I'm winding down on my first semester at UIUC for my MSLIS. A lot has happened, including the closure of the federal Institute of Museum and Library Science (IMLS). I've been taking two courses, Libraries, Information, and Society, and Information Services for Diverse Users. We've been through it together, ngl, and I appreciate so many of them, as well as, if not especially, our professors.

I'm keeping it together by watching anything with David Tennant and Michael Sheen in it. With Good Omens and Staged in particular, these two actors are my Comfort People^TM. I also read Good Omens fanfic to cope (reminder I keep track of all my reading of published books and recommended fanfiction in Lair), so I have some recs. The Rose and The Serpent by Atalan, which I read back in January, is a grounded, angsty, well-written and charming fairy tale. 55k words, 120 pages-ish - novella-length. I found another amazing fic soonafter, Put Out The Fire by Aleakim which was a whopping 133k words, a nice long plotty and emotional novel-length fic you can sink your teeth into. Adorable story. I loved it, and especially because I was celebrating my father's 70th birthday in London at the time: nothing like loving your life exploring a new city during the day and then turning in with a delicious night-time treat of a fic to top it all off.

A recent conversation with a colleague at work had us reminiscing about bedazzling our cell phones in the 2000s, and it inspired me regarding my new Boox e-ink reader case! Bought the day Trump's tariffs were going into effect; I was like "I've been wanting this for years and I shouldn't hold off on a better price right now."

While bedazzling and gluing and all that, I managed to finally edit my favorite stormy tornado-siren ASMR videos I took from like June, 2021. See below the video. Ta!