This is a note to myself to write about how connected learning has existential value, not just $/academic/civic. For more, see Jermaine’s story on p. 30-31 of Reflections on a Decade of Engaged Scholarship.

Want to read: Dead Collections: A Novel by Isaac Fellman 📚

🎵 Had to skip “Moonlight Sonata” on the Spotify Dark Academia Classical playlist because belting “Schroeder” at the top of my lungs is not actually conducive to getting work done.

🔖 Read Lost Time in COVID.

Overall, we have, of necessity, learned to value the quality of our time over the quantity of it, and to work with the rhythms of our energies.

I just got finished with my onboarding meeting for the Connected Learning Lab and I can’t adequately express how psyched I am to get to do the work I actually want to do. How do I keep this going post-postdoc?

Google Scholar: Hi Dr. Kimberly, would you like some journal articles about families playing Pokemon Go together and teaching and learning in Pokemon Go?

Me: YOINK.

Pretty psyched that this is my new institution.

🔖 Read Everyone should blog.

🔖 Read Celebrate by Writing.

Somebody wrote a post on Micro.blog with the title “Everybody should blog” in the past couple days and I can’t find it now. If you know where it is, would you kindly point me to it?

Fighting with the VPN so I can have off-campus library access. Academia, how I’ve missed you. :) (I’m re-instituting emoticons instead of some emoji because I like remembering the old Internet.)

🎵 I’m listening to the full album of Lady Gaga’s BORN THIS WAY for the first time, and I’m a little embarrassed by coming to her this late, given her status as the spiritual successor to Madonna, whom I have adored since 1984.

1/3/22 plan: Wake up at normal time, hang out with kid, eat wholesome food, clean bedroom, prep for week ahead

1/3/22 reality: Wake up 1 hr late & in pain, eat easy version of wholesome food, watch kid play tablet games all day

New bio! “Big sister, little mother, perpetual learner. I love books AND computers.”

New rule: Especially on days when my kid is home from school, it’s okay if my routines don’t go as planned. Extra okay if it’s also a high pain day.

10 Video Games to Know Me 🎮

  • Final Fantasy
  • Final Fantasy VII
  • Street Fighter Alpha 3
  • Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
  • Chrono Cross
  • Golden Sun
  • Final Fantasy X-2
  • Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
  • Dragon Age Inquisition
  • Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

10 TV Shows to Know Me 📺

  • The Muppet Show
  • Punky Brewster
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • The Kids In the Hall
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Firefly
  • 30 Rock
  • How I Met Your Mother
  • You’re the Worst
  • GLOW

🔖 Read True gender-neutral clothing must go beyond fancy sweatpants.

I love the idea of a shop where clothing is arranged by type (shirts here, dresses there) and silhouette (narrow shoulders over here, broad hips over there).

Welp, my corkboard is now mostly a collage of tarot and oracle cards. The mermaids are very concerned about research ethics.

A cork board with several items pinned to it. Most of the items are tarot or oracle cards. There are also a photo of a swaddled baby and 3 greeting cards, as well as an "I voted" sticker. An oracle card depicts a silvery mermaid looking up at a shadowy cloaked figure stretching out their hand. Text on the card reads: "EXPERIMENTS Manipulation of nature, forcing change, cruelty in the pursuit of knowledge, arrogance"

Finished reading: Truly Devious: A Mystery by Maureen Johnson 📚

New (Year) hair before and after brushing. (Better-lit photos coming soon.)

💬 “We are being asked to no longer abandon ourselves, to embrace and make space for all parts of ourselves to come alive and be honored.” Lindsay Mack’s Monthly Medicine for January 2022

Happy New Year from the hair I just cut off in a literal and symbolic act of lightening my load.

Selfies to come after a shower and hair air drying.

🔖 Read 6 ways to deal with anxiety and uncertainty this winter.

One way to embrace radical uncertainty is to develop coping mechanisms. This NPR piece suggests some possibilities.

Closing out the year with a couple of runs in Hades 🎮 followed by some Star Trek: The Next Generation 🖖🏻. Here’s to staying on-brand in 2022.