🔖 Katie Yee’s Very Good Writing Advice from New Girl’s Nick Miller is the most delightful thing I’ve read this week, and makes me want to re-watch New Girl. 📝📺

🔖 From The Oatmeal: Marvelous & Melancholy Things I’ve Learned about Creativity

This is so good. If he makes it into a book, I’ll probably buy it and carry it around just like I do with Austin Kleon’s books.

🔖 5 Productivity Practices That Helped Me Finish My Dissertation

Thought I would feel attacked by this post, then I read it and it said “If I was experiencing pain, brain fog or fatigue due to my chronic health issues, I gave myself permission to take breaks, rest and take the rest of the day off.” I do this too!

🔖 The Allure of the Nap Dress, the Look of Gussied-Up Oblivion

I don’t have a clothing budget these days, but if I did, you can bet I’d be scouring eBay, ThredUp, and Poshmark (among others) for nap dresses. I have many aesthetics and would love “Victorian Ghost” to be one of them, though I think I like the idea of embracing my Madwoman in the Attic status even more.

🔖 Kelly J. Baker’s essay, “You Were Ambitious,” struck me to the core.

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🔖📺 Alex Brannan’s article, “It Could Be About Anything”: Middleditch & Schwartz and the Viability of Televised Improv Comedy is an interesting read. Longform improv is definitely hard to explain to non-improv normies but also, in my experience, it’s um, not great fun for most people who aren’t “yes…and” nerds, as Thomas Middleditch calls them, to watch. Like… Does anybody NOT initiated into longform WANT to watch a Harold? Maybe they do, but I’m not sure. By the time I was about to stop performing improv, I was over the Harold as an audience member. And I got to see some really amazing teams. Still not a format I would recommend to just anybody. It’s a performance art piece as much as a comedy piece. I don’t know. Anyway, I’d been thinking about watching the show and now I definitely will.

It’s worth noting that I myself never was on a team that did longform without a gimmick. I think our gimmicks were a huge part of the fun for me. We may never know if I would be able to sustain interest in performing the Harold for longer than a six-week class.

🔖 Adrienne So’s Wired piece, ”‘Crisis Schooling’ and the New Rhythms of Pandemic Parenting," makes me feel okay about how extremely unstructured and screen-heavy my kid’s last 120+ days have been.

🔖 📚 I found myself wanting to read so many of the books on Book Riot’s Best Books of 2020 So Far list that I decided it makes more sense to bookmark the whole list than to add each title individually.

🔖 Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest? And other commonly asked questions by white and/or privileged people, answered by other white and/or privileged people*

🔖 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice is immensely valuable, because it gives you concrete actions to take in the face of our overwhelming and appalling reality.