In recent weeks I have watched all of Sherlock, finished tonight. It was fun, then it wasn’t fun, and then it was really upsetting and made me feel bad. Now I can’t sleep until I do something else that makes me feel better. 📺
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
I’m presenting my virtual poster, “Where’d You Get Those Nightcrawler Hands? The Information Literacy Practices of Cosplayers,” at #FSNNA in a couple weeks and I need to settle on a format. It can be anything <5m long; video, audio, slideshow, PDF, Prezi. What should I make?
Hello. I am tired and sweaty. Dissertation boot camp is pretty serious. ♥️
Today is a screaming 3yo day. I love my child and I find his screaming stressful.
Hello, it’s coffee and chocolate o’clock.
Dissertation boot camp week: conserving spoons in the morning so I can write hard in the afternoon. Allowing my kid to binge-watch Number blocks but making him do it outside in a hammock on a tablet instead of in a dark basement on a TV.
Finished reading: Dracula by Bram Stoker 📚
Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored.
-Bram Stoker, Dracula
Fascinating: Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait via Dan Cohen I’ve been fascinated by self-portraits ever since I saw Degas’s at the Getty about 12 years ago.
I’m kind of loving my messy, curly, 38% Ashkenazi hair today. (Image heavily filtered, of course.)
