In process, January 2019

Morning

This month my writing was somewhat infused by the things I was reading.
Persephone: Cat burglar and heist stuff, and pandemic stuff. Migratory patterns of Canada geese? Farsi for Beginners?
WWS Chapter 13: reading some poetry made me at least think about how I use language a little more. Also worked quite a lot on chapter 14. It would be cool if I could get to maybe a chapter per month this year… Or even more! If I could finish the wretched thing!

Night
“Wind/Water/Salt”. Posted Chapter 13.

Connecting
Critted 6
Got back 2

On Submission: 1

Knitting
Celtic Gang Girls of the 70’s (Rowan and me). At the start of the month I had the right shoulder, the collar, and a lot of finishing to do. The finishing is making a huge difference in some of the pieces. This actually was a good portable project, the first time it’s been portable! I carried a sleeve and a crochet needle to band practice! This will be done soon, and I can't wait.
FI Corset belt. Still 1.5 inches done. Ignored.
Drachen (knitty Fall 2018). Worked on this while being a passenger, and while reading the internet. I had 8 inches of the body before, now I have 11.

Made bias tape (why do I love this?) to make a tank out of a turtleneck since I hate turtlenecks.

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.

Moraine

So a couple of days I thought I was done with this short story, and I wrote the last line of the story. I even dated it (that's how I can tell it's over). It was a little long, at 6600 words (I was aiming for 5000). But then I was walking to work, and I thought, "My, that was a lame ending. My endings are all crap." So yesterday morning, I scribbled out the date and wrote a bit more. And this morning I wrote a bit more again, and I dated it and called it done. And still, that ending seemed lame. So a few minutes later, in the last paragraph, I scratched out "the Oak Ridges Moraine" and wrote in "that stupid moraine". Much better. Now I can move on. But in the meantime, I was doing a little research about the Moraine, and I discovered that EGTourGuide lives on it. Only by one or two hundred feet, but I thought it was funny. Good for you, EGTourGuide, with all those excellent plants growing on that substandard soil, where in the olden days (you kno...

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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