In process -- June 2013

First Draft
“This is the Church, and This is the Steeple”. Might have written 10,000 words, and about a thousand of those after I’d written “the end”, but finally finished.
“Cartographer”. Short story. Waterman butterfly! Rivers forgotten! I started and finished this, and it’s crap but whatever. The plot starts around page 9 of 16.
“Vulgar Pony”. Short story. Started.

Editing
“Don’t Choose Astronaut”. Got it under 3000 words, but it makes me sad now.
“Lucky Kate”. Yeah, I read it and set it aside.
“Selkie Girls are Easy.” Draft three had been underway at the start of the month, and it took me half the month to finish, but finish it I did (draft 3).

Connecting
CZ reading series 12 June had GGK. How could I not go to that?

Circulating
1 out there.
8 rejects for 2013 so far.

Knitting
“Biohazard”. (pullover) Finished. Now if only it was cold enough to wear it.
“Ceremonial Armour”. KF cardigan. No real progress – maybe two rows.
IK Vertex cardigan spring 2013. This was great for knitting in the car. I’m five inches below the armholes.
Insubordination Socks. In my day job, the branding group sent out guidelines on how to use our new logo. Our favorite page, of course, was the “don’t” page. Using the logo as an all-over pattern was in there, and once I saw that, what else could I do?
Penzance. The picture in my head for this project is SO AWESOME. The yarn is Cascade 220. What can go wrong? I swatched it.

Best TW feedback ever

Over at the dayjob, SMEs are feverishly trying to get documents back to me all marked up, in preparation for the release that's supposed to happen the week I'm back from VP. Today's best comment: Unfortunately not true. SMEs, they're so cute.

What I read: January 2024

"Morgan is my name" by Sophie Keech. Office book club selection. It gets exhausting to read about plucky young heroines who are terrible at needlework all the time. I should probably read some Jo Walton. I mean, you can be good at needlework and other things too! I didn't find this book very surprising. The first half was kind of boring, but it got better towards the end. LHC #233: "The Shifter" by Janice Hardy. I read her writing advice website regularly, so I thought I should maybe read an actual book to find out if she was worth it. Oh my, the voice of this book grabbed me immediately. The worldbuilding seemed shady but the voice was solid. It wasn't very subtle, but I might not be the target audience. LHC #234: "Ragnarok: The End of the Gods" by A. S. Byatt. At this point with my library account, I'm just guessing. I know there was something by Byatt there? I suspect there was. I did not know what to make of this book. Strange, but it w

What I read: March 2024

LHC #240: "Vita Nostra" by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko. Translated by Julia Meitov Hersey. All I knew going in was dark academia. This was a neat thing to read after A Deadly Education last month. The students can leave this school at summer and winter break, but maybe they shouldn't. Also, interesting education method, providing Sasha with a CD player and punishing her if she leaves it in the mode where it plays all the tracks in sequence. "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman. When I finished Ragnarok by AS Byatt (last month? January?) I was thinking it might have made more sense if I had any knowledge of the subject matter. The boy had left this lying around, and it was not a tough read. LHC #241: "Science on a mission: How Military funding shaped what we do and don't know about the ocean" by Naomi Oreskes. I deferred this once because it was so long. History of science is challenging for me to read, because of the need to get a grasp on dispr

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