Kimberly Hirsh

I’m vaguely appalled at the mobile-unfriendliness of the official websites of a couple of knowledge organization/management organizations. Feels like KO/KM people should be on top of this.

Made some Paleo-ish Chocolate frosted chocolate donuts.

📽️ Watched Doctor Strange.

I don’t have strong feelings about this one. The visuals were super cool and made me want to play more Monument Valley.

Pieces for my first ever Kitty Pryde cosplay started arriving today!

🎧 Listened to Beetlejuice (Original Broadway Cast Recording).

Best part -

Delia: Crystals speak to me.
Lydia: What are they saying?
Delia: Buy more crystals.

I adore the movie Beetlejuice. We recorded it from a TV broadcast when I was a kid, and I watched it SO MUCH that I have large chunks of it memorized. That classic Danny Elfman “Dah dah dah, dah dah dah” music stirs my heart.

So there was big potential for devotion or disappointment here.

It’s super fun, though not in the listen-obsessively way, for me anyway. It’s a shining example of what an adaptation should be. It scratches little nostalgia itches, but also updates it to resonate with the current cultural moment (see: changing Delia from an avant-garde artist, which is very late 80s, to a woo woo life coach, which is very now). It is recognizable as based on the original, but adds a lot of new and interesting elements to the story that don’t feel like padding.

Recommended!

Me: These hanging jewelry organizer pockets are so big. I should put multiple pairs of earrings in each one. But how do I decide which pairs to put together?

Me: CREATE A CLASSIFICATION SCHEME FOR YOUR EARRINGS.

“Practice loving yourself with the same exhilaration of a new crush.”

Co-star has given me this advice twice recently and I think it’s really sound. More thoughts on this later.

Spotted this little mushroom nestled in the grass outside the co-working space/Montessori School.

This is what one doctoral candidate looks like.

It’s Proposal Defense Eve, when Impostor Syndrome comes out to frolic!

Imbolc Tarot Spread by Lindsay Mack
Cards are The Moonchild Tarot.

1. What seeds did I plant at the winter solstice? 7 of Pentacles
2. What am I preparing to harvest at the spring equinox? 4 of Cups
3. What am I being invited to pay attention to today, at the halfway point between the two? XXI The Universe (normally known as the world)

Okay before we dig too deep, let’s look at #3.

I’m defending my dissertation proposal on Monday. Pretty perfect to have The Universe here, as it’s a great time to celebrate the completion of an important cycle. (I’m probably only going to take one day off, though; there are IRB and fellowship applications to submit.)

As for the other two, around the Solstice I totally decided to really be myself and take care of “boring responsible grown-up shit” as Bakara Winter puts it.

But with #2 I was like WAIT WHAT? And pulled more cards for clarification and got the 3 of Swords? WHAT IS GOING ON? I’m going to harvest fear at the equinox? So I pulled more cards. The Devil! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? (But also yeah, fear IS bondage of my own making, fair enough, The Devil) so I’m all, fine, I guess by the equinox I’m going to be ready to let go of fear and accept support and abundance and love, cool, but… Let’s just get some more details, yeah? THE FREAKING HANGED MAN. Major arcana energy today! Okay, release fear, accept love, embrace the nature of a time of transition (absolutely what the time between dissertation proposal defense and dissertation itself defense is…), but for what? What are we getting at here, Tarot?

Oh.

The Ace of Pentacles. Yeah, that tracks.

A small first step toward abundance.

Okay.

I’m with you, Tarot.

Switching my kid’s carseat from rear-facing to front-facing is a much bigger milestone than I thought it would be.