🔖 One option the New York Times didn’t mention in their piece about keeping a digital commonplace book: doing it on your own website.
It was kind of fun to see one of my drama professors from undergrad in M. L. Rio’s acknowledgements for If We Were Villains. Plus two actors I helped every night in a production of Art.
Finished reading: If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio 📚
🔖 This deep-dive into fans reverse-engineering knitwear like Bernie’s mittens & the fourth Doctor’s scarf sits at the center of a Venn diagram of two of my interests, fandom & textiles. I love it.
🔖 Jess Zimmerman’s latest Dead Channel compares the old Internet to Faerie & tackles what it means to know someone’s handle. It resonated especially with me bc when I recently said “I’m Kiba” to someone I know outside of fandom, she said, “YOU’RE Kiba?”
Got about 500 words written today. Hoping to go faster moving forward. I slept poorly last night and woke up about every 2 hours. I had a pretty good day for such an underslept person.
I’ve been low-key reading all the tie-in comics for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in release order. Most are skippable, but Zombies Assemble is fun. I’m using MCU Reading Order & Marvel Unlimited to help me track them down. 🗯
Want to read: Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee 📚
Making progress on both dissertation & assistantship today. Beginning to feel like I might get this dissertation revised in time after all.
🔖 My granddaddy got his Ed. D. in 1972 and I just found the record for his dissertation in the UF catalog.