Weeks ago now my kid told me, “You don’t need to be a doctor. You’re already somebody special.” Carrying that energy in my heart always.
🔖Also, the Sesame Street Tiny Desk Concert made me tear up. 📺🎵
🔖 I highly recommend this video of the Yip Yip Invasion at Phoenix Comicon 2017, in which a group of cosplayers dress as The Martians from Sesame Street and hilarity ensues. 📺
Can I be in the book fandom? Like, I’m a fan of books as a medium and as aesthetic objects?
Finished reading: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo 📚
Exhausted from reviewing my dissertation slides with W (and applying for a job and doing a makeup test and parenting). Off to Ravka for the next 45 min, see you later.
Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing by John Scalzi 📚
Finished my defense slides and I’m so tired. 📝
Me: Why am I so obsessed with identity construction?
The little Chani Nicholas my head: Because your Sun & Ascendant are both in Cancer in the 1st house.
Me: But whyyyyyy?
Fellow academics, do you have a writerly identity? I told my artist BFF my 1st diss draft was garbage & she said “Lol so writing like art has garbage stages” & I thought “But my diss isn’t, like, WRITING writing.” Pretty silly way to think of my 50000-word creative work.