In Other News...
Sep. 15th, 2021 09:30 am Tonight, I'm teaching via the Loft. My class is "Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Window into New Worlds."
I would not normally name my class something so inane and undescriptive, but the Loft signal boosts any class that follows their semester "theme" and this time it was something to do with windows, ah, here it is:... https://loft.org/events/loft-themes, Outside My Window.
At any rate, the class was nearly cancelled, but somehow, last minute, an extra student squeaked in. So I have, like, five people signed up for a Wednesday night, eight week class. The Loft, in their infinite wisdom, always lets me know when classes are viable about a week before things are a go. And so last Wednesday I spent some time frantically organizing my Google Classroom (and trying to remember what I'd set up for my syllabus.) I am going to try to spend part of my day organizing my thoughts, as well, but my class doesn't start until 6 pm, so I have some time to get my house in order, as it were.
I mean, I have to propose these classes months in advance, so at ONE POINT, I knew what I was doing. I just have to refresh my mind and make sure I have all my ducks in a row for tonight.
Meanwhile, I've been making good progress on what was once my Space Lesbians novella, which is now just a novel that needs a name. I realized yesterday when I drove out to go get bread for sandwiches that I really needed to STOP trying to revise a section that was in the secondary characters POV of Lucia DelToro. I needed to cut it and rewrite it from scratch. Thing is I ended up really finding her voice when I dumped in a new chapter 2 and trying to line-by-line adjust the voice of chapter 4 just wasn't working. I mean, the good news is that I write this new voice very quickly because I like it, you know? Like, I don't know how anyone else writes, but when a character is working for me it's because I can get into their head, fully. Like, I almost feel the weight of their body when I write their words. Some kind of weird extreme imaginary empathy, I guess.
So when I'm when I'm not trying to figure out class tonight, I hope to be writing more DelToro. At some point this late morning, I have to go collect our half-share CSA. BY CHANCE, I remembered in Spring that we would not need a full Fall share with Mason off to college. so hopefully Shawn and I can consume the amount of veggies coming our way today. I think we can. I'm only sad to see that the full share is finally getting the "fun" veggies this time (river spinach!) and half-shares are not. However, without Mason, I don't know who else will even try eating my weird concoctions. Shawn is NOT an adventurous eater, particularly when it comes to vegetable matter.
In fannish news, when we visited the Jacksons in Lansing, Michigan, they included us as family in their Disney + subscription (thanks again, guys!!) and so I have been absolutely BINGING on all the MCU stuff. I immediately watched all of Loki, which I pretty adored from start to finish, and then gobbled up WandaVision, which I found... fascinating, though maybe not in the way intended. Shawn decided she would like to watch Falcon and Winter Soldier with me, so we've started that. (Y'all, I'm a long time comic book reader, so I already knew the second we got his name that the "new" Captain America is actually a villain that I know as Super Patriot.)
Today is Wednesday, but the only reading I can report was a 4-choma manga called Roaming the Apocalypse with my Shiba Inu (https://mangakakalot.com/read-de5yz158504947835). It's weird and cute, and I totally recommend it to anyone who likes slice-of-life apocalypse stories.... which, hey,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rachelmanija if you liked Giant Spider & Me: A Post-Apocalyptic Tale, you might like this one.
So, that's me?
How's you? Reading anything fun or interesting or challenging?
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UPDATE: Now I have eight students (which seems a tad more reasonable) and, turns out, I was not so smart. We got a FULL share. On the other hand, water spinach!
I would not normally name my class something so inane and undescriptive, but the Loft signal boosts any class that follows their semester "theme" and this time it was something to do with windows, ah, here it is:... https://loft.org/events/loft-themes, Outside My Window.
At any rate, the class was nearly cancelled, but somehow, last minute, an extra student squeaked in. So I have, like, five people signed up for a Wednesday night, eight week class. The Loft, in their infinite wisdom, always lets me know when classes are viable about a week before things are a go. And so last Wednesday I spent some time frantically organizing my Google Classroom (and trying to remember what I'd set up for my syllabus.) I am going to try to spend part of my day organizing my thoughts, as well, but my class doesn't start until 6 pm, so I have some time to get my house in order, as it were.
I mean, I have to propose these classes months in advance, so at ONE POINT, I knew what I was doing. I just have to refresh my mind and make sure I have all my ducks in a row for tonight.
Meanwhile, I've been making good progress on what was once my Space Lesbians novella, which is now just a novel that needs a name. I realized yesterday when I drove out to go get bread for sandwiches that I really needed to STOP trying to revise a section that was in the secondary characters POV of Lucia DelToro. I needed to cut it and rewrite it from scratch. Thing is I ended up really finding her voice when I dumped in a new chapter 2 and trying to line-by-line adjust the voice of chapter 4 just wasn't working. I mean, the good news is that I write this new voice very quickly because I like it, you know? Like, I don't know how anyone else writes, but when a character is working for me it's because I can get into their head, fully. Like, I almost feel the weight of their body when I write their words. Some kind of weird extreme imaginary empathy, I guess.
So when I'm when I'm not trying to figure out class tonight, I hope to be writing more DelToro. At some point this late morning, I have to go collect our half-share CSA. BY CHANCE, I remembered in Spring that we would not need a full Fall share with Mason off to college. so hopefully Shawn and I can consume the amount of veggies coming our way today. I think we can. I'm only sad to see that the full share is finally getting the "fun" veggies this time (river spinach!) and half-shares are not. However, without Mason, I don't know who else will even try eating my weird concoctions. Shawn is NOT an adventurous eater, particularly when it comes to vegetable matter.
In fannish news, when we visited the Jacksons in Lansing, Michigan, they included us as family in their Disney + subscription (thanks again, guys!!) and so I have been absolutely BINGING on all the MCU stuff. I immediately watched all of Loki, which I pretty adored from start to finish, and then gobbled up WandaVision, which I found... fascinating, though maybe not in the way intended. Shawn decided she would like to watch Falcon and Winter Soldier with me, so we've started that. (Y'all, I'm a long time comic book reader, so I already knew the second we got his name that the "new" Captain America is actually a villain that I know as Super Patriot.)
Today is Wednesday, but the only reading I can report was a 4-choma manga called Roaming the Apocalypse with my Shiba Inu (https://mangakakalot.com/read-de5yz158504947835). It's weird and cute, and I totally recommend it to anyone who likes slice-of-life apocalypse stories.... which, hey,
rachelmanija if you liked Giant Spider & Me: A Post-Apocalyptic Tale, you might like this one.So, that's me?
How's you? Reading anything fun or interesting or challenging?
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UPDATE: Now I have eight students (which seems a tad more reasonable) and, turns out, I was not so smart. We got a FULL share. On the other hand, water spinach!