Notes
About to start reading and marking up this thing in preparation for next week’s defense, at which I will boldly go where (to my knowledge) no Hirsh has gone before. 📝
Honored today to deliver a pre-recorded guest lecture on Reader’s Advisory for Dr. Megan Threats’s Reference Sources & Services class. I made the lecture & related links available on a RA page on my website. Pretty sure I could teach a full semester on this topic. 📚
I really miss the internet of 2004 - 2007, specifically the DIY/New Domesticity craft punk blog & forum corner of it. I think my soul is a little bit stuck there. There was never enough time to explore all its interesting corners. 🌎
I have now met all my pre-defense scholarly obligations (paper draft & guest lecture) so I guess it’s time to prepare for my defense. googles makeup tutorials 📝
🔖 I somehow missed Linda Holmes’s beautiful piece about The Muppet Movie soundtrack. She pulls out the very lines that always makes me cry. 🌈🐸🎵
18 hrs post-vaccine woke up a little achey, a little lymph node-y. Not too bad but still planning to rest most of the day.
5 hrs post-vaccine, feeling fuzzy-headed and mildly achey, chills receded but I bet they’ll be back.
J&J vaccine, side effects (or psychosomatic effects?) settling in after 3 hours: vague malaise, mild infrequent chill.
This windblown lady is vaccinated and waiting outside the Cookout Walk Up Window for a celebratory Cookout tray. (It’s me. This vaccinated and very hungry lady is me.)
Thinking of launching an academic editing service explicitly targeted to scholars who are also caregivers. Interested to hear thoughts on this from anyone in my network. What do you think?
I did the My Next Move interests profile and it says I should be an information research scientist. Yay?
Being in a “life happens” moment myself (finishing my dissertation), I originally missed Tantek Çelik’s chat conversations & blog post about developing a “life happens” approach to community participation & care on the IndieWeb. I love this idea.
Watching My Neighbor Totoro & my kid is saying that I’m like Mama Kusakabe because we both have dark hair and fair skin. I said, “And I, too, am voiced by Lea Salonga,” and he said, “No, you’re not, you’re voiced by your voice box.” 🍿
I’m finishing up my PhD this May! I have a lot of possibilities for what’s next; I would welcome even more! I’m open to hearing about any positions in your network local to the Triangle area of NC or open to remote work in:
- librarianship
- research
- writing
- editing
Friend: I was thinking like I needed to get in my 10,000 hours and be an expert.
Me: The 10,000 hours rule is not entirely evidence-based and we don’t have to be experts to find something useful.
Here’s a proposed title for my memoir, inspired by me being aggressively helped at a friend via text: TELLING FRIENDS THINGS I NEED TO HEAR: THE KIMBERLY HIRSH STORY
You know that thing where you’ve pursued something long enough that now you’ve pretty much been exposed to all the fundamentals of it, and instead of looking to someone else’s system should probably Frankenstein your own? That’s where I am with personal productivity systems.
Debating with myself about regalia since I’m not going to an in-person ceremony. Definitely not trying to get the fancy stuff I dreamed of 10 yrs ago, but thinking maybe I’ll get a new hood & tassel + a souvenir tam. One hopes to only get a PhD one time, you know?
“The academy is not designed to accommodate women, families, or the demands of modern life… Settling for mediocrity in everything but academic work is an insufficient solution to juggling work and family life.” - Dr. Rachel Leventhal-Weiner, Succeeding Outside the Academy 💬📚
“[The graduate program] hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and dedication to one’s intellectual development.” - Dr. Rachel Leventhal-Weiner, Succeeding Outside the Academy 💬📚