I did the My Next Move interests profile and it says I should be an information research scientist. Yay?

Being in a “life happens” moment myself (finishing my dissertation), I originally missed Tantek Çelik’s chat conversations & blog post about developing a “life happens” approach to community participation & care on the IndieWeb. I love this idea.

Watching My Neighbor Totoro & my kid is saying that I’m like Mama Kusakabe because we both have dark hair and fair skin. I said, “And I, too, am voiced by Lea Salonga,” and he said, “No, you’re not, you’re voiced by your voice box.” 🍿

My kid’s over here telling his dad a Magic Treehouse/Wild Kratts crossover story. 💗💓📚📺

Want to read: The Writer’s Practice by John Warner 📚

I’m finishing up my PhD this May! I have a lot of possibilities for what’s next; I would welcome even more! I’m open to hearing about any positions in your network local to the Triangle area of NC or open to remote work in:

• librarianship
• research
• writing
• editing

Want to read: When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong 📚

4yo: What are you defending?

Me: My dissertation.

4yo: Why do you have to defend it?

Me:

Friend: I was thinking like I needed to get in my 10,000 hours and be an expert.

Me: The 10,000 hours rule is not entirely evidence-based and we don’t have to be experts to find something useful.

Here’s a proposed title for my memoir, inspired by me being aggressively helped at a friend via text: TELLING FRIENDS THINGS I NEED TO HEAR: THE KIMBERLY HIRSH STORY