots by RosaMorelli How to Break in a …

2020-01-29: 🔖 Read: How I Tricked Myself Into Reading More Books by Patrick Allan 14 Ways to Cultivate a …

2020-01-29: I was trying to figure out how to scrape data from YouTube for my dissertation & then I …

2020-01-29: Want to read: The Summoner by Gail Z. Martin 📚

2020-01-29: 🔖 Read: Motherhood and Spirituality: A New Kind of Enlightenment by Astra Niedrea What Is Hygge? …

2020-01-28: Want to read: The Once and Future Geek by Mari Mancusi 📚

2020-01-28: Want to read: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia 📚

2020-01-28: Look, I’m never not going to have a crush on Wil Wheaton, okay? (This message brought to you …

2020-01-28: Want to read: The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi 📚

2020-01-28: Want to read: Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty 📚

2020-01-28: 🎵 Listened to The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists. I “picked this up,” to the extent …

2020-01-28: Want to read: Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel 📚

2020-01-27: 🎲 Played Illimat yesterday. Gorgeous and fun. I want to play it all the time now. Also, it’s …

2020-01-27: Okay but WHY a PhD? And what next? Sometimes I ask myself why I’m doing a PhD and what I’m getting out of it. This is …

2020-01-26: Revelation that should have been obvious to me before now: all of life is laundry & dishes & …

2020-01-26: 🔖 Read: A Checklist for Your Very First Altar by Amy Wall How to Soften Acrylic Yarn & Save …

2020-01-25: 🔖 Read: When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide by Asher Elbein Hopepunk, the latest …

2020-01-25: M just now: Here you go, Daddy, I have some secret battle plans for you from Princess Leia. Me: ⚰️💀🥀

2020-01-25: The scene of tonight’s New Moon tarot reading, my first with the Wayhome Tarot. I love all of …

2020-01-24: Co-Star pulls no punches.

2020-01-24: Buffy the Vampire Slayer is (90s gothic) noblebright while Angel is (pretty widely accepted as) …

2020-01-24: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The criticisms of this are really interesting. I definitely …

2020-01-23: W: Do you dare to eat a peach? Me: I would sit on its throne.

2020-01-23: One of my plans for 2020 is that if something is easy & helpful (as opposed to harmful), I do …

2020-01-23: I’ve re-started The Starless Sea once, decided to re-start again but didn’t, once, and …

2020-01-22: 🔖 Read If Your Wellness Isn’t Intersectional Then You’re Not “Well.” …

2020-01-22: 💻 Completed MDN’s What’s in the head? Metadata in HTML, HTML text fundamentals, and Test …

2020-01-21: 💻 Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s Getting started with HTML

2020-01-21: 🔖 Read: How the Web works by Mozilla Developer Network HTML by Mozilla Developer Network …

2020-01-21: 💻 Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s Publishing your website.

2020-01-21: 💻 Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s Javascript basics.

2020-01-21: Doing a big Tumblr unfollow, too. Messages and asks are open, though.

2020-01-21: Doing a big Twitter unfollow over the next few days (probably of literally everyone), then will add …

2020-01-21: Reclaiming my Spotify recommendations My kid has taken over my Spotify recommendations. My Discover Weekly this week includes: Rainbow …

2020-01-21: 📚 Read Uncanny X-Men #130.

2020-01-21: Currently reading: Reinventing You by Dorie Clark 📚

2020-01-21: 🔖 Read: Did Inadequate Women’s Healthcare Destroy Star Wars’ Old Republic? by Sarah Jeong Hide and …

2020-01-20: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Unlike everyone else, this is my least …

2020-01-20: Want to read: How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs 📚

2020-01-20: Want to read: The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs 📚

2020-01-20: 🔖 Read What’s wrong with sitting down in the shower? by Tom Meltzer Since I sprained my ankle …

2020-01-20: 💻 Completed Mozilla Developer Network’s: What will your website look like? Dealing with files …

2020-01-19: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. This one is about exactly like I remember …

2020-01-19: This is the best thread I’ve read in forever, and it’s so heartening to see somebody …

2020-01-18: 📚 Read Uncanny X-Men #129.

