Notes on the Journal:

1. Generally, I don't use trigger warnings. I save trigger warnings for content that is in the upper echelon of disturbing--mentioning the topic briefly doesn't get them. So if you do a trigger warning, take it very seriously. I am open to changing this policy, but I've followed this guideline for nine years and no one's ever ( Read more... )

I haven't written for the Wanderer's Library in, like... seven years. But I've had this piece on my brain for that entire time. I finally submitted it this week, and it's doing well so far. It's not the best thing I've ever written, but I'm proud of it, and proud of what it represents (me finally getting off my ass).

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No, not any that I've had.

No, I thought I'd torment you by showing you the excerpts from terrible sex scenes I was reading lately from The Bad Sex in Fiction Awards.

( They're terrible and also /weird and morbid/. Enter, and abandon all hope. )

I've been taking a few MOOCs lately. The quality... does not greatly impress me. The ecology ones I've taken have actually been fine, the humanities ones not so much. Despite being less familiar with the humanities than my own field, the humanities ones--at least so far--have been far more basic and far easier. A week's section has maybe twenty ( Read more... )

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... )

The trees are nearly bare; brown and yellow leaves litter the ground. Flowers are but a distant memory, and the wildlife of summer is long gone. Temperatures aren't regularly dropping below freezing, but we're starting to get there. Few more weeks, and things will be quite cold indeed. Possibly downright frigid, if the polar vortex destabilizes ( Read more... )

I've enjoyed it. Made a lot of pumpkin foods--pumpkin blondies, pumpkin soup, pumpkin gnocchi with sage butter. All were quite good, though the blondies probably would have been better if I hadn't accidentally added too much flour.

And now I'm watching The Killer Shrews. So far, it is not very good--but, of course, that's the point.

So I read this book. It was on a list of solarpunk novels made by the people at Tor. Finished it a few weeks ago but am writing up the review now.

My rating is "Not terrible, but okay."

( Spoilers, if anyone cares about that )

I said I'd post my thoughts on OtherCon 2021, so here they are.

I did enjoy it. I didn't do much socializing with other people, but I found a lot of the panels interesting. Page's talk (on the broader social patterns influencing attitudes towards us) was by far the most interesting; if you missed it it's here (I have permission from all involved to ( Read more... )

Had a lovely sukkot. It is just a little bit early for it--the leaves haven't really started to change color, but looking at the fall foliage prediction map they'll start in a week or so--but I had a nice dinner and socialized some. The sukkah itself was quite nice; we managed to find tree branches to spread over the roof. Which is the only proper ( Read more... )