Kimberly Hirsh

I just wrote the beginning of a fiction story after being inspired by Amanda Cook’s “Weaving Serenity” in issue 1 of @wyngraf. I also found a writing tagline for myself: “Kimberly Hirsh writes about badass moms doing awesome shit.” 📝📚

It’s a rough time right now so I’m trying to notice small joys and one of today’s is that I learned how to use regular expressions in advanced text editors to remove timestamps and extra lines from Zoom transcripts.

In case it would help other people, here’s how I did it. I would have something that looked like this:

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00:00:36.900 –> 00:00:40.560
Kimberly Hirsh (she/her): Do you agree to participate in the study and to have the interview audio recorded?

With the help of this guide from Drexel and replies to this Stack Overflow post I now can remove the number, the timestamp, and the two extra lines created when I remove those. Here’s how I do it.

1. Open the VTT file in my advanced text editor.
2. Use the find and replace feature.
3. For the thing to be replaced I use the regular expression ^[(\d|\n)].*$. You don’t need to know what a regular expression is. Just copy and paste that little code bit into the “Find” box.
4. Make sure either “Regular expression” or “GREP” is selected.
5. Click “Replace” to test it once and be sure if it works.
6. If it works, click “Replace all.”

For BBEdit:

7. Paste ^\s*?\r in the “Find” box.
8. Make sure the replace box is empty.
9. Repeat steps 5 and 6.

For Notepad++: 7. Then switch so that “Extended” is selected instead of “Regular expression” or “GREP.” 8. Paste \r\n\r\n in the “Find” box. 9. Put a single space in the replace box. 10. Repeat steps 5 and 6.

I hope this is helpful!

“…is that not what a Scholar does? Question the world, examine it from every angle, and marvel at the wonder of it all?”

• Natasha Inwood, “The Road to Fjallmark,” Wyngraf Volume 1 💬📚

🔖📚 Kate McKean writes in today’s Agents and Books about professional jealousy. Her advice applies to academics, too, and probably any field. “No one is being successful AT me.”

Josh Radnor writes a beautiful newsletter. It always feels like a gift. Here are some gems from the latest issue - italics are emphasis from the original, bold are mine.

There are no unwounded people. Wounding and trauma are features and facts of being a human being.

Why is it that I’m convinced my life should be linear and predictable, devoid of obstacle, conflict, and challenge, the very elements that make a story engaging and worth telling? Don’t I want to live a great story?

Nothing is the heaven or hell I want to make it out to be.

🎙️ I listened to the first episode of A Beautiful Anarchy on my way to pick up the kid. It was about imposter syndrome. There were some really beautiful bits that I’ll add to this post later.

📚 I joined Austin Kleon’s Read Like an Artist book club today and am also going to read his past choices. I’m starting with a re-read of Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing.

If I took a day off every day that I felt sick I would almost never work. Chronic illness is not my fave.

Oh hey, I should probably share that my husband Will is a 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar. Very proud of him & super psyched to take this opportunity both to see & do cool stuff & meet scholars in my own areas of interest.

It’s a work in progress, but I’m curating a woodland goth playlist. I recommend playing on shuffle. 🎵

Finished reading: Redwall: A Tale from Redwall by Brian Jacques 📚

Cozy fantasy, just what I need right now.

Two quotes that stood out for me:

“Many times in our history has tragedy been forestalled by miraculous happenings.”

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep.”

Today I wish you nurturing love and bodily self-determination, extra if you have a uterus.

I hope everyone who had to mother their own mother is doing something fun today. 9-year-old Kimberly salutes you.

Screw General Order 1? SCREW GENERAL ORDER 1?! 😍 #StarTrek #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW 🖖🏻📺

“Other people are… challenging for me.” La’an is the new Data, pass it on. #StarTrek #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW 🖖🏻

I have a vague sense that I am Not Okay. I don’t know if it’s a medical thing, stress from my mom’s illness, or the world. I can’t clearly identify the source of it, which makes it hard to know the first step to take to fix it. Might just wallow for a few days.

Anybody else assume based on TNG that Picard & Guinan had a friends with benefits situation? 🖖🏻

I just took the IPIP Big Five Factor Marker test. According to the results, I’m intellectual/imaginative af, pretty outgoing, friendly, and optimistic. I am also very neurotic and kind of a mess.

Now I’m only halfway through the Strange New Worlds pilot but the Kilean makeup looks to me nearly identical to vampires on BtVS. 🖖🏻📺

🔖📚 Read Cozy Flash: The Cat and the Conerian.

Adorable. Cozy fantasy is my current genre of choice.

Usually Spotify Autoplay makes me grouchy but it turns out when I listen to goth music it suggests more goth music so I’m very happy with its current suggestion of 10:15 on a Saturday Night. (Sorry The Cure, You Are Goth.) 🎵

Who has two thumbs and is doing Reader’s Advisory for fun? 👍🏻👍🏻 This Kimberly.

Traumatic previously aside, the Picard finale made me very happy. 🖖🏻📺

Here is a Google Document with links to abortion funds. It was created by @helmsinki on Twitter. I donated in my home state, NC, as well as in TN, where half my people are from. States in critical need are AR, ID, KY, LA, MS, ND, OK, SD, TN, TX, & UT.