Notes
It’s my and Will’s 13th wedding anniversary today. The traditional gift for this anniversary is lace. The modern gift is fur or textiles. I gave him a gift card for a cat cafe. 🐈☕
Finished reading: The Dead Zone by Stephen King 📚
I love the way King has characters reference his own other work. “Like in that book, Carrie!”
Another, as W. puts it, compulsively readable book. A little chilling in its political prescience, really.
True facts about my dreams: when I was reading CARRIE and started having dreams related to it, it felt like a relief, a respite from my stress dreams about being a bad caregiver.
Pro-tip: Stuck in or overwhelmed by your research? Write a memo.
Thinking about writing a blog post about the alignment of research, especially qualitative research, over the life of a project. We live in a world where we may repeatedly have to reconsider our research scope. Where and how can we stay true to our original research purpose?
I was all, “My blog isn’t cross-posting to Twitter! Whyyyy?” but then I saw that I had disabled it cross-posting anywhere. This post is a test to see if enabling cross-posting was all I needed to do.
The Internet is all “Check out the Whimsigoth aesthetic!” and y’all, a better name for it would be dELiA*s-core.
Currently reading: The Dead Zone by Stephen King 📚
🔖 Read ‘Lost’ Fans Gave Me a Safe Place on the Internet. Is Such Fandom Possible Now? (Catapult) by Anna Myers
🔖 Read Violence Made Me Feel Like I’d Left My Body. Physical Theater Helped Me Return by Lindsey Trout Hughes 🎭
Finished reading: Carrie by Stephen King 📚
I don’t recall the last time I read a book inside of 24 hours.
Me: I don’t know what to do! Should I spend the next 45 minutes reading CARRIE or playing METROID?
W: I like the 80s, too.
Posted on my birthday in 2018:
Yesterday I found out that my thyroid is out of whack again. I’m trying to remember everything I learned before, not just about how to heal, but also how to cope.
plus ça change…
🔖📝 Read On Writing with Chronic Migraines (Catapult) by Yuvi Zalkow.
I really appreciate Zalkow’s metaphors for pain and tiered system for deciding what work to do. This may inspire me to create my own spreadsheet of task levels.
🔖 Read Black Women in Fantasy Saved Me Where Academia Failed (Catapult by Ravynn K. Stringfield.
I always love reading what Dr. Stringfield has to say. This is, in a way, a scholar’s origin story, and I love it.
🔖 Read Video Games Are for Everyone—And That Should Include Disabled People (Catapult) by Allyssa Capri.
Great discussion of where the gaming landscape is with respect to accessibility, plus resources for disabled gamers, and it ends on a positive note.
I keep asking myself, “When will I not be too tired for x?” and it turns out my thyroid hormone levels are suboptimal so now that we’re upping one of my meds doses I really hope the answer is “In about 6-8 weeks.”
The past few years, I’ve written a blog post on my birthday about who I want to be that year. My birthday’s in 2 days & as I look back at the past year, I’m too exhausted to come up with new thoughts on who I want to be. I’m going to let last year’s stand.
Most of the time the answer to not having enough storage is to get rid of stuff, but with books, I tend to feel the answer is more bookshelves.
Y’all, check out this picture of Gene Roddenberry cosplaying as a Romulan commander from Balance of Terror from Cinefantastique #20 that I found on the fanlore.org cosplay page. 😍🖖🏻
Me, pitching future research clients: So in this scenario, see, you’re Buffy, and you know there’s fork guy and he’s scared of the substitute teacher but you don’t know what it all means, and I’m Giles and I’m going to use books and stuff to make sense of fork guy for you. 👱♀️
I found a picture of myself on Tumblr. Dropping all other descriptors of myself in favor of “Data in an oversized cardigan.” 🖖🏻
I’m workshopping a new professional tagline because I want to emphasize that I’m a qualitative researcher. First draft: “I use stories to answer questions.” I’m open to feedback.