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So the Made To Do It exchange revealed like. A few hours after my last post. Oh well! Candy hearts is out of anon now also. So here's a bit of ( writing reveals )

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And now - more of a rant? Maybe a couple of interrelated rants, IDK. Today my loan hold came on in Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry, and since it was only 2 hours and it was a shortened loan (onluy 7 days), I figured I'd just blow through it in basically a day and like one scheduled listening session. I'm also working on World War Z by Max Brooks. It's a strange juxtposition, but reading WWZ in a post-covid, second Trump presidency is already a bit of a wild ride, as I think I already mentioned, but there's a lot kin there about communities and economic stuff and survival and I'm just like. Hmmm. You know what this book is missing? Indigenous perspective. of course there are a LOT of perspectives that are in the book, though I'm not in love with all of the interpretations, it is at least interesting. Anyway. This conjunction made me think of another thing as well. I have been watching the anime called Dr. Stone, which has some pretty nonsense bit but is essentially about a teen genius scientist who wakes up thousands of years after everyone on earth was turned to stone, and how he reinvents all the science on a condensed timeline to revive technology for the other people he brings back. Sometimes it is very clever and sometimes it is really insulting even if you are willing to accept the general premise and that there is no timeline for a lot of it so it could be taking years.... until it clearly isn't. Anyway in the season I'm watching now they decide to go to North America so they can get corn for ethanol production. Sure whatever except that corn is a highly domesticated plant - without people its just gonna be grass again. Corn needs people to be corn. Anyway, it turns out there are people, but it is another supergenius scientist and he's got basically a modern farm set up and like. That's not the best way to corn. Anyway. There is a lot about that show that stretches my suspension of disbelief but the two things that have really got me were a: pottery and b: corn. oh maybe also glass... anyway. It is mostly fun. But corn.

That is not what I was going to rant about, but I ran out of brain (can you tell) and I will maybe save it - but the tl;dr version is that listening to The Serviceberry has helped me articulate to myself a bit better why I am not really comfortable with the whole 'paid GM' thing in gaming - it just changes the relationship too significantly for me. Keep the hustle out of your hobbies. Game with people whose participation and presence reward your efforts. But mostly if you are gonna charge people to play with you don't pretend like you are inviting them into a community. I don't like that - it feels predatory, especially when you are targeting queer groups. Even if you are yourself part of *that* community.

...okay maybe I didn't save it but I also don't have brains to edit or make it more coherent. So it is what it is, but I can maybe elaborate more in comments if anyone wants.

This is the first week of having Fridays off through the end of the fiscal year to use up my vacation, and I'm looking forward to having a long weekend. I keep thinking that they are never going to give me a raise at work ever, even though minimum wage has gone up over two dollars since my last contract, and I'm the only person who works there full time who is making due with a single income. Sort of. But if I didn't live with my sister I wouldn't be able to afford to work there! This is partly because Hades is so expensive (big dog, lots of food, also not the healthiest dog, and his daily meds certainly add up). But in the end its the same. What I keep thinking about is whether I could convince them to reduce my hours so I am down to 4 days a week regularly. I feel like that would do a world of good for my work life balance, giving me back the 10 hours a week I lose currently in transit commute. I don't think they would really go for it though, though I did just waste some time looking at indeed for points of reference. there really aren't a lot of jobs like mine out there. My job is a really cool special thing, and in that I'm lucky, but they don't really compensate me fairly for it, which is shit. I can barely afford to go away for an occasional weekend right now, let alone plan a longer trip without going into debt. in other work news, the heat is still broken but will hopefully be fixed on Monday.

Other than that - I can't remember what I said in my last update, but I finished candyhearts and posted two treats! I started my next AWRR AU fic that's been eating my brain for months. I also signed up for EAD's Lunar New year: wood Snake flash exchange, which seems like it should be lots of fun! I have a vague idea of what I want to do for it, and maybe I'll get a few treats done also, as it is also just a short thing. We'll see. I'm pretty sure I know what my candyhearts gift is, also.

I'm listening to the Odyssey now, the Emily Wilson one, and am already about halfway through. It's wild to me how much shorter it is! but that works out because I want to cancel my free audible trial on the weekend, and I should be able to get through it by then. Unless they offer me some kind of fabulous deal, I'll probably just stick to what I can find on Libby/Overdrive - I'm hoping if I start getting enough holds on things, they'll start coming regularly available. But we'll see! Maybe this phase won't last. Not sure what I'll go for next, anyway.

