Novel I’m reading: includes chapter that is just the text of an imaginary academic journal article

Me: puts novel down and backs away

Well my grandmother must have really crossed over, in my own estimation anyway, because I just woke from a nap in which I had my first dream with her in it since her death. I told W. that unt I had that dream, I would think she was a restless ghost. Rest in peace, Grandmomma. 💛🌹

🔖 In “The Black Casting Choices in BRIDGERTON Were…A Choice”, Jessica Pryde explains the ways this was very much NOT colorblind casting. I especially appreciate her acknowledgement of the trauma related to maternal health outcomes. 📺

🔖 This is really cool. I hope that in addition to making it possible for scholarship recipients to show up, they make it so scholarship recipients actually want to stay: ‘SNL’ And ‘Second City’ Announce Scholarships For Diverse, Emerging Comic Talent

I wonder how much of my lingering 90s cyberutopianism is because I forget the internet is not primarily text-based anymore.

📺 I know the consensus is that Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation is Not Good, but I find a lot in it to love. Q! The beginning of Data’s obsession with Sherlock Holmes! Dixon Hill! Lore & the crystalline entity! The introduction of the Borg! Geordi being hilarious! ♥️🖖

I crack up every time M. & I watch the Emotions episode of Storybots Super Songs because a kid says, “I love my cat Blue because she’s soft and she barely smacks me,” and that statement is peak cat lover. 🐈

I’m pretty sure Kermit the Frog is my oldest friend.

This morning M. told me, “I’m not an architologyist,” and when I asked what an architologyist does, he said, “Science.”

📺 Me, a former educator, watching the new Saved by the Bell: This is really good, but I feel like with a doctorate, it makes more sense for Jessie to be a school psychologist than a counselor.