I’m actually enjoying messing around on the Internet for a while and some water started leaking out of my eyes. Are these tears of joy?

Hello! I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent a theory chapter off to my advisor. You should be proud of me. I am.

🔖 If you love beautiful writing with a wistful vibe, you should be reading Jess Zimmerman’s Dead Channel. The latest issue talks about the erosion of physical third places during the pandemic.

🔖 Y’all, Sir Ian McKellen has been blogging about his work since he started working on “X-Men” in 1999 & I love his writing.

🔖 Go read what Tim Carmody has to say about two songs from “The Muppet Movie”. I’m hoping to be able to write a detailed response but for now I’ll just say it’s beautiful and it resonates with me deeply.

“Wellness” day #1: Wrote ~1700 words for my dissertation, outlined the methods section for an article. Maybe time to get a breath of fresh air and do something fun. (Limiting anxiety attacks from undone work counts as a wellness, activity okay?)

Here are some things I’m not interested in:

• content marketing
• lead magnets
• analytics
• clickthrough
• SEO
• branded partnerships
• the hustle

Here are some things I am interested in:

• stories
• love

🔖 The spellbinding history of cheese and witchcraft is the witchy content I didn’t know I needed. 🧙‍♀️🧀

I’m so psyched to read all the articles fan studies scholars are going to write about #DeanCasWedding.

Doing more lurking/replying than posting rn. I’ve blocked Twitter on my phone. It redirects me to Austin Kleon’s How to Read More post. I do enjoy book & Trek & ac/alt-ac talk tho so I will still visit on my laptop a bit & will link to my long blog posts.