What WOULD Christmas be without historically low mountain snow causing staggering drought?
Planet Word Museum in Washington, DC
Hi there! I'm Kimberly Hirsh. My pronouns are she/ her/hers. I'm somebody's mom. I work as a school librarian. I have a PhD in information and library science. I love to read, play tabletop and video games, and make things. I used to perform in theater and improv comedy and I may one day again. I have been extremely online since 1993 and still enjoy tinkering on the web. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I'm married to my kid's dad. We have a cat.
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Recent posts
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.
