Next projects & daily life
Oh, hai! It’s been a while since I’ve written here. Glancing back at my last (beginning of September) update, some things have happened! I did finish revisions on the Scorpion Dance manuscript by my self-imposed deadline, I have started querying agents, and I am going to Worldcon (officially DisCon III, as it’s in Washington DC this year).
I had a lovely chat with Pat recently that straightened out my thinking on how to choose which novella in the Unkindness of Ravens world to write next, so planning that is on deck. In the meantime, I am writing a solarpunk retelling of The Nine Maidens of Dundee (their da keeps sending them to a well, where a dragon eats them--nobody learns).
Home life news from today is full of way too many tiny annoyances and a medium-size disappointments.
To my horror, over the weekend we discovered lice had infiltrated the household. ::endless screaming:: We were able to get in at The Minnesota Lice Ladies this morning. Bless the Lice Ladies, they’re doing the Lord’s work. And as I overheard, apparently pesticide shampoo treatments do not work as well anymore because lice have started becoming resistant to them, FYI, so combing it all out is the only truly effective treatment. And they do fancy braids when they're done if you have long hair! ...I am spending the evening doing All The Laundry.
The disappointment is that Phil's promised work trip to Germany has been canceled. He might get to go in January, but his boss also wants him working on other projects then. Of course, this trip was sort of supposed to be a “sorry we might not be able to get you a promotion before the company is sold, here’s a consolation prize” reward. If he gets neither, he’s going to be very cranky.
Both kids got their first covid shot on Friday, so that’s exciting! We’re inching closer to being able to allow them to safely do some of the ordinary kid stuff they’ve been denied for the last two years.
The kids are also in after-school classes now. Busing is a problem. They were getting home over 2 hours after they left the school sometimes, which is just too long (yaaaaay bus driver shortage). So now we’re trying to coordinate driving and picking them up.
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