Kimberly Hirsh

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.

🔖📚 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. 🖖🏻📺

“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.

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.

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.

Currently reading: Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