In progress: August 2022

Wind/Water/Salt

Chapters 39-51: Still need to take up comments and revise.

Persephone (probably not its real name): Kept writing on towards the ending.

Short Stories: Needing something to post to OWW, I worked on one, stripping out some bad choices I think. Hope.

Critted 12 Got back 1

Submissions 0 Out there 1 Rejects 0

Knitting

Striped long-sleeved t-shirt (self). Started the month with four inches of the first sleeve. I did another few. This thing is dull.
Tay Tartan cardigan (Martin Storey). Started the month with 9 inches of the first sleeve. This sleeve is now done and attached to the body, and I've started the next sleeve.
Extra Whip socks (Coffeehouse knits). Finished the sixth sock, started the seventh.
I Yam pullover (self). Back was already done; I'd just started a sleeve when this month started. That sleeve is done and I've started the front.

Last month I said I cut out a jumper to go with that t-shirt. That was a lie. But now I have cut out a skirt that will be my next sashiko project, and sewn maybe six seams? Ready to put the lining and outer shell together, I think, just have to decide how best to do that.

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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