My kid asked me if he was a camper & I told him we could call our home a camp if he wanted and he named it LD Camp. It stands for Librarian Doctor Camp.

Years ago now, my sister gave M. a 3D printed Jiji from Kiki’s Delivery Service. Today I painted it as we watched Kiki.

I don’t believe being a librarian is A Calling but I do believe it is a disposition; it is one of my most prominent dispositions & as such my love language is providing information.

🔖 Putting a pin in this article to remind me to write later about the perils of outsiders researching affinity spaces, the overlooked punk rockness of the new domesticity, & how academia is constantly “discovering” things that have been going on for yrs.

Want to read: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher 📚

🔖▶️ Watching Meet Courtney: An American Girl Movie & trying not to lose it every time they mention the Challenger or Christa McAuliffe. 35 years & yet it doesn’t seem like history to me.

🔖📺 Listen, as a 90s babybat I welcome the new Anne Rice television universe. 🦇

I don’t have a plan beyond keeping my kid alive, resting a lot, trying to be more chill. I’ve never not had a plan before. I’m lucky I can afford to have no plan but also confused, overwhelmed, filled with existential dread. I’m basically living for iced chai & naps right now.

Want to read: Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by Marc Goulden, Mary Ann Mason, and Nicholas H. Wolfinger 📚

📚 I read only the Introduction to Kelly J. Baker’s SEXISM ED and I’m already seething with rage.