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Sep. 13th, 2020 11:31 pmReading. Octavia Butler, Unexpected Stories. Another clearing-out-the-ereader-TBR turned-out-to-be-a-reread, but I remembered very little of the ways the (two, post-humously published, short) stories concluded and enjoyed them a great deal.
Still slo-o-owly reading The Starless Sea, though again Less Slowly Now I've Remembered My Book Chair, and continuing to wallow in it delightedly. Gosh I'm picking up so many more of its threads this time through. And there is a lot to be said for reading it while playing the horn, with sunset streaming in through the window and reflecting off my bell and over the page, turning everything golden.
( [cn] death of an author. )
Writing. Well, on the one hand I got sucked into spending two days fiddling with maths from the last chunk of work (and did find a bunch of problems and did fix them, even though I am still not managing to reproduce the feature of someone else's model that's particularly upsetting me, but sigh, there we go) -- and on the other (some meetings, some rearrangement, and a bunch of paperwork later) I'm now at... a little under 6k words on the current thing. Fingers crossed that the modelling nightmares are banished for the next few weeks at least, though.
Watching. CXG S01E09, I'm Going To The Beach With Josh And His Friends!
I still love this show! I still... have really limited things to say about it that aren't, I think, mostly repetitive? ( Read more... )
The Matrix Revolutions. I... see what everyone means.
Listening. TMA: the new episode, 178, which I enjoyed a great deal on a number of levels; and, on the relisten, 61, which does an excellent job of introducing Daisy in detail and made fascinating listening right after, well, the emotional landscape of 178.
I've also been earwormed by Frank Turner, specifically Dan's Song, for most of the last two days. ( Plague diaries. )
Playing. Another round of Hanabi! We are continuing to experiment with communication.
PoGo: VERY EXCITED about my Galarian Darumaka (hatched!). Less excited about the wild-caught shiny Weedle, but pleased about the 98% Houndoom (still no shinies, alas) and Tangela, plusand a third shiny Lotad. Also very much continuing to appreciate remote raiding.
Cooking. ( pasta bake, cookies, quesadilla )
Eating. In addition to MORE CRUMPETS (Adam is improving! I am very in favour of this experimentation) I think the most notable Consumption was of our first ear of sweetcorn. It's the Double Red, looking most similar to the backmost flat one in the accompanying photo -- predominantly white kernels with a deep red-purple flush in their centre. Steamed for five minutes; butter and black pepper; very good; looking forward to more.
Growing. ( Read more... )
Observing. The bats are still abroad! A Mystery Bird? Noise, which we are tentatively considering a woodpecker, with further observation required. Both lawn fox and allotment fox have been spotted this week. And an excellent big dragonfly, that I didn't get a close look at but am pretty certain was easily as long as my hand.
Still slo-o-owly reading The Starless Sea, though again Less Slowly Now I've Remembered My Book Chair, and continuing to wallow in it delightedly. Gosh I'm picking up so many more of its threads this time through. And there is a lot to be said for reading it while playing the horn, with sunset streaming in through the window and reflecting off my bell and over the page, turning everything golden.
( [cn] death of an author. )
Writing. Well, on the one hand I got sucked into spending two days fiddling with maths from the last chunk of work (and did find a bunch of problems and did fix them, even though I am still not managing to reproduce the feature of someone else's model that's particularly upsetting me, but sigh, there we go) -- and on the other (some meetings, some rearrangement, and a bunch of paperwork later) I'm now at... a little under 6k words on the current thing. Fingers crossed that the modelling nightmares are banished for the next few weeks at least, though.
Watching. CXG S01E09, I'm Going To The Beach With Josh And His Friends!
I still love this show! I still... have really limited things to say about it that aren't, I think, mostly repetitive? ( Read more... )
The Matrix Revolutions. I... see what everyone means.
Listening. TMA: the new episode, 178, which I enjoyed a great deal on a number of levels; and, on the relisten, 61, which does an excellent job of introducing Daisy in detail and made fascinating listening right after, well, the emotional landscape of 178.
I've also been earwormed by Frank Turner, specifically Dan's Song, for most of the last two days. ( Plague diaries. )
Playing. Another round of Hanabi! We are continuing to experiment with communication.
PoGo: VERY EXCITED about my Galarian Darumaka (hatched!). Less excited about the wild-caught shiny Weedle, but pleased about the 98% Houndoom (still no shinies, alas) and Tangela, plusand a third shiny Lotad. Also very much continuing to appreciate remote raiding.
Cooking. ( pasta bake, cookies, quesadilla )
Eating. In addition to MORE CRUMPETS (Adam is improving! I am very in favour of this experimentation) I think the most notable Consumption was of our first ear of sweetcorn. It's the Double Red, looking most similar to the backmost flat one in the accompanying photo -- predominantly white kernels with a deep red-purple flush in their centre. Steamed for five minutes; butter and black pepper; very good; looking forward to more.
Growing. ( Read more... )
Observing. The bats are still abroad! A Mystery Bird? Noise, which we are tentatively considering a woodpecker, with further observation required. Both lawn fox and allotment fox have been spotted this week. And an excellent big dragonfly, that I didn't get a close look at but am pretty certain was easily as long as my hand.