Nary and I are close-ish to finishing Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies. We're on the last chapter/case. It is a wild ride but I really do love all the characters. After that, in theory, we are going to see about doing Baldur's Gate 3, which i got for Christmas. She's not sure if she'll enjoy watching me play, and her computer isn't good enough to run it. But I don't really have the time to play it just on my own. So we'll see. I could try and play it with my sister but she is also really busy, idk.

It is almost ladies Night, which is something I started during the pandemic to keep in touch with some grad school friends, the folks I used to do a fandom podcast with, so Nary, earis and lukoni. Every second Thursday we try and get together and just hang out online. It's been really nice, actually, so stay in touch with folks!

I'm probably forgetting something to talk about here, hmmm... I guess on Tuesday I went to a talk by a local nature group and learned that the Canadian Supreme court recognized climate change in a decision, so that is nice, and also that having pollinator gardens may actually be covered by the charter right to freedom of expression, even if municipalities try to legislate against them. "Municipalities do not have the right to legislate aesthetics". So that's nice, although they are legal in my city anyway. They are also trying to push for urban gardening, which is cool, but are eyeing 'underused lands' like park space but a lot of 'unused' and underdeveloped parkland in this city and I suspect in the province are actually archaeological sites so. That's a conflict I'm not sure is even on their radar.

Okay, I think that might actually be all I have to say for now!

Hi all! Rising from the dead to direct you to my Yuletide Reveals post if you are interested in things I have written!

It's been a big busy year for me - I officially started my Collections Manager position at work, we moved into a house, Jola died.... Ups and downs, I guess. 2020 is looking to be busy and hectic as well, as things never seem to really slow down at work. We are working towards a big revamp of our public spaces (at least) in the next few years and are jumping into planning mode for that, and I have a lot of stuff to do with that. Especially after our exhibit person leaves in April (at the latest). She's delightful and has done so much good for our office culture that I will be very sad to see her go, though her husband is not working in Ottawa, so even if her contract wasn't ending I can't imagine she'd stay here.

I am hoping to keep up better with writing in the new year - I have so many ideas and so little time, as always. I'm hoping to get signed up for Chocolate Box this week though, so I guess stay tuned for that if you're interested? And meanwhile I will see about finishing off a few lingering things from 2019.

I finished a wingspan shawl before the new year, though! other than end weaving and blocking. So... yeah.... now my 'to-be-blocked pile of shawls is about 4 deep :x But we have more space in the new house, so I am hoping I can get that worked out if I get some good mats.

I also joined... one and a half more games? Maybe? One of them (monster of the week) may not be continuing, and the other (Changeling) I can't actually attend the scheduled sessions for so am mostly doing stuff around the edges, but of course I adore both my new characters and my head of full of ideas for them! but also my old characters.... so many stories, so little time :3

I keep meaning to get back into a more regular journalling habit, and I keep... not doing that. Patlry because I need mental time to decompress from work and what time is left I usually use for other things like games, or writing, or other social things.

But I'm still here! I read more than I comment on most stuff. I'm probably most active on tumblr, if by active you count just reblogging all the things with no commentary and half the time no tags. It's just so easy to be mindless :p I watched all of The Dragon Prince and I think probably that's been dominating my fandom content lately. Aaravos is just so damned pretty.

I have been doing other things. I still have three games - Ye Olde Adventure Worlde, Ashnabis, and Fuck Squad. And Larp. So four but I always categorize LARP differently. I'm like....close to being finished another shawl already. This one has gone super fast. I recognize that being 25 rows from the end of a half circle shawl is sill pretty far off but it has been going really fast! It is not my usual colours, but I'm hoping I will still wear it. I'm also most of the way through another pair of socks, which is good because I'm starting to loose some to wear. Oh well, I know what my next sock pattern will be already! I've been on a kick for fairly simple patterns lately, so they've been going fast. I've also been writing more regularly without as much of a post-yuletide slump. I'm hoping I can get finished another short fic for this fan-flashworks - I'm close to being finished the row on my card, and I've been enjoying contributing there again. ON the other hand, I'd started this year with plans to maybe start writing an actual novel and that has completely not happened even a little. Or, well, I made half a page of notes and a playlist. I haven't forgotten, I just haven't done anything with it yet.

