In progress -- November 2022

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Still need to take up comments and revise.

Persephone (probably not its real name): Worked more on the ending (which despite what I wrote last month wasn't done, just rewritten what I'd written before). The one POV's ending is kind of done-ish, and I had a revelation about the other POV's, which makes the whole story make sense.

Short Stories: Went through all the comments on the one I put up last month and pulled out another one from the archive. Then the boy challenged me to read the crits on the one I posted recently, so I did, and we talked about the ending, so maybe I'll work on that. Then I was reading twitter which gave me an idea about how to fix another story, which I started to do instead. The point is, lots of plans, no action.

Critted 9 Got back 4

Did I mention I decided to scale back my reviews to two per week to give myself time to actually work on my own projects? I did. Did I work on my own projects? Hahahahaha.

Submissions 0 Out there 1 Rejects 0

Knitting

Striped long-sleeved t-shirt (self). Would have worked on this, except for the socks.
Tay Tartan cardigan (Martin Storey). Decided I need to use the needle on something else, so this had to be finished. I did maybe 8 rows. 57 to go, then the endless finishing!
Extra Whip socks (Coffeehouse knits). Finished the ninth, tenth, and eleventh socks, started the thirteenth (complicated story. I'm pretty sick of socks, but Christmas is almost here.

Sashiko project: I didn't work on it because I think it's going to be too long and dowdy. Shortening it now is easy.

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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