In an effort to blog more and also to see if my “classic mode” of WordPress can handle emojis (update: it can’t, further update:YES IT CAN), here is a short story in bullet points and emoji.

• I found an old copy of my college thesis on generic “he” pronouns because someone was talking about that concept on Bluesky. Was very excited how quickly I could find that document. 🥳
• Was able to scan it (thanks, my local library!) and share it with researchers. 🤓
• Decided to ask my alma mater if they’d like a copy for their archives 🤝
• They said sure, there’s a self-serve digital archive tool, just use my college email address. 📥
• I haven’t used my college email address in forever, no idea if it still works. 🧓
• Six IT tickets to get it going again. 🎟
• Upload thesis. Scrutinize language as to whether AI can be trained on it (probably). ⬆
• Log in to new email account. 📧
• SURPRISE, I HAVE ANOTHER GMAIL ADDRESS NOW 😭