Notes
🔖 This piece about WandaVision and fan theories has me thinking about fannish meta and where it lives now, if anywhere.
Finishing my PhD & launching information consulting has me basically pretending I’m Dr. Liara T’soni (huge Mass Effect spoilers there).
You know how sometimes you serendipitously learn about a theoretical framework that’s going to tie the end of your dissertation together? That just happened to me, on Twitter.
My kid woke me up an hour early and I added ~1500 words to my discussion chapter today, plus pulled over another 9 pages from an earlier draft. I think it’s time for me to rest now.
Today in the Hundred Acre Wood: Piglet might have the coronavirus but he’s asymptomatic; Pooh, Rabbit, and Eeyore have all been vaccinated. (Kanga, Roo, Owl, and Tigger are absent from the scene.)
I’ll say this (among other things) for being a part-time stay-at-home mom/part-time scholar: the mom part gives you lots of staring into space time you can leverage for research and writing insights.
I remember when MCU fans were clamoring for WandaVision to reveal its big bad already & Ashley Esqueda said “maybe grief is enough” & it turns out it totally is. 📺
Is there anything more attractive than an attractive person writing a grant application & looking in the household copy of Creswell & Creswell to help them do it? Asking for a nerd. (The nerd is me. You don’t need to answer. I’m watching my attractive husband do this RIGHT NOW.)
🔖 These images of comic book heroes redrawn to have average body types are fascinating from a cosplayer’s perspective. The “real” bodies look every bit as heroic to me & I wonder if it’s bc I’m used to seeing real bodies in these costumes. via @ohBananaJoe on micro.blog.
🔖 Check out Riana Mckeith’s period-appropriate cartoon homages to WandaVision. So great! It will surprise no one that the 80s one is my fave. (via kottke.org) 📺
I just reviewed my advisor’s notes on the first 6 chapters of my dissertation (Intro, 2 Lit Review, 2 Theory, Methods). When I started I was in a panic bc I was afraid it would be like last time when I had to write a whole new chapter. Now that I’m done I think it’s manageable.
What I’m learning from the MCU (caught up on WandaVision & currently watching Agents of SHIELD 3x15) is that everyone with a PhD in the natural sciences is good at hacking and creating algorithms. Scientists, is this true? 📺🍿
There are a lot of hard moments as a parent. I tend to share moments like this: M. quietly building with Magnatiles while leaning on my leg. We share these easy moments, but know you’re not alone when it gets hard, even though you aren’t seeing other parents’ hard moments.
Just finished the introduction to SUCCEEDING OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY. Excited to read the rest. It seems like having 14 informational interviews in a book. 📚
I woke up with a migraine today. I’ve had enough caffeine that it’s significantly receded but now I’m SO AWAKE. I would normally read a book but I’m waiting to get new ones from the library tomorrow, so I think I’ll try some comics.
Do I know anybody who works in youth services in the Wake County Public Libraries? If you do, will you let me know? Mind if I message/email you with some questions?
Okay. I finished pulling quotes from the last interview. I was like, “Cool! Time to move on to the justification writing!” and my body said “Hold on there, Kimberly.” So I’m going to have a bit of a liedown.
Only one interview left to pull quotes from for my findings chapter and then I can move on to the part where I justify my data analysis decisions. Dissertating is mentally tiring work, y’all. It feels like the closer I should be to done the further the horizon stretches away.
Just updated my Fan Studies in LIS page to include some scholars I met at FSNNA20!
OKAY. I finished pulling quotes from that giant and awesome interview. Three more interviews left to pull quotes from, then some writing up of my data analysis rationale and some definitions…
