We got a new hammock with stand for our deck, big enough for our whole household to fit in at once (for now), and it is truly the finest thing to lie outside snuggled up with your family on a beautiful day and look up at the leaves and the sky and watch the birds and squirrels.

📚 Just found my copies of Making Sense of Qualitative Data (Coffey & Atkinson) and Writing the New Ethnography (Goodall). I’ve been looking for them since November and my little qual researcher heart is SO HAPPY right now.

If I get one more listserv email advising me to use this time productively, I will be even more annoyed than I have been by all such emails thus far.

🔖 From Austin Kleon: Not Everything Will Be Okay But Some Things Will I share Kleon’s frustration with platitudes like “We’ve gotten through worse, we’ll get through this.” Many of us won’t. But more of us will.

Taking a break from scrolling micro.blog and Twitter for a while. Still checking mentions occasionally. ♥️

🎵🎭📚 You know that feeling when you’re irritated that you have to feed your family instead of just reading Stephen Sondheim’s annotation of his lyrics for the rest of the night? No? Just me, then? (If you haven’t yet, go watch this concert.)

Lately, my blogging has been all flow, no stock. That’s certainly not what I hoped for when I set out to blog more often. I do think this is a result of not tending to my inputs. Time to check in with myself and figure this out.

Oh hey, just over here pondering what LIS even means and whether information practice should be treated as its own subfield distinct from (inclusive of?) information behavior/information literacy, how’s your Saturday going?

Today’s #100DaysOfCode progress: completed CSS Flexbox at freeCodeCamp. Previously on #100DaysOfCode: 4/26, Completed applied accessibility at freeCodeCamp; 4/28, Completed Responsive Web Design Principles at freeCodeCamp.

I have bangs for the first time in 30 years and it’s Tifa’s fault. 🎮