Our family has been exploring our playgroundless city parks. Today we went to Sandy Creek Park, which has a couple of trails and gorgeous wetlands.

Want to read: a tumblr book by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch, editors, doi:10.3998/mpub.11537055 📚

Put Bert & Ernie Sing-Along on while my kid was in the bath this morning and we’re listening again now. It’s brought me joy all day.

Added details to my discussion chapter outline, input new code system into data analysis software, time to eat trail mix and watch a 2020 holiday movie.

It’s possible I am putting way too much thought into this discussion chapter.

Listen. If you want to get a jump on the winter holidays now with decorations and baking, I say go ahead. Cheer is sorely lacking and I see no reason to delay it.

Brain fog has returned but I got the kid to sit next to me instead of on me and squeezed in 5+ pages of Abigail DeKosnik’s ROGUE ARCHIVES. Yay me!

Kimberly problems: when your brain fog lifts enough for you to read scholarship but you can’t go get your book stand because your kid is sitting on you.

What do you think are my areas of expertise?

The more I go nowhere and do nothing, the more money I spend on books… Which is why I’ll probably be taking advantage of the Duke University Press sale to buy this book about why Buffy the Vampire Slayer is still a thing even though it’s been off-the-air for 17 yrs.