I just uploaded my #FSNNA20 poster, “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? The Information Literacy Practices of Cosplayers” [PDF] to my website. Please take a look!

One challenge with my research interests related to academic publishing is that a lot of them are focused on futuring. I’m interested in how platforms in a given moment are relevant to a zeitgeist, but also how they illuminate larger concerns. Right now, I’m intrigued by how educators are using Discord and how libraries are using Twitch. (Hell, how congresspeople are using Twitch.) I’m interested in what this all means, but by the time any traditional scholarship happens, some of these will be passe. What insights from their heyday will remain, though? I’m going to ponder this further and how I can make this part of what I do.

Co-star gets me. [Image reads “Your heart is a book.”]

I’m very cranky today. I don’t like it. I don’t like who I feel like I am when I feel this way. So I am not letting cranky me do anything that non-cranky me might regret. Which means delaying some email responses, among other things. Get over yourself, cranky Kimberly.

Been trying to figure out who to cosplay for my dissertation defense. Needs to be professional, comfortable, light makeup, no wig, preferably works with glasses. I’d been toying with a genderbent Data but I think I have a better idea now. (Still a genderbend.)

I finished drafting a dissertation chapter (I’ve had 4 almost finished chapters for a couple weeks) and I’m hungry so please come feed me because I want food but don’t want to move.

See this is why we read in the original language if we can: Caesar says the Rhine bends toward Ursa Major, while the translation says “this land has one frontier to the north.” I know which I prefer.

If you’ve been away from Latin for 10+ years but want to return to reading it as a hobby, Caesar’s De Bello Gallico is as gentle a re-introduction as it is an introduction for baby Latin students. Highly recommend.

Things my kid said tonight:
“Mommy, you’ll never be a doctor.” 💔
“I’m going to imagine having a moth for a brother.” 💗

Finished reading: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 📚