The biggest news is that I am officially getting promoted to Collections Manager at work. This is basically reflecting what I have been doing since September anyway, but it comes with a significant raise over the contract position I was hired into to years ago, which was explicitly not a management job (even though I have been managing people and resources there from the get go). The authority and responsibility are still a mental shift, but the pay is like...even more of a livable adult range than what I had been making. And I'm not really planning to change my living arrangement so hopefully I can start ding other adult things like actually saving for the future, or getting a car. This is still a contract position, but considering where things have been going and how much responsibility I'me being given, I am confident that even if this contract doesn't get renewed as is, there will be something for me, and if there isn't, I should have enough experience to move on easily. So apparently I have a career and I feel pretty good about that except for the impostor syndrome and general traumas of academia, wooh! I do find it difficult to reconcile different aspects of my life, but I do plan to continue enjoying it as much as I can. Work can be stressful and frustrating but I feel like what I am doing is important and meaningful and it can be pretty rewarding. I'm hoping I can keep making things better.

What else... Jola is still doing about the same. Her lump has grown more, but she's been more active since the weather has started getting warmer and has really been pressing me to go for longer walks. I need to find a way to protect her foot though, because she drags it a bit and it is wearing down her nails so much they'd been bleeding. I have paw protectors I use for her in the winter, but the friction is not really what they're built for and they've been wearing out too fast. I'll have to see if I can get her a more durable bootie and hope she'll wear it. Because the top of her foot is what drags, I'm afraid anything else is gong to have the same issue. But I guess I'll get 4 in a set and only need 1 at a time, and I don't really know how long they need to last still >.>

I think that's it! I have 10 days of vacation this year and am trying to decide how to use it. I think I might go see my dad on my own for a bit, as I know he'd like that. Maybe we'll do Webercon again this year too. And then - I don't know. I have so many friends scattered all over the place that I'd like to visit, and I might try and set aside some time for a trip out west to see people there if I can. 10 days in a year is really not so much, unfortunately, but I'm lucky as I do also get some days around Christmas and New Years that aren't counted towards that.

My plans this weekend though are to see if I can finish this story, work on my Jukebox signup, and have game tomorrow.... not so ambitious.

so, since Tumblr is imploding, I thought i would remind myself that this is a place where there are people I like, and I should maybe start engaging here again?

We'll see how it goes. NO promises :x

Work is bananas lately. The museum officially took over the repository on the 1st, so I'm working through a lot of stuff regarding that. Plus we have a big meeting thing next week to prep for, and I have a new volunteer starting, and my job role is still kind of... conflicted in some ways. but that should be cleared up in April. I've been told my contract will definitely be extended, for three years, so that's nice!

I've been super busy... I'm in two tabletop games with a third starting this weekend, plus larp. I've been tryng to make myself do more writing. I have a shawl and my first colourwork project on the go.

My dog has a Large Mysterious Growth (waiting on biopsy results) in/on one of her lymph nodes.

I had to get new wear-all-the-time glasses and then promptly lost them a week later and have since had to buy a new pair.

I've started my Christmas shopping?

I had a great weekend a few weeks ago seeing some scattered friends for a gaming weekend, and we also did se fun Wolfenoot things

Kind of a mixed-bag of life things, all around.

Hello internets! I live!

I was going to just pop in to do an update about how Jukebox went (wonderfully), but I realized I probably have other things to day as well.

But I'll start with jukebox. I got THREE GIFTS :D And all were really excellent and well tailored to my likes and interests :3 Two written pieces and one art (by someone who I think must have done art for literally everyone who asked for it, not near enough o_O).

In no particular order (they really are all excellent):
Two Point Five Megabytes Across A Quarter Million Miles (617 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: 250000 Miles - Patty Griffin (Song)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Near Future, Science Fiction, Implied/Referenced Homophobia
Summary:

SEEKING ADVENTURE? ROMANCE? THE GREAT UNKNOWN?

The American Tau Ceti Company seeks venturers to Lán Hǎi!

