I’m thisclose to requesting submissions for a WandaVision digital zine. To be edited AFTER I finish my dissertation, of course.
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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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 📚