Category: Weekly Updates

Writing
– Wrote two blog post: “Things I may or may not have done at Readercon 28” and “Into the Shadowvale”
– Worked on Lioness edits ~2h 15m

Reading
– Read “Dragon Girl”, by Cat Sparks (reprinted in Podcastle #479)

Other Media
– Listened to Stuff Mom Never Told You, “Women and ADHD”
– Listened to Food Stuff, “How Did French Cuisine Become King?”
– Listened to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, “Artificial Gravity: Cosmic Wheels and Hurtling Towers”
– Listened to By the Book, “Past Lives, Future Healing”
– Listened to Writing Excuses 12.29
– Listened to Happier with Gretchen Rubin #126
– Listened to Ditch Diggers #43

Health
– (Mon) Zombies Run S1 E7 (2.56mi in 40min)
– (Weds) Ninja Fitness Endurance workout #3, Agility #3, and Zen #1
– (Fri) Zombies Run S1 E8 (2.51mi in 38 min)

Writing
– (Sun) Worked about 45m on Lioness edits
– (Tues) Wrote a short story for the Codex flash contest, which I can’t tell you anything about for another month or so 🙂
– (Fri) Wrote two blog posts: “Lise Opines: How to Make a Spell Packet” and “We were kinda prepared: KotN does Black Temple timewalking”

Health
– (Mon) Zombies Run S1 E6 (2:15mi in 32min)
– Had a massage

Social
– Attended Readercon 28

Other Media
– Listened to Writing Excuses 12.24 and 12.26

Writing
– (Fri) Worked ~1h on Lioness edits
– (Sat) Worked about 45m on Lioness edits

Reading
– Listened to “Crickets Sing for Naomi” by Eden Royce (Podcastle #477)

Other Media
– Listened to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, “Cultural Appropriation” and “Ticks, Mites, and Mysterious Lone Star Illnesses”
– Listened to Stuff Mom Never Told You, “Nipple Nonsense”

Writing
– (Mon) Worked ~1 hour on Lioness edits
– (Thurs) Worked ~1 hour on Lioness edits

Reading
– Read The Likeability Factor, Tim Sanders

Other Media
– Listened to By the Book, “French Women Don’t Get Fat”
– Listened to Stuff Mom Never Told You, “What is Benevolent Sexism?”
– Listened to Writing Excuses 12.20-12.23

LARP
– Staffed Tales from the Cotting House, game one

Health
– (Mon) 1 min plank/1 min wall-sit
– (Mon) Zombies Run S1E4, 2.35mi/35:22min
– (Weds) 1 min plank/1 min wall-sit
– (Thurs) 1 min plank/1 min wall-sit x2

Links

I found this exquisite story, “A Guide for Young Ladies Entering the Service of Faeries”, a while back, but lost the link. I was pleased to see it referenced this past weekend as one of the inspirations for the Iduna/fairy lover plot in Tales from the Cotting House.

Accomplishments

Writing
– (Tues) Worked ~2h on Lioness edits
– (Thurs) Worked ~1h 30m on Lioness edits

Reading
– Read “The Dauphin’s Metaphysics”, Eric Schwitzgebel, Podcastle #475 (reprint)
– Read “A Cautionary Tale” by Brooke Bolander (hey, it has a beginning, middle, and a (rear) end! I’m counting it!)

Other Media
– Listened to Writing Excuses 12.25
– Listened to Stuff Mom Never Told You, “Gals in the Gig Economy” and “How Teen Vogue Got Woke”
– Listened to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, “AI, Machine Learning, and Human Creativity” and “Name Thy Demons: The Roots of Human Violence”
– Listened to Happier with Gretchen Rubin #122
– Listened to Food Stuff episodes: “Gin and Tonic” and “Sweetbreads: Neither Sweet nor Bread”

Social
– Hosted a visit from my dad

Health
– (Mon) 1 min plank/1 min wall-sit
– (Mon) 1.4mi walk
– (Weds) Zombies Run S1E3, 2.3mi/31:01m (plus a little bit of a walk back)
– Had a massage
– (Thurs) 1:15 min plank/1:15 min wall-sit
– (Thurs) 1.4mi walk

