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I am a grown human (a woman, specifically) and so I am having cookies as part of my breakfast today.

I had a rough night.

I thought you should know that this Jean-Luc Picard cover of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (feat. Q) is my new Christmas bop. 🖖🏻🎄

What WOULD Christmas be without historically low mountain snow causing staggering drought?

Josh Chan and Rebecca Bunch from "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" sing "But hey this eggnog froyo's super tight."

How much do we know about the instructors at Starfleet Academy and their pedagogy? 🖖🏻📺

I’m excited to share that I’ve accepted an offer to start in January as a (remote) Postdoctoral Scholar with the Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine. I’ll be doing exactly what I set out to do at the start of my PhD: researching connected learning in libraries.

I spent about an hour tonight playing the 1980 Commodore 64 port of Super Star Trek and I have no regrets. 🎮💻

Want to read: The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling 📚

Me: *finds one footnote in article I’m revising, figures out what needs to change about the part that references it, stars those readings in Paperpile* Wow. That was hard work. Time for some Trek Twitter! (This was actually a time-consuming task.)

Want to read: The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People by Rachel Miller 📚

All. In. On. Trek. [Image Description: A white woman with dark hair and blue eyes wears a black mask. On the mask is a depiction of Captain Picard from Star Trek, various wintry and Star Trek motifs, and the text “Make It Snow.”]

🔖 Read So You’ve Just Found Out You’re Jewish. What’s Next?

By DNA, I’m almost half Jewish. I’ve known this my whole life. By religious definitions, I’m not remotely Jewish. On a visceral level, I feel Jew-ish. A friend made me an honorary MOT. Regardless of the degree of my Jewishness, this blog post is full of helpful information.

These are the sufganiyot I didn’t char. (The ones I did char are still pretty delicious.) Gluten-free, dairy-free, corn-free.

🔖 Read The 100 Most Jewish Foods.

Made latkes from a mix this year.

🔖 Read A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Really Ugly.

About to metaphorically bleed my heart onto my keyboard, nbd, I’ll see you soon.

I keep messing around on my phone instead of actually doing anything bc on top of the world being like it is & a raging instance of PMS that has me wondering if I actually have PMDD, a family member has headed to the emergency room. (Not from my household & probably’ll be fine.)

🔖🎮 Read

How Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak text-adventures | Ars Technica arstechnica.com

Read: arstechnica.com

This week’s issue of 50 Years of Text Games is about the game The Freshman and its parent app, Choices. I have played the heck out of Choices. Highly recommend and I really appreciate the gender bias critique in the piece.

Grieving something weird and frivolous today. Last night UNC deactivated my user id, because it’s been more than 6 months since I graduated. I have had that user id since August 1999. Now it is locked.

Currently reading: The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Safety 📚

Moleskine’s green velvet notebook makes my little 90s heart sing. $70 is way too much since I go through 2 or 3 of these a year but SO PRETTY I may have to start covering my own notebooks in velvet.

As has happened for the past 5 years, my kid’s taste and needs have heavily influenced my Spotify year-end wrap-up. Proud that together he and I love spooky music (so much Grim Grinning Ghosts) & that durhamfi is in my top albums 2 yrs in a row.

Morning pages palindrome!