Please listen to Gaslit Nation, where Sarah Kendzior & Andrea Chalupa “take a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, history, context, and sharp insight on global affairs.”

I am scared and overwhelmed. Here’s what I’m doing about it:

1. Making sure I take my meds and supplements
2. Reading and following the Gaslit Nation Action Guide
3. Planning to spend some time today crafting

Working through Project READY and I wrote an “I am” poem [PDF]. I don’t want to share the whole thing but in case you’re wondering how I define myself, the first line/refrain is:

I am smart and loving

That feeling when your new job pays you to work through the professional development curriculum you created as part of your old job.

Not sure what my dream casting for most of the roles in Ninth House would be, but @may_wise Mary Wiseman for Pamela Dawes please, okay bye.

I did the seven stories exercise & put everything into a word cloud, combining related words & eliminating irrelevant words & ended up with this word cloud. I can’t make good alt text but contact me if you want the CSV word list.

🔖 Read More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries.

This. The lifting of mask mandates. The expansion of what counts as high-risk.

Sigh.

Finished reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo 📚

So good. It puts the academia in dark academia.

No YOU just ordered a Mini Tarot de Marseille.

I was going to ask what the best career path was for an insufferable know-it-all and then realized I should qualify the question with aside from academia.