Notes
It’s a rough time for our democratic republic. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us what it’s supposed to be about. 🇺🇸
Kimbertide Day 3: Played a little of the new Capcom Fighting Collection 🎮
Finished reading: Borderland edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold 📚
The beginnings of woodland goth. I love it, of course.
For Day 1 of Kimbertide, I celebrated with a special lunch: hardboiled eggs & sweet baby gherkin pickles. I didn’t know this when I made lunch but my mom just told me that when she was pregnant with me, her favorite meal was hardboiled eggs, dill pickles, and french fries.
It’s the first day of my birthday month! I often extend the celebration beyond the day itself (July 14) and this year I’ve decided to do it all month long. I’ll let you know what that means once I figure it out. Until then, happy Kimbertide! 🧁🥳
Finished reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. Jacobs 📚
Great fun with some good insights for the rest of life, not just puzzles.
“…anger is counterproductive to puzzle solving. And to problem solving in general.” A. J. Jacobs in The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
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Santigold’s Can’t Get Enough of Myself is mental health goals. 🎵
🔖 A solution to writer’s block: Transcribe yourself (Austin Kleon)
This is a brilliant piece of advice. The 1000+ words of my post about sweetweird and hopepunk flowed out of me beautifully and easily. I use the Otter.ai app on my phone for this.
Today I swam one pool-length, then water-walked for about 30 minutes. I also packed up 3 boxes of storage stuff to clear out the room we’re going to turn into an art studio.
I’m extra psyched about July’s Atlas Obscura Finding Wonder book club pick, The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales. It’s got that perfect new paperback smell and is about the deep ocean, a place that fascinates me. 📚
Anti-Racism Daily offers actions to take in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
W is reading M a Pokemon manga where a professor invited Ash & Goh to be her research fellows, which they see as great for their careers, and I don’t think W or M appreciates my color commentary about the exploitative nature of unpaid research fellowships.
Currently reading: Borderland 1 by Terri Windling 📚
Continuing my deep dive into woodland goth.
Currently reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. Jacobs 📚
This is the June pick for the Atlas Obscura book club at Literati. Great fun!
I already spend very little time on Facebook but now their mobile web UI has little notification badges on each icon even when there are 0 notifications so as I’m not looking to increase anxiety in my life, I logged out.
In our work team meeting today we spent a significant chunk of time discussing the history of Star Trek fanfic and its trajectory from zines to web to fanbound books. And it ended up being relevant to work stuff. I love my job. 🖖🏻📚
A little less than 12 years ago, I attended my first American Library Association Annual Conference. I’ve been to 3 more since then. My advice: focus on YALSA and GameRT. Get as many free comics as possible. If you’re exhibiting, offer candy.
Literati: Hey if you don’t want to read a super cool book about the deep ocean as part of the Atlas Obscura book club, log in and change bookclubs by the end of the day.
Me: archives email
Want to read: Meet Me by the Fountain by Alexandra Lange 📚
🔖 Nathanial White writes Disturbing the Comfortable: On Writing Disability in Science Fiction. I freewrote 1100 words today on reading disability in Star Trek. I think Piers Anthony’s Killobyte might be good to put in conversation with White’s novella.
🔖 The Bullet Journal blog has a great interview with Tiago Forte, author of Building a Second Brain, which comes out today. I hope to get a full review up soon. Lots of good stuff in this book, will be revelatory for some & leveling up for others. 📚