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It’s that thing of when other people are working on your area of research interest but they haven’t published their stuff yet so you can’t include it in your lit review…

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Me: “Okay but everyone wants to marry Dickon so they must mean the friendship between Mary and Colin right? I think even Colin wants to marry Dickon.” (Reader: I married Dickon.)

Me to my advisor today: Okay but what if my dissertation is about makerspaces AND gaming AND fandom?

Her: Yes

Me: This is only mostly a sneaky way to make my comps reading more fun.

[Note: This is a paraphrase.]

Just browsed the cooking section of the Durham County Library Hoopla Collection and I’m blown away by how comprehensive it is. I want to cook all the things!

I wrote 279 words about definitions of “makerspace” today. Tomorrow: reviewing all 26ish pages I’ve written so far and making a plan for the conclusion.

Just thought to myself, “I want to be the Jonathan Van Ness of library science.” I’ll let you know when I figure out what I mean by that.

Hey writers. What are your day jobs?

I’m fairly open about the fact that I have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and polycystic ovary syndrome and that fatigue is my primary symptom for both of these. I’m in the middle of a Hashimoto’s flare up, and today I sat down and made a little table of the types of tasks I can do depending on what type of day I’m having: low energy, medium energy, or high energy.

This is a valuable table because often I think that, since I’m working on a writing project and a curriculum development project, I can only ever get any work done on high energy days. But that’s not so, because each of those projects is made up of smaller tasks. Writing up my literature review workflow really helped me set up this table. Here it is in list form, in case it would be valuable for anyone else.

Literature Review Tasks

Low Energy

• Literature search

Medium Energy

• AIC review
• concept map
• revision

High Energy

• synthetic note
• memo
• outlining
• writing

Curriculum Development

Low Energy

• identify resources
• format documents

Medium Energy

• outline

High Energy

• write

This is a great example of a library policy that was excluding people and how a library professional changed it. Le… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…