Done This Week
Jul. 30th, 2023 09:52 amOkay. So. I have a partial draft of something for Lewisia #1000. It’s...well, it’s odd, but I suppose that’s fitting enough. I have to finish writing it today so I can get the month’s posts queued up. *tea kettle noises* It’s fine. Everything’s fine.
Got hurt several times at work. Just minor (ish) stuff, all of it directed at my right hand. It’s healing, but it’s a bit slow. Probably because it’s hard for skin to knit back together when you alternate between dousing it in 99% IPA and bashing it against blunt objects.
My copy of B. Dylan Hollis’ new cookbook, Baking Yesteryear, arrived. I would like to bake my way through it, which I’ve never done with a cookbook. Though I probably will skip at least a few of the recipes, or heavily modify them if possible, since certain things--pistachio anything, for example--are just never going to happen.
My book-reading goals are much more modest this year, as I remain deep in the thrall of Stranger Things fic. However, I have ended up with a theme for the year: queer nonfiction and autobiography (or things reasonably adjacent to those formats). Once I had a couple read, I just figured, okay, let’s keep going. There’s a surprisingly robust collection available digitally through my library, which is convenient.
Lewisia: 2 new pieces, plus another bonus piece written
Day job: 44.5 (absolutely fucked) hours
Cooking: ANZAC biscuits--so good
Gardening: more intensive weeding
Reading: finished We Both Laughed In Pleasure by Lou Sullivan (complicated feelings, but damn if I didn’t keep screenshotting passages that spoke with agonizing accuracy to the transmasculine experience); Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe (a quick little read that ended just as I felt it was getting to the good bits, but that’s just my personal fixation on transition at the moment, more than all the bits that come before)
Listening: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie (Bowie, like Springsteen, is on the list of artists I know the greatest hits of but want to explore individual albums from)
Got hurt several times at work. Just minor (ish) stuff, all of it directed at my right hand. It’s healing, but it’s a bit slow. Probably because it’s hard for skin to knit back together when you alternate between dousing it in 99% IPA and bashing it against blunt objects.
My copy of B. Dylan Hollis’ new cookbook, Baking Yesteryear, arrived. I would like to bake my way through it, which I’ve never done with a cookbook. Though I probably will skip at least a few of the recipes, or heavily modify them if possible, since certain things--pistachio anything, for example--are just never going to happen.
My book-reading goals are much more modest this year, as I remain deep in the thrall of Stranger Things fic. However, I have ended up with a theme for the year: queer nonfiction and autobiography (or things reasonably adjacent to those formats). Once I had a couple read, I just figured, okay, let’s keep going. There’s a surprisingly robust collection available digitally through my library, which is convenient.
Lewisia: 2 new pieces, plus another bonus piece written
Day job: 44.5 (absolutely fucked) hours
Cooking: ANZAC biscuits--so good
Gardening: more intensive weeding
Reading: finished We Both Laughed In Pleasure by Lou Sullivan (complicated feelings, but damn if I didn’t keep screenshotting passages that spoke with agonizing accuracy to the transmasculine experience); Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe (a quick little read that ended just as I felt it was getting to the good bits, but that’s just my personal fixation on transition at the moment, more than all the bits that come before)
Listening: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie (Bowie, like Springsteen, is on the list of artists I know the greatest hits of but want to explore individual albums from)