The Kǎilíng sets sail from East Tsukishi Port on 30 June 2047—be aboard!

This has Complicated Family stuff that is both painful and liberating. I really enjoyed the perspectives offered in the two chapters, though my sympathy lies with the second.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (6 words) by AlTheAlchemist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Culling of the Fold - The Decemberists (Song)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Additional Tags: Blood, Art
I just love this. Best title. Whelp, someone's got to do it :x

His White Hause-Bane (2369 words) by Edonohana
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Twa Corbies (Traditional Song)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:

I rode to the castle, thinking to ask for directions to put me on my way and hoping for an invitation to dine with the lord and spend the night, for the day was very cold. Perhaps it was my hopeful thoughts of mead and hot meat that distracted me, or perhaps it was something else. But I had dismounted before I realized that there was something strange about the place, and was almost at the doors before I knew what it was.

There was nothing else in sight. No other homes, no fields, no orchards. Nothing but the castle, rising from the mud like a great white tooth.

This is just a really wonderful take on the song, and a nice creepy faery tale to boot.

As for things I wrote, one full length fic for my assignment, and then three drabbles as treats, both of which seem better received. Such is a writer's life!

Traps for Troubadours (3459 words) by Measured_Words
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Song)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Music, Musicians, Band Break Up, Partying, Crossroads Deals & Demons
Summary:

We have a chance to make it big.

"What will you do to make it happen?" Kana asks me.

I don't think she's going to like the answer.

Crusade (100 words) by Precisely_Measured_Words
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blood Under the Bridge - Frightened Rabbit (Song)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Trauma, Crusades, Drabble, Good versus Evil
Summary:

Empathy can be a fleeting thing, and comfort hard to find.

Undermine (100 words) by Precisely_Measured_Words
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Build That Wall (Zia's Theme) - Darren Korb (Song)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Insurrection, Conspiracy, Construction, Drabble
Summary:

There's more than one way around a barrier.

Vows (100 words) by Precisely_Measured_Words
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Rusalka Rusalka / Wild Rushes - The Decemberists (Song)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Original Male Character/Rusalka
Characters: Original Male Character(s), Rusalka (Rusalka Rusalka)
Additional Tags: Marriage, Sea Monsters, Regret, Curses, Horror, Drabble, Canonical Character Death
Summary:

To have and to hold...

As for other things to natter about... I finished a couple of pairs of socks a few weeks ago, and now have only one real project on the go. I started some handwarmers at larp but I was doing them on the fly and don't really know if I want to finish them or not. I've been reading on the bus, too, so I haven't really started anything new, just working on the one shawl. I did start a new long-term weaving project, which someday will be a scrap blanket. I wove one strip basically in an afternoon after I got the loom warped, but what will take longer is amassing the scraps! Gotta knit more socks I guess, oh well :V

Speaking of things ending, Diablotin 3, which we started playing in October 2014, ended last Sunday. I'm gonna miss it for sure, though there has been some talk of another game to replace it, and the eventuality of Diablotin 4 in another year or so, or in a few years... we;ll see :3 Meanwhile I still have Fuck Squad and YOAW and Larp! SO basically I ca't really complain even though I haven't really quite accepted that its done ;_; My Character had a pretty good ending - she got married, she works for the emperor, and she got to take down the final boss with a ridiculous amount of damage. She's got a better relationship with her family, who are all themselves doing better, with the exception of her sister who got stuck as the guardian to a semi-sentient extra-dimensional gate. But it's only for a few years, and we can visit :3 It was at least a good and satisfying ending, if it had to end ;_;

I feel like I had other nattering to do but I can't remember what, and I wanted to start working on my fic for the Throk Zine (Scorpius!), so I think I might go grab a snack and do that.

Remember when I used to scramble last minute before midnight to try and make a daily post? Let's try something like that because I feel out of touch.

Work is entering a phase of being bananas that is likely to last quite a long time. We just got in a collection of about 2000 boxes (may not refer to actual boxes), many of which need to be repackaged/rehoused pronto, including/especially some of the boxes that didn't quite make it through the move. Amazingly, the move was finished before about 3:00 today, having started at 8:30. I actually had the easy part, overseeing things leaving the other facility, as opposed to the stuff coming in on our side. But everything about the collections is My Job, or my job to organize (I don't have to physically do it, thank goodness), and that's on top of my regular work. Fortunately I seem to have a decent amount of help at the moment! but there a bunch of other stuff going down along side it too that makes it all extra cray cray.

