Kid woke up, so break from live-posting but I’m introducing him to Gather. “What game is that?”

Side question for anyone at #FSNNA22 or anyone aware of fan studies at all - have folks looked at parents/caregivers and what their fannish activity looks like? Intergenerational fandom within families?

Good morning! It’s the first day of #FSNNA22, the Fan Studies Network North America conference, and I might be live tweeting and then posting summaries on my blog. But I might not. We’ll see! This is one of my favorite conferences.

Experimenting with limiting leisure screen time for a little bit. You’ll be able to tell how it goes by following whether I post or not.

I am asking for COPING advice, not TREATMENT advice: I feel crappy always, with stress and/or migraines and/or insomnia and/or joint pain and/or brain fog. How do other people living this life cope?

Please do not tell me to meditate, exercise, or get acupuncture.

Me, a postdoc and research lead at an R1 institution with a PhD from another institution: I’m not really an academic, though!

Tape worked great on the part of the giant cat rip that wasn’t a seam, but not the part that was, so I’ll either sew it or try some seam seal for next year. In the meantime we’ve got a little 3’ cute dragon to put up and I may get something not inflatable to go with it.

🎙️It’s taken me more than 2.5 yrs, but I have finished listening to Keegan-Michael Key & Elle Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy. It is a delight. A Theatre Person walking you through the history of sketch is a lovely thing. And I do have a list of stuff to watch now.

Yesterday: Noodling on work stuff while swapping out winter clothes and putting away laundry.

Today: Getting. Things. Done. and marking them off my to-do list.

Both kinds of days are important.

📚💬📝 “…the work of critical thinking and theorizing is itself an expression of political praxis that constructs a foundation wherein individual action can be united with collective struggle.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work