👦 My kid just told me that Iron Lychee is a whole bunch of Iron Mans [sic] inside one giant Iron Man.
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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The best part of conducting my dissertation interviews via Zoom is I get to see my participants’ cats.
📚 Reading Notes, Having Trouble Reading, and a Read What You Own Challenge
I added a page to the index section of my Bullet Journal that tracks Reading Notes. I don’t like to use collections; I inevitably end up ignoring them. So Reading Notes get stuck in my notebook on the day that I did the reading, and then I add the book title to the Reading Notes bit of the index, along with the numbers of pages where I’ve taken notes on that book.
Here are all the books that one might consider me to be “currently” reading right now:
- Getting Started in Consulting
- Dracula - a gorgeous edition illustrated by [Edward Gorey]
- Ghostlands
- Moby Dick
- Writing with Power
- A Choir of Lies
- How to Do Nothing
- Jim Henson: The Biography
- The Artist’s Way
- Steal Like an Artist
I’ve actually finished reading at least 5 books in the past couple of months, which is impressive, I think. But I’m really having trouble deciding which one to read at any given time. So I still count this as having trouble reading.
Austin Kleon has some advice for if you are having trouble reading. I think I will pay attention to it. I’ve been doing some of these things, but I might benefit from doing even more.
Leonie Dawson challenged herself to only read books she had in her home before buying any new ones. I’ve been flirting with this challenge but I think it might not be right for the current moment. I don’t know. I do have a lot of awesome books lying around.
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Me: One of the things a librarian can do is suggest a book you might like to read next.
M: But we don’t have a librarian!
Me: I’m a librarian. Daddy is a librarian.
M: No, you’re my parents!
The neighbors closest to the back of my property seem to be partying late into the night every weeknight, talking loudly and playing music at an incredible volume. I would like it if they stopped partying around, I don’t know, my kid’s bedtime.
Feels like I’m really closing in on an accurate self-representation with my latest bio addition: Badass Library Scientist.
Bonus bio addition: “Let’s talk about Buffy. 👱♀️🧛♂️”
Low energy + high pain = reading about ghosts while lying on a hammock. 👻📚
Today’s bio addition: Gothic mermaid scholar-librarian net girl 💀
I just don’t feel like blogging today. I’m not miserable or anything, just every time I start to write or think about writing, I know that I won’t get to where I want with the topic I’m choosing today because I slept very little last night and am feeling slightly disconnected from myself today. So here, this is my blogging today, and I’ll try again tomorrow.