Now

This is a now page—a periodic snapshot of what I’m up to. It was last updated in July 2026.

Work

Following the success of the peer mentoring AI program I helped organize in the spring, I put in for funding a second round. Just got a tentative green light but still waiting to hear about funding. ALA just put out guidance on AI for libraries and they emphasize providing “paid time and institutional support for workers to learn how AI functions” so I’m hoping the university can support this cohort in this way.

Life

I turned 40 this month! Not a big deal, doesn’t make a difference… but it is a milestone.

Watching

While he was sick, Phil got a trial subscription to MGM+ so he could watch Project Hail Mary. (We read that book together a few years ago.) He did not love the movie when he watched it alone in bed because he couldn’t help comparing it to the book. However, he put it on the living room TV recently and we enjoyed the heck out of it!

I just finished rewatching Better Off Ted and am now watching the third season of Boarders on Tubi.

Listening

I re-discovered Adron and I’ve been really enjoying her self-titled 2008 album.

Reading

I recently finished the Me Before You series by Jojo Moyes. I enjoyed the first one and only read the next two because of it but I did not like them as much.

I’m now reading The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger. I read another of his books, Culpability, last month and enjoyed it so figured I’d give this one a go, too. I’m really invested in it right now!

For more, take a look at my reading log.

Knitting

My son showed an interest in a hat I knit for my niece. So I decided to start knitting him a hat… but, as I was winding the hank of black yarn into a ball, he told me he didn’t want a black hat anymore. He drew his desired design on graph paper but I already started the black hat so I’ll finish that before I go on to figure out his more detailed, colorwork-y one.

For more, take a look at my knitting notebook.