Kimberly Hirsh

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.) 🧵

I threaded a needle and pulled up the bobbin thread! 🧵

I wound a bobbin! 🧵

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. 🧵

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! 🎉🎈

We are now at the “Watch Studio Ghibli instead of PBS Kids” stage of the pandemic. 🍿

In the process of scheduling and thought to myself I should be sure to invite my Grandmomma. 😢

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! 🍰

Oh no, there’s no cake! Time for a donut break! 🍩

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.

🔖 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. 📺

🔖 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 📚

Want to read: The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey 📚