"Give me a sinner's chance."
Mostly cloudy most of the day. A little rain. A little thunder. Our high was 86˚F, with a heat index of 91˚F.
The usual. Up at 6:30 a.m. Working as soon as my eyes will focus. Mostly today it was the relationship between the coronoids and surangular bones in the mosasaurs I'm working with. There are bones I am passionate about. I could writes odes to quadrates. Coronoids and surangulars, though, they get none of my poetry.
And there's something I'm calling the "Das Vampir-Triptychon," a vignette cycle I think I'm writing for the June (now late), July (now due), and August issues of Sirenia Digest. I've been making notes. But it's intimidating. This story has been in my head for two years now, but it's set in Austria, in the mountains southwest of Vienna, in the Wienerwald, between 1912 and 1928. So, it's a lot.
It was the sort of day that I could not face straight on. Do not look this day in the eyes. Stay busy. Think, but do not think about those things. Just keep your mind occupied, and do not let the day catch you looking at it.
I read Philip J. Currie and Victoria M Arbour's "Analyzing taphonomic deformation of ankylosaur skulls using retrodeformation and finite element analysis" (2012). A pet peeve of mine is how little taphonomy has been considered in the study of mosasaur anatomy.
I have not left the house in twenty-three days.
The afternoon's film was Denis Villeneuve's Dune (2021).
And here the link to the Big Cartel shop. Audiobooks, real books, the first three years of Sirenia Digest! Stuff galore! I'll sign anything!
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
2:28 p.m.
The usual. Up at 6:30 a.m. Working as soon as my eyes will focus. Mostly today it was the relationship between the coronoids and surangular bones in the mosasaurs I'm working with. There are bones I am passionate about. I could writes odes to quadrates. Coronoids and surangulars, though, they get none of my poetry.
And there's something I'm calling the "Das Vampir-Triptychon," a vignette cycle I think I'm writing for the June (now late), July (now due), and August issues of Sirenia Digest. I've been making notes. But it's intimidating. This story has been in my head for two years now, but it's set in Austria, in the mountains southwest of Vienna, in the Wienerwald, between 1912 and 1928. So, it's a lot.
It was the sort of day that I could not face straight on. Do not look this day in the eyes. Stay busy. Think, but do not think about those things. Just keep your mind occupied, and do not let the day catch you looking at it.
I read Philip J. Currie and Victoria M Arbour's "Analyzing taphonomic deformation of ankylosaur skulls using retrodeformation and finite element analysis" (2012). A pet peeve of mine is how little taphonomy has been considered in the study of mosasaur anatomy.
I have not left the house in twenty-three days.
The afternoon's film was Denis Villeneuve's Dune (2021).
And here the link to the Big Cartel shop. Audiobooks, real books, the first three years of Sirenia Digest! Stuff galore! I'll sign anything!
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
2:28 p.m.