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seeing the 林 for the trees
Jun. 24th, 2021 06:25 pmDaily life: aaargh aargh, I spent most of this afternoon (or it felt like it) arguing on Skype about work issues, this project is fucked up six ways from Sunday. Hint: The instructions should be in a file labeled, oh I don’t know, “instructions,” not “comment.” At least two pieces of essential information should be IN that file, not requiring careful reading of lengthy and disorganized information on two separate sheets of the other file it refers to (this one labeled “minutes”) in a different folder (labeled, irrelevantly, “glossary”). None of these people are on their first rodeo, I don’t know why the fuck this is happening.
Music: Not a whole lot new to report...orchestra is supposed to start up again this Sunday, knock wood.
Books: Rereading Pamela Dean's Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary, which I enjoy a lot but also find frustrating ( Read more... ).
Chinese: I’m having false-friend problems with 祝 (not to be confused with 祝紅, who is nobody’s false friend); in Chinese it’s like a wish that something good happens (I hope you have a good birthday, I wish you good luck on your test), while in Japanese it’s congratulations for something good having happened, i.e. mazel tov. So close and so confusable, oh dear.
( mild early Rebel spoilers )
Writing: I’m most of the way through the individual points of my revision; I still have one or two overall big thematic things that need more thought. I think a lot of the governmental and international backstory stuff is going to wait for book 2, because I can’t fit it in smoothly and it’s not relevant yet.
Fic related, a kind person left kudos on my Lin Jing fic, which is the longest and by far the least popular of the Guardian fics I’ve written; for various reasons, all of which I knew about when I was writing it, this is totally understandable, but I’m always a little bit extra pleased when someone appreciates Lin Jing & Li Qian having extracanonical adventures.
Photos: Two white flowers, morning glories, bamboo, a bridge that reminded me of the fifty-five zillion vermilion torii gates at Fushimi Inari shrine, and the fancy roof thing on a Tenri-kyo church. (Of Japan's many so-called New Religions, I'm fairly well acquainted with Tenri-kyo and kind of fond of it, they seem sensible and I like their sung litany.)
( Read more... )
Be safe and well.
Music: Not a whole lot new to report...orchestra is supposed to start up again this Sunday, knock wood.
Books: Rereading Pamela Dean's Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary, which I enjoy a lot but also find frustrating ( Read more... ).
Chinese: I’m having false-friend problems with 祝 (not to be confused with 祝紅, who is nobody’s false friend); in Chinese it’s like a wish that something good happens (I hope you have a good birthday, I wish you good luck on your test), while in Japanese it’s congratulations for something good having happened, i.e. mazel tov. So close and so confusable, oh dear.
( mild early Rebel spoilers )
Writing: I’m most of the way through the individual points of my revision; I still have one or two overall big thematic things that need more thought. I think a lot of the governmental and international backstory stuff is going to wait for book 2, because I can’t fit it in smoothly and it’s not relevant yet.
Fic related, a kind person left kudos on my Lin Jing fic, which is the longest and by far the least popular of the Guardian fics I’ve written; for various reasons, all of which I knew about when I was writing it, this is totally understandable, but I’m always a little bit extra pleased when someone appreciates Lin Jing & Li Qian having extracanonical adventures.
Photos: Two white flowers, morning glories, bamboo, a bridge that reminded me of the fifty-five zillion vermilion torii gates at Fushimi Inari shrine, and the fancy roof thing on a Tenri-kyo church. (Of Japan's many so-called New Religions, I'm fairly well acquainted with Tenri-kyo and kind of fond of it, they seem sensible and I like their sung litany.)
( Read more... )
Be safe and well.
