🔖 In “The Black Casting Choices in BRIDGERTON Were…A Choice”, Jessica Pryde explains the ways this was very much NOT colorblind casting. I especially appreciate her acknowledgement of the trauma related to maternal health outcomes. 📺

🔖 This is really cool. I hope that in addition to making it possible for scholarship recipients to show up, they make it so scholarship recipients actually want to stay: ‘SNL’ And ‘Second City’ Announce Scholarships For Diverse, Emerging Comic Talent

I wonder how much of my lingering 90s cyberutopianism is because I forget the internet is not primarily text-based anymore.

📺 I know the consensus is that Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation is Not Good, but I find a lot in it to love. Q! The beginning of Data’s obsession with Sherlock Holmes! Dixon Hill! Lore & the crystalline entity! The introduction of the Borg! Geordi being hilarious! ♥️🖖

I crack up every time M. & I watch the Emotions episode of Storybots Super Songs because a kid says, “I love my cat Blue because she’s soft and she barely smacks me,” and that statement is peak cat lover. 🐈

I’m pretty sure Kermit the Frog is my oldest friend.

This morning M. told me, “I’m not an architologyist,” and when I asked what an architologyist does, he said, “Science.”

📺 Me, a former educator, watching the new Saved by the Bell: This is really good, but I feel like with a doctorate, it makes more sense for Jessie to be a school psychologist than a counselor.

📺 I’ve been watching Bridgerton & aside from the obvious fact that Lady Danbury & Eloise are the best, my biggest takeaway is that I really need to up my velvet coat game.

My kid is pulling toys out of bins and saying what they are… “Spider-Man’s car, a truck, a balloon” but also “whatever this thing is… Something this is supposed to be…” This small person brings me so much joy.

I look like I’m dicking around on my phone but really I’m despairing about the future.

🔖🍿 The Wonder Woman Movies Have a Women Problem A great analysis with ideas for how Wonder Woman movies could better reflect all the best stuff about other Wonder Woman media.

I’m officially Not Okay: I just created a new WordPress install for a new website I’ve been planning to build…

How am I only just now realizing that the Holodeck is a very high tech LARP environment?

Apparently this week I’m going to be awake at night and sleep in the afternoon. Cool cool cool.

I might also read more Dawn of X and play Two Dots.

Hello. I want to want to do things but I do not want to do things, so I will be alternating between watching The Crown and Derry Girls until I do want to do things, goodbye.

I really did not spend this holiday “break” how I expected to, and now all I can do is scroll Twitter and think about how I don’t care right now about to goals, writing, productivity, or anything, so I guess I’m in denial & depression at the same time.

Which stage of grief is the not-sleeping-because-you-are-contemplating-your-own-denial one? My grandmother always seemed immortal to me in a way no one else did & I fully expect her to attend her own memorial bc she was at all the other ones at that cemetery. Grief is weird.

Probably gonna cry thanks to the crushing weight of (gesturing at the world) all this, and I’m playing on easy mode.

🍿 Watched Wonder Woman 1984. Was it flawless? No. Did the fact that it was a Wonder Woman movie and had a cute kid in it gain it enormous good will from me? Absolutely.

My grandmother Nita died this morning. She loved us all so much and always welcomed us to her home, which is the closest thing to a childhood home that I have. I had a really lovely conversation with her right before Michael’s birthday & I’m so glad. ♥️

🔖 Tips for Starting a Bookstagram: Getting started in the bookish corner of Instagram can be overwhelming. This blog post offers some helpful advice.

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

Want to read: The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century by Adam Kirsch 📚