Do you feel like you need a nap even after the most energizing of video calls? How do y’all who have 9-Zoom days or whatever deal? Do you just drink a lot of black tea? What’s up? After just one call, even or perhaps especially an awesome one, I’m ready to hide for a few hours.
Hello I am Kimberly and I have now sent 2 completed chapter drafts to my advisor and expect to send the 3rd by the end of the week so I should probably break into the Halloween peanut butter cups yes?
I joined some Discord servers related to my research interests and now my phone feels like the spring of 2000 in the best way, there are smart and friendly people in there.
📚💬 “I’m a 21st-century American woman; I don’t have enough faith to covet anything but freedom… My career has been a series of reactions to terrible economic & political circumstances caused by the corruption of elites.” Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior), #HidingInPlainSight
Feeling cute on a high-pain day. Not going to take it for granted.
I just uploaded my #FSNNA20 poster, “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? The Information Literacy Practices of Cosplayers” [PDF] to my website. Please take a look!
One challenge with my research interests related to academic publishing is that a lot of them are focused on futuring. I’m interested in how platforms in a given moment are relevant to a zeitgeist, but also how they illuminate larger concerns. Right now, I’m intrigued by how educators are using Discord and how libraries are using Twitch. (Hell, how congresspeople are using Twitch.) I’m interested in what this all means, but by the time any traditional scholarship happens, some of these will be passe. What insights from their heyday will remain, though? I’m going to ponder this further and how I can make this part of what I do.
Co-star gets me. [Image reads “Your heart is a book.”]
I’m very cranky today. I don’t like it. I don’t like who I feel like I am when I feel this way. So I am not letting cranky me do anything that non-cranky me might regret. Which means delaying some email responses, among other things. Get over yourself, cranky Kimberly.
Been trying to figure out who to cosplay for my dissertation defense. Needs to be professional, comfortable, light makeup, no wig, preferably works with glasses. I’d been toying with a genderbent Data but I think I have a better idea now. (Still a genderbend.)