a note--

[kaberett]

-- to say that I am doing very well! The absence here has been because I have slightly-to-my-surprise been busy.

I am currently actively reading Saladin Ahmed's The Throne of the Crescent Moon for book club; I have poetry by Audre Lorde, Stephen Dunn, Carol Ann Duffy and Rilke out on loan; I have just finished reading a book by Nnedi Okorafor (Zhara, the Windseeker) and am now intending to read everything else she has ever written. I continue listening to Vienna Teng on loop; I have just watched Elementary S0309 twice and am having lots of feelings about it!

Yesterday I made three huge vats of curry, some rice, and some chapati. I fed lots of people. It will keep feeding lots more of us.

I have code that increasingly does what I want. My slightly scary meeting with my supervisor on Friday was in fact incredibly exciting: I plotted up all of the data I've spent the past 15 months acquiring, and some really intriguing things popped out. The paper we were conceiving as "the ocean island basalts" paper - relating to intraplate volcanism only - looks like I might actually have things to say about all volcanism on the planet. And ergo mantle processes in a much broader sense than expected. Which -- yessss. All of a sudden I feel like my project is taking shape and making sense.

Also received a very pleasing compliment-shaped-thing on the topic of my poetry, aaah.

I have just flung myself through the shower and am heading out to Kew for a little while now with my useless ex and my housemate; this evening we are going to watch a free livestreamed CN Lester gig at 8pm GMT (I seriously seriously recommend CN if you haven't come across them - singer-songwriter, pianist, dealing awesomely with interpersonal interactions and mental illness; plus they're genderqueer so, you know).

Comments

[kerrypolka]

This post made me smile, thank you for sharing so many nice things in your life!

[littlebutfierce]

When I had a bike in Bristol (& briefly, here), it was named Zahrah after that book. :D

[swaldman]

I shall be tuned in this evening :-)

[alexseanchai]

Oooh shiny

okay, if I have all the things done that need doing by two forty-five local, I can watch the concert.

[umadoshi]

That is all awesome to read. *^^* Hooray!

I haven't seen this week's Elementary yet, but now I'm excited!

[worlds_of_smoke]

♥

[vass]

Ooh, Nnedi Okorafor. She's good. I'll be interested to hear your thoughts.

*makes a note of CN Lester*

The paper we were conceiving as "the ocean island basalts" paper - relating to intraplate volcanism only - looks like I might actually have things to say about all volcanism on the planet. And ergo mantle processes in a much broader sense than expected. Which -- yessss. All of a sudden I feel like my project is taking shape and making sense.

That is awesome.

[serene]

This sounds so awesome, and thanks for all the recs!

[davidgillon]

This all made me smile. But it was the science-y bit that made me sit up and go 'Oh, cool!'

Clearly there's no help for me, I'm a science geek through and through.