In Process -- September 2019

Wind/Water/Salt
Chapter 19: Almost done?
Chapter 20: I started this month not even sure I need this chapter, and then found a point to it…
Chapter 21: This is one that massively benefited from research.

Persephone
Did 27 days worth of that Jane Ann McLachlan stuff. This was insanely useful to me, and totally shaped the story. I feel like I could write it now, but I don’t know if I should. Do I really need another completed first draft lying around?

Connecting
Critted 9
Got back 8

Subs

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Knitting
FI Corset belt. Started month half done. I did some rows, and it’s still half done. If this is going to get finished, maybe I will not start something else until it or all the socks are done.

Sunny skies of winter (KP 2015 FI) Started the month almost done with the fair isle portion, getting ready to do the long boring expanse. I’m still on the long boring expanse, and finished a cone of yarn. My sister came up with the more accurate title.

Cleave (New Directions in Sock Knitting). Another one to use part (most?) of another cone. (I can buy a ball of yarn for every cone I use up, until I hit 24 which will probably take three years). I’m just past the heel on the first sock.

In sewing news, I did four darts and two seams on that dress I cut out last month, four out of 16 steps, which doesn’t really mean it’s ¼ done. Or actually maybe it does. I hate darts, and everything always starts with darts.

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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