Sewing is not going great because my machine is old and unhelpful and difficult to find a manual for. (I’ve tried all the places but if you find me a manual for the Seammaster 1700 you’ll have my undying gratitude.) ๐งต
Sewing is not going great because my machine is old and unhelpful and difficult to find a manual for. (I’ve tried all the places but if you find me a manual for the Seammaster 1700 you’ll have my undying gratitude.) ๐งต
I threaded a needle and pulled up the bobbin thread! ๐งต
I wound a bobbin! ๐งต
Taking a mini-spring break over UNC’s Wellness Days & the weekend, including bailing on Social Media. See y’all Monday!
No YOU meant to go to bed an hour ago but got distracted by online window-shopping for sewing supplies. ๐งต
I’m Kimberly Hirsh and I just sent my finished, formatted dissertation to my advisor, who will send it to my committee. All that remains is for me to defend, revise, and submit! ๐๐
We are now at the “Watch Studio Ghibli instead of PBS Kids” stage of the pandemic. ๐ฟ
In the process of scheduling and thought to myself I should be sure to invite my Grandmomma. ๐ข
Catching up on MCU. My favorite parts of Daredevil S2 are when Matt Murdock & Frank Castle have quiet conversations about vigilante ethics & motivations.
Me, justifying my discussion chapter to the committee in my head: It’s only 1/3 of a dissertation so that’s why there’s only 1/3 of an original contribution to knowledge in it.
I may have finished my discussion chapter. I definitely sent it off to my advisor.
Discussion section: behind the scenes [Alt text: A piece of paper showing a black and white diagram with several shapes on it and text overlaid on the shapes; red numbers are written in marker on the shapes. A red marker sits on top of the paper, which sits on a wooden table.]
Wrote ~1200 words. Time for a cake break! ๐ฐ
Oh no, there’s no cake! Time for a donut break! ๐ฉ
Today’s writing music: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Original Soundtrack SQUARE ENIX MUSIC
Me, this morning: Sure buddy, I’ll find those missing toys for you!
Me, after taking everything out and spreading out because I might as well organize while searching:
I’m thisclose to requesting submissions for a WandaVision digital zine. To be edited AFTER I finish my dissertation, of course.
As long as I defend before the semester is over I’m good. On the off chance my post-defense revisions are so substantial I can’t make the April 21 deadline, I can submit after that & technically have an August degree date and that’s fine. This message brought to you by anxiety.
Today: Day 3 of garbage sleep. Empathetically worried about funding for the PhD cohorts coming up behind me. In so much pain that I actually whimper when I sit up. Writing being done: 2 sentences, a copied-and-pasted blockquote. And I really think that’s all I have in me today.
๐ This piece about WandaVision & fan theories has me musing on the difference between trying to figure out who will make a cameo and, say, analyzing the cinematography in Veronica Mars to see how it draws on the visual language of noir. via Elizabeth Minkel. ๐บ
๐ This piece about WandaVision and fan theories has me thinking about fannish meta and where it lives now, if anywhere.
Finishing my PhD & launching information consulting has me basically pretending I’m Dr. Liara T’soni (huge Mass Effect spoilers there).
You know how sometimes you serendipitously learn about a theoretical framework that’s going to tie the end of your dissertation together? That just happened to me, on Twitter.
My kid woke me up an hour early and I added ~1500 words to my discussion chapter today, plus pulled over another 9 pages from an earlier draft. I think it’s time for me to rest now.
Want to read: How Humans Learn by Joshua R. Eyler ๐
Want to read: The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey ๐