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

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.

What?! Kristin Cashore just had a character in Jane, Unlimited share my one strong Doctor Who opinion! “Nobody likes Martha Jones but I like Martha Jones.”

πŸ’¬πŸ“š “A storm can be a cozy thing when one isn’t in it.” - Kristin Cashore in Jane, Unlimited