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I don’t have a plan beyond keeping my kid alive, resting a lot, trying to be more chill. I’ve never not had a plan before. I’m lucky I can afford to have no plan but also confused, overwhelmed, filled with existential dread. I’m basically living for iced chai & naps right now.

Want to read: Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by Marc Goulden, Mary Ann Mason, and Nicholas H. Wolfinger πŸ“š

πŸ“š I read only the Introduction to Kelly J. Baker’s SEXISM ED and I’m already seething with rage.

I don’t like to drink rosΓ© but I love the rosΓ©wave vibe. I’m trying to figure out what faux-luxe looks like for parents of young children. So far, it’s sipping iced chai by the pool while my kid’s at his swim lesson.

Finished reading: Succeeding Outside the Academy πŸ“š

πŸ’¬πŸ“š “Why have I surrendered so much of my present self to an abstract future self that may never exist? Why have I made my present happiness contingent on my future happiness?” Joseph P. Fisher in SUCCEEDING OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY

Every time I work on this article revision I end up getting mad at Reviewer 2 all over again, mostly for treating me like a baby, even though it’s merited because I was in fact a babydoc when I wrote the first draft of the paper.

My Kid (4.5 yo): Donatello is playing a video game.

Me: Fun! What’s it called?

Kid: “Science Nerd.”

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πŸ”–β–ΆοΈ Watched Create Your Unicorn Career from Scratch. Engaging talk from a science communicator/comedian! Don’t throw any part of yourself away! (That’s from Austin Kleon.)

Low-key day today: chilling with my kid in the morning, an adventure with a locked but unoccupied bathroom that resulted in me taking the handle off and then putting it back on, confirming a future client relationship, and fixing my broken ring light stand.

JK, today is a rest-in-bed kind of day now that I’ve done my most important work, registering my kid for the next round of swim lessons. Also read a little bit in Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks but not engaging with literature search today because my brain won’t.

Today is a work-in-bed kind of day. (I have chronic illness and a 4 year old; kindly keep your sleep hygiene tips to yourself.)

As a younger person I thought people in their 40s had their acts together. ~3 wks away from turning 40 I realize people in their 40s have simply accepted that no one ever has their act together.

πŸ”–πŸ“ I love Austin Kleon’s advice to relocate your darlings. I have a file for every project with the word “Cut” in the filename and anything I don’t use goes there in case I want it later.

Want to read: Annotation by Remi H. Kalir and Antero Garcia πŸ“š

Is my hair still wet or is it like this because I tried the Curly Girl method and used gel? The Kimberly Hirsh story

[Caption: a woman with hair that might be wet or might just be slathered in gel looks confused.]

Want to read: Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie πŸ“š

πŸ“š I know I’m very late to this party but GIDEON THE NINTH is so good.

What is less helpful than it might be is when a reviewer suggests that people have already written a bunch about the thing you’re writing about and you clearly aren’t familiar with that literature, but offers not a single suggestion of a citation you’re missing.

9 am Kimberly: I’m totally going to work this afternoon!

1 pm Kimberly: I’m totally going to read GIDEON THE NINTH this afternoon!

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In the bathroom at the children’s museum yesterday, I looked in the mirror. I saw a sweaty mess who was clearly somebody’s mom. I thought, “I’m cute! This sweaty mess mom look suits me!” I believe as Dr. Mom I am coming into my full power.

πŸ“š (Please don’t spoil me) Me reading Gideon the Ninth: KISS! KISS! KISS!

Welp. Sitting on hold with the grocery store because they accidentally charged me $78.89 for 1 lb of turkey is not how I expected to spend my Saturday morning, but here we are.

The layers of references in this poster are delightful: cats as Data and Geordi as Holmes and Watson chef kiss πŸ––πŸ“ΊπŸ–ΌοΈ

Finished reading: Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo πŸ“š