Thinking of changing my website’s title (but not my domain) from “Kimberly Hirsh” to “Kimberly Hirsh is a lot.”

🔖🎵🎭📚 Read 8 Musicals that You Might Not Know Were Based on Books by Emily Neuberger.

I’ve been grieving the fact that public performances likely won’t be a thing for the next couple of years. I grieve it both as an audience member and as a performer. Neuberger’s book is going on my to-read list, as her main character’s early experiences with musicals are nearly identical to mine. The musicals and books she writes about are now on my radar if they weren’t, or things I’m going to make a point to revisit if I was already familiar with them.

I bet Neuberger’s book would pair well with The Secret Life of the American Musical, which acts as a Poetics for musicals, describing their shared structural features.

🔖📝 Read How to Write 1000 Poems in a 1000 Days by Nick Asbury. More why to than how to, this is a moving read and a great argument for making art in response to crisis.

👦 My kid just told me that Iron Lychee is a whole bunch of Iron Mans [sic] inside one giant Iron Man.

The best part of conducting my dissertation interviews via Zoom is I get to see my participants’ cats.

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Me: One of the things a librarian can do is suggest a book you might like to read next.
M: But we don’t have a librarian!
Me: I’m a librarian. Daddy is a librarian.
M: No, you’re my parents!

The neighbors closest to the back of my property seem to be partying late into the night every weeknight, talking loudly and playing music at an incredible volume. I would like it if they stopped partying around, I don’t know, my kid’s bedtime.

Feels like I’m really closing in on an accurate self-representation with my latest bio addition: Badass Library Scientist.

Bonus bio addition: “Let’s talk about Buffy. 👱‍♀️🧛‍♂️”

Low energy + high pain = reading about ghosts while lying on a hammock. 👻📚