Links and Accomplishments, 8/30/15 to 9/12/15

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Making up for two weeks here, since I was in the middle of the woods last Sunday, and this week has been crazy…
Links

No girl wins: three ways women unlearn their love of video games

Was going through old email and found this link someone I ran into at Readercon sent me about smut and libraries, and smut involving libraries: Checking Out

“I have never turned heads”: What it’s like when you’re not the object of desire. I relate to this in many ways. I leave it as an exercise to the reader precisely which ones.

No Excuses Craft Tutorials: “how you can make a perfectly good LARP costume for less than the price of a burger at the event.” Admittedly, my larp costume expenses can be measuring in teraburgers, but I still found this interesting.
Accomplishments

Writing
- Wrote three blog posts:

• Three Early Memories About Stories
• Crossover thoughts
• I Went To Math Hell And All I Got Was This Colorful Marble

- Wrote 2706 words on Lioness

LARP
- PCed Fifth Gate Silverfire game 2
- Wrote a (very tentative) character history for Crossover

Reading
- Read Vermeer’s Hat, by Timothy Brook
- Read “It Was Educational,” by J.B. Park (Clarkesworld August 2015)

Other Media
- Listened to Writing Excuses 10.35, “Breaking In, With Charlie N. Holmberg”
- Listened to Happier with Gretchen Rubin, episode 27
- Reached VR3 in ESO with Falanu
- Reached 35 in ESO with Br’ihnassi

Social
- Had dinner/went shoe shopping/book club with Jess

Health, a.k.a. Not Being Terrible About My Body
- Had blood work done ahead of my physical next week
- Sparred with Matt
- Walked x 2
- Did Hacker’s Diet fitness ladder workout x 3
- Went to the lake with Matt (not directly health-related, except maybe mental health)

Household
- Weeded by the side entrance
- Went shopping for supplies to finish the deck
- Put tar paper over the non-pressure treated bits of the deck (not by choice, mind… the crazy people who built this deck didn’t use pressure-treated lumber, and we can’t replace all of it without ripping the whole thing up. So we water-sealed and covered with tar paper what we could)

Crafts
- Finished chemise for Ianthe
- Hemmed Ianthe’s blue velveteen gown
- Finished cutting the pieces for a new Ianthe underdress mockup