Notes
I know you’re not supposed to share your morning pages but in mine today I wrote “It’s time to develop a writing practice that fits my life instead of stealing someone else’s” and I’m really proud of and pleased with myself.
Want to read: Overdue by Amanda Oliver 📚
🔖Read Being a Public Librarian Can Be Dangerous Work, Why Don’t We Acknowledge That? - Electric Literature
Libraries are resolutely radical institutions. They are free to use and open to the public, spaces that demand nothing from you to enter and nothing for you to stay. No exchange of money occurs between library user and library, save for overdue book fees, which are becoming more and more obsolete. Libraries are sanctuaries for the mind, body, and spirit. They are repositories of language, literature, community care, and human growth. And they are also places of objectification, racism, sexual assault, and other human atrocities. They are embodiments of our history and culture, for better, and also for worse.
It’s really weird to have been the precocious teen on the Internet 25 years ago and be the old person in the writer academia Discord server now.
In other news, Season 5 of TNG is stacked with memorable episodes. Darmok. Silicon Avatar. The Game. Ethics. The Innermost Light. Time’s Arrow. 🖖🏻📺
Yesterday I helped my parents sort out the logistics of making the house more accessible for my mom when she’s using mobility aids. A few hours later my kid got sick & we were up much of the night. Caregiving is a 24/7/365 deal. I chose it & it’s still a lot.
Anybody interested in becoming a Sesame Street librarian?
Me, thinking about the logistics of attending my sister’s Master’s hooding: I mean, how many times does your sister finish graduate school?
wait for it
Me: Three, if you’re my siblings. Hmm.
I would like to thank the fine people at Nintendo of America for making the Easter Bunny’s job much easier this year.
M: Did you get me the toys and candy? Me: What do you want the story to be, baby? M: I want it to be the Easter Bunny. Me: Okay. The Easter Bunny got them.
My kid, raised in a mostly secular witchy agnostic home but with a vague understanding of holiday stories, after I explain that the Pharisees in Jesus Christ Superstar are worried Jesus will get too much political power:
“Why would they be worried about a baby?”
My closest friends are now the crow who hangs out in my yard and the moon. Also, I received a shipment of crystal-infused bath products today so… Not getting LESS witchy in my middle age.
🔖🎵🎭🍿 Read Judas Christ Superstar: Easter thoughts on being just (Reader) by Katie Prout.
This piece is excellent. JCS is an extremely important show to my family as well. I have a lot more thoughts about it and if I feel up to it, I’ll write them up later.
Spouse: So, how do I write up a plan for this research project?
Me: Step 1. Get a PhD. Just kidding! Read this one chapter - whoops, all of part II - whoops, all of part II and chapter 1 - of Creswell & Creswell.
🖖🏻📺 This /Film review of #StarTrekPicard 2x07 verbalizes something that’s bothered me all season:
“Picard” has invented trauma for the character, just so there would be a reason for him to overcome it.
🖖🏻📺 I’m not trying to spoil anybody for #StarTrekPicard but I would squee if we saw Mulder & Scully in the next episode. It won’t happen, but let me live in my headcanon.
Me: I don’t remember how to do a remote research interview! It’s been almost two years!
Also me: I wrote a blog post to help people remember how to do remote interviews.
The first me: Bless you, Past Me!
Finished reading: The Date from Hell by Gwenda Bond 📚
Review coming soon!
🔖 Read Projects: The Alastair Method.
Alastair Johnston has created a Kanban-like tracking system for the Bullet Journal that I may modify for use as an analog writing audit/pipeline.
My mom went to the hospital Saturday due to muscle weakness. (Previous surprise visits involved myocardial infarction & colitis, plus a bonus myocardial infarction during scheduled chemo.) It’s hard & scary each time a new complication comes up & it’s why I’m not posting much.
🔖 Read ecosystem theory: how to reframe the “i do this or i do that” binary (Thrive PhD) by Katy Peplin
Such a helpful perspective.
🍿 Watched Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis. 🌊
This shows some awesome innovations in water conservation from people all over the world at all different levels (city, business, household…).