Kimberly Hirsh

“Although I did extremely well scholastically, my lack of human understanding often created social obstacles.” Data on his first year at Starfleet Academy in Star Trek: The Next Generation 🖖🏻5x06, “The Game”

You and me both, buddy. You and me both.

The theatre-major-to-youth-services-librarian pipeline.

I’m supposed to be sleeping but I just learned about the Woodland goth aesthetic. Dark mori style + goth music = the Frouds? Yes please.

Dr. Crusher’s plans for a community theater production of Pirates of Penzance in TNG episode 5x05 delight me. 🖖🏻

Breaking out Crystal Bar Soap’s Moonlit Harbor to support this Cancer Sun woman through some intense eldest daughtering.

Currently reading: How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (Cultural Front Book 3) by Marc Bousquet 📚

Currently reading: Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper 📚

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

I have no chance at Heardle but if someone made Broadweardle I might do well.

I’m having the kind of day where you wish you could take your heart out of your chest and just set it in a little box for a while, because the two of you could use some time apart.

My spring/summer silhouette: oversized t-shirt + biker shorts. It gets hot in NC, y’all.

I’m going full 90s with my personal style and nothing can stop me. And I mean what I, now middle-aged, actually wore in the 90s, not the modern forerunners of the current Y2K aesthetic.

Finished reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚

Recommended. Full review coming in June.

Today I’m wearing an oversized Sailor Moon tee and black leggings with a run in the left knee. I think 1996 Kimberly would be really happy with who I’ve become/stayed.

I’m correcting a Zoom Live Transcription transcript and while it’s a lot faster than transcribing it myself, it’s still a lot slower than I’d like.

I’m having a really hard time processing this week’s episode of Picard, for personal reasons. One thing I will say, though, is they could use this to reasonably retcon Picard’s choice not to partner or father as rooted in fears about hurting his own children. 🖖🏻📺

Now is as good a time as any to revisit Vicki Boykis’s essay, Fix the internet by writing good stuff and being nice to people.

In case anyone was curious as to whether my personal style has changed in the last 25 years, I was devastated that this green lace dress at the thrift store was too small for me.

Everybody on Twitter wants to know where to go now. The answer is your own website, syndicating out to wherever else people end up. This is the IndieWeb. Let me know if you’d be interested in a talk about how to get set up.

🔖 Micro.blog is one my favorite places on the Internet, and Jean MacDonald’s article A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate Relationship With Twitter is a good introduction.

Micro.blog is a free social network if you blog elsewhere and plug in a feed. It can also host your blog/website for $5/mo. For $10/mo, it will host your blog/website, host your podcast (audio or video), replace Instapaper/Pocket, and replace GoodReads.

Currently reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚

Baby’s first fanfic.

Image description: On the title page of a homemade book, “HAO TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGIN BOOK OF DAGINS” is scrawled in brown pencil. “DAGINS” is written from the bottom right corner up, each letter stacked on the previous one.

Finished reading: Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare 📚

Review soon. On the All About Romance sensuality levels scale, this is Hot approaching Burning. Explicit descriptions & cheerfully racy banter.

Super fun, recommend if you like that heat level.

W reading a scene to M about a girl doing the school play & it’s The Wizard of Oz: The teacher held up the script.
Me: No no, Wizard of Oz is Tams-Whitmark, you don’t get scripts. Only sides.