Still sick. But improving! My voice has come back enough that I can do an abbreviated bedtime story for the kids. We’re currently reading Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (a Newberry Honor book), which is really a perfect bedtime story because a) it’s stories inside of stories, so you always have a complete story even though it’s in a ( Read more... )

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I am trying a 10-minute morning journaling thing. We shall see. I imagine it will be some part brain dump, some part to-do list, some part memories. Will I even be typing it normally, or will I be handwriting it? I like the idea of posting it so it can be seen again in memories or shared with others, but I also like the ( Read more... )

Today's good things:

Being told that yes, Seward Co-op does sell paneer, they just hide it really well in the cheese section!! I am Very Excite about this.

Getting my new power cord and having my laptop successfully charge. I was quite worried that the laptop was dead.

Talking with people on my weekly Zoom social call. It helps.

Getting another ( Read more... )

We are in the thick of the part of the year known as "convention season." This is a mixed blessing for my reading list. Reading books is panel prep! It counts as working! On the other hand, I try to keep distractions out of my reading list and so there are all kinds of wonderfully tempting books that I'm postponing reading for the next couple of ( Read more... )

I dreamed of a monolithic, hoarfrost-covered space station with rotating rings. Maybe it was alien. We didn't know how it worked or what had happened. Something had gone wrong and killed or vanished all the inhabitants. On the outer rim, where there used to be a park protected from space by a force bubble, now there were ice sculptures, frozen ( Read more... )

I made small strides in making my home office more livable by attacking the moraine of books in front of the bookshelf and sorting them into "keep," "read to see if I actually like," and "sell." Unfortunately, I still have a stack of books that I want to keep, and no extra bookshelf space to hold them. Not to mention having a ridiculously pile of " ( Read more... )

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• Listening to In Our Time's discussion of Akhenaten, I realize Elizabeth Peters has given me a lifelong fondness for Egyptology.
• A construction dumpster has manifested in front of our house! This is a very exciting sign our roof may be fixed soon.
• Project putting me in the mood for pirate metal. Later, must spellcheck to ensure I didn't type " ( Read more... )

Facepalm Moment #1: Waking up and realizing I turned off the alarm in my sleep and so missed all the morning panels.

Facepalm Moment #2: It finally occuring to me that there are these freebie tables, and I have this free SF/F market listing thing, so maybe I should have printed out some copies of the spreadsheet, with the latest newsletter.* For a ( Read more... )

I have a massive and ever-growing list of books to read. It seems unlikely I'll ever make the list vanish--I tend to add 2 new books for every 1 I read. With that in mind, I'm soliciting for people's opinions on which books within this list I should read first. Take a look under the cut, if you feel like it ( Read more... )