Notes
The top of my dresser has been a mess for weeks. Took less than 15 minutes to get it in shape while the kid was napping.
Dear LIS researchers of the early oughts, Second Life is not a game. Please stop clogging up my literature search results. Thanks!
All you really need to know about me to understand me is that my high school years were bookended by Clueless and 10 Things I Hate About You.
Disappearing from most of the Interwebs until after Labor Day. See y’all later! (Deleting Twitter, Instagram, & Fb Messenger from my phone.)
Submitted a paper to a conference before I’d run the study. One reviewer suggested the study shouldn’t be run at all. Another said it was an interesting study & hoped I’d still run it in spite of the rejection. (It was not ready for prime time, essentially.) #ShareYourRejections
I constantly have to remind myself that of the 6 semesters of my doctoral program, only 1 happened before I was almost & then actually somebody’s mom, and that comparing my research productivity to other people’s wouldn’t be healthy anyway but especially isn’t, given this fact.
Hey, Twitter. If you’re one of my followers who doesn’t know me IRL but would actually recognize my name and seek me out if we were at a conference or convention together, can you let me know? Just want to know who to look out for in future travels.
Instead of asking “what is my one true calling in life?”, ask “what are the many things I would like to experience before I die?”
Yes. This.
Want to read: The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids by Alexandra Lange 📚
🎧 Listened to Janelle James Discovers She’s a Comedian and Not a Gardener. It feels ironic that the Janelle James episode of The Hilarious World of Depression made me cry.
🔖 Songs By Librarians For Librarians: NYPL Sings
I love this! I have long dreamed of being a children’s entertainer and I love the idea of librarians writing songs for other librarians and parents to listen to with kids. M. and I will be listening to this today!
Me, to the toddler at lullaby time: And now, something seasonal. sings “Gethsemane” @tceles_B_hsup: I thought you were gonna go with “Everything’s Alright” Me: Hi I’m Kimberly.
Finally giving The Future of Library Services for and with Teens the close read it deserves & feeling energized.
Today my kid got giddy over the fact that “boot” and “book” begin the same way. Is wordplay a hallmark of the preoperational stage? #piagetftw