Got contacted about a job. No firm commitments on their part, but it's more interest than I've gotten in months. We'll see how it goes. I think I'm going to be a pretty good candidate.

I have finally finished Shadows of the Apt, after several months. If that sounds like a long time, well, it's a series of ten novels. My ultimate verdict is that it ( Read more... )

Gardening goes well. We're having a truly terrible weed problem this year, but it is slowly being resolved. Some beds are being deconstructed... which is sad, but ultimately necessary. The plants are being consolidated in other gardens, though. So things will be more filled in, which reduces the amount of gardening we have to do. This can only be a ( Read more... )

Blazing star is coming up--lots of it. All of what came up last year survived the winter, and of course the seeds spread out. I'm hoping for more purple; I don't like the white variety. Here's a photo; you can see the old stems.


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It has been an eventful month.

The snowstorms have affected us--well, not as badly as a lot of areas. Compared to Texas, we're blessed. But yes, it's snowed just as much as you'd have thought, and today is the first day it's gotten above freezing in weeks. Most days it's been in the single digits (Fahrenheit!). We're right in the middle of the ( Read more... )

I got mushrooms. Oyster mushrooms, specifically. Unfortunately I waited too long before harvesting them and they were a little woody, but once chopped to bits and cooked in butter for a good long time they were tender enough.


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The plants are doing well. The butterfly garden established in the fall is... well, it's not quite as successful as I'd hoped; we didn't get any butterfly weed showing up, not yet. But the blazing star is coming up and growing rapidly, the boneset is coming back up, and the asters are coming back. And they will spread; boneset in particular seems ( Read more... )

For the past few weeks, I've been volunteering at the university's greenhouse. It's interesting, though for the past week I haven't gotten to do anything aside from water. There's a mealybug infestation, and until they can be exterminated the greenhouse's projects are on hold. Since they've survived several pesticide treatments, that could be a ( Read more... )

Life continues to go pretty much the same as it usually does. Job hunting is still going nowhere fast, though I am beginning to suspect that, in order to get a job in my field, I will first have to work for six months to a year, for free (or, worse, pay someone to be an intern or a volunteer). Alternatively, a Master's of Science might get me a job ( Read more... )