In Process, December 2018

Drafting
Persephone: Researched real estate frauds and pandemics. Another month spent protecting my paracosm. I actually found myself making a list of ways Aaron is a response to him. I found a structure and divided my notes into four piles.

Editing
“Wind/Water/Salt”. made lots of edits to Chapter 13, but never managed to finish it. So close! I took chapters 14 - 16 on vacation with me and this was a good thing because I realized chapter 15 needed to be in the middle of 13, and that made room for a chapter to solve a continuity error for Fairfax. All in all, a productive month.

Took up some of Chapter 3. It was good because I had come up with something for Preston to be doing (as I told the boy, Abigail wants to control her daughter, and she wants her familiar back. Fairfax wants to find a witch so he can get paid and go home to Virginia. Preston has a mill…?)

Connecting
Critted 5
Got back 6

Subs
1

Knitting
Celtic Gang Girls of the 70’s (Rowan and me). Got to “divide for neck” on the front and finished the left shoulder. So, the right shoulder and collar and a lot of finishing to go. I have hopes for January, though!
FI Corset belt. Still 1.5 inches done. Ignored.
Socks. The socks are done. No more socks for a while. Well okay, maybe I’ll do another pair of Sock Band socks because those were awesome, but after that no socks for a while.
Drachen (knitty Fall 2018). I needed something portable, and this fit the bill. I hope I don’t run out of yarn, but if I do, I guess it will just have shorter sleeves. I almost bought different yarn for this project but the woman at the yarn store told me (at great length) that my choice of yarn would produce a project that would be a dog’s breakfast. Yes, she said that. I have about 8 inches.

Finished sewing a skirt.

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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