In Process -- April 2018

Daily efforts
That horror novel: Maybe 30,000 words.
That short story in my email isn’t really a short story anymore. Mostly it’s a huge pile of notes. I don’t know what to do with it, but I like it so…

Accomplishments
“Wind/Water/Salt”. Posted chapter 9 to OWW.

Connecting
Critted 9
Got back 2

Subs
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Knitting
Ann Boleyn (1998). Started the month with roughly 82 rows to go on the body. Now 25? I find this hard to believe. There must be a math error somewhere? That makes it seem like I’ll be done with this project someday, and well, that just doesn’t seem true. Of course, there’s the possibility that I cut the steeks and it doesn’t fit at all. Quite likely. I don’t know that it’s going to be wide enough. It’s certainly long enough though.
Celtic Gang Girls of the 70’s (Rowan and me). I erroneously said I’d planned the instarsia for the back in March. That was a lie.
Nukumori (Knitty Winter 2017). Finished the first one.

I also sewed a slip-cover for one of our ikea chairs. It looks amazing.

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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