My plan for coping for… oh, the rest of my life… is to read books and make stuff. Want to join me? Right now I’m reading Frankenstein 📚 and making the Habitat Cardigan 🧶.
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.
Want to get in touch? You can reach me by email.
Recent posts
Finished reading: Show Your Work by Austin Kleon 📚
Finished reading: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior 📚
You know what isn’t great for my mental well-being as a student? Taking a required 45 minute online training course about student mental well-being.
Logging off Twitter tonight and don’t expect to be back for a while… Will still autopost from my website, though.
Blown away by Flow’s ability to get a piece on Cottagecore out while it’s still a thing. Looking forward to reading it!
Hey guess what, just submitted a THIRD chapter to my advisor! Worth noting that all of these have been close to finished for a while so it’s not like I wrote 3 chapters in 2 weeks. I wrote them over the course of 3-4 months and have just closed gaps in the past couple weeks.
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.