🔖 Read:

• Fake News and Instagram
• 7 Ways to Survive a Flare When You’re Chronically Ill
• 16 Simple Ways to Relieve Stress and Anxiety
• 11 Journaling Tips For People Who Are Absolutely Terrible At Keeping A Journal
• 10 (cheap and easy) ways to pamper yourself
• I Tried The Reggio Emilia Method, & It Made Me A Much Better Parent
• 19 Mystical and Practical Tools I Use Daily to Run My Business
• A Guide: How To Prepare Your Home For Coronavirus
• academic creativity in the here and now (Some interesting questions here about what life would be like if research had more improv about it.)
• The Creative Academic

🎮 Played Monument Valley 2.

I loved it but it went so fast!

📚 Want to Read: How to Be Sick by Toni Bernhard

Just skimmed Parenting Doesn’t Matter, the main premise of which is that according to science, your parenting is unlikely to be the thing that messes up your kid. It reminded me of an argument I hear sometimes for a variety of possible parenting choices that makes me grouchy: “I [insert whatever here] and I turned out okay.” For example, “I was bullied in elementary school and I turned out okay.”

This rhetoric seems to me to rely on the assumption that childhood experiences only matter to the extent that they impact our adult lives. But I take issue with this assumption.

Children are not raw material waiting to be formed into real people when they reach adulthood. They are full-on human beings, with emotions and thought processes, and they deserve to have positive experiences NOW, not just when they are adults.

So when I have the opportunity to make life better for my kid, I don’t ask myself whether I turned out okay in spite of not having the experience I’m considering. I ask myself how it will impact his life NOW.

Just lost a really long post about my dissertation proposal and proposal defense because, like a fool, I didn’t save the draft and because I’m sleep-deprived and hormone-addled, I closed the tab.

I’ll try to recreate it later. Blergh.

So my dissertation study was determined exempt from further review so I guess I have to actually, you know, collect data now. (Still planning to spend at least tomorrow putting together organizational systems and a data management plan.)

📚 Want to read: Wheat Belly by William Davis, MD

📚 Want to read: Carpe Diem: Seizing the Day in a Distracted World by Roman Krznaric

Found this on the Wikipedia page for Memento mori. Drawn to the neologism “nexistentialism.” Here for mementoing mori.

Pisces New Moon spread.

📚 Set aside for now with plans to pick back up later:

• Total Immersion
• Swim Ultra-efficient Freestyle
• eBay for Dummies
• Paperback Crush
• Reinventing You