Annoyingly Optimistic

Mary Shelley's birth killing her mother

Mary Shelley's own baby dying

Mary Shelley never really getting her father's love and respect

Mary Shelley's close friendship with Lord Byron, who had been exiled from society

Mary Shelley being exiled from society herself following her elopement

Mary Shelley "breaking up" a marriage where the wife later (but before the book's publication) killed herself

A bad dream

Erasmus Darwin's experiments

A holiday in a place with history about alchemists

A ghost story contest

They fired her.

So I'm weeding our ancient and terrible collection of children's books for the first time in possibly ever, and I'm making a decision about a book about migrant workers by Sandra Weiner, called Small Hands, Big Hands. And I'm not 100% sure and I go to just see if there's anything out there about this book's being notable in any way so I do an open web search for

"small hands big hands weiner"

And then I look at my results for a moment

In mathematics, you often consider the two-dimensional plane - you know, the idealised flat two-dimensional object that extends infinitely - which can be real or complex (doesn't matter what that means)

On this, you can perform a mathematical operation called a "blow-up" (resulting in a more complicated geometry)

I needed to look up a formula related to this, so I confidently typed into the search bar:

"Blow up real plane"

Three years of papercraft invertebrates for the Sea Unseen Zine! I usually do one big papercraft piece per year, I think I'm going to start the next one soon.