I went to a Pi Day Pie Party tonight! I made my poison pie (chocolate almond cayenne), which I managed to make totally gluten free! I made an almond flour crust which turned out really nicely, and I subbed 2 tbsp of cornstarch for the flour in the filling, and used a non-glutenous chocolate. A piece was saved for someone who wasn't able to make it and I hope it doesn't kill her! It needed more cayenne, though :(

What else what else... Games continue to all be awesome! I have been reposting my GM's game writeups on my tumblr for pathfinder under "the fuck squad" as a tag. My other games are all online text ones and the logs are on the rocksfall wiki. The sessions are all broken up into scenes and there are summaries for each, if ever anyone was curious.

I've been having issues with my hands lately so I haven't been doing too much crafting. I did a little weaving to use up some stash yarn and made a dish towel and cloth, but they wound up narrow. I've been working on the same pair of basic socks for ages because I keep having to take breaks. And I'm still working on Skara Brae... But it is coming along pretty well now that I am giving it attention again! And I'm just about to start the gusset on my second sock, so really they are almost done. I already have a next sock pattern lined up too...

I think that's basically my life? It is march break and Wererogue's mum is up visiting for a few weeks so I am having to adjust to having an extra person around, though she is't staying with us. I mostly see her in the evenings. I think Longpig is pretty thoroughly DONE though. Two more days - you can make it!

Written last night...tfw when you are too tired to actually hit 'post' but your tab saves your entry for you :V

Today was a weird day - I wasn't at my regular work, and got to mess around with a bunch of collections stuff in preparation for a huuuuuge transfer! Which is closer and closer to happening. My hands are all scratched up though. But it meant leaving home later and also getting home earlier, but a lot of moving stuff around in between.

I feel like I was going to talk about something specific, but now I forget. This is why I never write entries unless they are mundane' this was my day!' sorts of things.

All my games continue to be awesome. I am getting a character portrait commissioned for Korivan, who is my cannibal hobgoblin, and I've got the sketch now and I'm super excited for it! I really liked the artist's style (zuzaarti on tumblr), and I found them by looking for other D&D character commissions >.>

I think I am done my chocolate box fic! I had to remind myself that it is a relationship exchange and does not actually *require* smut ;p I think my fic is different from the prompts but also it hit a looot of their likes so I hope they enjoy it!

Uh, uh uh... what else. I bought snow shoes and then all the snows went away and have not come back in sufficient quantity to shoe in :(so we'll see whether that was a reasonable purchase or not :V

What else, what else.... Maze has been out and about around the house more often, and Sierra is.. growing more accustomed anyway. It means he's been engaging in typical kitty shenanigans like destroying baked goods and trying to drink mouthwash and such. People here have not been prepared to *actually* live with a cat, so that's been fun! I'm also out of the habit, so it's an adjustment all around.

Annnnnd....I guess that's all for now :3 Bed time!

Hi!

I'm here. I think I decided to stop even pretending to try to do daily entries as a new year's resolution. It had an....okay? run? I'm not sure if it was a practice that was helpful to me, or much interesting to anyone else. So I'm going to try making less frequent but maybe longer entries instead.

Life continues. The 3d printer is broken again, and I need to chase down the company to send me the parts. My work is merging with the museum next door, which was always the long term plan, except now it is also the short term plan (supposed to happen in May?), so that's chaotic.

I got to see The Shape of Wazter when Nary came down last weekend, as she was gracefully to drive us to Waterloo to see it It's in a limited release for some dumb reason. I enjoyed it - it was very del Torro.

Other than that, gamong and snow are the things that are defining my life. I'm in three games right now and they've all been really engaging lately.

In Diablotin, we've got to the collapsing pocket dream dimension to rescue a pair of princesses. My character got to play dumb and interrogate a litch that everyone else was too terrified of. I mean, she was also terrified but he probably just thought that was an appropriate reaction. He gave her money because, in the words of the GM he "assumed she was probably a poor" :V. Character here is Denise Murodea, a 17 year old brawler girl who works for a mobster who wound o married to the new Empress. She's fearless and punchy and loyal as hell.

