Kimberly Hirsh

“…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.

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

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

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 🖖🏻📺

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. 🖖🏻📺

“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.

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

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