2020-01-18: 💻 Watched: Getting started with Visual Studio Code How the Internet works in 5 minutes

2020-01-18: 🔖 Read: The old internet by Rebecca Toh How and why to keep a commonplace book by Ryan Holiday What …

2020-01-18: Finished reading: How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick 📚

2020-01-17: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. This isn’t as bad as I remembered. …

2020-01-17: If I could give you a piece of advice today, it would be not to try carrying four ninja turtle …

2020-01-16: 💻 Completed the remaining 8 challenges in the Basic CSS portion of freecodecamp’s Responsive …

2020-01-16: 📚 Read X-Men: First Class Vol. 1, #s 1 - 3.

2020-01-15: 🔖 Read: 3 ways to make Spotify’s killer feature even smarter by Xiomara Blanco These five …

2020-01-15: 💻 Completed the first 36 (of 44) challenges in Basic CSS for freecodecamp’s Responsive Web …

2020-01-15: Finished reading: X-Men: Season One by Dennis Hopeless and Jamie McKelvie 📚

2020-01-15: Me, after finding out Chris Claremont will be at Oak City Comicon:

2020-01-15: A (somewhat dry) musical autobiography: Addendum 🎵📽 I realized as I was describing yesterday’s musical autobiography (which is different than …

2020-01-14: Just found out Chris Claremont is coming to Oak City Comicon & I’m over here having a tiny …

2020-01-14: 🔖 Read: Blogging the PhD journey by Kay Oddone Join the #100DaysOfCode by Alexander Kallaway The …

2020-01-14: 💻 Completed Basic HTML and HTML5 for freecodecamp’s Responsive Web Design certification. …

2020-01-14: Want to read: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott 📚

2020-01-14: I only have to get through the next 40 minutes, then I can hand M. off to my m-i-l and lie down. …

2020-01-14: A (somewhat dry) musical autobiography 🎵📽📚 I don’t know if it’s a problem or a good thing that when my mind can’t come up …

2020-01-13: 📚 Read Ultimate Spider-Man #4.

2020-01-13: 📺 Watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3, episode 8, “A Jewish Girl Walks into the …

2020-01-13: 🔖 Read: Content, bloat, privacy, archives by @petermolnar Owning my reading log by Tom MacWright …

2020-01-13: Why do I blog what I blog? I’ll have a post later today with some links to things I’m reading, but for now, …

2020-01-12: 📚 Read Ultimate Spider-Man #2, #3.

2020-01-12: 🔖 Read Bloggers are not reporters and Journalists: We are not you by Dave Winter via Frank …

2020-01-12: 💻 Watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | ‘Turtles Take Time (and Space 🌎)’ by Brandon …

2020-01-11: 📚 Read: We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses …

2020-01-11: 🔖 Read The Bassist in Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Is Inspired By the Revolutionary Real-Life Musician …

2020-01-11: 📺 Watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3, episodes: 4 “Hands!” 5 “It’s …

2020-01-11: 🔖 Read Thoughts on linkblogs, bookmarks, reads, likes, favorites, follows, and related links by …

2020-01-11: Here’s what I look for in my Star Wars content: Fun Optimism about what a few dedicated …

2020-01-10: 🔖 Read An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet by Aaron Parecki

2020-01-10: 🔖 Read Titling it “The Problem That Has No Name” seemed a bit heavy handed by Drew …

2020-01-09: 🔖 Read Carbon monoxide emergency is Durham’s Katrina, McDougald Terrace residents tell city. CW: …

2020-01-09: 📚 Want to read The War of Art by Steven Pressfield 📚

2020-01-08: 📽️ Watched The Empire Strikes Back

2020-01-08: Updated my Now page! Just updated my Now page with the following information: I’m living happily in Durham, North …

2020-01-07: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 8: Redemption“

2020-01-07: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 7: The Reckoning“

2020-01-07: Made a less-paleo, less-vegan version of beaming baker’s 2 ingredient 5 minute homemade fudge, …

2020-01-07: M (3 yo): grabs toy phone, gets in toy car, waits for me to answer phone Me: Hello? M: Hi, …

2020-01-07: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 6: The Prisoner“

2020-01-07: 📚 Want to read Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch

2020-01-07: I just realized that the frequency with which I suggest purchases for my local library makes me …

