Kimberly Hirsh

Don’t want to spoil the Lower Decks finale much but I was so distracted by my delight at encountering Captain Sonya Gomez I actually missed anything else in the first few minutes and had to rewind. Gomez is probably my favorite TNG character outside the main crew. 🖖🏻📺

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The other day while doing some Artist’s Way exercises my subconscious bubbled up and told me I wanted a typewriter. Now I’m stuck on this idea.

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Catapult | Why Full-Time Freelancing Isn’t For Me | Gabrielle Drolet catapult.co

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Academia sure loves bricolage.

Finished reading: Writing the New Ethnography by H. L. Goodall, Jr. 📚

💬 “… fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting around time.” Maria Bamford, THE BURNING BRIDGES TOUR

💬📚 “…anger is a map… Anger points the way, not just the finger.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

💬📚🎭 “Ideas don’t get opening nights. Finished plays do.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

💬📚 “Anger is not the action itself. It is action’s invitation.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

🔖 Read The Quiet Crisis of Parents on the Tenure Track.

Want to read: The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling 📚

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Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes – The Daily Free Press dailyfreepress.com

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The #FanLIS panel I’m co-moderating with Ludi Price is the first session of Fan Studies Network North America! You should come. It’s a super affordable conference & the most fun you’ll have learning & thinking about research.

Did I just send an email to all the parents at my kid’s school in which I used the phrase “totally buggin’”? Yes, yes I did.

Hey LIS scholars. What is the most elegant, arresting, or fascinating writing you’ve seen in our field?

M (who turned 5 yesterday!) & I are watching Muppets Haunted Mansion and I’m very happy.

As in the actual Haunted Mansion ride, the best part of Muppets Haunted Mansion is the ballroom/party scene. In this case, less for the Pepper’s Ghost illusion and more for the Muppet Show vibe.

Want to read: Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster 📚

I’ve been without wifi for over 18 hours & while I’m old enough to remember a time before home dialup, it’s a real pain to deal with it now. Thank goodness for 4G.

💬 “we are conditioned as academics (and also just people in 2021!) to sacrifice long term stability for short term productivity.” From Katy Peplin’s newsletter. I highly recommend subscribing.

My brand is: person who spends far too much time thinking about the absence of social science research ethics and the reflexive turn in Star Trek. 🖖🏻

📚 Me, reading Black Sun:

Ch. 1 - This parent-child dynamic is upsetting, i don’t know if I can keep going…

Ch. 2 - Magical singing bi sea captain woman? TELL ME MORE!

📚 Me continuing to read Black Sun:

Uhhuh uhhuh Sun Priestess is cool, nice chill use of non-binary gender without making it A Thing but WHEN DO I GET MORE SEA CAPTAIN?

💻📺🖖 Watched Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 1 Episode 1 & oh my goodness how fun is this show? So fun! Mariner is my fave. “Do you know Deanna Troi? Her body be bangin’!”