Me today: Ooh what an interesting journal article! I wonder if I could pitch a research brief on it to my client for the company blog.looks closer sees author of article is, in fact, my client laughs at self

Want to read: Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies by Shailoo Bedi and Jenaya Webb, Eds. 📚

🔖📚 🍿 Some good things I’ve read so far today:

• Revisiting The Flight of Dragons, a Forgotten Gem of ’80s Fantasy (Tor.com)
• How Harrow the Ninth Uses the Language of Fanfiction to Process Grief (Tor.com)
• “What did I know of mortal babies?”: Six Parenthood Lessons From CIRCE (Book Riot)
• Out of the Closet and Out of Time: On Being an Old(ish) Mother (Literary Hub)

Kid reading your book on a bench at the playground while your sibling plays: I see you. You are not alone.

That feeling when your own article is at the top of the “Recommended article” list on your Google Scholar homepage.

“The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” C. G. Jung, quoted by Julia Cameron in the Artist’s Way. 💬📚

My aesthetic is Mermaid Academia.

In case you wonder what kind of parent I am: yesterday, my kid was recounting a Halloween episode of Muppet Babies and said that Miss Piggy was in costume as “Frankenstein’s monster.” (We’ll get to calling it the Creature eventually.)

I have input days and output days. Today is an input day: learning about UX and user research.

I just moved my next follow up doctor’s appointment up two months to the week after next because I’m still so tired all the time and not convinced my increased thyroid supplements are helping enough. Celebrating my birthing day (kid’s birthday) by taking care of myself.