Reading
– Read “Paradox”, by Naomi Kritzer, Uncanny Magazine #16
– Read “Asymmetry”, by Kendra Fortmeyer, Podcastle #474

Social
– Attended EB’s birthday party at the Stonehedge Inn & Spa in Tyngsboro, MA

Other Media
– Listened to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, “The Tower of Babel”
– Listened to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, “There But For Science: Blood Navigation”
– Listened to By the Book, “The Secret”
– Listened to By the Book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up”
– Listened to Happier with Gretchen Rubin #121

Health
– (Tues) Ninja Fitness Strength workout #3
– (Tues) NF Endurance workout #5
– (Weds) Zombies Run S1E1 (2.49mi/37:39min)
– (Thurs) NF Endurance #2
– (Thurs) NF Agility #3
– (Thurs) 1 min plank/1 min wall-sit
– (Sat) Zombies Run S1E2 (2.28mi/35:25min)

I haven’t kept up with these very well. Oops.

Links

Why Procrastinators Procrastinate, and the related article, How to Beat Procrastination. An oldie but a goodie. Procrastination is explained here with funny drawings and anthopomorphic pals like the Instant Gratification Monkey. I resemble… most of this. And scheduling, I can confirm, has been a great way to (sometimes but not always) get the Instant Gratification Monkey on my side.

Accomplishments

Writing
– Attended writing group
– Worked ~1h on Lioness edits

Other Media
– Listened to Larpcast #91 and 93
– Listened to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, “Anthropodermic Bibliopegy”
– Listened to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, “Neurosecurity: Dawn of the Brain Hackers”
– Listened to Stuff Mom Never Told You, “Policing Women’s Speech”
– Listened to Happier with Gretchen Rubin #120

LARP
– NPCed for Madrigal 3
– Wrote Mad3 NPC PEL

Health
– (Mon) Ninja Fitness Strength workout #3 and Agility #1
– (Tues) Ninja Fitness Endurance workout #4 x 2 (~2.67mi at 4.5-4.7 with an incline of 0.0-2.0)
– (Tues) NF Zen workout #1
– (Tues) 1 min plank/1 min wall-sit
– (Weds) 2.34mi walk
– (Thurs) NF Strength workout #2 and #4; Zen #2
– (Fri) 1 min plank/1 min wall-sit
– (Fri) ~2.5mi walk/run with sprinting intervals
– (Sat) NF Agility workout #2

Rejection Log

– “Remember to Die”, 24-day form from Arsenika

Reading
– Read Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek, by Maya Van Wagenen

Other Media
– Listened to Larpcast #89-90, 92

LARP
– Attended 5G Silverfire event 5

Health
– (Mon, Weds) 1 min plank/1 min wall-sit x 2

Reading
– Read The Fasting Girl

Other Media
– Listened to Happier with Gretchen Rubin, episode #120

LARP
– Staffed the Tales from the Cotting House adventure day/fundraiser

Health
– (Weds) Did Ninja Fitness Endurance workouts #3 and #4

Writing
– Wrote a bunch of words on “Swan Song”

Reading
– Read “Ravana’s Children,” by Ian Muneshwar, Podcastle #469

Other Media
– Listened to Writing Excuses 12.15-12.19
– Listened to Happier with Gretchen Rubin #116
– Listened to Stuff You Missed in History Class episodes: “The Philadelphia MOVE Bombing”, “The Kentucky Derby’s First 50 Years”, “The Tuskegee Syphilis Study”
– Listened to Radical Candor episodes 7, 19

Social
– Visited the New England Aquarium and Quincy Market with EB

Health
– (Sun) Did Ninja Fitness Endurance workout #1
– (Mon) Did Ninja Fitness Strength workout #1 and #2
– (Weds) Did the 5K capstone run for Zombies, Run!
– (Weds) Did Ninja Fitness Zen workout #1
– (Thurs) 1 min plank (more like 40 seconds)/1 min wall-sit
– (Fri) Did Ninja Fitness Endurance workout #2 x 2