Monthly Archives: November 2009

submissions status

…you lose some… I got a rejection yesterday from Mike Allen for the issue of Goblin Fruit he’s guest-editing. It was a particularly nice rejection, though – from what he posted elsewhere I infer one of the two I submitted … Continue reading

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style my dress?

After learning that I will be moving back to the Netherlands in April, I did what any smart woman leaving Asia would do: I had two more dresses made for me, by the tailor who made one early this year. … Continue reading

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workout entry

Sunday, November 15: NRoLW section 1, workout B/4: 1km warmup on erg. DL: 85 lbs, 2 sets of 12, 60sec rest Superset: Dumbbell shoulder press: 12.5 lb dumbbells, 2 sets of 12, 60sec rest Lat pulldown: 60lbs, 2 sets of … Continue reading

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reattaching my jaw now…

If you’re a Pratchett fans or a fiber arts fan, and most, most especially if you’re both, you need to check this out: Discworld. In yarn.

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the long slide to the holidays

Ted and I have been horrible about skipping workouts lately. (NB: by “horrible”, I mean “averaging only four workouts per week instead of five”. It’s all relative.) The excuse is that we’re between the big Sydney race and the Holiday … Continue reading

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December Lady

The pattern’s February Lady, so-called because it’s an adult-ized version of Elizabeth Zimmerman’s February Baby sweater, so-called because it’s the February pattern in her Knitting Almanac. But Mom’s birthday is next month, so… December Lady. The yarn is Dream in … Continue reading

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getting the mail

We got a package of mail ysterday from my in-laws; we use their place as a US mailing address and they are kind enough to forward the important stuff on, in periodic packages. It was a depressing and ominous package: … Continue reading

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right grief

There is no love without grief. I think maybe there is such a thing as the right grief, though. The rightest grief I’ve ever felt was when my husband’s grandmother died: after a long and full life, she died in … Continue reading

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awwww….

With the new role at work, I won’t be supervising my group of eight people any more. With the ones in the Netherlands, I’ve been having weekly calls with each person; I’m doing one last call to sort of say … Continue reading

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boarding school stories – now with magic! magic books, now with boarding school!

Boarding school stories go back a long way; I think the oldest one I’ve read is Tom Brown at Rugby (published 1857, set in the 1830s). I like Tom Brown; I’m fond of Stalky (1899, by Kipling of course) and … Continue reading

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