2020-01-07: Quick reading response - Why Johnny Doesn't Flap: NT is OK! 📚 Some quick notes on Why Johnny Doesn’t Flap: NT is OK!: This is a kid’s picture book …

2020-01-07: 📚 Finished reading: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle 📚

2020-01-07: 📚 Read Why Johnny Doesn’t Flap: NT is OK! by Clay Morton & Gail Morton

2020-01-06: 📚 Want to read One Person/Multiple Careers by Marci Alboher 📚

2020-01-06: 📚 Want to read Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher

2020-01-06: 📷 Leaning into the middle-aged librarian stereotype with a glasses chain, though apparently they …

2020-01-06: Migrating my site from WordPress to micro.blog I spent my winter vacation migrating my website from WordPress to micro.blog. I thought I’d …

2020-01-05: Watching The Empire Strikes Back for the first time in years & I’d forgotten what a …

2020-01-05: Between supplements & prescriptions, I swallow 24 pills every day, take 2 tinctures, 1 …

2020-01-05: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 5: The Gunslinger“

2020-01-04: Escaped “The Green Room” at Tic Toc Escapes. 🔒

2020-01-04: 🔖 Read 100 things that made my year (2019) Austin Kleon captures so many beautiful small moments …

2020-01-02: 📖 Currently reading How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick 📚

2020-01-02: 📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 4: Sanctuary“

2020-01-01: 📷 Soul Expansion Spread by Lindsay Mack of Wild Soul Healing. 2020 is an Emperor year: structure and …

2020-01-01: 📽️ Watched Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Wasn’t sure how I would like it, given the …

2019-12-29: 📖 Currently reading: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 📚

2019-12-29: 💬 Replied to None of the kids wanted toys for Christmas this year, they just wanted cash. …

2019-12-28: 📔 Hi there! I’m considering migrating my WordPress site to micro.blog, and am playing with the …

2019-12-20: 📔 I know I just took a hiatus because of comps, but now I’m taking another one for the …

2019-12-18: 📖 Read Frozen II (Midwest Film Journal) by Aly Caviness I was going to write a whole blog post about …

2019-12-18: 2019 Year-in-Review & 2020 Word of the Year 📄 I didn’t feel ready to write a year-in-review post before now, but here we are! So what did …

2019-12-17: Dissertating in the Open: Comprehensive Qualifying Exams I passed my comps last Tuesday, and I thought I’d take some time to write about it today. …

2019-12-10: Hey guess what I passed my comps. Taking a post-comps hiatus. See y’all Monday.

2019-12-09: It’s remarkable how chill I am about my comps oral exam tomorrow. I guess I’m …

2019-12-06: This little comb-bound packet represents a year’s worth of work.

2019-12-05: Today I finished my dissertation proposal and sent it to my committee. I sent them the literature …

2019-12-05: NOW I’ve finished my dissertation proposal, and even sent it to my committee ahead of my …

2019-12-04: What It's Like to Live with Chronic Illness I’m writing this in an attempt to help people without chronic illness understand the constant …

2019-12-04: How did I not know that it’s not just me, but rather the entire Internet, that refers to …

2019-12-03: NPR’s Book Concierge is live and Tumblr’s Fandom Year-in-Review is out. It is truly the …

2019-12-02: Connecting doesn't have to be hard. Grad school and parenthood are both immensely isolating experiences. So when you combine them, you …

2019-11-27: This morning, when W. and M. were sleeping in, I could have chosen to do one of many different …

2019-11-26: I… think I’m almost done with my dissertation proposal?

2019-11-26: I went thrifting yesterday by myself for the first time since having M. Thrifting used to be a …

2019-11-25: This weekend was a good weekend. On Saturday, we had a harvest meal at the Montessori/co-working …

2019-11-19: You don't have to love yourself to be worthy of love. I’ve been thinking today about something Maria Bamford said - I think it was in her episode of …

2019-11-15: I wish I could tell little 13/14 year old me, back in 1995, that she actually DOES like a genre of …

2019-11-15: Anybody got tips on automating Instagram data collection (specifically images, post text, comments) …

2019-11-14: My kid’s preferred type of narrative conflict is Bear vs. Self.

2019-11-04: #goals: Welcome to #AcWriMo/#DissProWriMo! This blog post contains affiliate links. If you click them and make a purchase, I may receive a …