In progress -- October 2023

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

Persephone (probably not its real name): Thought thoughts mostly.

Short Stories: Started one, have 90% of a first draft.

Critted 4 Got back 0

Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0

Knitting

Cathar (self). Started the month with the fair isle portion barely started. Did not progress.
Braids (self). Started divided for the neck and done 3/4 of the back I'd guess. Finished the back and front neck and rejoined and did about an inch of the left shoulder, so five inches to go, then the hood, then done. It would be cool to finish this this year.
Owlie athletic socks. Started the month with one toe and two heels to do. Finished.
Beady-eye owlie socks. Started the month with part of one leg. Finished both socks.
Scarlotta socks. There was a disaster with the second beady-eye owlie sock, where I encountered a factory knot in the yarn where the beads were threaded mere minutes before I was going on a road trip, and the passenger seat is nowhere to be opening the knot the beads won't pass over, so I can rethread the beads on the other side of the break. So I grabbed a skein of yarn and wound it into a ball in the car, and started these.

Sashiko project: Thoughts and prayers.
Ruffle skirt: Thoughts and prayers.

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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