In Process, June 2019

Wind/Water/Salt
Chapter 17: Fairfax needed to be a harsher individual. Or at least he needed to project as much.This chapter is so close to being finished!
Chapter 18: This was in the wrong place, not lost! It had no point! I started over and wrote it fresh. I think it’s more efficient this way. I read the old one, and there were a couple of ideas I could keep, but…
Chapter 19: Started marking it up, thought I lost it, found it again…
Chapter 20: Did one pass through this one.

Jane Ann McLachlan is doing a series of challenges for June. I tried to keep up, using them to stay engaged with WWS, but I missed/skipped 2 because I’m a little bit in love with my intro and then fell off the wagon completely.

Persephone
The plot is still the weakest part. I have an ending, I have a beginning, but I have no real antagonist. Lindsay has more backstory now. Maybe I should have done more of that JAM stuff with this story rather than WWS, but I wanted to keep WWS moving forward, so I don’t regret the choice. I could do it all again later…

Connecting
Critted 6
Got back 1

Subs

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Knitting
FI Corset belt. Started month half done. Didn’t work on it because it’s not portable.
Midsummer Aran (IK Summer 2013). Started the month with 10” of body. Worked on this a lot while watching “Stranger things”. My goal was to be caught up by the time Season 3 started so I could be part of the zeitgeist for a change. Oh, and to finish a sweater at some point. The body is now done to the armholes and I have a whole sleeve and started the second, and two episodes left of Stranger Things season 2.
Gold Digger (new directions in sock knitting). Started the month with six inches of the first sock. Now I’ve got three inches of the second.

What I read: September 2025

LHC #295: "The Last to Leave the Room" by Caitlin Starling. Audiobook. Workplace horror? Loved it. "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Hard copy, for office Data Ethics book club. The stories about Sheryl Sandberg really made me like my boss better. LHC #296: "The Fated Sky" by Mary Robinette Kowal. Hard copy. This got moved up the list because Ed had read book 1 in the series and got the rest out of the library. Loved it. He's got the next one in the series upstairs, I suppose I'll read it when he's done. LHC #297: "Bluegrass: A History" by Neil V. Rosenberg. Hard copy. No idea why it was on my list, I don't care that much about bluegrass. Nevertheless, the second half was interesting. I guess the first half was necessary, as it described in great length the way people came and went in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys band, and also how technology and social pressures affect how music is made and performed. LHC #298: ...

What I read -- October 2025

"The Moomins and the Great Flood" by Tove Jansson. eBook. I read this because Marissa Lingen loves them. It was fine? This was the first one in the series and the only one available online; maybe the later ones are better. Maybe they're better if you read them as a child. "The Relentless Moon" by Mary Robinette Kowal. Hard copy. Read it because Ed had the whole series out of the library. It took a long time to get going, and sometimes I find MRK exhausting. Her white main characters all seem oddly aware of the Black experience. "The Martian Contingency" by Mary Robinette Kowal. Hard copy. Read it because Ed had the whole series out of the library. I don't often read subsequent books in a series in quick succession, and my reaction to this one is a lot of why: I found Alma's voice too similar to Nicole's -- sure, Nicole obsessed about food much more, but they both went on and on about "must support black guy in management" an...

In progress - January 2026

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Nothing Persephone (probably not its real name): NOthing Vinterlys: Worked on Chapter 2 some more. Critted 4 Got back 1 Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0 Knitting Georgia (Norah Gaughan). Started the month with one sleeve and half a front to go. Finished. Love this sweater. Aberlady (AS Celtic Collection). Did a few rows while listening to podcasts. Summer in Tokyo (Isager): Started. I was looking at the pictures and the charts, and the pattern as written is not what is in the pictures! So odd. I am going to finish up two cones of yarn with this project! Pretty exciting. I hope I don't run out of light blue. I was working along on it, and if you go and look at the sweater, it's knit bottom-up, and I was at the part where I only had two colors, about 5" maybe. And I was thinking, "wow, this is pretty ugly! Maybe I should stop...

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