Notes
Writing music and reading music are different music. My writing music is video game or film scores. My reading music is chill beats, piano, quiet instrumental stuff. What about you? What’s your writing music? What’s your reading music?
I need to be reading & writing about information literacy as a sociocultural/sociotechnical practice, but I think swiss cheese Mom-brain is incompatible with Practice Theory. I just can’t handle words like “ontological” and “epistemological” when I’m running on 2 weeks of poor sleep because of my kid teething and never napping.
I’m trying to find a word to help me navigate these times in 2019. Something having to do with cycles… Being like the moon or like water… Working hard at high tide? Still figuring it out.
Today I listened to Lindsay Mack’s amazing first episode of the new version of her podcast, in which she discusses birth, death, and thresholds with doula/mom/actor/comedian Erica Livingston of Birdsong Brooklyn. It was so phenomenally healing. I might try to listen again and take notes so I can share the moments that really stood out. I haven’t fully processed my birth trauma, even though my kid is 26 months old. I so appreciate being given permission to see myself as postpartum forever, because that’s the reality of parenthood, isn’t it? Thank you so much Lindsay and especially Erica for this wondrous bit of medicine.
Just read all of Friends with Secrets and cried and I think there’s a lot of journaling in my future?
Me, to W— this morning: I don’t know if you can cast every musical with the characters from Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.
Him: Challenge accepted!
I had a great first meeting with my doctoral committee today and am in that rare antsy can’t-wait-to-get-to-work mood, but I have to wait because my mother-in-law isn’t here to sit with the toddler yet.
Yesterday I received my first order from Whisper Sisters, purveyors of fine perfume oils. I found out about it from Gothic Charm School. I ordered a scent called Goth Club 89, which is described as
Goth Club '89 - if you were there, you know the smell. Heavy resins, candle smoke, nicotine, clove, incense, absinthe, with a hint of intoxicating florals and vintage dark patchouli to balance everything out.
The Lady of the Manners said it delivers on exactly what it promises, so I thought I’d try it.
(Sidebar: This was a late night impulse buy. Occasionally I do those. They’re always under $20 and always silly. Others have included a Krang t-shirt and movies including Hot Rod, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, and all of the Librarian movies.)
First, the Whisper Sisters packaging is beautiful: a little sheer black fabric bag with a business card, tiny plastic skeleton and spider and bat toys, and the perfume bottle plus a little sample vial. When I put the scent on, I wasn’t sure about it. It was a bit strong and medicinal.
But once it settled in and my body chemistry modified it, I loved it.
Specifically, I felt as this was how I should have been smelling my whole life.
“Big and epic but also sparkly” is my new personal tagline.
I had a feeling this morning that I needed to revisit Zen Habits and it turned out that I did, for this article.
#100DaysOfCode 2/100 Completed @freeCodeCamp Applied Accessibility, Responsive Web Design Principles, CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, and Build a Tribute Page project.
#100DaysOfCode 1/100 Completed @freeCodeCamp Basic HTML & HTML5, Basic CSS, & Applied Visual Design.
Got excited about things that are more widely used than the last time I worked with CSS: border-radius, variables.
Had some trouble wrapping my head around HTML5 forms, since I’m a dinosaur and still have CGI code in my head… But I finally understood that label encompasses, you know, the label for the actual input element, and that name tells you, when you receive the submission, what the submitted input actually is answering… I think that in my own code, though, I’ll be commenting a LOT to keep all of these bits straight in my own head.
Drawing with CSS is blowing my mind. CSS interactions… I think if you couldn’t do it with CSS in 2002, I probably don’t know how to do it. Exciting to learn new stuff!
If MAGIC is aligning ENERGY with INTENTION in order to bring about CHANGE, VOTING is a MAGICAL ACT. Thank you for voting, for using your power to make the world a better place.
Me: I think I’m going to embrace my age. I’m thinking of reading Marion Zimmer Bradley and Mercedes Lackey.
W: Are you a middle aged woman in the 1980s?
Hi there. I’m just over here working on my comps (makerspaces, gaming, fandom, theory, methods) and thinking applying @CrystleM’s dissertation work to the cosplay affinity space might be a good dissertation plan… What are YOU up to?
My brother made this awesome animated short. It’s probably my favorite of all his work. You can find him on Twitter @MicahHirsh.
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On Monday, we go to work. But right now, it’s kigurumi-and-video-games o’clock.[/caption]
So many people I know and love probably need this card right now. (Let’s be honest; I’m one of them.) If you need it, here it is. If you want a physical version to send someone (or yourself!), you can buy it at Emily McDowell’s shop.
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My choice of craft reveals a lot about my emotional state. Cross-stitch = rage. Crochet = anxiety.[/caption]
Little known facts about The Incredible Hulk, according to my almost-two-year-old:
- He plays soccer.
- He has a yellow parasol.
- He can turn into a hawk.
- He can swim, too.
- He's a big shark.
You know you’re from Durham when your toddler distinguishes food trucks from all other trucks. #portlandofthepiedmont #bullcity
Fundamental parenting truth: the night before you plan to commit to eating healthier is the night your child will not sleep. (This message brought to you by cookies in the office breakroom and stevia-sweetened soda.)
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