Notes
🔖📚 Read How To Get Started Reading Romance Novels by Stephanie Fallon (The Good Trade).
This is an excellent guide. Also? If you have unkind things to say about romance as a genre, please say them somewhere else. They’re not welcome in my replies.
Me: I’m going to take a 20 minute nap (sets alarm)
Narrator: She took a 90 minute nap. She did not hear the alarm.
I have 3 one -month gift subscriptions to Jami Attenberg’s Craft Talk to give away. Let me know if you want one.
🍿 Watched Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
My kid’s first time seeing both. Home Alone is, of course, a classic. Home Alone 2 isn’t a revelation but is super fun.
🕎🖖🏻 I would like to thank s-h-a-s-e on Tumblr for this Hanukkah gift of Sarek, Amanda, and Spock celebrating.
In the words of Adam Sandler:
You don’t need Deck the Halls or Jingle Bells Rock ‘cuz you can spin the dreidel with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock—both Jewish!
Book Character, Age 25: Seeing her has me feeling seventeen again.
Me, Age 42: Please. You’re only 25. You’re barely not 17.
2006 Me, Age 25: (shaking her fist at 2023 Me) Stop being so ageist.
🍿📺🎄 Watched The Christmas Train.
Based on a David Baldacci novel & bringing a bit of star power with Dermot Mulroney, Joan Cusack, and Danny Glover. A journalist runs into an old flame on The Christmas Train. Cute stuff. Almost too high-quality actually, for the vibes I’m looking for.
I was using Bing to play with ChatGPT-4 and I asked it who I am. It returned what is perhaps the most truthful answer.
📚 Today’s library haul. Catching up on Holigays22 and some other holiday reads, plus a YA biography of my hero Sarah Bernhardt - quand même!
Finished reading: Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur 📚
The first holiday rom-com of a month where I hope to read many. Elle is an astrologer who dreams of a big love. Darcy is an actuary who’s terrified of having one. This book’s heat level is sensual, a couple explicit scenes. A lovely book but I wish the third act break-up had been resolved more quickly so I could’ve had more joyous reunion time.
It reveals something about my character that I’m really psyched about being on someone’s dissertation committee.
🔖 Read Bring back the blog by Alan Jacobs.
Hear, hear.
Fun with migraines: in the past year or so I’ve started having vertigo in the prodrome stage, tilting involuntarily when I walk. In the past couple of months I’ve developed olfactory hallucinations. I don’t like migraines, y’all.
🍿 Watched Airplane!.
Super fun. I can’t begin to imagine how delightful it must have been for the people who saw it when it was first released.
🔖💻 Read The Indie Web Manifesto.
Before the IndieWeb, there was the Indie Web. This was published in 1997.
🔖💻 Read The Hacker Manifesto.
the beauty of the baud
I love this turn of phrase.
We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons…
This was published in 1986.
🔖 Read True/useful by Seth Godin.
Seth shares a handy matrix for helping us stay resilient and cultivate belief, shaking off cynicism and avoiding traps.
📺🍿🎄 Watched The Naughty Nine.
This is a heist movie about kids on the naughty list breaking into Santa’s workshop. It honors all the heist tropes and is super fun. Watch with a kid if you can.
A list of lists: in his book Keep Going, Austin Kleon writes about a variety of types of lists you might keep and I made a list of them:
- to-do
- to-make (he says to-draw)
- to-learn
- Someday/Maybe
- to-not-do
- pro/con
- thanks for/help me
- end-of-year
- commandments
New bio on most of my profiles: Mom & PhD with a librarian’s heart and an academic’s mind. I manage multiple chronic illnesses and I love books and games. 🌈♿
📓 I know Twitter is all the things we all know it is now but I still love that some scholars wrote a journal article about the relationship between emojis and identity in Twitter bios.
📺🍿🎄 Watched Reporting for Christmas.
I really like this one. A hard-hitting Chicago reporter heads to a small town in Iowa to cover the 40th anniversary of the local toy company’s most popular product. Life changes ensue.
Super cute, winning cast.