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kaberettReading. Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie, as part of my ongoing comfort rereads. Ancillary Mercy still feels to me a lot as though it's two books stuffed into a trenchcoat, but in the best possible way. Overall: I kind of want Murderbot to wind up in the (provisional) Republic of Two Systems, and I definitely want to have more stories about One Esk Nineteen. Lovely comfort re-read, very rewarding, extremely glad I did.
And then! Today! I have started Fugitive Telemetry, by Martha Wells! I am very excited! And I am also possibly about to start over again from the beginning, from two chapters in, in the name of ensuring that I am actually taking all of it on board and enjoying it properly instead of inhaling half a page at a time in Breaks From Stressful Work!
Writing. Chapter 6 made its way off to my supervisors last night, substantially rewritten and now in a state where hopefully it can Just Go Into The Thesis; I've had feedback from both supervisors on chapter 5, which I have not yet read in detail but which was accompanied by encouraging cover letters, so the job for the first half of this week coming is, well, final edits and typesetting of that.
Along with finishing up the data appendices. I have spent quite a lot of the past two days grimly wading through constructing The Worst Table, and the rest should hopefully be fairly straightforward not least because all of the corralling of my data is Measurements I Made In 2019, where the previous Horror Table I was having to dig back through spreadsheets and lab books all the way to 2014. So. (Three tables left to go, in fact, and they might yet happen before sleep tonight...)
Cooking. The tofu thing; another round of gochujang braised eggs, again with broccoli stem and carrot; a Vanilla Black take on cauliflower cheese; and an Ottolenghi Iranian vegetable stew, which is definitely acceptable even without the herbs.
Making & mending. I continue faffing with trying to sort out my brake cable, with... deferred success, so far -- there is something about how things attach at the brake lever and how I adjust the tension that I'm not quite understanding, but hey, more fiddling to come.
Growing. OKAY. SO. In the general spirit of "I'll get more food if I sow it late than if I don't sow it at all", I have this week got started: some aubergine; some catch-up chillis to make up for the ones that have died; and as many peppers as would fit in the propagator.
The second round of tomatoes that I started last week on a similar principle are coming up including some I saved seed for where I'd sort of sullenly assumed that the Saved Seed hadn't worked, because neither of my two previous attempts to get it going made any headway -- but this time I sowed many more and I have some seedlings coming up! So fingers crossed.
Observing. The bat! And the garden fox, and the squirrel, and the snail (A spent a bunch of today upgrading its tank), and I have finally glimpsed the Fabled Jay our upstairs neighbour insisted existed in the trees behind the garages -- on the garage roof, clearly Contemplating the bird feeders, but not sufficiently keen on the concept to actually come over. More fat balls need to go out, clearly.
And then! Today! I have started Fugitive Telemetry, by Martha Wells! I am very excited! And I am also possibly about to start over again from the beginning, from two chapters in, in the name of ensuring that I am actually taking all of it on board and enjoying it properly instead of inhaling half a page at a time in Breaks From Stressful Work!
Writing. Chapter 6 made its way off to my supervisors last night, substantially rewritten and now in a state where hopefully it can Just Go Into The Thesis; I've had feedback from both supervisors on chapter 5, which I have not yet read in detail but which was accompanied by encouraging cover letters, so the job for the first half of this week coming is, well, final edits and typesetting of that.
Along with finishing up the data appendices. I have spent quite a lot of the past two days grimly wading through constructing The Worst Table, and the rest should hopefully be fairly straightforward not least because all of the corralling of my data is Measurements I Made In 2019, where the previous Horror Table I was having to dig back through spreadsheets and lab books all the way to 2014. So. (Three tables left to go, in fact, and they might yet happen before sleep tonight...)
Cooking. The tofu thing; another round of gochujang braised eggs, again with broccoli stem and carrot; a Vanilla Black take on cauliflower cheese; and an Ottolenghi Iranian vegetable stew, which is definitely acceptable even without the herbs.
Making & mending. I continue faffing with trying to sort out my brake cable, with... deferred success, so far -- there is something about how things attach at the brake lever and how I adjust the tension that I'm not quite understanding, but hey, more fiddling to come.
Growing. OKAY. SO. In the general spirit of "I'll get more food if I sow it late than if I don't sow it at all", I have this week got started: some aubergine; some catch-up chillis to make up for the ones that have died; and as many peppers as would fit in the propagator.
The second round of tomatoes that I started last week on a similar principle are coming up including some I saved seed for where I'd sort of sullenly assumed that the Saved Seed hadn't worked, because neither of my two previous attempts to get it going made any headway -- but this time I sowed many more and I have some seedlings coming up! So fingers crossed.
Observing. The bat! And the garden fox, and the squirrel, and the snail (A spent a bunch of today upgrading its tank), and I have finally glimpsed the Fabled Jay our upstairs neighbour insisted existed in the trees behind the garages -- on the garage roof, clearly Contemplating the bird feeders, but not sufficiently keen on the concept to actually come over. More fat balls need to go out, clearly.
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Date: 2021-05-03 02:15 pm (UTC)You make me very tempted to reread Ann Leckie, too. I don't know why I find those books so powerfully comforting (apart from association with a particular friend, somewhat) but they aaare.
Also need to read Fugitive Telemetry; I had an ARC, how am I so bad at this!?