In The Fuck Squad, which is my local Pathfinder game, we just had our big boss battle against an evil god - end of the first story arc, basically. We defeated the god's host, though Longpig's character nearly died (he took a Slay Living and was literally the only party member who could have done so). Then we learned that the mongrelman we'd rescued was really the missing prince, and he took his place in the kingdom. than the shifty amoral elven sorceress tried to roofie him with a love potion, failed, seduced him anyway, and is trying to sleep her way into the position of Queen Consort. I guess we'll see how that goes! Also we got a cool golden skeleton construct arm for the party bard, who has been one armed since the first adventure, thanks to said evil god. It was a great and tense and very fun session, and I look forward to more with out terrible party. Character here is Rhonia, a half-Orc Oracle of the Bones with the wasting curse. She basically wants to nap all the time and eat snacks and if netflix was a thing she'd be all over that. She's very gullible and well meaning, and very much a follower.

The third game is still in its infancy, but I have now actually met and talked to all the other PCs! My character there is a hobgoblin who is basically the brand new religious leader/shaman type (Gaath) for his tribe. Before the start of the game, they were involved in a big fight in which the previous leadership was betrayed and died, so it's him, and a new battle leader, trying to keep things together and end their enemies. The game is basically a bunch of different factions trying to preserve this one little town and surrounding area (where the hobgoblins are) as the world descends into chaos following the fall of a major world power. Last game was a big party hosted by the hobgoblins to celebrate a recent victory by joint forces (but mostly us). I got to do a ritual sacrifice! My dude, Hrieffen Eryvet Korivan (tribe, clan, personal name) has a dragonmark that represents his connection to the ancestors, which basically are voices constantly whispering in his head. He's only had that for a few weeks, so it's an adjustment! He's very serious and has a hard time concentrating on things these days, unless it is something magical. Also he's a cannibal! They practice ritual endocannibalism, so he eats the hearts of other tribespeople that die so that their connection to the tribe can be preserved after death.

I meant to post more Windsorcon stuff, but I was tired/busy... I did write my usual post con drabbles on MOnday.

I had pretty seep post-social funk at the beginning of the week and had a hard time making myself do, well, anything. I did do things, at least sorta, but not much of them. Work was being depressing - everything is so uncertain all the time and it can be hard to deal with. I know that the museum doesn't think it can maintain my position past my contract date at this point, so unless things turn well around by then I will need to look elsewhere. But this job is not really going to have prepared me for anything much else. Well no - that's a lie. I will have to work to make it look good on paper, though. Also a lot of the stuff I am currently working on is stuff I know will be de-prioritized or even mothballed, so it is hard to keep up the momentum. By the end of the week, though things were super busy. Friday was kind of a blur.

I think that one thing I need to do is, like, sit down and really think about what I want out of my life - what I like and what I want to change and how I can achieve those things. I feel like I turned down a path away from what I wanted, or had thought I wanted, and have basically been costing along since then. It is a really interesting time to be working in archaeological collections care in Ontario though. The Truth and Reconciliation movement and also the implementation of UNDRIP have such interesting effects, and I wish I could engage more at that level. But then I also question if it is my place, and so on. I ran into the concept of rematriation (as opposed to repatriation) the other day and it was just really inspiring to think about. But I don't think I have either the authority to d anything with that idea at work. And then I see all these gross patriarchal structures being replicated and it is depressing to know that we have this vision and it is both so much better than anything else going, and yet so deeply flawed. Anyway. Mixed feelings and a lack of direction is not doing me a lot of good.

In other news.... I finished a scarf at Windsorcon, and I finished a sock on the bus as well... I've picked up an older WIP for knitting that I set aside util I'd finished Pulled by the Sunset. I'm over wordcount on my yuletide and have a fair idea where the story is going. I have a pinch hit and I know what I want to write for it as well. I did a bunch of cleaning this weekend too, mostly vacuuming, though I also cleaned the upstairs bathroom. I also went to a local spin-in yesterday for a few hours, and it was really nice, and we had the first session of the new Ye Olde Timey Adventure world game this afternoon, which was also fun.

Now I'm going to go take the dogs out before dinner since Longpig are going out to a friend's to watch a movie.