Shang-Chi is all “1996” and later is all “PRESENT DAY” and it’s confusing how those aren’t synonyms.

Finished reading: Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang Vol. 1: Brothers and Sisters by Gene Yang 📚

I haven’t watched it yet but I’ve decided The Adam Project is a sequel to 13 Going on 30 and nothing will convince me otherwise.

🍿 Watched Turning Red. Highly recommend. Perfectly captures being 13, navigating our own growth and our parents' expectations, and the way these questions stay with us in adulthood.

Added “A very enterprising, mildly annoying young lady” to my bio. Thanks, #TurningRed!

🔖 Read Storytelling and the Craft of Quiltmaking. 🧵

I like to ask from time to time and I haven’t in a while: what’s my brand?

Whoever wrote that thing about how 13 yos don’t write fanfic has everybody on Twitter talking about their Sailor Moon fanfic. I wrote mine (the redemption of the Spectre Sisters) at 14. (Also had a Star Wars fic where my sister was sister-insert version of Luke & I was Leia.)

Want to read: Information Hunters by Kathy Peiss 📚

The Klein Librarian for Science Fiction at UC Riverside sounds like a pretty cool job.

🍿 Watched Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga because it was nominated for a Hugo. I had a lot of fun with it. I like this kind of gentle performance from Will Ferrell & Rachel McAdams always makes me happy.

Finished reading: How to Make a Living with Your Writing Third Edition by Joanna Penn 📚

Great advice on creating multiple income streams as a writer. Tons of recommended resources and helpful questions to consider.

We are at DEFCON Falling Asleep to Mr. Rogers.

Will the giant invasive ballooning spiders eat the mosquitos in my yard? If so, I don’t welcome like ALL of them but you know, a couple would be okay. In the yard. Not in the house if I can help it. (I’m from Florida so the part where they’re the size of a kid’s hand is meh.)

In case you’re wondering where my head is at, I spilled the PCR testing solution while trying to test my kid, had to ask the pharmacy tech for a new vial, am terrified that I fucked up the test somehow & think I’m the worst. We may be seeing a depression relapse here.

I changed my goal for April’s Camp NaNoWriMo. My goal now is to publish 22,500 words on my blog over the course of the month. I’ve changed my username over there to kimberlyhirsh, so feel free to find me and add me as a buddy.

Finished reading: Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore 📚

So great. Cashore gets five genres in this book and each one is a delight.

Pro-tip: brains work better when you feed them.

Finished reading: The Immune System Recovery Plan by Susan Blum 📚

My kid’s school is going mask-optional indoors in April and now I don’t know if I’m going to sleep any time soon because I’m freaking out.

I’m freaked out because I’m in multiple high risk categories and my mom is in all the same ones as me PLUS she has leukemia & is undergoing chemo. But I hate the idea of telling my kid he has to mask even if his friends don’t.

Hello, world. Got any cool qualitative UX researcher friends you can connect me with? I’d love to learn more about this career (especially in ed tech, fan-serving, or gaming industries). The qual is pretty key. I could get into mixed methods but never pure quant.

Me: Let’s see who among my LinkedIn connections has qualitative research in their profile. Maybe I can eyeball their jobs and see what might be worth exploring for my next thing.

LinkedIn: It’s everyone, everyone you know is a qualitative researcher, even improv people.

I ran the introductory adventure for Hero Kids for M & W. It was a lot of fun and now I’m very tired. 🎲

I’m at that point in a documentation/literature review where you have to just let stuff roll around in your brain and while it IS productive, it doesn’t FEEL productive.

I can’t tell if the locus of origin of my current inability to focus is in my body, in The World, or shared between them.