In Process -- April 2016

1st draft

“Water Leopard”. Had roughly 44,250 words at the start of the month. Now it’s more like 52,000.

Editing

"Lucky Kate”. Done.

“The Cicatrix Diary”. Almost done.
“Volcano”. Typed.

Connecting

Ad Astra.

Circulating

Knitting

Tilted Duster (Norah Gaughan IK Fall 2007). Done.

Rust Damask Jacket (Takle & Kolstadt). At the start of the month I had about 3” of the second sleeve done, and one row of the neckband colorwork, after having just ripped it out which sucked because I had to redo the setup row on the stranded portion, and that’s always the hardest part. I’ve now finished the colorwork on that neckband, meaning this project has both an easy/mindless component (neck) and hard/attention component (sleeve) and then it will be done. Unfortunately, neither part is portable.

DragonFruit Socks. Just started, so I would have something to carry around. I lost a “faithful reader” a couple of months ago and inherited all her sock yarn. There’s no place to keep it, so I guess I need to knit a whole bunch of socks. Socks for Everyone! These ones are for me.
Boot Topper Socks. Gift, because it's not all about me... just mostly.

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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