Notes
Finished reading: Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss 📚
TFW you’re coding an interview transcript & say to your past self, “PLEASE have asked this follow up question” and you keep reading & your past self DID ask that follow up question.
How do people do things? Do I seem to do things? I feel like I do no things. I feel like my life is just sitting with my kid & eking out a tiny bit of research each day. If you can be not me, and tell me a thing you noticed me do, it would really help me. Thank you!
🔖 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!
W. and I have now been married longer than we were together before we were married. He continues to make me laugh. He is a delightful spouse and father. We make our own fun. I’m glad we’re married.
🔖 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.
Cross-posted to: Twitter
Sometimes, one little thing can take a lot out of me. Today, the plumber came to my house around 8:30 and was here until almost 10. He did a great job, but dealing with humans is exhausting. My kid and I drove to pick up our groceries - we were late - and also while we were in the car, jumped on a call with one of his friends from preschool and that friend’s parent. We got home and he kept chatting with them as I put the perishable groceries away. I left the non-perishables for W. to put away because I was already exhausted, and oh yeah, hadn’t eaten anything and it was approaching 10:30.
Now it’s time to get to work but I just want to drink some coffee and have a caffeine power nap and maybe do some Yoga with Adriene?
I need to get my body a little more sorted because when it feels rotten, I just can’t get work done.
If you ever wonder how my brain works, simply recall that I’ve been writing with hypertext since 1995, and read this kottke.org post from 1998 about how hypertext is supposed to work.
💬📚 “The Spy Girls are what happens when you record an episode of Charlie’s Angels over a VHS copy of Clueless while reading a Delia’s catalog and chugging Mountain Dew till your eyes cross.” - Gabrielle Moss, writing about Elizabeth Cage’s Spy Girls series in Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction
🔖📺 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.
So happy to have this Silvia Moreno-Garcia reading pathway from Book Riot, because I’ve been coveting Mexican Gothic something fierce and all of these books sound amazing. 📚
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be working as a research assistant with Dr. Maggie Melo on her NSF Career Award project, ““Equity in the Making: Investigating Spatial Arrangements of Makerspaces and Their Impact on Diverse User Populations,” for the 2020-2021 school year. 🎉
Pretty proud of my first Scratch project. It looks like a little thing, but if you click “See inside,” you’ll see that it’s more complex than it might first appear.
📺 “Parents are just older weirdos, doing the best they can. Just like the rest of us.” Netflix’s Babysitters Club series makes me feel seen on so many levels.
🔖 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.
Just received the Call for Proposals for the Fan Studies Network North America virtual conference & now working on an idea for a poster (probably actually a video essay) about affinity space ethnography. ❤️️
Page of Cups and Knight of Cups: the two sides of my soul.
(Cards are from the Moonchild Tarot by Danielle Noel.)
